Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Plastic surgeon

First Title value, for Searching Ashe, Norman Desmond ( - 2010)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-01-27 2013-09-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374110374110
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Norman Desmond Ashe specialised in orthopaedics and plastic surgery. He qualified from Oxford University in 1945 and passed the fellowship in 1953. He became a house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Moving to London he took a post at the Hammersmith Hospital and then worked in the departments of orthopaedics and plastic surgery at St Charles Hospital. He was an associate member of the British Orthopaedic Association and of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. He served as a squadron leader in the RAFVR medical brigade. He died on 15 September 2010.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001927
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First Title value, for Searching Muir, Fiona May (1971 - 2015)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2017-06-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378977378977
Occupation Hand surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Fiona Muir was a consultant orthopaedic hand surgeon at the Sussex Orthopaedic Treatment Centre. She was born on 9 August 1971 and studied medicine at Bristol University, qualifying in 1994. She gained her FRCS in 1998 and prior to her consultant appointment was a specialist registrar at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. She died on 3 February 2015 at the age of 43.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006794
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First Title value, for Searching Hormbrey, Emma Leonie (1968 - 2008)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-02-13 2019-02-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374195374195
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Emma Hormbrey was a plastic surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. She was born Emma Flindall in London on 4 October 1968 and studied medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School. She qualified with the MB BS in 1994 and gained her FRCS in 1998. Prior to her post in Oxford, she was a senior house officer in orthopaedics and then a senior house officer in plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury. Emma Hormbrey died on 2 April 2008. She was 39.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002012
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First Title value, for Searching Deane, Malcolm (1935 - 2021)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-11-10
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Malcolm Deane was a consultant plastic surgeon at City Hospital, Nottingham. 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: E010172
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First Title value, for Searching Bowen-Jones, Edward John (1944 - 2008)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2013-09-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373699373699
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Edward Bowen-Jones was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who worked at the St Augustine's Medical Centre in Durban, South Africa. He qualified MB, BS from London University in 1967 and passed the fellowship in 1972. He died of cancer on 30 October 2008, aged 64 years survived by his wife Jean, children Kate, Gaby and Ben and grandchildren Alex and Michael.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001516
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First Title value, for Searching Murray, Douglas Stewart (1944 - )

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-03-07
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Douglas Stewart Murray was a consultant plastic surgeon at the West Midlands Regional Plastic Surgery Centre, Wordsley 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
Resource Identifier RCS: E010219
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First Title value, for Searching Sivaloganathan, Velupillai (1932 - 2022)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-10-13
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Professor Velupillai Sivaloganathan was a plastic surgeon who lived in Sydney, New South Wales. 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: E010169
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First Title value, for Searching O’Riain, Seamus Morgan ( - 2019)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-02-10
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009900-E009999
Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Seamus (Morgan) O’Riain was a plastic surgeon in 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: E009933
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First Title value, for Searching Maurice, David Greatrex (1919 - 2006)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2015-05-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373679373679
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David Greatrex Maurice was a consultant plastic surgeon at the regional plastic surgery unit in the Newcastle and Hartlepool Hospitals Group and then at Sharoe Green Hospital, Preston. He studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1943. He gained his MB BS in 1945 and his FRCS in 1952. He was a senior registrar at the regional plastic surgery unit, Newcastle, before he was appointed to his consultant post. He wrote articles on clip lip and palate, and repair of pharyngocutaneous fistula. David Greatrex Maurice died on 20 October 2006. He was 86. He was survived by his wife Cynthia, children and grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001496
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First Title value, for Searching Osborne, Ronald Julian (1931 - 2014)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2019-09-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381361381361
Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon
Details Ronald Julian Osborne was a plastic surgeon in Ontario, Canada. He was born on 31 August 1931 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of Richard and Rose Osborne. In 1958, he gained his licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was a silver and gold medallist at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and a former editor of the magazine of the college. He gained his FRCS in 1964. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sailing and photography (he exhibited his photographs). In 1960, he married Anne Llewellyn. Osborne died on 29 March 2014 at the age of 82.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009178
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, Hugh Goundry (1927 - 2022)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-08-26
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Hugh Brown was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. 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: E010150
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First Title value, for Searching Sharpe, David Thomas (1946 - 2023)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-08-15
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details David Thomas Sharpe was a professor of plastic reconstructive surgery at the University of Bradford University. 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: E010431
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First Title value, for Searching Bernardis, Catina Katriona (1956 - 2022)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-02-13
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Catina Katriona Bernardis was a consultant plastic surgeon St Thomas’ Hospital, London. 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: E010205
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First Title value, for Searching Mahaffey, Peter John (1948- 2021)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-02-04
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Hand surgeon
Details Peter Mahaffey was a consultant plastic and hand surgeon at Bedford 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
Resource Identifier RCS: E010077
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First Title value, for Searching Cohney, Benjamin Coplan (1928 - 2022)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-02-13
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Benjamin Coplan Cohney was a consultant plastic surgeon in Perth, Western Australia. 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: E010207
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First Title value, for Searching Herbert, David Charles (1938 - 2014)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2014-03-21 2014-06-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377347377347
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David Herbert was a plastic surgeon in Preston, Nottingham and Huntingdon. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1961. He gained his FRCS in 1966. He was awarded the Arris and Gale lecture in 1978; his topic was 'The anatomical basis of facial reconstruction'. He trained in plastic surgery in the Wordsley Hospital, Birmingham, as a registrar, and was then a senior registrar in Whiston Hospital and Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool. He then went into private cosmetic surgery. In 1980 he was a founder member of the British Association of Cosmetic Surgeons. He requested the removal of his name from the medical register a few days before he was due to appear before the General Medical Council. David Charles Herbert died on 24 January 2014, aged 75.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005164
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First Title value, for Searching Murchison, Ewen Hugh ( - 2002)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380987380987
Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Ewen Murchison rose to be Surgeon Captain in the Royal Navy. On retirement he was civilian consultant surgeon to the Navy in Gibraltar. He was an associate member of the Association of Plastic Surgeons. He died in Gibraltar on 19 December 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008804
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First Title value, for Searching Mustardé, John Clark (1916 - 2010)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-08-12
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Jack Mustardé founded and ran West Africa’s first reconstructive plastic surgery unit and established the charity ReSurge Africa. 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: E009788
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First Title value, for Searching Goldin, Jacob Henry (1939 - 2021)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-11-19
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010000-E010099
Occupation Plastic surgeon Craniofacial surgeon
Details Jacob Goldin was a pioneering craniofacial surgeon and a former president of the European Society of Craniofacial Surgery. 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: E010031
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First Title value, for Searching Robertson, Gordon Andrew (1940 - 2021)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-04-12
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010100-E010199
Occupation Plastic surgeon Hand surgeon
Details Gordon Robertson was a specialist in plastic surgery in Winnipeg and an associate professor at the University of Manitoba’s faculty of medicine. 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: E010109
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First Title value, for Searching Sundarason, Rajaratnam (1929 - 2017)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-12-18
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009700-E009799
Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Rajaratnam (Raj) Sundarason was born in Singapore on 3 July 1929. Sponsored by the Colombo Plan, he travelled to Australia in 1950 when he was 21 to study medicine at Melbourne University. Sadly it was at a time when there was a great deal of racial prejudice in the population and he and his fellow Asian students found it hard to find suitable accommodation. Eventually he managed to persuade the university to found a hostel where local and foreign students could live and share experiences. It opened in 1957 and was known as International House. He graduated from Melbourne in 1956 and did various house jobs before passing the fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1964 and of the college in 1966. While in Melbourne he took on the task of vice-warden at the International House, helping to shape its future ethos and for 20 years from 1973 to 1993 he served on its council as an international member. On his return to Singapore, he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon and continued to practice almost all his life. At the University of Singapore he was a lecturer in general surgery. He helped to set up the Singapore Association of Plastic Surgeons and also the Singapore Society of Cosmetic (Aesthetic) Surgery and was an active member of both organisations. He died on 21 December 2017 aged 88 and was survived by his wife, Mary, five children and seven grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009701
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First Title value, for Searching Fry, Hunter John Hall (1932- 2018)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-02-19
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Hunter Fry was a plastic surgeon at the Royal Melbourne 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
Resource Identifier RCS: E009708
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First Title value, for Searching Lynch, Gearoid (1932 - 2018)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-20 2021-07-22
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Gearoid Lynch was born in Dublin on 17 February 1932, the son of Fionan Lynch and his wife Bridget née Slattery. He studied medicine at Belfast University, graduating MB, BCh, BAO in 1948. Travelling to London he worked as a surgical registrar at the Hammersmith Hospital and then as a registrar in plastic surgery at the London Hospital. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1960 and the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (RCSI) in 1963. On his return to Ireland he was a senior registrar at Dr Steevens’ Hospital in Dublin. From 1966 to 1979 he was a consultant plastic surgeon at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. He also worked at the Richmond Hospital in Dublin from 1968 to 1987 and joined the staff of the James Connolly Memorial Hospital in 1972, working there until 1992. For 10 years from 1987 he was also surgeon to the Beaumont Hospital in Dublin. At the RCSI he was a lecturer in surgery, dean of postgraduate studies from 1966 to 1986 and a councillor from 1996. He was a member of the BMA, the RSM, and the IMA. Also a member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, he published widely on plastic and reconstructive surgery. Outside medicine he enjoyed playing golf, gardening, travel and music. On 5 February 1966 he married Frederika Patricia Dempsey. When he died on 1 February 2018 aged 85, his wife survived him along with his five children: Patricia, John, Michelle, Martin and Paul, eleven grandchildren and his brother Dermot.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009521
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First Title value, for Searching Khoo, Christopher Teik-Kooi (1948-2022)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-04-20
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Christopher Teik-Kooi Khoo was a hand and breast surgeon at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Wexham Park Hospital in Slough. 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: E010227
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First Title value, for Searching Kirkpatrick, William Niall Alexander (1959 - 2022)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-02-23
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Niall Kirkpatrick was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital and president of the charity Facing the World. 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: E010088
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First Title value, for Searching Rozner, Leo (1932 - 2016)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-08-25 2019-09-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381426381426
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Leo Rozner was a plastic surgeon in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia. Born on 19 July 1932 in Danzig, Germany, he was the son of Chaskiel Rozner and his wife Klara née Klesczki. Seven years later in 1939 the family emigrated to Australia to escape the Nazi persecution of the Jews. He studied medicine at Melbourne University and graduated in 1955. After working as an associate assistant surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1955 to 1961 and later as assistant surgeon from 1959 to 1962, he became an assistant to Sir Edward (Weary) Dunlop and worked with him for four years until 1964. In 1960 he passed the fellowship of the college. At the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne he was an assistant plastic surgeon from 1964 to 1972 when he became a senior plastic surgeon. Having served in Vietnam as a surgeon with the United States Agency for International Development in 1963, the Australian government awarded him the Vietnam service medal in 1996. Appointed consultant plastic surgeon at the Sandringham Hospital in Melbourne he was there from 1975 to 1984, followed by a consultant post in Windsor, New South Wales. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, a founding member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons and a member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. Outside medicine he enjoyed golf, skiing, photography, music and the arts. He married Catherine Jane Welk on 8 June 1954 and they had two children Gideon and Romy. On 31 March 1961 he married Judith Ur and their children were Maya Regina and Dana Sarah. They divorced in 1983. When he died on 28 May 20 aged 83, he was survived by his third wife, Denise, and his four children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009243
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First Title value, for Searching Jeffs, John Victor (1928 - 2007)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2011-12-21 2015-05-29
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373987373987
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details John Jeffs was a consultant plastic surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital, London. He was born in Tredegar, Gwent, where his father, Victor Henry Jeffs, was the local butcher. His mother was Ivy Elizabeth Jeffs née Lewis. He went to Lewis School in Pengam. His medical training was at Guy's Hospital, where he benefitted from the teaching of James Whillis (anatomy) and Samuel Wass (surgery). He qualified 1951 then did his National Service as a captain in the RAMC and spent much of his time in Korea and Japan. He passed his FRCS in 1959 and went on to train in plastic surgery. He was appointed as a consultant in plastic surgery to Charing Cross Hospital, Westminster Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, and St George's Hospital. He published articles on plastic and hand surgery and was on the council of the Medical Protection Society from 1952 to 1990. He commented that he had a very satisfying professional life as a 'service surgeon'. His hobbies were fencing and shooting. In 1955 he married Margaret Lewis and they had one daughter, Jennifer. John Victor Jeffs died on 23 September 2007. He was 79.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001804
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First Title value, for Searching Barclay, Thomas Laird (1925 - 2007)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-02-06 2014-03-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374151374151
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Thomas Laird Barclay was a consultant plastic surgeon at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, St James Hospital, Leeds and St Luke's Hospital Bradford. Born in Huddersfield on 26 March 1925, the son of William and Mary Frances Barclay, he studied medicine at Edinburgh University. He qualified MB ChB in 1947 and was house surgeon to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for a year. He was senior registrar in plastic surgery to Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood from 1955 to 1960 when he became consultant plastic surgeon to the Bradford Hospitals group. A member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, he served as its president in 1983. He was a major in the Royal Army Emergency Reserve from 1962 to 1968 and was a keen golfer. He married Isabel Mary Raffan on 19 September 1953 and they had two children, William and Philippa. He died on 3 March 2007 aged 81 years. Publications: *Burns and their treatment*1962; 3rd ed 1968. Fluid balance in burned patients. (jointly) *Lancet* 1954 Diplopia in association with fractures of the zygomatic bone. *Brit Jl Plastic Surg * 1958 Oedema following operation for Dupuytren's contracture. *Plastic and reconstructive Surg* 1959
Resource Identifier RCS: E001968
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First Title value, for Searching Whitfield, Patrick John (1931 - 2019)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-06-28
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009600-E009699
Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Patrick John Whitfield was born on 7 November 1931, the son of Albert Victor Whitfield and his wife Rose Anna née Maye. He studied medicine at St George’s Hospital Medical Centre in London and graduated MB, BS in 1958. Until 1965 he carried out junior hospital appointments in the UK and in Arkansas, USA, and in 1966 was appointed senior registrar to the Oxford Hospitals for a year. He then moved to Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton where he was senior registrar from 1967 to 1972 and also worked at Mpumalanga Hospital in South Africa. Appointed consultant plastic surgeon at Queen Mary’s in 1972, he stayed until 1995. In April 1981 he carried out a procedure on the famous jockey Lester Piggot, replacing part of his ear which had been torn off in a racing accident at Epsom. From 1996 he was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Westminster Hospital, London. He married Doris Eileen née Humphries on 23 July 1955 and they had two daughters, Natalie Anne and Roseanne Louise. A member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons and the Atheneum, he was also a fellow and past president of the section of plastic surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine. He died on 19 February 2019 aged 87.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009628
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First Title value, for Searching Craig, Robert Dominic Peter (1927 - 2021)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-01-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/385353385353
Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Robert Craig was a consultant plastic surgeon in Manchester. 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: E010060
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First Title value, for Searching Morris, John Vernon ( - 1978)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378954378954
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Vernon Morris qualified in medicine from King's College Hospital. His first appointment was as research assistant in surgery at the West London Hospital and then he became senior surgical registrar at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital. He moved to the Plastic and Oral Surgery Centre, Odstock Hospital in Salisbury as a senior registrar and then to the West Dorset Hospital Group as consultant in trauma and reconstructive surgery. He was living in Weymouth when he died on 21 November 1978, survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Senior, Michael Arthur (1962 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-16 2014-06-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373775373775
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Michael Arthur Senior was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Canniesburn unit, Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He began his career as a dentist; he qualified BDS in Leeds in 1984, spent four years in Bradford as a dentist, and worked in the oral surgery department at Bradford Hospital. He then decided to study medicine at Leeds, and to specialise in plastic surgery. He held training posts in Leeds, Wakefield, Middlesbrough, Norwich, Manchester and Preston, and gained his FRCS in 1999. In 2002 he became a specialist registrar in Aberdeen, and completed his training at the Canniesburn unit, Glasgow. In March 2007 he passed his intercollegiate exam in plastic surgery (FRCS Plast), but just six weeks later, at the age of 45, he was found to have a sarcoma of the heart. After heart surgery, he returned to work and was appointed consultant plastic surgeon at Canniesburn in December 2007. He worked full-time for a further 18 months, but in 2009 the cancer returned. He had a heart transplant in June 2010 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, managed to return to work, but retired in January 2011 after lung metatases were diagnosed. Michael Arthur Senior died on 3 February 2011, aged 49. He was survived by his wife Zoe, four sons and a daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Kirk, John (1922 - 2011)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2012-01-10 2015-05-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374015374015
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details John Kirk was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Tayside Regional Plastic Surgery Unit. He was born in Edinburgh on 23 June 1922, but spent most of the first six years of his life in China, where his mother and father, also John Kirk, were medical missionaries. The family returned to the UK in 1928 and his father went on to become professor of anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital, London. John Kirk trained at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1945. After posts at the Middlesex, he joined the Royal Navy as a surgeon and saw active service in the West Indies. He trained and qualified as a general surgeon, gaining his FRCS in 1954. He then moved on to plastic and reconstructive surgery, working with Rainsford Mowlem at Northwood. In 1955 he moved back to Scotland, to Bangour Hospital in West Lothian, where the regional plastic surgery unit serving Edinburgh and the east of Scotland was based. Here he worked with Alexander 'Alister' Burns Wallace. In 1956 the Tayside Plastic Surgery Service was started at the Dundee Royal Infirmary and Bridge of Earn Hospital, near Perth, as an off-shoot of the unit headed by Wallace. John Kirk joined this service, and in 1960 was made a full-time consultant in plastic surgery to the Eastern Regional Hospital Board. He took a leading role in the design of the new burns and plastic surgery ward at the Bridge of Earn Hospital and also 10 beds at the Dundee Royal Infirmary. John worked single-handed for 10 years until 1970. In 1973 he was made a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He retired in 1983. John was a highly-respected, tireless and meticulous surgeon. He was an inspiring teacher for his trainees, but a strict disciplinarian. He was impeccably mannered and modest. He played cricket, rugby and squash, and, in later life, took up hill walking, fishing and golf (he was a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews). He was also a bird watcher and watercolour artist, but above all he was a family man. He died on 5 May 2011, aged 88, and was survived by his wife Elaine and three children - Rose, Susan and John.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Sydney Bradley ( - 1981)

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First Title value, for Searching Flint, Michael Henry ( - 1993)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380115380115
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Flint received his medical education at University College Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1950. After house posts at University College Hospital and a lectureship in anatomy at University College he gained his Fellowship in 1957 and was surgical registrar at UCH and orthopaedic registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Thereafter he specialised in plastic surgery and was senior registrar at the Mount Vernon Plastic Centre at Northwood. He emigrated to New Zealand where he was the senior plastic surgeon to the Auckland Hospital Board and continued practising in Auckland. He died on 24 January 1993.
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First Title value, for Searching Grocott, John (1910 - 1992)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Peter Leopard
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380156380156
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details John Grocott was the surgeon in charge of the plastic department at North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary. He was born on 23 January 1910, the only son of William Harley Grocott, headmaster of the Church of England school at Fenton, Staffordshire, and Eleanor Jane Grocott née Shemilt. He had two sisters. He received his secondary education at Orme Boys’ School in Newcastle-under-Lyme and at Longton High School, from where he won the Guy’s Hospital Medical School War Memorial Scholarship for chemistry and biology. He was an undergraduate at Guy’s from 1928 until 1933, when he qualified with the conjoint diploma and the London MB BS. He obtained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1935. At Guy’s he came under the influence of Herbert Eason and William H Trethowan in particular, after which he returned to Stoke-on-Trent as a house surgeon at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary In 1934 a plastic surgery centre was established at that hospital under the direction of Sir Harold Gillies, joined later by Archibald McIndoe, who each conducted regular visits until 1939, training Grocott in the craft of plastic surgery long before formal training programmes existed. By the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Grocott ran the plastic surgery centre single-handed in addition to his duties as a general surgeon. In 1940, Grocott was recruited into the Emergency Medical Service, which took him to other hospitals for extended periods, including Hill End Hospital St Albans, Harlow Wood Hospital and Leicester Royal Infirmary. He continued to provide a single-handed consultant service in plastic surgery at North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary throughout this period, treating hundreds of severely injured service men and women, and continued single-handed until his retirement in 1975, following which he maintained his sessions at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry until 1976. John Grocott had a lifelong enthusiasm for cars and was an accomplished engineer. He combined these passions by building a succession of customised Alvis and Jaguar cars, one of which was officially named the Grocott Jaguar. He was married three times. In July 1936 he married Mona Wayte. They later divorced and he married Alethea (Ann) Savage, his theatre sister, in 1954. After her death in 1963, he married Kathleen (Kay) Muldoon in 1966. She predeceased him in 1985. He retired with Kay first to Anglesey then to the Isle of Man. Grocott died on 21 April 1992
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First Title value, for Searching Lendrum, John (1936 - 2015)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2016-04-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378974378974
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details John Lendrum was a consultant plastic surgeon in Manchester and Rochdale. He was born in Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, on 24 October 1936 into a long-established medical family. His father, George McCormack Lendrum, was a general practitioner; his mother, Enid Lendrum née Fletcher, was a housewife. He was educated at Epsom School then Clare College, Cambridge, on a scholarship to read medicine. His clinical training was at the Middlesex Hospital. He qualified in 1962. House jobs were at Salisbury and then he elected to train in plastic surgery. He spent time in Copenhagen with Siems Siemsen, studying head and neck surgery, then in Bogota with Miguel Orticochea, funded partly by scholarships from the British Association of Plastic Surgeons (BAPS). He was a senior registrar at Frenchay Hosptal, Bristol, where Ron Pigott's enthusiasm for the management of cleft lip and palate fired John's interest in treating and studying this condition. He was appointed as a consultant plastic surgeon to the North West Region, at three widely separated hospitals - Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Withington Hospital and Rochdale. It was a good thing that he enjoyed driving, usually fast, in coloured sports cars, with the top down. The stories of his car parking activities in the various hospitals were legendary. J L was a skilled surgeon. He taught all the time and enjoyed watching young surgeons develop under his guidance and inspiration. He hated management interference with his ability to provide the best possible service for his patients. He was not a committee man and never sought high office in any association, but was elected to the council of BAPS in 1984 and did much useful work chairing the manpower planning and development committee, shaping the future of plastic surgery. John was elected an honorary member of BAPS in 1995. He was an honorary associate of the University of Manchester. John enjoyed painting and retirement enabled him to paint more. He described himself as an artist with a 35-year interruption for a surgical career! He was a member of the Medical Artists' Association. Alison (née Dalgleish), his wife, died in 2002. He moved to Tenbury Wells in 2007 to be near his friend Carola. John was a colourful individual; he was loyal and generous, took great care of his patients and staff, but could be rebellious and outrageously incorrect! He died on 17 January 2015, at the age of 78, and was survived by his two children, Katherine and David.
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First Title value, for Searching Petersen, Norman August Marais ( - 1972)

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First Title value, for Searching Pelly, Anthony D'Arcy ( - 1982)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379030379030
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Anthony D'Arcy Pelly qualified MB BS in Sydney in 1954. He passed the College Fellowship in 1957 and worked as senior registrar in the plastic surgery, burns and oral surgery centre at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, London. He became honorary plastic surgeon to the Balmain and District Hospital in 1961 and to the Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals in Sydney in 1962. He was a member of the AMA. He died on 30 August 1982.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006847
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, David Ian (1962 - 2022)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2022-07-28
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010100-E010199
Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details David Ian Wilson was born on 4 July 1962 in Birmingham. Regarded as the cleverest of his family, he won a scholarship to Warwick School. He trained in medicine at St Georges’s Medical School, passing his MB, BS London in 1985 and from there proceeded to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth to begin his training in plastic surgery. After junior posts at the Leicester Royal Infirmary and the Nottingham City Hospital, he was appointed consultant in the plastic surgery and burns unit at the latter. His final move was to Birmingham in 2007 where he was consultant to the newly opened Paediatric Burn Centre at the Children’s Hospital. David also committed a lot of time and energy to the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). Serving with the 144 Parachute Medical Squadron, he also deployed to Bosnia and Kenya with the 23 Parachute Regiment and was always keen to volunteer for service as the occasion demanded – hence he worked in Kashmir after their earthquake. He retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel. By all accounts a charming and patient teacher, he worked with the British Burn Association on their course for emergency management of the severe burn patient (EMSB). Famous for his colourful bow ties and seasonal theatre headgear, he was a generous and thoughtful friend. A theatre lover, he made regular trips to the Royal Shakespeare Company productions in Stratford and other important events on his calendar were winter ski-ing and the annual trip to the Chelsea Flower Show. He retired at the end of 2020 and died on 25 March 2022, survived by his sister, Sallie, brother Mike and sister in law Sue. He had five nieces, Eleanor, Rachel, Kathryn, Rebecca, Nicola, a nephew, Robert, ten great nephews and nieces and one great, great niece.
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First Title value, for Searching Marchant, Mary Kathleen (1924 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372285372285
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Mary Marchant was a former plastic surgeon in Liverpool. Born in 1924, she qualified in medicine at Liverpool and began her career as a house officer at Smithdown Road Hospital. She trained in surgery and practised in and around Liverpool, before specialising in plastic surgery. She helped set up the first plastic surgery unit in Liverpool at Whiston Hospital. In 1965, she joined a missionary surgery in Uganda, spending four years there, returning to England in 1969 because of ill health. She joined a general medical practice in Penny Lane, Liverpool, and retired in 1983. She died on 18 August 2003.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000098
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First Title value, for Searching Gordon, Mendel (1902 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379469379469
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Mendel Gordon was born on 31 May 1902. He went to school in Bournemouth before training at King's College, London and Charing Cross Medical School, where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1929 and was awarded the Governor's gold medal in medicine and surgery. After house surgeon appointments at Charing Cross Hospital he became registrar in ear, nose and throat surgery at the Royal Free Hospital. He served throughout the second world war in the RAFVR holding the rank of Squadron Leader. Later he worked with Sir Archibald Mclndoe in plastic surgery. He held appointments at the National Temperance Hospital, Sydenham Children's Hospital and Mayday Hospital. His principal interest in later life was in rhinoplasty. He died on 2 March 1983, survived by two sons and a daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007286
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First Title value, for Searching North, John Frederick (1917 - 2008)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2011-11-14 2015-05-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373771373771
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details John Frederick North (known as 'JFN') was a consultant plastic surgeon in the west Midlands. He was born in Southport, Lancashire, on 12 May 1917, the only child of John William Allen North, a solicitor, and Frances Jane North née Allen. He went to school at Cheltenham College, and studied medicine at Sidney College, Cambridge, then St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1941 and spent the rest of the Second World War in the Royal Navy. After the war he studied and passed his FRCS (in 1947), then trained in plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville Hospital under the tutelage of Thomas Pomfret Kilner. He was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the West Midlands Regional Plastic Surgery Unit, Wordsley Hospital with Oliver Mansfield. His workload was very heavy, servicing a population of nearly five million. There were with clinics in Burton-upon-Trent, West Bromwich, Walsall, Solihull and Hereford. He was an accomplished surgeon and an astute clinician with perfect manners. He was a good teacher because of his encouragement and enthusiasm, and was always accessible. He oversaw the expansion of plastic surgery in the region with the introduction of specialists in major head and neck surgery, hand surgery and craniofacial surgery. He was a member of the council of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons for two three-year periods. He wrote papers on congenital deformities, and plastic surgery reconstructions, as well as a history of the west Midlands plastic surgery service. JFN was a recognised authority on the treatment of cleft lip and palate. In 1941 he married Audrey Fisher. They had two daughters and a son. John retired in the mid-1980s and continued a very active life, alongside his wife. He kept fit and well by hill walking, playing golf, piano, singing and photography. John died on 22 June 2008 at the age of 91.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001588
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Donald Neil (1924 - 2000)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2019-12-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381373381373
Occupation Plastic surgeon Hand surgeon
Details Donald Neil Robinson was a plastic surgeon in Adelaide, South Australia. He was born on 28 October 1924 in Salisbury, South Australia. His father, Edwin Alexander Robinson, was a bank manager; his mother was Mary Robinson née Nicholson. From 1939 to 1941 Robinson attended Scotch College in Adelaide and then went on to Adelaide University to study medicine. At university, he played tennis and football. He qualified in 1948. After junior posts, he went to the UK, where he trained in plastic surgery at Odstock Hospital, Salisbury, Wiltshire under John Netterville Barron from 1955 to 1957. He gained his FRCS in 1954 and his FRACS in 1957. On his return to Australia, he was a visiting plastic surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, where he founded and headed the plastic and reconstructive surgical unit, and also a visiting surgeon at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital. He was a board member of St Andrew’s Hospital, Adelaide from 1988 to 1992. For ten years, from 1982 to 1992, he went on annual visits to Brunei and Malaysia with the Adelaide Children’s Hospital. He was a member of the court of examiners in plastic surgery at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1972 to 1982. He was a foundation member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons and chairman (from 1972 to 1975), and a foundation member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society and president (from 1976 to 1977). Outside medicine he played golf: he was captain of the Royal Adelaide Golf Club in 1980 and 1981, and president from 1991 to 1994. He also enjoyed bridge, water sports, skiing, sailing and fishing. He farmed and was a member of a race horse breeding syndicate. He was a council member of his old school, Scotch College, from 1970 to 1979. In February 1955, he married Eunice Brooke, a nurse and midwife. They had four children – Stuart James, Jennifer Jane, Mary Ann and Susan Elizabeth. Donald Neil Robinson died on 7 August 2000. He was 75.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009190
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, John (1914 - 2009)

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by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2012-01-18 2015-05-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374050374050
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details John Watson was a consultant plastic surgeon at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. He was born in Blundellsands, Merseyside, on 10 September 1914. His father, John Watson, a lawyer, died when he was 18 months old. His mother, Annabel Windsor Watson née Thorp, the daughter of a Quaker physician in Liverpool, remarried and moved to Sussex, where she became the first woman mayor of Hastings. John was educated at Leighton Park School, Reading. He decided on medicine as a career and entered Jesus College, Cambridge, and then Guy's Hospital. He qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1938, and gained his MB BChir in 1939. After a resident post at Hospital of St Cross, Rugby, he joined the RAF in 1940 as a flight lieutenant and was promoted to squadron leader in 1942. He saw service in the United Kingdom, India, Burma and Malaysia, and was mentioned in despatches on two occasions for his work in tracing and rescuing crashed aircraft in the jungle. After the war, John wanted to train in surgery, but there were many other doctors returning from service in a similar situation. He took and passed his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1947. Later, he was awarded fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England *ad eundum* for his work organising the East Grinstead Medical Research Trust. After gaining his FRCS, he started to work for Arthur Dickson Wright at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham, London. It so happened that the anaesthetist, John Hunter, also worked with the plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe. The connection enabled John to obtain a training post at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, and he was eventually appointed as a consultant plastic surgeon there. To this was added consultant posts at the Florence Nightingale Hospital, the London Hospital and King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers. John was secretary of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and then president in 1969. He was also general secretary of the International Confederation of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. This was a heavy responsibility and involved much travelling to meetings abroad. At East Grinstead he oversaw and managed the East Grinstead Medical Research Trust. This metamorphosed into the Blond McIndoe Research Foundation, which continues to this day. He was also intimately involved in the planning, construction and commissioning of the revolutionary new burns unit. He encouraged research on transplantation and the development of micro surgery. The Watson skin graft knife was designed by him as a user friendly and reliable instrument for taking large areas of skin. He said he was inspired by peeling potatoes at the kitchen sink! In summary, he was a skilled surgeon, a gifted negotiator and subtle diplomat, and a polymath. John had built his own telescope, even grinding the lens. He then built an observatory to house the telescope and researched photoelectric photometry. In 1932, aged 18, in the very early days of television, he had built a receiver, which was reported in *The Times*. After he retired from the NHS and his private practice, he kept busy tending his bees, raising orchids and astronomy. In 1941 he married June Stiles and they had three daughters, Pauline, Carolyn and Charlotte, and a son, John, who predeceased him. John Watson died on 15 January 2009. He was 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Cobbett, John Robey (1930 - 2016)

