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First Title value, for Searching Masood, Abul Fazal Muhammad (1935 - 2014)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2017-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Abul Fazal Muhammad Masood was a surgeon who lived and worked in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was born on 3 January 1935 and gained his FRCS in 1970. He died on 12 February 2014, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Mathure, Ashok Balkrishna (1941 - 2013)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2019-08-09
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Ashok Balkrishna Mathure was a surgeon based in Mumbai, India. He was born on 22 April 1941 and studied medicine in Mumbai. He gained the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1974. He was married to Nandini. They had a daughter, Mekhala, and a grandson, Yash. He died on 23 February 2013 at the age of 71.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009165
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First Title value, for Searching Pool, Rowan Donald (1951 - 2017)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-07-12 2020-07-02
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Foot and ankle surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Rowan Pool was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic and St Peter’s hospitals. He was born on 16 November 1951. His mother’s maiden name was O’Gorman. He studied medicine at Leeds University, qualified in 1974 and gained his FRCS in 1980. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a senior registrar in the orthopaedic department at St George’s Hospital, London. He retired in 2014. Rowan Pool died while on holiday on 22 May 2017. He was 65.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009357
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First Title value, for Searching Manson, William Giles (1965 - 2008)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2014-09-19
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details William Giles Manson was a consultant paediatric surgeon at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. He was born on 16 January 1965. He went to Edinburgh University to study medicine, qualifying MB ChB in 1989. He went on to train in surgery in Sheffield, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Hong Kong, and in 2002 was appointed to a new combined consultant post in Dundee and Edinburgh. He was particularly interested in laparoscopic surgery and urology, and was a pioneer in the use of telemedicine. Outside medicine, he enjoyed skiing, golf, music and DIY. He died from gastric carcinoma on 17 May 2008, aged just 43. He was survived by his wife, Christine, and their two sons, Andrew and Stuart.
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First Title value, for Searching Rance, Christopher Hugh (1940 - 2023)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-11
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Christopher Hugh Rance was a consultant paediatric surgeon at Nottingham City Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
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First Title value, for Searching Dudley, Nicholas Eric (1938 - 2016)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-05-12 2019-05-20
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Nicholas Eric Dudley was a general and paediatric surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Born on 28 December 1938, he studied medicine at London University and trained at Bart’s Hospital, qualifying MB MS in 1963. Passing the conjoint examination in that same year he did house jobs at the United Oxford Hospitals. He also spent time as a surgical research fellow at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia and gained the fellowship in 1968, together with that of the Edinburgh college. At the college he was a James Berry prizeman, a regional advisor in general and paediatric surgery and a member of the Court of Examiners. He died on 20 March 2016 aged 78.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009106
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First Title value, for Searching Smyth, Brian Turbett (1921 - 2009)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-29 2014-07-25
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Brian Turbett Smyth was a consultant paediatric surgeon at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and Ulster Hospital. He was born in Londonderry in Northern Ireland on 2 November 1921, the son of William and Flora West Lindsay Smyth. His father was a merchant. He was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution and then Queen's University, Belfast. He qualified MB BCh BAO in 1945. Deciding on a career in paediatric surgery, he trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital and in Belfast, and was an assistant surgeon at Boston's Floating Hospital for Children. He was then appointed to his consultant post in Northern Ireland. He was particularly interested in urology, neonatal surgery and the treatment of Hirschsprung's disease. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sailing and photography. Bryan Turbett Smyth died on 26 April 2009, aged 87. Predeceased by his son, Jonathan, he was survived by his wife Anne and a daughter, Nicola.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001643
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First Title value, for Searching Bhutiani, Rajinder Prasad (1950 - 2021)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-10-20
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Rajinder Bhutiani was a consultant general and paediatric surgeon to the London North West University Healthcare NHS 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: E010022
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First Title value, for Searching Magnus, Ruth Valda ( - 1980)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03 2016-02-05
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Ruth Valda Magnus worked as resident medical officer to the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, in 1956 and from 1958 to 1959. She was at the Royal Children's Hospital in 1957 and became a surgical registrar there, 1964-65. She became consultant paediatric surgeon at the Dandenong and District Hospital in Victoria in 1974. She died on 22 December 1980.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006722
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First Title value, for Searching Myers, Nathanial Albert Alfred (1922 - 2004)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-10-08
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Nathanial Myers was a paediatric surgeon at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010017
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First Title value, for Searching Dickson, James Alexander Scott (1931 - 2021)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-05-19
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details James Dickson was a consultant paediatric surgeon at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
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First Title value, for Searching Wright, Vanessa Mary (1943 - 2015)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2018-05-01
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Vanessa Wright was a consultant paediatric surgeon at the Royal London Hospital. She was born on 1 August 1943 in Chichester, Sussex, and studied medicine at University College, London, qualifying in 1966. She was a registrar at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton and at University College Hospital, London, and then went to Australia, where she was a senior registrar at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. In 1977, she was appointed as a consultant surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in Hackney, as the first specialist paediatric surgeon in East London. Ten years later, she returned to University College Hospital, again as the first specialist paediatric surgeon, and was also a consultant at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London hospitals. For three years, she was chair of the board of examiners for the intercollegiate fellowship. She retired to East Sussex, where she renovated a farmhouse and cultivated her garden. Vanessa Mary Wright died on 12 June 2015. She was 71.
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First Title value, for Searching O’Donnell, Michael Barry (1926 - 2019)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-10-08
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Barry O’Donnell was a paediatric surgeon at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin. 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: E010019
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First Title value, for Searching Llewelyn, Donald Manton (1929 - 2015)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-05-13 2019-04-25
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Donald Manton Llewelyn was a paediatric surgeon at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. He was born in Sydney on 11 December 1929, the sixth child and fourth son of Arthur Stuart Llewelyn, an insurance executive, and Loys Llewelyn née Bartrim, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at Roseville Public School, Artarmon Opportunity School and North Sydney Boys’ High School, and then studied medicine at Sydney University. He qualified in 1953. He was a resident medical officer at St George Hospital in Sydney and then in the orthopaedic section of the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. He was subsequently an orthopaedic registrar at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He then went to the UK, where he was an orthopaedic registrar at Hammersmith Hospital, London. He gained his FRCS in 1958. On his return to Australia, he joined the staff of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Sydney and then became an honorary assistant surgeon and paediatric surgeon at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. He was also medical superintendent of the New South Wales Society for Crippled Children. Outside medicine he farmed, played tennis and golf, and was an artist. In 1954, he married Suzanne Funda. They had four children – Hugh, Linda, Kaye and James – and three grandchildren – Luciano, Bejo and Oola.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009139
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First Title value, for Searching Cywes, Sidney (1931 - 2020)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2021-02-10
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Sidney Cywes was born in South Africa in the town of Paarl in the Western Cape on 1 January 1931. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and graduated MB, ChB in 1953. He trained at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital (RCWMCH) and worked there throughout his career. In 1961 he became a lecturer in surgery at UCT and eventually, in 1975, he was appointed to the newly created Charles F. M. Saint chair of paediatric surgery. Throughout his career he published widely in professional journals and edited several books. Particularly interested in complex surgical problems, among the topics he covered were the separation of conjoined twins, Hirschsprung’s disease, ano-rectal malformations, surgical oncology, oesophageal replacement and organ transplantation. At the RCWMCH he was responsible for many important innovations in his field. As the first surgeon in South Africa to concentrate entirely on paediatric surgery, he was well aware of children’s needs. Under his influence the hospital developed a neonatal surgery unit in 1976, a day surgery service from 1976 with its own centre from 1989, a trauma unit in 1984 and a liver transplantation programme. He also helped found the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Southern Africa in 1978, which provided a child safety centre at his hospital and has now been in existence for 40 years. Internationally he was extremely active and his reputation meant that he was awarded the honorary fellowship of many important surgical colleges. In his own particular field, he was past president of the World Federation of Associations of Paediatric Surgeons, founding member and president of the South African Association of Paediatric Surgeons, honorary life member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and helped establish the Pan African Association of Paediatric Surgeons. Outside medicine he and his wife, Marlene, were experts in horticulture. They won competitions in the growing of dahlias, roses and orchids, and became known as two of South Africa’s foremost gardeners. He died on 6 April 2020 aged 89 and was survived by his wife and children, Robert and Colette.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009916
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First Title value, for Searching Middleton, Archie Wilmot ( - 1996)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

First Title value, for Searching Frith, Kathleen Alice Maud ( - 1993)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Little is known about Kathleen Frith, who qualified at the Royal Free Hospital in 1946. She subsequently trained in surgery, taking her FRCS diploma in 1952 and becoming a surgical registrar at Leicester Royal Infirmary. Later she was appointed senior surgical registrar at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, London. She married a Mr Barton and they lived in Kingussie in Inverness-shire. They had one daughter, Susan (Farrants), who survived her when she died on 7 January 1993.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007943
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First Title value, for Searching Bowring, Aubrey Charles (1924 - 2011)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-11-24
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Aubrey Charles Bowring, known as ‘Toby’, was head of paediatric surgery at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales. He was born in Sydney on 10 January 1924 to Clarence Bowring, a railway conductor, and Ella Bowring née Ryan. The family later moved to Albury, New South Wales. At kindergarten he announced he was there ‘to learn to be a doctor’. From Albury he went on to the University of Sydney, where he completed the accelerated medical course during the Second World War, qualifying in 1948. At university he boxed and competed in intervarsity shooting. He held a junior post at South Sydney Hospital in 1948. During a short placement at St Joseph’s Hospital, Auburn, he met Patricia Stoney, a nurse. They married in 1950. With his wife and first child, Bowring worked his passage to the UK to continue his training. He gained his FRCS in 1956 and also became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He returned to Australia, and took rooms in Macquarie Street, Sydney. By the early 1950s he had joined the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Camperdown. In 1964 he moved to the new Sydney Children’s Hospital, as the founding head of paediatric surgery. Ten years later, he helped establish what is now Kidsafe, which works to prevent childhood accidents, and in 1989 he was president of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Paediatric Surgeons. In 1984 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia, and in 2009 the department of paediatric surgery at Sydney Children’s Hospital was named in his honour. Outside medicine he enjoyed fishing and shooting. Predeceased by his wife, who died in 1997, Toby Bowring died on 1 October 2011. He was 87 and was survived by his three sons and three daughters and their families. His gravestone in the cemetery at North Ryde, New South Wales reads: ‘…encyclopaedic poppa, gifted, infinitely patient teacher, pioneering and respected paediatric surgeon, talented sportsman.’
Resource Identifier RCS: E009874
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First Title value, for Searching Zlotnik, Joanna Marcia Catherine (1943 - 2014)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-08-25 2019-10-28
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Joanna Marcia Catherine Zlotnik was a paediatric surgeon. Born on 26 July 1943 in Edinburgh, she was the eldest child of Izrael Zlotnik, an experimental neuropathologist and his wife Amelia née Vinestock. Educated initially at St Hilary’s School in Edinburgh, she then attended Boroughmuir Senior Secondary School where she was Dux of science and mathematics in her fourth and fifth years. At Edinburgh University, which she attended in 1960, she took honours in biology, psychiatry and chest diseases and graduated MB ChB in 1966. After house jobs at the Falkirk and District Hospital, the Eastern General Hospital, the Western General Hospital and the Royal Infirmary she left Edinburgh to take a post as demonstrator in pathology at the University of Bristol in 1969. After spending a year there she moved to Dorchester as a surgical registrar at the Dorset County Hospital and passed the fellowship of the college in 1971. Among her surgical mentors she listed; James Ross, John Cook, Philip Harris, F M Hanna and John Lekias. In 1972 she became senior registrar in neurosurgery and then paediatric surgery at the Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia. On her return to London, she became a consultant in paediatric audiology at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Carshalton. She retired to Salisbury in Wiltshire. Outside medicine she enjoyed swimming and sunbathing, painting, music, opera, theatre, driving and walking. She died on 29 June 2014 aged 70.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009248
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First Title value, for Searching Wagget, John (1938 - 2021)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Laurie Rangecroft
Publication Date 2022-02-17
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon Neonatal surgeon
Details John Wagget was the second full-time paediatric surgeon in Newcastle upon Tyne, initially at the Fleming Memorial Hospital for Sick Children and the Babies Hospital, then later at the Royal Victoria Infirmary when both the former hospitals closed. He was born in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, to Charlton Minto Wagget, a junior school head teacher and chairman of Chester-le-Street District Council, and Eva Wagget née Scott, a district nurse. He was educated at Dame Allan’s School in Newcastle, where he loved playing rugby, and then at the medical school of King’s College, Durham University, which was also in Newcastle. As a houseman at the Royal Victoria Infirmary John met Ina Graham, a theatre staff nurse, and they were married in 1963. He had determined that he wanted to be a surgeon but, having won the Sir James Spence prize in paediatrics as an undergraduate, it was apt that, having gained his fellowship in 1966, he opted for the newly emerging specialty of paediatric surgery. Almost all his training was in Newcastle with John Scott, but a Fulbright scholarship enabled him to spend the year of 1969 as assistant chief resident at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia under C Everett Koop, a future surgeon general of the United States. John was appointed as a consultant paediatric surgeon in 1970. Having learned about total parenteral nutrition (TPN) in the surgical neonate unit in Philadelphia he set up that service in the Newcastle unit aided greatly by his close friend the clinical biochemist Gordan Dale. This was a significant advance in the treatment and survival for those patients. John was a skilful and caring surgeon much loved by staff and patients alike. He was also an excellent, very patient educator and many trainees were grateful for his teaching over the years. While he wouldn’t have described himself as an academic, he nevertheless published 30 papers in scientific journals, including several on TPN and the use of acetylcholinesterase assay in rectal biopsies to aid the diagnosis of Hirschsprung’s disease. He also contributed four chapters to standard paediatric surgical textbooks and presented papers at various learned societies. With Gordan Dale, he wrote a book on the history of the Fleming Hospital at the time of its closure in 1987 (*The Fleming Memorial Hospital for Sick Children, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1887-1987* Newcastle upon Tyne, Bealls, 1987). He also did more than his share of administrative duties, taking on the role of clinical director for paediatrics for six years and serving on many local and national committees. He retired in 1997 for health reasons and, although his health issues were added to over time, he had a long and generally fruitful retirement. John was a devoted family man and he and Ina had three daughters, Kathryn, Lois and Rachel. Outside of the family he maintained his lifelong love of rugby by supporting the Newcastle Falcons, while gardening and hiking were other passions. He also played several roles at his local church and school. He died on 13 December 2021 at the age of 83 and was survived by Ina, his daughters, two grandchildren and his younger sister Vera. His younger brother Eric predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Filmer, Robert Bruce (1938 - 2015)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Thomas Howard Mitchell
Publication Date 2016-01-20
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Dr Robert Bruce Filmer, 77, of Quarryville, PA died on Sunday, August 23, 2015 at Hospice & Community Care, Mt. Joy. Born in Sydney, Australia, he was the son of Albert Robert and Janet Isabel Watson Filmer and spouse of Thomas Howard Mitchell. Bruce served his fellowship in Australia, England, and the United States. Bruce was a graduate of the University of Sydney Medical College and served his residency in Sydney and the United Kingdom. He served as faculty at the following learning institutions: Northwestern Medical School, Detroit Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Associate Professor of Pediatric Urology, Detroit, Michigan, Associate Professor of Pediatric Urology, Philadelphia, PA. Bruce's professional appointments included service at many hospitals, some of which were: Pediatric Urologist, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Children's Hospital, Detroit, MI, Alfred I. DuPont and St. Francis Hospital, Wilmington, DE, and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia. Journal articles that Bruce published were numerous, appearing in many reference and medical journals around the country and he was respected as an expert in his field of Urology. He holds countless honors and awards and was a sought after speaker. He was a member at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church. He enjoyed the pleasures of landscaping the farm, classical music, reading, cooking and listening to grand pipe organ recordings. In addition to his spouse, Bruce is survived by his sister, Barbara Enod Milne, wife of Grant Stewart of Auckland, New Zealand and numerous nieces and nephews.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009028
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First Title value, for Searching Rhodes, Alan (1936 - 2018)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Clare Marx
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2018-11-21
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon Breast surgeon
Details Alan Rhodes was a consultant in general and paediatric surgery in Coventry. He was born in Wolverhampton on 1 April 1936 to Florence Rhodes née Levers, a secretary, and Wilfred Rhodes, a clerk. After a stellar performance at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he entered Birmingham Medical School in 1953. He obtained a BSc in anatomy with a distinction in 1956, and then qualified in 1959 with another distinction, winning prizes in surgery, neuroanatomy and social medicine, together with the Queen’s scholarship for the best performing student in parts one and two of the final examinations. His early interest was in anatomy, and after house jobs he became an anatomy demonstrator in Birmingham before his love of the subject took him to the USA in November 1961 as an instructor in neuroanatomy at the State University of New York. He returned to the UK and Birmingham in 1963. He published scientific papers on nervous pathways involved in the ferret’s response to added light and the influence of thyroid state of C14 lysine in normal and regenerated neurons of rats, among other subjects. He rapidly completed his surgical training and became a consultant in Coventry at the very early age of 32. He loved teaching and did so throughout his training. Shortly after taking up his consultant appointment, he took on the organisation of the fellowship course, which he directed and taught for six years, eventually becoming the RCS tutor to Coventry. After his retirement, he even returned to teaching anatomy, this time to mature medical students at Warwick University. At a local level, he chaired the department of general surgery and later the Coventry hospitals’ medical staff committee for five years. At a national level, he was a member of the junior medical staff committee of the British Medical Association as a trainee and later a member of the central committee for hospital medical services of the British Medical Association from 1969 to 1977 and the central negotiating committee. Any of his colleagues would tell you that life was rarely dull when he was around. George Bentley, who worked with him in the very early years, described him as the most intelligent and entertaining man he could recall in all his training years. Surgery was where Alan felt in command; as a natural anatomist he was deft and meticulous in his surgical approach, and his accompanying commentary made the anatomy come to life for those he was teaching. Alan taught so much more than surgery. His leadership, hard work, dogged determination to get what was right for his patients, humanity and kindness made him a fantastic role model. He was always interested in and eager to forward the careers of those who had worked with him and encouraged and mentored both men and women, including Dame Fiona Caldicott, who became president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Dame Clare Marx, who became president of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was an enthusiastic Rotarian and also helped found the Snowball Trust, which looks after sick and needy children in Coventry. His wealth of stories and his entertaining and masterful delivery meant that he was in constant demand on radio and as an after-dinner speaker. Although he hated flying, he was an enthusiastic traveller and a member of the 1921 Surgical Travelling Club. Alan was married twice and had four children, two boys and two girls. When his first son died in 2001, he was very deeply affected. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2013. Over time Alan’s physical and mental skills were stripped from him whilst he retained to the end the knowledge of how many abilities he had lost. He was survived by Caroline, his wife for the last 38 years and a general practitioner, three sons and a grandchild.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009484
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First Title value, for Searching Baron-Hay, Gordon Stuart (1935 - 2011)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-09-19 2016-11-03
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Gordon Stuart Baron-Hay was a consultant paediatric surgeon at the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Perth, Western Australia. He was born in Perth on 26 June 1935. His father was George Kingston Baron-Hay, an agriculturalist; his mother, Vera, was a psychiatrist. He was educated at Wesley College, Perth, and then the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He held junior posts at the Royal Perth Hospital between 1959 and 1963 and then at the Prince Margaret Hospital for Children and Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne. From 1966 to 1968 he worked at Hackney Hospital in London and in 1966 gained his FRCS. He returned to Western Australia, to the Royal Perth Hospital. From 1973 to 1974 he was attached to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow. From 1974 he was a consultant in paediatric surgery at the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Western Australia. He retired in 2002. He concentrated on gastroenterological problems, as well as malignant disease and neonatal surgery. He was a member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons. He was chairman of the Western Australia state committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1993 to 1995 and a committee member for nine years. The Gordon Baron-Hay medal of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons was established in his honour for the best paper given by a registrar at the Western Australia annual scientific meeting. Outside medicine, he was interested in sailing, tennis, hockey and golf. He was a member of the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club and the Royal King's Park Tennis Club. In 1960 he married Patricia. They had two daughters (Margaret and Sally) and two sons (Richard and Stuart). Gordon Stuart Baron-Hay died in 2011.
