Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Otolaryngologist

First Title value, for Searching Hamilton, John William (1933 - 2016)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2017-05-19 2020-09-01
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Occupation Otolaryngologist
Details John William Hamilton was an otolaryngologist in Natal, South Africa. Born on 12 June 1933 he passed the fellowship of the college in 1967. He died on 4 November 2016.
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First Title value, for Searching Ramachandra, Channarayapatna Ramakrishna Setty ( - 2012)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-07-12 2015-09-21
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Channarayapatna Ramachandra was an otolaryngologist at North Tyneside General Hospital. He qualified MB BS from Mysore University in India in 1959. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1967 and his diploma in otolaryngology in 1973. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a senior registrar in otolaryngology in the west Midlands, a registrar at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, and a surgical registrar at Moorgate General Hospital, Rotherham. He died on 31 May 2012.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002645
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First Title value, for Searching Cawood, Roderick Hugh (1942 - 2023)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-12-13
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon Head and neck surgeon
Details Roderick Hugh Cawood was a consultant otolaryngologist at Peterborough City Hospital
Resource Identifier RCS: E010574
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First Title value, for Searching Portmann, Michel (1924 - 2016)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-09-20
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Occupation Otolaryngologist
Details Michel Portmann was director of surgery at the University of Bordeaux, France and a distinguished otolaryngologist. 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: E010459
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First Title value, for Searching Sanderson, Robert James (1960 - 2006)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2010-04-28
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Robert Sanderson was a consultant otolaryngologist in Edinburgh and Livingstone. He and his twin brother, Paul, were the first identical twins to pass the FRCS in general surgery together. ‘Rob’ elected to study otolaryngology and trained with Arnold Maran in Edinburgh, before doing a fellowship in head and neck surgery in Rotterdam with Paul Knegt. There he learnt Dutch and met his wife Christine, with whom he subsequently had three children. He was appointed as a consultant otolaryngologist to Edinburgh and Livingstone hospitals. A keen teacher, he lectured frequently and was a regular guest speaker at national and international meetings. He was lead clinician in the Scottish head and neck audit. He died on 13 December 2006.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000923
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First Title value, for Searching Burge, Alan Jeremy Stuart (1938 - 2022)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-17
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Occupation ENT surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details Alan ‘Budgie’ Burge was a consultant ENT surgeon in Hong Kong and Antigua. 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: E010485
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, James Stinson (1923 - 2009)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2013-09-30
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details James Stinson Brown was a Canadian surgeon who specialized in treatment of the deaf. He was born on 24 February 1923 in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Abner John Brown and his wife Lillian "Lilly" Roben Kidd. He graduated in medicine from the University of Manitoba in 1949 and came to England to study ear, nose and throat medicine at the University of London. While there he also played professional hockey. Having passed the fellowship in 1952 he returned to Canada in 1956 to establish a practice in Calgary, Alberta. He was consultant in otolaryngology to the Calgary General and Banff Mineral Springs Hospitals. After retiring from the hospitals he continued work part-time in a medical practice in Banff and, in 2004, he was given an honorary doctorate by Brandon University who named a campus building after him and his wife. He married Margaret "Lucille" Millions and they had five children; John, Mary Ann, David, Michele and Joyce. He died at his home in Calgary on 1 May 2009 aged 86 years and his papers were donated to the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medical Archives.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001517
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First Title value, for Searching Rhys Evans, Peter Howell (1948 - 2022)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-09-21
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Occupation Otolaryngologist Head and neck surgeon ENT surgeon
Details Peter Rhys-Evans was a consultant otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London and the founder of the Oracle Cancer Trust. 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: E010159
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First Title value, for Searching Steward, Edward Simmons (1869 - 1954)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

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 Cameron, Duncan Stewart (1940 - 2010)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2011-12-15 2013-09-02
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Stewart Cameron was a much respected otolaryngologist at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with a special interest in skull-based surgery. He was born in Newcastle on 3 July 1940 and was head boy at Dame Allan's School. A keen rugby player at school, he went on to play scrum half for the Northern Football Club. Stewart Cameron qualified from the University of Durham, having completed his clinical course on the new curriculum at the University of Newcastle. His house appointments were in and around Newcastle, after which he became an assistant lecturer in the department of anatomy at the University of Glasgow (from 1965 to 1968). After gaining his Edinburgh FRCS, he decided to start training in ENT and undertook a clinical tutorship in Edinburgh. Drawn back to Newcastle, he was successively a registrar and a senior registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, before being appointed as a consultant to the Freeman Hospital. Here he developed his special interest in skull-based surgery, in particular the establishment, with his neurosurgical colleagues, of a regional acoustic neuroma service. It was perhaps as an examiner that Stewart Cameron was most admired. He served on the examining boards of both the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England for 25 years, and was awarded the FRCS *ad eundem* by our English College. He was also regional surgical adviser for the Edinburgh College. Stewart Cameron was a person who was always positive and upbeat, and who treated everyone with the same courtesy. His decision to undergo orthopaedic surgery to ease his increasing discomfort whilst playing golf regretfully resulted in a fatal post-operative pulmonary embolus. He died on 23 January 2010, aged 69, and was survived by his wife, Gladys, and his two sons, Alasdair and Iain.
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First Title value, for Searching Guthrie, Thomas (1878 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Shepperd, Harold Walter Henry (1924 - 2013)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2014-08-15 2016-11-03
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Occupation Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Harold Walter Henry Shepperd was a consultant otolaryngologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast with a special interest in head and neck surgery. He was born in Belfast on 24 May 1924, the first child of Reginald Henry Shepperd, a director of Ulster bank, and Kathleen Maude Shepperd née West. He was educated at Brackenber House School, Belfast, and then Campbell College, where he was head prefect, and subsequently studied medicine at Queen's University. He qualified in 1947. He was a house officer at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. Deciding on a career in surgery, he trained in Belfast and at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1959 he was appointed to a consultant post at four hospitals close to Belfast, and then in 1966 he moved to the Royal Victoria Hospital and Lagan Valley Hospital, Lisburn. He retired in 1989. He was secretary and later president (from 1985 to 1986) of the section of laryngology, Royal Society of Medicine, and was president of the Irish Otolaryngological Society. He had the distinction of simultaneously chairing the otorhinolaryngology board of examiners of both the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and Ireland. He was an active member of the Royal Naval Reserve, becoming a surgeon commander and senior reserve officer on HMS *Caroline*. He also enjoyed hill walking and photography. He married Cecilia Mary Carr in 1957. Her father was a general practitioner and came from a family of four generations of doctors. They had two sons and a daughter who trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital. This marriage ended in divorce in 1970. His second marriage was to Madeleine June Whitely. Harold Walter Henry Shepperd died on 20 November 2013. He was 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Milton, Catherine Maureen (1951 - 2003)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2007-08-16 2009-05-07
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Catherine Milton was a consultant otolaryngologist at Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells. She was born in Bristol on 6 April 1951, the middle of three children. Her brothers were Kevin and Richard. Her parents, Maureen and Robert, were both primary school teachers. The family moved in Catherine’s early teens to Littlehampton in West Sussex, her parents pursuing new opportunities at the local primary school. Catherine attended Worthing High School for Girls from 1962 to 1969 and subsequently read zoology at King’s College, London, graduating with a BSc honours degree in 1972. From there Catherine transferred to medicine, to the Middlesex Hospital, where she qualified in 1977. As part of her student training at the Middlesex she was attached to the Ear, Nose and Throat department under Sir Douglas Ranger, Dick Williams and Garfield-Davies, kindling her interest in ENT. Catherine then secured a training post at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in Gray’s Inn Road, where Sir Donald Harrison was the patriarchal head of department. Catherine was one of three mercurial female senior surgical trainees at Gray’s Inn Road at this time. Of the others, Vicky Moore-Gillon was later appointed to St George’s, London, and Valerie Lund became chair of ENT at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. Catherine was subsequently a senior registrar at St George’s Hospital, where in addition to advancing her surgical training, Brian Pickard, the senior surgeon in the department, enthused Catherine with his love of flying. She embarked on, but never completed, her private pilots licence. Following a six month sabbatical in Hillbrow Hospital, South Africa, with Theo Gregor, she returned to the UK and was appointed to her consultant point at the Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells, joining Robert Sergeant. Catherine’s main interests lay within her paediatric practice, particularly otology. Outside medicine, Catherine maintained her earlier interest in zoology and kept a keen interest in animal husbandry, accumulating copious dogs, Jacob sheep, Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs, New Forest ponies and a number of chipmunks, the latter she had inherited from Donald and Audrey Harrison. Catherine married a medical school classmate, Graham Venn, later a cardiothoracic surgeon at St Thomas’ Hospital in London, in 1979 and the couple had two children. James, the elder, followed his mother’s leanings, studying zoology at University College London before converting to law and being called to the Bar in 2006. Jonathan, following a music exhibition at Tonbridge School, studied commercial music at Leeds and Cambridge. The marriage ultimately ended in 2002. Catherine retired prematurely from practice at 50 with progressive ill health, finding the stresses of a changing and pressing surgical practice increasingly arduous. Following her retirement her health deteriorated and, following a short illness, Catherine died of hepatic failure with concomitant breast carcinoma on 18 August 2003.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000381
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First Title value, for Searching Kelham, Bernard Harold (1928 - 1962)

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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Henry Jagoe (1922 - 2007)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2008-08-28
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Occupation Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Henry Shaw was a pre-eminent otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon. He was born in Stafford on 16 March 1922, the son of Benjamin Henry Shaw, a physician, psychiatrist, artist and fisherman, and Adelaide née Hardy, who became a JP and Staffordshire County councillor. His father came from a distinguished Anglo-Irish family with one relative an army surgeon at Waterloo, another in the 32nd Foot in the same campaign; George Bernard Shaw was an ancestor. Educated at Summer Fields School, Oxford, and Eton College, Henry Shaw read medicine at Oxford University and the Radcliffe Infirmary, where he held junior appointments. Perhaps influenced by R G Macbeth and G Livingstone, otolaryngologists at Oxford, he became registrar and senior registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear (RNTNE) Hospital and Guy’s Hospital, London. He was appointed to a Hunterian professorship at the College (1951). After a fellowship and residency at the Sloan Memorial Hospital, New York (1953 to 1954), Henry Shaw was appointed assistant director of the professorial unit and senior lecturer at the RNTNE Hospital and the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. During this time he spent a further year in New York as senior resident at the Bellvue Hospital. In 1962 he was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the RNTNE Hospital. This appointment was combined with a consultancy at the Royal Marsden Hospital, an honorary consultancy to St Mary’s Hospital and the post of ENT surgeon to the Civil Government and St Bernard’s Hospital, Gibraltar. In addition he was civilian consultant ENT surgeon to the Royal Navy. He retired in 1988. Henry Shaw’s professional life was devoted to the care of those suffering from cancer of the head and neck. His appointments at the Royal Marsden and RNTNE Hospital enabled him to lead the field in this aspect of otolaryngology. He wrote many publications, lectured nationally and internationally, and became a founder member and treasurer of the Association of Head and Neck Oncologists of Great Britain, president of the section of laryngology, Royal Society of Medicine, member of council, executive committee and professional care committee of the Marie Curie Cancer Care Foundation and a member of the Armed Services Consultant Appointment board. During the Second World War Henry Shaw served as a surgeon lieutenant in the RNVR. He continued in the Royal Naval Reserve, advancing to surgeon lieutenant commander. He was awarded the Volunteer Reserve Decoration in 1970. Henry Shaw was a gentlemanly person who achieved a great deal in a quiet way. He was never happier than when sailing boats of any kind. His long family association with St Mawes in Cornwall (where he eventually retired) enabled him to indulge fully in this hobby. He married Susan Patricia Head (née Ramsey) in 1967. They had no children of their own, but he gained a stepson and stepdaughter. The marriage was dissolved in 1984 and he married Daphne Joan Hayes (née Charney) in 1988, from whom he gained a further two stepdaughters. He died on 1 August 2007.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000552
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First Title value, for Searching Guerrier, Timothy Hugh (1941 - 2020)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Jenny Guerrier
Publication Date 2020-11-24 2021-10-08