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by Roger Green
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2016-04-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381243381243
Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Reconstructive surgeon
Details John Robey Cobbett was a consultant plastic surgeon at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, and Lewisham Hospital. He was born on 5 May 1930, the third son of Claude Racster Cobbett, a company director, and Constance Evelyn Anne Cobbett née Robey. From the age of four, following the death of his mother, his step-mother steered him into medicine. While she was not qualified herself, her father and three of her siblings were doctors. He attended Charterhouse School, where he won prizes in physics and chemistry, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His clinical studies were undertaken at the London Hospital. He was a house surgeon at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, where he saw the work being done by Sir Archibald McIndoe and was inspired to become a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. He trained in general surgery with Sir Alan Parks at the Royal Free Hospital, gaining his FRCS in 1962, and then returned to East Grinstead as a senior registrar in plastic surgery. He was appointed as a consultant plastic surgeon at East Grinstead and Lewisham in 1968. As part of the research programme at East Grinstead, John Cobbett became interested in the techniques of small vessel anastomosis. He won a Moynihan travelling scholarship in 1966, which enabled him to visit other units around the world with similar interests. He is credited as being one of the first to have completed a single stage microvascular transfer of a great toe to reconstruct a thumb in 1968. He was a founder member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He served on the council of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons from 1975 to 1977, and was honorary secretary, also from 1975 to 1977. John married Pamela Irma Bower in 1952 and they had three children, Peter John Robey, Susan Robey and David Charles Robey, six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. He retired in 1995 to enjoy his hobbies of boat building, carpentry and jewellery making. Sadly, he developed Pick's disease in 2005. John Cobbett died on 19 January 2016, at the age of 85.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009060
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First Title value, for Searching Youngleson, John Henry (1926 - 2004)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-08-25 2019-09-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381430381430
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details John Henry Youngelson was a plastic surgeon in Durban, South Africa. Born in Harrismith in the Orange Free State on 8 January 1926, he was the son of Adolph Henry Youngelson, a business executive and his wife Laetitia Rosabelle née Sinclair. Both his parents were 27 years old at the time. After attending Michaelhouse School in Balgowan, Natal from 1939 to 1943 he began studies at the University of Cape Town graduating MB ChB in 1950. During the second world ward he served with the 6th South African Armoured Division in Italy from 1944 to 1945. Working initially at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town in 1951 he came under the aegis of Jan Hendrick Louw before entering general practice in Kokstad, Cape Province where he stayed until 1959. After returning to Groote Schuur as a casualty officer in 1960, he travelled to the UK to study for the college fellowship which he passed the following year. He did house jobs at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital in 1962 where he was mentored by John Barren and at the plastic surgery unit of Odstock Hospital, Salisbury in 1963 alongside Charles Murray. On his return to South Africa he joined the department of plastic surgery at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1964 working with Dan Jacob Du Plessis and Johannes Albertus Myburgh. Two years later he took a post as part-time consultant plastic surgeon at the University of Natal in Durban and combined that with private practice until his retirement in 1991. He was a founder member and past president of the South African Society for Surgery of the Hand. In his youth he was a keen rugby player and played for the University of Cape Town and for Western Province team. His wife Dawn Vera Griffiths was born on 12 January 1924 in Uitenhage, South Africa and they married on 31 December 1951. They had four children; Erica Jane who graduated with a degree in fine arts from the University of Cardiff; Jonathan Sinclair who obtained a PhD in microbiology; Nicholas Julian who had a BA from Natal University and Adrienne Stella who became a registered nurse. He died in 2004 in Durban, Kwa-Zulu, Natal aged 78.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009247
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Stewart Hamilton (1912 - 2011)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2015-03-06
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001700-E001799
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373893373893
Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Stewart Harrison was a leading consultant plastic surgeon and a former president of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He was born in Highgate, London, on 15 July 1912, the second son of Archibald Harrison, a manufacturer, and Marion Harrison née Taylor. Both his parents died when he was a young child and he was brought up by his maternal grandparents in Dunblane, Scotland. He was educated at Stanley House School, Bridge of Allan, and then studied medicine and dentistry at Edinburgh University. He was a house surgeon at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester. During the Second World War he spent five years as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, in Nigeria and in north-west Europe. Following his demobilisation, he joined the Birmingham Accident Hospital and started his career in plastic surgery. He trained with Sir Harold Gillies and Rainsford Mowlem at Mount Vernon Hospital, and spent much of his career at Wexham Park Hospital in Berkshire, where he developed the plastic surgery unit there. Throughout his career he pioneered several new surgical techniques. In 1949 he and Gillies carried out an innovative operation to reconstruct the face of a patient born with a recessed upper jaw, which involved moving the middle third of the face forward. Later, he developed an operation to help children born with upper limb deformities, particularly as a result of their mothers using Thalidomide. He transferred the index finger to the normal position of the thumb, enabling the patient to pinch and hold, meaning the child could write and feed themselves. He also improved treatments for people with rheumatoid arthritis, finding ways of stabilising joints, and for people with tendon injuries to the finger. In 1979 he was a Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a founder member of the Hand Club, which became the British Society for Surgery of the Hand in 1968. He was president of the Society in 1972 and of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1976. After he had retired from the NHS, he became the first president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. In 1943 he married Phyllis Eustace and they had a son. Stewart Harrison died on 12 May 2011, aged 98.
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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, Joseph Rowland Goodman ( - 2002)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-23
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Joseph Edwards studied medicine at King's College and King's College Hospital. After house appointments at King's he was a senior demonstrator in anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital before specialising in plastic surgery. He published extensively on the role of relaxin as an aetiological factor in diabetic embryopathy, work which earned him an Arris and Gale lectureship in 1979 and the bronze medal of the Alexander Vichnevsky Surgical Institute in Moscow. He was a consultant plastic surgeon at Newcastle and honorary research fellow in the University of Newcastle. He served on the Council of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and was a member of the New York Academy of Science. He died on 22 October 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Acland, Robert Dyke (1941 - 2016)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2018-11-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381223381223
Occupation Plastic surgeon Reconstructive surgeon Anatomist
Details Robert Acland was a pioneer of plastic and reconstructive microsurgery. He was born in Exeter on 20 June 1941, the younger son of Sir Richard Dyke Acland, 15th baronet of Colum John, a barrister and Labour politician, and Anne Stella Acland née Alford. Acland grew up in the dower house at Killerton, Devon – his father having donated the main manor house and estate to the National Trust in 1944. He attended the local village school and then Bryanston School in Dorset, where he later said he developed an interest in breaking rules. He went on to study medicine at the London Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1964, he worked at Bukumbi Hospital in Mwanza, Tanzania. On his return to the UK, he was a senior house officer in Northampton, Mansfield and then Oxford. In 1969, he was a senior registrar in general surgery in Swindon, where he became interested in microsurgery after watching John Cobbett perform a microvascular anastomosis. He then spent two years at the London Hospital studying microsurgical instruments, funded by the Medical Research Council. He improved the tiny needles and threads needed for the surgery, invented the Acland micro vessel clamp and investigated how to prevent microthrombosis. Acland then trained as a plastic surgeon, as a registrar at Canniesburn Hospital in Glasgow from 1972 to 1975. In 1975, he accepted an offer to set up a microsurgery teaching laboratory at the Kleinert Kutz Hand Center in Louisville, Kentucky. He later played a key role in the founding of the University of Louisville’s fresh tissue anatomy dissection laboratory, the first of its kind in the United States. In 1983, he was appointed director and under his leadership the laboratory expanded and improved. Acland’s major work was the *Video atlas of human anatomy*, which used new technologies to capture moving three-dimensional images of structures in the body, from bone to surface anatomy. He also wrote a *Practice manual for microvascular surgery* (CV Mosby Company, St Louis, Mo, 1989), known as the ‘Red book’, a manual of microsurgical techniques, an indispensable tool for trainees. He was a founding member of the International Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery. He was married three times. In 1963 he married Sarah Wood, a fellow student at the London Hospital Medical School. She later became a psychiatrist. They had two children – Beatrice and Daniel. They divorced in 1983 and he married Susan Bishop. They had a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Emily. They divorced in 1990 and in 1992 he married Bette Levy, a textile artist. Robert Acland died on 6 January 2016 of cholangiocarcinoma. He was 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Kinmonth, Maurice Henry (1917 - 2009)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2012-01-06 2015-05-29
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374010374010
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Maurice Kinmonth was a plastic surgeon in Leicester, Nottingham and Lincoln. He was born in Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, Ireland. His father, George Henry Kinmonth, was a general practitioner and on account of the deteriorating political situation in Ireland the family moved to London, where he was in practice in Dulwich. His mother was Delia Agnes Kinmonth née Daly. Maurice went to school at Dulwich College and then studied medicine at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1939. His brother, John, also studied medicine at St Thomas', eventually becoming professor of surgery there. After qualifying, Maurice undertook house jobs at St Thomas's and Kingston hospitals. He joined the RAF in 1942 and was posted with 242 Squadron to the Far East. There he was captured by the Japanese and interned. He remained a prisoner of war (POW) in Java until 1945. He was mentioned in despatches in 1946. After the war he trained in surgery at Kingston Hospital with Dick Franklin. He passed his FRCS in 1947 and then trained in plastic and reconstructive surgery with Richard Battle at St Thomas' and with David Matthews at Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1952 he was appointed as a consultant plastic surgeon to Leicester Royal Infirmary, covering Nottingham and Lincoln as well as Leicester. He worked single-handed until 1976. He undertook the full range of plastic surgery procedures treating burns, head and neck cancer, cleft lip and palate and hand surgery. His expertise in hand surgery brought him the presidency of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and in 1981 he was president of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. He is described by one of his trainees as a 'knife man', as opposed to a 'scissor snipper'. His surgery was efficient, but always accompanied by non-stop conversation. His teaching was his strength, alongside kindness and compassion for his patients. His notes were illustrated with his own diagrams. Retirement came in 1983 and he remained busy with many interests, including golf, shooting and fishing. He learnt wood engraving and made the comment 'wood doesn't bleed!' In 1947 Maurice married Stella Phillips and they had two sons (Fred and Patrick) and two daughters (Ann Louise and Katherine). Maurice Kinmonth died on 30 January 2009, aged 91. He said he would like to be remembered for developing plastic surgery in Leicester.
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First Title value, for Searching Wakefield, Alan Ross (1917 - 1985)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2011-11-30 2013-04-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373859373859
Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Alan Ross Wakefield, known as 'The Vicar', was an Australian plastic and hand surgeon of international renown. He will be particularly remembered for writing, with Sir Benjamin Keith Rank, the classic text *Surgery of repair as applied to hand injuries, etc* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone), first published in 1953 with three further editions. The importance and value of this book extends beyond 'the hand': the classification the authors introduced of wounds into 'tidy' and 'untidy' continues to be cited in most papers and books on trauma. The son of George Thomas and Florence Ann Wakefield, he was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and then at the medical school at Melbourne, qualifying in 1941. On completion of his basic training, he joined the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps and served in New Guinea, Brisbane and Heidelberg Military Hospital, where he joined the No 2 maxillofacial and plastic unit. It was here he learnt his plastic surgery from Rank. Wakefield ended his military service in 1946 as a captain and with the Pacific Star medal. Following his demobilisation, he became an honorary assistant plastic surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and passed his MS and FRACS in 1947. He then travelled to the United Kingdom and spent a year training in plastic surgery. He passed his FRCS in 1948. He returned to Melbourne, as a plastic surgeon at the Royal Children's Hospital and at the Repatriation Hospital, Heidelberg. As head of the plastic surgery department at the Royal Children's Hospital he successfully developed the hospital's reputation, especially for cleft lip repair. As well as his epic work on hand injuries, he published work on cleft lip and palate, and on intersex problems. On trips to the United States he developed many long-lasting contacts. In 1964 he was invited to give the founder's lecture at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. In later years, he retired from private practice, but retained his Royal Children's Hospital appointment. When his role there ended, he became medical director of the Victorian Plastic Surgery Unit. He was also a farmer, and bred sheep and cattle. He was president of the Murray Grey Beef Cattle Society, and did much to develop this new breed of beef cattle. He also grew roses and was a keen exhibitor and show judge. He married twice. By his first wife, Mary, he had four children and six grandchildren. His second wife was Valerie. Alan Ross Wakefield died following a long illness on 22 July 1985 at his home in San Remo, Victoria, Australia.
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First Title value, for Searching Munster, Andrew Michael (1935 - 2003)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-05-16 2019-05-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381338381338
Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon
Details Andrew Michael Munster was professor of surgery and plastic surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore and president of the American Burn Association. He was born in Budapest, Hungary on 10 December 1935. His father, Leo Stephen Munster, was a merchant; his mother was Marianne Munster née Barcza, the daughter of Ernest Barcza, managing director of Krupp Industries (Hungary). His uncle, Ladislaus Munster, became professor of medical history at the University of Ferrara. Andrew Munster emigrated to Australia and attended Sydney Grammar School, where he won prizes for debating and chess, and gained a Commonwealth scholarship to study medicine at the University of Sydney. He was awarded the BMA students essay prize in 1958 and qualified in 1959 with first class honours and the George Allen prize for therapeutics and the J Harris scholarship. He was a junior and then a senior assistant resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney from 1959 to 1960. He subsequently travelled to the UK, where he was a house surgeon under Ralph Shackman at the Hammersmith Hospital and a registrar in Southend, where he worked with Bernard J Sanger. He then went to the United States, where from 1965 to 1968 he was a junior to the chief resident at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston under Joseph Murray and Francis D Moore. From 1968 to 1971 he served in the US Army Medical Corps, ending his service as a lieutenant colonel. In 1971, he was appointed as an assistant professor of surgery in South Carolina. Five years later, he became a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins, a post he held until his retirement in 2000. He wrote five books, 30 chapters and 200 papers, mostly on burns and immunology. He introduced the concept of immunological changes in the host to the burns/trauma specialty, and promoted the idea that quality of life was as important as the mortality rate. He also, in his own words: ‘Preached to students/residents that the surgeon must remain a “complete physician” and read literature, play music, enjoy sports etc.’ A Hunterian Professor in 1972, he was president of the American Burn Association in 1996. He was an avid stamp collector and enjoyed mountain trekking, piano, tennis and golf. In 1963, he married Joy O’Sullivan, who was a nurse at St Mary’s Hospital. They had three children – Andrea, Tara and Alexandra. He died on 27 September 2003 at the age of 67.
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First Title value, for Searching Blake, Graeme Bertram (1938 - 2008)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Stewart Sinclair
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2015-09-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380218380218
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Reconstructive surgeon
Details Graeme Bertram ("Blue") Blake was born in Palmerston North but grew up mainly in Wellington, attending Kelburn Primary School and Wellington College. After his medical intermediate year at Victoria University he studied medicine at Otago University from 1958 to 1961. He met Brenda Hayward, a fellow student in Dunedin and they married in 1962. His early post graduate years were spent in Christchurch and then in Dunedin. In 1968 the Blakes travelled to England by sea with Graeme employed as ship's assistant surgeon. In London Graeme worked in the Mount Vernon and Roehampton Hospitals and passed his English FRCS examinations. He was awarded a Commonwealth Medical Fellowship in 1971 and directed his specialist training to Plastic Surgery, gaining a lot of experience in cleft lip and palate and head and neck cancer surgery. In late 1972 he and Brenda returned to NZ with their, by then, four children. He passed his FRACS examinations and was appointed to a full-time post as Plastic Surgeon in Christchurch on the retirement of John Roy. Christchurch's Plastic Surgery Unit was then sited at Burwood Hospital where he joined Tom Milliken and Duncan Simon. Two years later he went part-time at the public hospital and began in private practice. His passion for plastic surgery was infectious and the Unit at Burwood benefited greatly from this enthusiasm. Ultimately he served as head of the Unit from 1987 to 1998 and was influential in moving the unit to Christchurch Hospital where there was better emergency support and more direct liaison with other surgical and medical specialties. Graeme served terms as president of the NZ Association of Plastic Surgeons, as a member of the RACS Plastic Surgery Board, as Chairman of the NZ Plastic Surgery training committee and as an RACS examiner. His annual March and April visits to Nepal to do cleft lip and palate surgery began in 1997 when Australian colleague and friend Charles Sharpe invited him to join a group working a Seventh Day Adventist clinic. He and Brenda found this a very gratifying experience which they looked forward to each year. Graeme retired from the hospital service in 2002 and from private practice in 2006. He quite suddenly became unwell in mid-2007 and was found to have disseminated malignant melanoma. He died at his home in Christchurch on January 7, 2008, ten days after his 69th birthday. He is survived by Brenda, daughters Prue and Katie, sons Andrew and James and 10 grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Ball, Pamela Margaret (1926 - 2019)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Douglas Murray
Publication Date 2020-03-19 2020-12-18
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Occupation Plastic surgeon General surgeon Anaesthetist General practitioner
Details Pamela Ball was a surgeon at Kidderminster General Hospital and at the West Midlands regional plastic surgery centre at Wordsley Hospital. She was born Pamela Margaret Moody on 28 November 1926 in Half Way Tree, a neighbourhood of Kingston, Jamaica. Her mother was Vera Holme Moody née Manley, sister of Norman Washington Manley, statesman, lawyer and Jamaican prime minister. Her father, Ludlow Murcott Moody, a government bacteriologist and then a general practitioner, had trained at King’s College in London and, in 1919, became the first Jamaican to gain the membership of the Royal College of Physicians. Her paternal uncles included Harold Moody, also a physician, who in 1931 set up and led the first black civil rights group in the UK – the League of Coloured Peoples, and Ronald Moody, an eminent sculptor. She qualified in medicine from Birmingham University in 1950. She was a house surgeon to Jimmy Leather at Birmingham General Hospital, and then held posts in casualty and orthopaedics. She gained her FRCS in 1954. She was a resident surgical officer at Kidderminster General Hospital and a clinical assistant in plastic surgery at the West Midlands regionals plastic surgery centre, where she was a busy and efficient surgeon of great experience who did many local anaesthetic lists. However, her medical talents were not confined to surgery as she gave general anaesthetics to obstetric and plastic surgery patients, as well as being a well-respected part-time general practitioner in a large Kidderminster practice. Pamela also did sessions in the accident and emergency department at Kidderminster General Hospital from 1970 to 1985. She married John Ball, an eminent general practitioner and medical politician, in 1957 and by 1960 had given birth to three children – Margaret, David and Jonathan. She played the viola to a high standard and enjoyed playing chamber music. She obtained a first-class honours degree and then a masters’ degree in mathematics from the Open University whilst working in general practice and at Wordsley Hospital. She looked after a well-stocked and exotic garden, and spent many hours salmon fishing in the Scottish Angus Glens. Latterly she did much charity work for Kidderminster General Hospital and was president of the League of Hospital Friends. She was awarded an MBE in 2019. Predeceased by her husband, she died of bone cancer on 16 September 2019.
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First Title value, for Searching Timmons, Michael John (1949 - 2019)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Gemma Timmons
Publication Date 2019-11-27 2021-01-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/382795382795
Occupation Plastic surgeon Reconstructive surgeon
Details Michael Timmons was a highly-respected plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford. His special interests were cleft lip and palate surgery, and surgeries on other complex congenital problems, such as hypospadias. He was born on 17 February 1949 in Croydon to John Timmons and Lenchen Timmons née Schlegel. He studied medicine at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he wrote a ground-breaking thesis on the forearm flap. During his time at Christ’s, he was secretary for the modern pentathlon, swimming and water polo teams. He was appointed as a consultant at the Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s Hospital, and saw children in Bradford, Airedale, Halifax and Huddersfield born with a cleft lip or palate. He was also an unsung hero of the Bradford City fire of 1985, operating on and caring for many of its victims. In 1994, he led a team of colleagues to Sarajevo to assist emergency surgical services in the Yugoslav Wars. In the 1990s and 2000s, Mike travelled to Rwanda and Kenya on assessment missions for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the charity UK-Med and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Michael made vast contributions to medical studies and debate, publishing books on human anatomy, and publishing and reviewing several articles in medical journals. Michael was editor of the *British Journal of Plastic Surgery* from 1994 to 1997 and a council member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Anaesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) from 2010 to 2012, where he was immensely respected as a wise colleague and great teacher. Michael retired from the NHS in 2016, after which he worked as an expert witness in medical legal cases. He was a regular attendee at the Doctors Updates meetings in Val d'Isère, where he always had something to contribute to the meetings and was an accomplished and personable ski companion. Michael was killed in a car accident on 4 October 2019 at the age of 70. He was survived by his wife, Ildiko (née Németh), a doctor, and their daughter, Gemma. His colleagues from across the globe paid tribute to him as ‘a real gentleman, humble, interested, intelligent, well-read, meticulous, supportive and always a pleasure to meet’. Of his work, his colleagues remarked: ‘Michael didn’t just operate on patients – he was completely committed to their wellbeing and was a surgical perfectionist. He was the sort of gentleman we so need within our specialty as parts of it hurtle seemingly towards the commercial at the expense of service.’ He will be greatly missed.
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First Title value, for Searching Faulkner, Thomas (1913 - 1991)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380104380104
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born in Rugby on 27 May 1913, the son of Thomas Faulkner, a businessman, Faulkner was educated at Rugby School and Emmanuel College Cambridge, from which he went up to St Bartholomew's Hospital to do his clinical training. During the war he served in the RAMC, and on demobilisation returned to demonstrate anatomy and to study for the FRCS, and to specialise in plastic surgery. He won the Marks Fellowship in plastic surgery at East Grinstead, and became consultant plastic surgeon to the Royal Northern, St Charles' and the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospitals in London as well as to the Royal Sussex County Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children in Brighton. He was consultant plastic surgeon to HM Prison Commission, St Mary's Hospital Paddington and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Tom Faulkner was an accomplished artist, exhibiting in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. He wrote extensively on surgical repair following oesophago-pharyngectomy. He married Felicity Clutterbuck in 1948. They had one son. Tom died in February 1991.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007921
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First Title value, for Searching Ashall, Geoffrey John (1954 - 1995)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379981379981
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Ashall was born in Addis Ababa in 1954 and received his medical education at St Mary's Hospital, whence he qualified in 1978. Dr Geoffrey Irvine, the medical superintendent at Chogoria Hospital in Kenya, where Ashall spent three months in 1973, inspired Ashall to turn to surgery after qualification; he decided to specialise in plastic surgery after a rotation appointment at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough. He moved to Northern Ireland for his senior registrar training, becoming consultant plastic surgeon to the Belfast Hospitals in 1992. In 1991, flying to take up a training fellowship in Florida, he learnt on arrival that his wife, Lucina, had been killed in a road traffic accident. While at Belfast he developed an interest in post-mastectomy reconstruction. He leaves two sons and a fiancée, Molly, to whom he had become engaged shortly before his death.
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First Title value, for Searching Morris, Arthur Macgregor (1941 - 2022)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Irfan Ahmed
Publication Date 2022-04-20
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Arthur MacGregor Morris was a distinguished consultant in plastic and reconstructive surgery in Dundee. He was born on 6 May 1941 and was educated at Dulwich College, Selwyn College, Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital Medical School, London. He qualified in 1965. He held his house posts at Guy’s and was then an anatomy demonstrator in Newcastle. He went on to complete a surgical rotation in Bristol, followed by a one-year research post in the breast unit at Guy’s in 1969. He was a registrar at Canniesburn, Glasgow and then a senior registrar at Bangour Hospital, Edinburgh. He was subsequently appointed as a consultant plastic surgeon in Tayside, then based at the Bridge of Earn Hospital. Here he introduced new ideas and techniques, particularly in the areas of head and neck cancer surgery, cleft lip and palate, and hand surgery. He also helped plan and organise the department’s move to Dundee Royal Infirmary and then Ninewells Hospital. Throughout his career, he exemplified the highest standards of surgical excellence and compassionate patient care. His commitment to his profession extended far beyond the operating theatre, encompassing all facets of medical practice, including patient care, education, research, and advancing surgical standards. His unwavering belief in the power of teamwork emphasised the vital contributions of every individual involved in patient well-being, from the dedicated staff to his fellow surgical colleagues. His humanitarian efforts extended beyond his local community. His voluntary work in Ghana, particularly in Accra and Kumasi, brought hope and healing to countless individuals, particularly children. Despite facing numerous challenges and privations, his dedication to improving the lives of others remained unwavering. In addition to his clinical practice, he significantly contributed to medical politics. He served as chairman of the Scottish council of the British Medical Association (from 1995 to 1999), where he played a pivotal role in shaping healthcare policies and advocating for the welfare of patients and healthcare professionals. He was an adviser in plastic surgery to the chief medical officer in Scotland and with others develop the Scottish Association for Cleft Lip and Palate. In recognition of his outstanding service to plastic surgery and the BMA, he was awarded an OBE in 1999. He was a loving husband and a father outside of his professional endeavours. He shared a deep and enduring bond with his wife, Vicki (née Whitaker), whom he met during his clinical training at Guy's. Together, they navigated the challenges and joys of life, united in their commitment to healthcare and the betterment of society. They had two children, Thomas and Ruth. Arthur Morris died on 20 August 2022 after a valiant seven-year battle with metastatic renal disease. He was 81. Colleagues and friends remember him as a compassionate, highly skilled surgeon, always striving to make a difference. His legacy will be cherished by all who had the privilege of knowing him. His invaluable contributions to the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery, his dedication to patient care, and his unwavering belief in the power of teamwork will forever inspire future generations of surgeons.
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First Title value, for Searching Muir, Ian Fraser (1921 - 2008)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-10 2014-09-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373746373746
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Ian Fraser Muir was a consultant plastic surgeon for the Grampian Health Board and a senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. He was born on 26 August 1921 in West Hartlepool, the son of John Kerr Muir and Margaret McKenzie Muir née Duke. He came from a medical family: his father was a general practitioner and radiologist, his grandfather qualified from Glasgow Medical School and several uncles became doctors. His brother, Douglas McKenzie Kerr Muir, became a radiologist in British Columbia, Canada. Ian Muir was educated at Rosebank High School, West Hartlepool, Epsom College and then Middlesex Hospital Medical School, where he won several prizes. He qualified in 1943 with the Lyell gold medal in surgery. He was a house surgeon at Middlesex Hospital and then joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a surgeon lieutenant, as a medical officer on HMS *Artifex*. He served mostly in the Far East. He was demobilised in 1947, held house posts at Dollis Hill Hospital, and then returned to Middlesex Hospital to start his training in surgery. He was a house surgeon and registrar there and then, from 1949 to 1951, a registrar at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. He then returned to London, as a senior registrar in plastic surgery at Hill End Hospital and Mount Vernon Hospital under Rainsford Mowlem, who proved to be an influential mentor. In 1955 he was appointed as a consultant at West Middlesex Hospital and Mount Vernon Centre for Plastic Surgery. During this time, working with Thomas Laird Barclay, he developed the widely-used 'Muir and Barclay formula' for burns resuscitation, which estimates the amount of fluid that needs to be infused during the first 36 hours after a major burn. With Barclay he wrote *Burns and their treatment* (London, Lloyd-Luke Medical Books, 1962), which was for many years the standard textbook on the subject. In 1969 he moved to Aberdeen, where he set up the plastic surgery unit. For almost 10 years he was single handed and on-call 24 hours a day. In 1986, after his retirement from full-time clinical practice, he continued to work for 10 years as an honorary research fellow in the department of surgery at Aberdeen University. During this time he supervised a number of MSc and PhD students and was co-author of publications on aspects of wound healing and scar formation, as well as *Plastic surgery in paediatrics* (London, Lloyd-Luke, 1987). At the Royal College of Surgeons he was Hunterian Professor in 1983 and in 1992 gave the McIndoe lecture on wound healing and scars. He was president of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1982, and in 1993 president of the Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society. He married Marion Pinks, a nurse, in 1947 and they had two children, Jennifer and Colin. Marion died in 1965. Ian Muir spent the last four years of his life living with his son in Leicester. He died in Leicester General Hospital on 6 December 2008, a few days after suffering a stroke, aged 87.
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First Title value, for Searching McNeill, Donald Cragg (1935 - 2005)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2013-10-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373685373685
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Donald Cragg McNeill was a consultant plastic surgeon in Salisbury. He was born in 1935 and was educated at the Southern Grammar School, Portsmouth. He won a scholarship to study medicine and trained at St Mary's, qualifying in 1958. Most of his surgical training took place in the Wessex region, where he gained wide experience in all aspects of general surgery, orthopaedics, gynaecology and plastic surgery. In 1960 he extended his National Service with a five-year commission in the RAF. His initial posting was to Halton as a trainee in general surgery, orthopaedics and gynaecology. He was then posted to the island of Gan in the Indian Ocean, where he was the only surgeon for 2,000 miles. He returned to the RAF hospital at Ely, and then had a further posting abroad to the Christmas Islands. In 1965 he left the RAF holding the rank of squadron leader. He continued his general surgical training in Winchester, then began his plastic surgery training at Odstock 1967 with John Barron. He passed his Edinburgh fellowship in 1968. He rose from senior house officer to senior registrar, and then moved to the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, working with James Calnan in the department of experimental surgery. In 1973 he was appointed as a consultant in plastic surgery to Odstock Hospital in Salisbury and as a senior lecturer to Southampton Medical School. He enjoyed integrating with other services, and was one of the first oncoplastic breast surgeons. He also developed an interest in the use of lasers in surgery, on which he became an international authority. In addition to this commitments in Wessex, he built up a practice in Jersey over 25 years. He enjoyed and was passionate about teaching, in the UK and also in India, where he helped train young surgeons in plastic surgery. In the late seventies and eighties he led a group of consultants who wished to establish a private hospital in Salisbury. They formed the Salisbury Independent Hospital Trust, with Donald as the chairman. Fundraising and sponsorship enabled a property to be purchased and, after renovations, this became New Hall Hospital, which has continued to thrive. Problems with silicone breast implants in the early nineties led the Department of Health to set up the National Breast Implant Registry at Odstock, with Donald as director. After his death the registry was discontinued: had it continued the failure of PIP implants, which eventually came to light in 2012, may have been recognised earlier. In 1995 Donald was elected president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. His commitment to teaching and his leadership in plastic surgery was recognised by his election as a fellow *ad eundem* of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1998. He was married and had three children, Andrew, Jane and John (who predeceased him). Donald died on 16 October 2005 at the age of 70 after a long fight with head and neck cancer, a disease which, ironically, he had spent many years treating. The Donald McNeill oncoplastic travelling scholarship was set up by the Association of Breast Surgery in his memory.
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First Title value, for Searching Owen-Smith, Bertram (1922 - 2008)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2011-11-18 2016-02-12
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Politician
Details Bertram Owen-Smith, or 'Owen' as he was known, was a plastic surgeon in the UK and later in Salisbury, Rhodesia. A member of the 'Guinea Pig Club', the group of injured Second World War airmen treated by the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe, he made the unusual transition from patient to doctor; he studied medicine at King's College and then Westminster Hospital and later trained with McIndoe. He was born Bertram Owen Smith in Liverpool on 12 April 1922, one of the four children of an officer in Customs and Excise. When he was still a child the family returned to their home city, Swansea, and he attended Swansea Grammar School. He was primarily interested in sports, particularly rugby, left school at 17 and found a job in an insurance company. The Second World War broke out soon afterwards, the centre of Swansea was heavily bombed and so Owen moved to the short-staffed ambulance service. At the age of 18, he joined the RAF. He was sent to Canada for pilot training and was commissioned in April 1941. On 16 October 1941 he was piloting a Whitley V plane on a training sortie when one of the two engines failed just after take-off. He managed to land in a field, but the aircraft burst into flames. Owen, his co-pilot and the navigator were badly burned. He spent nearly two years as a patient at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, Sussex, where he was operated on by McIndoe, who was developing new techniques in facial reconstruction and plastic surgery. Smith became fascinated by McIndoe's work, decided to become a doctor and studied from his hospital bed. Meanwhile, in March 1943, he returned to duty. He completed a refresher course, but due to his injuries he was unable to resume operational flying. In November 1944 he resigned from the RAF with the rank of flight lieutenant. He went on to study medicine at King's College, London, and Westminster Hospital Medical School. He subsequently worked in hospitals in Bristol and Newcastle, and at the Royal Marsden Hospital. While at the Royal Marsden he asked to return to East Grinstead to learn the basics of plastic surgery, with the aim of helping his patients who needed radical surgery for cancer. In the event he stayed for three years and trained under McIndoe. In 1957 he emigrated to Salisbury, Rhodesia. Here he changed his name by deed poll and officially became 'Owen-Smith'. He treated burns victims, patients with skin cancer, children with cleft palates and victims of the guerilla war. In 1964, unhappy with a project to develop a new teaching hospital in Salisbury, he stood for election to the Rhodesian Parliament and was elected as an MP. He was one of Prime Minister Ian Smith's backbenchers when UDI (the unilateral declaration of independence) was announced in November 1965. In 1982 he returned to Britain and settled in Pentregat, Dyfed. In 1943 he married Rickie Pritchard. They divorced in 1967 and later that year he married Bobbie Mitchell, the chief nurse in his practice. Bobbie died in 2005. Bertram Owen-Smith died on 6 June 2008, aged 86. He was survived by his four sons and daughter by his first marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Antia, Nohir Hormasji (1922 - 2007)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2016-05-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381228381228
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Social worker
Details Noshir Hormasji Antia was a pioneering plastic surgeon in India, particularly known for his work treating patients with leprosy. He was born in Bombay, India, on 8 February 1922, into a Parsi family, the son of Hormasji Antia, a shopkeeper, and Soonamai. He was educated at Esplanade High School, Bombay, and then completed the pre-graduate course at Fergusson College, Poona. He went on to study medicine at Grant Medical College and the Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy group of hospitals, qualifying MB BS in 1945. He began his career by joining the British Indian Army as a medical officer, where he worked for two years. In 1947 he went to the UK for postgraduate studies. He held posts at the plastic surgery unit, Basingstoke, where he worked with Sir Harold Gillies, at the burns and trauma unit at Birmingham Accident Hospital, and with A B Wallace in Edinburgh, where he was a senior house officer in plastic surgery. His final post in the UK was with Rainsford Mowlem at Mount Vernon Hospital. Antia gained his FRCS in 1952. He returned to India in 1956 and was initially posted to the Jehangir Nursing Home, Poona, where he was a general surgeon but also practised plastic surgery there, as well as at the Dr Bandorawalla Government Leprosy Hospital. He was later invited to establish a department of plastic surgery at Grant Medical College and the Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy group of hospitals, the first such unit in western India. The unit became known as the Tata department of plastic surgery, and grew to accommodate burns, hand and leprosy surgery. Antia headed the Tata department for 22 years until 1980, helping to establish it as a leading training centre for plastic surgeons in India. Antia wrote five books, contributed to other publications and published almost 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His autobiography *A life of change: the autobiography of a doctor* (Penguin Books India) was published in 2009. He established three charitable organisations - the Foundation for Research in Community Health, the Foundation for Medical Research and the National Society for Equal Opportunities for the Handicapped. He was president of the International Confederation of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India and the Indian Association of Leprologists. He was one of the founder members of the Burns Association of India and the Society for Reconstructive Surgery, Rehabilitation and Research, Bombay. In India he gave the Pandalai oration of the Association of Surgeons of India in 1969 and Gillies memorial oration of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India in 1972. He was a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1962 and gave the Clayton memorial lecture there in 1980. He was an honorary fellow of the American College of Surgeons and was the Kiskadden memorial orator at the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons in 1973 and the Maliniac memorial lecturer for the same organisation in 1984. He was an honorary surgeon to the president of India and the governor of the state of Maharashtra. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri in 1990. In 1957 Antia married Arnie Noshir Batliwala, a kindergarten teacher. They had two children, a son, Rustom, and a daughter, Avan. N H Antia died on 26 June 2007. He was 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Bennett, John Prichard (1939 - 2018)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-05-18 2021-01-06
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details John Prichard Bennett was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire on 3 July 1939, he was the son of Russell Percy Bennett, a headmaster, and his wife Margaret Enid née Prichard who was a hairdresser. After attending Court Lane Primary School in Cosham, he completed his education at Portsmouth Grammar School. He studied medicine at the University of London and trained at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, graduating MB, BS in 1962. During his time at St Mary’s he was mentored in ENT surgery by John Fergusson Simpson and in plastic surgery by Robin Lyell Blin Beale. He later recalled that his attention wandered while he was assisting Arthur Dickson Wright with an abdomino-perineal resection of the rectum, whereupon he was rapped over the knuckles with a pair of forceps and heard the words *You don’t appreciate major surgery Mr Dresser!*. In 1969 he passed the fellowship of the college and in 1972 became consultant plastic surgeon at the St Lawrence Hospital in Chepstow and the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. Three years later he moved to the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead and stayed for nearly 20 years until his retirement in 1994. Their first clinical director, he occupied that role from 1990 to 1992. He also worked at King’s College Hospital from 1975 to 1989 and served as vice dean of the King’s Medical School from 1981 to 1983. He was on the editorial board of *The British Journal of Surgery* from 1984 to 1986, and also became Society of Apothecaries lecturer in the history and philosophy of medicine and pharmacy at King’s from 1980 to 1989. He married Elizabeth Frances née Smith, a nurse, in 1963. They had a son, James Garfield Bennett, who became a teacher. Outside medicine he studied bookbinding and loved to restore old books. He was member of the Society of Bookbinders, an associate member of Designer Bookbinders and a life member of the Bibliographical Society. A keen gardener, he cultivated old shrub roses. After he had retired he was critical of the huge changes that had taken place during his 32 years in the NHS. *In 1962* he wrote in 1998 *the honorary consultant ....was becoming extinct. All powerful, unpaid by the hospital, retiring at 65, very much of the pre-antibiotic era, in whom the art of surgery featured more than the science they were, in the main, excellent teachers and commanded great respect. In the 1960s political expediency rather than long term planning bedevilled the service culminating in the market ethos of the present time. The consultant of today is but a pale simulacrum of his predecessors, versed in science rather than art, of low morale, earning a salary, the lackey of managers, reviled by the politicians and threatened with litigation by his patients he retires early with mixed feelings of regret and relief. ‘Sic transit Gloria...’* He died on 2 March 2018 aged 78.
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First Title value, for Searching McComb, Harold Keith (1924 - 2012)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Jeanette Robertson
Publication Date 2016-05-13
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Harold Keith McComb, a gifted plastic surgeon and Founding Member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons was renowned for his technical brilliance and innovation and a source of inspiration. He leaves behind a legacy of surgical excellence for the craft. Harold obtained his MB BS at the University of Melbourne in 1947. He was a Registrar in Plastic Surgery at Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1949 and Associate Assistant Surgeon in 1950. Guided by Sir Benjamin Rank, Harold developed a passion for reconstructive surgery. By 1953 his potential was recognised with a two-year scholarship for specialist training at Oxford. After three months Royal Perth Hospital offered him a consultancy in plastic surgery. As he was unable to take leave to finish his studies, his Oxford tutors accelerated his training which he finished in nine months. He obtained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1952 and assumed the RPH consultancy in 1954. As such, he was WA's first fully trained plastic surgeon. In 1956, Harold obtained his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons in 1960. Harold's passion was in cleft lip and cleft palate correction. He performed countless reconstructive procedures to help children live a life free of disfigurement and stigma. He pioneered the technique of correcting nasal deformity and lip defect simultaneously. The published results led to worldwide adoption of his techniques. He achieved a similar outcome with bone grafts to fill the gap associated with cleft palates. He created the first Combined Clinic in which children with facial clefts could be examined by all relevant specialists. His innovation extended beyond surgery as he created watertight beds for bathing burns patients to eliminate risk of cross infection. His contribution to developing SSD burn cream at Princess Margaret Hospital revolutionised patient management. Harold was a fine teacher and an examiner for the College. He was dedicated to a number of aid programs. Under the Colombo Plan, his trip to Madurai in India in 1964 initiated a long-running Interplast program that trained local medical teams in cleft repairs in Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Mauritius, Indonesia, Tuvalu, Fiji, Vietnam and Laos. Harold served as a Board Member of Interplast Australia. Harold received numerous distinctions and awards including the Distinguished Honorary Fellowship of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons - a peer-reviewed award recognising his worldwide contributions. At the time, he was one of four non-Americans so honoured. He was Founding and Honorary Member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons and Honorary Member of the New Zealand Association of Plastic Surgeons. In 2002 he received a WA Citizen of the Year award for his surgical work in WA and voluntary work in South-East Asia. Harold had a longstanding illness and died on 16 August in Hollywood Private Hospital, Nedlands. He was 88. His wife predeceased him and he leaves three sons, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Universally respected by his peers and an inspiration to all plastic surgeons, he will be missed.
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First Title value, for Searching Obwegeser, Hugo Lorenz (1920 - 2017)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2021-03-08
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Occupation Oral surgeon Plastic surgeon
Details Hugo Lorenz Obwegeser was internationally recognised as the father of modern orthognathic surgery who initiated huge advances in the development of plastic surgery of the facial skeleton. He was born on 21 October 1920 in Hohenems, Austria and initially graduated in medicine at Innsbruck. In 1945 he attended the Rockitansky Institute of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Vienna and studied pathology under Hermann Chiari – a man whom he always acknowledged as a highly influential teacher. From there he moved to Graz and trained in oral and maxillofacial surgery for six years, where his mentor was Richard Trauner. Building on this experience of dealing with war time injuries, he spent 5 months in the UK with Sir Harold Gillies in Basingstoke from October 1951 to February 1952 and also joined Eduard Schmidt in Stuttgart for a while. Appointed to the staff of the department of surgery at the University of Zurich in a fairly junior position, he rapidly rose through the ranks and was appointed a personal chair in 1962. By the time he retired he was professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the medical school and professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery, oral pathology and oral diagnosis at the dental school. When he began his research, orthognathic surgery was merely a subspecialty of oral surgery. The ground breaking procedures he introduced were notable not only in their effectiveness, but also because they were carried out via intraoral incisions thus leaving no facial scarring. He pioneered the sagittal split osteotomy in 1953 on two patients with a sagittal plane of fracture of the mandibular ramus. Four years later, in 1957, he undertook the first osseous genoplasty on a living patient. A further innovation was the development of what was known as the Le Fort I osteotomy of the maxilla which he described in 1965 and in 1970 he published a description of the first bimaxillary osteotomy. Later, in 1986, he published an important classification of mandibular asymmetry. He lectured widely on his innovative procedures, including a memorable three day lecture series at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC in 1966. Working with fellow craniofacial surgeons all over the world, he developed particularly fruitful relationships with Paul Tessier in Paris and Norman Rowe in the UK. Many aspiring surgeons visited his unit which came to be referred to as the ‘Zurich School’ of cranio-maxillofacial surgery. He published extensively and was on the editorial panels of several important journals. A member of many professional organisations, he was at one time president of the German Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and of the European Association of Maxillofacial Surgery. Having retired from his academic posts in 1987, he continued his research and an article written by him was published in the *Journal of Craniomaxillofacial surgery* in the month in which he passed away. On 2 September 2017 he died at the age of 96 in Schwerzenbach, Switzerland. He was survived by Luise, his wife of almost 70 years, six children, 17 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Brien, Bernard McCarthy ( - 1993)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11 2015-09-25
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Bernard McCarthy was educated at Melbourne University, gaining a BSc there in 1948, qualifying MB BS in 1950 and received the Melbourne MS in 1955. After early appointments at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, and as a demonstrator in anatomy and clinical surgery at Melbourne University, he came to Britain in 1955 and after passing the Fellowship became Nuffield Dominion clinical assistant in the Nuffield Department of Plastic Surgery at Oxford in 1956. He was registrar in plastic surgery at Odstock Hospital, Salisbury from 1957 to 1958 and spent 1959 as a staff specialist in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Roosevelt Hospital, New York. Returning to Australia, he spent most of the rest of his career specialising as a consultant in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Dandenong and District Hospital and at Geelong Hospital Melbourne, and was medical administrator at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne from 1975. He died on 21 August 1993.
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First Title value, for Searching McGregor, John Cummack (1944 - 2018)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by J D Watson
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2018-11-27
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details John McGregor was a consultant plastic surgeon in Edinburgh and the Lothians. He was born on 21 April 1944 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the only child of John Alexander McGregor, a chartered civil engineer, and Isabel Millar McGregor née Cummack, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at Paisley Grammar School and the University of Glasgow. He graduated in medicine after completing an intercalated BSc in physiology. After preregistration house jobs and the prestigious Hall fellowship within the regius department of surgery, he proceeded on a surgical path, joining the west of Scotland training rotation, before embarking on plastic surgical training. He was a registrar in Nottingham before returning to Canniesburn (where he had been on the surgical rotation) as a registrar and then senior registrar at Bangour General Hospital (the former site of the Edinburgh and Lothian plastic surgery unit). He spent time with Edgar Biemer in Munich studying microsurgical techniques and performed the first free flaps at Bangour. Once Campbell Buchan retired from the unit, John was appointed as his successor. He was an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, examining for many years for the fellowship examinations, then for the Intercollegiate Specialty Board in Plastic Surgery. He ultimately acted as assessor of examiners. He served on the council of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons from 2004 to 2006. He retired from the National Health Service in 2007, intending to continue with his private practice but very soon thereafter suffered a very severe stroke which left him considerably disabled. This prevented him taking part in his much-loved sports of tennis and golf. He was a member of the Royal Burgess and Bruntsfield Links golfing societies – the oldest and fourth oldest golf clubs in the world. He remained to the end an avid watcher of sport. He was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer and was treated at home. He died on 20 July 2018 at the age of 74. He was survived by his widow Moria, whom he married in 1972, his children Trudy and Alan and grandchildren Callum, Holly, Joshua, Lucy and Liam.
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First Title value, for Searching Burke, John Francis (1922 - 2011)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2011-12-08 2013-11-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373877373877
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Jack Burke will be remembered for successfully developing the first commercially reproducible, synthetic human skin. He was born on 22 July 1922 in Chicago, where he grew up. He started studying engineering at the University of Illinois, but left after Pearl Harbor and joined the Army. At the end of the Second World War he initially decided to become a psychiatrist, but, having graduated from Harvard in 1951, he trained to become a surgeon. He eventually became professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and surgeon to Massachusetts General Hospital. He was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1999. His election was in recognition of his contributions to surgery and his close connections with the UK. When he had completed his training in the USA (1960), he was awarded a fellowship to work with Sir Ashley Miles, director of the Lister Institute in London. He was already interested in surgical infection and during this year at the Lister Institute he performed a number of seminal experiments which demonstrated for the first time that if antibiotics were to be used to prevent infection after surgery then they needed to be given approximately one hour before surgery ('The effective period of preventive antibiotic action in experimental incisions and dermal lesion' *Surgery*. 1961 Jul;50:161-8). This paper took a little while to be recognised, but it completely altered the way in which prophylactic antibiotics were administered in surgery. Now throughout the world prophylactic antibiotics (or as Burke preferred to call them 'preventive antibiotics') are given before surgery or during the induction of the anaesthesia in all patients at risk of infectious contamination during surgery or those undergoing high risk surgeries. For example, in patients undergoing colectomy the incidence of wound infections was reduced by well over 50%. He was also interested in the study of metabolic changes after trauma and in particular after severe burn injuries. In 1965 the Shriners built a children's hospital for burn injuries at the Massachusetts General and Jack Burke was appointed as its first director and chief of surgery. He pioneered the introduction of silver nitrate dressing in the treatment of burns in children and studied the metabolic changes in burns. He pioneered the adoption of early excision of the deeper burn wounds and their coverage with skin grafts. However, in major burn injury there was insufficient skin that could be harvested from the burnt child to cover the excised areas and this led him to look for an artificial substitute. He worked with Ionnis V Yannas from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was professor of fibers and polymers, and together they developed an artificial skin consisting of a silicone sheet, below which is a layer of collagen, used as a scaffold for the patient's own cells. It took some nine years to develop 'Integra', which is now used routinely throughout the world in the management of severe burn wound, and is one of the first examples of tissue engineering. Jack was a visiting fellow at Balliol College for a year in 1990 to 1991. He contributed significantly to the activities of the Nuffield department of surgery and led memorable grand rounds on the topic of burn management and treatment of mass casualties. He devoted his year primarily to writing and thinking; he was indeed a lateral thinker, an unusual trait for a surgeon. He died of pancreatic cancer on 3 November 2011 at the age of 89. He was survived by his wife Aggie, two sons, John and Peter, and a daughter Annie, all of whom are successful academics. Another son, Andrew, died of lymphoma at the age of 13.
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First Title value, for Searching Fischl, Robert Arnold (1928 - 2017)

