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First Title value, for Searching Hartley, John Dawson (1877 - 1962)

2024-05-04T01:57:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation General surgeon Police surgeon
Details He received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where after qualification he served as clinical assistant in the Ear Nose and Throat department and as house surgeon there and at the Metropolitan Hospital. Hartley settled in general practice in Gravesend, where he was police surgeon. He died on 6 December 1962 at Greyfriars, Old Road East, Gravesend, aged 85. Mrs Hartley died on 10 January 1969, survived by their two sons and a daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005037
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First Title value, for Searching Shaeena, Petrous Roufa (1935 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-16 2014-06-06
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Occupation General practitioner Police surgeon
Details Petrous Roufa 'Peter' Shaeena was a general practitioner in Coventry and a police surgeon. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq, on 13 October 1935, the son of Roufa Shaeena, professor of woodcraft and cabinet making at Baghdad Technical College and a lecturer at the Engineering College, Baghdad, and Sabiha Shaeena née Jacob, a housewife. One uncle was a doctor and several of his cousins became doctors and pharmacists. He was educated at an elementary Catholic school, an intermediate school in Rasafa, and then at Al-Markazia Secondary School, where he gained his baccalaureate with distinction. He then studied medicine in Baghdad, gaining his MB ChB in 1959, as one of the top six graduates. He held junior posts in Iraq, at the Children's and Republic teaching hospitals in Baghdad and at Kut Hospital. He then went to the UK. He held senior house officer posts at Albert Dock Hospital, London, Harold Wood Hospital, London, Leicester Royal Infirmary and Coventry and Warwick Hospital. He then became a registrar at St Cross Hospital, Rugby, in orthopaedics and general surgery, and was subsequently a registrar at Coventry and Warwick Hospital in orthopaedics. In 1973 he became a general practitioner in Coventry and a clinical forensic examiner for the West Midlands police. He resigned from the NHS in 1990, in protest at the imposition of new contracts by the Government, which he felt were not in the interests of patients or doctors. He continued with his police work until January 1999, when he stopped working due to ill health. He officially retired in April 1999. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sports, including cycling, walking, swimming and ballroom dancing. He was also interested in drawing and painting, including watercolours and oils, and car mechanics. He owned several cars. In 1968 he married Madeline Rita, a radiographer, whom he had met at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. They had one son, James William Edward. Peter Shaeena died on 23 April 2011, at the age of 75, from long-standing complications associated with diabetes.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001591
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First Title value, for Searching Wood, William Sealy (1917 - 2012)

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by P G Alley
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2015-05-08
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Occupation General surgeon Police surgeon
Details 'Sealy' (as he was widely known) was born in Randalstown County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He was the only child of William and Agnes Wood. His mother, a New Zealander, was one of the "First 50" nurses to serve in the First World War. She returned to New Zealand with Sealy when he was two years old and able to manage the long sea voyage. Agnes' parents, George and Emma Williams, lived in Hastings where George was the steward at Ormond Estate. It was he who planted the celebrated oak trees in the scenic and much admired Oak Avenue not far from the Hastings Memorial Hospital. Sealy's early life was in Southland, a province of which he was fiercely proud. His mother Agnes ran a private medical and surgical hospital - Carnsmore - in Invercargill. He was Dux of Waihopai primary school and had an excellent academic and sporting career at Southland Boys High School. He gained a University Scholarship, captained the schools elevens in both hockey and cricket and passed his ATCL in violin. He entered Otago Medical School in 1935 graduating in 1940 after a final year in Auckland. He was soon involved, as all young graduates were, in the turmoil of the Second World War. He saw service in Egypt, Italy, and New Caledonia (2NZEFIP August 1943-1944, 2NZcon, Depot and Kalavere Hospital). He was commissioned in 1942 rising eventually to the rank of Captain. He was also the senior medical officer at Linton Army Camp in the last days of the war. In 1946 he made a personal representation to Lord Bernard Freyberg, then commander in chief of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Sealy pointed out that the famous "Kiwi" rugby team, comprising forces personnel, had had the blessing of the government and the same should be extended to hockey players. Freyberg agreed and Sealy led a very successful team of 2NZEF military hockey players on a tour of Sri Lanka and India. Sealy returned to London for surgical training at prestigious London Hospitals gaining his English Fellowship in Surgery in 1948. In 1947 he met and married the enduring love of his life - Elizabeth Doreen Williams. Doreen, as she was always known, was a trained nurse with a strong Welsh background. Sealy and Doreen returned to New Zealand in 1949 where he took up a position as full time surgeon at Green Lane Hospital. This was the beginning of a nearly 35 year association with this institution. He was integral to a wide ranging and impressive list of achievements in general surgery. He pioneered