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Occupation ENT surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details Timothy (Tim) Hugh Guerrier was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester from 1978 to 2003 with a special interest in functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). Tim was the eldest of four sons of Hugh Phillip Guerrier, a consultant general surgeon with an interest in urology at Torbay Hospital, Torquay and his wife Shelagh Marion Guerrier née Streafeild, who trained at the Royal Free Hospital and became a consultant anaesthetist. Her father, William Hugh Raymond Streatfield, read medicine at Queens’ College, Cambridge and St George’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1906. From 1908 he followed a career in general practice. Tim was educated initially at Highgate School until his family moved to Devon and then at Bryanston School. He started to read medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, but after two years decided to commence his clinical studies at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, where he did both his house officer posts and a further six months as a senior house officer to Lord Russell Brock and Donald Ross on the thoracic unit. This was followed by a year as an anatomy demonstrator at the London Hospital Medical School. A move to Bristol for a casualty post and more general surgery resulted in the beginning of his ENT training under Jim Freeman at the Bristol General Hospital. In 1971 Tim moved to a joint junior registrar post at Mount Vernon and Middlesex hospitals, London, working with Douglas Ranger and Roland Lewis. He gained his FRCS in 1972. A year later he became a senior registrar on the Southampton/Poole rotation working in Poole with Alan Bracewell and in Southampton with John Glanville, Douglas Worgan and Noel Morgan. In 1978 Tim was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. In the 1980s, as a result of the work of Walter Messerklinger in Graz, Austria and his younger colleague Heinz Stammberger, the use of the rigid fibrescope combined with the increasing sophistication of CT scanning led to the development of functional endoscopic sinus surgery. Tim attended one of the early courses conducted by Stammberger and became a keen promoter of FESS in the UK through courses in London, Liverpool and Glasgow. His experience with FESS featured in Tim’s presidential address to the section of laryngology and rhinology of the Royal Society of Medicine in November in 1999. He concluded his address with a cleverly constructed slide showing King Alfred the Great’s well-known statue in the Broadway, Winchester, brandishing not a sword but a rigid endoscope! Tim married Guy’s staff nurse Jenny (née Turner) in 1967. They had five children: a daughter and four sons. None of them have gone into medicine, saying that they would not work the hours their father did! In retirement Tim, who was a friendly, charming and knowledgeable person, enjoyed having time for theatre, concerts, gardening, travel, cooking and seeing his extended family. He became a keen volunteer at the RCS Hunterian Museum and through this joined the Hunterian Society, having to decline the presidency because of ill health. He was involved in the Winchester Festival of literature and music, serving on the committee and as chairman. He also volunteered at Winchester Cathedral. Tim died on 10 October 2020 of metastases from a carcinoma of the caecum diagnosed seven years previously. He was 79.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009879
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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Peter Douglas (1930 - 2015)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Rumy Kapadia
Publication Date 2016-05-12 2016-09-23
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Peter Douglas Jackson was a consultant otolaryngologist for the Lewisham Group of Hospitals, but it would be fair to say that he would rather be remembered as an operatic tenor/baritone. He was born on 9 May 1930 in Maryport in what was then Cumberland, the son of Percy Jackson, a Methodist minister, and Ethel Jackson née Harding, an accomplished artist. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Stourbridge, and Kingsmead School, Bath, before going to Jesus College, Cambridge. He gained his MB BChir in 1956. He was a senior house officer at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, moving to a resident surgical officer post at Hallam Hospital, West Bromwich, and then at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1962 and in the same year joined the Royal Navy, serving until 1978. While in the Navy he served aboard aircraft carriers HMS *Hermes* and *Eagle*, and on shore at RNH Haslar, Gosport, and RNH Stonehouse, Plymouth. A highlight during this time was his appointment in 1969 as medical officer in charge of the naval base in Mauritius, where he was appreciated for his skills as a compassionate and efficient surgeon, as well as a teacher and linguist, working off-site with Mauritian medical colleagues. It was during his time in the Navy that Peter specialised in ENT. He passed his diploma in laryngology and otology in 1967 and his FRCS (ENT) in 1968. On retirement from the Navy, Peter joined the Institute of Laryngology and Otology, University College, London, in 1978 as a senior lecturer. While at the Institute, he researched tinnitus, and was called upon as an expert witness in occupationally-induced deafness and tinnitus. He wrote several papers on tinnitus, including a chapter on tinnitus, hearing and balance in the elderly in 1981. He joined the Southwark and Lewisham, Greenwich and Bromley Health Authorities as a consultant ENT surgeon in 1981, retiring in 1988. During this time, he co-authored *Ear, nose and throat nursing* (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific) in 1986. He was also a member of the Joseph Society (as the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery was then called). Peter sang throughout his life, singing with the Lewisham choir until 2014, and participating in numerous singing competitions, winning many rosettes. He was invited to sing before Indira Gandhi and other dignitaries in Mauritius. He sang both choral and solo works, enjoying English songs from Dowland to Williams, lieder and opera. In 1955, while still at University College Hospital, he sang the part of the poet in the first revival of Rossini's 'Il turco in Italia'. He was a keen and proficient linguist, being near fluent in several European languages, giving U3A Spanish classes up to his final illness. In addition to his service in the Navy, Peter was in the RAF for his National Service and joined the Territorial Army in 1978, thus covering all three services. However, he became a member of CND (the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) in his later years, as well as being an active member of the Liberal Democrats, having a lifelong interest in politics and social justice. He enjoyed sailing, the Navy providing ample opportunity, teaching his children the basics of dinghy sailing, and taking them on a number of sailing holidays to Croatia. Peter died on 3 October 2015 of metastatic carcinoma from bowel cancer. He was 85. He was survived by his widow, four children, one grandchild and two great grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009120
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First Title value, for Searching Bradwell, Robert Alexander (1938 - 2017)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Andrew Bradwell
Publication Date 2018-01-17 2018-03-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381811381811
Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Robert Alexander Bradwell was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. He was born in Sheffield on 1 February 1938, the son of John Bradwell, a coke ovens manager and chemist, and Edith née Bakewell, owner and managing director of Bradwell Electrical Ltd. He was educated at Ranby House Preparatory School and Worksop College, and then studied medicine at St Andrews University. On graduation in 1963 he worked in general medicine at Nottingham General Hospital and then in the accident and emergency department at Adenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. He returned to St Andrews in 1964 to work as an anatomy demonstrator whilst studying for his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In 1965 Robert was appointed as a senior house officer under the watchful eye of Sir John Bruce at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, enjoying the legendary Sir John's support and famed bonhomie. He gained his fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh as a general surgeon in 1966. In October 1966 Robert decided to change direction to otorhinolaryngology and took an appointment at Bristol United Hospitals to work under Kenneth Roddie at Southmead Hospital. The influential John Angell-James was developing innovative techniques in the field of ear, nose and throat surgery and Robert was keen to draw on Angell-James' expertise to establish himself in his chosen field. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1970. Robert returned to Edinburgh in 1970 as a consultant ENT surgeon and, as well as clinical work, he joined Francis John Gillingham on the otoneurology unit and developed his research into the relationship between the brain and the nose. He was appointed as an honorary senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and was involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. He also fulfilled his duties as a member of the ear, nose and throat clinical team at Western and Bangour hospitals. In 1974 Robert was offered a consultant ear, nose and throat position at Harrogate and decided to leave academic medicine for a more general hospital career in the North Yorkshire spa town. Between 1974 and 2001 he carried out his duties as a consultant otolaryngologist with great diligence, treating patients at Harrogate hospitals and Ripon Cottage Hospital. Although not working at a teaching hospital, he continued to develop new techniques for treating patients, including an innovative laser procedure for the treatment of pharyngeal pouches. He also filled the post of honorary treasurer of the otolaryngology section of the Royal Society of Medicine for 12 years and was a frequent visitor at the headquarters on Wimpole Street to attend lectures and social events. Unfortunately, he suffered a brain stem stroke in 1993, which caused a number of underlying health problems, which he carried with great fortitude and stoicism until the end of his life. Despite this setback, he returned to full-time work in the space of six months and continued his career with the same characteristic determination, retiring in 2001. He cut a dashing figure in Harrogate in his distinctive three piece suits, complemented with a paisley or club tie and matching pocket handkerchief. He was particularly liked by his colleagues, surgical, nursing and domestic, a large number of whom gathered for his retirement party. He was keen to champion the young house officers who came under his care and encouraged his protégés to study for a fellowship or take the ENT experience into general practice. Robert married Gabrielle née Murphy (known as 'Gaye') in 1965, although they had met some years earlier when both studying at St Andrews. They had three children: Andrew, Isobel and Catherine. Robert and Gaye were well-known amongst the medical profession and wherever they lived the Bradwell house was known as a fun place to be. Robert was a keen sportsman and represented the Scottish Universities' Athletics Union at hockey as well as playing for Edinburgh Northern and Harrogate hockey clubs respectively. He was a keen golfer and indeed he won the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's annual golf tournament in 1988. In retirement Robert and Gaye spent time in the Languedoc in their house by the Canal du Midi. Robert indulged his passion for classic cars and toured around Europe with his wife in a number of classic Jaguars. He was also a keen walker in both the Yorkshire Dales and the French countryside. Robert died on 14 December 2017 at the age of 79. He was survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching Mawson, Stuart Radcliffe (1918 - 2008)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Norman Kirby
Publication Date 2010-10-14
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details A renowned ear surgeon, Stuart Mawson was a consultant otolaryngologist at King’s College Hospital, London. He was born on 4 March 1918 in London. His father, Alec Robert Mawson, was chief officer of the parks’ department of the London County Council. His mother, Ena Grossmith, was an actress and the granddaughter of George Grossmith, author of *The diary of a nobody*. Stuart’s parents divorced while he was still a boy. He was educated at Stagenhoe Park and Canford schools, and then went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and then to St Thomas’ Hospital in London to study medicine. Qualifying in 1943, he was a house surgeon at St Thomas’ during the first years of the Second World War and during the London Blitz. He then joined the 11th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, after being encouraged to join the Airborne Forces by another St Thomas’ graduate, Charles G Robb. His introduction to surgery began on the battlefield of the ill-fated airborne assault on Arnhem, Holland, in September 1944. In Arnhem, Stuart and his RAMC section were separated from their battalion and joined the advanced dressing station located in the very heart of the battle. The brigadier commanding the 4th Brigade, Sir John Hackett, was one of the casualties treated at the station. He survived and later wrote the introduction to Stuart’s book *Arnhem doctor* (London, Orbis publishing, 1981). All doctors, orderlies, dentists and padres stayed with the injured after the remnants of the 1st Airborne Division were evacuated, and all were captured. After being liberated by the American Army in 1945, Stuart returned home. In 1947 he passed the FRCS and became chief assistant to the ENT department at St Thomas’ in 1950. The following year, he was appointed as a consultant to the ear, nose and throat department at King’s College Hospital and the Belgrave Hospital for Children, where he worked until his retirement in 1979. He took a great interest in the diagnosis and management of deafness in children. During the 1960s and 1970s, ear surgery enjoyed a renaissance initiated by the use of the binocular operating microscopes and Stuart was one of the pioneers in the adoption of these new techniques of microsurgery of the ear. He published a textbook of ENT surgery *Diseases of the ear* (London, Edward Arnold) in 1963, which has become the standard British and international work and essential reading for all trainee otologists. His second memoir, Doctor after Arnhem (Staplehurst, Spellmount, 2006), described how the inspiration of his belief sustained him during his worst moments as a prisoner of war when he cared for the sick and wounded in many camps in and around Leipzig. He later wrote *The devil’s doctors*, a history of the Airborne Medical Services: this was not published, but a copy is held in the archive of the Army Medical Services Museum. During his last years at King’s, he was the chairman of the medical committee and the district management team during a difficult time of change in the health service. He enjoyed the full support of his medical colleagues when he fully exercised his well-honed tact and diplomacy. He was a member of the council of the British Association of Otolaryngology. In 1974, he was elected president of the section of otology at the Royal Society of Medicine. Married after the war, in 1948, he and his wife, June Irene née Percival, known to many as ‘Julie’, had a happy family life, which was of paramount importance to Stuart. They had four two daughters (Judith Helen and Deborah Rose), two sons (Robert Stuart and John Percival) and 13 grandchildren. It was a joy to him that so many of them lived close to him in Suffolk. Stuart and Julie spent their retirement years in Knodishall, Suffolk, where he sailed his own boat from the Aldeburgh Yacht Club until he felt it unwise to expect Julie to be able to rescue him should he fall overboard at sea. Ever active in affairs of the Church, he was licensed as a lay reader in 1959, appointed a lay elder in 1990, and served as a church warden at his local church, St Lawrence’s. He played golf regularly in Aldeburgh until very soon before his death. Julie had died in 2006. He died from leukaemia on 20 February 2008, just missing his 90th birthday. His son Jock spoke at his father’s funeral service and summed up his life: “Stuart was a warm, stubborn, courageous perfectionist; forged in war, never offering less than total commitment to his country, his profession, his family, and his God.”