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by Irene Fischl
Publication Date 2017-11-02 2018-11-22
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Robert Arnold Fischl was chief of the plastic surgery section of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, Connecticut. He was born in Dresden, Germany on 18 June 1928. His father, Emil Fischl, was a paper manufacturer; his mother, Bettina Hahn, was the daughter of a banker. They left Germany in 1939 and settled in Newcastle upon Tyne, where Robert was enroled in the Royal Grammar School. During the Second World War, he was evacuated to Penrith in the Lake District, where he lived with a family for four years. He kept in touch with this family throughout his life, bringing his new bride to meet them and receiving their grandchildren at his home many years later. A municipal scholarship (Gateshead) secured his entrance to King’s College at the University of Durham, Newcastle, where he qualified in 1951. He served as a house surgeon at Bedford General Hospital and the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, and then as a senior house officer at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead and at Hammersmith Hospital in London. During the Malaysia Campaign, he served as a surgeon in the RAMC from 1953 to 1955, emerging with the rank of captain. Returning from Malaysia, he went to New York for training in plastic surgery. He spent several years as a resident and then chief resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where, years later, he became an assistant clinical professor of surgery. From 1962 to 1964 he was a registrar at the Roehampton Plastic Surgery Centre. In 1964, he moved to the United States, having accepted a position at a New York hospital to head a plastic surgery unit. At the same time, he established a private practice in New York. Some years later, he moved his practice to Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, where he was chief of plastic surgery for 26 years. In New York, he became president of the British Medical Graduates of New York, a social organisation to strengthen ties and keep the community of British doctors together. He was a co-founder of the Connecticut Society of Plastic Surgery and chairman of the board of trustees of Fairfield County Medical Society. He invented several surgical instruments, among them an angled knife and a retractor for use in plastic surgery. He wrote widely and published papers on hemifacial atrophy and Mondor’s disease, among other topics. He developed new treatments for keloids and for unilateral breast reduction for asymmetry, a procedure for vertical abdominoplasty, a method for using adhesive for primary closure of the skin and developed a flap for nasolabial defects. A paper on ring constriction and secondary syndactylism took him to meetings in Australia, France and many cities in the United States. He attended international meetings in many foreign capitals, where he fostered friendships with Greek, French, Turkish and Japanese plastic surgeons. He kept his ties to his medical school classmates throughout his life, and for several years enjoyed celebrating his birthday at the annual June meeting of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. He was a talented watercolourist and for ten years, on his day off, he taught an anatomy course for artists at Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, Connecticut. He exhibited his paintings and won many prizes in shows in New England and Hawaii, where he lived in the winter after retiring. In 1966, he married Irene Pachanik, a writer, editor and adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut. Robert A Fischl died on 26 May 2017, two weeks short of his 89th birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, Robert Clark (1931 - 2015)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by George Lamberty
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2016-12-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380256380256
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Robert Clark Campbell (known as 'Bob') was a consultant plastic surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. He was born in Dundee on 31 January 1931, the only son of Archibald and Agnes Campbell. Following school in Dundee and then Southampton, he decided upon a career in medicine and he graduated MB ChB from Aberdeen University in 1955. He met his wife to be Sally in Aberdeen and they married in December 1956 in Hamburg while he was serving in the RAMC as part of his National Service. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh in 1963. In 1964 he was appointed as a plastic surgical registrar at the West Norwich Hospital, working with two consultants, Frank Innes and George Joss. He was then appointed as a senior registrar in Leeds, working under the tutelage of Mortimer Shaw and during the latter part of his term he became an acting consultant in Wakefield, where he developed an interest in burns surgery. In 1968 he was awarded an appointment to work for a year with Ralph Millard in Miami, where he developed his further interest in cleft lip and palate surgery. In 1971 he was appointed as the first consultant plastic surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. The service until that time had been provided by Frank Innes, who visited from Norwich on a weekly basis. Bob worked as the sole consultant at the old Addenbrooke's Hospital with only two senior house officers to help him and this continued from 1971 until 1982, when I was appointed as his colleague. During the 10 years when he was on his own he carried out a wide range of plastic surgical procedures, but he always had a particular interest in both burns and in cleft lip and palate surgery. It was a privilege to work with Bob on many occasions doing combined cases and he was the most meticulous surgeon with an exacting attention to detail, however, Bob was not always the most meticulous time keeper. His lists sometimes started a little late but often continued late! In those days, it was possible to do these things without the pressures of administration and three session days. Bob's lack of concern for time when he was operating was centred around his patients. His ability to carry out his cleft surgery with excellent postoperative results were his main concern. In the mid 1980's, Bob and I moved to the new Addenbrooke's site, but it was not until 1992 that George Cormack was appointed as the third consultant and since that time the unit has continued to expand to its present size of 13 consultant plastic surgeons, together with junior staff. Trainees who progressed through the unit owe Bob a great dealt for his teaching abilities and enthusiasm for surgery and attention to detail. In particular, it was in the operating theatre in which he excelled and he was able to demonstrate and pass on his skills to them. They were never allowed to put in a single stitch that was not exact and Bob's tenacity was one of his greatest assets. He enjoyed a long and happy retirement, which included overseas travel with Sally his wife. He had an infectious enthusiasm for skiing and latterly golf and tennis, which he used to play on a regular basis with Sir Roy Calne, his friend and neighbour. Bob was a true Scot and retained a pride in his Scottish roots, entertaining his family annually in the west Highlands, where his father had originated. His health declined in the latter two years of his life and he died at Addenbrooke's on 13 June 2015. He was 84. He was survived by his wife Sally, his four children, Lindy, Tony, Fiona and Nicky, and by his five grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Tolhurst, David Erskine (1934 - 2018)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-20 2021-05-06
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details David Erskine Tolhurst was a pioneering plastic surgeon. Born in Wellington, New Zealand on 24 September 1934, he was the son of Robert Erskine, a stockbroker, and his wife Joan Morton née Henderson. He attended the Huntley School in Marton, where he won the Sherriff Memorial Prize and the Wanganui Collegiate School, winning the Marshall Memorial Prize. At Otago University Medical School he was a science scholar and graduated MB, ChB in 1958. Moving to the UK, he did house jobs at the Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street, became a registrar in plastic surgery at the London Hospital and then senior registrar at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. While at the Queen Victoria he was mentored by the plastic surgeons Percy Harris Jayes and John Watson. He was a research fellow at Harvard from 1963 to 1964 and a Marks Foundation fellow from 1968 to 1969. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1967. In 1973 he was appointed consultant surgeon to the University Hospital and Sophia Children’s Hospital, in Rotterdam, Holland. While there he studied for a PhD at Erasmus University, publishing a thesis on fasciocutaneous flaps which was an innovative procedure at the time. He also won the Kay-Kilner essay prize of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons (BAPS) in 1978. Ten years later, in 1988, he became professor and chairman of the department of plastic surgery at the University Hospital in Leiden, where he stayed until 1991. On returning to the UK he worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital and was a lecturer at the British Postgraduate Medical Federation. A long time member of BAPS and founder and secretary of the European Workshop for Plastic Surgery, he also became historian and archivist for the European Association of Plastic Surgeons and co-editor of the *European journal of plastic surgery*. He was the author of numerous chapters in plastic surgical texts and wrote than 50 articles on topics such as hypospadias, cleft lip, muscle flaps and fasciocutaneous flaps. When he was 80, he published a collection of his essays on famous plastic surgeons entitled *Pioneers in plastic surgery* (Springer, 2015). At school he had been a champion at athletics and he was a member of the Otago University rugby team from 1957 to 1959. Later on he enjoyed tennis, skiing, golf and cricket. Other interests were the arts, bridge, painting and writing poetry – his partner recalled that he would acknowledge being entertained for dinner by sending the hosts a small painting or a poem. In 1974 he married Sonia Camilla Maria Messenger who was an assistant at Sotheby’s in London. They had two daughters, Camilla Fiona, who became a lecturer at St Andrew’s University and Charlotte Annabelle. Sonia died from ovarian cancer on 25 March 2012. Some two years afterwards he was in Peter Jones in Chelsea just before Christmas when he went to the assistance of a lady, Penelope Hopwood, whose carrier bag of presents had given way. The provision of a spare bag and his telephone number was to lead to a late romance which brought great happiness to them both. She moved to his home in Edwardstone, Suffolk and they discovered many shared interests as she was later to write in the *Daily Mail* when he died. It was not the first time his name was to appear in that newspaper as it had reported a brush with the law he had in 2016 when police were called by a neighbour who accused him of vandalising their hedge as he cut three twigs that were obscuring a mirror he had installed in the road outside his house to increase visibility for drivers on a blind bend. The police were amused and no charges were made. He died on 27 February 2018 aged 83 after suffering a series of mini-strokes and a bleed on the brain. His partner survived him together with his daughters, granddaughter, Eloise, and three grandsons including one known as Georgie.
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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Leslie Bertram (1917 - 1985)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379813379813
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Bertram Scott received his medical training at St Thomas's Hospital where he qualified in 1940 before serving in the Royal Air Force. It was during this period that he developed his interest in plastic surgery and the treatment of burns. After the war, in 1950, he was appointed as the first senior registrar in plastic surgery in Liverpool under R P Osborne and later succeeded him as consultant to many of the hospitals in Merseyside. He built up an excellent burns unit and was much respected in the Royal Southern Hospital. He had a high sense of concern for his patients, not only in Merseyside, but also in Nepal where he spent much of his leave with his wife Barbara (née Davey), on medical mission work, looking after the local population. They shared a strong Christian belief which was reflected in their enthusiastic support of the Christian Medical Fellowship and the Nurses' Christian Fellowship, Dr Barnardo's and the International Nepal Fellowship. They opened their home regularly for use by these organisations and to provide hospitality and friendship to many individuals. He died on 13 March 1985 aged 68, just a few months after his wife, and is survived by their children, Lionel, Elizabeth and Meriel.
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First Title value, for Searching Kelly, Martin Bernard Hirigoyen (1965 - 2008)

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by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2012-01-05 2016-02-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373994373994
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Martin Kelly was a craniofacial plastic surgeon at the Chelsea and Westminster, and Royal Marsden hospitals. An extraordinarily talented surgeon, he died of a heart attack at the young age of 43, stunning his colleagues. He was born Martin Hirigoyen in London on 7 May 1965, the son of Bernard Hirigoyen, a French industrialist with a Basque background, and Diane Kelly. He was brought up in Paris and, when his parents separated when he was 17, he accompanied his mother and four sisters to London and later adopted her maiden name. He was educated in Paris and at Winchester College, and went on to study medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1989. He trained in surgery in Oxford and in London, and gained his FRCS in 1993. His early training in plastic surgery continued in Oxford and London. He then obtained a two-year travelling fellowship in microsurgery and craniofacial reconstruction at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. His research there led to an MD thesis in 1997. His formal training as a specialist registrar in plastic surgery also began in the same year on the London hospitals rotation and he obtained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in plastic surgery. During his training Kelly also studied in Paris with Darina Krastinova at the Hôpital Foch, the unit founded by Paul Tessier, the father of craniofacial surgery. In 2001 Kelly was appointed as a consultant craniofacial plastic surgeon at the craniofacial unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and at the Royal Marsden Hospital. His main interest was reconstructing faces with congenital deformities and repair of defects after ablative surgery for head and neck tumours. In 2003, with his fellow consultant Norman Waterhouse, he founded the charity Facing the World, which treats children around the world disfigured by facial deformities. Earlier he had worked for Médecins Sans Frontières, operating on children in Afghanistan. He was a member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and an associate member of the European Society of Craniofacial Surgery. Martin was renowned for his surgical skill, professionalism and energy. The craniofacial and microsurgery meant many hours with one case in the operating theatre. He was described as a modest and compassionate man. Outside medicine, he wrote his own music and played the drums and bass guitar. He enjoyed playing tennis, horse riding and skiing. He painted and his association with the artist Jonathan Yeo led to a series of paintings by Yeo focusing on plastic surgery. Martin Kelly died on 20 May 2008. He was survived by his wife, the actress Natascha McElhone, and three sons: Theodore, Otis and Rex (born after Kelly's death).
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First Title value, for Searching Beare, Robin Lyell Blin (1922 - 2007)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2012-02-06 2015-05-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374152374152
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Robin Lyell Blin Beare was a consultant plastic surgeon at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, and St Mary's Hospital, London. He was born on 31 July 1922 in Weybridge, where his father was a surgeon/GP. Robin went to Radley School, where he was a junior scholar. In 1940 he joined the RAF, trained as a pilot, and was shot down on a bombing raid over Berlin. He parachuted to safety, but was captured and from 1941 was a prisoner of war. After the war he worked as a test pilot researching ejector seats designed by Martin Baker, which left him with lasting back problems. When he left the Royal Air Force he continued to fly, then in 1947 decided to train in medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1952 with a distinction in surgery, the Charles Bell prize in anatomy and the Leopold Hudson prize in surgical pathology. He was an assistant lecturer in the Bland Sutton Institute of Pathology, and then trained in general surgery at the Middlesex Hospital and in plastic surgery at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, under the tutelage of Sir Archibald McIndoe. In 1956 he was appointed as a consultant at Queen Victoria Hospital and also at Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and had a regular clinic at Brighton. He continued working closely with McIndoe, and when McIndoe died in 1960 Robin succeeded him in his NHS work and also in his private practice at 149 Harley Street. His clinical interests were in facial reconstruction, cleft lip and palate, and burns. He was author of papers on surgical subjects including irradiation injuries of the perineum, skin grafts and flaps. He worked with his colleague John Watson on the design of the building of the new and quite revolutionary burns unit at Queen Victoria Hospital, which was opened in 1963. He was interested in fostering research in plastic surgery and was an original trustee of the Blond McIndoe Research Foundation. His private, mostly cosmetic, practice was considerable and one newspaper rated him as one of the top eight in the world. His colleagues remember him as a 'man of action' and very generous. He had a meticulous surgical technique and demanded a similar performance from others. He was a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was honoured with the grand officer, first class, of the Order of Al-Istiqlal, Jordan. He was a passionate fisherman and enjoyed shooting and engineering projects. He also designed and made ornaments in silver and gold. Robin Lyell Blin Beare died on 1 December 2007, aged 85. He was survived by his wife Iris, sons Julian and John (an ophthalmic surgeon), and daughters Virginia and Karen.
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First Title value, for Searching Heanley, Charles Laurence (1907 - 2008)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2012-02-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374115374115
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Charles Heanley was head of the department of plastic surgery at the London Hospital. He was born in Hong Kong on 28 February 1907, the son of Charles Montgomery Heanley, a doctor, and Mary Morella Heanley née Tassell. He was educated at Epsom College and then at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was an exhibition scholar. He trained at the London Hospital Medical School. He spent a year as a reader in anatomy at William Wright's request and then worked as an assistant to the plastic surgeon Tommy Kilner at Shadwell Children's Hospital and at the Ministry of Pensions Hospital in Roehampton. He also visited Dollis Hill Hospital and Lord Mayor Treloar's Hospital, Alton. He remembered Kilner doing bone grafts to the jaw when he had formed a new buccal sulcus with skin graft inserted over a mould and also a similar technique for reconstructing eye sockets. Ivan Magill was the anaesthetist; he had made the first endotracheal tubes from soft rubber tubing which was wrapped around a cake tin and left on the balcony of his London flat. After a month of exposure to the sulphurous London atmosphere the rubber was vulcanised and gave it just the right consistency. It was cut in lengths one end oblique and the other transverse. The ends were then burnt and rubbed smooth. He was then appointed as a surgical chief assistant and a registrar at the London. Charles was in the Territorial Army, so at the outbreak of the Second World War he was posted to the 17th London General Hospital and sent to France, to a 1,200 bedded hospital at Dan Camiers. After three weeks the hospital moved to Hatfield House, but before long he was transferred to Sir Harold Gillies Hospital, Rooksdown House, Park Prewitt, to learn plastic surgery. He spent from 1941 to 1942 there. He was then posted to Raniket, 6,000 feet up in the Himalayas, as commanding officer of number three British Maxillofacial Surgery Unit with the rank of lieutenant colonel. 'We worked in the theatre from 9 until 6pm, three days a week, recovering on alternate days and hoping our patients would do the same.' He was then posted with his team to Ranchi and then to Camilla. He remembered his first use of penicillin in the case of facial injury and meningitis, and the benefit of hypochlorite solution in burns sepsis. He was at Chittagong when the Japanese capitulated and he was able to return to the UK in December 1945. After the war he returned to the London Hospital, where he was surgeon in charge of the department of plastic surgery. He also had appointments as a consultant surgeon at Worthing Hospital, Bethnal Green Hospital, and the plastic surgery unit at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. He had an honorary consultant plastic surgeon appointment at the Royal National and Golden Square hospitals. In 1946 when the British Association of Plastic Surgeons was formed he was a founder member. In a letter to John Blandy he recounted how he was operating on a case for Victor Dix, reconstructing the perineum after the removal of a malignant ulcer and the symphysis pubis had gone. He was able to cover the defect and obtained healing with a local flap. Gerald Tressider, who he had met in India, was observing and commented 'what a magnificent approach for the prostate gland'. Charles noted that he had expected collapse of pelvis following the removal of the symphysis pubis and he had prepared for a bone graft later, but that this was not necessary. In correspondence to the *British Medical Journal* in 1970, he made the interesting observation that injection of vital blue dye into any part of the breast showed lymphatic drainage to both retro sternal glands and axilla. Also, that vital dye injected into the hand tracked randomly through the axilla and it was not possible to avoid lymphoedema of the arm by conserving particular lymphatics. He had an interest in lymphoedema and commented that in India one in five of the general population appeared to have gross swelling of one or both legs. He published articles in medical journals on a variety of topics, but a particular contribution was the use of the subcutaneous pedicle in flap reconstructions. He retired aged 58 to enjoy his recreations of swimming and archaeology. He married Mary Emily née Shellum in 1935. They had three sons, two of whom became doctors. He died on 9 February 2008.
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First Title value, for Searching Ganguly, Rasamay (1918 - 2001)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380799380799
Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Rasamay Ganguly was born in Barisal, Bengal, on 1 May 1918. His father Heramba Chandra Ganguly was an excise officer in the Bengal Civil Service. His mother was Hemanginee Mukherjee, daughter of a deputy magistrate in the same service. The second son in a family of six children, he was educated at the Jenkins School in Cooch Behar (where he won the Maharaja's medal) and the Intermediate College Dacca (where he won the Brahmachari prize). His medical training was at the Medical College of Calcutta, where he won numerous prizes and medals. After junior appointments in Calcutta, he joined the Indian Medical Service and continued in the Indian Army Medical Corps after partition. He was seconded to England to specialise in surgery, won the Hallett prize in 1954 and passed the final FRCS two years later. He was much influenced by Charles Rob at St Mary's and by B K Rank, the plastic surgeon in Melbourne. He was appointed reader and then professor of surgery in the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, with the Army rank of Brigadier. He examined at the University of Poona and was President of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India. He was awarded many honours and distinctions, including the Vishist Seva medal from the President of India in 1969, the B C Roy memorial oration medal from the Medical Council of India in 1972, and the silver medal from the Ministry of Defence of the Government of India. He married Anima Chatterjee, daughter of a district judge in West Bengal, and had one son and two daughters, all of whom entered medicine. He died on 14 February 2001.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008616
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First Title value, for Searching O'Mara, Maxwell Lachlan (1923 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379737379737
Occupation ENT surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Maxwell O'Mara was born 28 September 1923 the only son of William Timothy (Tim) O'Mara a grazier and Mary Rose (May) Long. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College, Waverley, NSW, St Ignatius' College, Riverview, NSW and Sydney University (St John's College and St Vincent's Hospital). During the second world war he served as a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps and afterwards enjoyed postgraduate training in the UK under Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor, and Messrs Rotter, Battle, Hamblen-Thomas and Mansfield in ear nose and throat and plastic surgery, gaining the DLO in 1949 and FRCS in 1951. He returned to Sydney to become honorary plastic surgeon to Sydney, St Vincent's and St Margaret's Hospitals. His extracurricular interests included swimming and photography. In 1954 he married Mary Patricia Mayo and they had one son and two daughters. He died of cancer on 9 March 1990, survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007554
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First Title value, for Searching Mehta, Sorab Jal (1929 - 1972)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378124378124
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Sorab Jal Mehta was born in 1929 and had his medical undergraduate education at the Grant Medical College, obtaining the MB BS degree from the University of Bombay in 1953. After holding junior appointments at home he came to England in 1955 and did his surgical training at the Birmingham Accident Hospital, Newport General Hospital, and St Lawrence's Hospital, Chepstow, and took the FRCS in 1958. On his return to Bombay, Mehta was appointed honorary plastic and reconstructive surgeon to Wadia Children's Hospital, the Tata Memorial Hospital, and the Goculdas Tejpal Hospital, this third attachment carrying with it the title of Honorary Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Grant Medical College. An accomplished and dedicated surgeon, his clinical and technical ability soon took him to the top in his special field. But in addition to his professional accomplishments his interests ranged widely over music, art, philosophy and religion, subjects which he could discuss with expert knowledge and appreciation. A warm-hearted and generous friend, his passing away at the peak of his career left a void not only in plastic surgery but also in the hearts of his many friends. "Whom the gods love die young" is an old saying, and how true it is of Sorab Mehta who died after a short illness on 6 November 1972. He was survived by his wife and two sons aged 16 and 14 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005941
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First Title value, for Searching Millard, David Ralph Jr. (1919 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-02-24 2016-04-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377212377212
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David Ralph Millard, chief of the division of plastic surgery at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, was a pioneering plastic surgeon who developed several techniques used in cleft lip and palate surgery. He was born in St Louis, Missouri, on 4 June 1919, the son of David Millard, an attorney, and Florence. He was educated at Asheville School for Boys in Asheville, North Carolina, and went on to Yale University and then Harvard University Medical School, where he entered the accelerated wartime programme, qualifying MD in 1944. After Harvard and an internship at Boston Children's Hospital, Millard served in the US Navy from 1945 to 1946. He then spent a year as a surgical resident at Vanderbilt University. The renowned UK-based surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, widely regarded as the father of plastic surgery, visited Vanderbilt and Millard asked to become a trainee at Gillies' unit at Rooksdown House in Basingstoke. He remained there from 1948 to 1949. While he was in the UK, he visited all the leading plastic surgeons, including Tommy Kilner, Archibald McIndoe, John Barron and Arthur Rainsford Mowlem, and saw Victor Veau in Paris. On his return to the United States, Millard joined the plastic surgery department at Barnes Hospital, St Louis, and then six months later moved to Detroit, to a fellowship position with Claire Straith, from whom he learnt more about rhinoplasty. He subsequently spent a final year as a resident in the plastic surgery department at Baylor University, Texas. In 1952 Millard returned to the UK to work with Gillies. Together they wrote *The principles and art of plastic surgery* (London, Butterworth & Co Publishers Ltd, 1957), which has become a classic text. In 1954 Millard was called up for military service for a second time and served a year in Korea. During his time there, he developed a new cleft lip operation, now known as the Millard repair, which created a 'Z' shaped scar and a softer, more natural-looking lip. He presented a paper on his new operation at the First International Congress of Plastic Surgery at Stockholm in 1955. Returning once again to the United States, he briefly practised in Beverley Hills before moving to Miami, Florida. He also made regular trips to the Bahamas and Jamaica to operate. Between 1956 and 1966 he published a number of classic papers on cleft lip repair, rhinoplasty and face lifts. He was also a pioneer in breast reconstruction. In 1967 he took over the residency programme at the University of Miami and stayed there as chief of the division for the next 25 years, training several generations of residents and fellows. He was president of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1985. In 1996 the Association named him clinician of the year. In 2000 Millard was named one of 10 Plastic Surgeons of the Millennium by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. He was an honorary fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh. He was married to Barbara (née Smith). They had three children - Duke, Meleney and Bond - and six grandchildren. Predeceased by his wife, Millard died on 19 June 2011 at the age of 92.
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First Title value, for Searching Coghlan, Brian (1962 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-10-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372464372464
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Brian Coghlan was a consultant cleft lip surgeon at Guy’s Hospital. He was a schoolboy international cyclist and he toyed with the idea of becoming a professional. Medicine won, and he studied at Bristol. His intercalated physiology degree involved working on a project with Ron Piggott at the Frenchay Hospital on the measurement of facial symmetry and the analysis of cleft lip and palate deformity, and his fascination with plastic surgery was kindled. He completed his medical training and house jobs at Bristol, then started his surgical training with a job as an anatomy demonstrator with Ellis in Cambridge. This was followed by general surgical training, with senior house officer and registrar jobs at St Bartholomew’s, Bristol, Weston General Hospital and Bournemouth. He then started his specialist plastic surgery training with senior house officer jobs at Leeds and Frenchay. He then moved to Canniesburn as a registrar. His next move was to Leeds and then Pinderfields as a senior registrar. He spent six months with David David, performing craniofacial surgery in Adelaide, Australia. This was followed by a six-month stint at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He was appointed as a consultant plastic surgeon to Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, with responsibilities at St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester. The Roehampton sessions were transferred to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital when Roehampton closed. He also worked for the charity Operation Smile, regularly performing cleft lip operations in developing countries. Brian's interest in cycling continued, but he was also passionate about cars and he was tragically killed in a car crash, his Porsche skidding off a road near his home in Chichester. He is survived by his wife Beverly, his daughter, Abby, and his two young sons, Oliver and William.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000277
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First Title value, for Searching Emerson, David James MacGlashan (1947 - 1995)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380741380741
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details James Emerson was born in Chesterfield in 1947, qualified at the Middlesex Hospital, where he did his house jobs, and, immediately he had registered, went to Colombia to work in an outlying district hospital. He always retained this interest in rural life in South America and a concern for the needs of aboriginal people. His surgical training was conducted in London and Wales, specialising in plastic surgery, carrying out research on skin flap survival and microsurgical vascular anastomoses. He had a special interest in cleft palate surgery, giving many disfigured children confidence and hope of a better life. He was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the Lister Hospital, Stevenage, and later the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield. His vision of what medicine should be providing took him with a team from Sheffield to operate on the wounded of the Bosnian conflict in 1993. A childhood in the Peak District gave him a lifelong love of mountains and climbing and late in his last illness he made plans unrealised to climb the Old Man of Hoy. He died of pulmonary mesothelioma on 15 August 1995, leaving a wife Vanessa, a doctor, and three daughters, Isabel, Lydia and Jessica.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008558
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First Title value, for Searching Townsend, Paul Leslie Gordon (1937 - 2019)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-09-20
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Paul Townsend was born on 27 December 1937 in Hendon. During his early years the family lived in Radlett, Hertfordshire and, during the early years of the second world war, he remembered that he could see the bombs falling on London during the Blitz. His father worked as an army officer and later became an accountant. Paul attended Epsom College and initially studied for a degree in anatomy before qualifying in medicine from University College Hospital (UCH), London, in 1963. During his time there he apparently led a student trip to Russia – greatly daring as it was at the height of the cold war. After various house jobs at UCH, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1968 and moved to Canada, working as a surgeon in British Columbia. In 1972 he passed the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and then returned to the UK to take up a post as registrar at Odstock Hospital in Salisbury, followed by work as a senior registrar at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. The British Association of Plastic Surgeons (BAPS) awarded him the Mowlem award in 1978 for the important research he did during those years. He then spent a year in Melbourne, Australia, as a research fellow, working with Ian Taylor on the early development of microsurgery. Returning to Frenchay Hospital in 1979, he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon and, from 1992 until 2005 when he retired from the NHS, senior consultant plastic surgeon. From the early time in Melbourne he continued to develop his microsurgery skills – it was said that his first operation in Bristol using that technique lasted 22 hours. He developed various classic techniques that are still in use today, such as the deep circumflex iliac artery (DCIA) flap and the ‘double barreling’ of a free fibula flap. On founding the first microsurgery practice laboratory in the UK, he initiated the use of the human placenta as a surgical model. Another innovation was the setting up of the UK’s first pigmented lesion clinic and using a dermoscope for early diagnosis of melanoma. The Laser Centre of the South West was another of his initiatives. He also travelled to Uganda on charitable medical missions and, on one occasion, according to his son, transformed the life of a man ostracised by his community because he had lost his jaw to infection. Paul provided him with a new jaw formed out of a leg bone. He was hugely active on various committees both locally and nationally. A member of BAPS, he served on their council from 1985 to 1988. Chair of the South West Advisory Committee for Plastic Surgery, he was regional specialty representative in plastic surgery for the college. He was a member of the British Associaton of Aesthethic Plastic Surgeons, the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, the British Burns Association, the Melanoma Study Group, the South West Surgical Club, the Cosham Medical Society and the Bristol Medico– Having retired from the NHS he continued to operate privately for Bristol Plastic Surgery into his 70s – his success rates apparently well exceeding younger colleagues. A keen gardener, he had also enjoyed playing rugby in his youth and continued to support the Bristol Bears. He loved history, especially the study of ancient Egypt and watching old films. He met his wife Mary at UCH and they married in 1967. They had three sons Andrew, Nicholas and Christopher. When he died from pancreatic cancer on 11 August 2019 aged 81, he was survived by Mary, their three sons and grandchildren Poppy and Charlie.
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First Title value, for Searching McLaren, Lyall Robertson (1917 - 1980)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03 2022-08-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378925378925
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Lyall Robertson McLaren was born on 15 June 1917 and educated at Epsom College, Downing College, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital. After qualifying in 1941 he served for four years as a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the RNVR, including three years at sea in the East Indies. He returned to junior surgical appointments at Guy's and was then surgical registrar at Orpington and Chelmsford. After completing the FRCS in 1950 he was appointed as chief assistant in general surgery to Thomas Moore at the Withington Hospital, Manchester. Having decided to specialise in plastic surgery he became registrar and then senior registrar in the plastic unit at Wythenshawe Hospital. He was then appointed consultant at Wythenshawe Hospital, the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, the Duchess of York Hospital and the Bolton Royal Infirmary. He was the first recipient of the Kay Kilner Prize of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1962 and was a founder member of the WHO study group on melanoma. He was a highly respected member of the plastic surgery regional unit at Wythenshawe and later at Withington Hospital, and he took a special interest in the treatment of melanoma and head and neck malignancies. He died, aged 63, on 27 November 1980, and was survived by his wife, Doris née Williams, and daughters Angela and Heather. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 6 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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First Title value, for Searching Crawford, Bernard Searle (1919 - 2007)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-11-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372603372603
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Bernard Crawford was a plastic surgeon in Sheffield. He was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, on 30 November 1919. His father, Alfred Edgar Crawford, was a teacher, and his mother, Nellie Cooper, a nurse. He was educated at Rotherham Grammar School and Sheffield University, where his teachers included Ernest Finch, James Lytle, Wilfred Hynes and Sir Frederick Holdsworth. He completed house officer jobs at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, and then joined the RAMC as a graded surgical specialist, serving in India and Burma, and ending his service in 1947 as officer in charge of the surgical division, No 1 Burma General Hospital. On his return to the UK he became a supernumerary registrar at the Royal Infirmary, Sheffield, and was then house surgeon at the Northern General Hospital, and RSO at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield. He then specialised in plastic surgery and worked as a house surgeon, registrar and then senior registrar at the plastic and jaw department of Fulwood Hospital, Sheffield, where he was appointed as a consultant in 1960. He published on surgery for hypospadias, for which he was awarded a Hunterian Professorship in 1966, as well as other congenital lesions, including buried penis. His main interests were in reconstructive surgery after major burns and injuries. He was a keen teacher and encouraged his pupils to publish and carry out research, admonishing them: “surgery was not invented for the benefit of surgeons”. He married Hilda Fenn, a nurse, in 1949. Their son John became a professional violinist. His hobbies included copying old master paintings in acrylic. He died on 24 January 2007.
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First Title value, for Searching Morley, George Henry (1907 - 1971)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-18 2018-01-29
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378138378138
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Air Vice-Marshal George Henry Morley was born at Portsmouth on 22 February 1907. He went to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1929. After house appointments he joined the RAF medical service in 1934 and took the FRCS the following year. In 1940 Morley went to the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, where he worked under Sir Archibald Mclndoe and so laid the foundations of his outstanding career as a plastic surgeon with a special interest in the treatment of burns. In 1941 he was appointed to the burns centre at the RAF Hospital, Ely where he spent the next four years. In 1945 he went out to India for a year, returning to Halton where in 1940 he was appointed RAF specialist in plastic surgery. Morley's distinguished service was recognized by his appointment as honorary surgeon to the Queen in 1958, and by the award of the CBE in 1961, and the CB in 1968. In 1961 he was elected President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, and in 1962 he gave the first Mclndoe Memorial Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1966 he was made the senior consultant to the RAF. Apart from these professional achievements Morley will be remembered with gratitude by many of his patients and his colleagues for his kindly consideration, and for his dedication to his work and his high principles. In 1944 he married Kathleen Green and they had one son and one daughter. He died suddenly while on holiday in Cornwall on 26 May 1971.
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Alfred James (1916 - 1986)