endoscopy, upper gastro-intestinal surgery and was the first licensed anatomist in Auckland running anatomy courses from the Stevenson laboratory at Green Lane. From that laboratory he convened, as honorary lecturer in anatomy, an outstanding basic medical sciences course for RACS candidates. In the community he was a senior police surgeon for many years, the visiting surgeon to Paremoremo maximum security prison and had a flourishing and vigorous private practice. He is perhaps best remembered for his work with the order of St John rising from Brigade Surgeon in 1954 to Knight of Grace in 1980. Medical students of the time remember his first aid afternoons organised with military precision through up to twenty clinical stations. He served on the Medical Council of New Zealand education committee and was an external examiner in surgery for the Otago University and the Fiji School of Medicine. He published many articles in both academic journals and the popular press and did some of the earliest research into the effects of blood alcohol levels on driving ability. His commitment to the Australasian College (he was FRACS by examination in 1952) was impressive. He served on the New Zealand committee from 1962 to 1972 and was a member of the Court of Examiners from 1965 to 1975. He was awarded the College medal for these services in 1979. If that were not enough he still found time to perform as a mandolin player for the Auckland Balkan Folk orchestra and the Mandolinata Orchestra. An accomplished violinist, many remember his playing at the dinner parties Doreen and he hosted at his home in Mountain Road Epsom. He gave freely of his time to the Auckland Hockey association and played golf to a single figure handicap, holing out in one on a number of occasions. He was an avid tramper and mountaineer and in 1978 successfully conquered the Copeland Pass of the Southern Alps. In 1978 he was honoured with an OBE for, as his citation reads, "For services to medicine and the community". I was fortunate to know him as a teacher (both as an undergraduate and a training registrar) and, from 1977, as a colleague when we were teamed together at Green Lane. His clinical acumen was outstanding and his operative techniques accurate and almost always near bloodless. His grasp of anatomy was excellent and his surgical strategies always contemporary. His capacity for difficult and time consuming procedures remained undiminished until he retired from clinical practice in 1983. His semi-retirement involved work with the Rehabilitation League and as a medical officer for the War Pension Board. No returned soldier could wish for a more effective and strong advocate for their cause. Thereafter he enjoyed a long non-medical retirement with Doreen until they were finally parted by her death in 2004. He is survived by his three children - John, David and Elaine, and their children Amanda, Christopher, Matthew, Stephen and Sarah. He had one great grand-daughter Ellena. His family and a host of friends gathered at St Mark's church in Remuera to celebrate his long and productive life. His closest should be comforted in the knowledge that such a remarkable man and talented surgeon will be remembered for many years to come. The assistance of Elaine, Sealy's daughter and Mr Keith Ewen FRACS, a long time friend and colleague of Sealy, is gratefully acknowledged.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005465
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First Title value, for Searching Churcher, Duncan Gillard (1894 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation General practitioner Physician Police surgeon
Details Duncan Gillard Churcher was born at Dunoon, Scotland, on 4 October 1894, one of six children of Dr Thomas Churcher, a medical missionary, and Margaret, née Robertson, an Edinburgh trained nurse. He was educated at the City of London School and obtained a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital which he represented at rugger during his student days as well as playing for the Surrey team. He qualified a year early with MRCS, LRCP in 1917 in order to serve with the Royal Navy, hunting submarines off the coast of Ireland. At the end of the war he returned to St Thomas's Hospital and passed both the final MB BS and the FRCS in 1920. Two years later he passed the London MD and was appointed surgical registrar at St Thomas's Hospital, a post normally reserved for those expecting a consultant appointment there. Hitherto his education had been funded by scholarships but he was unable to continue in an honorary capacity and accepted an appointment as inspector in the Sudan Medical Service for several years before returning to general practice in England, initially at Tarporley and later at Eastbourne. He wanted to join the surgical staff at Princess Alice Hospital but as no surgical vacancy was expected for some years he applied for a post as physician and served on the consultant staff in that capacity from 1926 to 1959. In addition he served as doctor to the Eastbourne lifeboat and as police surgeon; he also looked after the royal household when King George V convalesced at Eastbourne. After retiring from his post as consultant physician at the age of 65 he returned to general practice and continued as police surgeon until 1975. His relaxation came from the sea and he spent many hours on the Eastbourne lifeboat. In 1940 the SS *Barnhill* was bombed and set on fire in the English Channel. Although it was thought that all survivors had been taken off, the ship's bell was heard and the lifeboat was launched once again, Churcher leapt on to the ship and found the severely injured captain ringing the bell with his teeth. After his rescue the man made a good recovery returning to service at sea. He died on 13 July 1983, survived by his wife Nancy, a medical practitioner, and by five children, two being consultants, one a general practitioner and one a nurse.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007150
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