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First Title value, for Searching House, Howard Payne (1907 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-28 2013-10-11
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Howard Payne House was a pioneering ear specialist. During his long career he treated thousands of patients, including Howard Hughes, Bob Hope and the former President, Ronald Reagan. A graduate of the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, House perfected the wire loop technique to replace the stapes bone of the middle ear and developed procedures to reconstruct middle ear parts. In 1946 he established the House Ear Institute as a research facility dedicated to the advancement of hearing research and education. A year later, he was appointed Chairman of the subcommittee on noise and directed the national study on industrial noise that set the Occupational Safety and Health Administration hearing conservation standards in use today. House was head of the department of otolaryngology at University of Southern California School of Medicine from 1952 to 1961 and served on the faculty as clinical professor of otology. House received numerous awards and honorary degrees. He served as President of many professional associations in the US, including the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and the American Otological Society. He was awarded the University of Southern California's outstanding career service award, and was named a physician of the year by the California Governor's committee for employment of the handicapped. House died from heart failure on 1 August 2003 at St Vincent Medical Center, Los Angeles. He is survived by his sons, Kenneth and John, and his daughter Carolyn, and nine grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, John Noel Gleave (1934 - 2022)

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by Martin Bailey
Publication Date 2022-04-19
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Occupation Otolaryngologist
Details John Noel Gleave Evans was a consultant otolaryngologist at St Thomas’ Hospital and at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London. He was born on 9 December 1934 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, where his parents were in the Colonial Service. He was educated at Guildford Grammar Preparatory School in Perth, Western Australia and then moved to the UK, where he attended Dulwich College Preparatory School and Cranbrook School in Kent, where he excelled at sport. He studied medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1959. Following his registration in 1960, he carried out his National Service, holding a short service commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was subsequently commissioned into the Territorial Army in 1964 and eventually became an honorary consultant in otolaryngology to the Army in 1989. He started his ENT training while he was in the Army and passed his diploma in laryngology and otology in 1961. Following his National Service, he returned to St Thomas’ as an anatomy demonstrator and then an ENT registrar. After gaining his final FRCS in 1965, he became a senior registrar in the ENT department at St Thomas’ and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. In 1971 he was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at St Thomas’, followed a year later by an appointment to Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1988 he also became an honorary consultant ENT surgeon at King Edward VII’s Hospital. John became internationally renowned as a paediatric otolaryngologist after developing the innovative laryngotracheoplasty operation for paediatric subglottic stenosis: this was reported in a ground-breaking paper in 1974 and is still referenced worldwide (‘Laryngotracheoplasty.’ *J Laryngol Otol*. 1974 Jul;88[7]:589-97). He developed a close and enduring friendship with Robin Cotton, who was working on an alternative technique for the same problem in Toronto and subsequently Cincinnati, and in 1981 they jointly published a five-year follow-up of their cases (‘Laryngotracheal reconstruction in children. Five-year follow up.’ *Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol*. 1981 Sep-Oct;90[5 Pt 1]:516-20). John lectured widely internationally and was honoured with many prizes and awards. He was president of the section of laryngology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1993 and master of the 10th British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology in 1999, the year he retired from clinical practice. In 1960 he married Elizabeth Glascodine (known as Liezel), a nurse at St Thomas’. They had four children: Philippa, Charlotte, Mark and Kate. They were renowned for their hospitality, and their house in south London was the venue for many enjoyable parties. In retirement John and Liezel moved to Hampshire where they cultivated a large garden. John died peacefully at home on 27 March 2022 at the age of 87. An unassuming, approachable and kind man, he was particularly supportive to trainees and colleagues starting out in the relatively young field of paediatric otolaryngology. He will be much missed.
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First Title value, for Searching Freeman, Richard Peter (1925 - 2015)

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by Vincent Cousins
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2016-02-22
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Occupation Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Peter Freeman had been School Captain and Head Cadet at Hutchins School in Hobart and qualified in Medicine at Melbourne University (MBBS) in 1948. As a young graduate he worked in General Practice in St Kilda for a couple of years but had a clinical appointment at The Alfred Hospital and was influenced by his boss Noel Box to become an ENT Surgeon. He went off alone to England to study for a year or so and passed the Fellowship of the College of Surgeons there in 1955. This was a separation driven by commitment to succeed - as he did. Lesley and Richard joined him soon after and he spent two further years in London and Northampton gaining valuable surgical experience before returning to Melbourne and The Alfred Hospital in 1957. He gained his Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 1959. At The Alfred he was visiting specialist and long term Head of the ENT Unit until he retired from the public hospital system in 1985. He had a collaborative approach to the management of patients with complex conditions and worked well with surgeons and specialists of other disciplines. This approach led to the beginning of skull base surgery at the hospital. He inspired numerous young residents to train as ENT Surgeons. He was also responsible for the establishment of the hearing and balance investigation department at the hospital in the 1980s. This was a highly sophisticated diagnostic facility, which was the first and only one of its kind in Melbourne for many years. He served as Chairman of Medical Staff at The Alfred, he was involved in various Committees, and was a pro-active member of the Planning Group responsible for the new ward block, keen to ensure that the interests of patients and staff were best served. He served as a Member of the Board of Management from 1984 to 1987. Peter had a number of national roles in ENT. He was a Member and then Chair of the National Training Board and Examiner for final Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He was President of the Otolaryngology Society of Australia from 1977 to 1979 and later awarded Life Membership of the Australian Society of Oto-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, as it became. Peter was a member of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve for 35 years and attained the very senior rank of Surgeon Captain. During this time, he was Senior ENT Consultant to the Royal Australian Navy and long term national ENT Advisor to the Director-General of Naval Health Services. As part of his clinical role in the Navy he was involved in treating naval divers who had suffered inner ear damage in the course of their work and also produced some significant scientific publications on this condition. He earned multiple military decorations during his navy service. Peter served as Honorary Otologist and Board Member of the Victorian School for Deaf Children over many years and was made a Life Governor of The School in 1992. He had a significant international profile. He was well known and respected by a wide group of senior ENT Surgeons in the UK, Europe and America - a number of whom became his friends. He visited them when overseas at surgical conferences and was successful in having many of them come to Australia, regarded as a relatively remote destination in those days, to lecture and teach our trainees and surgeons, providing world class instruction for them at home. Over the years, his professional connections in the Northern Hemisphere enabled many young ENT surgeons to secure advanced surgical fellowships in various overseas departments in a wide range of sub-disciplines. They subsequently brought new experience and expertise back to Australia. With two or three other senior Australian ENT surgeons, Peter maintained contact in America over many years with Ms Barbara Williams, the widow of a fellow ENT Surgeon. Their long and trusted association contributed to the establishment of The Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation in Australia in the mid 1980s - a great gift to Australia. This is now one of the world's major philanthropic bodies in medicine, supporting research and practice in ENT Surgery and related fields. He served as a Trustee, Chairman of the Board and then Chairman of Trustees in his 25 years with the Foundation and was awarded their inaugural Foundation Gold Medal in 2012. Peter was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the year 2000 for his extensive contribution to Otolaryngology. Peter Freeman was a leader, and he led from the front. He was a force to be reckoned with, but a force for good. He has had a great influence on the specialty of ENT or Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in Australia and this has directly and indirectly benefited many thousands of our patients. His has left an enduring legacy.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Richard Stephen Alban (1940 - 2016)

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by Richard Maw
Publication Date 2017-12-13 2018-02-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon Otolaryngologist otorhinolaryngologist
Details Stephen Thomas (or 'Steve' as he was known to his friends) was a consultant ENT surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Cardiff on 12 July 1940 to Hector Thomas, a consultant otolayrngologist at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, and Enid Thomas, a Welsh hockey international. He attended Radley College, where he distinguished himself academically and excelled as a sportsman, playing in the rugby, cricket, squash, golf and hockey first teams. He captained the hockey team in 1958. After Radley, he went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read natural sciences. In 1961, he commenced his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where subsequently he held preregistration house appointments. Steve opted to follow his father into a career as an ear, nose and throat surgeon. He began his higher surgical training as an ENT registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Grays Inn Road, London. There he worked for a range of surgeons with varying sub-specialty interests. His senior registrar training was at St Bartholomew's Hospital. At that time, the appointment involved general and sub-specialty ENT surgery at Bart's and attachments to the Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road and to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square. These attachments provided considerable higher surgical and medical training in head and neck surgical oncology and neuro-otology respectively. During his senior registrar training he spent a year as a senior ENT resident at Kingston General Hospital, Ontario, Canada. In 1975, he was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary. Ultimately, he became clinical director for surgery at the Infirmary. He was an examiner in ENT surgery for the University of Leicester and also examiner for the FRCS (otolaryngology) at the Royal College of Surgeons. With that role, he was also a member of the working party on the 'new style' MRCS examination. He examined for the College both at home and abroad. Steve supported international ENT training by virtue of his appointment at St George's University, Grenada between 1999 and 2011 as both a tutor and examiner. This included becoming chair of surgery at St George's in 2004. At home in Leicester, he served on both district and regional ENT committees. He was a member of the Visiting Association of Throat and Ear Surgeons of Great Britain, becoming honorary secretary for eight years. The Association carried out annual visits to ENT departments in the United Kingdom and abroad, fostering a network of inter-departmental contacts which assisted teaching and training for trainees. In addition to his clinical and teaching roles, Steve gave particular interest and support to the Leicestershire Hospice LOROS. He served as a member of the board and later became chairman, serving from 2005 to 2010. Like his mother, Steve was also an international hockey player. During his early training, he achieved 14 caps for Wales. His sporting expertise led to his appointment as an honorary medical officer to the Great Britain men's hockey team between 1978 and 1987. Subsequently, he was appointed as an honorary ENT specialist to the British Olympic Association, attending the Olympics in Los Angeles, Seoul and Barcelona. In 1967 Steve married Sally Cousins, a Bart's nurse. They had a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Katie. Between them there are now five granddaughters. As a colleague and friend, Steve ranked in the highest echelon for solidarity, support, generosity, charm and good humour. He was a joy to be with and was a formidable opponent at any particular sport in which he chose to be involved. Tragically his last years were blighted by progressive supranuclear palsy. This malign condition he withstood with typical resolve and fortitude. Stephen Hume died on 8 July 2016. He was 75.