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First Title value, for Searching Hutter, Frank Leo (1910 - 1985)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379535379535
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Frank Leo Hutter was born in Auckland on 6 February 1910 and after early education at Auckland Grammar School entered the University of Otago Medical School, qualifying in 1935. He spent a year in house appointments at Palmerston North Hospital before coming to England for further postgraduate appointments, working in several London hospitals until the outbreak of war. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1939 and served with the British Expeditionary Force in France; he was one of the few New Zealanders to be present at Dunkirk and was evacuated to England. At that stage the New Zealand Army sent him for further training in plastic surgery, working under Sir Harold Gillies and Sir Archibald Mclndoe. After demobilisation he returned to London and passed the FRCS in 1946. Two years later he was awarded the FRACS and appointed plastic surgeon to the Wellington Hospital and the Hutt Hospital where much of the plastic surgery was performed. He played an important role in the advancement of his specialty in New Zealand and in addition to his professional duties maintained an active interest in the medical services of the New Zealand Army. He served as Director General from 1957 to 1966 and throughout this time encouraged doctors to have some service association and experience. After retiring from professional work in 1973 he continued to be interested in the careers of those whom he had trained. He lived near Napier where he was able to enjoy his outdoor pursuits of bowls and walking. He died on 12 January 1985, aged 74 and is survived by his wife, Audrey.
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First Title value, for Searching Calder, John Sinclair (1960 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details John Sinclair Calder, a trainee plastic surgeon, died tragically in a road accident at the early age of 36 years. He was born into a Leicestershire farming family in 1960. He was educated at Robert Smyth School, Market Harborough, before proceeding to the Royal London Hospital. He qualified in 1985. Calder then went to Mount Vernon Hospital, to learn specialist plastic and reconstructive surgery, after which he became a research fellow at East Grinstead. There he initiated studies of synthetic and autografted materials for gaps in peripheral nerves. Within a year of commencing this innovative work, his first wife, Kim, by whom he had two daughters, Tara and Cassie, died of an overwhelming infection in her third pregnancy. John Calder cared for and nurtured his two young children and continued his academic work, until he married again in 1995. His second wife, Karen, herself widowed after a car accident, had two children by her first marriage, Lily and Mark. They had a son, William, towards the end of 1995. His sudden death occurred within two weeks of being appointed into higher surgical training in his chosen career at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Indeed his research work was being submitted for a doctorate in medicine. Always imaginative and with an abundance of strongly expressed and often rebellious ideas, he had earned sufficient respect to be appointed to the editorial board of *Microsurgery*. He died on 4 February 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Schjelderup, Halfdan ( - 1991)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380497380497
Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details On Dr Schjelderup's admission to the Honorary Fellowship in 1982, the following citation was delivered by Ian Muir FRCS: 'Dr Schjelderup graduated in medicine in Oslo in 1938 and started training in surgery in Bergen, but in the following year he joined the Royal Norwegian Navy and served during the war, and for this service he received his country's commendation in the form of the Norwegian Service Medal. After the cessation of hostilities the occupying authorities disapproved of his activities and in December 1944 he had to leave Norway and transfer to Britain by the clandestine and dangerous route known as the 'Shetland bus'. Shortly after his arrival in Britain he decided to train in reconstructive surgery and he joined Sir Harold Gillies at Rooksdown House in Basingstoke for three years and returned to Norway in1947. 'During his time in England he and his charming wife Ida made many friends and many British and Commonwealth patients now owe their lives and their livelihood to his skill and care. 'In 1946 he attended a dinner at the College at which Lord Webb-Johnson was the guest of honour and it was then that the seed was sown which grew to be the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. He has therefore been associated with the Association since its very beginnings and has been a most welcome and active member, attending on many occasions and contributing to many of the scientific sessions. He has been a leading pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery in his own country and has been particularly active in advancing the treatment of injuries of the hand, burns, and congenital conditions of the face such as cleft lip and palate. He developed his unit in Bergen from small beginnings to become a fully staffed department of the University Hospital providing a service to patients from well to the south of Bergen to the extreme north of the country right up to the Russian border, a distance of nearly 1000 miles as the crow flies. This has been a mammoth undertaking considering the difficulties of communication over this widespread area. In hand surgery he himself pays a special tribute to Sterling Bunnell, whom he visited in 1948. His unit in Bergen is now recognised as the premier department in Norway for surgery of the hand. It also undertakes an extensive teaching commitment for both undergraduate and postgraduates. 'He is a recipient of the Gillies memorial gold medal of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and is a corresponding member of ten learned societies in Europe. The highest honour of his career came in 1974 when, as a tribute from his countrymen the King of Norway awarded him the Knighthood first class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olaf, the highest Norwegian civil honour. 'Mr President, all of us who know Dr Schjelderup are delighted that the Council has recommended his election to the Honorary Fellowship and we are confident that his election can only add to our own stature.
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First Title value, for Searching Manchester, Sir William Maxwell (1913 - 2001)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Earle Brown
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2017-10-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381249381249
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Sir William Manchester was the Sir William Stevenson professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He was born in Waimate, south Canterbury, New Zealand, the son of James Manchester and Martha Manchester née Brown. He received his early education at a local school and then as a boarder at Taimaru Boys' High School. He was admitted to Otago medical school, where he was a gifted undergraduate, gaining distinctions in most of his exams and being awarded many prestigious prizes and scholarships. He passed his primary FRCS as an undergraduate in 1934, being examined by Gordon Gordon-Taylor. After graduation in 1937, he spent a year as a junior lecturer in the anatomy department before starting his clinical training as a house surgeon at New Plymouth Hospital. He enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps in February 1940 and was posted as a medical officer to the 22nd New Zealand Infantry Battalion. He was persuaded to train in plastic surgery under the supervision of Sir Harold Gillies. He spent time at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead with Archibald McIndoe and at Hill End Hospital, St Albans with Rainsford Mowlem and John Barron. It is interesting to note that, having travelled from New Zealand to England, his specialist training in plastic surgery was by given New Zealand-born surgeons. He was posted to Egypt, where he started his first plastic surgical unit in the New Zealand Military Hospital at Helwan, Cairo. After two years, he was posted to the military plastic surgical unit at Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, later commanding this unit with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He later converted this military unit to a civilian establishment. In 1948, he returned to Britain for further postgraduate study and obtained his FRCS in December 1949. His was the successful application for the position of plastic surgeon at Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, where he established a plastic surgical unit in December 1951, and remained in charge until his retirement from public hospital practice in 1979. During this time, he supervised the training of at least 50 aspiring plastic surgeons. He obtained international recognition for his expertise and innovation in treating children with cleft lip and palate, and his special skill in mandibular reconstruction using large free bone grafts. Sir William was a popular visiting professor to many internationally renowned plastic surgical units, appreciated for his lucid and well-illustrated lectures, delivered with passion and humour. He was a member of the New Zealand committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, becoming its chairman in 1970 and served as an examiner for the Australasian college. He was an honorary member of many international plastic surgical societies and in 1969 he was elected to the James IV Association of Surgeons. Sir William was appointed foundation professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Auckland in 1976. In 1967, he was appointed general secretary of the International Confederation of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, a post he held for four years and he then continued on the executive committee for many years. During his tenure as general secretary, he revised the by-laws and was instrumental in ensuring that all members of the national plastic surgical societies were properly trained and qualified plastic surgeons. This led to the formal training programmes that now exist in all countries represented by the International Confederation. He was awarded a CBE for services to plastic and reconstructive surgery in 1972, and was made a KBE in 1987. Sir William died on 25 December 2001 at the age of 88. He was a passionate New Zealander, who will be remembered for his surgical expertise, advancement of the art and science of cleft lip and palate surgery, and for his far-sighted administrative contributions to New Zealand, Australian and global plastic surgery.
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, Ronald Frank (1925 - 2021)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by A Roger Green
Publication Date 2021-09-23 2021-11-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/385014385014
Occupation Military surgeon Plastic surgeon
Details Air commodore Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Brown was a consultant in burns and plastic surgery in the RAF. He was born in London on 11 September 1925. His father, Oscar Frank Brown, was director of telecommunications research during the Second World War and prominent in the development of radar. His mother, Doris Kathleen Brown née Emery, was a medical officer in charge of the venereal diseases department at the South London Hospital for Women and Children. He attended University College School, Hampstead and subsequently gained a first class honours degree in physiology at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he became president of the Oxford Union (the first medical student to do so). He was awarded a senior Hulme scholarship and went on to complete his clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital, where he won prizes in forensic medicine and public health. Having served in the Middlesex Home Guard during the Second World War, he signed on for a short service commission in the medical branch of RAF in 1952, and a permanent commission in 1955, retiring as an air commodore in 1989. During his 34 years in the RAF he served at RAF Halton, and at East Grinstead, being the last RAF plastic surgeon to have trained under Sir Archibald McIndoe. After a short time at RAF Ely, he was posted to Singapore, returning to Halton prior to a two-year posting to Aden from 1964 to 1966. He returned to RAF Ely, remaining there until 1971, when, on the death of air vice-marshal George Morley, he was posted to assume command of the burns and plastic surgery unit at Princess Mary’s RAF Hospital, Halton, where a number of Falklands War burns casualties were treated. He was director of surgery for the RAF from 1986 to 1989. He became the Cade professor of plastic surgery in the RAF at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and also held honorary consultant posts at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. He was president of the section of plastic surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine, of the British Burn Association and the Military Surgical Society. He served on the council of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons from 1982 to 1984. He was elected as a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Barbers, and in 1987 was made an honorary physician to the Queen. He won the Kay-Kilner prize in 1963 for his essay ‘The management of traumatic tissue loss in the lower limb, especially when complicated by skeletal injury’, later published in the *British Journal of Plastic Surgery* (*Br J Plast Surg*. 1965 Jan;18:26-50). He also published papers on the cleft-lip nose (‘A reappraisal of the cleft-lip nose with the report of a case’ *Br J Plast Surg*. 1964 Apr;17:168-74), missile injuries in Aden (‘Missile injuries in Aden, 1964-7’ *Injury*. 1970 Jan;1[4]:293-302] and the history of plastic surgery in the Armed Forces (‘The continuing story of plastic surgery in Britain’s Armed Services’ *Br J Plast Surg*. 1989 Nov;42[6]:700-9). In 1990 he gave the McIndoe lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, entitled ‘Fifty years in retrospect’. After retirement he was president of the Medical Artists’ Association (from 1991 to 2006). He also sat on the main grants committee of the RAF Benevolent Fund as a medical adviser. Ronnie became active in the Travelling Surgical Club (TSS), where he was described as ‘being most welcoming in a quiet unassuming manner to all those attending’. After moving to West Sussex he became a guide at Chichester Cathedral and, in 2007, he and his wife Margaret (née Treacher), whom he married in 1949, gave the only ‘husband and wife’ lecture to the TSS entitled ‘Enthusiasms – guiding: hymns ancient and hers modern’. Ronnie died peacefully on 18 July 2021 aged 95. He was survived by Margaret and their two children, Alison, a physiotherapist, and Anthony, who became the first professor of emergency medicine in Brisbane, Australia.
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First Title value, for Searching Perrins, David John Dyson (1924 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-11-09 2012-03-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372477372477
Occupation Medical Research Council research fellow Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David John Dyson Perrins was an expert in the use of hyperbaric oxygen and a former MRC research fellow at Churchill Hospital, Oxford. Born in 1924, he studied medicine at Jesus College, Cambridge, and rowed for the university in the 1946 Boat Race. He completed his clinical studies at St Thomas's, where he was a house surgeon. After National Service in the Royal Navy, he trained in plastic surgery, gaining experience in the use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment. He completed his MD thesis in 1972 on hyperbaric oxygen and wound healing, and spent ten years at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, studying the use of oxygen as a radiosensitiser. He also undertook experimental work with W S Bullough at London University on chalones, the mitotic inhibitors in skin. He then moved to Stockholm for two years, to work with Per Oluf Barr on the use of hyperbaric oxygen to prevent amputation in patients with diabetic vascular disease. On his return to the UK he was an honorary adviser to the Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Centres, researching into the use of hyperbaric oxygen to slow the progress of the disease. He was a former vice president of the International Society of Hyperbaric Medicine. David Perrins died on 2 November 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000290
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First Title value, for Searching Lewis, Emlyn Evans (1910 - 1969)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378075378075
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Emlyn Lewis was born in America on 10 April 1910; his mother brought him at an early age to Wales and he was educated at Monmouth. He later entered St Mary's Hospital and qualified from there in 1929. After obtaining his Fellowship he held appointments of surgical registrar at King's College Hospital and senior resident surgical officer at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, and these two appointments gave him a sound foundation in general surgery. After this training he decided to specialise in plastic surgery and at the beginning of the second world war he was made surgeon in charge of the EMS plastic unit in Gloucester. It was from this hospital that he made several contributions to the literature on the treatment of burns. In 1948, when the Welsh Hospital Board came into being, a plastic unit of 150 beds was established at St Lawrence Hospital, Chepstow, with Lewis in charge. He revelled in the organisation of this unit and his clinical catchment area extended from West Wales to East Monmouthshire. Lewis still concentrated mostly on the treatment of burns which were all too frequent after explosions in the South Wales coal fields. There must be many miners to-day who owe their life to his skill and care. Lewis will be remembered both for his efficient surgery and also for his skill as an administrator. For relaxation he became a keen horologist and he was very proud of his fine collection of clocks; he was also a keen Freemason, being a past master of many lodges. When Lewis died in the Cardiff Royal Infirmary on 14 May 1969 at the age of 64, he was survived by his wife and a married daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005892
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First Title value, for Searching Madan, Jagan Nath (1896 - 1980)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378903378903
Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Jagan Nath Madan was born on 12 June 1896 in Sahowala, in the district of Sialkot. He was the second child of Karamchand Adan, a doctor. After school in Batalia he attended the Lahore Medical College in the Punjab where he won a silver medal in anatomy and graduated MB, BS in 1919. After an appointment as demonstrator in anatomy he joined the Medical Corps of the Indian Army in 1922 and served as a Captain from 1923 to 1931. During that time he worked in the political department as agency surgeon in Muscat from 1924 to 1928. He left the army in 1932 and came to England after his first wife's death. In 1935 he took the FRCS. While in England he met Lajwanti Ramakrishna whom he married in 1936. He returned to India becoming chief medical officer in Kutch Bihar State and the chief surgeon and medical officer in Jodhpur State. In 1948 he entered private practice in general surgery in Jodhpur State, then in Delhi and finally in Meerut, where he practised surgery from 1954 to 1977. Apart from general surgery his main interest was in plastic surgery. He was a member of the BMA from 1934, a Rotarian from 1951, a member of the Indian Medical Association and President of the Jodhpur branch. He was a keen tennis player, a great walker and an enthusiastic reader of both general literature and professional books. He died in the Military Hospital, Meerut, on 31 January 1980, survived by his son, Dr Y N Madan, who is in general practice in Salford and two daughters, one of whom is an SRN.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006720
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Noel (1914 - 1989)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379926379926
Occupation Oral surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Noel Thompson was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 8 September 1914. His father was John G Thompson, a school teacher, and he was educated at King's College, Newcastle, before qualifying as a licentiate in dental surgery in 1936. He remained in hospital practice and passed his BDS degree in 1940. During the later years of the war, he served in the Royal Army Dental Corps as a specialist oral surgeon to the maxillo-facial unit of South East Asia Command with the rank of Major. After demobilisation he entered Durham Medical School, becoming Stephen Scott scholar in anatomy and qualifying in 1950. He passed the FRCS four years later and worked in plastic and reconstructive surgery under Professor TP Kilner at Oxford and Wilfred Hynes at Sheffield. In 1959 he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon at Stoke Mandeville but took six months off to work in the United States with Lyndon Peer, having won first prize in the essay competition of the Education Foundation of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. At that time he developed an interest in tissue transplantation and the free grafting of muscle which he developed at Stoke Mandeville and later at the Middlesex and Mount Vernon Hospitals, to which he was appointed in 1963. His great interest was academic research and he introduced the buried dermis flap for the treatment of lymphoedema. He served as a member of the working party on endolymphatic therapy of malignant melanoma and received a research grant from the Medical Research Council to continue this study. He carried out further experimental study on the fate of onlay bone grafts and the importance of including periosteum in the graft as well as establishing a new technique of reanimating the paralysed face using a free graft of skeletal muscle. He was elected Hunterian Professor giving a lecture entitled *Autogenous free transplantation of skeletal muscle* and was Visiting Professor of Plastic Surgery at Winnipeg in 1971 and New York in 1973. He retired in 1979 and went to live in Tuscany where he developed an interest in Florentine art in addition to his earlier pastimes of fell walking, swimming and photography. In 1956 he married Dr Christine Fairclough MB, BS and there was one daughter and two sons of the marriage. He died on 2 July 1989 aged 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Osborne, Rowland Percy ( - 1981)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2015-02-25
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details After graduating at Manchester and resident appointments there, Rowland Osborne became resident surgical officer at the Park Hospital, Davyhulme. In 1940 he was appointed superintendent of Whiston Hospital, Prescot, a mixed civilian and military establishment where he developed an interest in plastic surgery and so became attached to T P Kilner's plastic unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1941. He was a tall, thin, humorous man, methodical and highly industrious. Quickly settling to the demands of his new speciality, he became especially interested in burns treatment with the Bunyan-Stannard envelope. He was an all-rounder with wide interests, though conservative and preferring tested procedures to the more adventurous activities of some of his colleagues. His earlier experience and penchant for administration led to him taking on much of the day to day organisation of Kilner's unit. On returning to Liverpool after the second world war he worked hard to get the speciality of plastic surgery established there. In this he was greatly helped by his good humour and tact and soon there was a burns unit at Whiston Hospital, a children's ward at Alder Hey and a plastic teaching appointment for him at the Royal Southern Hospital. Thus did he cover the Liverpool region whilst still finding time to return to Stoke Mandeville every week-end, leaving Lime Street station on the midnight train and having a regular contract with the engine driver to fill his hot-water bottle. He also held clinics in Rhyl and Bangor, and did a weekly session at the Stockport paraplegic unit. The visits to Stoke Mandeville and Oxford were given up after Kilner's retirement in 1961. Osborne developed a special interest in the management of cleft lip and palate, and in the care of pressure sores in paraplegics. He was a founder member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and its first treasurer, a post which he held until his retirement 27 years later in 1971, and he was President in 1957. He was a highly competent surgeon, an ardent advocate of his speciality, a loyal colleague and an excellent chairman of committees. Affectionately known as 'Rastus' he was universally popular. Roland Osborne married relatively late in life and is survived by his wife, Gwen, and one son.
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First Title value, for Searching Hynes, Wilfred (1903 - 1991)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-10
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Wilfred Hynes was born in Leeds in January 1903, educated at Leeds Grammar School and graduated from Leeds University Medical School with first class honours in 1927, gaining the primary FRCS as a student. After a period as resident anaesthetist at Sheffield Royal Hospital he trained in surgery, and was appointed honorary consultant in general surgery in 1934. Volunteering for military service at the outbreak of war, he served in the RAMC in West Africa, Normandy, the Netherlands and Germany, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. Having seen, early in the war, the need for reconstructive surgery, he trained in plastic surgery under Sir Harold Gillies. Later he was to lead a front-line maxillofacial unit, for which he was twice mentioned in despatches. He was seconded briefly to the Canadian forces to pass on his expertise. He opened a new plastic surgery unit at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, within a week of his demobilisation in 1945. The following decades saw expansion and innovation, with the achievement of original work which was recognised internationally. His repair of cleft palate and pharyngoplasty provided the basis for a Hunterian lecture in 1953, and other major contributions included the reassessment of circulation in skin tubes and flaps, work on skin shaving and grafting and the use of free grafts of dermis. His interest in hydronephrosis dated from his time as a general surgeon. This led to cooperation with his urologist colleague, Jock Anderson, and the development of the Hynes-Anderson pyeloplasty. Although this was first developed to deal with the rare anomaly of a retrocaval ureter, its sound plastic surgical principles and its practical success led to its being adopted internationally. By the time he retired Wilfred Hynes had created a major academic unit in plastic surgery. In addition to his Hunterian professorship he was a member of Council, President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, and in his 86th year was made Honorary Member of the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain. Privately, he was a quiet, solitary man. His retirement years were spent in thought and analysis of life, and he enjoyed walking and playing the piano. His wife Agnes died eighteen months before him; he was survived by his two sons, Peter, a dental surgeon, and David, a professor of radiology in Canada, six grandchildren (one training in surgery) and two great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Littlewood, Arthur Henry Martin (1923 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-02
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Arthur Henry Martin Littlewood was a consultant plastic surgeon in Liverpool. He was born in Guernsey in 1923 and went to school there. On the outbreak of war he went to England, but was dismayed to be declared unfit for military service. He went to Downing College, Cambridge, and then to University College Hospital, where he qualified in 1945. His introduction to plastic surgery was with Emlyn Lewis' unit at Gloucester, where he met Christena, a ward sister whom he later married. He became a senior registrar at Liverpool, and was appointed as a consultant there in 1960, a time when there were only three consultants for a region of some three million people. In 1961 he spent six months in the head and neck unit in Roswell Park, Buffalo, New York, with Hoffmeister and became one of the pioneers of major head and neck surgery in the UK. He was a bold and skilful surgeon, although he was a giant of a man with hands likened to a bunch of bananas, yet he could repair a cleft lip with great delicacy. He retired in 1985, but continued his medicolegal practice until his death. He was a cultured man with many interests, including music, literature and history and he derived much pleasure from sailing and golf (he was a member of the Royal and Ancient Club at St Andrews). He was proud of his family of three daughters, two doctors and a lawyer. He had three grandchildren. He died on 25 March 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, William Mortimer Haigh (1915 - 2002)

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First Title value, for Searching Holdsworth, William Goldthorpe (1911 - 2009)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-03-03 2023-01-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373321373321
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details William Goldthorpe 'Bill' Holdsworth was a senior consultant surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. Born on 18 October 1911, he was educated at Scotch College and Carey Baptist Grammar School, Melbourne, and graduated from Melbourne University in 1933. In 1935 he went to England, and on the approach of the Second World War he joined the RAF, seeing service in France and Burma. He was fortunate to work under two great wartime pioneers of reconstructive surgery, Sir Archibald McIndoe at East Grinstead and Sir Harold Gillies at Rooksdown House, near Basingstoke. He succeeded Gillies as senior consultant at Rooksdown in 1952. Bill specialised in operating on babies with cleft lips and palates. Despite its additional complexity, he was an advocate of early surgery - lips were repaired in infants at three months and palates between six and nine months - to ensure there was a functioning palate before the child began to speak. His book, unsurprisingly titled *Cleft lip and palate, etc* (London, William Heinemann Medical), was published in 1951 and was for several decades the standard work on the subject. The Rooksdown plastic surgery unit moved in 1952 to Queen Mary's, Roehampton, and Bill went with it. He was senior consultant surgeon there until his retirement in 1972. A great lover of the sea, he then combined business with pleasure for 10 years as a ship's doctor. For many of his friends this happy time is commemorated by one of Bill's meticulous ships in a bottle. Although he had the great practical advantage of being ambidextrous, he would say of himself that he had more persistence than talent. The record disagrees, as do colleagues who remember him as a good and patient teacher. Bill was 97 when he died, peacefully, of complications following a fall, on 19 January 2009. He left a son and three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Cort, David Francis (1935 - 1988)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David Francis Cort was born on 19 March 1935 in Hull, where his father was a bank manager. David was a bright student and gained a Staffordshire County scholarship which took him to Denstone College at Uttoxeter. From here he was awarded an open exhibition in natural sciences to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He took a natural science tripos BA obtaining an upper second degree. From here he went to St George's Hospital Medical School. During the medical course he was awarded the Brodie Prize in surgery (1958) and the Brackenbury Prize in surgery in 1959. While at St George's he was very influenced by Henry Elliot Blake who first advised that he might study plastic surgery. Following house appointments at St George's he held further appointments in the United Birmingham Hospitals where he became clinical tutor to the University of Birmingham. He returned to work at the London, the Royal Masonic Hospital and finally at the United Cardiff Hospitals. In 1974 he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the Dudley Area Health Authority and to the Birmingham Area Health Authority. He was also appointed as plastic surgeon to the United Wordsley Hospital at Stourbridge, to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His particular interest was in the treatment of burns in childhood for which he used positive infusion control and wrote on this in the *British journal of plastic surgery* 1970, 23, 395-397. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. David was a very keen gardener and had an interest in photography in the 'black and white days'. In July 1962 he married Enid Wilson. They had two sons; Jonathan, the elder, studied medicine at Sheffield and Henry gained an entrance to Oxford. David Francis Cort died on 14 December 1988, survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Routledge, Roy Trevor (1918 - 1995)

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First Title value, for Searching Hueston, John Turner (1926 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-10
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details John Hueston was born in Hawthorn, Australia, on 16 January 1926, the son of John Albert Hueston, a civil servant, and Hazel Minnie, a teacher. He was educated at Trinity Grammar School, Melbourne, and at Trinity College, Melbourne University. He qualified in 1948, having gained a number of undergraduate prizes, and took resident surgical posts in the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In 1952 he joined the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps and went to the Korean war as a surgical specialist. In the following year he came to England, passed the FRCS and served as senior house officer to Sir Archibald McIndoe at East Grinstead. From then onwards he devoted himself to plastic surgery, in which he excelled. While in England, he took time off to marry Constance Berndt, whom he had previously known in Melbourne, and together they returned to that city where he joined a well-known practice undertaking plastic surgery. Appointed as consultant to the Royal Melbourne Hospital he rapidly built up a reputation and soon had his own private practice set up in Royal Parade. He gained international recognition first for his work on Dupuytren's contracture on which he produced a monograph in 1964 and which was the subject of his Hunterian professorial lecture in the same year. However, his interests and his expertise covered much of his specialty and he became a well-known lecturer in Europe and North America. He returned to the College to deliver the McIndoe Memorial Lecture in 1984. To his assistants he was a hard taskmaster, a perfectionist who expected nothing less than his own high standards but who nevertheless inspired their loyalty. In spite of his busy professional life he found time for sailing and tennis and for a historical study of the redoutable Baron Dupuytren, which he was further able to pursue when he retired to Provence, where he died on 29 December 1993, survived by his wife Connie and daughters Penny, Jill and Rosemary.
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First Title value, for Searching Pigott, Ronald Wellesley (1932- 2020)

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by Nigel Mercer
Publication Date 2020-04-14
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009700-E009799
Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Ronald Pigott, a consultant at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol was one of the most influential plastic surgeons of his generation, especially in the field of cleft lip and palate. Although he was the quintessential English gentleman, Ron actually carried an Irish passport. He was born on 16 September 1932 in Isfahan, Persia. His father, Ian Pigott, was a general practitioner, who settled in Kettering; his mother was Kathleen Pigott née Parsons. Ron went to Oakham School and then medical school in Dublin, where he excelled at sport. He was an Irish international hockey player (in 1954) and played both hockey and tennis for the University of Dublin. Ron’s general surgery rotation was at Hammersmith Hospital, London, and he was awarded the fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1960 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1962. Ron took a short service commission with the British Army, Parachute Field Ambulance from 1960 to 1962 and then went into plastic surgery training. He worked at Odstock Hospital, Salisbury under John Barron and then went to Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where he was a senior registrar under J P Reidy until 1968. Having developed a special interest in the management of cleft lip and palate, Ron spent a year as the Robert Johnson fellow with the eminent US cleft surgeon Ralph Millard in Miami. As part of his fellowship, Millard asked him to investigate a procedure which he had devised, known as the Millard island flap, which involved using a small segment of hard palate mucoperiosteum to lengthen the nasal layer of the palate. Ron overcame earlier difficulties in endoscopy of the nasopharynx by using the newly developed Storz Hopkins rod lens endoscope, at the same time that M L Skolnick, a radiologist, was developing cineradiography (before the development of video). Together they began to understand how the palate functioned and why so many palate repairs were unsuccessful and began to tailor secondary surgery to the size and nature of the defect. Interestingly, Ron apparently did not tell Millard that his operation was not effective! Ron was appointed as a consultant at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol in 1969 and continued his work on understanding the palate and inspired a generation of surgeons to share his fascination with palate repair and the correction of inadequate palates. He worked with Tony Makepeace, a technical expert, who designed and made the first ‘split screen’ to simultaneously display and record the X-ray and the endoscopy as Ron performed the investigation. Ron and an American speech pathologist Bob Shprintzen independently developed a theory that the problems with the cleft palate were due to the lack of paired musculus uvulae on the dorsum of the soft palate, and he devised a procedure to attempt to replace it with a flap of oral mucosa (which he described as the ‘tadpole flap’). He was initially sceptical of the concept that the problem was the orientation of the palate muscles (especially the levator veli palati) and that the correction of these was a better solution, however, typically he came around to supporting this idea. He was much more interested in trying to find the answer than in defending his position. His other major interest, especially in cleft surgery, was the correction of the nasal deformity. He developed a new procedure, known as the ‘alar leapfrog’, to correct the deformity of the alar cartilages. Again, he was happy for this to be compared with the alternative technique devised by Harold McComb in Australia and, when his registrar, Nigel Mercer, showed the symmetry gained by his operation at the age of ten was worse than that of the ‘McComb’, he acknowledged that the ‘McComb’ technique produced better results and stopped performing his procedure. His obsession with the achievement of nasal symmetry in cleft lip repair continued well into his retirement and, together with his younger brother, Brian, he developed a computer programme (SymNose) to measure lip and nasal symmetry. He was presenting and debating this in meetings of cleft surgeons well into his eighties. These examples demonstrate his lifelong pursuit of excellence, his determination to find answers, his infectious enthusiasm, his humility and his generosity towards others. In an age when the surgeon often regarded himself as ‘the boss’, Ron recognised the importance of having a team of equals in the cleft unit. He did not mind which school or university his surgical team went to, but he did demand complete dedication to improving the results for patients with cleft. He was an exacting boss for his trainees and held strong views strongly, but he was also inspirational in his love of cleft surgery. Such was his international reputation, there was a long-standing exchange with Australasia at registrar level. During their year long tenure, they all spent six months on the Pigott firm. Interestingly and characteristically, ‘RWP’ (as he was referred to at Frenchay) did not realise working with him was the ‘main attraction’. One of the ‘terrors’ for his team was him saying, after injecting the local anaesthetic, ‘Entertain me!’, whilst he waited seven minutes by the clock for the local and adrenaline to act. They could be a long seven minutes…. Ron instigated multidisciplinary team care and created such a team in Bristol, performing joint clinics with Liz Albery, speech and language therapist, and Iain Hathorn, orthodontist. Both were internationally renowned in their fields and it was an excellent team of equals. Just before Ron retired, Nichola Rumsey, the internationally renowned healthcare psychologist, also attended his clinics. In the 1980's, evidence began to accumulate that the growth of the cleft maxillary following surgery in the United Kingdom was inferior to those from Oslo, Norway. The discussions and arguments amongst surgeons performing cleft surgery lacked scientific vigour and Ron was the only one who insisted that audit of consecutive case records must be used to determine the long-term outcomes of patients with cleft. He who challenged other surgeons, ‘Show us ten consecutive cases!’ He did as he demanded of others and he acted on the results, both positive and negative. As a result of his work, there is an almost complete record of the cases treated in Bristol dating back to the 1970's. Perhaps one of the sadnesses for cleft care is that he did not write more on his overall, long-term results after his retirement and, in particular, on his unparalleled archive of early cleft palate speech investigation. His CV of over 50 papers was almost entirely cleft related. With his name on a paper, it was bound to be published in an influential journal. Ron was the president of the European Association of Plastic Surgeons from 1992 to 1993 and of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons in 1993. He received both the James Berry prize and the Jacksonian prize in 1979 and received the Mowlem award from the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1982. Ron served the Association in several roles. He was an honorary member and past president of the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Ron married Sheila, a nurse and midwife, in 1958 and they had four boys – Simon, Hadrian, Daniel and Benjamin. He was immensely proud of his family. Ron continued to play tennis for many years and the tennis tournament at the Pigotts’ summer party, held at their beautiful house in Gloucestershire, was always very hard fought. Ron and Sheila were consummate hosts but, at one such party it became clear who was the ‘boss’ at home: when asked where a new brand of peanut came from, Ron replied to the perplexed senior house officer, ‘I don’t know…I just come home and they are here! Ron had a lifelong love of the arts and of painting and sculpting in particular. The Pigotts’ Christmas card was a pen and ink, limited edition print of one of his original sketches of a scene in and around Bristol. He loved to go on painting trips with friends and colleagues, particularly John Lendrum and Brian Morgan. He also loved gardening and walking his dogs, the whippets. His generation of surgeons was not immune to driving fast cars. Ron’s Porsche 924 Turbo was part of him. Ron travelled with his tennis racket to the International Cleft Congresses, where he would play the likes of S T Lee, Sam Noordhoff and Peter Randall, the elite cleft surgeons of the day. Ron never said who won. Ron Pigott died peacefully at home, after a long illness, at the age of 87 on 17 February 2020. He was enormously influential in his field and was voted the ‘plastic surgeon’s plastic surgeon’ by his peers. He was, undoubtedly, the role model for a generation of cleft lip and palate surgeons.
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First Title value, for Searching McDowall, Andrew (1901 - 1978)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Andrew McDowall was born at Bradford on 22 February 1901 of parents who had been born and brought up in Wigtownshire. He was educated first at Fort William School, where he developed a great interest in history. He went on to George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and then to Edinburgh University, where he graduated in medicine in 1923. He set up in general practice at Bradford and remained there for six years. He then decided to undertake specialist surgical training, and after hospital appointments in London took the FRCS in 1935. In 1938 he married Agnes Woodman and later that year took up a Foreign Office appointment as surgeon to the Iraq Government at Baghdad. He later became Professor of Surgery at the Royal Iraq College of Medicine, and in recognition of his service to the country the Order of Al Rafidian Class IV was conferred on him. McDowall was a Territorial officer before the second world war, and in 1943 he entered the RAMC from Baghdad with the rank of Major. He served in Italy; then as a Lieutenant-Colonel with the British Liberation Army, in charge of a field ambulance unit in Germany. Towards the end of the war he was in charge of a surgical division in Singapore. In 1947 he returned to Britain and was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the Manchester region at the outset of the NHS. The regional service was based at Wythenshawe Hospital, but he also set up a burns unit for the treatment of children at Booth Hall Hospital in north Manchester. He became an authority on the treatment of burns, particularly in children, and wrote on the subject. He was active in the campaign aimed at reducing the frequency of firework and night-dress burns in children. He had additional appointments at Wigan and Preston, where he created the plastic surgery unit, and where, after his retirement from Wythenshawe Hospital in 1966, he continued as a consultant plastic surgeon until his 70th year. He was a director of the East Lancashire Division of the British Red Cross Society and a representative on its national council. He will be remembered as a delightful colleague dedicated to the care of his patients and to his specialty of plastic surgery. He died on 30 June 1978, survived by his wife, Dorothy Agnes, whom he had married in 1938, and his son, F AW McDowall, also an FRCS and senior registrar in plastic surgery at East Grinstead.
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Frank (1914 - 1981)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-04 2015-03-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379081379081
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Frank Robinson, the son of a general practitioner, was born in Bolton in 1914. There had been doctors in every generation of the family since 1800. After graduation from Manchester in 1940 he was called up for service in the RAMC, first at Aldershot and later at Baguley Emergency Medical Service Hospital. After demobilisation as a Captain he returned to Manchester to work with Wilson Hay, F H Bentley and Harry Platt. On passing the final FRCS in 1949 he returned to plastic surgery with Andrew McDowall and Randall Champion at Wythenshawe Hospital. Frank had technical ability of the highest order and was a meticulous operator of obsessional character, and with an intolerance of the second-rate. He published papers on a wide variety of topics and was best known for his work on primary bone grafting for cleft palate. His critical observation and painstaking records over the years much facilitated this work and he kept a detailed diary in which he wrote up every operation he had done at the end of each day. He was President of the Manchester Medical Society and Chairman of the Charles O'Neill Club; a Council member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and a founder member of the British Association of Cosmetic Surgeons, having long recognised and publicised the importance of aesthetic surgery. Apart from his lip and palate work at Booth Hall Children's Hospital, he also developed a burns unit there with Andrew McDowall and they won a scientific prize at the BMA exhibition in 1964. Additionally, in concert with his dental colleague, Barry Woods, he introduced a special ward where the mothers of cleft palate patients could stay with their babies and be taught to cope with the dental plate and feeding. Outside his strictly surgical commitment he served as chairman of the medical advisory committee and was a member of the hospital management committee. He was a loyal supporter of his hospitals so that his opinion and advice were widely sought on general medical matters. He was an excellent communicator, a rapid worker and speaker, and a forthright but fair opponent in dispute. He was fond of fast cars, an enthusiastic dancer in his youth and had a keen interest in music, teaching himself to play the electric organ in later life. His wife, Joan, was a physiotherapist and they had three daughters and two sons, all of whom survived him when he died on 13 October 1981.
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First Title value, for Searching Crockett, David John (1923 - 2009)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-07-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373437373437
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David Crockett contributed greatly to the specialty of plastic surgery in the Sudan and then in Bradford as a consultant surgeon from 1964 until he retired in 1987. A very gifted man, he enjoyed many hobbies during his very busy professional life and was above all a family man. He was born in Northampton on 5 August 1923, the son of Leonard Marshall Crockett, a dental surgeon, and his wife, Eleanor Carol née Baker. Educated first at Winchester House School, Northamptonshire, he completed his school education at Charterhouse. He then went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before entering St Thomas' Hospital for his clinical training. In his undergraduate days at Cambridge David took up judo for recreation and this proved beneficial at a later date in the Sudan, where he instructed the Sudanese police in the art of self defence. Qualifying in 1946, he was a casualty officer and house surgeon at St Thomas' before becoming a senior house officer in orthopaedics at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, in 1947. He then entered National Service in the RAMC for two years with the rank of captain. Deciding on a surgical career, he undertook a general surgical senior house officer post at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, and then demonstrated anatomy at St Thomas' whilst studying for the primary FRCS. Having passed this hurdle, he continued in general surgery as a surgical registrar, first at Tilbury and then Alton, and passed the final FRCS examination. An interest in trauma was kindled at the Birmingham Accident Unit, by which time he was veering towards a career in plastic surgery. No doubt influenced by Douglas Jackson, he studied many aspects of burns. Of his early joint publications, 'Bacteriology of burns treated by exposure', was published in the Lancet in 1954 (ii 1157). He then undertook a research project on oedema and colloid replacement at the Middlesex Hospital from 1955 to 1956. Definitive training in plastic surgery took place at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, from 1956 to 1959. David then accepted a post as a senior lecturer in general surgery at the University of Khartoum, working first with Julian Taylor. He remained in the Sudan for five years before returning to the UK. The time spent in Africa was a productive period, with publications on cancer, keloids and reconstructive procedures. His workload was enormous and his reputation amongst Sudan's medical fraternity was very high. He was an invited lecturer at many conferences of the Sudanese Association of Surgeons, including one held at the time of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the Kitchener Medical School in 1974, giving a lecture on keloids. Also taking part were three other fellows present as examiners for the overseas primary FRCS (G W Taylor, Ian McColl and N Alan Green) and two working for WHO (Adrian Marston and Ivan Johnston). In 1964 David Crockett and his family returned to the UK, and he became a consultant plastic surgeon at the Bradford Royal Infirmary, St Luke's Hospital and Airedale Hospital. He retired in 1987 after a very full professional life punctuated by conferences in the UK. At St Thomas' Hospital he had met Anne Chalmers, a nurse, whom he married on 7 August 1947 at Quinton, Northamptonshire. As both of Anne's parents had died, David's parents proved very supportive during their courtship and for many years of their happy married life. Anne later trained as a medical social worker at Leeds University and then practised in the Bradford area. They had a family of four: Carolyn Mary, Paul Jonathan Marshall, Georgina Jane and Thurstan David. David and Anne enjoyed many educational and social trips in mainland Europe, the Indian subcontinent and Australasia. For some 18 years they had a bungalow retreat in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland. They kept a small boat there and enjoyed family holidays sailing, walking in the countryside, bird watching and cataloguing the many orchids that grew in the area. David made a collage of the varieties of orchid he found in Ireland and was very knowledgeable in various facets of natural history. He was a talented landscape painter and, as a creative carpenter, he made tables and chairs to furnish their home and garden. In retirement, David and his brother Clifden Crockett played serious bridge on a regular basis in Northampton, but the more friendly and 'family' variety was played at home with his wife. Snooker with many friends at his house was another form of relaxation. David John Crockett died on 28 June 2009. He had suffered a stroke on 11 June and was nursed at home by Anne with superb help from the local nursing and social services, and also from his granddaughter, Naomi, who had trained as a doctor at Leeds University. He could not speak, but was able to smile and recognised his family until he passed away. He was survived by Anne, their four children and seven grandchildren, Naomi, Tamara, Thomas, Victoria, Hannah, Kathryn and Jonathan.
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First Title value, for Searching Kaplan, Isidore (1927 - 1977)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-16
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Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Isidore Kaplan was born in Balfour, Transvaal, on 25 February 1927, and was educated at Jeppe High School, Johannesburg, and at the University of Cape Town, where he graduated MB ChB in 1951. At UCT he captained the Cricket First XI for three successive years and received the Jameson Award for services to sport. At this time too, he was one of the founders of the annual university cricket week. After three years at Addington Hospital in Durban, he proceeded to the United Kingdom, where he worked at Birmingham Accident Hospital and at the Postgraduate Medical School, London. He obtained the FRCS Ed in 1957 and the FRCS in 1958. After a residency in plastic surgery at Edinburgh University, he spent 1960-62 in Pittsburgh, USA, as resident and teaching fellow under Dr William L White. His research there on circumferential burns earned him an honourable mention from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. On returning to South Africa in September 1962, he rapidly built up a very extensive practice as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. It was in the field of hand surgery that Kaplan became an internationally renowned figure, publishing extensively in the world literature and contributing chapters to several textbooks. He was a prime mover in the formation of the South Africa Society for Surgery of the Hand, of which he became President in 1970. In addition to prominence in the hand surgery and plastic surgery societies of many lands, he was President of the Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of South Africa from 1972 to 1974. In 1967 and 1973, Kaplan was one of the first South African doctors to go to Israel to give freely of his skills in the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli conflicts. As founder of the Israel Hand Society, he enjoyed a particularly high reputation in that country, and subsequently organized the visit of Israeli experts to the conference on military medicine held at UNISA in 1975. In his chosen fields, Kaplan displayed all the hallmarks of a great surgeon, a meticulous attention to detail in history-taking and clinical notation; preparation for and carrying out of an operation that never allowed for short-cuts or lapses from his strict self-imposed discipline, and a superb operative technique. Inside the theatre and out, his relationships with colleagues, nurses and especially his patients were exemplary. Latterly Isidore Kaplan pioneered in South Africa the operation of total submaxillary salivary gland excision and posterior relocation of the parotid ducts. The dramatic conversion of 'drooling' spastic patients with their bibs permanently sodden with saliva to an almost overnight dry state was tremendously rewarding emotionally to all associated with the procedure and this was perhaps the most satisfying achievement of his later career. He was married and had a young family. He died in New York on 25 February 1977 on his fiftieth birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Herbert, Frederick Ironsides (1915 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-11
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Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born in Gateshead on 23 January 1915 the eldest son of Thomas John Frederick Herbert, an engineer and his wife Edith, nee Ironsides, he was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the Medical School, Durham University, graduating MB, BS, in 1939. During his student days he was a redoubtable left arm fast bowler, and played for the Universities Athletics Union at Cricket for five seasons, a feat only possible at that time to students in the lengthy medical training. He also represented his county until a war injury forced his premature retirement. During the second world war he served in the RAMC with the Dorset & Hants Yeomanry, and then the 94th Field Regiment until injured in the Normandy Campaign. He was mentioned in despatches. After demobilisation he returned to the Royal Victoria Infirmary as a registrar, and then a senior registrar in general surgery, obtaining the FRCS in June 1949. The same year he began training in plastic surgery with Mr Fenton Braithwaite. Three years later he was appointed as a consultant plastic surgeon to the Newcastle Regional Hospital Board, attached to Shotley Bridge General Hospital, the Fleming Memorial Hospital for Sick Children in Newcastle, and the Sunderland General Hospital. In his later years he took an increasing interest in the affairs of the British Medical Association, being secretary of the Consultants and Specialists Committee for the Newcastle area, and also honorary secretary of the Regional Committee for Hospital Medical Services. He also participated in the affairs of the British Association of Plastic Surgery Nurses. His sound clinical assessment, coupled with considerable technical skill as a surgeon, led to a busy professional life, from which at times he managed to escape into a private world of building model engines and locomotives, or photographing sea birds and wildlife on the Farne Islands, and other remote sanctuaries of the Northumbrian coast. An able and persuasive speaker, he wrote little; and his ideas and charm survive only in the memory of his audiences. Herbert married Marie Goldsbrough in 1943 who survived him with their two sons Frederick and John. He died on 20 February 1970 aged 55 years from coronary thrombosis.
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First Title value, for Searching Masser, Michael Rodney (1948 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Michael Rodney Masser was born in Yorkshire on 23 April 1948 the son of Dr Alfred Masser MB, ChB, a medical officer of health and factory doctor and his wife, Joyce, née Silcove. His early education was at Penistone Grammar School, Sheffield, after which he entered Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1971. He returned to Yorkshire to undertake pre-registration posts at Leeds General Infirmary before being appointed research fellow at Guy's Hospital Medical School and coming under the influence of Professor Sir Hedley Atkins and Guy Blackburn. After further junior posts he was appointed lecturer to the department of medicine at Leeds University and he passed the MRCP in 1976 and the FRCS in the following year, when he was surgical registrar at Lincoln Hospital. After passing his post-graduate examinations he decided to embark on a career in plastic surgery and served as registrar at Odstock Hospital, Salisbury, from 1981 to 1984 and as senior registrar at the same hospital from 1984 to 1990. Throughout his life he travelled extensively to study foreign techniques and in his student years had spent some time at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. More recently he had studied laser work and the use of tissue expanders having been awarded the European travelling scholarship of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. He also won the Kay Kilner Prize for plastic surgery in 1989. He was appointed consultant plastic surgeon at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, early in 1990 and approached his new post with his characteristic energy and enthusiasm. Within a few months of starting he had acquired a high reputation and was planning new developments in conjunction with his colleague Kenneth Craig Paton. On 26 November 1990 they were both attacked and stabbed to death by a mentally deranged patient who had gained access to the plastic surgery office at the hospital. He was only 42 years of age. On a visit to Yugoslavia as part of his travelling scholarship, he had met his future wife, Jasmina, also a plastic surgeon. She survived him together with their daughter Mela and was expecting their second child when he died.
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First Title value, for Searching Bodenham, Denis Charles (1915 - 1996)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Denis Bodenham was a pioneer plastic surgeon who learnt his basic skills in RAF hospitals during the war, and went on to apply his expertise in peace time surgery, making important contributions to the pathology and the management of malignant melanoma. He was born in Bristol on 20 October 1915, the son of a dentist. After schooling at Clifton College he gained his medical education at Bristol University, where among other things he distinguished himself as captain of the rowing club. He qualified with both the conjoint diploma and the MB Bristol in 1939 and after a house job in the Bristol General Hospital he joined the RAF. In the service he worked with David Matthews and Archibald McIndoe and had the opportunity to make the earliest use of penicillin in surgical cases, a subject on which he wrote in the official Air Ministry publications. He left the RAF with the rank of Squadron Leader. After the war, with the FRCS Edinburgh, he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, and led innovative teams concerned with cleft lip and palate and with malignant melanoma. He was the inventor of a new skin graft knife and of a facial nerve stimulator of great value in major facial surgery. He soon realized the importance of a training programme and was Chairman of the Special Advisory Committee on plastic surgery between 1968 and 1971. In 1968 he delivered a Hunterian Lecture on the subject of melanoma and in the following year was awarded the FRCS England ad eundem. In 1973 he was elected President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. In 1944 he married Judith Bradley. They had three sons, none of whom have entered the medical profession. After retirement with his second wife, Anne, he wrote *The Food Dictionary*, a volume designed to promote healthy eating. Rowing was not a sport to carry on into mature years but he continued to enjoy the water when sailing or fishing. He died of heart failure on 22 November 1996.
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First Title value, for Searching McEwan, Lena Elizabeth (1927 - 2011)

