Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Radiologist

First Title value, for Searching Heafield, Richard John (1962 - 2018)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-20 2021-11-11
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Richard John Heafield was born on 25 April 1962, the son of Peter John Heafield and his wife Betty Jean. He qualified in MB, BS in 1962 and passed the fellowship of the college in 1990, becoming a consultant radiologist at Torbay Hospital. He died of mesothelioma on 25 August 2018, aged 56 and was survived by his partner, Carol, children, Christian and William and brothers, David and Mark.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009535
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First Title value, for Searching Whittle, Richard John Miller (1924 - 2011)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2014-04-07
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Richard John Miller Whittle was a consultant radiologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He gained his FRCS in 1953. He died on 30 March 2011 after a long illness. He was 86. He was survived by his wife Pamela.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001886
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First Title value, for Searching McIvor, James (1936 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-08-11
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Occupation Radiologist
Details James McIvor was a director of radiology at Charing Cross 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: E010414
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First Title value, for Searching Beetham, Frederick Guy Trevor (1922 - 1999)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-12-18
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Frederick Guy Trevor Beetham was born on 17 July in 1922. He studied medicine in New Zealand, graduating MB, ChB in 1946 before travelling to the UK. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1952 and the diploma in medicine and radiology the same year. Returning to New Zealand, he became a consultant radiologist at the Wellington Hospital. He died in 1999 in his 77th year.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009675
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Frank Curnow (1927 - 2015)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-11-02 2020-07-02
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Frank Curnow Jones was a radiologist in Victoria, Australia. He was born in Victoria on 4 April 1927, the son of Garndiffith Jones, known as Gary, and Lina Estelle Jones née Curnow, known as Elsie. He studied medicine at Melbourne University and qualified in 1957. He went to the UK for further training and gained his FRCS in 1966. He returned to Victoria, where he specialised in radiology. He retired in 2005. In 1963, he married Jill Condon in London. They had two sons, Carl and Paul. Predeceased by his wife, Frank Curnow Jones died on 22 December 2015 in Melbourne. He was 88.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009371
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First Title value, for Searching Johnson, Ann Elizabeth (1923 - 2018)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-08-05
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Occupation Breast surgeon Radiologist
Details Ann Elizabeth Johnson studied medicine at London University and graduated MB, BS in 1965. She passed the fellowship of the college in 1960. In 1965 she obtained the diploma in medical radiology technology from University College Hospital Medical School and, ten years later, became a fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists. She was an honorary consultant surgical oncologist at the Breast Study Centre, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood and a member of a research sub-committee of the UK Breast Cancer Coalition. She was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. She died on 1 January 2018 aged 94.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009634
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First Title value, for Searching Howson, John Edward (1924 - 2005)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-11-25
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Occupation Radiologist
Details John Howson was a radiologist in Morwell, Victoria, 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
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First Title value, for Searching Dundee, Douglas James (1929 - 2018)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-10-19
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Douglas Dundee was radiologist in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was born on 31 May 1929 and brought up in Regina, Saskatchewan. His father, Samuel Dundee, who was originally from Ireland, was an auditor for the provincial government. His mother was Katherine Dundee, whose father was from Russia. Dundee gained an MD from the University of Manitoba in 1954. In the same year he became a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan. He went to the UK for further training in 1957 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England two years later. He returned to Canada and settled in Vancouver. He was a former president of the British Columbia Radiological Society. He had a strong religious faith, an inquiring intellect and an appetite for world travel. In 1955 he married a fellow medical student, Yvonne Elizabeth Duncan. They had two sons, Michael and David. Yvonne predeceased him in 2014. Dundee died on 18 August 2018. He was 89.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009823
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First Title value, for Searching Shepherd, David Francis Charles (1944 - 2021)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-04-04
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Occupation Radiologist