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First Title value, for Searching Kander, Herbert Sigmund (1911 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born on 27 February 1911 at Karlsruhe, Herbert Sigmund Kander came from a family with a strong medical tradition. He studied medicine at the Universities of Vienna and Munich, but was obliged by the Nazi tyranny to leave Germany before graduating, and came to England in 1933 at the age of 22. He studied at St Mary's Hospital, and qualified in 1937. After serving as house surgeon at St Mary's, Kander became interested in otolaryngology and during the next two years was a registrar in the ear nose and throat departments of St Mary's and Queen Mary's Hospitals, and at Golden Square Throat Hospital. During the war he was in general practice at Stafford, and in 1946 was appointed consultant surgeon in otolaryngology to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, where he made his mark. He was particularly interested in treatment of deafness, for which he organised special clinics at Coventry. Kander achieved much in spite of recurrent illness. He had charm, humour, and enthusiasm. He died suddenly at 35 Morningside, Coventry on 17 November 1961 aged 50, survived by his wife Dr Edith Kander, who had been part-time Medical Officer of Health for Coventry and Warwickshire, and by their daughter and son, a medical student at St Mary's. Publications: An unusual case of cerebellar abscess, with W Wallchurch. *J Laryngol* 1944, 59, 223. Treatment of deafness and recurrent otitis media with x-rays, jointly with K Sicher. *Lancet* 1950, 2, 672. Three cases of respiratory paralysis treated by pressure breathing through a tracheotomy, with J F Galpine. *J Laryngol* 1957, 71, 123.
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First Title value, for Searching Canty, Derrick Peter Conor (1942 - 2014)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Richard Ramsden
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2017-02-24
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Peter Canty was a consultant otolaryngologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Cork, Eire, on 27 July 1942. His father, Patrick, was a banker with the Allied Irish Bank and his mother May studied commerce. When Peter was 11 years old, the family moved to Schull in West Cork, and this was to be the start of Peter's love of the place. After schooling at Castleknock College, he decided on a career in medicine, and matriculated at University College Cork in 1966. He was greatly influenced by his aunt, Ina O'Connor, an ophthalmologist in Cork, and one of the first female surgeons in Ireland. Peter lived with her as a student and she kept (appropriately) a watchful eye on his academic and social activities. He decided on ENT as a career whilst working in the anatomy department and it was at this time that he made another life-changing decision: he became engaged to Mary Conroy, who was on the staff of the French department. They were married in 1970. Peter was accepted on to the registrar training scheme in Manchester. He was very much influenced by Kenneth Harrison, the head of the department at Manchester Royal Infirmary, with whom he shared a passionate devotion to the fortunes of Manchester United. During this time, he won the George Seed prize awarded by the North of England Otolaryngology Society for work he had done on audiometric testing in acoustic tumours. Peter was appointed to the staff of Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1979 following the retirement of Ken Harrison, and found himself one of three young consultants, an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scot, a fact that appealed to his well-developed sense of humour. Peter was a general otolaryngologist. He had a particular interest in the deafness of childhood and specifically in otitis media with effusion. Nasal allergy was another interest on which he contributed to the literature and he was a founder member of the International Foundation for Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Allergology in Otorhinolaryngology. He tolerated but did not enjoy administration ('a necessary evil') and could be a tough and dogmatic adversary in committee. His intransigence in negotiation with 'management' made him a highly effective clinical director at a time when the department of otolaryngology was undergoing rapid expansion. He served as an examiner for the old diploma of laryngology and otology of the Royal College of Surgeons, for Irish undergraduate examinations and for the final MB ChB examinations at Manchester University. Peter's greatest assets were his effortless charm and the ease with which he communicated with his patients, young and old. He just liked people. He was a delight to be with, a compulsive if at times somewhat discursive raconteur, with a self-deprecating sense of humour. Although he loved many aspects of life in Manchester, the fortunes of Sale Rugby and Manchester United in particular, he remained Irish to his roots. He loved his house in Schull, where he holidayed every year, he loved the craic and, in particular, he loved the rugby. He was devoted to the fortunes of the Irish national team, but even more so to Munster, whose victory over the All Blacks in 1978 was a recurrent theme in any late-night meeting, usually recalled with a pint of pure Liffey water in his hand. Peter retired from the NHS in 1998, but carried on with his private practice until 2006. He was intensely proud of his family, Mary and the boys - Stephen, an orthopaedic surgeon in Preston, and Edward, a sports lawyer - and of his grandchildren. In retirement he enjoyed walking with friends and became a compulsive devourer of crime novels. He was diagnosed with gastro-oesophageal carcinoma and tolerated major surgery and courses of chemotherapy with enormous fortitude. He died on 7 June 2014, aged 72, and his remains were returned to Schull, where he is buried overlooking his favourite place in the world.
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First Title value, for Searching Chamings, Alfred John Wilson (1903 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, Adrian Nicholas (1928 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born in 1928 of a medical family of five generations, son of John Richard Griffith FRCS and Elsie Maud Griffith MRCS, he was educated at Stowe School, Christ's College, Cambridge, where he won the E G Fearnsides scholarship, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Soon after qualification in 1952 Griffith was attracted to oto-laryngology, and held house appointments at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Bart's, and the Lincoln County Hospital. During his military service he was a specialist with the BAOR. Later he served as registrar in the ear nose and throat department at Great Ormond Street, at the plastic and facio-maxillary surgery unit at Chepstow, and in the neurosurgical and neuro-otological department at the National Hospital, Queen Square. Adrian Griffith was awarded a Wernher Research Scholarship in Otology by the Medical Research Council in 1959 and went for a year to Dr John Lindsay at the University of Chicago. While there he became seriously ill and returned to Britain for treatment. On recovery he continued active work as senior lecturer in surgery at St Bartholomew's; there and at Queen Square he worked on problems concerning the auditory ossicles. In the spring of 1961 Griffith married Catherine Wilson, a principal mezzosoprano at Sadler's Wells who also sang at Glyndebourne, and enjoyed under her care a few last months of great happiness. Though still quite young when he died, a brilliant future had been predicted for Griffith. In addition to his achievements in medicine, he was a man of wide interests ranging from literature art and music to sailing, wildfowling and archaeology. He had climbed and explored in Newfoundland and Iceland. An able editor of the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Journal*, he was also a founder member of the Junior Osler Club, and in 1952 won the Wix Prize for his essay on Rodrigo Lopez, the Elizabethan physician. A skilful surgeon and scientist, a versatile and much loved man, Adrian Griffith died at his home in Canonbury, London on 29 October 1961, aged 33.