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First Title value, for Searching McIlwaine, John (1934 - 2013)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Chrissy Murcott
Publication Date 2014-03-21 2015-12-14
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details John McIlwaine was a very capable general and paediatric surgeon, of sharp intellect, with a keen sense of humour and liked by all who met him. He died 24 November 2013. John was born in Wellington on 25 January 1934 to John Erskine McIlwaine (a veterinary surgeon) and Celia Ann Coombe. His family nickname was 'B', reflecting his fascination with a bee early in his childhood. He attended Scots College in Wellington, commencing as a new entrant in 1939 and remaining there until 1951. John was scholastically very able and was Junior Dux (the first ever awarded this accolade at the school), Pipe Band Major, Head Day Prefect and Dux in his final year at College. He also played for the first XI cricket team and the first XV rugby team. John gained entry to the Otago Medical School in Dunedin, staying at the then male only Knox College (a residential Presbyterian university hostel). Knox was renowned for the camaraderie it encouraged with tales of water bombing from the top of the grand staircase (five stories high), abseiling the outer tower and 'curly kale', a staple vegetable dished up regularly. Returning to Knox at the time of his medical class reunion 50 years later, John was delighted to find his name remained carved into the wood under the mantle-piece of the room he had occupied in the tower. During term holidays John returned to Wellington securing vacation employment in the freezing works, wool scouring mills or tanning sheds. In his final year at medical school John married Mary (a school dental nurse) he had met and first admired while still at school. Graduating from medical school in 1957, John and Mary returned to Wellington. John worked as a house surgeon in Wellington Hospital 1958-59 and then as Surgical Registrar in 1960 followed by eight months general practice in Upper Hutt in 1961. Deciding that surgery was his path, John and the family moved to London where he worked as a surgical registrar in the Kingston-on-Thames Hospital, senior registrar at North Middlesex and St Mary's Hospitals and Resident Surgeon at Mayday and Croydon General Hospitals, gaining his FRCS (England) in 1964. Amongst other notable figures he treated, he attended The Queen Mother when she had a fish bone stuck in her throat. On returning to New Zealand in 1966, John commenced as Senior Out-Patients Admitting Officer at Wellington Hospital (1966-1967) and was subsequently employed as full-time tutor-specialist and later Resident Senior Surgeon. He was awarded FRACS in 1968. John was the true general surgeon who progressively specialised in paediatric surgery, having a background of colorectal and renal transplant surgery (assisting Donald Urquhart-Hay with the first renal transplant in Wellington), and he was appointed visiting General and Paediatric Surgeon at Wellington Hospital in 1970. He began consulting in part-time private practice in Kelvin Chambers with the late Evan Raine, later moving to AMP Chambers, and he operated at Bowen and Wakefield Hospitals. John assisted in the development and provision of teaching programmes in both undergraduate and post graduate surgery and was a popular teacher with both medical students and surgical trainees. Not loquacious in discussion, his comments were always well considered and appropriate and in formal presentations he was concise and precise. Invariably punctual he expected no less from others. He was a good clinician, technically excellent and quick - qualities which endeared him to his anaesthetic colleagues. John served on what was then known as the New Zealand Committee of the College and was also a College examiner in general surgery. He served as Chairman on the Wellington Surgical Staff Committee and contributed to planning committees for the development of ICU, operating theatres and theatre service centre at Wellington Hospital. John retired in 1999 and moved with Mary to 'Clarendon', a large colonial homestead in Carterton, Wairarapa. The house was built c.1880 and John and Mary developed magnificent landscaped gardens and had numerous sheds built. John was the ultimate 'sheddy'. He was meticulous and inventive and, with a love of classic cars, fully restored a Mark 2 Jaguar amongst others. He was also an avid reader and enjoyed classical music. A bee-keeper, he was active in the local bee club and many a nice pot of honey was harvested. John endured increasing disability in the last three years of his life with considerable strength, patience and dignity. He is survived by his adored wife, Mary, three adult children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Orgias, Richard ( - 1972)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Richard Orgias was born at Palmerston North, New Zealand, and went to the Palmerston North Boys' High School and then to Otago University where he graduated with the MB degree in 1934. For his post-graduate training Orgias came to London and worked at St Thomas's and University College Hospitals, and also went to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He took a special interest in paediatric surgery and worked under Barrington-Ward at Great Ormond Street. On returning to New Zealand he became a consultant to the Wellington Hospital where he became distinguished as a teacher and writer, being assistant editor and contributor to the *New Zealand medical journal*. He was on the executive committee of the Wellington Division of the Cancer Society of New Zealand, and was on the New Zealand Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and an examiner both for the College and the University of Otago. Orgias served in the second world war in Italy and Japan, and after the war remained in the Territorial Army, retiring as Lieutenant-Colonel. But it was for his sound character and humanity, his deep religious convictions and love of his fellows that he will long be remembered. For the last five years of his life he knew he had an incurable disease, but faced this predicament with exemplary fortitude. He died on 30 October 1972, and his wife and family survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Jolleys, Ambrose (1919 - 1991)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

First Title value, for Searching King, Hilary Anne (1956 - 1986)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Hilary Anne King was born in Cobham, Surrey, on 16 November 1956, the daughter of Charles William King, a structural engineer and Hilda Eileen, née Walker. Her early education was at Rowan Preparatory School in Claygate and at Malvern Girls' College, before entering Leeds University Medical School. After pre-clinical studies she passed the BSc in pharmacology with honours before proceeding to clinical studies and qualifying in 1980. Her house appointments were at Leeds General Infirmary where she worked under F G Smiddy and later she was rotating senior house officer St James's Hospital, Leeds. She passed the FRCS in 1984 and decided to pursue a career in paediatric surgery, taking a post as registrar in London. She enjoyed music and was a keen flute player. Hilary died tragically by her own hand, in 1986, shortly after marrying another doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Salem, Samia Mona (1948 - 1997)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Samia Salem was born in Alexandria in 1948, where her father Hassan Salem was Professor of Tropical Medicine and her mother, Ehsan Naby, was an art teacher. She was educated at the Lycée Français in Alexandria, and then accompanied her father to Iraq in 1964 where she qualified from the University of Mosul in 1972, winning third prize in the final surgical examinations. She then came to London to study surgery. After junior posts she moved to Sydney to specialize in paediatric surgery and passed the FRACS in 1982. Her main interest was in tracheo-oesophageal fistula. Samia never married. Outside of medicine her interests were travel and music. Sadly, in 1993 she developed carcinoid, which spread to the liver and although she had a three year remission with chemotherapy, it recurred and she died on 14 December 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Miller, Stanley Scott (1938 - 1996)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-21 2016-07-29
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Stanley Miller was born in Aberdeen on Christmas Eve 1938, the son of Robert Scott Miller, a pharmacist, and Mary, née Reid. He was educated at Robert Grodon's College, Aberdeen, and went on to study medicine at Aberdeen University, where he won honours in anatomy. After early appointments he became senior surgical registrar at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and then consultant in general and paediatric surgery there. He was honorary senior lecturer in surgery at Aberdeen University. His ChM thesis in 1976 was on renal function after major abdominal surgery, and he published papers on the ultrasonic evaluation of varicose veins and prostatic surgery. He was interested in angling and golf. He died on 2 July 1996. He was survived by his wife, a son and daughter, and three daughters and two sons from an earlier marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Sandblom, Philip (1903 - 2001)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Philip Sandblom was Professor of Surgery at Lund University, Sweden. He was born in 1903 in Chicago, of Swedish parents. He attended medical school in the city and did research under A C Ivy at Northwestern University, demonstrating that cholecystokinin was a hormone. He then trained as a surgeon in Sweden. Although he started his career as a paediatric surgeon, he was appointed Professor of General Surgery at Lund in 1950. He served as Vice-Chancellor from 1957 to 1968. He published extensively on trauma to the hepatobiliary tract, and pioneered the Whipple-Blakemore operation for correcting portal hypertension. This work made Lund a world centre, and reinforced his belief that such operations should only be done in expert centres, where many cases are seen. He had many interests, including art: together with his wife Grace he had collected a fine collection of paintings, including works by Delacroix, Renoir, Picasso, Matisse and Braque. These formed the subject of his magisterial book *Creativity and disease; how illness affects literature, art and music* (Philadelphia PA, George F Stickley, 1983). Even in retirement he continued to be active, maintaining houses in Lausanne, San Diego and Lund. It was in Lausanne, whilst out shopping with his wife, that he collapsed and died at the age of 97, on 21 February 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Beck, John Meiring (1933 - 2016)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-25 2019-07-04
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details John Meiring Beck was a consultant paediatric surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 10 August 1933. His father, Johannes Henricus Meiring Beck, was a general practitioner; his mother, Mavis Beck née Courtenay, was a legal secretary prior to her marriage. Beck’s grandfather Louis was a popular GP in Cape Town who died of Spanish flu in 1919 while attending his patients. Louis’ brother, Sir Meiring Beck, was a doctor and later a politician and cabinet minister. John Beck was educated at St Andrew’s College, Grahamstown and then studied medicine at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg from 1950 to 1955. He held house posts at Johannesburg General Hospital, where he worked under Phyllis Knocker, the first female surgeon in South Africa. After other house jobs and a period at Mission Hospital, in 1957 he was offered a job as a medical officer and assistant bus driver on a trans-Africa trip from Johannesburg to North Africa. Following family tradition, he went to Edinburgh, where he took his primary, which he passed at the first attempt. He was a senior house officer at Hammersmith Hospital from 1960 to 1961, where he worked for Ian Aird, a friend of his father’s, and was then a registrar in Southend and Rochford from 1962 to 1963. In early 1964, he returned to South Africa, where he had been offered a training post with Jannie Louw in Cape Town. He was a registrar under Louw, Sid Cywes and Christiaan Barnard at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, an experience which convinced him to specialise in paediatric surgery. In August 1966, he was appointed as a consultant paediatric surgeon in Johannesburg and as a clinical lecturer in the department of surgery, developing the paediatric surgery service with Michael Dinner. Due to Apartheid, he had to work at three hospitals: Transvaal Children’s Hospital was for the white population, Coronation Hospital for mixed race patients and Baragwanath for black people. Becoming increasingly appalled by the political situation in South Africa, Beck decided to move to the UK, to Leeds, as the first paediatric surgeon in Yorkshire. For the first ten years, he worked singlehandedly with his anaesthetist Lawrie Gardner to establish and develop paediatric and neonatal surgery in the region. In 1990, he was diagnosed with lymphoma, but resumed his clinical practice after chemotherapy. He retired from the NHS in 1995 and returned to South Africa, where he worked at a rural hospital at Kabokweni near the Kruger Park, helping improve the care of children in a poor and deprived community. He then moved to Cape Town at the invitation of Sid Cywes and his successor Heinz Rode, where he developed paediatric surgical clinics in black and mixed race townships at Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain on the Cape Flats. In 1998, his lymphoma returned: he retired from clinical practice and went back to the UK. He and his wife retired to Winchester to be near their family, but the lymphoma returned once again and he decided not to have further chemotherapy. John Beck died on 20 January 2016 at the age of 82. He was survived by his wife Ann née Wilkinson (known as Paddy), a former teacher, whom he married in 1960, and their three children – Lucy, James and Janet.
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First Title value, for Searching Atwell, John David (1929 - 2016)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-02-17 2020-02-04
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon Paediatric urological surgeon
Details John Atwell was a paediatric surgeon in Southampton and a distinguished paediatric urologist. He was born on 17 May 1929 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. His father, Percival John Cyril Atwell, was a manager with Shell Oil; his mother was Doris May Atwell née Gardner. When he was five, the family returned to England, to a home on the Hamble River, Hampshire. He was educated at Peter Symonds School in Winchester and then spent two years in the Royal Corps of Signals. From 1949 he studied medicine at the University of Leeds, qualifying in 1955 with the McGill prize in clinical surgery. All of his junior posts were in Leeds. He was a house surgeon at the General Infirmary, a demonstrator in anatomy at the university, a house physician at St James’s Hospital, a senior house officer in the receiving room at the General Infirmary and a registrar on the surgical professorial unit there under John Goligher and Alan Pollock. Keen to work in other centres, he became a house surgeon at the Postgraduate Medical School of London, a senior house officer at Great Ormond Street, a surgical registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and a senior registrar back at Great Ormond Street, where he trained in paediatric urology with David Innes Williams. In 1961 he returned to Leeds as a lecturer in surgery. In 1963 he went back to London, as a senior lecturer with consultant status at the Institute of Child Health, where he worked with Andrew Wilkinson, the first professor of paediatric surgery in the UK. He also had sessions at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hackney and later at the Westminster Children’s and St Thomas’ hospitals. In 1969 he moved to Southampton to establish the Wessex regional centre for paediatric surgery at Southampton General Hospital, the first such regional centre in the south of England outside London. From 1986 to 1993 he was also a civilian consultant in paediatric surgery to the Royal Navy. As a trainee in Leeds his main research interest was Crohn’s disease, but his later publications were on neonatal surgery and urological subjects. He made many important contributions to paediatric urological research, including a landmark paper in 1985 ‘Ascent of the testis: fact or fiction’ (*Br J Urol*. 1985 Aug;57[4]:474-7), the first paper to authoritatively document the phenomenon of secondary testicular ascent. Other research included studies of familial inheritance of upper tract duplication, pelvic ureteric junction obstruction, vesicoureteral reflux and other congenital anomalies of the urinary tract. An elected member of the Society of Paediatric Urological Surgeons, he was president of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons from 1989 to 1990 and in 1997 was awarded the Association’s Denis Browne gold medal. He was an examiner for all four Royal Colleges and chairman of the court of examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He had a lifelong passion for sailing and won many prizes in sailing competitions and regattas. He also collected old English glass. In retirement, he learnt to fish with flies and to paint watercolours. In 1960 he married Sue Nightingale, a nurse at Great Ormond Street. They had two sons and a daughter, 11 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. John Atwell died on 14 December 2016 at the age of 87. A children’s day surgical ward at Southampton General Hospital has been named in his honour.
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First Title value, for Searching Guiney, Edward Joseph (1931 - 2018)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2021-08-09
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Edward Joseph Guiney (Eddie) was born on 31 January 1931. After attending Belvedere College he studied medicine at University College Dublin and graduated MB, BCh in 1956. He remained in Dublin doing house jobs at St Vincent’s Hospital (SVH) for a year before moving to Galway and spending two years at the regional hospital working as a senior house officer and registrar. On returning to Dublin and SVH, he was appointed a senior registrar and tutor in surgery, gaining his MCh in 1961. The National University of Ireland awarded him a 2 year travelling fellowship in surgery and he spent some time as a lecturer in surgery at St Thomas’ Hospital in London from 1960 to 1961, before going to the USA as a research fellow on a Fulbright scholarship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. When he returned to Ireland, he lectured at University College Dublin (UCD) as a general and vascular surgeon until 1965, when his interests began to turn toward paediatric work. He spent a year at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool as a senior surgical registrar before being appointed consultant paediatric surgeon in Dublin at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children and the Temple Street Hospital. Four years later, in 1970, he also took on duties at the National Children’s Hospital. Asked about the problems of working with children as patients he would reply that, as with all patients, communication was essential. He explained that, to him *when you have a child as a patient, you actually have three patients; the mother, the father and the child itself.* He retired from all three hospitals in 1997. Having started at St Thomas’ working on the lymphatic system, he maintained a very active research career. From studying transplantation biology in the USA, he progressed to liver transplantation at UCD culminating in a world first when a sow with a transplanted liver gave birth to a litter of 14 piglets in 1972. From this work he became associated with the liver transplant programme at St Vincent’s Hospital. In 1976 he was appointed director of research at the Children’s Research Centre remaining there until 1989. In paediatrics his main areas of interest were spina bifida and hydropcephalus and he was elected president of the International Association for Research into Spina Bifida and Hyrocephalus. These were very relevant topics as, in the 1960’s, Ireland had the highest incidence of these disorders in the developed world. Against a strong London candidate, he regarded it as a great personal achievement that he was elected president of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons. . He also became professor of paediatric surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland from 1991 to 1997 and, after retirement, he continued to work there until 2014 as surgeon prosector and professor emeritus. Outside medicine he very much enjoyed watching sport and was an avid reader. During his time in the USA, he met and married Sheila née MacNamara who was also medically qualified. She died in 2006. He died on 9 April 2019 aged 87 and was survived by their three children; Ed, an Oscar nominated film maker and CEO of Element Pictures, Mike, a consultant radiologist at St James’s Hospital and the Beacon Hospital in Dublin and Carina, a mother of two of his three grandchildren who lives in Belfast.
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First Title value, for Searching Cudmore, Roger Edward (1935 - 2004)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372231372231
Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Roger Edward Cudmore was a consultant paediatric surgeon at Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool. He studied medicine in Sheffield and then served for two years in a Methodist hospital in Nigeria. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the children’s hospitals in Liverpool in 1972, where he was truly a general neonatal and paediatric surgeon. He was an active member of paediatric surgical associations, and a past President of the St Helen’s Medical Society and the Liverpool Medical Institution. He was an elected member of the GMC for 10 years. Roger was very active in the Christian Medical Fellowship, a reader in his local church and, after retirement, an assistant chaplain at Whiston Hospital. He became an expert in rare breeds of chicken, got a BA with the Open University and still found time to be with his family. Towards the end of his life he developed motor neurone disease. He died on 3 November 2004, leaving his widow Christine and three children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000044
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First Title value, for Searching Schlicht, David (1924 - 1973)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378256378256
Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details David Schlicht was born in Beaufort, Victoria, Australia, on 25 July 1924. His father, Theodore, was a stock and station agent. He studied at Melbourne University and St Vincent's Hospital and gained honours in surgery. He came to Britain to study, and in 1951 he was demonstrator in anatomy at Cambridge University. In 1952-3 he was surgeon registrar at Queen Mary's Hospital. He gained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1952, and in 1957 he became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He returned to Australia and in 1953 became assistant surgeon to the out-patients at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne; in 1958 he became senior assistant surgeon. He was also assistant surgeon to St Vincent's Hospital outpatients. In 1962 he became consulting paediatric surgeon to Footscray and District Hospital, and surgeon in charge in the paediatric unit at St Vincent's Hospital. He was also surgeon to the paediatric unit at Kew Children's Cottages, Melbourne. In 1953 he married Norma Fitzgerald, and they had three sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter, Susan, is a doctor. Theodore Schlicht, eldest brother of David, is a psychiatrist in London. David Schlicht died on 7 October 1973, aged 49, due to astrocytoma of the brain.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006073
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First Title value, for Searching Sharma, Lalit Kumar (1942 - 2016)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Luv Sharma
Publication Date 2016-07-29 2017-11-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381412381412
Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Lalit Kumar Sharma was a paediatric surgeon in Rohtak, Haryana, India. He was born on 25 December 1942 in Fatehgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. His family was from Anupshahr, situated on the banks of the Ganges, where they had large landholdings. His grandfather, Mangal Sen Sharma, was a criminal attorney, practising at Agra, India and formerly in the provincial police during the British Raj. His father, Subodh Kumar Sharma, was also in the provincial police and later a criminal attorney. Sharma's mother, Sharda, was a housewife. Sharma was educated in several cities in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was admitted to Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra in 1960 and had an illustrious undergraduate career there with a silver medal in medical jurisprudence. He was later a resident in the department of surgery, completing his residency in 1968. He was then a registrar in the same department. In 1969, he became a registrar in the department of paediatric surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. In early 1970, he went to the UK and joined Cardiff Royal Infirmary as a locum registrar in urology. From 1970 to 1971, he was a senior house officer in paediatric surgery at Sheffield Children's Hospital, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool and Southampton Children's Hospital. In late 1971 he became a registrar in paediatric surgery in Dublin. During this period he gained his FRCS. In November 1972, he returned to the department of paediatric surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi as a pool officer. In September 1973, he joined Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and Ulster Hospital, Northern Ireland as a registrar in paediatric surgery. From Belfast, he went to St John's, Newfoundland, Canada in October 1974 as a chief resident in paediatric surgery at the Dr Charles A Janeway Child Health Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and later as a senior resident in surgery at the General Hospital, St John's. In January 1977, Sharma returned to India as a lecturer in the department of paediatric surgery at the Medical College and Hospital, Rohtak, Haryana state as the founding chief and head of department. He continued there until January 1993, when he resigned to start in private practice in Rohtak as director and chief surgeon at Sushrut Child Surgery, Rohtak (named after his eldest grandchild). In May 1998 he moved to Delhi, where he joined the Jaipur Golden Hospital, Rohini. In January 2000, he became the director of the Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Jammu, a post he held until October 2002. He then left his practice to give free services to poor patients as chief honorary surgeon at the Ramakrishna Mission Sevashram, a charitable hospital in the holy city of Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh. During his long tenure at Vrindavan, he also worked as medical superintendent at the newly-established Muzaffarnagar Medical College and as professor and head of the department of surgery, Manipal Medical College, Pokhara, Nepal. Sharma had 29 papers published in international journals and 17 in national journals, including many papers on his work at Rohtak on Hirschsprung's disease. He also attended and presented papers at numerous international and national conferences on paediatric surgery. He was vice president of the Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons. Sharma suffered a huge myocardial infarction in December 2015 and moved to Rohtak, where his elder son was living. He died on 4 July 2016 following another heart attack. He was 73. Predeceased by his wife, Sudarshana, he was survived by his sons Luv Sharma, professor of forensic medicine at Rohtak, and Neil Sharma, a dentist. Sharma was an eminent surgeon, a loving husband and father, a dutiful son who left a promising career in Canada to return to India for his parents and siblings, and a much revered teacher who is still fondly remembered as the father of paediatric surgery in the state of Haryana, whose public he served with zeal and honesty.
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First Title value, for Searching Millard, Albert Henry (1915 - 1975)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Albert Henry Millard was born in Cardiff on 1 April 1915 and educated at University College, Cardiff, and the Welsh National School of Medicine, qualifying MB BCh in 1938 and proceeding to the London MB BS the following year. He held appointments at Cardiff Royal Infirmary and Barry Surgical and Accident Hospital. Shortly after the outbreak of the second world war he was commissioned in the RAMC, serving in France, Egypt, and North Africa with the 8th Army, holding the rank of Major. After demobilization in 1946 he held surgical appointments at Llandough Hospital, Penarth, and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and in 1953 took the FRCS. He was appointed a Royal College of Surgeons of England surgical tutor. His experience in paediatric surgery and expertise in surgery of the oesophagus enabled him to develop specialized techniques. He was a man of integrity and kindness, always immaculately dressed and quiet in speech and manner. He was respected and appreciated by his patients, whose interests and well-being were his first consideration. He married Lilian Doreen Wright in 1945. They had no children. He died on 18 July 1975 after a long and distressing illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Schreiber, Marcel Sofer (1910 - 1994)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General surgeon Neurosurgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Marcel Schreiber was born in Sydney in 1910 and graduated with first class honours from the University there in 1931. After serving in junior posts in Australia he came to England and took the conjoint diploma and the Fellowship in 1938. He returned immediately to Sydney and was appointed to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children but soon left to join the AAMC, in which he served as a major. After the war he teamed up with T Y Nelson whose specialty was neurosurgery, which thereafter was to be Schreiber's main interest. In 1954 he spent a year of international travel to study the subject, and although his appointment was as a general paediatric surgeon, neurosurgery took up most of his time. When the Prince of Wales' Children's Hospital was established he was invited to join the staff as a neurosurgeon on a salaried basis. He published extensively on his specialty with papers on hydrocephalus, head injuries and spinal tumours. He was the first surgeon in Australia to draw attention to the dangerous but remediable condition of subdural haematoma in infants. On retirement he and his wife derived great pleasure from classical music, theatre and the arts. He died on 2 October 1994.
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Michael Richard Robertson (1942 - 1977)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Michael Richard Robertson Martin was born in Ilford and educated at Brentwood School and the London Hospital. He graduated MB BS in 1965 and after house appointments embarked upon his surgical career, holding posts at his old teaching hospital and at the Westminster Children's Hospital and Cardiff. He took the FRCS in 1970. In 1977 he was appointed consultant surgeon to Maelor General Hospital, Wrexham. His qualities of thoroughness, kindness, and an easy identification with his little patients found their natural outlet when his earlier career took him along the path of paediatric surgery. These qualities, coupled with his unfailing good humour and dedication, inspired the utter confidence of all sorts and conditions of men when he returned to general surgery. He was a man with many interests outside surgery, notably sailing, music, and walking. He and his wife Gillian had three sons. He died on 29 March 1977 after a road accident. He was 35 years old.
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First Title value, for Searching Lawson, Jeremy Oliver Neil (1927 - 2018)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2018-12-13 2019-03-06
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Jeremy Lawson was a highly respected paediatric surgeon being on the consultant staff of three London hospitals, namely St Thomas’, Westminster Children’s and Great Ormond Street (honorary). He also had an attachment to Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton. He was born in London on 1 July 1927, the son of John Lawson and Olwen Lawson née Brooke. He was educated at King’s School, Canterbury and in 1947 proceeded with a Kitchener scholarship to St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, from where he graduated MB BS in 1953. As an undergraduate he sailed for United Hospitals Sailing Club and also played water polo. After house jobs, he did National Service in the RAMC, being posted to the British Military Hospital, Rinteln in Germany and then Queen Alexandra’s Military Hospital, Millbank. After demobilisation, he underwent training in general surgery in Windsor and at the Brompton Hospital, before deciding on a career in paediatric surgery, then a fledgling specialty, working as both a registrar and senior registrar at Great Ormond Street Hospital. In this training, he was greatly influenced by David Innes Williams, Harold Nixon and David Waterston. He was appointed as a consultant in 1971. Although carrying out the whole range of paediatric surgery, Jeremy Lawson was best known for his interest in the colon and rectum, especially Hirschprung’s disease and constipation in childhood. He published several papers on this subject and also contributed chapters in textbooks. He was a meticulous technician and much admired by his trainees for his excellent surgical technique. In private life, he was interested in sailing, art, architecture and antiques. Quietly spoken and always impeccably dressed in a dark three-piece suit and stiff white collar, he was devoted to his family. Married to Caroline (née Mitchell) in 1955, he had a son, Richard, two daughters, Amanda and Johanna, and five grandchildren. In his last year, he developed dementia and died on 17 July 2018 aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Grosfeld, Jay Lazar (1935 - 2016)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2017-02-17 2017-06-09
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Jay Grosfeld was, in the eyes of many, the foremost American academic paediatric surgeon of his time. A large man with a warm personality and an ever-present friendly smile, he was a wonderful host to visiting surgeons, a superb teacher and someone revered on both sides of the Atlantic by all who knew him. Grosfeld was the son of Louis and Pearl (née Reizes) Grosfeld. As an undergraduate, Jay attended the Washington Square College at New York University, where he received a BS in biology and a BA in history. In 1957, he attended medical school at the New York University School of Medicine, graduating as an MD in 1961. Training in general surgery in New York hospitals followed before he was drafted into the Army in 1966. After serving two years as a captain in the US Army Medical Corps, he trained in paediatric surgery at the Nationwide Children's Hospital at Ohio State University from 1968 to 1970. He returned to New York University as an assistant professor of surgery in 1970. Two years later, he was appointed as professor and director of pediatric surgery at Indiana University and the first surgeon-in-chief of the Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis. In 1985, he was appointed as chairman of the department of surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine, a position he held until he retired in 2003. Grosfeld's research was in various fields, but with a special interest in short bowel syndrome, biliary atresia, Wilms' tumour and neuroblastoma. He was a prolific author, publishing some 490 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 135 book chapters. He also wrote or edited nine textbooks, including the fifth and sixth editions of the magisterial two volume *Pediatric surgery* (Elsevier Health Sciences), before becoming editor emeritus for the seventh edition. Honours abounded: he was chairman of the surgical section of the American Academy of Pediatrics, president of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, president of the Halsted Society, president of both the Central Surgical Association and the Western Surgical Association, president of the World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgeons, president of the American Surgical Association and vice president of the American College of Surgeons. He became a council member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and in 1998 was awarded the Denis Browne gold medal by that Association. Other awards included the William E Ladd medal from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Fritz Rehbein medal from the European Pediatric Surgical Association and honorary fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1999. Jay Grosfeld was married to Margie (née Faulkner) for 54 years and they had five children - Alicia, Dalia, Janice, Jeffrey and Mark, and 17 grandchildren. He died on 19 October 2016 aged 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Sturdy, David Eric (1928 - 2016)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-05-16 2019-06-20
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details David Eric Sturdy was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Wales. He was born in Llanybydder, West Wales on 4 May 1928, the only son of William Frederick Sturdy, a boot and shoe repairer, and Anne Mary Sturdy née Davies, the daughter of a carpenter. There were no medical connections in the family. He was educated at the local village school in Llanybydder and Lladyssul County Grammar School. From 1944 to 1946 he studied the first London MB as an external student at Swansea Technical College and Swansea University. He then went on to Guy’s Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1950. He held house posts at Swansea General Hospital and then carried out his National Service (from 1951 to 1953). He was a regimental medical officer to the first battalion of the Welsh Guards, a junior surgical specialist at the British Military Hospital, Berlin and the RAF Hospital in Rinteln, Germany, and a visiting medical officer to Spandau Prison, which held several war criminals including Rudolf Hess. He maintained his connections with the Welsh Guards: he was an honorary member of the Welsh Guards Officers Club and vice president of the Monmouthshire branch of the Old Comrades Association. He joined the Territorial Army, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel in the RAMC. After finishing his National Service, he gained wide-ranging experience in general and paediatric surgery and in urology. His registrar posts were at the Morriston Hospital, Swansea and the Royal Masonic and the Royal Marsden hospitals, London. He was then a senior registrar at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and at Preston Royal Infirmary. At these centres, he received expert teaching in urology from Alec Badenoch, David Wallace and David Innes Williams, and in general and paediatric surgery from Clifford Naunton Morgan, Harold Edwards, H H Nixon, D Waterston and Ian Orr in Preston. His MS thesis was based on work undertaken at Great Ormond Street under the supervision of David Innes Williams. In 1962, he was appointed as a consultant general and paediatric surgeon to the Royal Gwent Hospital, with a particular interest in urology. He had the ability to perform per-urethral prostatic resection which, at that time, was the yardstick for recognition as a urological surgeon. The only flaw in his CV, he felt, was a lack of experience in vascular surgery and this was rectified in the early sixties by in-post experience and by attendance at vascular surgery meetings and seminars. He felt himself extremely lucky in his appointment at Newport in that he was able to maintain all these branches of surgery. During his consultancy, he always had a great interest in surgical training and especially in the development of surgery and surgeons in Wales. He served as a surgical tutor to the Royal Gwent Hospital, was a surgical adviser to South Wales and was a member and founder secretary of the Welsh board of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was president of the Welsh Surgical Society and a founder president of the Welsh Surgical Travelling Club. He wrote papers on, among other topics, the management of extroversion of the bladder and the surgical management of carcinoma of the oesophagus. He also wrote *Essentials of urology* (Bristol, J Wright, 1974) and *An outline of urology* (Bristol, John Wright,1986), and contributed to *Pelvic pain in women* (Springer-Verlag, 1990). On his retirement, he reflected that he had enjoyed his clinical practice at the Royal Gwent Hospital, felt fortunate to have been able to practise surgery in his native country and to have had the privilege of working with a harmonious band of colleagues. He was also proud of playing his part in influencing and developing surgical practice and organising surgical training in the Principality. Outside medicine, he enjoyed salmon and trout fishing, particularly on the Teifi in West Wales and on the Usk in Gwent. He also played golf and was a member of Newport Golf Club for 30 years. As a medical student, he played football for Guy’s Hospital, United Hospitals, London University and Harrow and Wealdstone. From 1950 to 1962 he played rugby for Swansea, London University Vandals and Preston Grasshoppers. He was later a surgeon and medical officer to Newport Rugby Football Club. In 1954, he married Meriel Griffiths, a nurse. They had three children: Sian Alana, David Huw and Cerys Anne.