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by D R Marshall
Publication Date 2014-08-15 2015-03-20
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Lena McEwan was the first woman to specialize in plastic surgery in Australia, and did so with much distinction. She was born on 11 August 1927 in South Australia. Her parents were recent immigrants from Glasgow, and when Lena and her mother conversed in demotic Glaswegian, they became totally incomprehensible to those not familiar with this language. She was educated in St Peter's Collegiate Girls School and in the University of Adelaide, where she graduated MB BS in 1949. She was a brilliant student. After a year as a resident medical officer in the Royal Adelaide Hospital and a year in general practise, she went to England for surgical training and secured positions as registrar in two great teaching hospitals, the Birmingham Accident Hospital and the now Royal London Hospital. She took the FRCS (Eng) diploma in 1954, and then returned to Adelaide, where she worked as Senior Surgical Registrar in the Royal Adelaide Hospital. This was a very responsible post, especially demanding in emergency surgery. Lena coped with the work with effortless ease, showing great skill in delegation; on one busy night, she directed a bemused neurosurgeon to remove a difficult retrocaecal appendix. Lena took the FRACS diploma in May 1958. She obtained a position as Honorary Clinical Assistant in the surgical staff of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, but after a year in this capacity she decided to move to Melbourne. Her English experience had included plastic work, and she came under the influence of B K (later Sir Benjamin) Rank, then the leading Australian plastic surgeon. In 1960-61, she was appointed as his associate at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), where she later became his second assistant after John Hueston. She also obtained an appointment as assistant plastic surgeon under George Gunter at Prince Henry's Hospital (1963-5), and an honorary appointment as plastic surgeon on the staff of the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, (1961-82), later the Queen Victoria Medical Centre (QVMC), and at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Hospital (PMCH), where B K Rank took over as head of unit after retiring from the RMH. She remained at the PMCH until her retirement in 1992. Lena made notable contributions in widely different fields. In 1962, she published a paper on repair of injuries of the median and ulnar nerves. She studied the outcomes in patients treated in the Royal Melbourne and Royal Children's Hospitals; most had undergone primary nerve suture and were later assessed by quantified neurological tests of motor, sensory and sudomotor functions. Her study showed the good results of early operation by expert plastic surgeons, especially in children. Her elegant paper attracted much attention at a time when many surgeons favoured secondary(delayed) repair; it was later repeatedly quoted by Sydney Sunderland. After fifty years, the paper reads as a definitive contribution in a controversial field, and as a very mature assessment by one still a trainee. Lena also published a perceptive study of hand function and its restoration by surgery; this too reads very well today. At the QVMC, Lena collaborated with William Walters in the care of persons suffering from transsexualism due to underlying gender dysphoria. An interdisciplinary team was established in 1976, to treat selected individuals by gender reassignment. In most cases, this required reshaping male genitals to conform with a psychological conviction of female identity. In 1986, the members of the team published a book describing their work; in this, Lena was the leading author of a section describing the technique of male-to-female genital reassignment. She is remembered for her high surgical competence in these demanding operations, and for her compassionate care for the patients; she was never judgemental in her attitude to patients whose experience of transsexualism had affected their lifestyles. She also showed moral courage in undertaking what was then a controversial branch of plastic surgery. Lena became head of the Skin Unit in the PMCH in 1982 in succession to B K Rank. She was much interested in the management of skin cancers, and she coauthored with D R Marshall and B K Rank in a study of malignant melanomas. This confirmed the value of wide surgical excision, but also showed that massive excision of very small lesions did not improve the outcomes. It was well received at an international congress of plastic surgeons. Lena was a good teacher, and taught many future plastic surgeons at the PMCH, where she had a rotating trainee registrarship. She was also much interested in the needs of undergraduates, and was Senior Resident Tutor in University College where she later became Vice Principal. She was instrumental in the foundation of a scholarship at University College, and made generous donations to education there and in Adelaide. She was vivacious and companionable, and made many friends. She had sharp wits, and sometimes a sharp tongue. Once at a meeting, she memorably summed up the many questions of a self promoting colleague with a devastating phrase from ornithology: "male display." After her graduation, she must have had to struggle to establish herself as a woman in plastic surgery, and it has been suggested that she encountered male opposition. If this was so, she did not become embittered. In 1967, when she was president of the Victorian Medical Women's Society, she gave an address on the economic value and the problems of women in the Australian medical workforce. This reads as a tranquil and balanced assessment, tinged with gentle irony and making very constructive suggestions. After her retirement, she moved to Torquay Vic, where together with her friends Dame Joyce Daws DBE and Dr June Pash she developed a long-standing interest in botany, notably in growing proteas. She did this very well. She died after a short illness on 4 October 2011, from ovarian cancer, and was widely mourned. D A Simpson W A W Walters
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First Title value, for Searching Sankey, Joseph Nicholas (1900 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born 23 October 1900 at Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire. His father, a working man, had migrated to Canada as a boy, and his mother only returned to her native Herefordshire village for his birth, and afterwards took him back to Canada. Some good fortune in dealing with property enabled the family to visit England in 1914 shortly before the outbreak of war, and when his parents went back to Canada in 1916 Sankey was left at Newport Grammar School, from which he went on to the Birmingham Medical School. From this time forward he supported himself, for his father who worked as a builder in Vancouver was too poor to help him. Sankey worked at different times on farms and in factories and also made money as a violinist, while pressing forward with his education. After qualifying in 1923 he served as house surgeon, casualty house surgeon, and assistant in the gynaecological, skin, and venereal disease departments at the General Hospital, Birmingham. He took courses at the Middlesex and London Hospitals, served as house surgeon at the Royal Samaritan Hospital for Women, and resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in 1924, and took the Conjoint qualification in November 1925, proceeding to the Fellowship the following summer. He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Queen's (now Queen Elizabeth) Hospital, Birmingham in 1932 and then went for a period to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA, where he was inspired by the high professional standards of William and Charles Mayo. He was attracted to plastic surgery by the influence of T P Kilner, of Manchester and St Thomas's Hospital, afterwards Nuffield professor at Oxford. In due course he became surgeon to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, and surgeon to the Guest Hospital, Dudley; he was also plastic surgeon to the Birmingham and Midlands Skin Hospital. He was a member of the Midlands Medical Society. During the war of 1939-45 he turned his attention almost wholly to plastic surgery, working assiduously and very successfully with Harold Round at the Barnesley Hospital facio-maxillary unit. At the same time he carried on his other duties, considerably overtaxing his strength. He died suddenly of coronary thrombosis on 30 December 1947, aged 47. He was unmarried; his father survived him, with his sister and brothers.
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First Title value, for Searching Wynn-Williams, David (1914 - 1998)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-08
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David Wynn-Williams was a consultant plastic surgeon at Nottingham Hospital. Born on 16 August 1914, his father was a general practitioner in Middlesborough. David was a medical student at the Westminster at the same time as his brother, George, who became a gynaecologist at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. David qualified in 1940 and then worked at the Westminster all through the Blitz as a casualty officer. He then joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve and spent the first two years as medical officer on the Queen Elizabeth on her Atlantic crossings. His next posting was to Germany, where he met his wife to be, Anne Nettlefold. He was subsequently posted to Egypt. He returned to the Westminster to train in surgery. He was senior registrar with Charles Drew and Lockhart Mummery. When the three submitted MS theses, only Wynn Williams was successful, but unlike the other two he was not appointed as a London consultant. He turned instead to train in plastic surgery, which he did with Sir Archibald McIndoe at East Grinstead. Nicknamed 'the Welsh wizard', he is remembered there as a larger than life character, and an enthusiastic and busy surgeon. There were two candidates for a consultant plastic surgeon post at Nottingham in 1955. The other candidate was Jack Mustarde from Glasgow, who flew down for the interview, but David was appointed, as he was willing to take on the resuscitation of patients with burns. However, he was not given any beds and merely did clinics for the first year, by which time there was an enormous waiting list. Eventually beds and operating sessions were found. He worked on his own for 20 years, covering a vast area with distant clinics, including in Derby, Mansfield and Grantham. He also had a London practice. He was a skilled and rapid operator, a kindly man and a delightful companion. Eventually a second consultant plastic surgeon was appointed in 1971. In the late seventies, he was unwell and away on sick leave, until he retired in 1979. He underwent a gastrectomy for carcinoma. David was always interested in country pursuits, including shooting, national hunt racing and point-to-point, where he was a popular commentator. His son, Rhydain, a writer, continues this family interest in racing. David Wynn-Williams died on 21 December 1998, survived by his wife, son and daughter, Anne.
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First Title value, for Searching Brough, Michael David (1942 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-14
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Michael David Brough was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He was born on 4 July 1942 in London, where his father, Kenneth David Brough, was chairman of Metal Box Overseas Ltd. His mother was Frances Elizabeth née Davies, the daughter of Walter Ernest Llewellyn Davies, a general practitioner in Llandiloes, Montgomeryshire. Michael was educated at the Hall School in Hampstead and then Westminster. He went on to Christ’s College, Cambridge, and completed his clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital. After graduating he continued his training in Birmingham, Salisbury and Manchester. His first consultant appointment was at St Andrew’s Hospital, Billericay, which was followed by appointments at University College, the Royal Free and the Whittington Hospitals. He became celebrated for his work after the fire at King’s Cross underground station on 18 November 1987, which killed 31 people and caused many severe burns. Michael led the team treating these casualties, an experience which caused him to realise the need for expertise from other specialties (no fewer than 21 consultants from 11 specialties were involved in this instance), as well as ongoing psychological support, especially for those with disfiguring injuries. He urged that all major burns units should be sited in or near teaching or large district general hospitals, and equally, that all major trauma centres should include a plastic surgery and burns unit. He set up the Phoenix Appeal with the Duke of Edinburgh as patron and raised £5m to establish the first academic department of plastic and reconstructive surgery in the UK. In 2002 he set up the Healing Foundation, a national charity chaired by Chris Patten, to champion the cause of people living with disfigurement and to fund research into surgical and psychological healing techniques. Beginning with £500,000 from the British Association of Plastic Surgeons this foundation has raised £4.5m and is setting up a chair of tissue regeneration at Manchester University. He was a former President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and also a member of the NHS Modernisation Agency’s Action on Plastic Surgery team. Despite being a non-smoker, he developed lung cancer and died on 18 November 2004. He leaves his wife Geraldine, two daughters and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Frederic Thomas (1913 - 1983)

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First Title value, for Searching Williams, John Hunter (1925 - 2020)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Cary Mellow
Publication Date 2021-05-05
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details John Hunter Williams was born at Wharewhitu Private Hospital in Dannevirke. His father Charles Skinner Williams was an Orthopaedic and General Surgeon (who was also involved in veterinary Orthopaedics) in the Manawatu area. He was given the name John Hunter in memory of the 18th century Scottish anatomist-surgeon from St Bartholomew’s, who along with his brother, William Hunter, was a famous anatomic and surgical pioneer (and possible grave robber) – thus John’s fate was sealed – he just had to become a surgeon!! Charles “retired” from surgical practice in Palmerston North and became a Surgeon / GP in the Far North, based at Kaeo Hospital. Thus started a love of the Far North for John. John attended Hadlow Preparatory School in Masterton (he was one of 18 pupils). As a teenager he contracted polio and was left with left sided weakness; he was able to recover sufficiently to study at Whanganui Collegiate. He took up study at Dunedin staying at Selwyn College (his father Charles had been at Knox). John’s son Charles, a GP in Howick, Auckland, would also stay in Selwyn in future years – in John’s old room no less (but he never found “JHW” carved in the wood paneling!) He was interested in radio and electronics and studied for his BSc – after graduation entering second year at the Medical School. In his memoirs, he states (with typical humility) that he was not good enough in mathematics to have a career in radio engineering or physics! He spent his fifth year selective at Kaitaia Hospital, and his final year as a medical student in Auckland, to be closer to the family in Northland, graduating MB ChB in 1951. While in Auckland, he would frequently do extra work after hours in the Casualty Department for experience. It was here that he had met a Canadian nurse, Sister Joan Hammond, who was on a working holiday travelling the world. She came to like NZ, and John, and she and John subsequently married in Kaeo, keeping her here In NZ! John was a house surgeon in the Auckland District Health Board. For his first house surgeon job, he was assigned to Plastic Surgery at Middlemore Hospital under Mr W M Manchester. The Plastic Surgery Unit was in its infancy and John was only its third Plastic Surgery house surgeon. A previous house surgeon Jack Sinclair (later Professor of Physiology at the new Auckland Medical School) warned John to pay great attention to Mr Manchester’s teaching, so he could repeat the litanies exactly word-for-word on the ward rounds – as would many subsequent medical students, house surgeons and registrars have to also! In his memoirs, John recalls Mr Manchester’s willingness to teach, taking every opportunity to do so – ward rounds, clinics, and theatre lists. Subsequently John worked as a house surgeon in General Surgery at Auckland and at Greenlane Hospitals. In his second year, having enjoyed the supportive atmosphere and spirit of Middlemore, he asked to return there, being assigned to the Clarke/Innes General Surgery team, Harman Smith for Orthopaedics, Ross Dreadon for General Medicine, and another stint in Plastic Surgery with Mr Manchester. In 1954 John became the Plastic Surgery registrar (but was also the General Surgery registrar at the same time!) He and the new full-time Orthopaedic surgeon O.R. Nicholson both had an interest in hands and frequently combined to treat hand injuries, something that would eventually be formalized some years later. John had decided that he wanted to be a surgeon from the time of his graduation; he briefly flirted with the thought of anaesthetics, but apparently, Mr Manchester insisted that he should not be anything other than a Plastic Surgeon. After two years as a registrar, John was given a grant in 1956 to travel to Britain, to obtain a Fellowship in Surgery. Joan and their two boys, Charles and Matthew, travelled to Canada, to be with the Hammond family, while John travelled to England as a ship’s medical officer on the Shaw Savill MV “Taranaki”. He stayed at the Nuffield Accommodation of the College of Surgeons, London, and attended various courses prior to sitting for the Fellowship. He also worked as a prosector at The Royal College of Surgeons, with small jobs at The Royal Marsden Hospital, and Smallfields in Surrey. He obtained both his Edinburgh and English Fellowships. Joan and the children came over to England and for a short time they were reunited as a family living in Nutley, Sussex, until the cold weather drove them home (and Mr Manchester summoned John back to Middlemore!). From June 1958 John was a Full Time Plastic Surgeon at Middlemore Hospital. He now had a dedicated Plastic Surgery registrar and a house surgeon. During John’s absence overseas, Mr Manchester had obtained the FRACS, and John too was encouraged to do so, passing this in 1963, the same day as Joan Chapple, the first woman Plastic Surgeon in Australasia. John saw a progression in anaesthesia practice from the referring GPs and hospital house surgeons giving anaesthetics, to anaesthetics being given by specialist anesthetists; so too from procaine infiltration with heroin sedation, to open chloroform and ether. Mr Manchester insisted the best anaesthesia was ether, but younger anaesthetists were more keen on more modern techniques, and from a surgical point of view it enabled use of bipolar diathermy instead of multiple 5/0 silk ties, and without the risk of explosions! So too John saw the change from nurse-threaded sutures to pre-bonded atraumatic sutures. This all had especially important consequences for the two areas of Plastic Surgery that John would develop a worldwide reputation in – cleft lip and palate and hypospadias. An innovation John developed was to bore a hole in the hard palate in a cleft palate patient to enable attachment of the lateral palatal Veau flaps, enabling less bleeding, less scarring and a better long-term result. Mr Manchester became involved with more and more overseas trips in his role in the ranks of the IPRS, becoming Secretary General, and being in demand as a visiting professor. This meant that John could do cleft lip and palate surgery whenever Mr Manchester was absent. In addition, as the volume of cleft lip and palate patients became too large for Mr Manchester to do himself, John came to do more and more of this delicate surgery. He also took over the treatment of hypospadias patients from Mr Manchester. John entered private practice at the insistence of Mr Manchester in 1965, having rooms initially at 101 Remuera Road with a group of Orthopaedic Surgeons and radiologists, and later at 81a Remuera Road, with his own purpose designed rooms (designed especially for him by a long-term patient). He operated at the Mater Hospital, and subsequently also the Auckland Adventist Hospital. Meanwhile he continued with his work on hypospadias at Middlemore Hospital employing one-stage repairs for distal hypospadias and two stage for the more severe proximal. He presented “an account of his efforts” at the IPRS World Congress in Melbourne. At the same meeting, Charles Devine and Charles Horton presented their work on one-stage repairs and performed a televised operation. Later he would travel to Norfolk, Virginia, to a meeting on Reconstructive Genital Surgery organized by Charles Horton. Their results were excellent, so John adopted the Horton-Devine techniques, including the one-stage flip-flap and the free preputial lining graft techniques, and taught and demonstrated them to younger surgeons in NZ and Australia. He modified it further using a Durham-Smith waterproofing waistcoat flap. John shared exactly the same birthday with Charles Horton and they were thenceforth friends and correspondents. On one occasion John presented a video of his proximal hypospadias free graft technique at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the RACS, accompanied by Handel’s Water music, to spontaneous applause because his technique was so fluid! Other developments were the adoption of the Gibbons catheter (rather than a perineal urethrostomy) and caudal anaesthesia. John became involved in College organisation, becoming a Plastic Surgery Division Board member and later Chairman, as well as being a College examiner for a number of years. John visited Western Samoa with Interplast Australia, but was not happy to do cleft lip and palate or hypospadias surgery, as he was concerned that the patients would be left without adequate follow-up. So too he spent time in South Vietnam at Qui Nhon Hospital with the civilian surgical team at the time of the Tet Offensive – a dangerous time! William Manchester retired from his post at Middlemore Hospital in 1979 and John became Head of Department. The unit had grown from one Plastic Surgeon and house surgeon in 1952 to six surgeons with six registrars and four house surgeons. He continued to work on cleft lip and palate and hypospadias up until his hospital board enforced retirement at age 65 in 1990. He developed a worldwide reputation, not just in one area of expertise, but two – both cleft lip and palate and hypospadias. After retirement from his Part Time Visiting Surgeon position, he was reemployed by his successor, and continued to do outpatient clinics and surgery at Middlemore and also for a time, at Waitakere Hospital. John continued in private practice for some years also. Away from Plastic Surgery, John had a number of interests. He loved tinkering with devices such as machines, taking them apart and repairing them. So too he was intensely interested in computers, becoming an acknowledged expert in the Linux operating system. He became proficient in social media having his own Instagram account and communicating with grandchildren and great-grandchildren in this manner well into his 96th year. His garden in Pakuranga was a source of great pride. John’s father had built a matchbox-sized one-room bach at Tauranga Bay, adjacent to Whangaroa Harbour, in the Far North. It was here that the Williams family would travel for many holidays over the years. Fishing was excellent and John built a Sunburst sailing dinghy from plans in the 1960s – it is still being sailed in Tauranga Bay by the family today. John would often sail around the Whangaroa area well into the 2000s. A review of family holiday photos shows lots of sun, sunhats, and especially smiles. John was a very supportive family man – his beloved Joan and his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren were very dear to him. John was a superb surgeon with world-renowned expertise in two major areas - both cleft lip and palate and hypospadias – a rare achievement. He had extremely high standards and was unceasingly humble as a surgeon, often remarking after a great operation that it was a barely adequate result – “perfection is only just good enough”. He was always very considered in his advice to others, and like his predecessor WMM, he was a patient and excellent teacher. He passed away after a short illness at the place that he had spent over 45 years of his life – Middlemore Hospital – on November 20, 2020. His beloved wife Joan predeceased John by four years. His children and their partners, Charles and Phyllis, Matthew and Janice, Andrew and Anne, James, Joanna and David; grandchildren Jonathan, Sarah, Amanda, Molly; and great grandchildren Brynn, Paityn, George, survive him. “The kauri is fallen, The karakia chanted, The long haul charted, The giant lies still.” Nancy Bruce, 1960.
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First Title value, for Searching Welsh, Robert Ian Hepburn (1928 - 1993)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Robert (Robin) Welsh was born on 23 April 1928 in Witbank, Transvaal, South Africa, the eldest son of Dr Robert William Hepburn Welsh, a general practitioner in Pretoria for thirty years, and Evelyn Jessie Watson. He was educated at St John's College, Johannesburg, and the University of Witwatersrand Medical School, where he qualified in 1950. After completing his internship at Johannesburg General Hospital he came to London for three years to study general surgery, working for a time at the Hammersmith Hospital with Ian Aird. After taking his FRCS in 1954 he returned to South Africa to train in plastic surgery in Johannesburg, but on the unexpected death of his mother he moved to Pretoria in order to assist his father, and it was there that he completed his registrar training. This was a difficult period for him as training posts were scarce in Pretoria at that time. He was able to retain his links with the Hendrik Verwoerd Hospital in Pretoria however, and he worked there as part-time lecturer and consultant surgeon for the next 33 years. Robin (or Bobby as he was commonly known) had many outside sporting interests. He was a skilled trout fisherman, spending his weekends fishing in Eastern Transvaal, and he was also a keen ornithologist. Many holidays were spent water-skiing in Mozambique or skiing in Europe, and he was also a skilled artist whose oil paintings of South African landscapes and wildlife are much admired. Robin's wife Angela, née Jones, was happily married to him for 37 years, and they had a daughter, Judy, and two sons, James and David. He died from lung cancer, aged 65, in Pretoria on 15 December 1993, having been devotedly nursed throughout a long illness by his wife. He was survived by her and their three children.
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First Title value, for Searching Chong, John Kenneth Kwok-Hoe (1929 - 2009)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Lavinia K Chong
Publication Date 2016-03-24 2019-01-15
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details J Kenneth Chong was a plastic surgeon in southern California. He was born in Ipoh, Perak state, Malaysia, on 4 April 1929, the son of Francis Tak-Nam Chong, a general practitioner, and Catherine Keng-Mun Chong née Lee. He attended Anderson School in Ipoh and then completed his A levels at Badingham College, Fetcham Park, Surrey in 1948. He spent four years at McGill University, Montreal, where he earned a BSc in 1951 and also suffered a severe burn. Subsequently, he matriculated at Christ Church College, Oxford and gained a BA and BM BCh. In 1956, he joined St Bartholomew’s Hospital for his clinical training, which included being a house surgeon under John P Hosford and a junior surgical registrar under Edward G Tuckwell. He then took a middle grade surgical registrar post at Whipps Cross Hospital under Sydney G Nardell. Ultimately, he attained the rank of senior plastic surgical registrar at Queen Victoria Hospital, under Percy Jayes, where he concentrated on craniofacial anomalies as well as burn management. In April 1967 he joined Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, eventually rising to the post of attending plastic surgeon. As an academician, he contributed to the literature on all the core subjects of plastic surgery and was featured in D Ralph Millard’s *Cleft craft: the evolution of its surgery* (Boston, Little Brown, c.1976-c.1980). His former chief at Temple University, Lester Cramer observed: ‘I am proud that we were friends and colleagues. I travelled far and wide, but never observed his equal as a technical surgeon. Surpassing this surgical skill was his compassion and humility. He was the compleat doctor, the best plastic surgeon I ever encountered.’ He often quipped that he was a member of the Hakka tribe, literally the ‘guest people’, which perhaps explains his wanderlust. In keeping with these nomadic roots, he moved his family to Newport Beach, California in 1972, joining Frederick Grazer in private practice. He became a member of the medical staff at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian and earned other honours of which he was proud, including being an invited guest examiner for the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, membership of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association as well as presidency of the southern California chapter of the American College of Surgeons from 1998 to 1999. In September 1954, he married Junie Choong of Penang, Malaysia. They had three children – Lavinia (the author), Kenneth and Clare. The decades of the 80s and 90s were full of contentment in his personal and professional life, as he travelled widely, tending to his extended family and friends. After finishing my plastic surgery residency in 1996, I returned to share an office with him until his retirement in 2003. He was a classically-trained surgeon who loved the vigour of surgery, the rituals and fellowship. In his last role as paterfamilias, when no amount of innovation or determination could change the outcome, he comforted us with the last memory of a peaceful transition. He died on 18 May 2009 at the age of 80. We, his family, are eternally grateful to have been able to share a life well-lived.
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First Title value, for Searching Broomhead, Ivor William (1924 - 2014)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Arthur MacGregor Morris
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2017-11-09
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Ivor William Broomhead was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, Guy's Hospital and the Royal Masonic Hospital, London. He was born on 7 December 1924 at Armthorpe, Yorkshire, the son of Frederick William Broomhead, head of mining engineering in Doncaster, and Florence Elizabeth Broomhead née Percival. As a child, Ivor helped his father repair and rebuild cars: this early, practical experience of reconstruction may well have led to his chosen career in the surgery of reconstruction. Ivor was educated at Doncaster Grammar School, and then went on to St John's College, Cambridge. He gained his BA in 1945 and then went on to University College Hospital (UCH) to complete his clinical training, qualifying in 1948. As a student at UCH Ivor was on the general surgery firm of Gardham and Matthews, and it was here that he first came under the influence of David Matthews, who encouraged him to go into surgery. He returned to Cambridge as a demonstrator in anatomy and took an interest in the anatomy of the soft palate - in particular its nerve supply. The paper he published in the *British Journal of Plastic Surgery* in 1951 is still widely quoted in the literature to this day ('The nerve supply of the muscles of the soft palate' *Br J Plast Surg*. 1951 Apr;4[1]:1-15). During training as a house surgeon and registrar at UCH he again worked under David Matthews. He was a senior registrar at St Thomas' with Richard Battle, and then worked once more with David Matthews at Great Ormond Street, also as a senior registrar. He was subsequently an assistant to Matthews until 1964, when he became the second consultant plastic surgeon at Great Ormond Street. Progress into posts was very slow because of a distinct lack of consultant posts in plastic surgery at that time. An opening came at Guy's Hospital, which he took in 1970 to become the first in the specialty there: his predecessor was appointed as a part-time casualty surgeon and there was one other wartime-trained plastic surgeon, but his contract was in general surgery. Ivor was an extremely skillful, careful surgeon, who could tackle the whole range of reconstructive plastic surgery as well as aesthetic surgery with equal ease. He was technically a very good surgeon. His attention to detail and gentle tissue handling contributed greatly to his good results with few complications. A particular point was his insistence on keeping tissues moist with saline and covered, especially when operating under tourniquet. He had an outstanding bedside manner, and in the out-patient department in particular was a very thorough and caring surgeon with great empathy for patients and their relatives. As his registrar at Guy's I was able to observe this closely as the out-patient department was held in a large single room clinic with four cubicles curtained off. He could also easily monitor my activities and I could gain good feedback if necessary from him. As an educational arrangement, this was very efficient, but in the modern world of confidentiality would be frowned upon. His kind, twinkling sense of humour was not often overtly expressed, but was a major part of his personality. The overwhelming impression he made on patients and colleagues was 'what a nice man'. By the time Ivor was appointed at Guy's, his experience pursuing steps on the career ladder was invaluable in doing all he could to promote recruitment into the specialty. Analysis of the workforce at that time showed 60% of the 65 consultants were over 50. He foresaw big problems ahead because of the imminent retirement of consultants trained during the Second World War. He made very active moves to widen the scope and remit of the specialty with expansion of training and units throughout the UK, particularly while secretary of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons from 1969 to 1974. Plastic surgery units at that time were usually in peripheral hospitals and Ivor's own practice was widely spread, with in-patient commitments and operating at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Guy's Hospital main building with adult beds and a children's burn unit, Evelina Children's Hospital and New Cross Hospital. In addition, he ran a highly successful private practise. This all involved extensive travel over central and south east London. In addition, he made a point of visiting every in-patient under his care every Sunday. As a result, he was a firm advocate for centralising patient specialist services in the interest of better patient care, but progress was very slow. He was a very good teacher, particularly in theatre at New Cross Hospital. A modern twin theatre suite allowed a careful sequence for a junior surgeon to observe one operation, do one assisted by the boss and then carry out another with Ivor immediately available a few yards away. He was totally unflappable, as shown at Evelina Hospital one summer day in 1971. During the repair of a cleft palate, just as the incisions had been made a fire alarm was heard and smoke started coming under the door. Wet theatre drapes were placed to block the gap. An urgent phone message instructed all staff to 'cease all activities and evacuate immediately'. A rapid question to all staff, including the anaesthetist David Carnegie, buoyed by the sight of a turntable fire appliance outside the third-floor window, confirmed the decision to complete the operation, by which time the fire had been extinguished. Publications over a wide range of topics included palate anatomy, early and late bone grafting of clefts, ear reconstruction, injection treatment of cutaneous haemangioma, cystic hygroma, water bed for treatment of decubitus ulcer and other topics. He treated a large number of epidermolysis bulosa patients and received international referrals. A long-time member of the Royal Society of Medicine, he served as president of the plastic surgery section from 1980 to 1981. He was on the council of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons from 1975 to 1977, vice president in 1984 and as president in 1985 organised a very successful annual meeting at Cambridge. Throughout his life, Ivor had a great interest in practical engineering reconstruction projects. When he retired in 1987, he helped his son, Tony, rebuild and restore a 1936 Riley Kestrel. On moving to Lymington, he bought a boat and, in his meticulous way, passed all the correct examinations as a qualified skipper before making numerous cross Channel voyages with his retired anaesthetist colleague David Carnegie. Ivor died on 25 September 2014 at the age of 89 after a long illness, and was survived by his wife, Primrose (née Wagstaff), a medical graduate, three children, Amanda, Tony and Sue, and five grandchildren, Ian, Tom, James, Josephine and Sam.
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First Title value, for Searching De Geus, Jacob Johannes (1940 - 2020)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Allan Panting
Publication Date 2021-01-07 05/01/2022
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Reconstructive surgeon
Details “Kua hinga te totara i te wao nui a Tane – A mighty totara has fallen in the forest of Tane” aptly describes the sudden and unexpected death of JJ de Geus some months ago. John de Geus was a great teacher, colleague and friend to many. A well-loved surgeon, colleague, employer, friend and family man, John was an excellent raconteur with a very good sense of humour and he will be missed enormously by many in various parts of the world. John was fiercely loved, admired, and respected by his family and many friends and colleagues. Jacob Johannes (known as John) de Geus was born in Indonesia, where his Dutch parents, Pieter de Geus and Jeanne Van der Made, were missionary teachers. During the Japanese occupation of Indonesia (1942-45) John together with his mother and older sisters, Ellie, Carla and Tina (and separated from their father), spent time in an internment camp where they suffered malnutrition and significant hardship. With the ending of the Second World War the family, including their father, were repatriated back in the Netherlands. Finding life tough and cold, they decided to immigrate to New Zealand. Living in Auckland John attended Avondale College, where he had first to learn English. He excelled in both sporting (he was a champion swimmer) and academic fields. Through studying hard he gained a place at Otago Medical School in Dunedin, graduating in 1964. He spent his house officer years in Wellington, and subsequently obtained his basic surgical training there. During this time he married Ros Allen, a physiotherapist. In 1971 John and Ros headed to England where John quickly gained his FRCS. The opportunity to gain some plastic surgery experience saw him spend 15 months during 1971-72 as a registrar at Queen Mary’s, Roehampton, and at Wexham Park near Slough with Magdi Saad. He then trained in Liverpool for 3 years with David Maisels, who gave him his early introduction and lifelong commitment to cleft lip and palate surgery, a skill which John brought back to Auckland. In subsequent years John frequently returned to Liverpool to visit Maisels, who had had a significant influence as a teacher and mentor and remained a life-long friend. John returned to New Zealand towards the end of 1975, obtaining a post as a registrar at Middlemore Hospital Plastic Surgery Unit. The following year he became the tutor specialist and, when Sir William Manchester retired in 1979, he was appointed as a full-time plastic surgeon. He obtained his FRACS in 1980 and became a part-time visiting plastic surgeon the same year. As a consultant Plastic Surgeon, he immersed himself in all aspects of Plastic Surgery – burns, hand surgery, and reconstruction. It was an interesting time to be a Plastic Surgeon with many new developments – muscle flaps, microsurgery, and breast reconstruction amongst others. He was involved in microsurgery, both replantation surgery and free tissue transfers, but interestingly probably also performed the last tube pedicle flap (to the neck for a burn contracture) and cross leg flap (for lower leg trauma) in NZ in 1978-79. He also helped to develop breast reconstructive surgery both at Middlemore and by invitation at Auckland Hospital. However, his greatest interest was in cleft lip and palate surgery, where he was involved in a multidisciplinary team approach with dentists, oral surgeons, speech therapists, and orthodontists. He visited New Plymouth monthly to provide cleft lip and palate services for the Taranaki region as well. In 1980 John commenced in private practice and was soon busy, reflecting his great care of patients, excellent surgical skills, and infectious personality. He fostered great respect and loyalty from his patients and staff, borne out by the fact that his secretary in 1980 was still his secretary/practice manager at the time of his retirement from private practice in 2010. John was committed to the future of Plastic Surgery and especially trainee Plastic Surgeons in New Zealand, both in the public and private sectors. He took his responsibility to train others very seriously and until his retirement was a supportive, generous and inspiring surgical mentor to a cohort of plastic surgical trainees. He was well liked and respected by his colleagues, both Plastic Surgical and others. John was very interested in aesthetic surgery; being held in high esteem on both sides of the Tasman, and elected President of the Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in 1998. He was very concerned by the practice of non-surgeons masquerading as Plastic Surgeons in NZ and damaging patients and Plastic Surgery’s reputation. John was committed to helping those in need and was an enthusiastic volunteer with Interplast Australia and NZ, making numerous trips to Suva in Fiji and to Viet Nam. In this work he inspired a young Fijian, the late Dr Semesa Matainacake FRACS, who became Fiji’s first plastic surgeon. Later Semesa Jnr followed and is now a plastic surgeon based in Suva. John eventually retired from Middlemore in 2005, having stayed on until he was sure that cleft and palate surgery was covered by a successor. He continued in private practice until 2010 when he retired from that sector. Subsequently he was invited to return to work at Middlemore Hospital to do outpatient clinics and sagely advise and supervise registrars in the Manchester See and Treat Clinic until his third retirement in 2017! Outside medicine John had many interests. He part owned a yacht and enjoyed the waters of the Waitemata in the 80s and 90s, played golf regularly as a member of the Royal Auckland Golf Club, enjoyed travel – buying a small house in the South-West of France near Toulouse and loved classical music. In later years he learned Te Reo. With a love of good food and wine, and having an excellent cellar, John was a wonderful host. John’s generosity cannot be overstated and there are many people, both within his immediate family and further beyond, who were recipients of his generosity and support. During his last decade John’s physical health began to decline, possibly a consequence of the nutritional deprivation he experienced during the Second World War. Despite that he remained active, walking regularly, attending the gym and playing golf. He even climbed Mt Vesuvius! struggling to the top with career-long friend Norm Olbourne. He is survived by his loving daughters, sons, daughters and sons-in-law Suzanne, Stuart, Sarah , Kevin, Tom, Penny, Joe, Jess, Liz, Gerhard, Troy , Kristen, and grandchildren Liv, Jacob, Sophia, Ted, Frank, and Beckett.
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First Title value, for Searching Heycock, Morris Hensman (1928 - 2020)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Annette Court-Hampton
Publication Date 2020-11-02
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Occupation Plastic surgeon
Details Morris Hensman Heycock, or ‘Bob’ or ‘Bobby’ as his family, friends and colleagues knew him, was a consultant plastic surgeon in Hull. He was born in Dublin on 31 October 1928. His father, Morris Sadler Heycock, read natural sciences at King’s College, Cambridge and was a chemist before becoming head brewer at Guinness in Dublin and then at Park Royal in London. His mother, Kathleen Mary Heycock née Wallis, was the daughter of Arnold Wallis, a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She was an extremely gifted amateur violinist who played with, and entertained, many world-famous musicians in Dublin. Bob’s paternal grandfather, Charles Heycock, was an acclaimed chemist and metallurgist who was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. His godmother, Lucy Wills (the sister of his father’s first wife), was a haematologist who discovered that macrocytic anaemia of pregnancy could be cured with yeast extract; the agent later became known as folic acid. From Ashdown House Prep School in Sussex, Bob went to Winchester College following his two older brothers, Charles and Edward. Bob never really got over losing his beloved brother Charlie in the Second World War and had a photo of him by his bed to the day he died. Unlike his brothers, Bob joined the naval section of the officer training corps, to his family’s dismay. He later said this was one of the best decisions he ever made. Following Winchester, he went up to King’s College, Cambridge as at least the third generation of his family to study there. Bob was awarded the Barcroft prize in 1951 while studying for the natural sciences tripos. He carried out his National Service in the Royal Navy as a medical orderly, serving for much of that time at the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse in Plymouth, where he developed his love of the West Country. After Cambridge, he did his clinical training at St Thomas’ Hospital in London and then decided to become a plastic surgeon. After house jobs, in 1957 he became a demonstrator in anatomy at Cambridge and gained his FRCS in 1961. He was a senior registrar in plastic surgery at St Thomas’ and at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. He also spent a year in Miami in 1969 as a fellow with Ralph Millard, who had developed a new technique for cleft lip repair. While Bob admired his work tremendously, he didn’t apparently find him easy to work with. In 1971 Bob was appointed as a sole consultant plastic surgeon with a remit to set up a plastic surgery department in Hull, which he developed and ran very successfully, expanding it steadily until his retirement at the end of 1989. There are now six consultant plastic surgeons working there. One of Bob’s chief interests was in plastic surgery in children, including the repair of congenital anomalies, especially cleft lips and palates. He also enjoyed working on adults with serious hand and facial injuries, usually acquired following road traffic or industrial accidents, and he became lasting friends with many. He stated quite forcibly that he was not at all interested in cosmetic surgery. It is a tribute to him and his skills that just three years before he died one of his most seriously damaged patients came looking for him in Devon just to thank him for repairing his face. He had invited Bob to his wedding as he said Bob had made him the man he had become, a successful businessman, father and grandfather and enabled him to go on and live a fulfilled life. He also said that Bob had made a great difference to the lives of ‘thousands of past patients’. Bob had joined the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) in 1961, when he was a surgical registrar at St Mary’s in Portsmouth. After a spell in Derby, when he returned to London in 1964 he was able to attend HMS *President* on a weekly basis. Bob subsequently sailed 12 days a year with them on Royal Naval ships as a medical officer. He also served on HMS *Sheffield*, including sailing from the Baltic back to Portsmouth via Rotterdam. Although Bob had started as a medical orderly, in 1973 he moved through the ranks to become a surgeon commander. He was also presented with a reserved decoration, awarded for more than 15 years of service. He wrote that his reputation in the RNR was nothing to do with his medical ability but entirely to do with his navigational skills and his cooking. When in London Bob was a keen member of the Royal Choral Society, singing tenor under the baton of Sir Malcolm Sargent. Music was important to him, but he only really liked true classical music. Bob had always been very good with his hands, and this showed in his plastic surgery, in woodwork and in the art of silversmithing. He had started to make silver objects in Barnet, where he lived while at St Thomas’, but when he arrived in Hull he discovered that there were excellent night classes in silversmithing and he attended these whenever his work allowed and rapidly demonstrated his aptitude and artistic flair. He backed this up with an annual visit to West Dean College for silversmithing classes for a fortnight each summer, where his talent was developed and recognised. He became a liveryman of the Goldsmiths’ Company and had his own hallmark (MHH) registered at Goldsmiths’ Hall. Some years before retiring he bought a bungalow in Newton Ferrers with a wonderful view of the river Yealm with all the yachts at their moorings and with the sea in the distance. On his retirement at the end of 1989, he bought a 28-foot yacht called *Corkscrew* and sailed it around the British coast and to France from its mooring in Newton Ferrers for many years. He also sailed a friend’s yacht from the Bahamas across the Atlantic to the Azores and then back up through the Bay of Biscay to England. His garden in Hull had been lovingly created, and, when he retired and moved to Newton Ferrers, he set to making another superb garden. He loved gardening and he knew the correct Latin names of all the plants he grew. In his later years he employed a gardener to keep the garden immaculate, although he never stopped doing some gardening and it remained his retreat until he reluctantly had to sell his house in 2019. Throughout his adult years he had enjoyed an evening tipple and alternated between single malts and Pusser’s rum. He was a man of habit and drank a bottle of beer with Saturday lunch and a glass of sherry before Sunday lunch, but not a drop with weekday lunches! Bob never suffered fools gladly and was an amazing raconteur. When his sight deteriorated rapidly from macular degeneration, he found it difficult to cope on his own so he sold his house and moved into a home. He found it very difficult to accept being registered blind and, with the restrictions of Covid, he grew suddenly increasingly frail a few weeks before he died, though his brain was still very much active. He died peacefully on 27 August 2020 aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Barron, John Netterville (1911 - 1992)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details John Barron was born in Napier, New Zealand on 23 December 191 1. He was educated at Wangunui and Otago where he was a rowing blue and a champion skier, and also attained a civil pilot's licence. He qualified in 1937, was house surgeon at Christchurch Hospital, and then went to Britain for surgical training in 1938. He was resident surgical officer at the Royal Masonic Hospital, later becoming first assistant to Rainsford Mowlem at Hill End, St Albans. He obtained the FRCS Edinburgh in 1940. Towards the end of the war at the instigation of Winston Churchill the Foreign Office invited him to go to Yugoslavia to provide surgical services for Marshal Tito and his partisans. Afterwards he set up a 120-bed hospital in Belgrade for reconstructive surgery, also training the staff to man it. In 1946 he returned to England to work with Sir Harold Gillies at Park Prewett, and then as senior lecturer at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, where he researched the blood supply of skin flaps. He was appointed the first Director of the Wessex Regional Plastic and Maxillo-Facial Unit in Odstock in 1949. Soon his travelling and lecturing attracted trainees from all over the world, and established his unit as a national centre. His main interests were reconstructive surgery and surgery of the hand, and he took a close interest in the disabilities which resulted from injuries of the hand and upper limb. Largely as a result of this interest he co-founded the rehabilitation service for workers at Vauxhall Motors, Luton, in 1942. A tragic accident which resulted in the loss of an eye ended his surgical career, but gave him time to finish a three-volume textbook on plastic surgery, *Operative, plastic and reconstructive surgery* (1980). His services in Yugoslavia were rewarded by Tito with the Yugoslav Flag with Golden Wreath in 1975, followed by the inauguration of the Barron Institute for Plastic Surgery at the University of Ljublana in 1976. He received the Honorary FRCS in 1975 and the Honorary MS of the University of Southampton in 1976. He was three times President of the British Association of Plastic Surgery and was also President of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He was a keen gardener, *cordon bleu* cook, cabinet-maker and wine-maker. He died at the age of 80, predeceased by his wife Joan, and survived by their son and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Bruce Noel (1928 - 2001)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