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First Title value, for Searching Ballantyne, John Chalmers (1917 - 2008)

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by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2009-10-21
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details John Ballantyne, a genial, kindly, hard-working man who gave much to British and world otolaryngology, was a consultant otolaryngologist at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He was born during a Zeppelin raid on Nottingham on 26 September 1917. He was a triplet – preceded by his sister, Jeannie, and followed by his identical twin brother, Rollo. His father, the Reverend John Charles Ballantyne, was a Unitarian minister. His mother, Muriel, née Taylor, was ethereal, artistic and musical. All her children, including the triplets’ older brother David, skilfully played the piano. Ballantyne was raised in Liverpool and attended St Christopher’s preparatory school. On the recommendation of their uncle Arthur Ballantyne (professor of ophthalmology at Glasgow), John and Rollo, who had decided to read medicine, took their first MB at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London. This was during the deanship of Charles Wilson (later Sir Charles and Lord Moran), who positively encouraged students to take the MB (as opposed to qualifying with the conjoint board examination only). He must have welcomed the versatile Ballantyne twins who enjoyed athletics and swimming and founded the St Mary’s Music Society. They followed an accelerated course to enable them to qualify early, in 1942, in order to join the Services during the Second World War. The captains Ballantyne joined the RAMC and were posted to Gibraltar. John was attached to the Royal Scots and began training as an otolaryngologist with R Scott Stevenson, whose interest in deafness and ease in writing left a marked impression. John’s first paper to be published in the *Journal of Laryngology and Otology* (JLO) was co-authored with his mentor, Scott Stevenson, and was entitled ‘The conservative treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media’. After the war, he completed his Army service in Hamburg and Oxford, before, in 1947, becoming registrar to Jack Angell-James in Bristol. From 1949 to 1950 he combined the posts of registrar to the Royal Cancer Hospital, London, with a research registrar post in the audiology unit at Golden Square Hospital, working with Edith Whetnall. This post stimulated John’s interest in deafness and the structure and function of the inner ear. After three successful years as senior registrar to John Simpson and Ian Robin at St Mary’s he gained his first part-time consultant post at the Royal Northern Hospital in 1953. At the same time he became assistant director to the audiology unit at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and also otologist to the London County Council (LCC). This experience led to the publication of his first book, *Deafness* (London, J & A Churchill, 1960). It was written to help parents of deaf children and the adult deaf and has been used by generations of audiologists in training. John’s second daughter Deborah, an audiological scientist, translated the book into Italian. After five years at the audiology unit and the LCC, John moved on to a consultant post at the Royal Free Hospital. His senior colleague, W G Scott-Brown, introduced him to private practice in Harley Street and to his textbook *Diseases of the ear, nose and throat* (London, Butterworth), first published in 1952. The two Johns, John Ballantyne and John Groves, helped Scott-Brown with the second (1965), third (1971) and fourth (1979) editions, with each succeeding edition becoming a volume larger. John Ballantyne edited the second and third editions of *A synopsis of otolaryngology* (Bristol, J Wright) in 1967 and 1978 with his former chiefs from St Mary’s. He edited both the ear volume and the nose and throat volume for the third edition of Rob and Smith’s *Operative surgery* (London, Butterworth) in 1976, contributing chapters on stapedectomy and nasal surgery. In 1986, he repeated the exercise for the fourth edition, this time with Andrew Morrison and D F N Harrison as his co-editors of the ear, nose and throat volumes, respectively. Experience gained from a sabbatical with Hans Engstrom resulted in the joint publication of a paper on the morphology of the ‘vestibular ganglion cells’. This work stimulated his collaboration with Imrich Friedmann (who was for many years the JLO’s adviser in pathology) in co-editing a book in 1984 entitled *Ultrastructural atlas of the inner ear* (London, Butterworth). John Ballantyne was much in demand as a teacher, examiner and committee member. He never refused these duties, although in 1971 he is minuted as having seriously questioned the value of the repetitious work of the British Medical Association (BMA) otolaryngology group. It ceased to function the same year. And yet, if he could help to lessen deafness no task was too small. (He agreed, for example, to represent the BMA otolaryngology group on a British Standards Committee studying noise from toys.) At the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) John chose as the title of his 1976 section of otology presidential address, ‘The hearing ear; variations on a theme of Helmholtz’, which enabled him to utilise his knowledge and love of music. He memorably played the passage in Smetana’s first string quartet (from ‘My life’), in which the composer described his own tinnitus. During his time as honorary secretary of the British Association of Otolaryngologists (from 1972 to 1977), he also represented the association on the council of the Royal College of Surgeons. He examined for the FRCS in England and Ireland, and was a civilian consultant in otolaryngology to the Army. As a distinguished editor of the JLO (from 1978 to 1988), John Ballantyne, with only the help of his tireless secretary, performed all the tasks of sub-editing and proofreading himself, including hand-writing letters to each author. He co-authored with Ted Evans and Andrew Morrison an influential report (published as the first JLO supplement in 1978) on cochlear implantation (CI), which paved the way for further work by the Medical Research Council and then the later adoption of CI by the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS). As chairman of the DHSS advisory committee on services for hearing impaired people (ACSHIP) from 1974 to 1980, he introduced hearing therapists and contributed to the establishment of specialist audiological physicians. For the British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology, he served as honorary secretary and later chairman of the general committee for the conferences in Edinburgh and London respectively, and was invested as master of the seventh conference in Glasgow in 1987. In the same year, he was elected as an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. John Ballantyne delivered the 16th James Yearsley lecture in 1970 on the subject of ototoxicity, the Sir William Wilde lecture in 1975 and the Toynbee lecture in 1984. He was awarded the Harrison prize in otology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1971, and the Jobson Horne prize of the British Medical Association in 1982, and was a member of the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum. For 20 years he was a most supportive director of the Britain Nepal Otology Service. John Ballantyne was honoured with a CBE for services for the deaf in 1984 and received the honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the College of Surgeons of South Africa and the Royal Society of Medicine. In retirement he was a founder member of the RSM’s Retired Fellows’ Society. The last meeting he was able to attend at the RSM was in December 2006, when fittingly he chaired a lecture given by his daughter, Jane. He for many years was administrator of the RSM Music Society, ending up as president. He never lost his youthful curiosity or humour, and was always reading, learning and wanting to know more. While in Gibraltar in 1942 he met Barbara Green, a Wren from Bristol. They married in 1949 and she survives him with their two daughters, Jane, an anaesthetist and professor of pain control, University of Philadelphia, USA, and Deborah, chief audiological scientist at ‘La Sapienza’ University in Rome. John Ballantyne died on 25 June 2008, aged 90.
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First Title value, for Searching Chawishly, Soran Akram Agha (1951- 2020)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Esma J Dogramaci
Publication Date 2020-10-19 2020-12-07 2021-02-15
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Occupation ENT surgeon Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details Soran Chawishly was an associate specialist surgeon in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at University College Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital in London. He was born on 4 January 1951 in Erbil, Iraq to Akram and Rasmieh Chawishly, their second son and one of six children. After completing his primary and secondary education in Erbil, he travelled to Baghdad, where he studied medicine at the Baghdad Medical College, University of Baghdad, graduating with a MB ChB in 1973. After obtaining his primary degree, Soran worked and trained in several Baghdad hospitals in the specialties of general surgery, orthopaedics, general internal medicine, paediatrics, accident and emergency medicine and otolaryngology, after which he decided to pursue specialisation in the latter. This decision led him to train at the Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital in Baghdad. After qualification, he worked as a specialist otolaryngologist in Ramadi, 110km west of Baghdad, then immigrated to the UK in 1980 to further develop his knowledge and skills in his specialist field. In the UK, Soran gained postgraduate clinical experience in several hospitals across London and Newcastle, gaining the DLO in 1986. He worked for many years at the Royal Free Hospital and, during this time, trained many junior doctors, several of whom are now consultants throughout the UK. Until his terminal diagnosis, he was working as an associate specialist in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at University College Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital in London. Aside from the clinical training of junior doctors, participating within hospital management and administration, and giving lectures to general medical practitioners, he was an advocate for respect, recognition and fair reward in the workplace, particularly for staff associate specialist (SAS) surgeons. He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s SAS and locum consultants’ committee and was the SAS representative at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s surgical specialty board for ENT. He was a strong supporter of initiatives targeting workplace bullying, harassment and undermining, particularly against SAS surgeons. He had a wealth of knowledge regarding contracts, salaries and pensions, which he freely shared with his colleagues and friends. Soran’s philanthropic contributions included regular self-funded trips to Erbil, Iraq, where he would work with various non-governmental organisations to teach and mentor undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. He was a valued colleague and esteemed friend to many in the UK and Iraq, and over several years enthusiastically organised and coordinated popular reunions of his graduating year from his alma mater in diverse locations in Turkey and Spain, in addition to London. Soran had intended to retire in 2021 and was happily looking forward to enjoying spending more time outdoors, with gardening, playing golf and country walks high on his list of activities. He had planned to travel the world on a cruise as well as further pursue his lifetime passion of model cars. Soran was also planning reunions, with the one for 2020 intended to be especially memorable for the fact that it was due to take place in his ancestral homeland, Erbil, Iraq, but this was abandoned due to his sudden and short illness. He died on 22 July 2020 at the age of 69 and is sorely missed by his near and extended family and relatives, friends, work colleagues, patients and all who knew him. Soran was survived by his wife, two sons and two granddaughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Brandrick, John Thomas (1944 - 2023)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Robert M D Tranter
Publication Date 2023-10-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/387378387378
Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details John Brandrick was a consultant in the department of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at Fairfield General Hospital, Bury. He was born on 16 September 1944, the son of John Brandrick and Edith Brandrick née Neale, and studied dentistry at the University of Birmingham. He was awarded the Alexander MacGregor prize and qualified BDS in December 1968. Initially John undertook a resident house surgical job in oral surgery at Birmingham General Hospital. He then moved to Plymouth as a senior house officer in maxillofacial surgery with Paul Bramley and Tom Crewe. This was before the introduction of mandatory seatbelts and, in the summer months especially, the department was extremely busy treating facial injuries due to road traffic accidents. Techniques used for treating facial fractures in this unit were very innovative, using internal fixations such as plates and wires long before they came into common usage. John then became a registrar at Plymouth working with Sandy Davis, who replaced Paul Bramley, who had moved to Sheffield University as professor and dean of dental surgery. John decided he would like a career in maxillofacial surgery and returned to Birmingham in 1975 to study medicine. Having qualified in 1979, he went to work with two other Birmingham ENT colleagues who had also trained in dentistry – myself and David Proops. We were working with Norman Crabtree, George Dalton and Jim Bennett at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. He obtained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in otolaryngology in 1983 and was then appointed as a senior registrar around the West Midlands circuit. In 1989 he was appointed as a consultant working at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury. He worked with two other colleagues, Fergus O’Connor and David Gordon; their department was renowned throughout the hospital as being very happy and efficient. He was caring and professional in his manner and was popular with his colleagues and other hospital staff and, above all, his patients. At his private practice, over 65s were charged half price and he even gave some a lift home. John had many sporting interests. He played in the second row for the medics rugby team at Birmingham, where he did not display the kind, caring, compassionate manner that he was renowned for with his patients. He also enjoyed walking and, just before his death, had completed the Pennine Way, the Coast to Coast Walk and the Wealdway. He was interested in music and would often go to Bridgewater Hall in Manchester to hear classical concerts. He was a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and, at home, had over 6,000 books. He was a member of the Elgar and the J P Priestley societies. He had a photographic memory and was able to recite the ‘The night mail’ by W H Auden and ‘The lion and Albert’ by Marriott Edgar with appropriate accents. John, however, had an overriding passion for steam engines and model engineering. He and his father built their first model steam locomotive in a bedroom they had converted into a workshop. He even built railway tracks in their garden at Birmingham and Ramsbottom. He bought and refurbished many large, model steam engines. He was a stalwart and chairman of the Old Locomotive Committee, which aims to foster research, encourage communication, preserve artefacts and publish information about the Lion, a steam engine built in 1838 and now on display at the Museum of Liverpool. John was very active with the Old Locomotive Committee, organising meetings and stands at many model engineering exhibitions. John married Marlene (née France) in 1973 in Birmingham and they had four children, Sarah, Lucy, Tom and Rachel. He died suddenly on 22 May 2023 with a ruptured aortic aneurysm. He was 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Marsh, Frank (1855 - 1943)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376738376738
Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born 16 June 1855 at Tillington, Stafford, second son and fourth of the seven children of Edward Marsh (b 1806), yeoman farmer, and Elizabeth Hall, his second wife. He was educated at King Edward's School, Stafford, and King's College Hospital, London. After qualifying in 1877 he served with the Turkish army in the Turco-Russian war of 1877-8. On his return to England he was appointed house surgeon at the Stafford Infirmary, settled there in practice for some years, and was for eighteen months medical officer of health for Stafford, having taken the Cambridge Diploma in Public Health in 1884. In 1886 he was appointed casualty surgeon at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, becoming surgeon and lecturer on clinical surgery in 1888; he resigned in 1903, becoming consulting surgeon to the United Hospitals. He was also surgeon to the Birmingham Ear and Throat Hospital. In 1902 he delivered the Ingleby lecture at Birmingham. He was president of the section of laryngology at the Birmingham meeting of the British Medical Association in 1911, having previously been secretary and vice-president of this section. Marsh took a keen interest in the Territorial Army. He served as a military member of the Warwickshire County Territorial Association, in virtue of commission as lieutenant-colonel, à la suite, which he received on 3 July 1908 on the formation of the RAMC(T). During the first world war he served on the strength of the 1st Southern General Hospital at Birmingham, and as ADMS, Birmingham district, from 25 May 1917, being gazetted brevet colonel on 3 June 1917. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration and created CBE for his services. From 1929 to 1937 he was honorary colonel of the RAMC units of the 48th (South Midland) Division of the Territorial Army. For his work with the Red Cross and St John Organization he was elected a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. He was a Deputy Lieutenant. Marsh married in 1886 Constance Hooper, who survived him with two sons and a daughter; another daughter had predeceased him. The elder son was a Fellow of the College, Frank Douglas Marsh, who survived his father by only a year. Marsh retired in 1922, and from 1931 to 1940 he lived at Monte Carlo, first at 18 Rue de Lorraine and later at Villa Bella Stella, 43 Boulevard d'Italie. On the fall of France in 1940 he returned to England, and died at Alveley, Bridgnorth, Salop, on 12 September 1943, aged 88. Marsh was a staunch conservative, and loved country life and fishing. Publication: Chronic hypertrophy of the faucial and pharyngeal lymphoid or adenoid tissues. *Lancet*, 1902, 1, 1587 and 1751.