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First Title value, for Searching Scott, John Eric Somerville (1926 - 2012)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Laurie Rangecroft
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2013-01-17
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details John Scott was the first full-time paediatric surgeon in the then Northern Region when he was appointed as a senior lecturer and honorary consultant in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1960. He continued to provide the service essentially single-handed for the next decade. He was born in Zanzibar, East Africa, where his father, Douglas Somerville Scott, was in the Colonial Medical Service. His mother was Dorothy May Scott née Fletcher. Later in Scott's childhood his family relocated to Penzance, Cornwall, where his father was a GP. His later childhood was also considerably saddened by the death of his elder sister following a, possibly unnecessary, operation to straighten her legs. Scott was educated at Upcotte House and Sherborne, before going up to Queens' College, Cambridge, to follow a wartime accelerated course in medicine. He carried out his clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital. National Service was spent as a medical officer in the RAF. On graduation he soon developed an interest in the then comparatively new specialty of paediatric surgery and naturally gravitated to Great Ormond Street Hospital to train under Sir Denis Browne. He then won a Harkness scholarship and spent time at the Boston Floating Hospital with Orvar Swenson and others to fine tune his skills. On his arrival in Newcastle John worked at the Fleming Memorial Hospital for Sick Children, the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Babies Hospital where, with the anaesthetist John Inkster and a dedicated nursing team, he made considerable advances in the management of the surgical neonate. He was an active member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS), serving as the honorary secretary and treasurer, and becoming president from 1982 to 1984. He travelled widely during these years and established important international connections and friendship, particularly in the USA. In 1984 he was made an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and in 1990 was awarded the highest honour of BAPS, the Sir Denis Browne Gold Medal. While inevitably starting his consultant career as a general paediatric surgeon, when further colleagues were gradually appointed John increasingly developed his interest and expertise in the developing sub-specialty of paediatric urology. Through his research and writing he made many important contributions to the field, and had a particular interest in the pathologies associated with the ureterovesical junction. He retired, with great reluctance it has to be said, in 1991. Having previously been instrumental in setting up both the Northern Region Maternity Survey and the Congenital Abnormality Register, he spent much of his 'retirement' in these offices and continuing to publish. Thus his first publication - a case study of surgical constipation - appeared in 1955 and his last, 50 years later, in 2005! Work was certainly John's driving force, but he played squash to a fairly advanced age, was a strong supporter of classical music in the North East, and for many years shared his daughter Georgina's passion for horses. He was a forceful character with strong opinions, which he was never afraid to express, but there are many in the north of England who have every reason to be grateful for his single-minded devotion to his patients. He was survived by his wife Audrey née Avison, whom he married in 1951, son Jason and daughter Georgina. John Scott died on 5 September 2012, at the age of 86.
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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, John Richard (1887 - 1956)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Born on 18 November 1887, son of a well know solicitor at Brighton and grandson of the headmaster of Brighton College, he was educated at Brighton College, Christ's College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After qualification he was house surgeon to Sir Anthony Bowlby at St Bartholomew's and at the Metropolitan Hospital. In 1914 he joined the RAMC, serving in India and Mesopotamia as surgical specialist attached to the 9th Secunderabad Division. After the war he was appointed surgeon to the Hove Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, and later to the Royal Sussex, and to Southlands and Crawley Hospitals. He was particularly interested in the repair of hare lip and cleft palate and in tonsillectomy by Waugh's method. He was President of the Brighton Medico-Chirurgical Society and a most distinguished and popular man. He was a thorough countryman, being a keen fisherman and shot and he died while out walking alone with his gun dogs, when he collapsed and died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 14 October 1956. His wife, who was a doctor, survived him with two sons both doctors, and a daughter. A memorial service was held at St Andrew's Church, Hove on 18 October 1956.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Gareth Gambold (1937 - 1978)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon Paediatric urological surgeon
Details Gareth Gambold Thomas was born on 13 July 1937 at Tonypandy, South Wales. After education at Porth County Grammar School and Edinburgh University he began his training in paediatric surgery in Swansea, continuing it in Edinburgh and again in Wales at the Cardiff Royal Infirmary. After becoming FRCS in 1968 he was senior registrar in Sheffield, taking a special interest in the problems associated with spina bifida, and thereafter at the Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool. He was also honorary clinical tutor in paediatric surgery at Liverpool University. In 1976 he was invited to join the staff of the Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, and he was put in charge of the paediatric urological department. He built up a unit of the highest standards, his work and worth being appreciated by many paediatric surgeons and urologists in the Netherlands. He was working there when he died suddenly on 12 June 1978 at the age of 40. He maintained a constant interest in the academic aspects of his work and made contributions to the literature. He was also a keen Territorial, holding the rank of Major and senior surgical specialist in the Army Volunteer Reserve, being awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1974. A kindly man, devoted to his family, he was survived by his wife Jennifer and his three children.
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First Title value, for Searching Lytle, William James (1896 - 1986)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details William James Lytle was born on 27 September 1896 at Maghera, Co Londonderry, Northern Ireland. His father, Thomas Alexander Lytle was a farmer, his mother, Mary Jane (née Moore) the daughter of a farmer, and his uncle was a general practitioner. He was educated at Rainey Endowed School, Magherafelt, Campbell College, Belfast, and Queen's University, Belfast. He held house appointments at Liverpool (Children's Hospital), Manchester (Ancoats) and Sheffield, where he was registrar at the Royal Infirmary and honorary surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and the Children's Hospital. He served in the Navy as surgeon probationer (1915-1916) and as surgeon in the RAF (1918-1919). He lectured at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1951 and 1957 on inguinal hernia and femoral hernia respectively. In Sheffield he served as Chairman of the BMA division, Chairman of the Medical Committee of the United Hospitals and President of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, and as postgraduate dean. He married in 1940 Margery Wier, whose father and grandfather were doctors. They had a son John, an anaesthetist, and a daughter Elizabeth who studied medicine and married a lecturer in medicine at Edinburgh. His hobbies were golf, history and architecture, foreign travel and walking. He wrote on inguinal hernia, femoral hernia and the anatomy concerned. He died on 27 June 1986 in his 90th year, survived by his wife and family which by then included two grandchildren studying medicine at Cambridge.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, William Ainslie (1925 - 2011)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Ken Callum
Publication Date 2012-01-26 2012-08-29
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details William Ainslie Anderson was a paediatric and general surgeon in Derby. He was born on 24 September 1925 in Aberdeen into a medical family. His father, William Anderson, was a well-known surgeon and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. His mother was Barbara Matthew Kate Anderson née Gibson, a nurse. Ainslie was educated locally in Aberdeen and then at Gordonstoun, which he loved and often talked about. He looked after the bloodhounds, partly for his love of dogs, but also to get out of the compulsory morning runs before breakfast! He once chopped down a tree from the neighbouring estate to build kennels for the dogs, and had to hide the evidence. The boys had to man the old telephone switchboard, which Ainslie was no good at, but he used to enjoy the stream of German swearwords from the headmaster Kurt Hahn when he cut him off! He held Kurt Hahn in high regard and the principles of integrity and diligence, which he learnt at school, lasted him through his life. He started medical school in Aberdeen at the age of 17, and was taught in part by his father. He captained the second XV medics rugby, and was an enthusiastic member of the student shows. The course was shortened due to the war, so that he qualified in 1947 at the age of 22, just before the NHS began. Soon after qualifying, he started postgraduate training in paediatric and general surgery in Aberdeen, which included a year in general practice in the Outer Hebrides. This training also included a year studying pathology in Edinburgh, which enabled him to understand surgical pathology better than most surgeons. Throughout his consultant career he enjoyed regular surgical pathology meetings. His surgical training also included a research fellowship in Denver, Colorado. His voyage to America was earned as the ship's doctor to one of the Woolworth millionaires who was an alcoholic: his duties were to hide the key to the drinks cabinet, and provide penicillin for the crew. The research he carried out in Denver was into cardiac valve implantation techniques, the downside for him being that it was conducted on dogs. He also missed his family - his wife had been expecting one of their children when he left. In 1961 he was appointed as a consultant paediatric and general surgeon to the Derby hospitals, retiring in 1990. He bought a house close to the Children's Hospital and for the first 13 years was on call virtually all the time for paediatric surgery, and prior to the setting up of a specialist unit in Nottingham he performed a number of major neonatal operations, such as repair of duodenal and oesophageal atresia, with considerable success. For the remaining 16 years until he retired he was on a one-in-two rota for paediatrics with his colleague David Thomas, who lived across the road from him in order to give the same service. He was a skillful surgeon and an astute clinician who gave a huge contribution to surgery in Derby. He was a keen and active member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, and often took his family to the association's annual meeting, incorporating it with his own annual holiday. He was widely read, with an in-depth knowledge of his own and other specialties, and he impressed his colleagues with his grasp of the latest developments. He ran a monthly journal club at home - always well attended - where he would elucidate how to analyse and critique an article for the benefit of his surgical trainees and his consultant colleagues. This was always an enjoyable and convivial evening. As a member of numerous committees he was a vociferous and skillful advocate, ensuring that the needs of both patients and clinicians were given due consideration; as a result he did not always endear himself to the administration, but was highly regarded by his clinical colleagues, who were usually in accord with the views he expressed. He regularly attended the Derby Medical Society and held the office of president in 1986. As a friend he was always available to support colleagues who needed help and gave good advice that was sympathetic and sound. He had a delightful turn of phrase and a sense of humour, evidenced by his engaging smile coupled with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. He was an altogether outstanding personality. Shooting was a lifelong passion of his, particularly on retirement when he kept busy with pheasants and his dogs, and he was a keen birdwatcher. Even in his latter days when he became too breathless to go shooting he would drive to a shoot to chat with his friends and to see the dogs. During his surgical training in Aberdeen he met his future wife Eileen who was an anaesthetic registrar. They were married in 1956 and had three children, Bill, Sue and Jim, two of whom went in for medicine. Sue became an anaesthetist and now lives in America, and Jim became a surgeon, making the third generation of Anderson surgeons. Sadly Eileen died of breast cancer in 1985 and Ainslie continued to miss her for the rest of his life. In conclusion, he was a great friend and colleague, and a devoted family man. Beneath his slightly gruff exterior he was a very kind and caring man, a very able clinician and a man of great intellect and integrity. He read a great deal about non-medical matters as well, so that talking with him on almost any subject was always interesting. He died on 3 October 2011 and is greatly missed.
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First Title value, for Searching Crooks, James (1901 - 1980)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation ENT surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Born on 2 October 1901, Crooks graduated in Edinburgh. He moved to London working first as house physician and casualty officer at Great Ormond Street and then, in 1929, as resident medical superintendent. He had taken his FRCS the previous year, and came under the influence of Denis Browne when paediatric surgery was an exciting new specialty. At first he intended to follow a general surgical career, but in 1931 the opportunity of a consultant post at Great Ormond Street led him into ENT surgery, which became his lifelong study. He had a great rapport with children which, combined with his deft technique enabled him to carry out many examinations and therapeutic manoeuvres under local anaesthesia. He was a pioneer in the treatment of the infected antrum, and was a skilled but selective tonsillectomist in an era when wholesale tonsillectomy was the fashion. He built up a large and successful practice, which included several members of the Royal Family. He was appointed CVO in 1958. When the Hospital for Sick Children was being rebuilt in the 1930s he was much involved in planning the main block with the architect, not only concerned with the main concepts but also with details of cleanliness, control of infection, nursing supervision and facilities for parents. Much of what he initiated has become standard practice. Though the war held up development for many years he continued, as Chairman of the Building Committee from 1948 to his retirement in 1967, to guide the formation of the present hospital. He married first in 1931 Irene Heath, painter and writer, by whom he had two daughters. In 1970 he married Caroline Woollcombe. He was himself a lover of the arts and an amateur painter of distinction. In his retirement he extended hospitality to his old friends from Great Ormond Street and exercised his surgical craftsmanship in his workshop on the care of an ancient Rolls-Royce. He died on 16 April, 1980.
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First Title value, for Searching Haigh, Edwin (1919 - 1993)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09 2016-02-05
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Occupation Medical Officer Paediatric surgeon
Details Edwin Haigh was born on 25 April 1919, the son of William Duthie Haigh who was a scientist for the British Scientific Research Association, and his wife, Annie Margaret Rhynhart. He went to the City of London School, then to King's College, obtaining a Warneford scholarship. He served with the North Staffordshire Regiment in the Middle East and Italy, was captured at Anzio and finished the war as a prisoner. He specialised in paediatric surgery and neonatology at Alder Hey Hospital and was Hunterian Professor in 1957, lecturing on *The acute abdomen in neonates*. In 1958 he changed career, joining the Ministry of Social Security as a medical officer and later senior medical officer (1968). In retirement he pursued his interests of golf and travel. He had been a keen sportsman in his youth. He was a committed Christian. He was survived by his wife, Cora Margaret Teresa Roche, a theatre sister, whom he married on 13 October 1949. They had four children, Paulette, Lorraine, Aubrey and Cora, the youngest, who qualified in dentistry at King's College Hospital. His wife died in 1996. Edwin Haigh had an ambition to travel in retirement, and the ischaemic heart disease which was ultimately to claim his life first struck atop the Great Wall of China. He gave a harrowing account of how he was borne on a stretcher down hundreds of steps, in the grip of a myocardial infarct, past groups of friendly Chinese who were oblivious to the seriousness of his condition and who insisted on being photographed with him. He planned things better for his second heart attack: this time he was on holiday closer to his home in Huntingdon, and could be speedily admitted to his own son-in-law's intensive care unit in conditions of five-star luxury. He went on to have a coronary artery bypass graft in Papworth Hospital, but suffered his third and fatal infarct two years thereafter, and died on 17 January 1993.
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First Title value, for Searching Carswell, William Roy (1915 - 1971)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-25 2016-02-02
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Occupation Gastrointestinal surgeon General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details William Roy Carswell was born in 1915, the son of a Dunedin doctor, and was educated in the University of Otago where he graduated MB ChB in 1939. He was appointed house surgeon to Wellington Hospital and then joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He had a distinguished military career and was awarded the Military Cross for his services in the Western Desert. Carswell returned to New Zealand at the end of 1944 and became surgical registrar in Palmerston North. In due course he proceeded to London where he gained valuable clinical experience and passed the FRCS Examination in 1949. He then returned to Palmerston North where he was appointed consultant to the hospital and developed a special interest in paediatric and gastrointestinal surgery. He took an active part in training members of the junior hospital staff, and supplemented his own experience by visits to clinics in England, the United States, and Australia. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1950. As an undergraduate he was keen on gymnastics, and followed the example of his father as a fly fisherman, passing on the love to his own son. His other leisure pastime was swimming, and he coached his children who in turn won many swimming prizes. Carswell was a very friendly, helpful person who enjoyed a happy home life with his wife, two daughters and his son who all survived him when he died at an unduly early age of a coronary attack at his home in Palmerston North on 8 November 1971.
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First Title value, for Searching Brereton, Roger James (1943 - 1995)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Roger Brereton was born on 31 March 1943 in Crewe, where his father was an electrical instrument maker for the railways. After local schooling he went up to Liverpool University Medical School where he graduated in 1966. His inclinations were at first towards obstetrics, taking the DRCOG, and it was during this time that he met Ruth, one of the midwives, whom he was later to marry. Turning to surgery he first took the FRCS Edinburgh in 1972 but followed it by the FRCS England in 1973. At the Alder Hey Childrens' Hospital he became senior registrar and acquired a wide experience of paediatric surgery. He then moved south to be senior lecturer in the professorial unit in the Institute of Child Health (University of London) and honorary surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. There he became famous for his encyclopaedic knowledge of the literature of his subject; he published on a variety of topics but did not follow any consistent line of research. In 1993 he was appointed consultant paediatric surgeon to the newly-opened Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, but unhappily was soon afterwards diagnosed as having carcinoma of the colon. He met his illness with outstanding courage, returning to work after the primary excision and then again after resection of liver secondaries. In his spare time he enjoyed gardening, model making and icing cakes. He died on 28 February 1995, survived by his wife, and sons Simon, Richard and James.
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First Title value, for Searching Lannon, Joseph (1911 - 1990)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05 2016-02-05
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Occupation Anatomist Paediatric surgeon
Details Joseph Lannon was born on 11 March 1911. He was educated at the University of Witwatersrand and after qualifying in 1934 proceeded to train as a surgeon, passing the FRCS in 1938. During the second world war he joined the New Zealand forces and served in the New Zealand General Hospital in North Africa, transferring later to the South African Medical Corps, serving in 8SA casualty clearing station and then in 8A field ambulance station which was involved in the battle of El Alamein and for which he was decorated. He returned to South Africa in 1943, being demobilised in 1945 with the rank of Major. After the war he practised in Johannesburg and was surgeon at the Benoni Boksburg, Johannesburg, General and North East hospitals. He was one of the early specialist paediatric surgeons at the Memorial Hospital for Children. He was also a very competent and much respected part-time lecturer in anatomy. In 1949 he was awarded the Hamilton Maynard Prize for his paper on the previously unknown parasympathetic nerve pathways to the colon and the anatomy of the lumbar ganglia. He enjoyed English literature, the classics and the history of medicine. He encouraged the students at the Witwatersrand Medical School to re-establish a history of medicine society and was remembered for a very entertaining talk on one of his favourite topics, the diseases of Napoleon. His interest in literature emerged through passing literary allusions in his lectures. A former student of his recalled his viva with Lannon. He was asked about carpal bones and the student mumbled the mnemonic about Hamlet and Polonius. When asked what he was mumbling Lannon inquired who Hamlet and Polonius were and, the answer being unsatisfactory, the student was sent to the Library in his lunch hour to read the play and anything else he could find on the two characters. He returned afterwards to give Mr Lannon a discourse on the subject! Joss, as he was fondly known, died on 30 October 1990, survived by his son Michael, a doctor, and his daughter, Christine.