Details David Francis Charles Shepherd was a consultant interventional radiologist at the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010103
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First Title value, for Searching Burrows, Frederick George Osborn (1924 - 2019)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-10-19
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Frederick George Osborne Burrows was a consultant radiologist for Birmingham Central Health District. He was born in Stranorlar, County Donegal, Ireland in 1924. He studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin and qualified in 1949. He gained his FRCS in 1954 and then focused on radiology. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a registrar and senior registrar in radiology at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, a registrar in radiology for the United Birmingham Hospitals and a senior registrar in radiodiagnostics for the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board. He was a fellow of the Faculty of Radiologists and a member of the European Society of Paediatric Radiologists. He wrote papers on diagnostic radiology. In 1955 he married Patricia Keeley. In his retirement he painted oil and watercolour paintings. Burrows died on 29 December 2019 in Birmingham. He was 95.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009809
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First Title value, for Searching Burton, Ross Fordyce (1922 - 2012)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-08-12
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Occupation Radiologist Radiotherapist
Details Ross Fordyce Burton, known as ‘Peter’, was a consultant radiotherapist in Auckland, New Zealand. He was born on 19 September 1922 in Auckland, New Zealand, the son of Percy Robert Burton, a school principal, and Millicent Evaline Burton née French. He attended school in Opotiki, then at Brixton Road School in Mount Eden, Auckland and at Mount Albert Grammar, where he played tennis, cricket and football and gained a university scholarship. He spent a preliminary year at Auckland University and then went on to Otago Medical School, where he spent five years, qualifying in 1946. He became an anatomy demonstrator and was a teacher in the anatomy department. He was subsequently a house surgeon at the Mater Misercordiae and Middlemore hospitals in Auckland. In 1949 he went to London where he studied for his FRCS, which he gained in 1953. During his time in London he was a locum casualty officer at the Royal Northern Hospital. He also spent time in Cambridge, where he trained in radiotherapy. He returned to Auckland in 1954 and began working as a radiotherapist at Auckland Hospital. Five years later he became the head of the department. He retired in 1987. During his retirement he played golf and farmed sheep. He was married to Leonore. He had two sons, Peter and Simon, and two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Lea Thomas, Michael ( - 1992)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Michael Lea Thomas, who was elected to the Fellowship in 1989, was a distinguished radiologist. He received his medical education at Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. After qualifying in 1952 he spent some time in junior posts at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and St Stephens Hospital, London, before specialising in radiology and becoming a registrar in the department of radiology at St Thomas's Hospital, afterwards becoming consultant radiologist there. He published papers on phlebography and venous thromboembolism. He died in 1992.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008136
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First Title value, for Searching James, Peter Ashman (1921 - 2013)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2015-11-20
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Occupation Radiologist Thoracic surgeon
Details Peter James was a consultant thoracic surgeon in Uganda and latterly a consultant radiologist at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. He was born on 19 September 1921 in Nailsea, north Somerset, the son of Walter Ashman, a chartered surveyor, and Hilda Ashman née Kitley, a nurse who had served at sea with the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service during the First World War. He was educated at St Goar's School, Bristol, and at Bristol Grammar School, where he was a Peloquin scholar. He then studied medicine at Bristol University, gaining his MB ChB in 1943. He was a house surgeon to Arthur Rendle Short in Bristol and then, between 1944 and 1947, he was a captain in the RAMC, mainly with the 7th Indian Parachute Field Ambulance. After the war, he trained in Bristol, Gloucester and Newport as a general surgeon, and then at Morriston, Brompton and Great Ormond Street hospitals as a thoracic surgeon. From 1960 to 1967 he was a consultant thoracic surgeon in Uganda and an honorary lecturer at the University of East Africa. He was a member of the council of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa and president from 1965 to 1966. He was also a member of the Advisory Committee on Medical Education in East Africa in 1966. He was awarded an MBE in May 1963. In 1967 he left Uganda, re-trained in Canada and Bristol as a diagnostic radiologist, and was appointed as a consultant in radiology for the Manchester teaching area at Wythenshawe Chest Hospital and Manchester Chest Clinic. He wrote various papers on tuberculosis and medical education and contributed a chapter on thoracic surgery to *Companion to surgery in Africa, etc* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone, 1968). Outside medicine, he enjoyed sailing, bridge, driving, flying and competitive bowls. He died on 23 May 2013 in Southbourne, aged 91. He was survived by his widow Jean James (née Tregear), a former dermatologist, whom he had married in 1947.