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First Title value, for Searching Graham, Cecil Irving (1877 - 1957)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377708377708
Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born in Western Australia on 11 April 1877, he was a student at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was afterwards assistant lecturer in anatomy. After holding resident posts at St Mary's and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, he was appointed surgical registrar at St Mary's and subsequently first assistant surgeon when the ear and throat departments were combined in 1908; he had previously been senior clinical assistant at the Throat Hospital, Golden Square. He became surgeon to his department at St Mary's in 1919, and consulting aural surgeon on retirement in 1937. He was also aurist and laryngologist at the King Edward VII memorial hospital, Ealing, and the North Hertfordshire and South Bedfordshire Hospital, Hitchin. He served as honorary secretary of the otology section at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association at London in 1910, and was for some years honorary secretary of the Section of Laryngology in the Royal Society of Medicine. He practised at 17 Upper Wimpole Street. Graham lived after retirement at 5 St Sampson Terrace, Golant, Par, Cornwall, where he enjoyed sailing and outdoor activities. He suffered for some years from arthritis, slipped when getting out of his boat in July 1957 and, eventually succumbing to his injuries, died on 8 August 1957 aged 80. Graham had been an athlete of fine physique. He was captain of St Mary's Rugby football XV which won the Inter-Hospitals Cup in 1900; St Mary's also won the United Hospitals sports, Graham himself making a record hammer-throw. He was President of St Mary's Rugby football and athletic clubs for many years. Publications: A case of cyst of the pituitary fossa. *Lancet* 1913, 1, 242 and 892. A case of pituitary tumour, with W Harris. *Lancet* 1913, 2 1251; possibly the first decompression of the sella turcica attempted in England. Two cases to illustrate operation for complete lachrymal obstruction. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1914, 34, 102. A series of cases showing the results of per-nasal dacryocystostomy. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1922, 42, 175.
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, John Stuart (1917 - 1997)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

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/380946380946
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details John Stuart Martin was senior consultant otolaryngologist at Hull Royal Infirmary. He was born on 19 June 1917 in Robinstown, County Meath, and qualified from Queen's University Belfast in 1939. After completing his junior appointments in Belfast he joined the RAMC, where he served in North Africa and Europe, commanding field ambulances. He was later appointed assistant director of medical services with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In 1943, he was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous bravery having, "immediately proceeded to the place which was being most heavily shelled…quite undaunted by the heavy shellfire he attended to the wounded men without regard for his personal safety. By his brave action he undoubtedly saved lives and the example had a steadying influence on all around him." After the war he studied general surgery for a time in Dublin, where he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1949. He then decided to make otolaryngology his career and went to England, where he was appointed senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, working with Monkhouse and C P Wilson. In 1952 he passed the DLO and took his FRCS (otolaryngology) in 1954. He was appointed consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to Hull Royal Infirmary, succeeding Robert Simpson, and he remained there for the rest of his working life. He continued to live in Hull after his retirement. His many friends described Martin both as a gentleman and a gentle man. He was a devoted family man and in 1953 he married Violet Henrietta Meyerstein, who had been a house surgeon at the Middlesex. They had three daughters. One is a general practitioner in Yorkshire. Another trained as a nurse, also at the Middlesex, and later obtained a PhD in nursing. John Martin enjoyed the practical side of his specialty and was particularly skilful in drilling the temporal bone. When he retired from practice, he devoted himself to woodwork and made a long case clock for each of his three daughters after he had panelled the rooms in his house. His wife Violet survived him by six months following his death from cancer on 3 September 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Barton, Rex Penry Edward (1944 - 2006)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-08-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372732372732
Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Rex Barton was a former otolaryngologist, head and neck surgeon at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Carmarthen, Wales, on 3 May 1944, the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Cecil Barton of the Royal Sussex Regiment and Gwendolen Margaret Gladwys née Thomas, who qualified at the Royal Free Hospital and became a pathologist in Salisbury. Her father, David J Thomas, was formerly medical officer of health for Acton. Educated at the Cathedral School, Salisbury, Harrow School (where he received the Exeter prize for biology) and University College, London, Rex Barton qualified from University College Hospital Medical School, where he was both house surgeon and house physician. After senior house officer posts in Bristol, he elected to pursue a career in ENT and was subsequently appointed registrar and later senior registrar (with plastic surgery) to St Mary’s and the Royal Marsden hospitals, London. Here he was much influenced by Ian Robin and Anthony Richards. During this period he spent four months at the Victoria Hospital, Dichpalli, India, sponsored by the Medical Research Council and LEPRA, where he researched into the ENT manifestations of leprosy. This led to a number of landmark papers and a continued interest in the subject. Appointed consultant head and neck oncologist and ENT surgeon to the Leicester Royal Infirmary and Loughborough General hospitals, Rex Barton was instrumental in establishing a multidisciplinary head and neck oncology service. Sadly because of ill health he was obliged to retire early in 1994. Rex Barton had a firm Christian faith and always resolved to live accordingly. In 1969 he married Nicola Margaret St John Allen, a state registered nurse. They had three children, Thomas, Jennifer and Samuel. Rex Barton died on 18 June 2006. Neil Weir
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First Title value, for Searching Simpson, Robert Ritchie (1902 - 1952)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born at Larkhall, Glasgow, he was educated at the University of Glasgow going to the Western Infirmary for the clinical period and, as a postgraduate, to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. After qualifying, he held junior appointments at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, followed by a post as senior house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Hull. He then became a senior clinical assistant and clinical tutor in the Ear Nose and Throat Department of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh and in 1927 joined Ritchie Rodger in private and hospital practice in Hull. During the war of 1939-45 he served in the RAMC with the rank of Major, first in France, being evacuated from St Nazaire in 1940, and then in the Middle East and in Ceylon. On the retirement of Ritchie Rodger in 1947 he dealt with all ear nose and throat work in Hull alone until 1954 when two additional consultant posts were made. In 1947 he was a founder member of the North of England Otolaryngological Society of which he later became President. In 1950-52 he was President of the East Yorkshire branch of the BMA, in 1953 Vice-President of the Otolaryngological Section of the BMA meeting in Cardiff, President of the Otolaryngological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1954, and a councillor and President elect of the British Association of Otolaryngologists. His other activities included these of an examiner for the University of Manchester, President of the Hull Medical Society, and a Justice of the Peace until 1956 as he had a special interest in juvenile delinquency, having throughout his career taken a particular interest in children and organised an ear nose and throat service for school children in Hull. An authority on Shakespeare, he wrote *Shakespeare and Medicine* published by Livingstone, Edinburgh 1959, and "Shakespeare on the ear, nose and throat" in the *Journal of Laryngology* 1950, 64, 343. His other writing included the presidential address to the Section of the Royal Society of Medicine on "The Heritage of British otology" (*Proc*. 1954, 47, 205) and "The Causes of perceptive deafness" (*Proc*. 1949, 42, 536). A fearlessly honest colleague, his later years were clouded by increasing disability. He died on 26 November 1960 at his home in Hull survived by his wife, two daughters and a son.
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First Title value, for Searching Marsh, Frank Douglas (1888 - 1944)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born 26 November 1888, the elder son of Frank Marsh, FRCS, and Constance Hooper, his wife, who outlived her son. He was educated at Shrewsbury and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1910. He then entered St Bartholomew's, won the Shuter scholarship in 1911 and qualified in February 1914. On the outbreak of war he was commissioned a captain in the RAMC(T) on 25 August 1914, and served in France from 1915 to 1919, winning the Military Cross in 1917 and being promoted major and acting as a DADMS. After the war he served as house surgeon at St Bartholomew's and, deciding to specialize as an otologist, as clinical assistant in the department of throat and ear diseases at Bart's and at the Central London Throat, Nose, and Ear Hospital, and also spent six months in Vienna. He then settled in Birmingham, where his father was a prominent surgeon and citizen, becoming assistant surgeon at the Birmingham and Midland Ear and Throat Hospital and aural surgeon and laryngologist at the Children's Hospital, and from 1927 was surgeon to the ear and throat department at the Queen's Hospital. His combination of surgical and administrative ability was reflected in the rapid and successful development of his department at the Children's Hospital. He was also consulting ear and throat surgeon to the Guest Hospital, Dudley, and the Halesowen Cottage Hospital. Marsh was lecturer in diseases of the ear and throat at Birmingham University. During the second world war he was appointed commandant of the Queen's Hospital and then served as otologist (1940-42) at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, the principal regular military hospital, with the rank of major, RAMC(T). In 1942 he returned to civilian duties at Birmingham on account of arthritis, and was deputy regional adviser in otology under the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service. Marsh married in 1926 Edythe Milne Bankier, MB, ChB, who survived him with one son. Marsh died at 63 Sir Harry's Road, Edgbaston on 17 September 1944, aged 55, a year and five days after his father. He had been ill for eight weeks with acute infective jaundice. He had formerly practised at 10, and later 20, Church Road, Edgbaston. Marsh was an active member of professional societies in London and Birmingham, and a frequent contributor to the literature of his specialty. He was interest in the craftsmanship of furniture, and was an active bird-watcher, member of the "Men of the Birds". Tall and erect, grave and courteous, of reserved but kindly manner, he was a warm and loyal friend, and of great personal and professional integrity. Publications: Some observations on functional aphonia. *Lancet*, 1932, 2, 289. Abscess of the nasal septum. *J Laryng*. 1935, 50, 909. Acute otitis media. *Med Press*, 1936, 192, 52.