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First Title value, for Searching Shackleton, Michael Elliott (1927 - 2015)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Peter Kitchin
Publication Date 2017-05-31 2018-02-22
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Michael was born in Waimate, to Ronald, surgeon, general practitioner and Superintendent of the Waimate Hospital, and Mary Armstrong, a talented amateur artist. Both parents played the violin and from an early age Michael learned the piano and singing. He had a younger sister, Janet who would go on to win a Commonwealth Games medal as a hurdler. Michael attended primary school in Waimate and at an early age demonstrated a sense of adventure. He attended Christ's College where he became a prefect and Deputy Head of School. He enjoyed sport representing Christ's in athletics, swimming, rugby and shooting. Michael respected his father and admired his work and these were major influences on Michael's decision to become a doctor. Spending his first year in Dunedin at Knox College he gained entry to Medical School and graduated MB ChB in1954. During the course of his medical training Michael participated in a wide range of student activities including the Dramatic Society, Sports Editor critic, Capping Concert Sextette, Athletic Club Captain and Otago University small bore shooting representation. In 1955 Michael secured a position as house surgeon at Dunedin Hospital and at the end of that year he married Annabel Wilson who had just completed her BA Degree. She was the daughter of Stanley Wilson, a senior and highly respected Dunedin surgeon, a veteran of war surgery and a President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Michael spent the next year as an anatomy demonstrator as, influenced by his father-in-law, he planned to travel to the United Kingdom to pursue surgical training. In the course of this year their daughter Anna was born. At the end of 1956 Michael travelled to London as ship's doctor, while Annabel and Anna followed some weeks later on the Ruahine, arriving for New Year 1957. The next two years were spent in house surgeon positions at St James Hospital, London and Addenbrooks Hospital, Cambridge, during which his FRCS was obtained. Following a period as locum registrar for Sir Arthur Porritt at St Mary's Hospital, Michael returned to St James Hospital 1959-61 working with Mr Norman Tanner with a particular interest in gastric surgery. This was a very busy period as the family increased in size with the birth of Nicki, Andrew and Richard. After completing a stint in urology at St Peters Hospital Michael, Annabel and their family of four returned to New Zealand. While Michael was well trained there was no surety of a surgeon position in Dunedin and he was initially appointed Resident Surgical Officer at the Dunedin Hospital and Clinical Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Otago. He quickly gained his FRACS. Eighteen months later the Dean of the Otago University Medical School, Sir Edward Sayers, suggested to Michael that he might care to volunteer to lead a proposed surgical team being formed under the Colombo Plan to provide assistance to the Republic of South Vietnam. Driven by the appeal of an unique experience, and the compelling belief that he could do some good for humankind Michael accepted the challenge; and with Annabel and their five children (Sarah born 1962), flew to Viet Nam, and after six weeks trying to organise accommodation arrived in Qui Nhon in Binh Dinh province on Anzac Day 1963. Michael demonstrated extraordinary persistence and dogged determination in getting the team set up and running, hurdling his way over apathy, incompetence, and unthinking opposition, and a near-total absence of equipment, instruments, and facilities. There were no operating tables or theatre lights in the newly constructed theatre block and acquiring accommodation for team personnel was an immediate challenge. However, the team Michael established was present continuously in South Vietnam for 12 years and many medical and nursing personnel, radiographers, laboratory technologists, handymen and administrators served over that period. The continuing presence of a civilian surgical team in Qui Nhon, providing surgical services to the people of Binh Dinh province throughout the 12 years of Vietnam's agony was almost certainly an influential factor in initiating and maintaining a relationship of mutual respect and warmth between New Zealand and Viet Nam at both diplomatic and inter-personal levels. Returning to New Zealand in 1964 Michael resumed his previous surgical roles. Two years later he was appointed to a consultant position at Dunedin Hospital, working as a general and paediatric surgeon. The birth of a third son, Philip, completed the family of six children. In his role of Clinical Lecturer in Surgery Michael was appreciated as a teacher providing students with a very practical approach to the assessment and management of the surgical patient. Registrars (trainees) valued the opportunity to work with him as he was a technically excellent surgeon and great teacher (affectionately known as "the Silver Scalpel"). While extensively trained in gastric surgery, he introduced colonoscopy to New Zealand as an alternative and better means of earlier detection of large bowel cancer and also had a leading role in advancing the care of patients with breast cancer. Michael's contribution extended well beyond the immediate confines of patient care. With his interest in surgical education he served as a RACS Examiner in general surgery 1978-87. He was a member of the National Advisory Committee on Cancer Services 1982-1994. Michael was a member of and subsequently chaired the Ethics Committees of Dunedin Hospital, the Mercy Hospital and the New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) - in total nearly 30 years. He contributed significantly to the NZMA serving in numerous leadership roles, this culminating in his election as President 1993-94 He served as an elected member of the Otago Hospital Board and subsequently the Otago Area Health Board. Michael was a member of the New Zealand Committee RACS 1976-84 and completed a term as its Chairman. Michael was awarded the OBE in 1968 in recognition of his work in Viet Nam and he also received Vietnamese service awards. He was made a member of the Order of St John in 1982. For his contributions to the NZMA, Michael was awarded a Fellowship in 2004. In 1994 Michael and Annabel retired to their holiday home in Middlemarch. With time to reflect, Michael exercised his writing skills and wrote his excellent book, "Operation Vietnam" on his experience as a surgeon in Vietnam. In 2006, Michael and Annabel moved to Karori in Wellington to enjoy a change of life style, theatre and music. He authored "Desert Surgeons" and was an active member of the Wellington Medical History Society where as recently as last year he presented a paper on General Practitioner Surgeons and the Waimate Hospital's struggle for survival. Michael is survived by his wife Annabel, children Anna, Nicki, Andrew, Richard, Sarah, Phillip, 15 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Kliman, Murray Rex (1924 - 2011)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Gary Redekop
Publication Date 2016-05-13 2016-11-28
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Murray Kliman was professor of surgery at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Born on 31 January 1924, he was brought up in Regina, Saskatchewan, where his father, Jacob James Kliman, was in the clothing business. He described his mother, Rose Ann Kliman née Segal, as a 'suffragette', a leader of social change who was the first woman in Saskatchewan to have a driver's licence. A precocious student, Kliman graduated from high school by the age of 15 and was accepted at the University of Saskatchewan, where he completed his undergraduate education. For clinical training, Kliman went to Toronto. After graduating at the age of 21 (just old enough to sign prescriptions), he went to Regina for an internship at the Grey Nuns' Hospital. There he met his future wife, Beatrice, the only Jewish nurse in the hospital. He considered going into psychiatry, but became more interested in surgery and was appointed as a senior intern. He was then offered a job in the cancer clinic, but Beatrice encouraged him to get experience in general practice. Kliman began a small-town practice in Mankota, south of Moose Jaw. There he made an immediate impression by his diagnosis and treatment of a local matriarch who had been bedridden for several months. Noting her extreme anaemia, he made some blood smears, which he sent to Regina. Within a few days he got a phone call to say that these were the best pernicious anaemia slides they had seen in years. The local pharmacist had some liver extract and, after daily injections, the good lady was walking downtown in her hat and gloves within three weeks. There had been plans for a local hospital, but these had stalled, so Kliman's mother decided that something had to be done. She visited Tommy Douglas, the premier of Saskatchewan, which led to a grant of $20,000, enough for a 20-bed institution. It was now possible for women in the Mankota area to have their babies close to home, and there were 400 deliveries in just over two years. The first caesarean section was done with a textbook open on a music stand. Mrs Kliman warned her husband of the risk of injury to the baby when he cut into the uterus (she had seen many more caesareans that he had). He was chagrined to observe a fine linear scratch on the baby's back when he examined it after delivery. Kliman then received a call from Saskatoon, where they were looking for an anatomy instructor (he had excelled in anatomy as a student). The Klimans agreed that it was time to go back to the city - by now they had their first child, who would soon need a good school. The new job offered $2,200 per annum, less than his salary in practice. He enjoyed teaching, and they managed for a while. However, the family was growing. Despite an increment received with his promotion to assistant professor, the Klimans concluded that a career in surgery might offer better rewards. Influenced by his British father-in-law, he decided to go to England for further training and surgical qualification. With some help from an exchange scholarship, the family arrived in Britain and Kliman went to the Royal College, where he got good advice from Sir Francis Fraser, who was in charge of Commonwealth physician education. Kliman passed a course in preparation for the primary fellowship exams and then prepared for the final exams of the Royal College of Surgeons. He attended lectures, rounds and outpatient clinics. He observed surgery in leading institutions, assisting on occasion and he passed the final after a year. Kliman was keen to work with Denis Brown, pioneer in the treatment of club foot, whose lectures he had heard in Toronto, and he was appointed to attend at Brown's clinics at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. After a time, it was evident that he needed more general surgical experience. Denis Brown phoned Ian Aird at Hammersmith Hospital to say, 'There is a young chap from Canada here who needs some general surgery. When shall I send him over?' He soon became a registrar and then clinical assistant to Aird. After four years in England, it was time to go home. Kliman was tempted to stay, but the family wanted the grandchildren to grow up in Canada. He intended to specialise in pediatric surgery. He was able to get on to the staff at the expanding University Hospital in Saskatoon, but it was made clear that his work would be in general surgery. Saskatoon seemed like a small town. Kliman had links with Vancouver, where his brother was a lawyer and the family made a swift decision to move west. In due course he went to the health centre for children in Vancouver General Hospital. There was little work at first, so he asked Jack McCreary if there were any jobs in the outpatient area. A foot clinic was planned (with a grant from the Savage Shoe Company), and with his experience under Denis Brown, this seemed an ideal fit. Kliman was a superb teacher of residents and medical students on the wards of the health centre and the Children's Hospital. Always friendly, he would come to the nursing desk and join in discussions about the patients, offering a beautifully systematic tabulation of relevant factors in diagnosis and management. Kliman was elected to the board of the British Columbia Medical Association (BCMA) in 1970 and, apart from one year during which he was a vice-delegate, he remained on the board for the next 28 years. He served as a member of most, and chair of many, committees. On the income tax committee, he arranged lectures on tax matters for physicians. On the negotiating committee, he consistently fought for better remuneration for lower-paid physicians, and he was principal contributor to a fee settlement with the Workers' Compensation Board. He liked to open negotiations by saying, 'Tell us what you want and what you can give us in return. We will tell you what we want and what we can give you in return.' While on the economics committee, he again proposed a pension fund, but this would take another ten years to materialise. Kliman was honoured with both the silver medal of service of the BCMA and the Cam Coady award. He was invited to give the Osler lecture in 1980. Murray Kliman passed away on 5 February 2011, aged 87. Of modest height and demeanour, but possessed of a formidable intellect, Kliman was a pioneer in paediatric surgery, a gifted teacher, and a delightful colleague. He made an exceptional contribution to the affairs of the BCMA, including participating in negotiations with government and other agencies on behalf of the profession of which he is a proud member. His family, patients, students and colleagues have much to thank him for.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Harry Clifford (1925 - 1974)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378817378817
Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Harry Clifford Jones was born at Gateshead, County Durham, on 10 November 1925 and graduated MB BS from King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1948. After appointments at Ashington and national service in the Royal Air Force he became registrar in orthopaedic surgery at Hexham General Hospital. In 1951 he returned to Gateshead as surgical registrar at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and took the FRCS in 1953. After four years as registrar and senior registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he moved to be senior registrar in genito-urinary surgery at Newcastle General Hospital. During this period he made an extensive study of the treatment of tumours of the bladder which was to be the basis of the thesis by which he proceeded MS in 1963. He was appointed consultant to the Sunderland Group of Hospitals in May that year. At Sunderland he took a special interest in paediatric surgery, particularly genito-urinary problems. To this work he brought scrupulous technical skill and infinite patience. After a long and distressing illness he quickly returned to his previous vigour, and though often in considerable pain continued courageously and quietly to maintain his high standards of skill and care. He was a keen and skilful fisherman and, until threatened with deafness, a wildfowler. To his hobbies he gave the same thoughtful study that he gave to his work: an empty bag did not represent a failed outing, for he would have observed some new feature to add to his experience and interest. His enthusiasm and knowledge made him a fascinating conversationalist. He was married, his wife being an anaesthetist, and had a daughter and two sons. He died on 18 July 1974, aged 48.
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First Title value, for Searching McPherson, Arthur George (1913 - 1999)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Arthur McPherson was a former consultant surgeon at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. He was born on 29 June 1913 in Kerwara, India, where his father, James McPherson, was in the Indian Medical Service. His mother was Isabella Adamson Lamb. Educated at Edinburgh Academy and Caius College, Cambridge, he went on to St Thomas's for his clinical studies and gained the Clutton medal. He was casualty officer, registrar and resident assistant surgeon at St Thomas's, working for Sir Max Page and R H O B Robinson, before moving on to be first assistant to the professorial unit at Sheffield. Having passed the FRCS, he joined the RAMC and served with the 225 Parachute Field Ambulance with the rank of Major, and was dropped on D-Day at Pegasus Bridge, and again behind enemy lines during the Rhine crossings. Later he was posted to Java, and then to Salonika. He went to Bristol as a consultant general surgeon at the Southmead Hospital, and was involved in upgrading it from a local authority hospital to a teaching hospital. He also took over paediatric surgery at Bristol, one of the first to specialise in this field. He was a member of the Association of Paediatric Surgeons, and served on the Court committee on services for children and on the Platt committee on the training of surgeons and their staffing in hospitals. He was fond of music and played the piano and the drums, played tennis at Cambridge and for Gloucestershire, and was a keen dinghy sailor. In 1948, he married Rae Allison, a doctor and an Edinburgh graduate. They had two daughters, two sons (one a consultant anaesthetist) and five grandchildren. He died in Bristol on 31 May 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Bunton, George Louis (1920 - 1997)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380660380660
Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details George Bunton, who came from a family which had distinguished itself in the medical profession through three generations, enjoyed a rewarding career in general and paediatric surgery. He was born in Deal, Kent, on 23 April 1920, the son of Surgeon Captain Christopher Bunton RN and his wife, Emma (neé Denman), who had been a ward sister to Wilfred Trotter at University College Hospital. He was educated at Epsom College and Selwyn College, Cambridge, before going on to UCH for his clinical student years. He qualified in 1944 and, after house jobs, joined the Navy. On return to civilian life, he took up junior posts at Hammersmith with Ian Aird and at the Westminster Children's Hospital with David Levi, before getting back to UCH as senior registrar. He was appointed consultant surgeon to UCH and for a time also held sessions at the Metropolitan and at the Northwood and Pinner Cottage Hospital. Although general surgery took up most of his time, he continued to have a major interest in children's disorders, being an examiner for the diploma in child health. He took a full part in the committee work of the hospital as a member of the board of governors and chairman of the medical committee. He examined in surgery for London University and was appointed to the Royal College of Surgeons Court of Examiners in 1977. He married Margaret Berry Edwards (Puck) in 1948 and together they enjoyed an active social life. He was well known as a wit and raconteur, his broken nose and ready smile giving him an engagingly rakish air. They had one daughter, Elizabeth. Unhappily Puck died in 1988. George had retired to Cranleigh in 1985, where in 1993 he married Louise Brooks. After a number of heart attacks he died on 8 April 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Aldridge, Richard Thomas (1930 - 1999)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380624380624
Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Dick Aldridge was a surgeon in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born in Auckland on 18 June 1930. He was educated at Palmerston North Boys High School, where he was dux of the school. He attended Victoria University College and qualified from Otago Medical School in 1953. He was a house surgeon in Wellington and Stratford Hospital, returning to Wellington as orthopaedic registrar and junior surgical registrar in 1957. In 1958, with his young family, he came to England. He took the Edinburgh fellowship and became surgical registrar at Barnet General Hospital, and later at University College Hospital, passing his FRCS in 1959. He returned to New Zealand with his first wife, Margaret, daughters, Victoria and Jane and son, Richard, and was appointed casualty surgeon and admitting officer at Wellington Hospital. This was followed by two years as surgical tutor in the Wellington Clinical School and then he became full-time surgeon in paediatric and general surgery. From 1970 to 1989 he was on the visiting staff of Wellington Hospital, which he combined with a busy private practice. He was a keen territorial soldier, having joined as a student, and was the commanding officer of the Second General Hospital from 1968 to 1970. A keen skier and golfer, he was registrar of the Court of Examiners of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1968 to 1970. He took early retirement in 1989, but continued to play bowls, despite ischaemic heart disease and became president of the Karori Bowling Club. Pottery was a new found pleasure in retirement and friends commented on his artistic skills. Dick married Joan Curle, theatre supervisor at Wellington Hospital, in 1974: they had one daughter, Robyn, who became a doctor. He died suddenly on 27 July 1999, while attending his pottery class.
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First Title value, for Searching Hendren, William Hardy (1926 - 2022)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2022-12-09
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon Paediatric urological surgeon
Details William Hardy Hendren (always known as Hardy) was universally accepted as being the leading American paediatric surgeon of his generation. Known worldwide for his meticulous surgical technique and his pioneering ability to correct seemingly intractable anatomical conditions, he was driven by the mantra that his operations had to last his young patients a lifetime. Hardy was equally well known for his astonishing stamina, sometimes operating on a single patient for 18 hours or more and his demand for surgical perfection. If necessary, he would undo many hours of work in order to redo an operation from the beginning. This work ethic led to his acquiring the nickname ‘Hardly Human’, a mark of affection by his devoted trainees and friends and a soubriquet of which he was secretly proud. Hardy was born on 7 February 1926 in New Orleans to a film industry executive, William Hardy Hendren Jr, and his wife, Margaret Inglis Hendren née McLeod, but spent much of his childhood in Kansas City. Later he attended Woodberry Forest School in Orange, Virginia, leaving at the age of 17 to enlist as an aviation cadet as part of the war effort. While waiting for his military call up, he studied at Dartmouth College for a semester. He earned his wings as a naval pilot but did not see combat service. On demobilisation in 1946 he re-enrolled at Dartmouth, gaining a bachelors degree in 1948 and then completed a two-year medical programme before transferring to Harvard, where he qualified MD *cum laude* in 1952. His paediatric training was at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Boston Children’s Hospital, where he was particularly influenced by Robert Gross. After eight years of paediatric training, he was appointed to MGH in 1960 to found the department of pediatric surgery, where he served as chief for 22 years. During this time, he became recognised for developing ground-breaking operations for complex genitourinary defects, which had previously been thought impossible to correct. In 1969 he became the first surgeon in Boston to successfully separate conjoined twins. International fame quickly developed, and he was invited to lecture, teach and operate in more than 60 countries worldwide. He was a prolific publisher of more than 200 scientific articles, 100 book chapters and six books, as well as making medical educational films. Honours included the William E Ladd Medal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Ferdinand C Valentine Medal of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Denis Browne Medal of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the Urology Medal of the urologic section of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Henry Jacob Bigelow Medal of the Boston Surgical Society, the Distinguished Service Award of the American Pediatric Surgical Association and the Jacobson Innovation Award from the American College of Surgeons. Hardy became an officer in many professional organisations, twice being elected president of the American Pediatric Surgical Association. He served as vice president of the American College of Surgeons and, in 2000, was awarded the honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 2008, the Hendren Chair in Surgery was established at the Harvard Medical School. Two endowed fellowships were established in his name and a third was given to the Boston Children’s Hospital by grateful families whose children he helped surgically. The Hendren Project was established in 2014, an online global community of paediatric surgeons and urologists to provide digital resources that enable members to connect, collaborate and discuss difficult patient problems. This has grown to comprise over 5,000 members in over 140 countries, ensuring that Hardy’s name will live on. His biography, by G Wayne Miller, *The work of human hands: Hardy Hendren and surgical wonder at Children’s Hospital* was published in 1993 (New York, Random House). Despite his fame and extensive CV, Hardy remained a self-effacing humble man, a friend to all, most especially his patients as he followed their lives into adulthood. He and his wife of 75 years, Eleanor (née McKenna), whom he married in 1947, had five children. They were wonderful hosts to visiting surgeons the world over as the writer can testify, having been entertained by them on his first visit to Boston and later becoming a personal friend. Hardy’s interests outside of surgery included motor cycling, skiing, water-skiing and woodworking. He died peacefully at the age of 96 on 1 March 2022.
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First Title value, for Searching Willett, George (1933 - 1995)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation General practitioner Paediatric surgeon
Details George Willett was born on 11 February 1933 at Leigh, Lancashire, the son of George Willett, a canon of the Church of England and his wife Beatrice, née Juniper. Willett won a music scholarship at Denstone College and was runner-up in the organ scholarship examination for Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. On coming down from Cambridge in 1954 he went to Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying MRCS and LRCP in 1957. After qualification he did two years' national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Northern Ireland and later worked as senior surgical registrar in paediatric surgery at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children from 1969 to 1971, when he decided to go into general practice in Kelvedon, Essex. On 19 May 1962 he married Joyce Ketteringham, SRN. Outside medicine his other interests were music and chess: he was a very talented pianist and organist who played for church services from the age of 10, and gave organ recitals; he was Medical News chess champion 1976. He died from ischaemic heart disease on 20 November 1995 aged 61 and was survived by his wife and adopted son, David. Mr J. Douglas George writes: 'I had the pleasure of training with George Willett when we were both senior registrars in paediatric surgery in the Royal Victoria Hospital for Sick Children in Belfast in 1968-9. After I became a consultant surgeon in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1970, I again worked with George before he decided to take up general practice and went to work in Kelvedon, Essex. He was a superb doctor and a very capable surgeon. I actually believe that he was too good a doctor and too nice a person to waste his time as a surgeon with sleeping patients in an operating theatre. His great asset was his ability to relate to patients and to help them at a much deeper level than most doctors find possible. He built up a very successful practice in Kelvedon and his patients realised and appreciated his great ability. George had a very confident, but slightly reserved, character. There was, however, a remarkable transformation when he sat down at a piano. He became extrovert and the true person came to the fore. George has been greatly missed by patients and colleagues.'
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First Title value, for Searching Wyllie, Geoffrey Gurner (1923 - 1989)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-14
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Geoffrey Gurner Wyllie was born in Adelaide on 16 May 1923 the second son of Kenneth Robert Wyllie and Maude Hoban (née Gurner). He was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, before entering the medical faculty of the University of Adelaide and the Royal Adelaide Hospital, qualifying in 1946. His first appointment was that of resident medical officer to the Royal Adelaide Hospital but after a year he joined the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps as a Temporary Major serving in Japan with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force. On demobilisation he served as registrar in the radiotherapy department and later in the department of surgery at Adelaide under Sir Leonard Lindon, Sir Phillip Messant and Alan Britten Jones before coming to England in 1952. He passed the FRCS and pursued a career in paediatric surgery working at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, initially as house surgeon and later as resident assistant surgeon under Sir Denis Browne, DJ Waterston and Sir David Innes Williams. He returned to Adelaide in 1956 and after a brief period as senior registrar was appointed to the consultant staff in 1957, the same year as he passed his FRACS. He continued to practice general surgery with a special interest in paediatrics and was elected a member of the South Australia State Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1966 to 1972 and as Chairman of that Committee from 1968 to 1970. He also served as Chairman of the medical staff committee of Adelaide Children's Hospital from 1966 to 1978 and as a member of same period. He was a Council member of the Australasian College of Paediatrics and Vice-President in 1980. His outside interests were golf, tennis, woodwork and plant propagation. He married in 1966 Dr Patricia Verco Warhurst in the year of her graduation and they had two daughters and one son. He died on 17 July 1989 shortly after retiring from practice.
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First Title value, for Searching Sandrasagra, Anthony Pathmanathan (1909 - 1978)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-10
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Anthony Pathmanathan Sandrasagra, the son of M F R Sandrasagra, was born on 9 May 1909 at Jaffna, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). After education at St Patrick's College, Jaffna and St Benedict's College, Colombo, he entered Colombo Medical College with the five year Jeejee Bhoy scholarship. He had an outstanding student record with first class passes in each professional examination and qualified in 1935. After serving as a house officer at Colombo General Hospital he was demonstrator of anatomy, 1936-38, and then district medical officer at Hinduma until 1940. He returned to Colombo as demonstrator of physiology and pharmacology at Ceylon Medical College for five years. There followed one year as a medical officer at Trincomalee before he was given study leave in the UK. Between 1946 and 1949 he studied for and passed the Final Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and also passed the FRCS Edinburgh. On his return to Ceylon he did ENT surgery for four years at Kandy and Jaffna, followed by four years in general surgery at Kandy and Kurunegala. Continuing in the government medical service he worked as surgeon to the Children's Hospital in Colombo for twelve years from 1959. Sandrasagra wrote papers on infant pyloric stenosis and childhood intussusception and he was S C Paul Orator when he spoke on the surgery of hare lip. He was married to his cousin Helen Sandrasagra and they had one son and three daughters. The son is a Fellow of this College but now in radiological practice in the UK and the eldest daughter is married to Mr P Ratnesar, a Fellow of the Edinburgh College, who is now an ENT surgeon in England. Anthony Sandrasagra was a Tamil and was highly esteemed in Ceylon. When he died on 8 April 1978 he was survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Peter Griffith (1922 - 2001)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Peter Jones was a paediatric surgeon at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. He was born in Melbourne on 26 September 1922. His father was William Aeron Jones, a former President of the Australian Veterinary Association, and his grandfather was David Jones, a Welsh sea captain. His mother, Elsie Vera Kelley, was the daughter of A A Kelley, chief stipendiary magistrate in Melbourne. Peter was educated at the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, where he qualified in 1945 with honours in all subjects. He spent two years in house appointments at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, from which he won the Cleveland fellowship to Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1948. He went to London to study for the Fellowship and stayed in the prototype Nuffield College. He quickly passed the FRCS and obtained a registrar post at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and decided to specialise in paediatric surgery. He was locum registrar at Great Ormond Street in 1953, where he was particularly influenced by Sir Denis Browne. At the end of this visit to London in 1953 he met and married Helen Juliana Barnes, a doctor and the daughter of the house governor of King's College Hospital. In 1953, he returned as assistant surgeon to the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, was promoted surgeon to outpatients in 1956 and full surgeon in 1961. He became President of the Paediatric Society of Victoria in 1971, was editor of the *Australian Paediatric Journal* and Chairman of the senior medical staff of the Royal Children's Hospital in 1970. He published extensively, including a monograph on torticollis, and wrote textbooks on clinical paediatric surgery and malignant disease in childhood. His hobbies were many and varied, including typography, printing, publishing, photography, heraldry and medical history. He also had a cattle farm. He leaves six children, five daughters and one son.