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First Title value, for Searching Murray, Eric Taylor (1922 - 2001)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Eric Murray studied medicine in Aberdeen, qualifying in 1944. After junior posts, he did his National Service, and afterwards worked as a registrar on rotation at Luton and Dunstable, the Central Middlesex and the Royal Free Hospitals. In 1959, he was appointed consultant surgeon initially at Tilbury and Billericay, and then at Basildon, Orsett and Brentwood Nuffield Hospitals. In 1977, he suffered a major heart attack, and became a part-time radiologist at Basildon until he retired in 1983. He was a keen golfer, achieving a hole in one, for which his club awarded him a special tie. He married his wife Laurie, who predeceased him. They had three sons. There are four grandchildren. He died from left ventricular failure on 11 April 2001.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008806
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First Title value, for Searching Stoker, Dennis James (1928 - 2017)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Ruth Green
Publication Date 2019-03-04
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Dennis Stoker was a consultant radiologist at the Royal National Orthopaedic and St George’s hospitals, London. He was born in London, the son of George Morris Stoker, a general practitioner, and Elsie Margaret ‘Peggy’ Stoker née McQueen. He was educated at Oundle School and then studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1951. After house posts at Guy’s, from 1952 to 1968 he was a physician in the medical branch of the Royal Air Force, the last four years as a consultant physician, retiring with the rank of wing commander. He then retrained as a radiologist, and in 1972 became a consultant in radiology, initially jointly at St George’s Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and then full-time at the latter hospital. He retired in 1993, but returned to work at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital from 1997 to 2002. He was considered to be the doyen of British musculoskeletal radiology in the 1980s and 1990s, and was acknowledged as a true connoisseur of the interpretation of bone radiographs. Dennis contributed both nationally and internationally, generously imparting his knowledge to several generations of radiologists. He was dean of the Institute of Orthopaedics, University College London, from 1987 to 1990. Dennis published numerous papers, initially as a physician, but most notably as a musculoskeletal radiologist. He also authored and co-edited several books, including the third edition of *The radiology of skeletal disorders: exercises in diagnosis* (Churchill Livingstone, 1990). He was the main instigator and one of the founders in 1985 of the British Society of Skeletal Radiologists, and was made an honorary member of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology in 1993. Invited to be a member of the International Skeletal Society, he contributed well into his retirement. He was editor of the society’s journal *Skeletal Radiology* from 1984 to 1996. Dennis became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1976. At the Royal College of Radiologists, he was a council member, dean of the faculty of clinical radiology and vice president from 1989 to 1991. He was awarded the Knox medal of the Royal College of Radiologists in 1992. He was also vice president of the radiology section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1978 to 1980. Dennis’ interests outside radiology included his own family genealogy, medical history, philology and gardening. He married Anne Forster in 1951 (who sadly predeceased him), with whom he had four children – Claire, Philip, Neil and Catherine – eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren. He remarried in 1999 and was survived by his second wife, Sheila. I feel privileged to have known Dennis and will always value the knowledge he imparted.
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First Title value, for Searching Brock, Lawrence Gordon (1923 - 1996)

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First Title value, for Searching Ross, William Mackie (1922 - 2011)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-11 2014-06-06
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Occupation Radiologist
Details William Mackie 'Bill' Ross was head of radiotherapy at Newcastle General Hospital and a former president of the Royal College of Radiologists. He was born in Glasgow on 14 December 1922. His father, Harry Caithness Ross, was a professional golfer in Durham; his mother, Catherine Ross née Mackie, was the daughter of a gardener. Ross was educated at Neville's Cross Primary School and then Durham Johnston School, where he gained a state scholarship to study medicine at King's College, University of Durham. He qualified MB BS in 1945, after following the shortened wartime course. He held house surgeon and house physician posts at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, and was subsequently a registrar and then a senior registrar in radiotherapy at Shotley Bridge Hospital. He gained his diploma in radiotherapy in 1948. During his training he was particularly influenced by John Hamilton Barclay and Christopher John Lester Thurgar. From 1951 to 1953, he carried out his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, as a specialist in radiology to the British troops in Austria. In 1953 he was appointed as a consultant in radiotherapy in Newcastle, and