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First Title value, for Searching Stell, Philip Michael (1934 - 2004)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372319372319
Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Philip Stell had an outstanding career as a reconstructive surgeon, dealing with head and neck cancers, and went on to a successful second career in mediaeval history. He was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, on 14 August 1934, the son of Frank Law Stell, a tailor’s manager, and Ada née Davies. He was educated at Archbishop Holgate Grammar School, York, and Edinburgh University. After junior posts in Edinburgh and Liverpool, he won a fellowship to Washington University, St Louis, in 1956. He returned to Liverpool as a senior lecturer. In 1976 he wrote his masters thesis on skin grafting techniques, and in 1979 he became a professor. He dealt with all aspects of head and neck malignancies, and developed exceptional expertise in reconstruction, keeping detailed outcomes of his operations using a computerised database. He published some 346 articles in scientific journals, edited 12 books and contributed to a further 39. In 1975 he founded the journal *Clinical Otolaryngology* and set up the Otorhinolaryngological Research Society in 1978 (he was President from 1983 to 1986). He was President of the laryngological section of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Association of Head and Neck Oncologists of Great Britain and the Liverpool Medical Institution. He was Hunterian Professor of our College in 1976 and a regional adviser in ENT for the Mersey region. He was the recipient of numerous awards and medals, including the Yearsley gold medal, the Semon prize of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Harrison and the George Davey Howells prizes of the University of London, the Sir William Wilde gold medal of the Irish Otorhinolaryngolical Society in 1988, the Walter Jobson Horne prize of the British Medical Society in 1989, the gold medal of the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and the Institute of Oncology, 1989, and the gold medal of the German ENT Society in 1991. An associate member of the Institute of Linguists, he was fluent in Dutch, German, French and Spanish, and made it his practise to deliver overseas lectures in the local language, though his size (he was 6 feet 7 inches) made air travel uncomfortable. He translated 11 foreign language textbooks into English. In 1992, when he was only 57, he took early retirement due to ill health. He moved to York, the city he had grown up in, and began a second career in mediaeval history. He enrolled for an MA at York University, writing a thesis on medical care in late mediaeval York. He taught a speech recognition computer programme to recognise Latin, and set up unique databases for mediaeval Yorkshire wills and other documents, some going back to the 13th century, more than 300 years before parish registers began. For his contribution to history he was made a fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society. He married Shirley Kathleen Mills in 1959, by whom he had four sons and a daughter. Shirley predeceased him in April 2004. He died on 29 May 2004.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000132
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First Title value, for Searching Colledge, Lionel (1883 - 1948)

2024-05-03T23:06:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-06
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born 5 October 1883, the son of Major John Colledge of Lauriston House, Cheltenham, he was educated at Cheltenham College, at Caius College, Cambridge, and at St George's Hospital Medical School. After a period as demonstrator of anatomy at King's College in the Strand, he was appointed assistant aural surgeon at St George's, and ultimately became consulting surgeon in the ear and throat department. Before reaching his thirtieth birthday he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Golden Square Throat Hospital, and became in due course consulting surgeon to the Royal National Throat, Nose, and Ear Hospital, whose formation he had largely promoted by the amalgamation of the Golden Square and the Central London Hospitals. At the Royal National he also inaugurated the Institute of Laryngology and Otology, and he was one of the founders of the British Association of Otolaryngologists. During the war of 1914-18 he served in France, with the rank of captain, RAMC, as aural surgeon to the first army, British Expeditionary Force. Returning to London he was soon appointed aural surgeon at St George's, where he later succeeded H S Barwell as senior surgeon, and also to the West End Hospital for nervous diseases and the Royal Masonic Hospital; and he was consulting laryngologist to the Royal Cancer Hospital. After his retirement from St George's, under an age limit, he became surgeon to the ear and throat department of the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham. Colledge made his name known all over the world by his brilliant surgical application of researches undertaken in collaboration with Sir Charles Ballance and Sir St Clair Thomson. He had come into close contact with them through his service as honorary secretary of the sections of otology and of laryngology, respectively, at the Royal Society of Medicine. With Ballance he undertook repair of nerve injuries in the larynx and the face; with Thomson remarkably successful treatment of cancer of the throat. Thomson and Colledge's *Cancer of the larynx* marks an epoch in the literature of its subject. He subsequently became president of each of those sections of the society. He stayed in London through the war of 1939-45, taking full charge of the throat departments at St Mary's and at the Cancer Hospital; he was also consulting otologist to the Royal Navy. He was for many years an examiner for the Conjoint diploma in laryngology and otology; he delivered the Semon lecture in the University of London in 1927, and the Lettsomian lectures at the Medical Society of London in 1943. He was an excellent and copious writer. Colledge married Margaret, eldest daughter of Admiral J W Brackenbury, CB, CMG. He became paralysed from acute coronary disease, and died, after eighteen months' illness, at his home 2 Upper Wimpole Street on 19 December 1948, aged 65. He was survived by his wife and their daughter Cecilia Colledge, well known as a skater. His only son Maule was reported missing from an air-raid over Berlin in September 1943. Colledge was a good linguist and a keen visitor of foreign clinics. He was elected to honorary membership of the American, French, and Hispano-American societies of his specialty. He was a burly, active man, stubborn and dogmatic in debate, and hid his benign and generous nature under a forbidding manner; trivial irritations upset him more easily than the blows of fortune which struck his later years. He had an extensive and encyclopaedic knowledge of his specialty. His amusement, rarely and briefly enjoyed, was shooting. Publications:- Further results of nerve anastomoses, with Sir Charles Ballance and Lionel Bailey. *Brit J Surg* 1925-26, 13, 533. Laryngectomy for cancer of the larynx (Semon lecture). *Brit med J* 1927, 2, 834. *Cancer of the larynx*, with Sir St Clair Thomson. London, 1930. Malignant tumours of the pharynx and larynx, in Rodney Maingot's *Postgraduate surgery*, 1937, vol 3, p 4841. Ear diseases. British encyclopaedia of medical practice, vol 4, 1937, p 402. Larynx diseases. The same, vol 7, 1938, p 612. Pharynx diseases. The same, vol 9, 1938, p 570. The pathology and surgery of cancer of the pharynx and larynx (Lettsomiam lectures). *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1940-43, 63, 306.
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First Title value, for Searching Cleminson, Frederick John (1878 - 1943)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born at Peterhead, Scotland on 23 March 1878, eldest child of the Rev John Robinson Cleminson of Hull, and Alice Millican, his wife. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, at University College Hospital, London, and at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He was a scholar of Caius, won the Shuttleworth studentship, and graduated with first-class honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1899 and 1901. From 1902 to 1905 he was demonstrator of anatomy and coached in physiology at Cambridge with T R Elliott, R Foster Moore, W M Mollinson, and Otto May, with whom in 1928 he gave a dinner to their tutors Gowland Hopkins, Walter Fletcher, C S Myers, and H K Anderson. He qualified from University College Hospital in 1909, served as house surgeon and casualty surgical officer, and under the inspiration of Herbert Tilley, FRCS determined to specialize in diseases of the ear, nose, and throat. He served as clinical assistant in the ear and throat department of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He was then elected to the staff of the Middlesex Hospital, becoming ultimately consulting surgeon to the aural department. During the first world war he was commissioned lieutenant, RAMC(T) on 7 September 1914, promoted temporary captain on 21 October 1916, and served in France and at Salonika; and was then classed as supernumerary for service with Officers' Training Corps. Although after the war he achieved a large and successful practice, Cleminson's real interest lay in research into the causes of ear diseases. He inspired his uncle the Right Hon Thomas Robinson Ferens, PC (1847-1930) of Hull, chairman of Reckitt and Sons Ltd., starch and blue manufacturers, to give £20,000 to the Middlesex Hospital for endowing an Institute of Otolaryngology. The Ferens Institute attached to the hospital's medical school was opened in February 1927, and on the opening day Sir Bernhard Baron endowed the salary of a whole-time research worker. Cleminson continued to practise at 32 Harley Street and to operate in the hospital while carrying out research in the institute till March 1938, when he retired from practice, became honorary director, of the Ferens Institute and determined to devote himself wholly to academic work. He always wished to know how to prevent deafness. Unfortunately the outbreak of war eighteen months later, in September 1939, led to the closing of the institute to release staff and minimize war risk. Equipment and library were removed to safety, but the building was badly damaged in an air-raid in September 1940. Outside the Middlesex Hospital, Cleminson was consulting laryngologist to the Heart Hospital, consulting aural surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children, and for a time surgeon to the Throat Hospital, Golden Square. At the Royal Society of Medicine he served as president of the section of otology. At the British Medical Association he was secretary of the section of otology in 1922 and vice-president of the section of oto-rhino-laryngology in 1929, and served on the hearing aids committee in 1937. With de Kleyn of Utrecht, then the Mecca of ear physiologists, he founded the "Collegium" at Groningen, an international club for otolaryngologists. Cleminson married in 1906 Sara, daughter of E M Smucker of Philadelphia, USA who survived him with a son and two daughters, one of whom became an MRCS in 1942; a third daughter had died before him. They lived at Spain End, Willingale, Ongar, Essex. He died of pneumonia on 21 August 1943, aged 65. Gentle and shy, Cleminson was a knowledgeable ornithologist, a skilled yachtsman, a good shot, and knew a great deal about motor-cars. He was known to a wide circle as "Clem". Publications:- Nasal sinusitis in children.* J Laryngol* 1921, 36, 505. Otosclerosis associated with blue sclerotics and osteogenesis imperfecta. *J Laryngol* 1927, 42, 168. Thoracotomy in treatment of malignant disease of oesophagus by radon.*J Laryngol* 1929, 44, 577. Hearing aids in general practice. *Brit med J* 1938, 1, 1114; reprinted in *Treatment in general practice*, published by the BMA.