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First Title value, for Searching Lister, James (1923 - 2004)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-12
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Jimmy Lister was an emeritus professor of paediatric surgery at the University of Liverpool and a former vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Born in London on 1 March 1923, the son of Thomas Lister, a chartered accountant, and Anna Rebecca Lister, two of his siblings – John and Ruth – also entered medicine. He was educated at St Paul’s School as a foundation scholar, and then went on to Edinburgh University, qualifying in 1945. He then served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve for three years. His training in Edinburgh and Dundee was followed by a year as Halstead research fellow at the University of Colorado, where he decided on a career in paediatric surgery. On returning to the UK, he went first to Great Ormond Street Hospital, as senior lecturer and honorary consultant. In 1963 he became a consultant to the Children’s Hospital, Sheffield. In 1974 he was appointed to the newly established chair at the University of Liverpool, taking charge of the regional neonatal surgical unit at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, establishing an international reputation in neonatal surgery. Here his observations provided new insights into the pathogenesis and management of many life-threatening congenital disorders. Certainly his years in Liverpool were rewarded by a drop in mortality, from 30-40 per cent in the sixties, to less than 10 per cent. His unit soon attracted many young surgeons from many parts of the world: his ‘boys and girls’, as they were called, became distinguished paediatric surgeons all over the world. He inspired bonds of friendship and loyalty, which he maintained for his lifetime. For all his pre-eminence, Jimmy Lister remained a gentle, modest and self-effacing man who had a ready smile for all those he met. Many honours came his way. He was a council member and then vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and, as convenor of examinations, he was largely responsible for making major changes in the curriculum. He was President of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, who awarded him the Denis Browne gold medal. He chaired the Specialist Advisory Committee on Paediatric Surgery in the UK, and was vice-president of the World Federation of Associations of Paediatric Surgeons. He was recognised for his many contributions, gaining some 18 honorary fellowships of medical and surgical bodies worldwide. His publications were many and included a major textbook *Complications of paediatric surgery* (London, Bailliere Tindall, 1986). He was also editor of *Neonatal Surgery* and associate editor of the *Journal of Paediatric Surgery. * He was married to Greta née Redpath, whom he had met while he was in the Navy, and they had three daughters. His wife and one daughter, Diana, predeceased him. He retired to the Borders, where he found it easier to fulfil his commitments to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He died on 9 May 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Burcher, Selwyn Kerry ( - 1977)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-21 2016-02-05
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Selwyn Kerry Burcher came from a long-established Auckland family. He attended Remuera Primary School and Auckland Grammar School where he was head boy and captain of the school's first fifteen in rugby football for three years. He graduated MB, ChB from Otago University in 1941, undertook his house surgeon years at Auckland Hospital followed by service overseas with the 3rd New Zealand Division in the Pacific and then in Italy with the 1st New Zealand General Hospital. He travelled on to England to complete both the Edinburgh and London Fellowship examinations in 1946 and worked at the Royal Masonic Hospital. In 1951 he became FRACS. On his return to New Zealand he worked at the Auckland Hospital as senior registrar and for a time acted as their medical superintendent. From here he went out to develop a practice in general surgery, while maintaining a part-time commitment with the Auckland Hospital Board. In this latter capacity he developed the paediatric surgical services, particularly with regard to neo-natal surgical diseases and abnormalities on which topic he delivered a number of papers. He was also instrumental in initiating the team work for the alimentary by-pass techniques. His teaching rounds were well attended as he was an able and very lucid teacher and the knowledge he presented was interspersed with humorous stories extracted from his benign and rather pragmatic observations on the human race. Serving various hospital and medical committees occupied much of his time and his advice was aways being sought on administrative matters. He was elected Chairman of the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Medical Association, Chairman of the New Zealand Council of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Chairman of the division of surgeons, Auckland Hospital. He was on the RACS Board of Examiners in general surgery for a full term. He had a lifelong interest in rugby football and was on the medical panel of the Auckland Rugby Union for over 20 years. All sporting events were popular with him and he spent many busy days at Ellerslie where he was the senior medical officer on the Auckland Racing Club's panel. A gregarious man, he loved company and was quite at home with an audience of any age. He was enthusiastic about good food and wine. While in Sengiallia on the Adriatic coast during the war he met and married Deidre Mulligan. They had a daughter and two sons, Terry who joined the Auckland Hospital surgical training scheme and Tim who became a law student in Otago. He died on 28 January 1977 after a long and distressing illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Feggetter, Stewart Young (1908 - 1990)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13 2016-02-05
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Stewart Young Feggetter was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 10 April 1908, the son of William Feggetter, a ship broker, and his wife Amelia, née Young. After early education at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he entered the University of Durham for medical studies. His brother, George, qualified MB, BS in 1926 and became a Fellow of the College in 1933. Stewart had a distinguished student career, winning the Phillipson, Goyder, Charlton and Dickinson Scholarships and after qualification in 1933 was appointed house surgeon and later house physician at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. He was surgical registrar at Newcastle General Hospital and in 1936 passed both the FRCS and the MS degree of Durham University. Shortly before the outbreak of war he was appointed surgical tutor at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and later surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Newcastle- upon-Tyne. During the war years he was surgeon to many Emergency Medical Service hospitals in the North of England and later served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt and Palestine from 1946 to 1948 as surgical specialist with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1948 he was appointed consultant surgeon to Newcastle General Hospital but retained his special interest in paediatric surgery, predominantly operating on congenital intestinal abnormalities. He was a meticulous but speedy surgeon with great devotion to his patients and a special interest in teaching students who appreciated the light hearted anecdotes he told during his lectures. In 1941 he married Helen W Geddes who had graduated MB ChB from Aberdeen in 1939. His hobbies were rugby, photography and travelling and he became treasurer to the Cumbrian Club of the National Trust. After retiring in 1973 he lived in Keswick where he enjoyed walking in the Lake District, attending to his garden and listening to music, especially Wagnerian opera. He died on 13 July 1990, aged 82, survived by his wife, son Graeme, a consultant psychiatrist and daughter, Helen, and seven grandchildren including a granddaughter, Georgina who, in 1992, was studying medicine at University College Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Murray, Robert William (1860 - 1940)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Born 18 November 1860 at Wellington, New Zealand, the eldest son of Stewart Murray, a bank manager, and Louisa Bourne, his wife. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, New South Wales, and afterwards privately in Edinburgh. He then came to London, entered Guy's Hospital School of Medicine and was elected, after he had qualified, an assistant house surgeon to the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital. His term of office ended, he was appointed resident medical officer to the Children's Hospital, Pendlebury. From this time onwards he devoted himself mainly to the surgical treatment of children's diseases, although as surgeon to the Liverpool Southern Hospital he took his share of general surgical work. He was for many years surgeon to the Children's Infirmary at Liverpool, and made his name more particularly by his skill in operating upon patients with hare lip, cleft palate, and hernia. Having joined the Territorial Force with a commission as captain *à la suite*, RAMC on 7 July 1908, he was called up for service on the declaration of war in August 1914 and was attached, with the rank of major, to the First Western General Hospital. Here he did much good surgical work and was decorated OBE on demobilization in 1919. He did not resume his private practice, but acted subsequently under the Ministry of Pensions as surgical deputy commissioner of medical services for the North-Western region of England. He married Helen Rohde on 10 October 1915; she survived him. He died at 11 Green Hills Road, Cheltenham on 14 July 1940. Murray was well suited for the part he played during his active professional life. He was a great lover of children, and as an operator he treated their tissues with the greatest delicacy. It was said of him that "he was a good team man who would work with anyone to achieve something that needed doing". He was a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Lancashire. Publications: *Hare lip and cleft palate*. London, 1902. *Hernia: its cause and treatment*. London 1908; 2nd edition 1910.
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First Title value, for Searching Whitaker, John Grieve (1895 - 1967)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24 2017-05-05
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details John Grieve Whitaker was born in 1895, the son of a doctor who qualified in Belfast, and his mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Grieve, was of Scottish descent. His father died when John was eight years old, and the family then moved to Canterbury, a suburb of Melbourne, where he was educated at the Canterbury Grammar School. In order to complete his premedical course in physics and chemistry he transferred to Scotch College, Melbourne, where he gained honours in these two subjects and the Morrison Memorial Prize in chemistry. Whitaker's academic record at the University of Melbourne was outstanding and he graduated MB BS in 1917, and proceeded to the degrees of MD in 1919 and MS in 1920. He served as a Captain in the AAMC in 1918. He came to England and obtained the FRCS in 1922, and on his return to Melbourne he spent time in general practice but in 1925 was appointed honorary surgeon to out-patients at St Vincent's Hospital, and then became honorary surgeon to out-patients at the Children's Hospital. As he was not allowed to hold both these appointments he abandoned the St Vincent's post because his chief interest lay in paediatric surgery to which he devoted the rest of his professional career, retiring from the Children's Hospital in 1955. He was elected FRACS in 1935. Whitaker won a great reputation for his contributions to paediatric surgery, and was esteemed as a highly valued colleague and teacher. His cheerful disposition won him the nick-name of "Happy Jack". In his leisure time he enjoyed following international and interstate cricket, and in the winter he was an ardent supporter of the Melbourne Football Club. John Whitaker was twice married. His first wife Alison Waters, by whom he had a daughter and a son, died young, and he then married Ruth Wood with whom he lived very happily for his last 25 years. He died suddenly on 15 April 1967 and was survived by his widow, his daughter who was a physiotherapist and his son who followed in his father's footsteps to the surgical staff of the Royal Children's Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Pearse, Victor Tomlinson (1913 - 1995)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-25
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Victor Pearse was born on 12 November 1913, the son of Arthur Victor Pearse, of the New Zealand Government Service, and his wife Constance, née Clark. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School and Otago Medical School, graduating in 1941. After junior posts, he joined up. His first posting in 1942 was on a hospital ship evacuating the wounded under fire from Tobruk. Later he served with the Sixth Field Ambulance at Alamein, and was then appointed RMO to the 25th Battalion in 1943, serving with them throughout the Italian campaign and the battle of Monte Cassino. During the advance he 'always moved his regimental aid post as far forward as the roads would allow', and was awarded the MC. Later he was also mentioned in despatches and rose to be DADMS in 1944 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the war he returned to Dunedin as house surgeon and in 1947 went to London to study for the FRCS, attending the College courses and passing in 1948. Then came a job as a registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford - then a haunt of New Zealanders such as Stallworthy, Hawksworth and Moloney. There he was joined by Cecil Bricknell, his nurse-sweetheart from Dunedin, and they married on 5 February 1949. He returned to Dunedin in 1951 and was for a time first assistant on the surgical professorial unit then being set up by Professor (later Sir) Michael Woodruff. He was appointed to the staff in 1952. His special interest was paediatric surgery, where a contemporary described him as 'deft, dainty and precise', and he was at his best in the handling of small babies. He was a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He had a remarkably genial personality. He was a keen golfer and a private but sensitive poet. He and Cecil had two sons - Anthony John (a research scientist) and Jeremy David (a teacher) - and a daughter, Victoria Anne, who is a psychiatrist. Victor Pearse died on 6 June 1995, survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Irving, Irene Marion (1928 - 2020)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sir Alan Craft
Publication Date 2021-09-23
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon Neonatal surgeon
Details Irene Irving was a senior lecturer in paediatric surgery at the University of Liverpool and a consultant paediatric surgeon at the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital (Alder Hey) who managed to combine her career with bringing up three children on her own after the early death of her husband. She was born in Liverpool, the daughter of George Stanley Irving, a chemical engineer, and Mary Ellen Irving née Stockley. Apart from a few months when she was evacuated to north Wales at the beginning of the Second World War, she spent her whole life in Liverpool. The city was heavily bombed during the war and she recalled leaving an air raid shelter one night to get a book and finding an incendiary bomb had landed in the front garden. She and her father quickly piled sandbags on it, preventing it from exploding and saving her family. She was educated at Broughton Hall Convent High School and then, in 1945, at the age of 17, went on to study medicine at Liverpool University on a state scholarship. She was the outstanding student of her year and grew up very rapidly in the company of many ex-service students. Inspired by her ex RAF friends, she learnt to fly in her third year and gained her pilot’s licence in 1948. Her only brother Francis was a pioneering glider pilot and aeronautics expert. After qualifying in 1952, her first house posts were in surgery and medicine at the Royal Infirmary. Deciding against adult surgery, she then took a senior house officer post in the newly-established academic department of paediatric surgery at Alder Hey under the inspirational leadership of Peter Paul Rickham, one of the first to specialise in the surgical care of children, along with Isabella Forshall. Irving was immediately fascinated by paediatric and especially neonatal surgery and, inspired by Forshall, she decided to make paediatrics her specialty. But first she had to train in general surgeon. After a year demonstrating in the medical school and then six months of casualty work, she became Philip Hawe’s first female registrar at the David Lewis Northern Hospital. She gained her FRCS in 1957. She returned to paediatric surgery in 1958, as a registrar to Forshall. She married Louis Desmet in June 1960 and had three children in rapid succession. She moved to the post of clinical assistant at Alder Hey and Birkenhead Children’s hospitals, a part-clinical, part-research post. During this time, she wrote her ChM thesis on ‘Exomphalos with macroglossia’ and gained her degree in 1969. Louis had been an oyster farmer in Belgium and then ran a hotel in Liverpool largely occupied by long-term resident elderly. Irene described how she would often have to be the hotel cook in addition to her mothering and work duties. Unfortunately, Louis died of cancer in 1973, leaving her to bring up their three children then aged nine, 10 and 12. The youngest was born with a dislocated hip and spent almost five years in hospital, once for a continuous period of 12 months, during which time Irene visited her every day. Irene made the difficult decision to resume full-time clinical surgery and, after a period as a locum consultant, in 1974 she was appointed to a post as lecturer (later senior lecturer) with consultant status in the newly-formed university department of paediatric surgery at Alder Hey. Paediatric surgery encompasses operating on children of all ages, from tiny premature new-borns to almost fully-grown teenagers. Operating on the delicate tissues of a new-born takes special skills and she was particularly good at it: she was a fine and very delicate surgeon and her patients suffered few complications. In surgical parlance, she was described as ‘having a lovely pair of hands’. Parents were happy with her explanations: she was always very careful and thorough as she was in all aspects of her life. Her patients and families adored her, as did the nurses and junior doctors. A former trainee described her as an iron fist in a velvet glove. If you did not pull your weight or let her down, she would let you know in no uncertain terms. She was always calm and very approachable. Whilst working in the academic department she did research and wrote papers as well as doing the research for and then becoming a co-author of what was the standard textbook – Rickham’s neonatal surgery (London, Butterworth, 1978 and 1990). She served on the council of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the North Sefton Health Authority and the Liverpool Medical Institution. An excellent teacher and lecturer, she was much in demand and undertook lecture tours in Brazil and the Far East. In 1986, following two skirmishes with cancer, she took early retirement and devoted her time to being a doting grandmother, travelling, buying a grand piano and learning to play it, and singing in a choir. Irene was only five feet tall, always immaculately turned out, with an infectious sense of humour and a radiant smile. She loved reading poetry and was an avid *Telegraph* cruciverbalist. She was survived by her three children. Her sons, Paul and Laurence, are engineers, whilst her daughter, Anne, is a wood engraver and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts. There are five grandchildren. Irene Irving died on 5 March 2020 at the age of 91. Because of the corona virus pandemic, she had a family-only funeral with six attendees, with others linking in by video.
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First Title value, for Searching Eckstein, Herbert Bernhard (1926 - 1986)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon Paediatric urologist
Details Herbert Bernhard Eckstein was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, on 11 July 1926. His father Albert Eckstein was Professor of Paediatrics in Dusseldorf, Hamburg and then in Ankara (Turkey) where his family settled in the early 1930's. His mother, Erna, was the daughter of Professor A Schlossmann, Professor in Paediatrics in Dresden and Dusseldorf. Indeed three generations of doctors in these families were involved in medical or surgical paediatrics. Herbert was educated privately in Turkey until 1939 and then from 1939 to 1944 at the Leys School Cambridge, Clare College 1944-1947 and the Middlesex Hospital 1947 to 1950 qualifying MRCS, LRCP and MB, BCh and MA in 1950 and then passing the Final FRCS examination in 1957, MD Cambridge 1960 and MCh 1962. In his training he was influenced by Brian Truscott and Philip Ghey, Denis Browne and George Macnab. After spending two years in Hacettepe Children's Hospital, Ankara, he returned to Great Ormond Street in 1961 with a Rockefeller Foundation grant, being a senior registrar and becoming consultant at Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton, 1963, the Children's Hospital, Sydenham, 1964, and Great Ormond Street, 1965. He was an examiner for the DCH, he lectured on RCS courses and was a member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida. He was a tireless worker, devoted to his specialty, and his output of surgical papers was prodigious, amounting to some two hundred, covering a range of paediatric conditions, especially hydrocephalus and paediatric urology. He contributed several chapters to *Paediatric urology*, 1968, edited by D I Williams, and to *Surgical paediatric urology*, 1977, with R Hohenfellner and D I Williams. He was an honorary member of the German Society of Paediatric Surgeons, corresponding member of the German Urological Association and co-editor of *Zeitschrift fur Kinderchirurgie*. He married Maria Schroder in 1955 and they had one daughter, Susan and two sons, Philip, and Michael who became a doctor. He enjoyed tennis in his youth and cooking and translating German/English texts. He died on 5 November 1986 after ill health had forced him into early retirement.
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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, Frederick Ronald (1910 - 1983)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Frederick Ronald Edwards was born in Chester on 14 April 1910. He graduated with honours at the University of Liverpool in 1932, won the Samuels Memorial Scholarship in surgery, obtained the FRCS in 1934, the ChM in 1935 and the MD in 1938. His surgical training was in Wigan and Liverpool and he was influenced by Morriston Davies to enter thoracic surgery, working with Davies in the Merseyside regional thoracic service set up during the second world war, afterwards located at Broad Green Hospital. Later, with Professor J D Hay he founded and developed paediatric cardiac surgery at the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital. He was lecturer and then director of studies in thoracic surgery in the University of Liverpool Medical School. He was twice Hunterian Professor RCS, in 1939 and 1944. He was President of the Liverpool Medical Institution in 1968, of the Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland in 1972 and of the Thoracic Society in 1967. He was at one time Chairman of the University Board of Clinical Studies and of the eastern district of the Liverpool Health Authority (Teaching). He made many contributions to surgical literature including his book Foundations of thoracic surgery. He had the reputation of being a master surgeon, dexterous, expeditious, dignified and quiet, an expert in the surgery of pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, carcinoma of the bronchus and of the oesophagus, in mitral valve and congenital heart disease. He was loved and respected by all with whom he had contact and he always seemed to manage to give those with whom he worked a sense of being an important part of the team. His cheery "Thank you all" as he left the theatre was much appreciated by medical and nursing staff alike. He had a special fondness for Clwyd, North Wales, to which he retired in 1975. His wife, Joan, was also a medical graduate. They had four daughters and three sons, one becoming a surgeon and another a pathologist. With great fortitude he bore a long and painful illness and died 20 April 1983.
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First Title value, for Searching Cohen, Samuel Joseph (1923 - 2012)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2018-05-09
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon Paediatric urological surgeon
Details Samuel Joseph Cohen, known as 'Joe', was a paediatric surgeon in Manchester. He was born on 22 July 1923 in Germiston, a gold mining town near Johannesburg, South Africa. He was the youngest of three children of Berel Nathan Cohen and Feiga Cohen, a nurse, who emigrated to South Africa from Lithuania. He attended Germiston High School, where he excelled in sport, particularly athletics and golf, and also sang in operatic performances. His talent in these areas developed further during his time at university, where his fine tenor voice was constantly in demand by the university operatic society and his prowess at golf meant that he was regarded as one of the finest South African university golfers of his time. He received his undergraduate medical training at Witwaterstrand University Medical School, from which he qualified MB BCh in 1947. Following qualification, he undertook house officer posts in the Johannesburg teaching hospitals. His time as house physician on the fever unit coincided with an outbreak of poliomyelitis, resulting in the admission of 150 cases in one month. It was following this experience that he decided to direct his future career towards the treatment of children. Another life changing decision occurred at this time when he met Isobel (née Williams), a nurse, who was to become his wife of 55 years. Overall he spent five years training as a house officer, registrar and senior casualty officer in the Johannesburg hospitals. In 1952 he moved to Britain for postgraduate training, initially gaining the MRCP (Edinburgh) later that year, however, his real aim was to train in surgery and he moved to London, commencing surgical training with Norman Tanner and, in 1954, as house surgeon to Sir Denis Browne at Great Ormond Street Hospital. His London training was linked with Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, where he gained general and urological paediatric surgical training with Isabella Forshall, Peter Paul Rickham and Herbert Johnson. On returning to Great Ormond Street, he was appointed as a resident assistant surgeon to, amongst others, Andrew Wilkinson and Sir David Innes Williams, the latter being instrumental in founding the sub-specialty of paediatric urology. In 1963 he moved from London to take a post as the second consultant paediatric surgeon in the Manchester region, working alongside Ambrose Jolleys, with appointments to all three of that city's children's hospitals, at Booth Hall, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Pendlebury and the Duchess of York Children's Hospital and, later on, at the neonatal unit at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester. By the time he retired there were four paediatric surgeons in the Manchester region. It was in the 1960s, in the course of creating a world-renowned paediatric urology service, that he developed the operation to prevent vesico-ureteric reflux that subsequently became associated with his name. The operation, which involved a cross trigonal tunnel technique, was hailed as being successful in around 98% of cases and became generally accepted by urologists worldwide as the best technique. Publications in the international literature confirmed his status as the leading authority on the surgical management of vesico-ureteric reflux in children. He was passionate about teaching and pioneered video televised courses for the training of surgeons in operative paediatric urology in Manchester and Varese in Italy. So successful were these video presentations that he was awarded the Golden Eagle award by the Council on International Nontheatrical Events for the most outstanding teaching film made by a non-commercial film company. He was well known and highly respected not only in Manchester and the United Kingdom, but also at an international level. He was the first South African-born president of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons. In 2009 the British Association of Paediatric Urologists nominated both him and Sir David Innes Williams as honorary members. He was also a lifelong member of the Society of Paediatric Urological Surgeons, a small group of paediatric urologists founded by Sir David Innes Williams, who met annually to present and discuss each other's research and papers. He was an honorary member of many international urological societies and in 1996 was awarded a medal by the European Society for Paediatric Urology. His reputation led to appointments as visiting professor at Beilinson Hospital, Tel Aviv, the University of Michigan, USA, and Bogota University Medical School, Colombia. He also worked in Kuwait for some time. He was a member of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1987 to 1988. His paediatric surgical colleagues in Manchester recall that children were very fond of him. At one time a child drew a picture of him holding a briefcase on which the letters 'J C' were imprinted. The child had written underneath 'Jesus Christ'. The respect in which he was held was also demonstrated by a thriving private practice. Although of amicable personality, Joe was not afraid to challenge authority when necessary. He once upset a senior Manchester rabbi by pointing out that children with clotting disorders could die after circumcision. Throughout his career in Manchester and following retirement, he was a strong supporter of the section of surgery of the Manchester Medical Society. When he retired, initially his only interest was salmon and trout fishing, a pastime he had pursued enthusiastically throughout his professional life, however, a new opportunity to exercise his talents arose as a result of his knowledge and interest in antiques and silver. He became honorary curator of silver and clocks at the Royal College of Surgeons and in 1998 was invited to give the Vicary lecture on this subject entitled 'Silver and the surgeon'. Joe will be remembered not only for his major contributions to the development of paediatric urology, but also for his gregarious, cheerful and vivacious spirit. He died on 17 April 2012, aged 88 and was survived by three sons, Anthony, Peter and Nicholas (a consultant urological surgeon), and five grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Connolly, Neville Kingsley (1920 - 2017)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Jocelyn R Connolly
Publication Date 2018-11-19
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Neville Connolly was a paediatric surgeon in Washington DC. His father, William Frederick Connolly, left Dublin at the age of 16 to make his way in London. He did two jobs to support himself while obtaining a law degree, then joined the Civil Service, working for the Inland Revenue. After the First World War, he transferred to the Air Ministry when it was formed in 1919 and was responsible for the administration and finances of the newly-formed RAF. He met Neville’s mother, Kathleen Maud Knott, before he left Dublin and kept in touch with her. They were married in 1918, and Neville was born on 13 November 1920 in Putney, London. Since his father’s position required an overseas assignment in Baghdad (in what was then Mesopotamia), where his mother was not allowed to go, Neville’s upbringing was greatly influenced by his mother. When Neville’s father was reassigned to Egypt, his mother was allowed to be with him. Neville was enrolled in boarding schools so his mother could join his father during the winter. Neville went to Lynchmere, Eastbourne, and then gained a scholarship to Canford, a relatively new establishment near Wimborne, Dorset. His father allowed him to include riding lessons at the school to reward him for the scholarship. Neville loved outdoor activity, and was very involved with all sport at the school. After Canford, and possibly because of Neville’s religious upbringing, he felt that he wanted to do something to help people, and decided on a career in medicine. After passing enough exams to get into medical school, he decided to try for a scholarship to Cambridge University. He sat the scholarship exam and won an exhibition to King’s College, Cambridge, later becoming a scholar. He started his studies at the beginning of the Second World War, reading natural sciences and then physiology and pharmacology. Neville shared a room with another medical student who was a choral scholar. He introduced Neville to the choral and organ scholars at King’s. His new-found friends were all brilliant musicians, particularly David Willcocks, the organ scholar. Neville’s friendship with the music scholars and his participation in the services of King’s College Chapel stirred a deep love of the music and services of the Church of England. Later in life, when Neville immigrated to the USA, he joined St Alban’s Episcopal Church in Washington DC. He became life-long friends with Norman Scribner, the organ scholar and music director at St Alban’s. After Neville finished his studies at Cambridge, he was awarded an exhibition to St Thomas’ Hospital, but later decided to accept a Rockefeller studentship to Harvard Medical School. Neville crossed the Atlantic in 1942 in a convoy of Merchant Marine ships, escorted by destroyers, to attend Harvard. The U-boats were very active and he was fortunate to arrive in New York without incident. Neville arrived at Harvard just as the US was attacked at Pearl Harbor and entered the war. While studying at Harvard, Neville spent three months as a surgical intern to Alfred Blalock at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. It was this experience that made Neville decide to become a surgeon. And he wanted to be a paediatric surgeon because of his love of children. He met, and fell in love with, an American patient named Agnes Flather during his training at Johns Hopkins. After a two-year courtship, they were married in England as war was ending, and had two daughters, Catherine and Angela. Neville returned to England to complete his residency training as a casualty officer and house surgeon to Bernard Constable Maybury and Roland Hodgson Boggon at St Thomas’ in 1945, and as a house surgeon to Denis Browne at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, from January to August 1946. He then served in the RAF Medical Service at Ely Hospital from 1946 to 1948 as a squadron leader. Neville was a supernumerary registrar at St Thomas’ from January to July 1949 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in May 1949. Neville’s residency training was at the time of the National Health Service’s inception. His experience in general and paediatric surgery was broad-ranging and all-encompassing, but he did not see an opportunity to get a position as a consultant paediatric surgeon in the NHS. He had received an offer to become an associate of John Lyons, a well-respected senior surgeon in Washington, DC. Neville decided to accept his offer and emigrated to Washington in 1955, becoming an American citizen in 1958. Neville became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics and practised general and paediatric surgery for the next 40 years. His practice included a wide range of patients, from charity to the families of presidents. He was instrumental in establishing the specialty of paediatric surgery in Washington. Neville was well-loved and respected. He was an associate professor of surgery at Georgetown University, a senior attending surgeon and president of the medical staff at Washington Hospital Center, and a senior attending surgeon at the Children’s National Hospital. He adhered to his original ideals throughout, and always believed the practice of medicine to be a ‘calling’. Shortly after Neville retired, his wife Agnes died. He later married Jocelyn Rountree, who he had met in Washington in 1958 when he was called to care for her three-year-old son, Rickey, who had a lump on his leg. Unfortunately, the lump turned out to be rhabdomyosarcoma: in spite of all Neville’s efforts, it metastasised and led to his death. Neville was very fond of Rickey and became his godfather. Rickey in turn adored Neville, and knew he could depend on him. Jocelyn became a family friend and was always available to help care for Agnes when her health was failing. After Neville and Jocelyn were married, Neville wrote his autobiography, *Called to be a surgeon: not for bread alone* (AuthorHouse), published in 2009. It covers his life, training and surgical practice in the USA and England. After 23 wonderful years of marriage, Neville died peacefully at home on their farm in Culpeper, Virginia on 30 January 2017. He was 96.