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/380643380643
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Bruce Bailey was an innovative plastic surgeon at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, on 29 February 1928, where his father, John Bailey, was national secretary of the Cooperative party. His mother was Anne née Glaser, the daughter of a tailor. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Edmonton Latymer School, before going to the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1949. He did his National Service as a medical officer in the parachute regiment and was then a senior surgical specialist at Millbank for a further two years. His plastic surgery training was at Stoke Mandeville, where he worked with J P Reidy. From 1963 to 1990 he was a consultant at Stoke Mandeville. He was a general plastic surgeon through much of his career, but he developed expertise in burns, flap reconstruction and hand surgery. He spent a year at the Shriners Unit in Galveston, Texas, investigating the treatment of burns. He favoured early excision and grafting for large deep burns. But it was hand surgery that was perhaps his main love. He applied his skills to the treatment of major injuries and congenital hand deformities with his usual enthusiasm. He helped set up combined hand clinics with rheumatologists, after recognising that patients with rheumatoid hand deformities could benefit from early treatment and were not always being referred for surgery. He was always willing to adopt new methods and challenge convention. He saw the value of neonatal cleft lip repair and open-palm techniques for Dupuytren's contracture, both procedures that are not widely practised. He wrote a monograph on bedsores, favouring aggressive surgery, as he did for burns, but only when the wound was 'healthy' and the patient ready for the operation. He was a visiting surgeon at Gujarat Cancer Institute, India. As a result, several young Indian doctors came to work at Stoke Mandeville. He married Jean Ridden in 1950. They had one son, Michael Bailey FRCS, a consultant urologist at Epsom, and three daughters. He was a perfectionist even in his leisure pursuits: he sustained numerous injuries while parachuting, playing rugby, climbing and rally driving. Despite developing an allergy to bee stings, he kept bees, and also grew mushrooms and produced eggs at his country home. He played bridge with his wife, loved music and was an accomplished pianist. His photographic skills were used to amass a large collection of clinical slides, to illustrate his inspiring lectures. He developed Parkinson's disease, and had to retire early from the NHS. He died from an aggressive melanoma on 29 April 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Dawson, Richard Leonard Goodhugh (1916 - 1992)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Richard Dawson was born in 1916 and educated at the Bishop's Stortford College and University College Hospital, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1939. He joined the RAMC, although the formality of service life during the war was not very compatible with Dick's debonair and easy manner. He declined to engage in saluting drill and was posted to the Far East. Captured at the fall of Singapore, by some miracle he survived the horrific experience of ministering to the needs of allied prisoners and slaving on the infamous Burma railway. After the war he wrote, as catharsis, his memories of the awfulness of his time as a prisoner of war, but he never published these. He earned one medal fewer than his wife, Betty, and would on suitable occasions wear her ribbons on his evening attire. He was only once discovered! After the war he became a registrar at University College Hospital, and then senior registrar to Hill End Hospital in St Alban's. In 1953 he took up a post as consultant plastic surgeon at the Mount Vernon Centre for Plastic Surgery in Northwood and at the Royal Free and Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals. In his professional career Dick contributed much to the development of his specialty; he was a great artist and a great showman. President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1973 and of the plastic surgery section of the Royal Society of Medicine, he was a founder member of what was to become the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and adviser in plastic surgery training at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. When he retired in 1981 his contribution to the management of facial fractures and oral cancer was recognised as being considerable. He excelled as a teacher, counsellor and friend of many trainees and colleagues. He was always good company, and his advice was always well worth taking. When he died on 21 June 1992 he was survived by his wife, Betty, his sons Tim and Nick, and two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Gibson, Thomas (1915 - 1993)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-23 2015-09-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378858378858
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Tom Gibson was born on 24 November 1915, the son of Thomas Gibson and his wife Mary, née Munn. He was educated at Paisley Grammar School and Glasgow University, whence he graduated MB ChB in 1938. Following junior house appointments at Glasgow Royal Infirmary he became assistant lecturer in surgery and then joined the Medical Research Council Burns Unit in Glasgow from 1942 to 1944. He obtained the FRCS Edinburgh in 1941. During his time at the University Gibson had been identified as a potential high flyer but his brilliant experiments on the fate of skin grafts undertaken in collaboration with Peter Medawar established his reputation as a first-class investigator. Their joint paper on the fate of skin homografts in man, published in the *Journal of Anatomy* in 1943, demonstrated that whereas skin autografts took permanently, allografts taken from another individual perished after a few days. These classic experiments were the first to establish conclusively that this phenomenon and the associated 'second set' rejection were due to an immune response by the recipient. These observations were to form the basis of much of Medawar's later work on organ transplantation, for which he won the Nobel Prize at a later date. Sadly, Gibson's contribution was never officially recognised by the award of an appropriate honour. In 1944 he married Patricia Muriel McFeat and they had two sons and two daughters. Gibson served in the RAMC from 1944 to 1947, initially with a maxillofacial surgical unit in Northern Europe and later as the commanding officer of No 1 Indian Maxillofacial Unit in India. Following his return to civilian life he became a consultant plastic surgeon in Glasgow and director of the splendid plastic and maxillofacial department at Canniesburn Hospital, which under his aegis became a centre of international repute. Gibson was a visiting Professor of the Bioengineering Group of the University of Strathclyde from 1966 to 1985 and was awarded an honorary DSc in 1972. He became FRFPS Glasgow in 1955, FRCS Glasgow in 1962 and was elected FRS Edinburgh in 1974. From 1963 to 1973 he served as honorary librarian of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and was elected its President from 1977 to 1978, the first plastic surgeon to be thus honoured. Tom had a great reputation as a teacher who gave marvellous support and encouragement to his juniors and he was delighted when one of his protégés, Ian McGregor, succeeded him as Director of the Canniesburn Unit from 1980 to 1986. This pleasure was further enhanced when McGregor became the second plastic surgeon to be elected President of the Glasgow Royal College from 1984 to 1986. Gibson was elected an honorary FRACS in 1977 and an honorary FRCS in 1987. He made numerous contributions to medical and surgical journals and his book *Modern trends in plastic surgery* was published in two volumes in 1964 and 1966 respectively. He was editor of the *British Journal of Plastic Surgery* from 1968 to 1979. With his shock of auburn hair later tinged with grey, Gibson was a genial extrovert with a ready smile and was gifted with great ability allied with foresight and common sense. His contribution to the science and art of plastic surgery was immense. His recreations were history, handicrafts and horticulture. He was especially proud of Scotland and his Scottish ancestry and for many years 'played in the haggis' on Burns' night with a splendid rendering on his violin. He died on 13 February 1993 at the age of 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Brownlee, Joseph John (1901 - 1972)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377857377857
Occupation Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Joseph Brownlee was of Irish descent; his father, J J Brownlee, who died in 1928, came from Northern Ireland and was one of the earliest doctors in Christchurch; his mother's maiden name was McKee. Brownlee received his early education at Waitaki Boys High School; he kept a great interest in his old school and became Dominion President of the Old Boys Association. He qualified from Otago Medical School in 1926; while there he developed considerable prowess at running and hurdling, and at one stage the Otago record for the 100 yards was held jointly by Brownlee and Arthur Porritt. In 1927 he became a house surgeon at Auckland Hospital and then came to England where he stayed for seven years holding various surgical appointments and obtaining his Fellowship in 1934. In 1935 he returned to Christchurch and was appointed assistant surgeon to the genito-urinary department of Christchurch Hospital. In 1940, early in the second world war, he came to England as one of several surgeons from Commonwealth countries to be trained in plastic surgery by Sir Harold Gillies; he returned to New Zealand through the Middle East, where he spent several months observing the requirements of a plastic unit dealing with war casualties. Then at Burwood Hospital, Christchurch he set up the first plastic unit in New Zealand. Brownlee was senior surgeon at this plastic unit 1942-1955. From 1955 to 1966, when he retired from practice, he carried on his plastic work at various private hospitals and in addition visited Invercargill and Dunedin in a consultant capacity. In 1946 he was elected to the North Canterbury Hospital Board and served on it until 1957. He was also chairman of the building committee of the Princess Margaret Hospital. An important part of Brownlee's life was his annual holiday camp on the shores of Lake Hawea; the fishing there was excellent and he became an expert fly-fisherman; each camp lasted for several weeks and about twenty people were generally present. At these camps he fed, sheltered and entertained not only his friends but many widows, orphans and underprivileged people at his own generous expense. Brownlee was a keen Mason, who thought deeply about religion and politics. In 1966 Brownlee retired from medicine because of failing health and for the last few years of his life he was confined to a chair. He died at his home on 1 November 1972 in his 71st year. His wife, son and daughter survived him. His son J J Brownlee qualified in medicine but gave up practice for farming; his daughter married M T Milliken and practised surgery at Christchurch.
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Ruth Ansley (1926 - 1976)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Ruth Ansley Watson was born on 16 September 1926, the daughter of a distinguished engineer in the motor industry who had, during the war, worked secretly with Sir Frank Whittle on the development of the jet engine. Ruth studied medicine at Birmingham University and graduated in 1949. She decided to become a medical missionary and, after a house job at the Birmingham Accident Hospital she spent a year at missionary training college. She had always been convinced that Nepal was the place for her and she was delighted when the International Nepal Fellowship accepted her as a candidate for their missions. In November 1952 Ruth arrived in Pokhra where she was to become one of the founders of the mission hospital known locally as the 'Shining Hospital' as it was built of corrugated iron. Her early years there were hard and frustrating. Although she had the necessary skills she was not allowed, as a young single woman, to treat adult men or married women! She naturally overcame these prejudices, and accepted the challenges of her situation with a mixture of resilience and good humour. She had not initially trained as a surgeon but, since the need was there, she quickly developed great skills especially in plastic surgery. The Nepalese were often badly burnt, especially the children, by falling into the fires around which they all slept in winter nights and Ruth did much notable work in the treatment of gross burns with contracture. By the time she was running the hospital she was performing over 600 operations a year often under very primitive conditions. In 1956 the Green Pastures Leprosy Hospital was established and in 1964 Ruth went to South India to study techniques pioneered there in leprosy surgery and from then until 1973 she threw her abundant energies into helping out at Green Pastures as well as running the Shining Hospital. She also found time to pass on her surgical methods to junior colleagues and medical students from Britain. For her the individual was all-important and her patients showed deep gratitude for the skill, understanding and compassion she brought to their care. She was a wise and good doctor, a delightful friend and a splendid colleague who gave her all in serving her Lord. She was taken ill with a brain tumour in 1976 and despite immediate evacuation to Britain and instant surgery the tumour recurred. During this time she and her friends were delighted at the honour she was given in being elected FRCS and in July 1976 she was able, wearing a wig, to go in person to receive it. She died on 15 November 1976, aged 50 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Beard, Charles Henry (1938 - 1980)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Charles Henry Beard was born on 14 August 1938, the son of an eminent anaesthetist. He was educated at Westminster School, where he was a chorister, scholar and became school captain. As a chorister he had the distinction in 1953 to sing out 'Vivat, vivat Regina' when the crown was placed on Her Majesty's head at the Coronation service. He then went on as a scholar to Caius College, Cambridge, and completed his medical studies at St Thomas's Hospital, graduating in 1963. For a while he was interested in neurology and neurosurgery before he finally embraced his great love, plastic surgery. He completed his training in Manchester and then joined the plastic surgical department at Preston in 1975, serving a wide area in North-West England. He was a most skilful surgeon, especially in the treatment of burns, who inspired the loyalty of his team and he won the devotion of the nursing staff for his skill, thoughtfulness and kindness. He was beloved by both staff and patients. In addition to a heavy clinical load, Charles Beard found time to become a committee member of the British Burns Association and a member of the British Standards Committee, he also served on the local BMA committee and was secretary of the hospital staff committee. He was a dedicated teacher of his own staff and in the postgraduate centre where he gave his last talk entitled 'The ageing face'. This was a month before he died and he apologised for the breathlessness that was induced when he cleaned the blackboard. Charles Beard had many interests and was widely read. A lover of music he sang in the Cecilian Choir. He married a musician and he and his wife played an increasing part in stimulating the performance and enjoyment of music in their adopted town. He had two sons, who followed their father to Westminster School. After his family and professions his great interest was in his cruising yacht; with typical care and thoroughness he qualified in navigation and revelled in sailing through force seven winds off the west coast of Scotland. In the midst of his full and fruitful life he discovered he was dying, but with tremendous bravery, despite side-effects of treatment he and his wife determined to include as much work, teaching and friendship into his remaining life. Charles Beard was operating until two weeks before the end. Much was learnt by many people from their frankness, courage and the happy atmosphere in their home during this final year. Charles's funeral service at the village of Croston was filled to capacity and his friend Christopher Underwood, the distinguished baritone, sang the music that Charles had chosen. Into his short life Charles Beard had concentrated so much achievement in many ways with a warmth and enthusiasm that was infectious.
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First Title value, for Searching Crockford, David Allen (1930 - 1982)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378597378597
Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David Allen Crockford was born on 21 August 1930 in London. The son of Allen Lepard Crockford, CBE, DSO, MC, TD, MA, MB, BCh, MRCS, LRCP, late Brigadier, RAMC, and then Hon Surgeon to King George VI and HM the Queen. His mother was Doris Ellen, née Brookes-Smith. His early education was at St Pirans-on-the-Hill, Maidenhead, and Rugby. In 1951 he went up to King's College, Cambridge, where he took his BA in 1954 before entering St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. On qualifying 1957 he became successively house surgeon, casualty officer and surgical registrar at St Thomas's then for a time surgical registrar at Leicester Royal Infirmary where he was influenced by E R Frizelle. In 1965 he was appointed senior surgical registrar at St Thomas's before moving to Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, where he worked in the department of plastic and facio-maxillary surgery. This field became his main interest. After a year he was appointed a registrar in plastic surgery in Newcastle then senior registrar in the Newcastle University Hospital group. Here he worked for F Braithwaite and J R G Edwards. While senior registrar he spent the year from 1970 to 1971 as a visiting fellow in the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at the New York University Medical Centre. While there he made many friends and left a lasting impression of his sincerity and honest approach to his work. He contributed 'The transplantation of tendons' to the second edition of *Reconstructive plastic surgery*, edited by John Converse. On his return to Britain he continued to work in Newcastle and was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the area health authority and senior registrar to the University Hospital. His special interests were hand and maxillo-facial surgery, particularly the primary and secondary problems of children with cleft lip and palate. He was carrying out research on the latter when he died. While at school at Rugby he distinguished himself by being the first boy ever to score a double 'possible' in the Ashburton Shield at Bisley. On leaving school he joined the Coldstream Guards to do his National Service, and was commissioned. He hoped to see service abroad, but his shooting skill was such that he was kept at home as an instructor. His other interests included sailing - he was a member of the Royal Ocean Racing Club - music, especially the classical guitar, at which he was proficient, gardening and cabinet-making. In 1962 he married Diane Mary Baynes, daughter of Dr Helton Godwin Baynes who wrote *The mythology of the soul*, *Germany possessed*, and other works relating to Jungian psychology. He died on 7 January, 1982, his wife and three daughters survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Ratcliffe, Robert James (1957 - 2000)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381047381047
Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Bob Ratcliffe was a consultant in plastic, hand and reconstructive surgery at Canniesburn Hospital, Glasgow. He was born on 15 June 1957 at St Helens, Lancashire, the son of Robert Ernest Ratcliffe, an electrician, and Jean Elizabeth née Worrall. As a child he was interested in mechanical objects, was extremely patient and had enviable manual dexterity, skills he would use in his later life. He went to Cowley Boys Grammar School, St Helens, where he gained the school physics prize, and the University of Manchester, where he took an honours BSc in anatomy, and gained honours in anatomy, pharmacology, pathology and surgery in the MB. He was a keen sportsman, enjoying rugby, skiing and hill-walking. After graduating in 1981, he was a house physician at the University of South Manchester Hospital, and house surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He then demonstrated anatomy under P F Harris while he studied for the primary. He did junior surgical posts at Manchester and at the Christie Hospital, where he became interested in reconstructive surgery after treatment for cancer. He was appointed registrar in general surgery in Manchester after passing his FRCS, and then specialised in plastic surgery at the Welsh Regional Centre for Plastic and Burns Surgery and Maxillofacial Surgery at Chepstow, where he became interested in hand surgery under Phil Sykes. He returned to Manchester as a senior house officer in plastic surgery in March 1988 at the Regional Centre for Plastic Surgery at Booth Hall Hospital, where he was influenced by Peter Craig. In November 1988 he was appointed registrar in plastic surgery at the West of Scotland Regional Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Unit, Canniesburn Hospital, Glasgow, and two years later was appointed to the plastic surgery and jaw injury service at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury. He joined the consultant staff at Canniesburn in 1993 as a consultant plastic surgeon with a special interest in hand surgery. Despite an ever increasingly clinical workload, he was also actively involved in administration and management. He was a member of the specialty board in plastic surgery for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and had been acting clinical director for the West of Scotland Regional Plastic Surgery Service. He was actively involved in setting up a plastic surgical service in Ghana, spending his leave working there to build up the unit and train the staff. In 1984 he married Karen Margaret Anne Todd, a nurse. They had two daughters, Katie and Hannah, and a son, Nicholas. He died while out hill-walking in Scotland, on 19 February 2000. A Robert J Ratcliffe fellowship has been established to assist trainees in plastic surgery.
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First Title value, for Searching Rank, Sir Benjamin Keith (1911 - 2002)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-07-10 2017-05-05
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Benjamin Rank was considered by many to be the father of plastic surgery in Australia. He was born on 14 January 1911 in Heidelberg, Victoria, where his father, Wreghitt Rank, owned a grain store and mill. His mother was Bessie née Smith. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and Ormond College, University of Melbourne, graduating with many honours and prizes. He did a two-year residency in the Royal Melbourne Hospital before going to London to specialise in surgery. There he did junior posts at St James' Hospital, Balham, but soon became fascinated by the new specialty of plastic surgery and was appointed assistant plastic surgeon at Hill End (Bart's EMS unit). Joining the Royal Australasian Army Medical Corps in 1940, he commanded their plastic surgical unit in Egypt. In 1942, he returned to Australia to set up a plastic and maxillofacial unit at Heidelberg Military Hospital. Among the patients treated there was one Flight Lieutenant John Gorton, who went on to become Prime Minister of Australia. In 1946 he was the first honorary plastic surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He spent much time overseas and was instrumental in setting up the specialty of plastic surgery in India, for which he set up 'Interplast' - a charity supported by the Rotary Clubs to offer training and expertise to Asian and Pacific nations. He was the Sims Commonwealth Travelling Professor of the College in 1958, Moynihan lecturer in 1972, President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1965 and President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1966 to 1968. He made important contributions to the study of Marjolin's ulcer, radiation carcinoma, and the transition from benign to malignant melanoma. He also made a major contribution to hand surgery, and his textbook *Surgery of repair as applied to hand injuries* (Livingstone, 1953) ran to four editions. He wrote extensively, including an autobiography, and was a talented painter. He was a tireless campaigner for no-fault motor accident insurance and was President of the St John Ambulance Association. He married Barbara Lyle Facy in 1938. They had one son Andrew, and three daughters, Helen, Julie and Mary (one of whom became a nurse). He died on 26 January 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Bremner, John Cameron (1930 - 1973)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Bremner was born in Queensland, Australia on 8 November 1930 and educated at Melbourne University, Victoria; later he moved to Perth, Western Australia, where he was making a distinguished career in plastic surgery when he fell ill and died at the age of forty-two. At the University he won the Syme Prize in Anatomy with an Exhibition in 1950, the Ryan Prize in Surgery in 1953, and qualified that year; in 1956 he passed Part 1 of the MS examination. After holding resident posts at the Royal Melbourne Hospital he was appointed in 1956 associate-assistant surgeon to E E Dunlop and became associate-assistant to B K Rank, plastic and facio-maxillary surgeon to the Hospital; he was also part-time surgeon to the Casualty Clinic and assistant to A R Wakefield, reparative surgeon to the Peter MacCallum Clinic, Melbourne Cancer Institute. In the same period he was a demonstrator, first of pathology and then of surgery, in the University and from 1957 clinical supervisor of students at the Hospital. He won a Fulbright Fellowship for advanced study at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1959. On his way to America he visited London, took the Fellowship, and attended the Second International Congress of Plastic Surgery. At Pittsburgh he held the post of teaching fellow and preceptor in plastic surgery, and undertook research on tendon healing. He also attended the meetings of the Canadian and American Societies of Plastic Surgeons, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the latter; he became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1961. He returned to Australia in 1960 on appointment to the staff of the plastic and maxillo-facial unit at the Royal Perth Hospital, and was promoted to be surgeon to the unit in 1964. He was also plastic surgeon to the Fremantle Hospital, and consultant plastic surgeon to the Royal Australian Navy, in which he had held the rank of Surgeon-Lieutenant, RAN Reserve, since 1955. He was lecturer in surgery at the University of Western Australia, and a member of the West Australia State Medical Planning Committee; he built up a prosperous private practice, and was active in the West Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons. Bremner was a cultivated and generous man; he gave a munificent donation in 1973 to buy works of art for the adornment of the Medical School at the University of Western Australia in the hope that future students would enjoy looking at the pictures and broaden their interests. His recreations were tennis, golf and sailing; he was interested in farming and a partner in two grazing and beef-cattle properties outside Perth. He was also a keen Freemason, and was Master-elect of the St George Lodge, Perth at the time of his death. Bremner was seriously ill in 1972, received leave from his duties, and died at Portsea, Victoria on 8 June 1973 aged forty-two; he was unmarried. Publications: Correlation of tongue changes and nutrition. *Roy Melb Hosp Clin Rep* 1952, 22, 46. Splenic vein thrombosis in patient with myeloproliferative syndrome. *Roy Melb Hosp Clin Rep* 1954, 24, 117.
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First Title value, for Searching Fitzgibbon, Geoffrey Molyneux (1903 - 1990)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379435379435
Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Geoffrey Molyneux Fitzgibbon was born on 24 August 1903 in Swansea. He was the eldest son of Major John Augustine Fitzgibbon of the Royal Garrison Artillery and Elizabeth, née Molyneux. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, near Clitheroe, Lancashire, and later at London University at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School where he qualified in 1927 and graduated from London University in 1928. He took the FRCS in 1929 and in the same year obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine of London University. After qualification he worked at St Thomas's as a house surgeon for six months and followed this with two appointments in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology. He then was appointed a surgical registrar where he received training with Philip Mitchiner. A vacancy at Bristol General Hospital was advertised for a senior resident surgical officer and thus began his long association with Bristol. In 1932 posts were advertised on the staff of Bristol General Hospital for both a consultant gynaecologist and for a general surgeon and he was invited to choose which he wanted. He was appointed to the post of honorary assistant surgeon. At the Bristol General Hospital he met his future wife, Priscilla Harrison, who at that time was a house physician. They were married in 1933. At the beginning of the second world war the Bristol General Hospital and the Bristol Royal Infirmary were amalgamated and he moved to the Infirmary where he played an important part in the management of air raid casualties. In 1942 he joined the RAMC and was seconded to work with Sir Harold Gillies at Park Prewitt Hospital, Basingstoke, for training in plastic surgery. He assembled the team for the No 5 Maxillofacial and Surgical Unit which served with the British Expeditionary Force in France, Belgium and Germany. After victory in Europe he was posted to India and was demobilised in February 1946 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. On returning to the staff of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, as a result of his keen interest in clinical teaching, he was appointed as the first clinical dean. Training in general surgery together with wartime experience with Sir Harold Gillies and the maxillofacial unit made him realise that Bristol needed a plastic surgical unit. He started work in this field at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and his work received the recognition it deserved when, in 1949, the department of plastic surgery was opened at the Frenchay Hospital. This was a major achievement and he continued to work there until he retired in 1968. He was a founder member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and became its President in 1967. He was Gillies Memorial Lecturer in 1968. In 1966 he served as President of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society. His work was characterised by concern for his patients and by an enduring spirit of friendship and comradeship. Every member of his staff was treated with the same courtesy and consideration. He was a man of wide interest in the arts and handicrafts, including silversmithing, and was a keen gardener. He died on 25 May 1990, survived by his wife, son, four daughters (one of whom qualified in medicine at Cambridge) and thirteen grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Peet, Eric William (1909 - 1968)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born at West Hartlepool, January 2, 1909, the second child of William and Lilian Peet. He was educated at Tynemouth High School and Durham University Medical College in Newcastle where he graduated in 1931. His first year's appointments were at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and were followed by eighteen months at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital; his appointments included ENT surgery at both hospitals. He then became RSO at the Fleming Memorial Children's Hospital, Newcastle for a year before moving to London as Research Fellow at the Bernhard Baron Institute of the Middlesex Hospital where he studied the anatomy of the inner ear. In 1937 he was appointed assistant to the ENT department of the Radcliffe Infirmary. It was at this time that he first developed an interest in plastic surgery. In 1941 he joined the RAMC and was seconded to Professor T P Kilner for further training in plastic surgery. In 1943 he was posted to India as officer commanding No 2 Indian Maxillo-Facial Unit. On his return to England in 1946 he joined Professor Kilner at the newly created Nuffield Department of Plastic Surgery, and on Professor Kilner's retirement in 1957 he became its director. He was appointed university lecturer in plastic surgery and was awarded an honorary MA in 1962; his attachment was to University College. He was President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1946, and was elected an honorary member of the Association of Surgeons of India in 1966. He had considerable artistic talents outside surgery. Brought up in a musical family he started playing the violin at the age of seven, and was a member of the Middlesex orchestra besides playing on occasions in company with professional musicians. His ability extended to the construction of string instruments. He built three violins; one, which is a copy of the Stradivarius 'Le Messie', is in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. He also constructed the four instruments necessary for a string quartet. His principal hobby in the last twenty years of his life however was painting; he was outstandingly gifted, exhibiting at the Army Art Society and the Medical Art Society, and winning first prize at the first International Exhibition of Painting by medical men in Turin in 1961. A warm personality and excellent company he was a welcome visitor on his many surgical visits, particularly in India, to which country he had a deep attachment. In 1953 he married Katherine Mary Skirne Ainley-Walker, daughter of Dr E W Ainley-Walker, sometime Dean of the Oxford School of Medicine. He died suddenly on 6 October 1968 and was survived by his wife, a son and two daughters. Publications: *Essentials of plastic surgery* (jointly). 1963. *Hypospadias, epispadias ectopia vesice* (jointly), in *British surgical practice*, by Sir E Rock Carling and Sir J Paterson Ross, 1950, 8, 383-406. *Operative surgery*, edited by C G Rob and R Smith, 1958. Chapters on congenital syndactyly, congenital constriction bands, cleft lip and palate, and hypospadias.
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First Title value, for Searching Matthews, David Napier (1911 - 1997)