continued in this post until his retirement in 1987. From 1973 he was consultant in charge of the Northern Regional Radiotherapy Centre, and also an honorary lecturer and head of the department of radiotherapy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was also chairman of the medical staff committee at Newcastle. During his long association with radiotherapy at Newcastle, Ross helped ensure an effective service was delivered to patients in all parts of the region, in particular to the more peripheral districts. To this end, he was instrumental in developing smaller units in Cleveland and Cumbria, which retained links to the larger Newcastle base. Throughout his career, Ross was involved in clinical trials, including the King's/Cambridge breast cancer trial and the British National Lymphoma Investigation. With the backing of the North of England Cancer Research Campaign, he also developed an oncology centre at Newcastle General Hospital. Ross was president of the northern council of the BMA (on two occasions), president of the British Institute of Radiology, the section of radiotherapy of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the North of England Surgical Society. From 1983 to 1986 he was president of the Royal College of Radiologists. He then became secretary of the Conference of Medical Royal Colleges (later to become the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges). From 1985 to 1989, Ross was chairman of section of radiotherapy of the European Association of Radiology (EAR). He then became treasurer of EAR, remaining in post through the organisation's transition to become the European Society of Radiology and during the establishment of the European Congress of Radiology. In 1993 he was awarded the Society's Boris Rajewsky medal. Ross served with distinction in the Territorial Army, becoming an honorary colonel in charge of 201(N) General Hospital. Outside medicine, he enjoyed car rallying. He was a member of local motor clubs, and a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists. Once he retired and had returned to Durham, he joined the local branches of Probus and the National Trust. In April 1948 he married Mary Burt, a primary schoolteacher. They had three children - Heather, Hilary and Duncan - and five grandchildren. They celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in 2008, but Mary died later that same year, in November. William Mackie Ross died on 15 March 2011, aged 88, after a short illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Steiner, Robert Emil (1918 - 2013)

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by Thomas Sherwood
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2015-12-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376977376977
Occupation Radiologist
Details Robert Steiner was professor of diagnostic radiology at the University of London, and the outstanding British radiologist of the second half of the 20th century. Born in Prague, the son of Rudolf Maxmilian Steiner, a banker, and Clary Steiner née Nordlinger, he was forced to leave his studies at the University of Vienna and emigrate to Ireland. He studied medicine in Dublin, and qualified in 1941. He then held a series of junior posts in the Emergency Medical Service, including at Macclesfield and at Winwick, where he was a registrar in surgery. From 1943 he was a registrar and then senior registrar at Sheffield Royal Infirmary. In 1950 he joined the staff of Hammersmith Hospital, London, as a lecturer and honorary consultant, eventually becoming professor of diagnostic radiology. At Hammersmith he completely revolutionised the radiology department, making it the envy of the world, although at that time this success was based on the skills and aptitudes of the staff and Robert's inspired leadership, rather than the technical facilities. The department was later described by the *British Medical Journal* as a 'beacon light' in British radiology, where service to patients, teaching and research were of equal importance. Fame of this unique endeavour spread rapidly, attracting enthusiastic trainees in radiology, as well as many visitors from abroad. In the department he pioneered clinical-radiological meetings, where clinicians would start their day in the radiology department before seeing their patients. These were the forerunners of the now prevalent multidisciplinary meetings. His own research work was mainly related to the cardiovascular system. Angiography was one of the rapidly developing subspecialties at the time and teamwork was essential in the days of spring-loaded cassettes and wet film processing. Needless to say, Robert extracted 110% from each and every member of staff by means of his own infectious enthusiasm. His publications were prodigious and his educational contribution was immense. He published well over 200 medical papers and books. The *Recent advances in radiology* (Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone) volumes, which he edited, were essential reading in the 1970s and 1980s. His book *Clinical disorders of the pulmonary circulation* (London, J & A Churchill, 1960), written with R Daley and John F Goodwin, still makes good reading today. As editor of the *British Journal of Radiology* he had great insight into what was going on in other areas within radiology. He was awarded many honours, including gold medals from the Royal College of Radiologists and the European Society of Radiology. He was president of the British Institute of Radiology from 1972 to 1973, and warden and then president of the Royal College of Radiologists from 1977 