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First Title value, for Searching Macnab, George Henderson (1904 - 1967)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-12
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details George Macnab was born in Edinburgh on 12 March 1904, and went to school at Edinburgh Academy. He then proceeded to his medical studies at Edinburgh Unviersity and graduated in 1926. After house appointments in West Hartlepool and at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, he came to London and worked at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, the Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases, and at Great Ormond Street. He took the FRCS in 1934 and was appointed senior surgical registrar at Westminster Hospital in 1935, and surgeon to that hospital in 1937. At the outbreak of war he was involved in the EMS Head Injuries Service, and was also given administrative charge of the Emergency Medical Service at Westminster Hospital. In 1942 the Deanship of the Medical School was added to his other duties, and by the time he relinquished that office in 1950 he had done much to set the school once more upon its feet after the disruptive effects of the war. In 1946 Macnab was elected consultant surgeon at Great Ormond Street, and thus commenced a memorable period of service to paediatric surgery with special reference to the treatment of hydrocephalus. He also served for seven years as chairman of the academic board in the Institute of Child Health attached to Great Ormond Street. The University of Edinburgh honoured him as Honeyman Gillespie Lecturer in 1944 and again in 1955; and in the Royal College of Surgeons he was on the Court of Examiners, and Hunterian Professor in 1962. However, he still maintained an active interest in the affairs of the Westminster Hospital, and in 1965 became the chairman of the medical committee which involved him in the organization of the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the founding of the hospital. Macnab was a friendly person, and in addition to enjoying the social life of the Athenaeum and Garrick Clubs in London, and of the New Club in Edinburgh, he was a keen fisherman and golfer. But his most abiding love was for music, which was shared with his wife, a daughter of the Hon St Leger Jervis, DSO, whom he married in 1946. She was a gifted pianist, and as he had a fine baritone voice they combined to give much pleasure to their friends. When he died on 1 March 1967 his wife survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Berrill, Trevor Hellier (1905 - 1982)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Born on 23 May 1905 in Bristol, Trevor Hellier Berrill was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Bristol University where he graduated MB, ChB in 1938, obtaining the Conjoint Diploma in the same year. He held resident appointments at Bristol Royal Infirmary and the Royal Northern Hospital and in 1931 he became FRCS. After three years as resident surgical officer at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital he spent a year at the Mayo Clinic and later, in 1939, he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Gulson Hospital, Coventry, and the Warneford Hospital, Leamington Spa. When the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital received a direct hit in 1941, he played a major part in organising casualty services for the city. He became honorary consultant to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital in 1946 and he developed a special interest in paediatric surgery and was prominent in the establishment of senior registrar training in general surgery in the Coventry area in 1954. He contributed much to the planning and development of the New Walsgrave Hospital and was invited by his colleagues to perform the first operation there. He was President of the 1921 Surgical Club (1967-69) and President of the West Midlands Surgical Society in 1962. He was Chairman of the Leamington Spa division of the BMA and President of the West Midlands branch. After retirement in 1970, he worked at the surgical day unit at Gulson Hospital until 1980 and he published 'A year in the life of a surgical day unit' in the *British medical journal* in 1972. In retirement, too, he became Chairman of the Citizens' Advice Bureau in Coventry. In the early 1930s he had climbed the Matterhorn but his later years found him taking up oil painting, golf and bridge. He was held in very high regard by his juniors, one of whom wrote, 'His approach to patients was the most humane I have ever known and his operative work was not only superb but completely predictable. He always gave his best to surgery and to his many assistants.' In 1937 he married 'Paddy' Clark, his ward sister, and they settled in Coventry. He died on 26 December 1982 in his 78th year, survived by his wife, two daughters, six grandchildren and his son, who is a consultant physician.
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First Title value, for Searching Button, Eardley Lorimer (1903 - 1982)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-21
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Eardley Lorimer Button was born in London on 9 March 1903 the son of Robert Lorimer, a merchant, and Lilian, née Naylor. He moved with the family to New Zealand at an early age, was educated at Wellington College and the Otago University Medical School qualifying MB ChB in 1925 having represented the University in hockey in 1923 and 1924. His house surgeon years of 1926 and 1927 were at Wellington Hospital before leaving for England to continue his postgraduate education. He held house surgeon appointments at the Hampstead General Hospital working under Heneage Ogilvie and Clifford Morson. He obtained his FRCS Ed in 1928 and became senior RMO at St John's Hospital, Lewisham, working with Winsbury White. Subsequent appointments were at Dudley Road, Birmingham, and the LCC Surgical TB Hospital, Lowestoft, and the Royal Masonic Hospital. He obtained his FRCS in 1931 and at the age of 29 applied for a house appointment on the staff of Wellington Hospital, New Zealand. He was surgeon in charge of the children's hospital from 1936 to 1940. He married Isabel Naylor in 1932 and was elected to the Fellowship of the RACS in 1937. Button's war service was as distinguished as his medical career. He served with the second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in 1939 to 1945 in the Middle East and Italy. He was Lieutenant-Colonel I/C surgical division general hospital and CO of a mobile casualty clearing station and eventually Colonel I/C 2nd General Hospital, receiving the OBE in 1944. His civilian appointments and honours included membership of the executive of a New Zealand branch of the BMA 1940-52; Honorary Surgeon to the Governor-General, Lord Freyberg, 1948-50; Surgeon to the Queen in New Zealand 1953; Medical Advisor of the New Zealand Boy Scouts Association 1966-69; Member of National Executive, New Zealand Red Cross Society 1962-72; National President, New Zealand Red Cross Society 1964-72; and medical member of a New Zealand War Pensions Board. In spite of his numerous commitments Eardley Button still had time to play golf, bowls and was a keen fly fisherman. He died on 6 May 1982 at the age of 79, survived by his wife Isabel and their daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Karunaratne, Gamini Wickramarachchi (1929 - 1997)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13 2016-02-05
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Gamini Wickramarachchi Karunaratne, or 'Gam' as he was always called, was a pioneer of paediatric surgery in Sri Lanka. He was born in Kamburugamuwa, southern Sri Lanka, on 19 April 1929. His father was Wilson Karunaratne and his mother was Tilaka. He had two brothers and five sisters. His early schooling was in Matara and he then went up to Ceylon University, qualifying in 1954. Following a period at the Ministry of Health, he decided to become a surgeon and went to the UK for training in 1959, mainly in Liverpool hospitals. He passed the Fellowship two years later. On his return to Colombo, he became a surgical registrar to the General Hospital. Subsequently, he was a general surgeon in Chilaw, Negombo and Anuradhapura. In 1971, he was selected for a Colombo plan fellowship, which allowed him to return to UK for training in paediatric surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. In 1973, he returned home and was appointed the first paediatric surgeon to the Lady Ridgeway Hospital, where he established a first class unit. On the opening of the Sri Jayewardene General Hospital in 1985, he was invited to head the premier unit in the country. His standing was recognised by the many honours bestowed on him. He was President of the Sri Lanka Paediatric Association in 1979, of the Sri Lanka Medical Association in its centenary year (1987) and of the Sri Lanka College of Surgeons in 1992. These offices brought out his organising ability and his gift of choosing the right people to assist him. Throughout most of his professional life Sri Lanka was plagued by civil war. He served in the Army reserve, treating casualties when the regular officers were short at the front. His general surgical skills stood him well in paediatrics, where he made contributions to operations for Hirschsprung's disease and on congenital urethral valves. He attracted young doctors by example and stimulating teaching, and trained the next generation of paediatric surgeons. He travelled widely to surgical meetings, particularly in South East Asia, with a series of excellent contributions based on his experience. These were later published. He was well liked and respected in the profession and in the community at large. The memory of this friendly gentleman and great conversationalist will long remain. He married Anandanie Kannangara in 1963. They had two children, Kosala, now a consultant paediatrician, and Niranjanie. Gam died on 26 May 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Andrew Wood (1914 - 1995)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Andrew Wilkinson was the first Professor of Paediatric Surgery in the UK and as such received honours in many countries. Although his father was of Scottish extraction he was born in Taunton, Somerset, on 19 April 1914. He was educated locally and then at Weymouth College before going up to Edinburgh University, where he graduated with first class honours in 1937. He took a variety of junior surgical posts in Edinburgh, including one at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and gained the FRCS Edinburgh in 1940. He joined the RAMC in 1942, took part in the Normandy landings and was then posted to India where he served as lieutenant colonel during the campaign to liberate Burma and Singapore. Returning to Edinburgh, he became first clinical tutor and then lecturer in surgery at the University but in 1953 moved to Aberdeen as senior lecturer and assistant surgeon at both the Royal Infirmary and the Children's Hospital. Here he produced his most important work, subsequently published in his book *Body fluids in surgery* in 1955. In 1958 he was appointed Nuffield Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the Institute of Child Health (University of London) and surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, where he continued to publish a long series of scientific papers. His line of research, though of fundamental importance, did not attract the tertiary referral practice which was the chief business of the hospital. This was a disappointment to him, while his insistence on tightly restricting the use of intravenous infusions at a time when common opinion was veering in the opposite direction made things difficult for his assistants. He was not always an easy colleague, but despite his combative approach and occasional sharp temper he had many devoted disciples. After serving on the Council of the Edinburgh College for many years he was elected its President in 1976. His contributions received national recognition with the award of the CBE in 1979. He married Joan Sharp, a talented artist and potter, in Edinburgh in 1941 and by her had two sons, Angus, and Peter who is in family practice in Edinburgh, and two daughters, Jane and Caroline. He retired in 1979 and went to live in a village overlooking the Solway Firth where he enjoyed 'fishing, gardening, cooking and eating'. His activities were sadly curtailed when his sight began to fail and he died on 18 August 1995.
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First Title value, for Searching Bentley, John Francis Rogers (1920 - 1990)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-24 2016-02-05
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details John Francis Rogers Bentley was born in India on 5 March 1920. He entered Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1942. After initial house appointments in the Emergency Medical Service at Guy's Hospital and the North Middlesex Hospital he joined the Indian Medical Service, rising to the rank of Captain and serving as a malariologist. After demobilisation he was surgical registrar at King George Hospital, Ilford, passing the FRCS in 1947 and later worked at the London Hospital before going to the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street. At that time the paediatric cardiac surgery unit had just been started and he acquired considerable skill in this specialty as well as an interest in the treatment of megacolon and hydrocephalus. He served as resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hositl from 1953 to 1954 before going to Glasgow in 1955 as consultant paediatric surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and to the thoracic unit of Mearnskirk General Hospital. While at Glasgow he played an important role in the development of paediatric surgery in the West of Scotland. He was the first to treat oesophageal atresia by replacement with a segment of colon and performed many operations for megacolon. He started a paediatric cardiac surgery unit at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow and introduced the technique of cardio-pulmonary by-pass for open heart surgery. He was also the first to use the Spitz-Holter valve in the west of Scotland as an effective treatment of hydrocephalus. He passed both the Edinburgh and Glasgow fellowships, trained many young surgeons in the techniques of paediatric surgery, and from 1977 to 1978 served as President of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons. He retired from practice in 1985 and died on 4 July 1990 aged 70. He is survived by his wife Cecily, a doctor who worked in public health and by four children, three daughters, Jennifer, Sandra and Debbie and a son, Donald.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007141
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First Title value, for Searching Forshall, Isabella (1902 - 1989)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Isabella Forshall was born and spent her childhood in affluent surroundings in Sussex. Details of her family are not recorded but she was educated privately at home where her mother, who read classics at Girton College, Cambridge in the 1890s, had a powerful influence, imbuing her with a keen appreciation of art and literature and especially of poetry. It might be regarded as surprising that a young woman of her time and background eventually embarked on a career in surgery. Though never encouraged nor, indeed, discouraged to think of a professional career, it is clear that her parents expected her to make observance of her social responsibilities her first priority. And so she entered the Royal Free Hospital Medical School where she graduated in 1927. There is no record of her first hospital appointments but she became house surgeon at the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital in 1929, and later at Alder Hey Children's Hospital where she worked until her retirement in 1965. Whilst surgical registrar at Alder Hey in 1939, she became honorary assistant surgeon at Birkenhead and Wirral Children's Hospital and at Waterloo General Hospital. In 1942 she was appointed honorary surgeon at the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital. Only at the end of the second world war was she able to achieve her ambitions for paediatric surgery. She gathered around her a group of young people in paediatrics and the associated specialities whom she fired with her own enthusiasm. This resulted in notable advances in the surgical care of children and in the foundation of the Liverpool Neonatal Surgical Centre in 1953. The mortality for infants surgically treated for congenital abnormalities in the Liverpool region fell dramatically during the next few years, and it was not long before a Ministry of Health report on neonatal surgery strongly recommended the establishment of similar units in all regions. Her achievements in Liverpool brought her national and international recognition. In 1958 she became the second President of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the next year she was President of the Section of Paediatrics of the Royal Society of Medicine. She was elected to honorary membership of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and of the British Paediatric Association in 1963 when she was also President of the Liverpool Medical Institution. In 1970 she was awarded the honorary degree of master of surgery of the University of Liverpool. She was a most kindly woman who was without personal ambition and often gave her associates more credit for joint achievements than they deserved. Those who enjoyed her friendship quickly learnt of her warmth, her abhorrence of pomposity, her mischievous sense of humour, her concern for all and especially for the better care of children. She was amongst the first to embark on the now widely accepted and enlightened approach to the hospital care of children. Throughout her busy working life she devoted every spare moment to the care of her beautiful garden and she continued this absorbing interest during her many years of retirement in Sussex where she died on 10 August 1989.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007265
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First Title value, for Searching Doig, Caroline May (1938 - 2019)

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by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2019-12-18 2020-01-17
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon Colorectal surgeon
Details Caroline Doig was a consultant paediatric surgeon in Manchester and the first woman elected to the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She was not easy to miss in a crowded room: firstly, she was tall, but more importantly she had a formidable but likeable presence and was always surrounded by friends and colleagues. Born on 13 April 1938 in Forfar, Scotland to George William Lowson Doig, a master draper, and May Deeson Doig née Keir, a teacher, Caroline was not to know her father for he was killed in South Africa in 1942 during the Second World War when she was three and a half years old. This tragedy led to a very close relationship between Caroline and her mother, which endured until the death of her mother in 1997. Caroline attended medical school, initially at St Andrews for pre-clinical studies, moving to Dundee for her clinical training. She graduated MB ChB in 1962 and took up her first post in Dundee Royal Infirmary as a house surgeon to Sir Donald Douglas, who sparked her interest in surgery as a career. Following completion of pre-registration training posts, she became an anatomy demonstrator at Queen’s College, Dundee, subsequently passing her primary FRCS in 1964. Furthering her wish to be a surgeon, she applied for senior house officer posts, at which time she encountered the first prejudice against women graduates wishing to be surgeons. She was fortunate to gain a post in Darlington, where she worked with Kenneth McKeown, the renowned general and oesophageal surgeon. In 1965, she obtained a post at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow; here she realised that the developing specialty of paediatric surgery was what she wanted to do. Following completion of her time in Glasgow in 1966, she returned to Dundee to undertake a period of research, supervised by Sir Donald Douglas, into wound infection. When presenting her results at a meeting of the Surgical Research Society, she was introduced to Andrew Wilkinson of Great Ormond Street Hospital, a meeting which was subsequently to bear fruit. It was during this time that she passed her FRCS Edinburgh, but was advised that should she wish to work in London she would need to be a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1970, she was appointed to a senior registrar post at Great Ormond Street Hospital, an appointment that offered the opportunity of work with some of the great names in paediatric surgery and to publish papers with them. One important feature of her training was the opportunity to spend a year ‘off site’, this she did at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh. Although tempted to remain in the south for her consultant career, Caroline wanted to move back north to be in easier reach of her homeland whilst still practising in the heart of England where there was so much development in children’s surgery to be carried out. Consequently, when a teaching hospital appointment in paediatric surgery was advertised in Manchester, she applied for it and was successful. Caroline was for 25 years, commencing in August 1975, senior lecturer in paediatric surgery in the department of surgery at Manchester University based at Booth Hall Children’s Hospital, but with on call duties at Pendlebury Children’s Hospital in Salford and the Duchess of York Hospital in south Manchester, as well as at the new surgical neonatal unit at St Mary’s Hospital attached to Manchester Royal Infirmary. Colorectal surgery became her chosen subspecialty, although, as one of only a small number of paediatric surgeons serving five children’s hospitals in the Manchester region, she had to deploy her skills widely, especially when covering emergencies and trauma. She had a particular interested in childhood constipation and adopted one part of a ward for their treatment, which was called ‘The House at Pooh Corner’. She was universally liked by children and their parents, many of the latter commenting on her kindness and empathy, especially when children were seriously ill. Possibly because of her huge workload, she was not a major surgical innovator or clinical researcher, although she continued to publish within her specialty. She was however interested in the wider field of medical politics; she was president of the Medical Women’s Federation from 1985 to 1986 and was a member of the General Medical Council from 1989 to 1999. Caroline loved going on the overseas visits of both Royal Colleges, not only to examine but also to meet fellow paediatric surgeons, amongst whom she was widely known. These visits also offered her the opportunity to lead other women in the groups to visit souks and local jewellers, from which she would emerge with precious stones and pearls, some of the latter being of such a size and quality as to enter into the realms of RCS social history! As a proud Scot, she kept her soft Scottish accent, which survived her quarter of a century residence in Manchester. She was noteworthy in being equally loyal to the English and Scottish Royal Colleges, in both of which she was an active until her death. After retirement from the practise of surgery in 2000, she turned her attention increasingly to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In 1984 Caroline had become the first woman surgeon to be elected to the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and served for two terms of office. To mark this historic event, in 2000 she established a medal, the Hunter Doig medal, to commemorate her appointment to the council, joined with the name of Alison Headwards-Hunter, the first woman to pass the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (in 1920). The Hunter Doig medal is awarded to female fellows or members of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh who demonstrate career potential and ambition. In latter years, Caroline brought to fulfillment her long-planned ambition to write her autobiography, knowing that after her death there would be no relatives left to secure her memory, though there were many friends and godchildren who could have fulfilled the task. Titled somewhat enigmatically *Enilorac* (Caroline spelt backwards) and subtitled *Hands of a lady* (UK, AuthorHouse, 2018), the book is an account of the difficult career progression of a woman surgeon in times gone past and how she strived successfully to reach the peak of her chosen profession. At the beginning of November 2019, Caroline, as usual, attended the London meeting of the senior fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons, where she was cheerful, regal and relaxed amongst her friends and admirers. She returned to her flat in Edinburgh and died peacefully in her sleep a few days later on 14 November. She was 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Bruce, George Gordon (1891 - 1976)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details George Gordon Bruce was born at Aberdeen on 25 August 1891. He was educated at Fordyce Academy and Aberdeen University and was awarded the Keith Gold Medal in surgery, graduating MB ChB Aberdeen in 1915. He then served as a Captain RAMC in France and the Dardanelles and was mentioned in dispatches in 1918. On demobilisation he resumed his surgical studies and took the FRCS in 1921. In 1925 he was elected honorary consultant to the Royal Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children and in 1927 assistant surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, gaining full consultant status before the second world war. From 1939 until his retirement in 1951 he was consultant surgeon to the Royal Family in Scotland. Though by appointment a general surgeon, his contribution lay initially in the field of paediatric surgery and later in the surgery of the thyroid. In the latter he was guided and influenced by Dunhill and Joll in London and by Wilkie in Edinburgh, and it was here that he made his major contribution. In the early days the surgery of thyrotoxicosis carried a heavy mortality, and Bruce must have been one of the first general surgeons to achieve a century of thyroidectomies for toxic goitre without mortality. By nature he was canny and reticent and tended to limit his circle of acquaintances to a comparatively small number, but on these acquaintances, particularly in the junior ranks, he had a profound influence. His surgery was searching in its planning, scrupulous in its performance, and exacting in its aftercare, and woe betide any member of his staff who did not fully subscribe to these principles. No word of praise or thanks escaped his lips. For him total efficiency was the norm and he was not interested in less. But for the select few whom he elected to train as his juniors he showed understanding and even warmheartedness and spared no effort in instilling into them his own concepts of the art of surgery. His expertise was not limited to surgery, for he was equally proficient in the field, both on the river bank and on the grouse moor and on low ground shooting. He was an expert fly fisherman and had a deep knowledge of salmon ecology. His many pursuits and interests, his proficiency in all he undertook, and his refusal to accept any compromise short of total efficiency gained him the reputation which will long continue and flourish in his native north-eastern Scotland. He married Jane Gill and they had one daughter, who is also a medical graduate. He died on 6 June 1976 aged 84.