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First Title value, for Searching Reid, Douglas Andrew Campbell (1921 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-13
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Campbell Reid was a leading hand surgeon. He was born on 25 February 1921 in Cardiff, the son of David William Reid, a general practitioner, and Edith Mary née Smith, a nurse. His grandfather, David Spence Clark Reid, had also been a GP. He was educated at Christ’s College, Finchley, where he played in the first XI in football and cricket, and won prizes for shooting. After premedical studies at Queen Mary College he entered the London Hospital Medical College, which at that time was evacuated to Cambridge. After qualifying he was a house surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital and then at Hackney Hospital, where he worked through the V1 air raids. He was then a casualty officer, assistant anaesthetist and house physician at the London Hospital. From 1945 to 1946 he was a casualty officer at Chase Farm Hospital, and then went on to be an anatomy demonstrator at the London Hospital, passing his primary in April 1946. He then passed the final from a registrar post at Haslemere. He decided to specialise in plastic surgery, first as senior registrar to Sir Harold Gillies at Park Prewett, Basingstoke, and later as senior registrar to R G Pulvertaft at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary and at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield. During this time he was awarded a research prize for an essay on reconstruction of the thumb and was later the first to undertake pollicisation in the UK using the Littler neurovascular pedicle. In 1962 he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the United Sheffield Hospitals, the Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Chesterfield Royal Hospital. He won the Frank Robinson silver medal from the United Hospitals of South Manchester in 1980, and was the Sir Harold Gillies lecturer and gold medallist of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1981. He served on the council of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons from 1952 and was on the editorial board of the British Journal of Hand Surgery. He published widely on all aspects of hand surgery, including *Surgery of the thumb* (London, Butterworths, 1986) and *Mutilating injuries of the hand* (Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1979). Outside surgery he was a keen ornithologist and photographer. In 1946 he married Margaret Joyce née Pedler, who was an archivist and head of her division at the Foreign Office. They had a son and two daughters. In 1969 he underwent an emergency replacement of the aortic valve and in 1982 he retired to Eastbourne. He died on 16 August 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Braithwaite, Fenton (1908 - 1985)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-23
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Fenton Braithwaite was born on July 28 1908, the third of four sons of Abraham Braithwaite, farmer, of Marton in the Fylde, Lancashire, and of his wife Ann. He attended Baines Grammar School before entering Manchester University to read for an honours degree in mathematics. He then proceeded to research, and was awarded the MSc before he was 21. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, with a scholarship to read biochemistry with subsidiary anatomy and physiology, in which he obtained a first. The obituaries in *The Times* and *British medical journal* both say that he got a "double first". He did not. He got a first in both of his Tripos, nowadays often erroneously called a double first. A true double first is rarer still: a first in each of two entirely different disciplines, taken simultaneously e.g. history and mathematics. Realising that a career in biochemistry would not be complete without a medical qualification, he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. He took the MRCS, LRCP in 1935 and the Cambridge MB BChir in 1936 and 1937. He held house physician and house surgeon appointments before gaining further experience in neurosurgery, ENT and thoracic surgery. By this time he had become fascinated by surgery and gave up the idea of a career in biochemistry. He became first assistant to Harold Wilson and was influenced by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Sir James Paterson Ross and Sir Harold Gillies. The last particularly aroused his interest in plastic and reconstructive surgery. He took his FRCS in 1939 and then joined the RAF for the duration of the war. He rose to Officer in Charge of the Surgical Division at the RAF Hospital, Ranceby, Lincolnshire with the rank of Wing Commander. He was awarded the OBE (Military Division) for his work. After the war A H Mclndoe, later Sir Archibald, who had been adviser in plastic surgery to the RAF, invited him to join the East Grinstead unit. As a result of his experience there and at Ranceby he produced a classic paper demonstrating for the first time the importance of blood transfusion in the management of severely burned patients. In 1949 he was appointed plastic surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and adviser in his speciality to the Newcastle Regional Hospital Board, with a brief to organise a hand service in the teaching hospital and a plastic surgery service in the region. This he did with great enthusiasm and industry: within a few years he had established centres in Shotley Bridge, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Carlisle, and also one at the Fleming Memorial Hospital for Sick Children to deal with one of his main interests, the treatment of hare-lip and cleft palate. He also collaborated in developing a combined radiotherapy and plastic surgery clinic for patients with neoplasia of the head and neck, and of the skin. In spite of his numerous practical commitments he found time to continue with research and publications, notably on the anatomical changes in the blood supply of the skin in tube pedicles. It was his intention to produce clinical and academic papers alternately, but the project was stopped when he was reminded that his brief was to develop a regional plastic surgery service. His laboratory investigations, for which his biochemical training so eminently fitted him, had to cease. He continued to write on clinical subjects, and was the President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1968. Fenton Braithwaite was a man of wide reading, with a prodigious memory, as well as a kindly and skilful surgeon, devoted especially to his child patients. He was a witty and popular lecturer. His interests outside surgery were in antique furniture, about which he was most knowledgeable, and association football, at which he had been proficient as a young man. He related with enthusiasm that he might have become a professional footballer if his father had not burned his boots. He was director of Newcastle United AFC for over twenty years, and was made life president, to his greatest pleasure, in 1983. In 1944 he married Nan Hunter, his theatre sister at Ranceby, who survived him when he died on 25 August 1985, aged 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Battle, Richard John Vulliamy (1907 - 1982)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Richard John Vulliamy Battle was born on 21 January 1907 at 49 Harley Street, London Wl, the son of William Henry Battle, surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, London, and Annie Marguerite Vulliamy, who was descended from a long line of clockmakers. He was educated at Highfield School, Liphook, Gresham's School, Holt, Trinity College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. After qualification he was casualty officer and house surgeon at St Thomas's from 1932 to 1933, senior casualty officer from 1933 to 1934, surgical registrar from 1934 to 1937, and assistant in plastic surgery 1937 until the declaration of war. He joined the TA in 1935 and was mobilised as a surgical specialist in December 1939, becoming plastic surgeon to the BEF. He subsequently served in Sicily and Italy and commanded No 1 Maxillo-facial Unit. He was promoted lieutenant colonel, officer-in-charge surgical division, of 98 General Hospital in 1945. After the war he was appointed plastic surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital in 1946 and became a consultant at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, and consultant to the Army from 1955 to 1971. He became plastic surgeon at Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children and the Essex County Hospital, Colchester, and also chief plastic surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions Plastic Unit at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. Battle was twice President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons (1952 and 1967) and served on the committee for 13 years receiving the Gillies Gold Medal of the Association in 1970. He was a founder member and Vice-President of the Section of Plastic Surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine. Dicky Battle's reputation was well recognised world-wide. He represented the UK at the foundation of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He was a corresponding member of the French Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; a founder and life-member of the Plastic Surgical Society of South Vietnam and British Representative on the Council of the Children's Medical Relief International in New York. He married Jessie Margaret King in 1941 and the second of their three sons became a hospital administrator. His extra-curricular activities were legion. He was an accomplished trumpet, French horn and other wind-instruments player and he ran a jazz band at Cambridge (to the despair of his father, it is rumoured). He was subsequently chairman of the United Hospitals Orchestra and he retained a life-long interest in instrumental and orchestral music. Dicky Battle died on 26 May 1982 at the age of 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, John Samuel Pattison (1923 - 2006)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-09-18
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details John Samuel Pattison Wilson, or ‘Iain’, as he was generally known, was a plastic surgeon in London with a particular interest in head and neck surgery. He was born in Edinburgh on 16 October 1923, and at the age of six went away to boarding school at the Edinburgh Academy. He remained in Edinburgh to study medicine. Following his graduation, he spent his National Service in the RAF and rose to the rank of squadron leader. Whilst working at Halton he met Sir Archibald McIndoe, who persuaded him to train as a plastic surgeon. On demobilization, he completed registrar appointments in Leeds and Sheffield. He worked with Fenton Braithwaite and quite early in his training (1956) wrote papers, starting with the serial excision of benign lesions. His first consultant appointment was as a plastic surgeon in Newcastle, where he was famous for his hard work, his parties and his Jaguar car. After some years in Newcastle, he moved to St George’s Hospital, London, and Queen Mary’s, Roehampton, with honorary appointments at the Westminster and Royal Marsden hospitals. Although a general reconstructive surgeon, he had a special interest in head and neck surgery and will be remembered for his extensive repairs following major cancer resections, while the template he designed for breast reconstruction is still in common use. He was a great teacher and taught anybody who wanted to learn, not only those in this own specialty. His weekly seminars on a Thursday evening at his consulting rooms in Portland Place were of great benefit to surgical trainees, particularly those based in London. Among his many papers were those on the embryology and manifestations of the human tail. He was an examiner and was awarded honorary fellowships of various Colleges; he was an Apothecary and Freeman of the City of London. He travelled and talked all over the world, but, as a result of his experiences in the Far East and in the Japanese prisoner of war ward at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, he refused to visit Japan or have anything to do with Japanese trainees. He was a man of great energy, yet was a very private man. Few knew about the model train set with a mock-up of Paddington station in the attic at Portland Place, or that he was a world expert on the philately of Canada. He was a kind colleague, giving good advice. He was always interested in trainees, especially what they were doing, who was teaching them and what they were writing. The last months of his life were borne with great fortitude, dignity and good humour as he battled cancer. He died on 27 September 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Eckhoff, Nils Lovold Bjarne Victor (1902 - 1969)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born on 18 August 1902, the son of F M H Eckhoff, a Norwegian architect, he was educated in South Africa at Durban High School, Natal University and the University of Cape Town, and at Guy's Hospital, where he arrived in 1920 with a senior science scholarship. At Guy's he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma at the age of 21 and held surgical house appointments there and at the West London Hospital. He passed the FRCS in 1925, but had to wait two years till he was 25 before he could be formally admitted to the Fellowship. While working as surgical registrar he sat and passed the London MB BS in 1927, obtaining honours in surgery, and became MS in 1928. Eckhoff held the post of senior demonstrator of anatomy at Guy's Medical School from 1930 to 1933, and in 1933 he was appointed an assistant surgeon to Guy's Hospital. He was surgeon to St John's Hospital, Lewisham, from 1930 to 1946, and consultant surgeon to the London County Council from 1930 to 1944. By the outbreak of the second world war Eckhoff had established himself not only as a general surgeon, but also as a plastic surgeon of considerable skill, and held the posts of surgeon to the Cottage Hospital, East Grinstead from 1941 to 1946 and plastic surgeon to the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, the chief centre of plastic surgery, from 1940 to 1958. In 1947 he was honorary visiting surgeon to the John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He was the first to hold the post of plastic surgeon to Guy's Hospital. He retired in the summer of 1967. He was active in professional societies, and held office as President of the Medical Society of London and the Chelsea Clinical Society. Eckhoff was an outstanding teacher and took great interest in student activities, especially in sport. He became President of the London University Golf Society, donating a cup to encourage competition, and President of the United Hospitals Rifle Club, and was Treasurer of the Clubs' Union, until his last year on the Staff of Guy's Hospital, when he was invited to be Honorary President. He married Audrey Allison in 1931, who survived him with a son and daughter. He died from coronary thrombosis at the age of 67 on 6 November 1969.
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First Title value, for Searching Jayes, Percy Harris (1915 - 1997)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380864380864
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Percy Jayes, an internationally known and respected plastic surgeon, was born on 26 June 1915, the first son of Thomas Harris Jayes, a butcher and farmer. His mother, Jessie May, was a daughter of a master mariner. He had one younger brother. Educated at Quernmore School, Bromley, and Merchant Taylors' School, he trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1938, where he held house posts in general surgery, orthopaedics and plastic surgery. His adoption of plastic surgery as a career came about because of his appointment as resident medical officer to Archibald McIndoe at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. McIndoe had been instructed to take control of this 'cottage' hospital and establish a centre for plastic surgery and jaw injuries. Huts added to the existing building included living accommodation for the resident officer, and are affectionately known as 'Percy Lodge' to this day. Archie McIndoe relied heavily on his able and stalwart assistant. Percy Jayes remained at East Grinstead during the war years, assisting McIndoe with the influx of severely burned airmen (later the well-known 'Guinea Pig Club'). By this stage he was acting as a consultant, without his FRCS, and became surgeon in charge of the UNRA plastic surgery unit in Belgrade towards the end of the war. It was here he met his first wife Kathleen Harrington, a sister at the hospital, and married her in 1946. He faced one problem with the coming of the NHS in 1948: despite his undoubted skills, with no higher surgical degrees in surgery he would be ineligible to retain his 'consultant' status. Percy passed both the primary and final Fellowship within a short space of time at the age of 34 years, and was formally confirmed as NHS consultant in 1949. Further appointments followed as consultant to St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1952 and civilian consultant to the RAF from 1960 to 1985. He joined the staff of King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, Beaumont Street, in 1966. Percy Jayes was a founder member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1947, serving on the Council for two periods, from 1954 to 1957, and from 1964 to 1966, holding the office of President in 1960. Travelling widely throughout the world to meetings, he became one of Britain's best known plastic surgeons internationally. Although he seldom spoke at clinical meetings, he published many articles, including the second McIndoe Memorial Lecture given in 1965 at the Royal College entitled *The establishment of the specialty of plastic surgery and its contribution to other specialties*. Another series of articles involved the planning, design and provision for skin cover in the conjoined craniophagus twins, whose separation was carried out at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1967. He was particularly expert in the design and management of cross-leg flaps. Trainees absorbed his knowledge and meticulous surgical expertise by observation and example, rather than by verbal teaching. All through his career his ability to work long hours and his reputation for taking no risks with tissue viability were legendary. After retirement from his NHS appointments in 1973, he continued in private practice until 1985, but he never lost touch with his many friends and ex-trainees from around the world. Lavish entertainment of friends and colleagues from home and abroad was enjoyed at his large property, Barton St Mary, a Lutyens house with extensive landscaped grounds on the outskirts of East Grinstead. He maintained the lawns himself, on one occasion inadvertently amputating some toes while driving a large mower. Gardening remained one of his hobbies, as did his love of antiques. He also acquired a house situated on a hillside overlooking the bay at Ocho Rios in Jamaica, where he was able to relax. Following the untimely death of his first wife, by whom he had two sons and a daughter, he married Aileen McLaughlin, a hospital secretary in 1964. They had a son and daughter. He died on 17 January 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Wood, Sir Arthur Michael (1919 - 1987)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379938379938
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Arthur Michael Wood, the second son of Arthur Henry Wood, CB, a civil servant in the Board of Education, and of Katherine Mary Altham Wood (née Cumberlege), was born at Guildford, Surrey, on 28 January, 1919. He was educated at Lambrook School, Berkshire, Ringwood School, Winchester College, the École Nouveau, Lausanne, and the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He studied architecture for two and a half years before entering the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and qualifying in 1943. After house surgeon, casualty officer and registrar appointments at the Middlesex he became Simon Marks Fellow at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. In his training years he recorded his indebtedness to R Vaughan Hudson, Rainsford Mowlem and Sir Archibald McIndoe. Throughout this period he suffered from repeated severe attacks of asthma and it was this which determined his move to Kenya where, at high altitude in Nairobi, his asthma was relieved. His disability, and his early preoccupation with plastic surgery, partly explain his failure to secure the FRCS to which he was eventually elected shortly before his death. After settling in Kenya he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the Kenyatta Hospital and to the HH Aga Khan Hospital, as well as to the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre. He also became associated with the Flying Doctor Service with which he recorded more than 4000 hours as a pilot. He started with two aeroplanes and steadily increased the complement over the years. Radio communications to Nairobi airport were opened up with missionary hospitals in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and even as far afield as Somalia and Ethiopia. He became Director General of the African Medical and Research Foundation whereby mobile teams provided medical services, health education, immunisation, and other facilities on the ground from the Masai country in Tanzania to Kilimanjaro in Northern Uganda. He was President of the Red Cross Society of Kenya and Chairman of the East African Medical Research Council and sometime honorary lecturer in plastic surgery at the University of Nairobi. Outside his medical interests he was deeply concerned with the future of African society. He succeeded David Stirling as president of the Capricorn Africa Society and passionately supported the concept that Africa's future lay in a firm partnership between the black and white communities. He was keen on mountaineering and he also farmed 10,000 acres on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, until the government there requisitioned his and seven other fine farms. Sadly, the proceeds from his own farm had largely helped to start and expand the African Medical and Research Foundation. At this stage he moved back to Nairobi with his wife, Sue, whose family, the Buxtons, had been great missionaries in Africa. However, he was still allowed to fly to Tanzania on medical missions and so his great work continued. His published books include *The principles of the treatment of trauma* (1962), and *Different drums* (1987), as well as a short autobiography entitled *Go an extra mile* (1978). In recognition of his manifold contributions he was awarded the Royal Africa Society Gold Medal in 1970, CBE in 1977 and was knighted in 1985. When he died in Nairobi, on 16 May, 1987, he was survived by his wife and four children, two daughters and two sons, of whom the eldest, Mark Lionel, is medically qualified.
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First Title value, for Searching Sandon, Raoul Peter Gauvain (1915 - 1998)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381087381087
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Raoul Sandon was a leading plastic surgeon in London. He was born in Spain, in Bilbao, on 2 May 1915, the son of an English managing director of an iron mining company, and a French mother. He was first educated in Spain, and then attended school in Arcachon and Pau, France. As a result he was fluent in English, French and Spanish, and later added Italian. He went on to King's College, London, to study medicine, qualifying in 1941. He was house surgeon to Sir Cecil Wakeley and subsequently to Sir Archibald McIndoe at the East Grinstead Plastic Surgery Unit. In December 1942 he joined the RAMC, serving initially as a regimental medical officer. He later transferred as a trainee to No 4 Maxillo-Facial Unit in Cairo under Michael Oldfield. In September 1944 he saw action with No 1 Maxillo-Facial Unit in Italy and was mentioned in despatches. After the war, Raoul trained in general surgery at King's College Hospital and at Hammersmith, gaining his MB BS in 1949 and his FRCS in 1951. His subsequent plastic surgery training was supervised by Dickie Battle, then at St Thomas's Hospital. He became an honorary clinical assistant to St Thomas's. He was later appointed as consultant to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in Hackney and Banstead, Colchester Black Notley Hospital, and the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital for Crippled Children in Alton. In 1980 he became a civilian consultant to the Army. Together with John Watson, he was responsible for the establishment of the North East Thames Regional Plastic Surgery Unit at St Andrew's Hospital in Billericay in 1969. He gave tremendous support to the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. After joining the council, he became honorary secretary (from 1963 to 1969) and was later honorary treasurer. His expertise enabled the association to become solvent. In 1972 he was elected President and that year held the summer meeting in Deauville with the French Association. The meeting was an enormous success, both scientifically and socially. Because of his linguistic fluency, he was naturally a Europhile, and so became plastic surgery's ambassador. He was elected a member of the plastic surgery societies of France, Spain, Italy and Belgium. He became President and honorary life President of the plastic surgery section of the Union Européene des Medecins Specialistes. He married Naomi Ewing in 1940, and she supported him in his wide and varied professional duties at conferences in the early days. Sadly she became disabled in the last decade of her life, and Raoul cared for her at home. They had two sons, Peter, who is a general practitioner, and Ian, a pilot. Later he continued with medico-legal work, where his meticulous opinions were respected by barristers working for both parties. He was a popular colleague, a bon viveur, with a fund of stories. He was a delight to entertain and be entertained by. He died peacefully in the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, on 10 October 1998, aged 83.
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First Title value, for Searching Ahmad, Said (1905 - 1995)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01 2022-01-21
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Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon
Details Educated at Lahore and the London Hospital Said Ahmad spent much of his professional life in the Indian Medical Service. In 1936 with the rank of captain he served in Waziristan at the combined Indian Military Hospital at Razmak. In 1943 he was civil surgeon at Agra and later he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. While taking his Fellowship he worked as a house surgeon at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton, and in later years he worked at the Jinnah Central Hospital and the Dow Medical College, Karachi and continued to practise until shortly before his death in 1995 at the age of 90. He was survived by his son Faruq Ahmad who was living in San Francisco at the time of his father's death. **See below for an additional expanded obituary uploaded 21 January 2022:** Said Ahmad had a long and successful career that spanned over 60 years of active practice as a surgeon in Pakistan, with a focus on plastic and reconstructive surgery. He authored numerous papers, developed novel procedures and was instrumental in public medical institution-building in Pakistan after its independence in 1947. He was born into a family with a tradition of healing and knowledge; the family estate in Wazirabad in the Punjab was named ‘Haveli Hakiman’ or house of hakims (traditional healers). His father, Khan Bahadur Nazir Ahmad, chose to settle in Kashmir to avoid colonial rule, and was progressing rapidly as a judge when Said was born in 1905. He retired as chief judge and home minister in Kashmir in 1929. Said Ahmad attended SR High School in Jammu and then studied medicine at King Edward College in Lahore, qualifying in 1928. He then went to the UK for his advanced qualifications, obtaining his FRCS in 1931 in just 18 months. He was reportedly the first Muslim from the Indian subcontinent to gain the FRCS. While studying for his fellowship he worked as a house surgeon at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton. After returning home, he practised briefly in Lahore with his sister, Kaniz Fatimah, and then joined the Indian Medical Service in the British Indian Army, and was stationed at various times in Iraq, Turkey and elsewhere in the region. In 1936, with the rank of captain, he served in Waziristan at the combined Indian Military Hospital at Razmak. In 1943 he was a civil surgeon at Agra and later rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Following partition, he moved with his young family to Karachi, then the capital and commercial centre of the new nation of Pakistan, where there was little medical infrastructure in place. He served from 1949 to 1953 as superintendent at Jinnah Central Hospital, the major public hospital in Karachi. He also established the surgery department at Dow Medical College, which was attached to Civil Hospital, Karachi’s other major hospital. During this period he took the lead in specifying basic requirements for hospitals, including the local manufacturing of surgical instruments, hygiene standards for food procurement and safety, and essential sterilisation techniques. During his career he invented numerous new techniques and wrote extensively. His papers were published in international journals, and a collection was published in book form as *Practical surgery*, which contains information on new procedures, instructions on how to sterilise and prevent infection, medical ethics and even operating theatre design. He also volunteered his time at the Navy Hospital at Shifa. He was a ‘surgeons’ surgeon’ and relished hard cases. In one instance, he was called by a panicked colleague to save a patient whose bile duct had been ruptured through surgical error and rushed out in the middle of the night in his dressing gown and pyjamas to handle the situation. At the mandatory retirement at the age of 60 he was ‘going strong’ professionally and had five children between the ages of 11 and 18 to feed, so he took the risky step of mortgaging his house and built a hospital so he could continue to practice. With his wife Azra as chief administrator, Said Clinic became a preeminent private hospital in Karachi, located in the central commercial corridor of McLeod Road and reached 100-bed capacity with surgery, radiology, psychology and other specialties, and a medical store and cafeteria on site. When he hung up his scalpel, he had been a practising surgeon for over 60 years. He was the recipient of several awards during wartime with the British Indian Army, and in Pakistan during peacetime for his service to the country. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sculpting in clay. He had spent his early years in lush Srinagar and enjoyed gardens, flowers and trees, which he replicated through irrigation at the family home in Karachi, with a rose garden, grape vines, lawns, trees and greenery that covered an acre. He loved the ocean, and a typical family Sunday getaway was to one of two beach huts. Said Ahmad married and later divorced Phyllis Cohen, and they had a daughter, Naomi. He then married Azra Nazim, the daughter of Mohammad Nazim, an historian, in 1946, and they had five children, Nighat, Nishat, Faruq, Farhat and Yousuf, three of whom took up medicine. He was also a mentor to and inspiration for his grandson Tariq Ahmad, who became the medical director of heart transplantation at Yale University’s school of medicine. Said Ahmad died on 28 April 1995 at the age of 90, surrounded by family and appreciated by the community he served. Faruq Ahmad
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First Title value, for Searching Kilner, Thomas Pomfret (1890 - 1964)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born on 17 September 1890, the son of a master at Manchester Grammar School, he was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Blackburn, and at Manchester University, where he won the Dauntesey Scholarship and the Sidney Renshaw Exhibition and was later awarded medals in anatomy and physiology. He won distinctions in surgery and pathology when he qualified in 1912. Kilner was demonstrator of anatomy in the University of Manchester from 1912 to 1914 and was senior house-surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He served as a Captain in the RAMC during the first world war, being surgeon to No 64 Casualty Clearing Station in 1915 and surgical specialist to No 4 General Hospital in 1918. After the war he was appointed plastic surgeon to Queen Mary's Hospital for Face and Jaw Injuries, Sidcup, and there with (Sir) Harold Gillies he helped to establish plastic surgery in this country. Kilner later became consulting plastic surgeon to a large number of hospitals. There were only two plastic surgeons in the United Kingdom in 1921, Gillies and Kilner, and their team-work and technical achievement were an inspiration to many surgeons. One week-end in every month they visited John Grocott at Stoke-on-Trent, who was the first provincial surgeon to show a keen clinical interest in the new speciality. In 1931 Kilner joined the staff of St Andrews' Hospital, Dollis Hill, where a pavilion with two wards and an operating theatre were devoted to plastic surgery alone, and worked there up to the second world war. Kilner in London and W E M Wardill in Newcastle worked in collaboration, became close friends, and perfected the operation for palate repair originally designed by Victor Veau of Paris. From his study of congenital deformities Kilner became interested in speech therapy, and was elected a Governor of the Central School of Speech Therapy and of Moor House Residential School. Teaching hospitals showed little interest in plastic surgery until St Thomas's appointed Kilner as associate Plastic Surgeon in 1934; he became a Governor of the Hospital when the National Health Service began in 1948. Kilner was a Hunterian Professor at the College in 1935, lecturing on the transplantation of skin. In 1939 only three London teaching hospitals had appointed consultant surgeons in plastic surgery, and the provinces were visited from London; Kilner visited the Manchester Royal Infirmary every month, while he and Rainsford Mowlem both visited Birmingham; when he died there was hardly a teaching hospital in the British Isles without a plastic surgeon on the permanent staff. Another achievement was the creation of the plastic surgery unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, built in 1941; in the same year he became officer in charge of the plastic surgery division of the Ministry of Pensions. During the second world war Kilner was consultant to the pensioners at Roehampton; he also developed the Bunyan-Stannard envelope for the treatment of burns. Kilner was appointed the first Nuffield Professor of Plastic Surgery at Oxford in 1944 and occupied this Chair until 1957 when he retired with the title of Emeritus. He was a Fellow of St John's College. Kilner was President of the British Association of Plastic Surgery in 1948 and 1955, and was an honorary member of many medical societies at home and abroad; after retirement he was appointed to the General Medical Council. Kilner had an easy and friendly manner with a quick sense of fun, but spoke out when necessary. He was a short strong man of tireless energy; a keen photographer, fisherman, gardener, and bee-keeper. Kilner married twice: in 1915 Olive Mary Brown, by whom he had one son Hugh, but she died while he was an infant, and Hugh who qualified at Cambridge in 1949 died in Egypt on 5 November 1950 aged 26, while serving in the RAF Medical Service (*Brit med J* 1950, 2, 1283). Kilner married secondly in 1926 Florence Brennan née O'Neil, a widow with one daughter, and they had two sons. He lived at 41 Davenant Road, Oxford and died on 2 July 1964 aged 73, survived by his wife, her daughter and their two sons; Mrs Kilner died on 24 November 1964. Publications: Wounds of the face and jaws, in Hamilton Bailey *Surgery of Modern Warfare* 1941. Cleft lip and palate, in Parsons and Barling *Diseases of Infancy and Childhood*, 2nd edition 1954.
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First Title value, for Searching Mansfield, Oliver Turquand (1912 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Oliver Mansfield was a consultant plastic surgeon to the West Midlands area. He was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1912, the son of Percival Aubertine Mansfield, a general practitioner and Kathleen, a matron of a private nursing home. There was a strong medical tradition in the family - two of his cousins were doctors and his brother became a general practitioner in Middlesex. Despite this background, Oliver's initial interest was in a sea-faring life. He was educated at the Nautical College in Pangbourne, but left early, although he later succeeded in obtaining his mate's certificate. When the shipping slump of the early 1930s halted his maritime ambitions, he decided to attempt medicine as an alternative. It is said that his admission to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School was achieved on the strength of his mate's certificate - a unique distinction for any medical student. He qualified from the Middlesex in 1938 and, after house jobs, was appointed RSO at Great Ormond Street, before becoming surgical registrar at the Middlesex. It was at the Middlesex that he met two people who were destined to play an important role in his future. Jean Elizabeth Holloway was nursing there. They met and married, and she and their two daughters, Susanne and Elisabeth, became a central feature of Oliver's life. The other significant encounter was with Rainsford Mowlem, plastic surgeon to the Middlesex, who invited Oliver to train with him at Hill End Hospital, St Alban's. His immediate predecessor as chief assistant at Hill End had been John Barron and, shortly after the second world war, both these young surgeons spent several months working in Yugoslavia, then under Communist domination, teaching the details of plastic surgery. When the NHS began in 1948 there was no trained plastic surgeon in Birmingham and the entire West Midlands, one of the largest and most populous regions in the country. Mansfield was appointed in March 1949 to cover this almost impossible brief. He saw out-patients, had beds within the teaching hospitals and developed a regional plastic centre at Wordsley, Stourbridge, about ten miles out of the city. He also undertook peripheral clinics at Coventry and the orthopaedic hospital at Oswestry. He performed this huge responsibility single-handed, until a second plastic surgeon was appointed three years later. The large amount of travelling involved was performed in a series of rather racy MGs, but in his more mature years these were replaced by a sturdy Mercedes sports car. Small in stature, but neat and sprucely turned out, he was very precise in instructing how an individual case was to be managed. His particular interests were in cleft lip and palate surgery, congenital deformities of the hand and in malignant disease, especially of the head and neck. These procedures were often undertaken in conjunction with a general surgical colleague. He was a meticulous surgeon who insisted on the highest standards, and several of his foibles became features of the residents' Christmas show for many years. He could not abide any sort of ligature placed close to the skin as he considered this interfered with wound healing and the formation of a neat scar. Hence all the small blood vessels underlying the skin were neatly clipped with fine mosquito haemostats. At the conclusion of the operation these were swiftly twisted off with great panache and usually, a suitable quip. He was a splendid teacher and had a warm sense of humour. His greatest hobby and delight was sailing, which he was able to enjoy at Barnt Green, as well as further afield on the Hamble and the Channel. He was a demonic skipper who held his crew in thrall. In 1973, he sustained a deep vein thrombosis in a leg but absolutely refused to consider any form of anticoagulation because a friend had died from its complications in his student days. He was therefore unable to work full-time for several months and eventually decided to retire early. From then on his health steadily deteriorated and he became progressively more disabled. He died on 8 February 1997. Many warm tributes were paid to him at his memorial service.
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First Title value, for Searching Clarkson, Patrick Wensley (1911 - 1969)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-30
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born at Christchurch, New Zealand on 20 February 1911, son of a sheep farmer and meat exporter, he was educated at Christ College, New Zealand and came to Edinburgh for his medical training, which was continued in London after he had won a scholarship to Guy's Hospital. He was a notable heavy-weight boxer, becoming inter-hospital champion in 1933, and also represented Guy's at squash rackets. He won the Treasurer's Gold Medal in both medicine and surgery and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1935, taking the FRCS the following year and completing his MB, BS London in 1940. He held house appointments at Guy's in 1935 and 1936, and was surgical tutor from 1937 to 1939. He joined the RAMC in 1940 and in 1942 was attached to Rooksdown House, Basingstoke for training in plastic surgery under Sir Harold Gillies. As Officer Commanding of a maxillo-facial unit in North Africa and Italy from 1942 to 1945 he was able to make full use of his specialised training and gained considerable experience in the treatment of burns and facial injuries. In 1945 he was appointed to the British Army Staff, Washington for liaison with US Army and Navy Plastic Surgery Units, which extended his experience still further and established the close links with leading American plastic surgeons which continued throughout his life. He was awarded the MBE for his war service. After the war he was appointed to Guy's as surgeon in charge of accident services, and rejoined Gillies at Rooksdown House which was to become a regional plastic surgery centre in the National Health Service and eventually moved to Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. He was also consultant plastic surgeon to St Charles's Hospital, the Royal Northern Hospital and St Mary Abbot's Hospital, and became honorary civilian consultant in plastic surgery to Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank and the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot. In 1946 he was Hunterian Professor and Leverhulme Research Scholar at the Royal College of Surgeons and he later became Examiner in Medicine and Surgery for the FDS. His many contributions to journals and textbooks led to rapid recognition abroad and he was elected an Honorary Member of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Honorary Associate Member of the Surgical Societies of Brussels, Madrid and Bordeaux, Associate Member of the French Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Corresponding Member of the American Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He became Visiting Professor of Plastic Surgery at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York in 1963 and at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore in 1964. His most notable contributions were probably in hand surgery and in the treatment of burns. He was a founder member of the Hand Club in 1952, and his book *The general and plastic surgery of the hand* written in 1962 with A D Pelly reflects his considerable experience and clear thinking on the subject. He established the Children's Burns Unit at Guy's in 1953, and his distress at the suffering of burned children led him to speak strongly on the need for prevention of these domestic accidents. His second Hunterian lecture in 1965 was on the subject of burns in children, and his Presidential Address in 1968 to the newly-formed Section of Plastic Surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine reviewed recent progress in the treatment of burns. Ill health led to his premature retirement from hospital work but he continued writing, lecturing, and travelling to international meetings. He died after a short illness at Guy's Hospital on 28 December 1969. At the memorial service at St Columba's Church, Pont Street on 30 January 1970 the address was given by Sir Hedley Atkins, KBE, PPRCS. Principal publications: Fifield's *Infections of the hand*. 2nd edition. London, 1939. Treatment of jaw and face casualties in the British Army. *Ann Surg* 1946, 123, 190-208. Management and surgical resurfacing of serious burns. (with R S Lawrie)* Brit J Surg*1946,33, 211-23. Facial injuries in road accidents.* Practitioner*, 1948,161, 396-405. Thumb reconstruction by transfer of big toe. (with R J Furlong) *Brit med J* 1949,2, 1334-4. Correction of deformities of the jaw. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Eng* 1951, 8, 23-52. Emergency surgery in the early treatment of burns and scalds. *Practitioner* 1952, 168, 400. The care of open injuries of the hand with special reference to the treatment of traumatic amputations.* J Bone Jt Surg*. 1955, 37A, 521. Mobilization of the medial palm in the treatment of distal hemi-amputation of the hand. *Plast reconstr Surg* 1961, 28, 56-66. The aetiology of Dupuytren's disease. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1961,110, 52.
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First Title value, for Searching Hackett, Michael Edward John (1931 - 1991)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Michael Hackett, or Mike, as he was always known, was born on 6 August 1931 in Morecambe, Lancashire. He was the son of Jack Hackett, editor of *The Morecombe Visitor* and the nephew of Desmond Hackett, the well-known *Daily Express* sports writer. He was educated at Preston Catholic College and proceeded to National Service as a 'proper soldier' with the King's Own Royal Regiment from 1950 to 1952, playing representative rugger for his regiment and Western Command. He then entered St Bartholomew's Medical School, where his ability to combine hard work with play made him an outstanding student. He continued his rugger career to captain the Bart's 1st XV for two sessions, until a head injury forced him to retire. He was forthwith elected captain of the 1st XI soccer team. The need to have him at Chislehurst Club House on a Saturday afternoon was greater than the requirement for him to have any talent for soccer! Mike Hackett always wanted to be a surgeon, and following house posts under Professor Sir Edwin Scowen and Sir James Paterson Ross he became SHO to Pennybacker at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He returned to Bart's as junior registrar on the 'Yellow Firm', drawing inspiration from his chiefs Alan Hunt and James Robinson, and it was at this time that he gained his Fellowship. Not for him the slow ascent to a consultant post, and it is hard to appreciate today the extent of the British colonies at that time, all offering experience to adventurous doctors. Despite the risks of re-entry into the NHS, he successfully applied for the post of surgical specialist to Fiji and lecturer to the Fiji School of Medicine. He met the huge demands of general surgery there by application and skill, and revelled in life on a Pacific island. On return home in 1968 he decided to take up plastic surgery, and became registrar to John Watson at the London Hospital and later senior registrar to Percy Jayes and Robin Beare at East Grinstead, home of plastic surgery. In 1973 he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the North East Thames Regional Unit at Billericay and also to the London Hospital. His early research was on thermography and later on skin homografts and xenografts. His main interest was the treatment of burns and he strove to provide the optimum treatment for patients, despite the long journeys to and from the burns unit which therapy occasionally involved. To Hackett, however, the length of the journey was never a deterrent to seeing a patient - indeed it might be said that the M25 motorway was made-to-measure for him, driving his open-top Mercedes to connect the east and west ends of his practice. Never a man to waste time on committees, he was a strident advocate for improved surgical training and gave example by the way he taught his juniors and his enthusiastic involvement in postgraduate meetings, both in College and his region. By drive and nagging of wealthy patients and companies he established a research unit from which future plastic surgeons will reap the benefit. He maintained contact with a wide circle of surgeons both from home and abroad, enabling him to found the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons and the European Association of Plastic Surgeons. Death deprived him and the surgical world of Presidencies of both, and also that of the RSM's Section of Plastic Surgery. Mike was an impressive man in any gathering, extrovert, bursting with energy and ideas and always finding time for a few witty words. Coronary artery disease developed early, held at bay for a few years by a bypass operation at Barts, to return bringing sudden death after seeing his last patient in Harley Street on the 18 January 1991. He was survived by his wife Gillian Heather, consultant anaesthetist to St Bartholomew's Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Spittel, Richard Lionel (1881 - 1969)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Writer
Details Richard Lionel Spittel was born on 9 December 1881 in Tangalle, a town on the south coast of Ceylon, where his father Dr F G Spittel was stationed at that time as Government Medical Officer. He entered the Ceylon Medical College at the turn of the century, and qualified LMS Ceylon in 1905. He entered the Government Service and was appointed house surgeon to the second surgeon of the General Hospital, Colombo, Dr S C Paul. After serving this appointment, Spittel left for England and joined King's College, London and the London Hospital. He returned to Ceylon on 25 January 1910, with the qualification FRCS, and was appointed third surgeon at the General Hospital Colombo. Spittel threw himself whole heartedly into his new duties, but tragedy was soon to overtake him. On 10 April of that year he was stricken with septicaemia. The excruciating pain from cellulitis of his left arm, the reddened tender tag of skin overhanging his left thumb nail gave evidence of the route of the infection, and he recollected with dread that he had dressed a case of erysipelas eighteen hours earlier. He was semi-conscious on the second week of this illness and spent four months on a water bed, in continued pain which only morphia could relieve. He returned to work on 17 February 1911, with an ankylosed left shoulder. He had had from boyhood a disability at his left elbow from a fracture which limited the movement of this elbow. These two physical disabilities would have daunted most men, but Spittel returned to his duties with zest. Although the long list of operations at each session at the General Hospital made severe demands on his strength Spittel never once failed to complete his lists. He was meticulous in regard to his duties and devoted the same care and attention to the cases in his ulcer ward, as he did to what others call the "interesting case". It was in his ulcer ward that he observed the beneficial cleansing effects of maggots in festering sores. This observation long antedated the reports of this in the literature. It was in the ulcer ward that he observed the lesions of *Framboesia tropica*. These observations were set forth in his book *Framboesia tropica* which was, and still is, a standard text. In his teaching, he gave as much attention to the apothecary students who did a short two years course at the Ceylon Medical College, as he did to the medical students. His book *Essentials of surgery* was written for the apothecary students. It is not a synopsis of elementary surgery; it is a masterly account of the principles of surgery and it had a wide appeal. Miss Claribel Van Dort was a fellow student with Spittel at the Ceylon Medical College. After qualification he suddenly fell in love with her, but waited six long years before he proposed marriage and was accepted. They had two daughters, one died at two years of age, and the other, Mrs Christine Wilson, survived him. She inherited her father's gift for writing, and has many books to her credit. Father and daughter together wrote the novel *Brave island*. After his severe illness, needing a break from time to time from his arduous duties as surgeon, Spittel took to making trips to the jungles of Ceylon, and inspired by Seligman's work on the Veddahs, he sought out these people in their remote forests, where they still lived in the bow and arrow age. Spittel lived in the jungle with the Veddahs, he treated their ailments, he learnt their jungle lore. He was loved by them and they looked to him as their white chief. It was Spittel's interest in the wild life of Ceylon and in the Veddahs that brought out his gift as a writer. His novels - *Wild Ceylon, Far off things, Savage sanctuary, Where the white sambur roams, Wild white boy* and *Leaves of the jungle*, a book of poems, gave Spittel a place in English literature. After the first world war Spittel had been to England and Europe from time to time and on his return from these visits, he revitalised the surgery of Ceylon. He introduced rubber gloves, he persuaded the Director of Medical Services to provide shadowless lamp and pedestal operating tables in the operating theatres. Inspired by Gillies's work at Sidcup, he introduced plastic surgery to Ceylon. He introduced the 'no touch technique' and for this designed a combined needle holder and scissors for introducing the cutting sutures. He had successfully fused spines with bone chips, before the advent of the Albee spinal fusion operation with bone grafts, and he enthusiastically took to the Albee operation when it came out. He was a great surgeon. A frail man with the heart of a lion he accomplished a great deal in his life. His name will always be linked with that of his motherland Ceylon. He died peacefully on 3 September 1969, aged 87 years.
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First Title value, for Searching McGregor, Ian Alexander (1921 - 1998)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Ian McGregor was Director of the West of Scotland Plastic Surgery Unit at Cannisburn Hospital and a former President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He was born on 6 June 1921 in Glasgow, the son of a monumental mason and a seamstress, and was educated at North Kelvinside Academy, where he excelled both academically and at sports, especially cricket and athletics. It was here that he first exhibited the love of learning and scholarship that remained throughout his career, and such were his achievements at school that he was awarded a Carnegie scholarship to read medicine at Glasgow University. However, in view of his youth, he read mathematics and English prior to entering medical school in 1939. He graduated with commendation in 1944, and the following year joined the RAMC, serving for three years in Egypt, Palestine and Somaliland, before returning to a post in the department of anatomy at Glasgow, where he met the senior plastic surgeon, Jack Tough, and was offered a registrar post in the burns unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. It was here that he met and married Christeen Mackay and they had three sons, Alan, Alastair and Ian. In 1952, he began his formal training in plastic surgery and was greatly influenced by Tom Gibson, a pioneering plastic surgeon in the West of Scotland Plastic Surgery Service, Ballochmyle. In 1955, two young surgeons in training, one Scottish and the other English, found themselves fellow travellers on a Cunard liner crossing the Atlantic to centres in the USA. The Scotsman was bound for Cornell University Centre in New York to spend six months with Herbert Conway and the Englishman was headed for Chicago, to spend a year working in Warren Cole's department. These young men spent several evenings watching the sunset, debating whether they were foolish to be undertaking these adventures at that time in their respective careers, when forty to sixty well-trained senior surgical registrars were applying for every reasonable surgical consultant vacancy. Later, both were to freely admit the seminal influence that the time spent in the USA had had on their surgical outlook and careers. Interestingly, the Scotsman, who was of course McGregor, was elected President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1984, at the same time the Englishman, Geoffrey Slaney, was serving as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Following his return to Scotland, McGregor continued his training as senior registrar in plastic surgery, but as this was a time when there was a severe shortage of consultant posts in the specialty, he accepted an appointment as consultant in charge of the casualty department at Glasgow Royal Infirmary for two years, before being appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the West of Scotland Plastic Surgery Unit, which eventually moved to its present site at Cannisburn Hospital. Following Tom Gibson's retirement, he became director of the Cannisburn unit from 1980 until his own retirement in 1986. Sadly, McGregor's first wife Christeen died in 1970, and he subsequently married Frances Mary, a lecturer in histopathology at the University of Glasgow. He and Frances shared many common professional interests. They jointly published *Cancer of the face and mouth: pathology and management for surgeons* (Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1986). His legendary love of teaching had inspired him earlier to write his famous book *Fundamental techniques of plastic surgery and their surgical application* (Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone), which was so popular that it ran to nine editions and was translated into four other languages. Ian's career was a most distinguished one and he was truly one of the giants of British plastic surgery. His contributions to the speciality in general and to head and neck cancer in particular were outstanding. His international reputation was acknowledged worldwide by the many societies and organisations that granted him honorary fellowships, memberships and doctorates. He was President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and the Association of Head and Neck Oncologists of Great Britain, in addition to receiving the ultimate accolade when he was elected President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He was essentially a shy man, with a rather gruff exterior and soft spoken, so that initially he often gave the impression of a very dour Scot, but once this had been overcome he proved to be very warm-hearted and a staunch friend. He had a wry sense of humour, and loved music, especially opera. He was highly intelligent and extremely well read, and these qualities made him a formidable opponent in arguments, which he thoroughly enjoyed. He could be charming, irascible, not one to suffer fools gladly, but was generously prepared to concede a 'hit' from an adversary. He died peacefully after a short illness on 13 April 1998, survived by his wife, Mary, three sons and four grandchildren. His eldest son, Alan, continues the family tradition as he is Professor of Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Wales in Swansea.
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First Title value, for Searching Mowlem, Arthur Rainsford (1902 - 1986)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Arthur Rainsford Mowlem was born in Auckland, New Zealand on 21 December 1902, the son of Arthur Manwell Mowlem, a stipendiary magistrate and Alice Marion (née Beecroft). He claimed descent from Durandas, one of William the Conqueror's knights who was granted 2½ hides of land in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. These lands were called de Moulhm and all descendants took that name which later became Mowlem. Rainsford inherited a large part of these lands from his great uncle, John Mowlem the founder of the famous building and contracting firm. His early education was at Auckland Grammar School and at Knox College of Otago University. He studied law but later changed to medicine, qualifying in 1924 and undertaking house officer appointments in Auckland Hospital before entering general practice. He resolved to embark on a surgical career and having decided to come to England for postgraduate study worked his passage round Cape Horn as a ship's surgeon. He studied at the Middlesex Hospital under Professor Tim Yeates and Samson Wright for the primary Fellowship and after completing a house surgeon's appointment at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, passed the final FRCS in 1929. He served as resident surgical officer at Queen Mary's Stratford where, during a royal visit by the Patron he was able to show the Prince of Wales where to have a cigarette and, a heavy smoker himself, to join him there. He had planned to return to New Zealand to take up an orthopaedic post in Auckland, but before he could get a passage he was asked to take up a locum RSO appointment at Hammersmith Hospital. While he was there Sir Harold Gillies was given four beds for plastic surgery and Mowlem was fascinated by the potential of such surgery while working under his compatriot. Gillies soon realised the ability of his junior colleague and invited him to move with him when he went to a larger unit at St James's Hospital, Balham. Mowlem was subsequently appointed assistant medical officer in charge of the plastic unit of the London County Council at St Charles' Hospital, Ladbroke Grove, from 1933 to 1939. In 1940 he was appointed to the staff of the Middlesex Hospital and also established a unit at Hill End Hospital, St Alban's, working with Sir Harold Gillies under the aegis of St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1940 he was elected Hunterian Professor, lecturing on the use of iliac chips from bone grafting in patients with mandibular defects and un-united fractures. Throughout the war years he dealt with many victims of the air raids at Hill End Hospital and participated in the early trials of penicillin. After the end of the war the unit moved to Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood and Mowlem transferred his appointment while retaining his post at the Middlesex and serving as adviser in plastic surgery to the Ministry of Health. In the early post-war years he was called to attend Sir Winston Churchill during his premiership in connection with a burn of the hand. The Prime Minister had mistakenly laid his cigar on a box of matches and while attending upon him to dress the wound on Christmas morning Sir Winston, sitting up in bed with a brandy and cigar, gave him a vivid description of the battle of Omdurman; this included an account of Churchill being asked to provide a large donation of upper arm skin which was taken by the regimental medical officer without any anaesthetic as a homograft to be applied to a trooper's wound. He always had a badly scarred donor area. After the war he was twice President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1950 and in 1959 and in the latter years was also President of the Second International Congress of Plastic Surgeons. His contribution to his specialty was recognised by the award of an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Trinity College, Hartford, USA, and an honorary Fellowship of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. His chief professional interest at both Mount Vernon and the Middlesex Hospital was in reconstructive operations to overcome unsightly defects resulting from the radical treatment of malignant disease and when asked to perform cosmetic surgery he always ensured there were valid reasons before embarking on such procedures. He was an outstanding teacher and during his career trained many juniors in the techniques of plastic surgery. He retired completely at the age of sixty, sold his house at Great Missenden and moved to Malaga in Spain with his wife, Margaret West Harvey, whom he married in 1933. His new house was built of marble from a nearby quarry and he enjoyed the peaceful quiet surroundings and splendid views. He was a prodigious reader of journals on a wide variety of subjects and enjoyed classical music as well as visits to the ballet. His wife pre-deceased him and he died at his home on 6 February 1986 aged 83, survived by two daughters and two grand-children.
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First Title value, for Searching Hughes, Norman Campbell (1915 - 1995)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

