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First Title value, for Searching Costobadie, Lionel Palliser (1889 - 1977)

2024-05-22T06:44:37Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation General practitioner Pathologist
Details Born 25 October 1889, the son of H A Costobadie, Lionel Palliser Costobadie was educated at his father's old school, Haileybury College, Hertford, from 1905 to 1908. He went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took his BA with 1st class honours in the Natural Science Tripos. He then entered the London Hospital as Price Scholar. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1914, took a house surgeon post at the London and then joined the RAMC. He served from 1914 to 1919 in Gallipoli, France and India, with the rank of Captain. After the war he took his Cambridge MB BCh, and moved to general practice in Folkestone, where he became honorary pathologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital. He took his FRCS in 1920, but did not practise as a surgeon. In 1932 he married Aileen, daughter of G. B. Wildinson of Folkestone. On the outbreak of the second world war he moved with his wife to Newbury, where he became medical officer of health to the West Berks Districts from 1941 to 1952. His interests were archaeology and painting, and he was a member of the Field Club. He died early in 1977. There were no children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006420
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First Title value, for Searching Greeves, Reginald Affleck (1878 - 1966)

2024-05-22T06:44:37Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-05
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Occupation Curator General practitioner Ophthalmic surgeon Pathologist
Details Born at Springtown, Co Down, on 23 August 1878, youngest of the eleven children of Thomas M. Greeves whose family, at first Quakers and later Plymouth Brethren, had been settled in Northern Ireland since the mid-seventeenth century. Affleck Greeves was educated at Queen's University, Belfast, where he won an exhibition, and at University College Hospital and Guy's, graduating MB London in 1903 and BS with honours in 1906, when he also took the Conjoint Diploma in the summer and the Fellowship in December. For the next two years he was in general practice in the Transvaal, South Africa, where he married, in 1908, Sarah, daughter of Leonard Acutt of Natal. Returning to London he was appointed surgical tutor and registrar at Guy's, but decided to specialise in ophthalmology. After serving as pathologist and curator of the museum at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields), he was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1914 and to Moorfields in 1915. He became a consultant surgeon to both these hospitals, retiring from Moorfields at the sixty-year age limit in 1938, but from the Middlesex only in 1946. He had also been on the staff at Paddington Green Children's Hospital and at St Saviour's Hospital, had lectured on ophthalmology at Oxford, and was a Conjoint Board examiner for the DOMS. Though somewhat nervous and reserved, Greeves was a brilliant diagnostician, achieved excellent results as a surgeon, and proved a first-class teacher, particularly in clinical work with graduate students. He became an authority on lesions of the fundus, whose opinion was sought and valued by colleagues and former students long after his retirement. He published influential papers on ocular pathology and many case histories, particularly in the *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society*, of which he was a member for fifty-five years, becoming President for 1941-42. He was Montgomery Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1935. Greeves carried on a large private practice at 23 Wimpole Street long after giving up his hospital work, finally retiring in 1960 when he was eighty-two. His country home was at Crapstone, near Yelverton, in Devonshire. His wife had died in 1954, and he died on 4 October 1966 aged eighty-eight, survived by his daughter and two sons, the elder of whom was also an ophthalmic surgeon. Though brought up in a narrowly puritanical home, Greeves was a man of wide cultivation, a traveller and linguist, a pianist and trained musician, with a keen appreciation of painting and drawing. His students and patients became his lifelong friends.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005760
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First Title value, for Searching Spencer-Bernard, John Gray Churchill (1907 - 1977)

2024-05-22T06:44:37Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-19
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Occupation Farmer General practitioner Pathologist
Details John Spencer-Bernard was born on 26 May 1907 in Ootacamund, India, the elder son of Sir Charles and Lady Edith Spencer. His father was ICS Puisne Judge of High Court of Judicature, Madras, while his uncle A J Spencer was editor of the standard textbook *Landlord and tenant*. It was in 1955 in relation to an inheritance that John Spencer changed his name by deed poll to Spencer-Bernard and at the same time changed the emphasis of his career from medicine to farming. He was educated at Marlborough College, winning the Guillebrand Prize in natural history and the leaving exhibition to be senior scholar and choral scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge, gaining a first class in the Natural Science Tripos before going to the London Hospital Medical College as Freedom Research Scholar and winning several prizes. He enjoyed his house appointments under Sir James Walton and Charles Goulden and became a clinical assistant in pathology and also to surgical outpatients, working for and being influenced by Russell Howard, Sir Hugh Lett and Robert Hutchison (whom he described as much respected). During the second world war he volunteered repeatedly, but was finally pronounced unfit owing to sinus trouble. He became teacher and officer in the St John Ambulance in Shrewsbury where he was assistant surgeon to the Royal Salop Infirmary. After the war he became pathologist at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. He also spent some years in general practice. In 1955 he inherited 850 acres in Buckinghamshire and abandoned his surgical career to farm them. However, towards the end of his life he conducted a clinic for the injection of varicose veins at Bletchley on behalf of John Hadfield, one of the surgeons at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He was at one time Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Country Landowners' Association. Other interests included photography, piano, organ and forestry. At school and college he excelled in shooting and rowing, being stroke for Magdalene. In 1933 he married Phyllis Corley and they had two daughters and two sons. When he died on 28 March 1977 he was survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006967
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