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First Title value, for Searching De Sa, Arthur Ernest (1910 - 1981)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-26
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Arthur de Sa, the fifth child of Lawrence and Clementine de Sa, was born in Bombay on 13 June, 1910. After education at Antonio da Silva High School, Bombay, he matriculated and secured an entrance scholarship to Elphinstone College, from whence he obtained a Junior Government Scholarship. After securing several prizes and medals he graduated from Bombay University in 1930. He then did various resident appointments before becoming honorary surgeon at King Edward Memorial Hospital from 1936 to 1968, and honorary paediatric surgeon at the Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children from 1942 to 1965. He was then consultant surgeon to Bombay Hospital up to the time of his retirement. The College records include very few details of de Sa's hospital work and teaching, but a former student (himself an FRCS now working in the United States) highly commends his formidable knowledge, as well as his intelligence, wit and friendly courteous style, and states that his lectures, ward rounds and tutorials were all keenly attended by large numbers of students who were deeply impressed by his teaching. Arthur de Sa was President of the Association of Paediatric Surgeons of India in 1959; President of the Association of Surgeons 1965-67. He was also President of the Indian chapter of the International College of Surgeons 1970-71. In September 1947, at the instance of the Indian government, de Sa led a team of doctors to Lahore and the surrounding areas for relief work during the bloodshed which followed the partition of India. He also accompanied the late Lady Mountbatten during her tour of the riot-stricken areas of West Pakistan at that time. During his working life de Sa contributed numerous articles and editorials to medical journals in India; he also wrote chapters for a number of surgical textbooks, including that on ascariasis in*Clinical surgery*, edited by Rob and Smith. He married Dr Celine Pereira in 1954 and they had one son and three daughters, he was survived by them at the time of his death on 4 March, 1981.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006468
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First Title value, for Searching Swain, Valentine Andrew James (1910 - 1998)

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First Title value, for Searching Higgins, Thomas Twistington (1887 - 1966)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-11
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Thomas Twistington Higgins was born on 19 November 1887 in Bolton, Lancashire, his father having been Vicar of Congleton. He went to school at Pocklington in East Yorkshire, and then on an entrance scholarship to Manchester University where he graduated MB, ChB in 1909 with distinctions in medicine, forensic medicine, and midwifery. After house appointments in Manchester he came to London in 1911 to become house surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He took the Fellowship in 1912, and during the first world war he served as a surgical specialist with the RAMC in France, was mentioned in despatches, and appointed OBE in 1919. On demobilization he returned to Great Ormond Street as surgeon, and though he later became attached to the Royal Northern and other hospitals on the outskirts of London, his professional interests were centred upon paediatric surgery. Paediatric medicine had long been established as a specialty, but it was largely due to Higgins that the surgery of children also became recognized as a special branch. Later he devoted particular attention to genito-urinary work, and his pioneer efforts in the development of special techniques and instruments led to the establishment of a new department of the hospital. He was also distinguished for his gentle, superb skill in tonsillectomy, and this inspired several young surgeons to emulate his example, and so laid the foundation of the ear, nose and throat department. During the second world war he moved with his family to Northwood, a district with which he had been familiar through his earlier attachment to the local hospital, and the general practitioners in the neighbourhood greatly appreciated having him more readily available for consultation over their surgical problems. His kindness and courtesy were extended to patients and doctors alike, and were a great asset to him as a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons. It is understandable that a man of his temperament would not relish the wrangles of medical politics; and though he was deeply interested in the welfare of Great Ormond Street, and the creation of the Institute of Child Health was one of his dreams, the realization of the ideal was left to the organizing ability of his colleague Alan Moncrieff. He was an authority on the history of the hospital and wrote a delightful little book about it which was published in 1952, the hospital's centenary year. He married a Scottish nurse and they had two sons, both of whom became doctors, and four daughters, one of whom went in for a nursing career and another for medicine. Thomas Twistington or "Twist" as he was known to many of his colleagues, will long be remembered as an examplary practitioner of the art of surgery in general, and of paediatric surgery in particular. He retired to Great Mongeham, near Deal, and died, aged 78, on 3 July 1966.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005784
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First Title value, for Searching Nixon, Harold Homewood (1918 - 1990)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-25
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Harold Homewood Nixon (Nicky) was born in Newcastle on 27 February 1918, the son of Isaac Nixon, a chartered accountant. After early education at Fenham High School and the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, for pre-clinical studies in 1935 and Durham Medical School for clinical studies. He qualified in 1941 and in the following year joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve serving in Icelandic convoys and on minesweepers in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic as Surgeon-Lieutenant. After demobilisation in 1946 he was surgical registrar and orthopaedic registrar at the Royal Victoria, Newcastle, and passed the FRCS within two years. He then trained in paediatric surgery at Great Ormond Street under Sir Denis Browne and was appointed consultant paediatric surgeon to Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton, in 1953 and to Great Ormond Street three years later. His particular interest was in the treatment of anorectal atresia and Hirschsprung's disease and he found time to publish over one hundred original papers in addition to a heavy clinical commitment, which embraced the entire field of paediatric surgery. He was the author of *Surgical conditions in paediatrics* and joint author of *Essentials in paediatric surgery*. He was Hunterian Professor in 1959, lecturing on *An experimental study of propulsion in isolated small intestine and applications to surgery in the newborn*; he was founder member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and its President from 1973 to 1974. He also served as President of the Paediatric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. In 1982 he was awarded the Denis Browne Medal of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons for distinguished service to the specialty and was also honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the American College of Surgeons, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Paediatrics. Harold Nixon was perhaps one of the most revered and popular paediatric surgeons in the British Isles. He exerted a profound influence on a whole new generation of paediatric surgeons with whom he always kept close ties. He was known as a generous and congenial host and was always highly sought after as a guest speaker. He was a keen sailor and spent many enjoyable hours under canvas in the Aegean and on the Solent. He married Pat in 1939 and they had a son and daughter. When his wife died in 1982 he was devastated but remarried in 1989 a year before his own death on 3 July 1990, aged 72. He was survived by his second wife, Sally, and his children.
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First Title value, for Searching Louw, Jan Hendrick (1915 - 1992)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Professor Jannie Louw was born on 26 May 1915 in Middleburg, South Africa, the son of a schoolmaster who later became a school inspector. He was educated at Rondebosch High School in Cape Town and the University of Cape Town Medical School, where he graduated in 1938 with distinction. After junior appointments in the newly-opened Groote Schuur Hospital and a short spell in general practice, he joined the South African Medical Corps and served with the 8th army in North Africa from 1941 to 1945 with the rank of captain, escaping from Tobruk when it was besieged. In 1943 he married Cathy van Breda, a nurse at Groote Schuur Hospital. Their first son died from congenital intestinal atresia, and this stimulated his subsequent interest in paediatric surgery and this condition in particular. He took his MCh degree in 1946, and was then appointed assistant surgeon at Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town. He won a Nuffield Dominion Travelling Fellowship to Europe in 1951 and worked for much of that time at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street. He was appointed associate professor at the University of Cape Town in 1954 and a year later to the chair of surgery there. He was also surgeon-in-chief at Groote Schuur Hospital and the Red Cross Children's Hospital, posts which he held for the next 26 years. Jannie Louw was the founder of paediatric surgery in South Africa, and he was also instrumental in establishing the various surgical specialties as independent entities, with their own departmental heads. He became world-renowned as a clinician, teacher, researcher and administrator, and he received numerous honorary degrees and awards from overseas universities and colleges, including all the English-speaking colleges. He was also President of the College of Medicine of South Africa for two terms, and a member of the South African Medical Research Council. He delivered the Moynihan Lecture to the College in 1959, and was awarded the Dennis Brown Gold Medal of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons. The South African Decoration of Meritorious Service was awarded to him by the state president in 1980. He was also a medical historian of note and in 1969 he published *In the shadow of Table Mountain*, recording the history of the University of Cape Town Medical School. Tireless and immensely hard-working, he inspired many generations of surgeons and nurses by the high standards of treatment of children under his care, but woe betide anyone who let those standards slip! He retired in 1980 but carried on his many interests, including foreign travel. Cathy, his wife and staunchest supporter, died in 1991, and when he died on 7 May 1992 after a short illness, he was survived by his three children, Robert, Katherine and Eleanor.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008152
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First Title value, for Searching Nash, Denis Frederic Ellison (1913 - 2000)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2015-11-25
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Denis Nash was a surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He was born on 10 February 1913 and educated at Dulwich College. He went on to study medicine at Bart's, where he won several scholarships and prizes, and qualified in 1935. After junior posts he became chief assistant in surgery at Bart's in 1939, but having already joined the RAFVR he was called on active service at the outbreak of the war. He served for six years, rising to Wing Commander and chief surgeon to the RAF strategic bomber force in the Balkans. After the war, he was appointed to the Children's Hospital at Sydenham and a year later to the staff of St Bartholomew's. Twice Hunterian Professor (in 1949 and 1956), he was also Arris and Gale lecturer in 1950. He was regional postgraduate dean and assistant director of the medical college at Bart's. He was an enthusiastic teacher, not without a sense of humour. On one occasion a student inadvertently kept his foot on the diathermy pedal when the diathermy point came into contact with a wet patch on the front of his gown. Denis experienced an intense pain in his chest, and, assuming this was a heart attack, stepped back to make his peace with his Maker. To his astonishment and delight, the pain immediately disappeared. This made Denis rather suspicious, and when he found out the explanation, he was so pleased still to be alive that he did not say a word. He had a particular interest in the surgery of children, especially those suffering from spina bifida and the aftermath of thalidomide. He served the Chailey Heritage Hospital in Sussex for many years. His book for nurses, *The principles and practice of surgical nursing* (London, Edward Arnold, 1955) ran to seven editions. In 1938 he married Joan Mary Andrew, who died in 1998. They had two daughters, the eldest of whom qualified at Bart's but died tragically early in 1990 of cystic fibrosis. Of their two sons, one followed him to Bart's, but changed course to become a distinguished lawyer. A sincere Christian, Denis Nash was a keen photographer and became an expert in medical illustration. He was made an honorary fellow of the Medical Artists' Association. He died on 4 August 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Forrest, Duncan Mouat (1922 - 2004)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-01-24
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Duncan Forrest was a distinguished member of that first generation of paediatric surgeons, most of whom trained at Great Ormond Street in the early years of the National Health Service, who pioneered specialist surgical units in children’s and in general hospitals across the country. Later in life he was to put the same enthusiasm and dedication into caring for the victims of torture. He was born on 19 December 1922 in New Zealand into a medical family. His father died when he was six and he was educated at a boarding school. He went on to Otago University, where he qualified in 1946 and then travelled to England to specialise in surgery, working his passage as a ship’s doctor. After junior posts at St George’s and gaining his fellowship in 1951, he went to Great Ormond Street as an able young surgeon whose faultless good manners barely concealed his passionate determination to develop and apply his surgical skills for the benefit of children with major congenital disorders. Unlike most of his contemporaries he was inspired not so much by the work of Denis Browne and his team, but by George Macnab, who was treating hydrocephalus by diversionary shunts, a treatment pioneered in the USA by Holter, which had so far been little employed by British neurosurgeons. Duncan soon developed considerable expertise in these procedures and when, following the completion of his training, he was appointed to the Westminster Children’s Hospital, to Sydenham Children’s Hospital and to Queen Mary’s Carshalton, although taking on a wide range of surgery with an interest in cleft palate in particular, he made hydrocephalus and spina bifida his main concern. It takes an element of idealism to pursue the management of some of these most severely disabled children, but this was a quality which Duncan possessed, fortunately modified by a shrewdness to perceive what was and what was not possible. He created at Carshalton a centre with an international reputation and contributed largely to the literature. He went on to distinguish himself as president of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and of the section of paediatrics of the Royal Society of Medicine. From early in life he had been deeply involved in human rights issues and had campaigned with Amnesty International against torture. He became a senior medical examiner for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, examining many survivors, and travelling all over the world seeking evidence of the cruel treatment of Sikhs in Punjab, Kurds in Iraq, and prisoners in Israel, Egypt and Guantanamo Bay. He wrote extensively on these and allied topics, culminating in the textbook *Guidelines for the examination of survivors of torture* (Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, 1995 and 2000). He was predeceased by his wife June, a former actress who became a nurse. He died on 2 December 2004, leaving a daughter (Alison) and three sons (Ian, William and Paul).
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First Title value, for Searching Rickham, Peter Paul (1917 - 2003)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-19
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Peter Rickham was one of a small group of pioneering surgeons who helped to establish the specialty of paediatric surgery in the UK. He was born in Berlin on 21 June 1917, where his father, Otto Louis Reichenheim, was professor of physics at Berlin University. His mother was Susanne née Huldschinsky. Peter was educated at the Kanton School and the Institute Rosenberg, St Galen, Switzerland. He then went to Queen’s College, Cambridge, and on to St Bartholomew’s for his clinical training, where he won the Butterworth prize for surgery. After junior posts, he joined the RAMC, where he had a distinguished career, taking part in the Normandy invasion and the war in the Far East, reaching the rank of Major. On demobilisation, he trained in paediatric surgery under Sir Denis Browne at Great Ormond Street and Isobella Forshall at the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool. After a year as Harkness travelling fellow, spent in Boston and Philadelphia, he was appointed consultant paediatric surgeon at Alder Hey in 1952. He became director of paediatric surgical studies in 1965 and in 1971 was appointed professor of paediatric surgery at the University Children’s Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, where he remained until his retirement in 1983. He was intensely involved with research. His MS thesis concerned the metabolic response of the newborn to surgery. Later he devised the Rickham reservoir, an integral part of the Holter ventricular drainage system for hydrocephalus. His textbook, *Neonatal surgery* (London, Butterworths, 1969), remained the standard text for many years. At Alder Hey, he set up the first neonatal surgical unit in the world. It became a benchmark for similar units around the world, and resulted in an improvement in the survival of newborn infants undergoing surgery from 22 per cent to 74 per cent. He was Hunterian Professor at the College in 1964 and 1967, was honoured with the Denis Browne gold medal of the British Asosciation of Paediatic Surgeons, the medal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Chevalier Legion d’Honneur in 1979 and the Commander’s Cross (Germany) in 1988. Peter was a founder member of the Association of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, the European Union of Paediatric Surgeons and of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, serving as its President from 1967 to 1968. He was a cofounder and editor for Europe of the *Journal of Pediatric Surgery*. Innovative, forceful and outspoken, he was passionately involved with his specialty. Shortly after his appointment in Liverpool he became so exasperated by the local paediatricians’ use of barium to diagnose oesophageal atresia that at Christmas 1954 he sent each one a card enclosing a radio-opaque catheter with which to make the diagnosis safely. He took great pride in the achievements of his many pupils who went on to become leaders in their specialty. He married Elizabeth Hartley in 1938 and they had a son, David, and two daughters, Susan and Mary-Anne. Elizabeth died in 1998 and he married for a second time, to Lynn, who nursed him through his final long illness. He had five grandchildren. He died on 17 November 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Veau, Victor (1871 - 1949)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-09
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Born at Auxey in Burgundy on 8 December 1871, the son of a landed proprietor and wine-grower, he was educated at a Jesuit school and at Dijon University. Transferring to Paris he discovered his taste for anatomy, was placed first in the examination for externes, served under Delbet 1894, under Rigal and Widal in his year as interne provisoire (1895), was again placed first in the examination for the internat (1896), and served under Tillaux at the Charité, under Nélaton, Terrier, and Reclus, and under Brun at the Enfants-Malades, where his interest in the surgery of children was formed. He won the gold medal in 1900 and served under Ricard, and in his final year was assistant to Terrier and Ricard. In 1901 he became prosector and anatomical assistant in the Faculty. He graduated in surgery in 1906 as a contemporary of R Proust, Wiart, and Georges Labey, who all achieved subsequent distinction. Veau was appointed assistant to Jalaquier, who had never seen him before, at the Enfants-Assistes on 18 October 1906, and devoted his whole career to this hospital, succeeding his chief and retiring on 25 December 1933, when he was succeeded by André Martin. He subsequently worked at the Hopital Saint-Michel. Veau was interested in all aspects of the surgery of children, but devoted himself to perfecting the operations for facial malformations. He not only improved the technique of the operations for split-palate and hare-lip, but the methods of feeding and nursing small children after operation, and with Mlle S Borel (Mme Maisonny) their education in speaking. He also made a profound study of the embryological etiology of these malformations, and concluded that they are the result of abnormalities in the formation of the face by reabsorption of the bucco-nasal membrane and not, as had been believed, by a failure of the two sides of the embryonic facial tissues to meet. Veau's two books which summarize his life-work became classics, and his work on speech-education was awarded the Montyon prize. He made many contributions to the literature and contributed to various "systems", and wrote a textbook of current practice and emergency surgery (1904), which ran to nine editions. At one time, 1909-11, he was much interested in the prospects of thymectomy, but abandoned the operation in favour of radio-therapy. Veau was a man of sincere modesty and self-criticism, always ready to promote other men's work of which he thought well, for instance Fredel's operation for congenital pyloric stenosis. But he was also ready to defend his own work and opinions in controversy, chiefly in the *Bulletin* of the Academy of Medicine. He was elected to the Académie (then Société nationale) de Chirurgie on 19 December 1917 and to the Académie de Medécine in October 1940. He was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1947, and was an Officier of the Legion of Honour. Veau married young, but had no children. His wife died in 1929; and thereafter he became something of a recluse. He was a man of few, intimate friends. He lived at 59 Rue de Laborde, Paris, with a country house, where he spent the last summers, at Avallon near his childhood's home. In early years he had been an assiduous visitor of German and Swiss clinics, and was one of the few French surgeons admired in Germany. Between the wars he used to winter at Ismailia on the Suez canal. His amusement in his last years was the repair of old French clocks. He suffered for some time from the after-effects of severe diphtheria, contracted when performing a tracheotomy. Meticulous and formal in his dress and manners, Veau had a very warm heart. A signed photograph is in the Honorary Fellows' album. He died on 16 May 1949. Publications: *Etude de 1'épithélioma branchial du cou; branchiome malin de la region cervicale*. Paris MD thesis, 1901. *Pratique courante et chirurgie d'urgence*. Paris, Masson, 1904. Chirurgie du thymus. *Bull Soc Pédiat*, Paris, 1909, 11, 129, and with E Olivier * Ibid* p 307, and with the same, *J méd franç* 1911, 6, 122. Ablation du thymus, with E Olivier. *Ann Méd Chir inf* 1909, 13, 523-664; *Arch Méd Enf *1909, 12, 815; *Gaz Mal inf* 1910, 12, 9. *Division palatine: anatomie, chirurgie, phonétique*, avec Mile S Borel. Paris, Masson, 1931. 568 pages, 786 illustrations. *Bec-de-lièvre: formes cliniques, chirurgie*. Paris, Masson, 1938. 326 pages. 1214 illustrations.
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First Title value, for Searching McFadden, George Dickson Fisher (1892 - 1981)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon Paediatric urological surgeon
Details George McFadden was born in Newtonstewart, County Tyrone, in 1892 and remained an Ulsterman all his life. The son of Jackson McFadden, a Presbyterian minister, and of May Loudon, he was the fourth son and the sixth child in a family of nine. His early upbringing was responsible for the integrity and honesty which were outstanding features of his life. After education at the local primary school and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution he proceeded to medical school at Queen's University, Belfast, in 1911. Halfway through his undergraduate career he became a Surgeon-Probationer in the RNVR, working on small craft which would not otherwise have carried a qualified medical man. It is reputed that, whilst at sea, George McFadden was washed overboard by an enormous wave and then washed back on again by a subsequent one! On returning to Queen's after the war he graduated with honours in 1919, secured the MCh with Gold Medal in 1923 and the FRCS in 1924. He was appointed resident surgical officer at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, becoming expert in paediatric surgery under the tutelage of Denis Browne. An unexpected vacancy on the staff of the Ulster Hospital for Children took him back to Belfast and he joined the visiting staff of the Belfast City Hospital in 1939. He was at first somewhat hesitant about accepting this last appointment but, having been persuaded by the hospital's senior gynaecologist, T S S Holmes, he never regretted the decision. Together with his colleague, Eric McMechan (qv), he organised a much improved system of admission and of bed organisation at the City Hospital, a regular take-in routine and medical staff meetings. He had a special interest in abdominal surgery and paediatric urology, and made useful contributions in the prevention of shock and venous thrombosis. His work on congenital urethral valves also became well known and he was responsible for numerous publications on this subject. He established a large private practice whilst his opinion and advice were widely sought all over Ulster where he enjoyed a high reputation. After the inception of the NHS he became the first Chairman of the Consultants' and Specialists' Committee in Belfast and was President of the Ulster Medical Society in 1956-7. In his surgical work George McFadden maintained and expected the highest standard. He was a man of immaculate appearance, always arriving at hospital or nursing home in his gleaming Bentley to maintain a lifestyle now largely gone. Generations of students recall his excellent teaching rounds and informal lectures at the City Hospital. He introduced tonsillar dissection under local anaesthesia to Belfast, and operations for congenital urethral valves and for urinary diversion in ectopia vesicae. He had been an enthusiastic rugby footballer at school, a hockey blue at university and a keen golfer later. He married Gasparina dos Santos in 1927 and was survived by her and his son George when he died on 27 July, 1981.
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First Title value, for Searching Forrester-Wood, William Rodney (1902 - 1960)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-03
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Born on 25 June 1902, son of John Forrester Wood FRCS of Southport, he wished to make the army his career but the loss of sight in one eye at the age of 12 prevented this. Educated at Cheltenham College he was apprenticed at 16 to a firm of engineers, but owing to the world depression his father advised him to change his career. Consequently he studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, taking his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualifying in 1929. After holding resident posts at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, the East Ham Memorial Hospital, and the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, Forrester-Wood was appointed senior assistant resident medical officer at the Brighton Infirmary and remained there all his life. In 1936 he was elected to the senior staff of the Royal Sussex County Hospital and he was also consulting surgeon to the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital, the Hayward's Heath Hospital, the Heritage Craft Schools, the St Francis Hospital and Hurstwood Park Hospital. When the National Health Service took over Cuckfield Hospital, built for the Canadian Forces in the Second World War, he was appointed surgeon there in 1948. Forrester-Wood's special interest was paediatric surgery, but he took up thoracic surgery and regularly performed major operations in that field, with the exception of valvulotomy which he refused to do. He was secretary of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-chirurgical Society, and served for a long time on the executive committee of the local BMA Division; at the Annual Meeting in 1956 he was vice-president of the Section of Surgery. After the National Health Service came into operation in 1948 Forrester-Wood was appointed a member of the hospital management committee of the Brighton and Lewes group and was chairman of its medical and medical staff committees for some years. Forrester-Wood was an ideal chairman, but these extensive duties proved too much and in 1958 he suffered a myocardial infarction. Recovering from this he returned to his committees, though not as chairman. A fall whilst riding resulted in a detached retina of his remaining eye and total blindness was threatened. He recovered, however, and continued working and enjoying as far as possible his pleasures of fishing, shooting and gardening. A distinguished Freemason, he held provincial rank in the Craft and Royal Arch. Forrester-Wood died in his sleep at his home, Withdean House, Brighton on 6 April 1960, aged 57, survived by his wife and their son. Publications: Epiphrenic diverticulum of oesophagus. *Brit J Surg* 1948. Giant hypertrophic gastritis. *Brit J Surg* 1950.
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First Title value, for Searching Hunter, Anthony Frederick (1924 - 1978)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-22
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Anthony Frederick Hunter was born in Blackheath, London, and at the age of two emigrated to New Zealand with his parents, both of whom died during his childhood. He was then brought up by an aunt and uncle and educated at Mount Albert Grammar School, King's College, and the University of Otago Medical School where he graduated in 1947. After resident appointments with the Auckland Hospital Board he was a demonstrator of anatomy and came to London to undertake further surgical training at the Royal Marsden, Whipps Cross, St Mary's and the Royal Masonic Hospitals. He completed the Final FRCS in 1953 and made many firm surgical friendships here. On returning to Auckland in 1953 he became surgical tutor at Green Lane Hospital where he remained for three years, taking the FRACS in 1954. This very busy appointment gave him wide experience before he went into practice in 1956 and became paediatric surgeon at the Princess Mary Hospital for Children, an appointment which rekindled his interest in developmental anatomy. In 1958 he was appointed as visiting consultant surgeon to Green Lane Hospital, working with the late Tony Cawkwell who helped to foster an interest in colo-rectal surgery. This interest led him to become a member of the colo-rectal section of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, to serve on its executive and to become its chairman in 1969. During a three month world tour in that year, with the colo-rectal section, he greatly expanded his knowledge and contacts in the speciality of which he became a leading exponent in Auckland. He lectured widely to doctors, nurses and paramedical personnel, and also promoted the Ileostomy Association. He was an honorary member of the Colo-Proctology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the American Proctological Society. Tony Hunter was a gifted and enthusiastic teacher who also continued as a voluntary tutor in the new anatomy department at Auckland for ten years. In this capacity he helped many surgeons and dentists in getting through the Primary Fellowship. For all this, and his services to surgery, especially in the colo-rectal field, he was awarded the RACS medal in 1977 at the jubilee meeting of the New Zealand section of the College in Rotorua. He was also awarded the OBE in the same year. He was highly regarded by his colleagues for having made an enormous contribution to New Zealand medicine, as an examiner in anatomy and general surgery for the Australasian College, as a member of the senate medical advisory committee of the Auckland School of Medicine and as a member of the Board of Health Committee on private hospitals. He was President of the Auckland division of the Medical Association in 1972, New Zealand representative for the International Society of Surgery and chairman of the central surgical committee of the Auckland hospitals. Outside his professional life he was a member of Auckland Rotary Club, honorary medical officer to the Auckland Rugby Union and a member of the executive of the Red Cross Society as well as its Auckland President. He was also a popular member of the Auckland Golf Club. His terminal illness imposed grave restrictions on his busy life though he continued to work in precarious health after a major operation. He died on 31 August 1978 and was survived by his wife, Clara, by their two daughters, Meg and Judy, and his son Robert.