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Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Norman Hughes was born in Bangor, County Down, on 15 May 1915, the son of William Edwin Hughes, a manager of the Royal Insurance Company in Belfast, and his wife Elizabeth Knox, née Campbell, who was artistic and an enthusiastic gardener and golfer. Hughes was educated at Bangor Grammar School and Queen's University in Belfast, whence he graduated MB ChB BAO in 1937 and also obtained the primary FRCS in the same year. After the usual house officer appointments he spent one year's research into muscle blood flow in the department of physiology under Professor Henry Barcroft. With the outbreak of war in 1939 he immediately enlisted in the RAMC and after Dunkirk volunteered for the proposed new Commando Force. With his commanding officer-to-be he travelled the length and breadth of Britain in search of suitable officers and other ranks who would constitute the Commandos and Hughes was deeply involved in the very rigorous selection process. He spent the next few years with these elite young men from all walks of life in this tightly-knit community of Commandos, where morale was extremely high. Hughes, although a doctor, was primarily a fighting soldier in the Unit. Their training was very arduous and much of it was conducted in the snow and ice of the Cairngorms under the tutelage of John Hunt of Everest fame. They were also trained in close combat with knives and pistols and learnt to handle small boats and assault landing craft. Norman Hughes was involved in many of these forays including the Lofoten raid, and in addition to his personal arms and ammunition always carried two haversacks containing shell dressings, morphia, syringes and other basic medical items. At the end of 1943 the original Commando force was disbanded and incorporated into the Royal Marines, so with deep regret Norman decided to resign and resume a medical career. He was posted to the Middle East as a graded surgeon and ultimately arrived at the 15th Scottish General Hospital in Cairo, where he had the good fortune to work with Mortimer Shaw, one of the few specialist maxillofacial surgeons at that time, and this experience led him to decide to follow a career in this specialty. At the end of the war Hughes returned to Belfast as surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, and in 1946 he married Rosemary Fullerton, who was also a doctor. They had a son, Alastair, who became an engineer, and two daughters, Mary, a GP and Anne, a geneticist. In 1947 Hughes was awarded one of the first Marks Fellowships to train with Archie McIndoe at East Grinstead, and he celebrated this event by obtaining the FRCS shortly after his arrival. Norman thoroughly enjoyed his three busy years at East Grinstead and proved to be an apt pupil who gained the support and encouragement of McIndoe, who was a perfectionist and a hard and punctilious taskmaster. In 1950 Hughes was invited to return to Belfast as a consultant surgeon to establish a Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit for Northern Ireland, which he accepted. The unit quickly gained a reputation for plastic and maxillofacial surgery of the highest quality and subsequently played an important part in treating the many patients injured in 'the troubles'. Hughes was a dedicated and greatly appreciated teacher who taught by precept and example, and his interest in training was not just confined to Belfast. He was also a member of the Joint Committee on Higher Surgical Training, established by the Royal Colleges to regulate and standardise the training of consultant surgeons, and chaired the Specialist Advisory Committee for Plastic Surgery for seven years. In Belfast between 1953 and 1971 he spent many arduous hours of unpaid overtime as one of the four man planning team at the Royal Victoria Hospital, culminating in a new operating theatre block, the new radiology department, the Dental School, the Eye and ENT Hospitals and the Outpatients and Accident and Emergency Building. In 1973 Hughes was awarded the OBE and became an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. In 1977 he was elected President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and in 1979 he was a Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1985 he gave a memorable Gillies Lecture entitled 'The legacy of the giants' in which he paid eloquent tribute to those whose original contributions enabled progress to be made by others building on the foundations which they established. With characteristic modesty he made no mention of his own contribution, but this fully entitles him to be considered among the giants in his own right. His busy life left little time for writing, but he published various papers and reports on his specialty and contributed chapters on plastic surgery in Rob and Smith's *Operative surgery* and in *Recent advances in plastic surgery* in 1976. In his youth Norman was a keen all-round sportsman, with particular interests in rugby, cricket, tennis and skiing, an art he learnt in the Commandos. However in later years his greatest pleasure came from family cruises in his yacht along the west coast of Scotland. Other hobbies were philately, antiques and woodwork, which he performed with skill and precision. He died from the complications of long-standing aortic valve disease on 1 June 1995.
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First Title value, for Searching Reidy, Joseph Patrick Irwin (1907 - 1991)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Joseph Patrick Irwin Reidy (Pete) was born in London on 30 October 1907, the second son of four brothers and three daughters: his father Jerome Reidy MD was a general practitioner, son of a doctor, who practised in the Commercial Road and who had married an Irish nurse, Miss F W Dawson. His education was at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, where he was a keen sportsman, rugby captain and athlete. At St John's College Cambridge he was in the rugby team for three years and a heavyweight boxing blue. Whilst a clinical student at the London he played rugby for the hospital, the United Hospitals, Eastern Counties, London Irish, the Barbarians, played the All Blacks and narrowly missed a cap for Ireland. He qualified MRCS LRCP in 1932 and after house jobs joined his father's practice, which he took over in 1936 when his father died. In 1937 he passed his MB BChir degrees then decided to specialise in surgery. He demonstrated anatomy at the Middlesex and after passing the primary FRCS became a civilian surgeon at the Royal Air Force Hospital, Halton. At the outbreak of war in 1939 he was sent by the Emergency Medical Service London Hospital Sector as resident surgical officer to the Albert Docks Hospital, then from 1940 to 1942 to St Andrew's Hospital in Billericay. In 1942 he was appointed as a trainee specialist to Professor T Pomfret Kilner (qv *Lives* 1952-64) who had opened the plastic surgery unit at the new Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Stoke Mandeville, where war wounded from the army were to be referred and treated. Eventually he became the senior surgeon and succeeded Kilner as director in 1957, remaining until he retired in 1972. In 1943 he was chief assistant in plastic surgery to St Thomas's Hospital and in 1944 he opened a unit at the West Middlesex Hospital. Consulting appointments to Queen Mary's Hospital Roehampton, Essex County Hospital Colchester and Middlesex County Council followed. In 1948 he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon at Westminster Hospital, an appointment he held until retirement in 1972. He also visited Nelson Hospital Kingston, Metropolitan ENT Hospital 1948-50 and the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, Alton, from 1953 to 1956. He became a world authority on the surgery of cleft lip and palate and was an expert on rhinoplasty. His own battered proboscis and cauliflower ears however, souvenirs of his sporting years, were never treated. He was a clever and amusing lecturer on plastic surgery. In 1957 and 1968 he was appointed Hunterian Professor - in the latter lecture reviewing the treatment of several hundred cases of cleft lip and palate. In 1961 he was awarded the Purkinje gold medal from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Two honorary appointments reflected his sporting youth: honorary Chief Medical Officer to the Amateur Boxing Association and honorary secretary and treasurer to the United Hospitals Rugby Football Club 1957-62. A Freeman of the City of London, he was a Liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Medical Society of London and Hunterian Society, and was President of the Chiltern Medical Society from 1958 to 1960. He, as one of the second generation of plastic surgeons trained during the second world war, was a founder member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, becoming its President in 1962, and always a regular attender, contributor and strong supporter. A big imposing man, he always put his patients at ease and was interested in their psychological problems - an important aspect of plastic surgery. He published a monograph on the subject, entitled *Plastic Surgery and Psychotherapy*. He also wrote on the medical history of the second world war as well as many distinguished articles on plastic surgery in the leading medical and surgical journals. His recreations were gardening, sailing and fishing: at one time he had a yacht in Baltimore to explore the East coast of the USA. He married Anne Johnson in 1943 and they had three daughters, Joanne, Susan and Elizabeth. Sadly Anne died in 1970 from a head injury just before he retired. He married secondly Freda Clout (née Lowe). After retirement to Cork where he walked, seafished and sailed for six years he returned to the Colne Valley. For the last two years of his life he became progressively crippled by arthritis. He died on the 10 September 1991. A big, strong man who fought for his patients and facilities to treat them, he succeeded in establishing first class plastic surgery units which were instrumental in developing the next generation of plastic surgeons, in addition training many young trauma and military surgeons in the art and science of plastic surgery.
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First Title value, for Searching McIndoe, Sir Archibald Hector (1900 - 1960)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-19
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born on 4 May 1900, son of John Mclndoe and Mabel Hill of Dunedin NZ, he was educated at Otago High School and the medical school of Otago University, where he was a medallist in medicine and surgery. After qualifying he was appointed house surgeon at Waikato Hospital, and in 1924 was awarded a Foundation Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, where he commenced working on 1 January 1925 as a First Assistant in Pathological Anatomy until 1927. During this period he published several papers on hepatic disease in conjunction with V S Councillor, and two individual papers of importance on portal cirrhosis and on the structure of the bile canaliculi. Subsequently he was awarded a John William White scholarship for foreign study and in 1929 was appointed first assistant in surgery. In 1931 he proceeded to England, on the suggestion of his cousin Sir Harold Gillies, to take up an appointment as clinical assistant in the department of plastic surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 1932 received his first permanent appointment as surgeon and lecturer in tropical surgery at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, then situated in Endsleigh Gardens, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which appointment he held until 1939 when he became consulting surgeon. By this time his appointments included those of plastic surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital, the Chelsea Hospital for Women, St Andrew's Hospital and the Hampstead Children's Hospital. In addition he was consulting plastic surgeon to the Royal North Stafford Infirmary and to Croydon General Hospital. In 1938 he was appointed consultant in plastic surgery to the Royal Air Force and, on the outbreak of the war in 1939, he selected the Queen Victoria Hospital at East Grinstead, which had been rebuilt shortly before the war and which possessed ample land for expansion, as a suitable site for the establishment of a centre for plastic and jaw surgery, and as a result the hospital has become world famous. He strengthened his own position immensely by always resolutely refusing to be put into uniform and thereby become subject to military discipline. The work done by him in rehabilitating badly burned aircrew was quite outstanding, not only in the physical plane but in the sphere of morale. Richard Hillary, a terribly burned fighter pilot and later killed in action, gives a graphic account in *The Last Enemy* of what he and others like him owed to the skill and inspiration of Mclndoe. The Guinea Pig Club founded by him with 600 original members, of whom Hillary was appropriately the first, having been operated upon personally by him, perpetuates his memory by the annual meeting at East Grinstead to which members come from all over the world. After the war many honours were bestowed upon him. At the College he became a member of Council in 1946 and Vice-President in 1958. He had been Hunterian Professor in 1939 and in 1958 was Bradshaw Lecturer, his subject being facial burns. His most outstanding service to the College, however, was his initiative in obtaining magnificent donations to its funds in his capacity as a member of the finance and the appeal committees. After his death an appeal was launched in his memory to raise funds for the completion of the last phase of the rebuilding, in particular the Hunterian Museum. A past President of the Association of Plastic Surgeons, he was President of the Section of Plastic Surgery at the BMA annual meeting in 1956. McIndoe's brilliant career was no accident but due to a combination of factors. He was a natural artist with facile hands and a pleasing personality. Forthright in expression, he was quick in making a decision. Fortunate in being a cousin of Gillies, the doyen of plastic surgery, who persuaded him to forsake general for plastic surgery, he had the great gift of an iron constitution coupled with an infinite capacity for hard work. An inspiring teacher and a born leader he had a wonderful warmth of personality and always remained approachable and friendly, hating pomposity and insincerity. His contributions to plastic surgery are too numerous to be detailed here, suffice it to say that he published numerous articles on his subject, invented special instruments and placed plastic surgery on a solid and permanent foundation as an important branch of surgery requiring brains as well as technical skill, but he will be remembered best by the many to whom he gave new life and the courage to face it. After his death a memorial research unit was opened by the Minister of Health at the Queen Victoria Hospital on 22 March 1961. He married first on 31 July 1924 Adonia Aitken of Dunedin, by whom he had two daughters and whose marriage was dissolved in 1953, and secondly on 31 July 1954 Mrs Constance Belcham, previously the wife of Major-General R F K Belcham. He died in his sleep on the night of 11-12 April 1960. A memorial service was held on 12 May 1960 in St Clement Danes, Strand, the RAF church, and an address was delivered by the President of the College, Sir James Paterson Ross.
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First Title value, for Searching Gillies, Sir Harold Delf (1882 - 1960)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

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Publication Date 2014-06-10
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born at Dunedin, New Zealand, on 17 June 1882, he came of a distinguished family. His father Robert Gillies was a land agent and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, and his mother was Emily Street from Birtley, near Guildford. Edward Lear, the artist and nonsense-verse write, was his great-uncle, and Sir Archibald McIndoe, who succeeded him as a leader in plastic surgery, was his cousin. Educated at Wanganui College, where he was captain of cricket, he went up to Caius College, Cambridge. There he distinguished himself as a sportsman, rowing in the Boat Race of 1904 and playing golf for the University for three years. He continued his medical training at St Bartholomew's, was awarded the Luther Holden Scholarship, qualified in 1908 and obtained the FRCS in 1910. After holding house appointments at Bart's he developed an interest in otolaryngology. For some years he worked as assistant to Sir Milsom Rees and became surgeon to the Ear Nose and Throat Department at the Prince of Wales's General Hospital, Tottenham and pathologist at the Throat Hospital, Golden Square. Then came the 1914-18 war which caused the mutilation and disfigurement of so many men and showed Gillies clearly where his genius lay. Early in the war he joined the RAMC and whilst on leave in Paris he met Hippolyte Morestin, a pioneer in maxilla-facial surgery. Gillies immediately realised the need to start special treatment of facial wounds and through the force of his conviction and personality he managed to persuade the War Office to allow him to set up a unit at Aldershot. At this time he knew little of the specialty, but his own surgical skill, artistic temperament, endless patience and tremendous confidence carried him through. He pressed for a hospital of his own and with the help of Sir William Arbuthnot Lane the Red Cross was persuaded to build a hutted hospital at Sidcup. This soon became the largest centre of its kind in the world. During this time Gillies discovered independently the potentialities and varied applications of the skin tubed pedicle. Being a painter himself, plastic surgery as practised by Gillies became an art and he often called upon the talents of artists to help him. F Derwent Wood RA, a sculptor, collaborated with Gillies in cases when the manipulation of living tissues needed to be supplemented with modelling in some artificial substance such as wax. When Gillies was in need of a good draughtsman in 1915 he was delighted to meet Henry Tonks FRCS, who had given up surgery to become a professional artist and was later Director of the Slade School. On the outbreak of war Tonks volunteered to serve in any useful capacity and Gillies found him at Aldershot waiting for a suitable job. He painted portraits of men with facial injuries and helped to design their repair. These paintings were deposited in the War Collection at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. After the war Gillies saw that this new specialty was still necessary in peace-time and by 1920 he had established it in Britain. He set up in private practice, was elected to the staff of St Bartholomew's and was appointed consultant in plastic surgery to the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill, St James's Hospital, Balham, the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, the London County Council, and the ministries of Health and of Pensions. At the same time his international reputation grew and he became an honoured guest in many countries. He was appointed OBE in 1919 and CBE in1920, and was knighted in 1930. Gillies was a splendid lecturer and was much in demand at home and abroad. He was a superb teacher and his pre-operative planning clinics were conducted with infinite patience. In these the use of exact patterns of flap and pedicle and the marking of the skin of the exact site and length of incision all made a deep impact. The outbreak of war in 1939 made even greater demands on Gillies. He organised plastic surgical units in different parts of the country and personally supervised the largest unit at Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke. By spending hundreds of hours in the theatre repairing shattered faces he restored the morale of thousands. Shortly after the war Gillies formed the British Association of Plastic Surgeons of which he was the first president. He was also president of the International Society of Plastic Surgeons. He continued to train men from all over the world and to travel widely himself teaching, operating and advising. His impressions were recorded in his paintings which were seen at the Royal Society of Medicine and later at two one-man exhibitions in London. In 1920 Gillies's book *Plastic Surgery of the Face* was published, which remained the leading textbook in its field until the appearance in 1957 of the *The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery*, written with Dr Ralph Millard. This book reflects Gillies' personality, for it is a brilliant exposition of the subject and at the same time an entertaining, vivid account of his work, superbly illustrated in colour. In spite of the claims of his professional life Gillies for many years managed to maintain his position in the world of golf. He played for England against Scotland in 1908, 1925 and 1926 and won the St George's Grand Challenge Cup in 1913. He was also a highly skilled fly-fisherman. Gillies married Kathleen Margaret Jackson in 1911 and they had two sons and two daughters. During the second world war their elder son, Flying Officer John Arthur Gillies, RAAF, was a prisoner in Germany. Lady Gillies died on 14 May 1957. His second wife was Marjorie E Clayton, who had been for many years his personal assistant. He died on 10 September 1960 at the age of 78. The British Association of Plastic Surgeons created a fund in his memory to promote education and research in plastic surgery. Publications: *Plastic surgery of the face,* 1920 *The principles and art of plastic surgery*, with Ralph Millard. 2 vols 1957
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First Title value, for Searching Lane, Sir William Arbuthnot (1856 - 1943)

2024-05-04T05:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born on 4 July 1856 at Fort St George, Scotland, eldest of the three sons and four daughters of Benjamin Lane, assistant surgeon 80th Regiment of Foot, and his wife Caroline Arbuthnot Ewing, daughter of Joseph Ewing (1790-1868), surgeon 80th and 95th Foot. Benjamin Lane was born at Limavady, Co Derry, Ireland, where his father William Lane, MD, was in practice, on 5 June 1827, rose to the rank of brigade surgeon, and died at Cheltenham on 12 June 1907, when his son was at the height of his fame; his wife also came of Ulster stock. (Johnston's *Roll of the Army Medical Service*, Nos 3029: Ewing, and 5105: Lane.) He was educated at Stanley House, Bridge of Allan, and entered Guy's Hospital in May 1873. He qualified MRCS 1877 at the age of twenty-one and won the gold medals in anatomy and medicine at the London MB 1881. He served as house surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea, and went back to Guy's as demonstrator of anatomy. He proceeded to the Fellowship 1882 and the MS London 1883, and was appointed assistant surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, where he eventually became consulting surgeon. In 1884 he married (see below) and settled in St Thomas's Street to be near his work at Guy's, where he was elected assistant surgeon 1888, becoming surgeon in 1903, and consulting surgeon in 1920. He was also consulting surgeon to the French Hospital, Shaftesbury Avenue. At the Royal College of Surgeons he served as an examiner in elementary anatomy for the Conjoint Board 1887-90 and on the Council from 1908 to 1916. He joined the RAMC, Territorial Force, on its formation, being commissioned captain *à la suite* on 23 December 1908, and during the war of 1914-18 he served in the Aldershot command and was gazetted colonel, AMS, on 29 September 1917. He organized the Queen's Hospital at Sidcup for the treatment of facial injuries. Here with Sir Harold Gillies and Henry Tonks, FRCS, professor of Fine Art at the Slade School, London University, he laid the foundations of modem plastic surgery. Erich Lexer was carrying out parallel work in Germany at the same time. Lane was a brilliant surgeon whose manual dexterity was, perhaps, eclipsed only by Moynihan's. As a student he was deeply influenced by Arthur Durham; he was dresser to Thomas Bryant, and was much encouraged in his work by Clement Lucas. He was rigorous in the most scrupulous aseptic methods, which he introduced to Guy's when he attained to the hospital staff. The advances which he made, in a time of great surgical advance, were due not merely to his technical facility but to a profound scientific knowledge of anatomy and to a philosophic conception of the mechanics of the animal organism as a whole. Lane touched many branches of surgery and improved whatever he touched. He made his name by three operational innovations: the removal of a piece of rib when treating empyema in a child (1883); an ingenious operation for cleft palate early in life (1897); and screwing fractured long bones to obtain perfect apposition (1893). This he did on a sudden inspiration in a difficult case, sending for ordinary steel screws from the carpenter's shop. He was early interested in the treatment of fractures and all skeletal deformities. In 1883 he published his first two papers: on Fracture of the sternum, *Trans Path Soc* 1882-83, 34, 223; and on Cases of empyema in children treated by removal of the rib, *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1883, 26, 45; and the following year he published nineteen papers based on his work in the dissecting-room with Sir William Hale-White, MD. His *Manual of Operative Surgery* appeared in 1886, and in 1887-88 his studies in the theory of skeletal change evoked considerable interest, particularly his papers Pressure changes in the skeleton, *J Anat Physiol* 1886-87, 21, 385-406; Causation of deformities during young life, *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1887, 29, 241-333; The anatomy of the charwoman, *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1887, 29, 359-367; and The anatomy of the shoemaker, *J Anat Physiol* 1887-88, 22, 593-628. In 1892 he made an important contribution to aural surgery with his Antrectomy as a treatment for chronic purulent otitis media, *Archives of Otology*, New York, 1892, 21, 118-124; and the following year gave the first indication, of his growing interest in abdominal surgery (Acute inflammation of the gall-bladder simulating closely acute intestinal obstruction, *Lancet*, 1893, 1, 411) and the surgery of cancer (A more effectual method of removing a cancerous breast, *Trans Clin Soc* 1892-93, 26, 85), as well as introducing the screwing of fractures (*Lancet*, 1893, 1, 1500). In 1897 his book on Cleft palate and adenoids was published, and he also reported (*Trans Clin Soc* 1896-97, 30, 154) the successful removal of a tumour of the brain. Writing in *The Lancet*, 1900, 1, 1489, Lane insisted that the surgeon should do as neat a job "when repairing broken bones as a cabinet maker mending the legs of broken chairs". Lane invented the perforated steel plates known by his name, which were screwed to the bones and left embedded. Though this simple procedure met with criticism, after a first welcome, and seemed destined to oblivion, it has survived and been adapted beyond Lane's most sanguine expectations. The neutral metal vitalium introduced to surgery by Venable of San Antonio, USA has been a marked improvement on steel as used by Lane, and Smith-Peterson, also in America, has successfully applied Lane's principles to the age-old problem of fractured neck of the femur. Lane was also a pioneer in jugular ligations to prevent pulmonary metastases from ear infections, and in 1909 he devised an epoch-making operation for excision of a carcinoma of the cervical oesophagus, where the gap was repaired with flaps of skin from the neck (*Brit med J* 1911, 1, 16). He wrote on 'Massage of the heart' in 1902, and next year came the first of many contributions on chronic obstruction of the bowel (*Lancet* 1903, 1, 153). Lane introduced the short-circuiting of the large intestine, which came to be known as "Lane's operation", and he began to be obsessed with the danger to general health of chronic constipation. He derived from the teaching of Elie Mechnikov (1845-1916) his belief that "we suffer and die through the defects that arise in our sewerage drainage system", and, like Victor Pauchet of Paris, he came to believe that many of the ills of civilized life are due to toxaemia by absorption from the colon. In *The Lancet* he wrote (1910, 1, 1193) of "the obstruction of the ileum which develops in chronic intestinal stasis" and (1911, 2, 1540) of "the first and last kink in chronic intestinal stasis". This anchoring of the iliac colon by the formation of thin bands of peritoneum from excessive strain due to accumulation of faecal matter in the pelvic colon was called "Lane's disease", but "Lane's kink" was attributed by his opponents to his own reasoning rather than his patients' bowels. Lane however throve on opposition, declaring that it stimulated him. He resigned from the British Medical Association in later life and took the lead in founding the New Health Society in 1925, exploiting his fame to popularize medical principles and hygienic practice. He started the journal *New Health* in 1926 and wrote a book *New Health for Everyman* in 1932 to further the Society's aims. Lane worked hard to promote friendship between the medical men of France and England, advocating an Inter-Allied Fellowship in 1918 (*Brit med J* 1918, 2, 722). He was also well known in America, where he delivered the Murphy oration (*Internat J Surg* 1925, 38, 436) and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1925. Lane was created a baronet, of Cavendish Square, in 1913 and was made CB in 1917; he was a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He married, first, on 25 October 1884 Charlotte, daughter of John Briscoe of Tinvane, Co Kilkenny. Lady Lane died on 28 April 1935, six months after their golden wedding. She left three daughters and a son, who succeeded as second baronet. One of Lane's daughters married Harold Chapple, FRCS, and another married Nathan Mutch, MD, FRCP. Lane married secondly, on 26 September 1935, Jane, daughter of Nathan Mutch of Rochdale, his son-in-law's sister; she survived him. He died on 16 January 1943 at 46 Westbourne Terrace, W2, aged 86. A memorial service was held at Guy's on 21 January, when E G Slesinger, FRCS, gave the funeral oration. "Willie" Lane was big of frame and stature, with a soft and musical voice. Though enjoying controversy he was a kindly and genial man, much beloved by his friends. His old house surgeons presented his portrait, by Edward Newling, to Guy's Hospital. He was a great inspirer of able pupils, but not an orthodox teacher and never interested in examining, and a frequenter of societies who went to preach rather than exchange opinions. He was "Chyrurgeon" to the artistic and literary club Ye Sette of Odd Volumes, and contributed an essay "The influence which our surroundings exert upon us" to its publications (No 74) in 1920. He was a keen fisherman and in 1933 bought from the heirs of H H the Jam Sahib ("Ranji") a great part of the famous Ballinahinch salmon waters in Connemara. This property was originally the centre of the vast estates of Richard Martin, MP (see *DNB*) and adjoins the Kylemore estate once belonging to Mitchell Henry, FRCS. Publications: *Bibliography of the published writings* 1883-1938, Bermondsey, privately printed, 1938, contains a portrait-photograph and lists nearly 400 writings. It is a revised edition by G A R Winston of the bibliography by William Wale, librarian to Guy's Hospital, in *Guy's Hosp Gaz* 1919, 33, 84. The more important writings have been mentioned above in the course of the memoir. His books included: *Manual of operative surgery*, 1886. *Cleft palate and adenoids (including reprints of papers on other subjects)*, 1897; 2nd edition, 1900. *Operative treatment of chronic constipation*, 1904; 2nd edition, 1909; 3rd edition: *Operative treatment of chronic intestinal stasis*, 1915. *Cleft palate and hare-lip*, 1905; 2nd edition, 1908; 3rd edition, 1917. *The operative treatment of fractures*, 1905. *New health for everyman*, 1932; 2nd edition, 1935. Accounts of Lane's clinic at Guy's were published in *Brit J Surg* 1913-14, 1, 314 and 1920-21, 8, 219.
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Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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