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First Title value, for Searching Morrison, Andrew William (1925 - 2006)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-08-29
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Andrew Morrison was born on 3 December 1925 in Huelva, southern Spain, where his father, William Andrew Morrison, was a mining engineer. His mother was Violet Mary née Common, the daughter of a dentist. The family returned to Scotland and Andrew attended Stirling High School, where he excelled both academically and in athletics, being victor ludorum several years running. He went on to study medicine at the University of Glasgow. After qualifying in 1948 he was a house surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, living in on the surgical ward for six months with only two weekends off, but he could watch the ships leaving port from the hospital window. He joined the Merchant Navy as a ship’s medical officer and sailed to South Africa and the Far East. On one occasion he performed an emergency lower-limb amputation on the deck of the ship when a member of the crew had been crushed by heavy equipment, not only operating but giving his anaesthetic. He did his National Service in the RAMC and was posted to Lubbecke, where he met Maureen Rawlings who was serving in the Control Commission, and they married in December 1950. On demobilisation he specialised in otolaryngology, and did a series of registrar posts in Carlisle and at the London Hospital, becoming senior registrar in 1956. He was appointed as a consultant to Whipps Cross in 1959 and to the London in 1964. Later he became a consultant at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, where he worked from 1965 to 1979 as a lecturer at the University of London. It was a time when the surgery of the ear was evolving exponentially, thanks to precise high-speed drills and the operating microscope. Andrew became one of the exponents of this, thanks to his precise surgical skill. He was a pioneer and refiner of surgical technique for stapedectomy, publishing his series of 1,000 operations with outstanding results, and later made a study of its genetic basis. In the early 1960s, he visited the House Otologic Institute in California, where he learned the trans-labyrinthine surgical approach to the inner ear, developing this, in collaboration with T T King, the neurosurgeon, into their own technique for removing acoustic nerve tumours. Its superior results soon led it to be adopted throughout Europe and America. Over the next four decades he became pre-eminent in the surgery of the inner ear, leading on to the earliest multi-channel cochlear implantation. He headed Project Ear in the late 1970s and 1980s, developing purpose-built hardware for speech-processing, and was amongst the first to undertake multi-channel intra-cochlear electrodes. His trainees included many of today’s leading otologists and skull base surgeons. He travelled extensively, forging links with the leading otologists in the Western world, and was one of the few British surgeons to have been made an honorary member of the American Otologic Society. In his retirement and until his death, he continued his research into Ménière’s disease, determined to locate the gene responsible for this distressing condition, research which is being continued today by his co-workers, Mark Bailey in Glasgow, and his son, Gavin Morrison. Andrew was one of the first directors and a trustee of the British Academic Conferences in Otolaryngology, being its master in 1995. In the College he was a Hunterian Professor in 1966, on the Court of Examiners for the DLO and the FRCS, and on the SAC for otolaryngology. His interest in medico-legal work took him onto the council of the Medical Defence Union between 1971 and 1996. He was president of the section of otology at the Royal Society of Medicine, and a member of many prestigious organisations, including the Barany and Politzer Societies, the South African ORL, the Prosper Ménière’s Society of the USA. Ambitious, competitive and successful at work and sport, he was modest about the things he did best and was always a most jovial companion. Outside surgery, golf was his passion. His first hole in one was achieved as a schoolboy in Stirling; his second came some 50 years later. He was well known at St Andrews, Rye and Chigwell golf clubs, and was a member of the R & A for many years, supporting their meetings and enjoying many friendships there. He died on 6 January 2006, leaving his widow, Maureen, his daughter Claire and son Gavin, who followed him into ENT surgery.
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Sir Patrick William Eisdell (1918 - 2015)

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by Ron Goodey
Publication Date 2015-12-09
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Occupation ENT surgeon Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details Patrick Moore was born in Bristol on 17 March 1918. His father Arthur Eisdell Moore ("Eisdell"), who was in England on a post-War surgical appointment at that time, met his mother, Alice, a nurse from Yorkshire, in 1915 when serving as a field surgeon with the RAMC on the Western Front. Patrick was the first child of three; two sons and a daughter, and although christened William Ernest Moore, he had been nicknamed "Pat" while still in uteroin anticipation he (or she) would be born on St Patrick's Day. The name stuck when that prediction proved correct. It was not until he reached the age of 21 that he formalised his adopted name by deed poll and changed Ernest to Eisdell. After the war Eisdell returned to New Zealand with his new family and set up consulting rooms as a general surgeon in Symonds Street. This was where Pat's lifelong interest in and love for horses was first kindled. He was fascinated by the variety of draught horses operated by the local merchants who lived in the neighbourhood. It was also a time when the first stirrings of artistic talent took form as he drew and sketched on any blank or receptive surface, often to the chagrin of his parents. Pat commenced his secondary education at Auckland Grammar as an 11-year old. While his love of literature and the classics led him to top the country in English in his matriculation year, he struggled with mathematics. After a year at Auckland University College, Pat continued his studies at Otago University, where for his first four years in Dunedin Pat was a resident at Selwyn College, assuming the presidency in the last of these years. As a medical student he played on the wing of the university senior rugby team. He supplemented his meagre student allowance by selling his sketches, cartoons, caricatures, short stories and poems to various publications, including Punch. At student parties his musical talents as a pianist were in great demand, although he did occasionally lament his popularity on the keys by reason of the restrictions it necessarily imposed on his ability to socialise more widely. After leaving Selwyn College, Pat moved to a boarding house in Cargill Street where he met fellow resident Beth Beedie, a final year physiotherapy student from a medical family in Dannevirke. After qualifying she was posted to Hawke's Bay and Pat moved to Auckland for his final year of medical studies. Their courtship flourished, albeit remotely. Pat graduated in 1943 and he and Beth married, commencing life together in a small flat near Auckland Hospital, where Pat worked as a house surgeon to obtain full registration and thus eligibility to re-enlist in the army. As a medical student he had been commissioned in the Otago University Medical Corps and in his final year worked as a resident army medical officer in the Auckland region. After obtaining full registration he wasted no time in enlisting with the 2nd NZEF and was posted overseas, leaving Beth and their infant son, Anthony. Once overseas he single-mindedly set about joining the 28th (Maori) Battalion with whom he served throughout the Italian campaign rising to the rank of Captain. Tall, freckled and red-haired he was the only Pakeha in the Battalion. Culturally immersed, he became fluent in Te Reo and Tikanga Maori making lifelong friendships with his comrades and developing a sophisticated understanding, even at that early time, of how a bi-cultural New Zealand should look. He actively applied those principles of bi-culturalism throughout the rest of his life. During the Battle of Faenza he was badly wounded. His right arm was saved from amputation, at considerable risk to his life, only because the surgeon was aware of Pat's surgical ambitions. On leaving the Battalion at the cessation of hostilities, he was farewelled by the Commanding Officer with the words: "You were not the most academic takuta (doctor) we had. You may not necessarily have been the most brave, but you were, definitely, the most Maori." He was subsequently made Patron and a life member of the 28th Battalion, a recognition which meant the world to him. In 1946 he returned to Auckland Hospital. A three month rotation in eye and ENT surgery kindled an interest which, in 1947, led him to become an eye and ENT registrar. During this year he was greatly influenced by the country's foremost ENT consultant James Hardie Neil and Pat decided on a career in ENT. In 1948 after a year working as an anatomy demonstrator in Dunedin, Pat with Beth and by this time two sons, sailed to London where he spent two years working and demonstrating at the Middlesex, training at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in Grey's Inn and studying at the College of Surgeons. He passed his primary and, at his first attempt, his English fellowship examination and subsequently the DLO. He then obtained a very busy ENT registrar post in Northampton for two years under ex-patriot Australian Charles Gledhill. In 1952 Pat and the family returned to Auckland where he set up rooms as an ENT consultant in Symonds Street and the family was expanded by the addition of two more sons. Pat was appointed junior ENT surgeon at the recently opened department at Greenlane Hospital. He rapidly rose to head of department. Under his leadership and innovation, the department grew quickly. Facilities expanded, as did the number of staff, to include a team of GPs and specialists in related disciplines including allergy, oral surgery and voice therapy. He pioneered the use of micro surgery in New Zealand, encouraged the innovative use of homografts and was the first in the world to transplant appropriately prepared and sterilised tympanic membranes, initially in animals and later in humans. Building on this research he established the Deafness Research Foundation in 1962, an organisation specifically created to assist clinicians undertaking research into hearing and deafness-related problems. His continuing engagement with Maori led him to make regular voluntary visits between 1965 and 1977 to the East Coast of the North Island where ear disease and resulting hearing loss was endemic, particularly amongst children. Through his energies he sourced sophisticated surgical equipment and instructed local doctors and nurses in its use. These efforts were rewarded by a remarkable reduction in the incidence of ear disease on the East Coast. Encouraged by these results and conscious of the common and understandable reluctance on the part of many parents to take their children to hospital, Pat's natural flair for innovation led him to raise funds for the development of mobile ear clinics which took clinical services into the community under the banner of the Deafness Research Foundation. Following success from this initiative in Northland it was adopted in Auckland and then, through the generosity of the Variety Club, a fleet of mobile ear clinics allowed similar services to be extended to many other regions. Pat also encouraged research into the pharmacological treatment of tinnitus, the inclusion of ear and hearing problems in the Dunedin multi-disciplinary study and he investigated the effects of hearing loss on prison inmates. He led the first ENT teaching programme in the Auckland Medical School and supported the establishment of a dedicated tertiary degree course for the training of audiologists. As President of the then Otolaryngological Society of New Zealand, Pat organised the first joint conference with the Australian society with in excess of 100 attendees from either side of the Tasman. This inaugural meeting was New Zealand's first ENT international conference. By the mid-1970s Pat appreciated that hearing research was moving its focus from the external and middle ear to the inner ear. At the same time he realised the activities of the Deafness Research Foundation required a higher and more sustained level of scientific input and engaged a post-graduate scientist, Peter Thorne, to build a research team. Pat also monitored the evolution of cochlear implants and once a multi-channel device had been perfected, persuaded benefactors to support the introduction of a cochlear implant programme in New Zealand; initially for adults and later for children. He was quick to acknowledge the need for specialist auditory verbal training for implanted children and persuaded philanthropists and friends to support the establishment of the now highly successful Hearing House. Pat's interests were not simply limited to deafness and hearing. He served on the Council of Auckland University, helped establish Riding for the Disabled and the Coeliac Society. He was Master of the Pakuranga Hunt for nine years and President and Emeritus Member of the New Zealand Hunts Association. His mastery of prose, verse and sketching has left an enduring literacy and pictorial record in the annals of the many institutions with which he has been involved. Perhaps the best known is his brilliant water colour caricature; a montage of the 1940 professors of the Otago Medical School. This remarkable drawing, which has been reproduced in numerous publications, now hangs outside the Dean's office. In 2004 his autobiography was published. The title, "So Old So Quick", was coined from a quote by Ogden Nash and the book's flowing literacy style, humour and self deprecation earned it universally positive reviews. Pat's vision, enthusiasm and selfless contribution to medicine and the wider community was recognised by the Queen in the 1982 Royal Honours with the award of on OBE and in 1992 he was Knighted for his services to medicine and the community. Auckland Grammar honoured him in 2005 with an Augusta Fellowship as a distinguished old boy. In 2007 Selwyn College elected him an Honorary Fellow. Pat's funeral in a packed St Mary's-in-Trinity, was a moving and evocative tribute to an extraordinary New Zealander. His plain coffin, draped in a New Zealand flag, was adorned by a magnificent korowai (feathered clock) woven by the widows of the Battalion in its colours of red, black and white. To the haunting strains of a karanga (call of welcome) he was carried in by representatives of the Battalion, various iwi and representatives of longstanding friends. At the end of the service a rousing haka performed by the Auckland Grammar kapa haka group paid a final farewell. Sir Patrick is survived by his beloved wife Beth, their four sons, Anthony (a pathologist practising in Australia), Tim (a radiologist practising in North America), Simon (a High Court Judge), Chris (a leading commercial property lawyer) and by 12 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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