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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, Alfred Murray (1909 - 1987)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Alfred Murray Clarke was born at Kui Kiang, China, on 11 January 1909. His father was Ernest Edward Clarke a missionary and his mother Marina, née More, was a teacher. His early education in China was from his mother and in 1921 at the age of twelve he went to Caulfield Grammar School, Melbourne, for five years before entering the University of Melbourne for his medical studies. His younger brother, James Eric Clarke, also entered medicine and became an eminent physician. He qualified in 1932 and spent two years as resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. He was then registrar at the Royal Children's Hospital before coming to England for further postgraduate training in 1936. He served as house surgeon at the British Postgraduate Medical School and later at Great Ormond Street and in 1938 after attending courses at University College, London and St Bartholomew's Hospital passed both the FRCS and the DCH. On his return to Australia in 1938 he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Children's Hospital in Perth and also assistant surgeon to Perth General Hospital. He joined the Australian Army Medical Corps in July 1939 but remained at Perth until 1941 when he was seconded as a surgical specialist with the rank of Major to Heidelberg Military Hospital to study plastic surgery under Sir Benjamin Rank. In 1943 he was posted as surgeon in charge of the maxillofacial and plastic surgery unit of the Australian General Hospital at Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. After demobilisation in 1946 he was appointed honorary general surgeon at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, and honorary paediatric surgeon to the Alfred and Women's Hospitals in Melbourne and six years later transferred all his work to the Royal Children's Hospital where he instituted the first specialist paediatric burns unit in Australia. He conducted research into the causes of thermal injury in children and introduced burns safety procedures. He wrote extensively on burn injuries in children and was invited as guest lecturer to speak at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, in 1970 after which he was made an honorary Texas citizen. He returned to the United States in 1979 to received the Everett Idris Evans medallion from the American Burns Association and to deliver the memorial lecture. He contributed chapters on the spleen, pancreas and bile duct and also on burns to the textbook *Clinical paediatric surgery*, edited by P G Jones, and wrote the chapter on choledochal cyst in *Operative surgery*, edited by H H Nixon. He was founder editor of the *Australian and New Zealand Burns Association journal* serving from 1974 until 1984 and was a member of many committees concerned with the prevention and treatment of burn injuries in children. He served as Dean of the clinical school at the Royal Children's Hospital from 1964 to 1970 and Chairman of the division of surgery at the Hospital from 1970 to 1974. In addition to his heavy professional teaching and research commitments he was for a time a member of the Melbourne Legacy, an elder of the Uniting Church in Victoria and chairman of the Christian Medical Fellowship. He married Helen Gladys Eggleston in 1940 and there were three daughters and one son of the marriage. After retiring from practice in 1974 he continued to enjoy his hobby of gardening and frequently visited the Melbourne Club. He died in 1987 survived by his wife and four children.
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First Title value, for Searching Howard, Russell Norfolk (1905 - 1992)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Russell Howard, whose work was to place Australia in the forefront of paediatric surgery, was born on 9 March 1905 in Launceston, Tasmania, the son of George Howard, a settler from Dublin, and his New Zealand-born wife Elizabeth, née Mitchell. He was educated at Launceston Grammar School where he excelled at cricket and tennis as well as in his studies. He went on to Melbourne University where he graduated MB BS with honours in all subjects in 1928. After resident posts in Melbourne, including two years as Medical Superintendent of the Children's Hospital, and gaining his MD, he left for London with the intention of making his career in obstetrics and gynaecology. He passed both the primary FRCS and the MRCOG in 1934, and the final FRCS in 1935. During three years in London he was much influenced by Norman Tanner at St James's Hospital in Balham, as well as seeing something of the work of Cecil Joll, Ogier Ward, Tudor Edwards and Russell Brock. It was soon clear that he was to be a surgeon, rather than a gynaecologist. On return to Australia he was appointed to the honorary staff of the Melbourne Children's Hospital and set up in practice. He married Elizabeth Luxton in 1938. It was an exceptionally happy marriage, and Elizabeth supported him through the difficult parts as well as the successes of his career, and provided him with a close knit family of four daughters and a son. He served throughout the war in the Australian Army Medical Corps as a major in charge of a Field Surgical Unit at El Alamein, where he suffered a severe shrapnel wound, and as lieutenant colonel o/c Surgical Division in the 2/4 Australian General Hospital in Borneo. After the war, having acquired the FRACS he was appointed surgeon to the Alfred Hospital as well as to the Children's Hospital, and undertook a wide range of surgery. In 1992 the staffing of the Children's Hospital was changed from the old honorary system and Russell Howard was appointed Chief of General Paediatric Surgery on a salaried basis. His adult practice gradually dropped off as he devoted his time to the paediatric work in which he excelled. He became famous for his repairs of oesophageal atresia and other thoracic procedures but covered a wide span of operative paediatrics. Inspiring many younger men to follow him, he soon became the leader of the new specialty and secured its recognition in the Australian Royal College, of which he was Vice-President, by the establishment of a special diploma FRCS (paediatric surgery). His contributions were honoured by the award of the Denis Browne Gold Medal of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and by his Presidency of the Australian College of Paediatrics. After retirement from hospital work in 1970 he continued in consulting practice until his 80th year; he was held in great respect and affection by both his colleagues and his pupils. Russell was sometimes austere, punctilious, always punctual and a man who moved with the times. He enjoyed the company of his friends and colleagues and excelled in tennis, squash and bridge. Tennis was a major activity and most suited to his busy life as a surgeon. His hobbies included gardening and ornithology. He died on 31 May 1992, survived by his wife, son Russell, and daughters Gay, Dale, Catherine and Sally-Ann.
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First Title value, for Searching Waterston, David James (1910 - 1985)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details David James Waterston was born in St Andrews on 26 August 1910, the son of Professor David Waterston FRSE, FRCSE, Professor of Anatomy in the University of St Andrew's and younger brother of Brigadier Richard E Waterston FRCS (*Lives of the Fellows*, 1974-1982, p.406). He was educated privately at Craigflower School before entering the Universities of St Andrew's and Edinburgh for his medical studies. He qualified in 1933 and after initial house appointments in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, came to London where he began his life-time association with the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street. At first he was house surgeon but was soon promoted to senior surgical resident. In 1938, believing that war was inevitable he took a short service commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps and at the outbreak of war was stationed in West Africa. Shortly afterwards he was posted to the Western Desert serving in a blood transfusion unit attached to the 8th Army. His services in General Wavell's campaign as a Captain in a field ambulance were recognised by the award of the MBE in 1940 and he was twice mentioned in despatches. He later joined a surgical training scheme and served as a surgical specialist with the rank of Major in the Yugoslav island of Vis before participating in the campaign in North West Europe. He was among the first medical teams to visit Belsen concentration camp on 8 May 1945 and it was there that he met his future wife Anne, the daughter of the Rt Reverend AA Markham, Bishop of Grantham, who had been sent to the camp as a relief worker. They were married in 1948. After demobilisation he returned to junior appointments at Great Ormond Street. He passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1946 and the FRCS three years later. In 1951 he was appointed consultant surgeon to the hospital and took a special interest in the care of the neonate and young child at a time when operations in this age group were considered to be hazardous. He soon acquired a reputation for being able to perform safe operations in this age group and his management of congenital trachea-oesophageal fistulas paved the way for his later work, replacing the lower oesophagus with colon transplanted from the abdomen. His experience of intra-thoracic surgery expanded to include the treatment of congenital heart defects and in conjunction with Dr RE Bonham-Carter he pioneered the thoracic unit, the first of its kind in the world, in which both medical and surgical diseases of the chest and heart were treated jointly in one ward. Throughout this time he remained a general paediatric surgeon and operated on Prince Charles, then a schoolboy, for acute appendicitis. He served as consulting paediatric surgeon to the Army until his retirement and always had time to encourage, talk to and advise colleagues and junior staff and to devote time to discussing problems with the parents of his patients. He was appointed Hunterian Professor in 1961 and in the same year was elected President of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons. He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Genoa and Warsaw and was elected to honorary membership of the Czechoslovak Medical Society of J.E. Purkinje as well as receiving the Ladd Medal from the United States, and the Kopernicus Medal from Poland. His association with paediatric surgeons in Poland was particularly close and he paid them regular visits from 1958 up to the year of his death. His practice was world-wide and patients from many overseas countries were brought to Great Ormond Street for his special skills. His contributions to paediatric surgery were recognised by the award of Commander of the British Empire in 1972 and he retired from hospital practice in 1975. Throughout his life he was a marvellous man, a master technician, a sympathetic teacher and a compassionate physician. He lectured brilliantly. Gentleness was his outstanding characteristic; children and his family his lifelong concern. His chief outside interest was golf and he was proud of his membership of the Royal and Ancient, St Andrews. He died on 8 May 1985, survived by his wife Anne, his elder son Bob, two daughters Jane and Sarah, and many grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Hulme-Moir, Francis Ian (1938 - 1980)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-19
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Francis Ian Hulme-Moir was born on 26 January 1938 in Sydney, the son of the Rev Frank Hulme-Moir who later became a Bishop and Chaplain-General of the Australian Armed Forces. He was the eldest of three children. He received his secondary education at Sydney Church of England Grammar School and graduated MB (Honours) from Sydney University where he was awarded an athletics blue. He held junior hospital posts in Sydney and in 1966 came to England to continue his surgical training. He became lecturer in surgery at St Bartholomew's Medical College and senior registrar in general surgery at the Royal Berkshire before returning to Wellington in 1970 as surgical tutor (consultant status) at the Wellington Clinical School and specialist surgeon. He had gained his FRCS in 1966, FRACS in 1971 and MS London in 1974. During his four years in New Zealand he maintained his interest in paediatric, vascular and general surgery and also developed a strong interest in surgery of the head and neck. He established an enviable reputation amongst his colleagues who recognised his particular surgical skill and devotion to duty and this was recognised in his appointment as registrar to the Cancer Consultation Clinic. He made solid contributions to research in the field of human gastric motility and presented papers at a number of scientific meetings in Australasia and the Far East. In 1974 he was approached by the New Zealand Church Missionary Society to consider taking up a post at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMG) and he responded to this call in 1975 despite warnings from some colleagues that he was imperilling his professional career, and the prospect of a drastic cut in salary. Here his previous wide experience proved invaluable as he was able to provide, with others, top level surgical expertise for referrals from the 8,000,000 people in Northern Tanzania. He gained deep respect from both his nursing and professional colleagues and the students he taught. He took active responsibility in a local church and was involved in outdoor activities with the local Mountain Club, in particular pioneering a new route to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in 1978. He became head of the department of surgery at KCMC in 1979 and his surgical skills were quickly recognised at the University of Dar-es-Salaam where he regularly examined the MD and MMed degrees. With others he developed new techniques for the closure of decubitus ulceration in paraplegics and planned a manual of paediatric surgery geared to the East African situation. He was a regular contributor to surgical meetings in East Africa and at KCMC seminars. His family were always important to him. He had married Helen Ardrey of Wellington before his 1966 visit to England and their home was rarely without visitors as they extended warm hospitality to others. The happy chaos provided by his five children was in itself a powerful witness to the Christian faith that had taken this brilliant young surgeon from the security of New Zealand to the uncertainty of East Africa. His final illness was short and totally unexpected. He died of fulminant viral hepatitis on the 27 December 1980 aged 42. His funeral service in Moshi was attended by 600 people and memorial services were held at Wellington Cathedral and in Nelson and Christchurch. He was survived by his wife and their children Michael, Agnes, Rebekah, Charlotte and Caleb.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Selwyn Francis (1913 - 2000)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

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Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation Endocrine surgeon General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Selwyn Francis Taylor, an internationally known surgeon and postgraduate teacher, was born in Sale, Cheshire, on 6 September 1913. His mother, Emily Edwards, was a teacher and his father, Alfred Petre Taylor, a headmaster. He was educated at Peter Symond's School, Winchester, before proceeding to Keble College, Oxford, with a Gibb's grant. He graduated BA in 1936, and then went to King's College Hospital, London, on a Burney Yeo scholarship. This was a foretaste of things to come. Shortly after qualifying, he enlisted in the RNVR, serving from 1940 to 1945 as Surgeon Lieutenant Commander in the Atlantic on destroyers as a surgical specialist, and in East Africa, Malaya and Australia. Perhaps this whetted his appetite for the sea, and, as the orator for his honorary Fellowship of the Edinburgh College, James A Ross, said, gave him, "his deep bronzed complexion in the summer months as yachtsman of renown with his sailor wife. The salt water also gave him the thirst of a connoisseur of fine wines!" He later became chairman of the International Wine Society. After the war, he returned to King's College Hospital, and gained a George Herbert Hunt scholarship from Oxford University to study at the Sabbatsberg Hospital in Stockholm, his mentor being Clarence Crafoord. From 1948 to 1949, he was a Rockefeller travelling fellow in the USA at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Although a general surgeon initially, he inclined towards endocrine and paediatric surgery on his appointments as honorary surgeon to Belgrave Hospital for Children (1964 to 1965) and as consultant surgeon to King's College Hospital from 1951 to 1965. As surgeon to the Hammersmith Hospital and senior lecturer to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School from 1947 to 1978, he practised thyroid and parathyroid surgery exclusively, becoming Dean from 1965 to 1978. A prolific writer, he was involved in over 300 publications, not only on his specialist subjects of thyroid and parathyroid diseases, but as editor of *Recent advances in surgery* (London, J & A Churchill, 5th to 8th editions), also Rose and Carless' *Manual of surgery* (19th edition) and, with Leonard Cotton, *A short textbook of surgery* (London, English Universities Press, 1967). It was said that, "he had a gift for tearing the heart out of a book and publishing the essential facts from a mass of irrelevancies." All this led to his becoming chairman of Heinemann Medical Books. Of importance to the College, he served on the Council from 1966 to 1978, being senior Vice-President from 1976 to 1978. Apparently he did not speak volubly, but when he did people listened because he had something important to say! He was Cecil Joll prizeman (1976) and Bradshaw lecturer (1977). Furthermore, he made major contributions to postgraduate training at home and overseas, travelling extensively and being an excellent ambassador for British surgery, known for his wide interests and great talents. He was a member of numerous societies. Many honours came his way, including being President of the Harveian Society (1969), President of the London Thyroid Club, Keat's lecturer to the Society of Apothecaries and President of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons, indeed it was his vision that led to the foundation of this vibrant society. Albeit in poor health, he attended a meeting in Portugal in 1999, a year before his death. Selwyn was external examiner to eight medical schools at home and abroad, consultant to the Royal Navy, member of the Armed Forces Board, and honorary Fellow of the College's sister organisations in Edinburgh and South Africa. He and his wife Ruth regularly attended home and overseas meetings of the Travelling Surgical Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Made a member in 1955, he was given honorary membership for his major support and contributions. On one visit to Bordeaux, the lack of scientific input was offset by his arrangements for wine tastings and an excellent meal with wines to complement each course at Chateau Leonville Barton! One of his last publications appeared in the BMJ in 1992 entitled 'Confessions of a Benedictine drinker'. In this he traced his first sip as a boy of nine to ward off the rigours of learning to swim in the Atlantic, to its use after dining unwisely! He had played tennis for his teaching hospital as a student, and continued this form of exercise with his long-time friend, Bernard Williams of Portsmouth (with whom he also sailed), until their combined ages were over 160 years. He married Ruth Margaret Howitt, also a doctor, in 1939. They had a son, Simon, a management consultant, and a daughter, Jane, a psychoanalyst. Selwyn died on 11 January 2000. Sadly, his last few years were troubled with cardiac problems and an unhealed fracture.
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First Title value, for Searching Zachary, Robert Bransby (1913 - 1999)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-08
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Bob Zachary was a pioneer of paediatric surgery in the United Kingdom. He was born in Pudsey, near Leeds, on 1 March 1913, the son of Samuel John Zachary, a dentist, and Priscilla Mary née Owen. After a degree in pharmacy, he turned his attention to medicine, entering the medical school at Leeds and qualifying with first class honours and the gold medal, as well as prizes in clinical medicine and surgery. After passing the FRCS in 1943, he at first intended to specialise in orthopaedics in the Nuffield department at Oxford, and was awarded an Hunterian Professorship in 1944 for his research on peripheral nerve injuries. In 1945, he changed to paediatric surgery and, with a grant from the Nuffield Foundation, went to the Children's Hospital, Boston, to train. In 1947, he was appointed consultant paediatric surgeon at the Children's Hospital, Sheffield, the only British consultant in paediatric surgery not to have been trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital by Denis Browne. In 1953 Zachary was one of the small group of dedicated surgeons who formed the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the first and still the only international association of its kind. He campaigned for a monopoly of neonatal surgery for the paediatric surgeons, in order to accumulate sufficient volume and variety of this work to maintain the expertise of the unit. As Chairman of the Specialist Advisory Committee he stressed the need for specialist centres to provide training for future generations of paediatric surgeons, and to carry out essential research and development to promote the specialty. One of his great contributions was to provide opportunities for UK training for trainees from abroad who were frequently grateful not only for professional guidance, but for personal financial assistance. In addition to being a surgeon of superb technical ability, and a champion for surgery of the newborn, his main contribution was in the management of children born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. It was in this field that he made his international reputation, promoting early closure of the myelomeningocele, active treatment of the associated hydrocephalus, close follow up, and aggressive management of orthopaedic, renal and intestinal problems. Zachary felt strongly that every child, however handicapped, deserved the best available care. He was a founder member of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida, of which he was Chairman from 1969 to 1971. A 'hands-on' surgeon and a superb teacher, he once recalled of his training period in Boston: "I remember on one occasion washing out the rectum of a baby with Hirshsprung's disease at 2 am in the morning and asking myself, 'Have I come 3,000 miles to wash out a rectum': the answer was 'yes', because by doing that procedure myself I know exactly how to tell others to do it". Thanks to a severe scoliosis, he appeared short in stature, but he had a giant personality, and such was his charisma that patients and parents seldom noticed his spinal problem: when asked which doctor had seen the child at the last outpatient visit, the parents would say "the man with the glasses", never "the man with the hump". Bob Zachary was President of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons from 1962 to 1963. He was in great demand as a guest speaker, often giving the lecture in the mother tongue of his host country, whether it was Russia, Poland or Czechoslovakia. He received numerous awards and degrees, including an honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the surgical section of the American Academy of Pediatrics, honorary membership of the American, French and Czechoslovakian Pediatric Surgical Associations, and the Denis Brown gold medal of British Association of Paediatric Surgeons in 1977. He was awarded a personal Chair in Paediatric Surgery from the University of Sheffield in 1976. A devout Roman Catholic, he was a member of the Catenian Association of Catholic Professionals and vice-president of Life. In 1977, he was created a Papal Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory with Star. He married his theatre sister Faith Alice Stewart in 1943, and nursed her during her last five years of cancer treatment until she died in 1981. After retirement, he settled in Australia, where he married his second wife, Winifred, who died in 1990. After her death he moved to Newfoundland, where he married his third wife, Janetta. He died on 1 February 1999 in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, survived by Janetta and two sons, John and Christopher, and a daughter, Anne, from his first marriage, all of whom became doctors. There are seven grandchildren - Suzanna, Anthony, Laura, George, Cameron, Tague and Alexa.
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First Title value, for Searching Katz, Arnold (1920 - 1994)

2024-05-07T06:37:41Z

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Publication Date 2015-09-15 2022-11-21
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Arnold Katz was born on 10 September 1920 in the town of Benoni in the East Rand, the eldest son of Abe and Anne Katz. His parents were expatriate Lithuanian Jews, and his father was a businessman in the import and export trade, who later moved to Cape Town. Both his parents died at an early age and he was effectively brought up by his grandparents. He had a sister who became a radiographer in South Africa, and a brother who was sent to train in Liverpool in the 1920's, returning to become one of the leading neurologists in Johannesburg; thus there was never any doubt that Arnold would go into medicine. One of Arnold's earliest memories was of the riots involving white mine workers in 1924 and 1925, when he was caught in a riot in a park and was rescued by his black nanny, who hid him under her skirts and got him home safely. Moving to Cape Town in 1926, he completed his schooling at Wynberg Boys' School and qualified in medicine at the University of Cape Town in 1942, receiving the Thackwray Prize for the most promising student in surgery. He then completed his internship under Professor Brock and Professor Saint at the Groote Schuur Hospital and also worked with Professor Goetz in experiments on the peripheral circulation. After a short spell in Johannesburg and Durban he returned to Groote Schuur Hospital, completing his MCh in 1946 and continuing his research on Raynaud's phenomenon with Professor Goetz. In 1950 he was awarded a Cecil John Adams Travelling Fellowship, which allowed him to obtain his FRCS and to train in paediatric surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital under Mr Twistington-Higgins and David Innes-Williams. In 1952 he returned to Cape Town to private general surgical practice and as a part-time consultant at Groote Schuur Hospital, where his interest in paediatric surgery made him a most valuable member of Professor J H Louw's team. When the Red Cross Children's Hospital opened he was appointed consultant in charge of a surgical ward, with particular responsibility for the treatment of paediatric osteomyelitis. His interest also extended to the management of children with malignant disease, but it was his interest in osteomyelitis that led to a Hunterian Professorship in 1978. He was also responsible for identifying the first familial group of Hirschsprung's children, and it is of interest that the gene responsible for this disease was identified in the week that he died. He was a founder member of the South African Association of Paediatric Surgeons, served as Vice-Chairman of the World Fellowship of the Israeli Medical Association and played an active part in the Cape Town Jewish community. A large donation from a grateful patient was diverted to fund the Tel Aviv Department of Paediatric Surgery. In 1990 that department honoured Dr Katz with the Distinguished Surgeons' Award, certificate and medal for his contributions to the department and to paediatric surgery in Cape Town and South Africa. He is remembered for his undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. His athletic achievements included a full blue for hockey at the University of Cape Town in 1941. He was also a keen runner, and completed a marathon at the age of 68. He died on 22 July 1994, his wife Bussa having predeceased him, survived by his sons David (who became Professor of Immunology at University College London Medical School) and Evan, and a daughter, Debra, a nutritional expert at the Albert Einstein Institute in New York. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 7 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** Arnold Katz was a general and paediatric surgeon in Cape Town, South Africa. He was born on 10 September 1920 in the town of Benoni in the East Rand, the eldest son of Abe and Anne Katz (née Swil). His grandparents and parents were expatriate Lithuanian Jews who had emigrated to South Africa between 1907 and 1910. They succeeded in business, so that already by 1920 his father’s youngest brother had been sent to Liverpool to study medicine. Later this uncle returned to South Africa to become one of the leading neurologists in Johannesburg – thus there was never any real doubt that Arnold would study medicine. One of Arnold’s earliest memories was of riots involving mine workers during 1924 to 1925, when he was trapped in a park under gunfire and was rescued by his nanny, who hid him under her skirt and got him home safely. Moving to Cape Town in 1925, where his father became a successful businessman in the import and export trade, he completed his schooling at Wynberg Boys’ High School. He qualified in medicine at the University of Cape Town in 1942, receiving the Thackwray prize for the most promising student in surgery. Two siblings also took up medical careers: his sister became a radiographer, who volunteered in Israel in 1948, and was one of the first radiographers there before she returned to South Africa; and his youngest brother became a general practitioner. Arnold completed his internship under John Fleming Brock and Charles Frederick Morris Saint at the Groote Schuur Hospital. After a short spell in Johannesburg and Durban he returned to Groote Schuur Hospital, where he continued his research on peripheral circulation, in particular on the role of the sympathetic nervous system in Raynaud’s phenomenon, supervised by Robert Goetz. During this period, he also did further clinical surgical training under the supervision of George Sacks. In 1950 he was awarded a Cecil John Adams travelling fellowship, which allowed him to obtain his FRCS and to train in paediatric surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital under Thomas Twistington Higgins and David Innes Williams. n 1952 he returned to Cape Town to private general surgical practice and as a part-time consultant at Groote Schuur Hospital, where his interest in paediatric surgery made him a most valuable member of J H (Jannie) Louw’s team. When the Red Cross Children’s Hospital opened, he was appointed as a consultant in charge of a surgical ward, with particular responsibility for the treatment of paediatric osteomyelitis. His interest also extended to the management of children with malignant disease, introducing basic chemotherapy to supplement surgery for Wilms’ tumour and neuroblastoma; but it was his interest in osteomyelitis that led to a Hunterian Professorship in 1978. He was also responsible for identifying the first familial group of Hirschsprung’s children and continued to take an interest in the subject – sadly the gene responsible for this disease was identified only in the week that he died. He was a founder member of the South African Association of Paediatric Surgeons, served as vice chairman of the Israeli Medical Association World Fellowship and played an active part in the Cape Town Jewish community. A large donation from a grateful patient was diverted to fund the Tel Aviv department of paediatric surgery. In 1990 that department honoured Katz with the distinguished surgeons’ award, certificate and medal for his contributions not only to that the department but also to paediatric surgery in Cape Town and South Africa. He is widely remembered for his undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. His athletic achievements included representing University of Cape Town at hockey in 1941. He was a bowler, and a keen runner, completing his last marathon at the age of 68. He died on 22 July 1994. His wife Ray (née Bussa) predeceased him. He was survived by his sons David (who became professor of immunopathology at University College London) and Evan, and a daughter, Debra, a nutritional expert (who worked at the Albert Einstein Hospital Medical School and Columbia) in New York. David Katz
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