to 1980. Even after his retirement (in 1983) he continued to be active, in the new discipline of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), at the Hammersmith Centre named after him. The pioneering Hammersmith contributions to magnetic resonance imaging gave him immense and very justifiable pride. Robert Steiner was, quite simply, the outstanding British academic radiologist of his era, who was responsible for developing the careers of hundreds of radiologists. Partly because of his own European roots and partly due to his love for disseminating good practice, he was extremely supportive to visitors from home and abroad and his antennae embraced the entire radiological world. He changed radiology very much for the good. He was survived by his wife, Gertrude Margaret (née Konirsch) and their two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Lodge, Sir Thomas (1909 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-17
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Thomas Lodge was a consultant radiologist at Sheffield and a former President of the Faculty of Radiologists. He was born in Sheffield on 25 November 1909, the son of James Lodge, a cutlery manufacturer, and Margaret Lowery. He was educated at the Central Secondary School, Sheffield, from which he won the Edgar Allen scholarship to the University of Sheffield. After qualifying, he did a number of junior jobs at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, before specialising in radiology. He was radiological registrar at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, first assistant at the Royal Sheffield Infirmary and Hospital, and was appointed consultant radiologist to the United Sheffield Hospitals. He was much influenced by Sir Ernest Finch and Sir Geoffrey Jefferson. Thomas Lodge published extensively on radiological topics, was President of the Faculty of Radiologists, and a co-opted member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1963 to 1968. He married Aileen née Corduff in 1940. They had one son, Anton, and a daughter, Creenagh, neither of whom took up medicine. He died suddenly on 16 February 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Gunderson, Ralph Waldo (1914 - 1962)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377721377721
Occupation Radiologist
Details Graduating in engineering at London University in 1933, he later entered the medical school of the Middlesex Hospital, qualifying in 1938. He held a house surgeon's appointment at the West London Hospital and then became resident medical officer at the Radium Institute in 1931. In 1939 he joined the RAMC and was captured in the evacuation of France in 1940, spending the rest of the war as a prisoner. On his return to England after the defeat of Germany, he was appointed assistant radio-therapist at the Middlesex Hospital, being seconded for six months to the Fondation Curie in Paris. In 1949 he was appointed consultant radio-therapist to the Portsmouth Group of hospitals and established a clinic equipped with two 2000-curie cobalt units. He was fluent in French and German, frank, fearless and full of energy and drive, a bonny fighter not easily thwarted of his legitimate objectives. Gunderson died suddenly at the age of 48, while on holiday in Italy, on 14 February 1962. A memorial service was held in Portsmouth Cathedral on 28 February 1962. He was married only a short time before he died.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005538
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First Title value, for Searching McEwan, Irene Margaret Stanford (1925 - 2000)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation Radiologist Radiotherapist
Details Irene Margaret Stanford McEwan née Cade was a consultant radiologist in Portsmouth. She was born in London on 15 January 1925, the second daughter of Sir Stanford Cade, the surgeon, and Margaret Hester née Agate, the daughter of the organist at Paisley Abbey. Irene was educated at Queen's College, Harley Street, Aylesbury College and Malvern Girls' College. She studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, where she won the Gwendolynne Lynn prize in surgery. She did house appointments at the Royal Free, East Ham Memorial Hospital, the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton and Great Ormond Street. Attracted to her father's specialty, she studied hypophysectomy for carcinoma of the breast and prostate, making this the subject of her MS thesis in 1959. Later she qualified in radiotherapy and was appointed consultant radiotherapist in Portsmouth in 1962, where she became an exponent of megavoltage therapy in hyperbaric oxygen. She died on 28 November 2000.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008773
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First Title value, for Searching Box, William John Oldfield (1924 - 2002)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Radiologist
Details William Box was born on 1 December 1924, in Hampstead, London. His parents were William J O Box, a caterer, and Dorothea, née Green, a model. He was educated at Hilltop Hall School, Seaford, Haileybury, Trinity College, Dublin, and Edinburgh. After qualifying, he worked in junior surgical posts in Chertsey, Harrow, Exeter and West Africa. Having obtained Fellowships from both the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and England, he decided to train as a radiologist at University College London. He then took up a consultant post in Stratford, Leamington Spa and Warwick. He retired in 1989. He married a fellow doctor, Susan Helen Poynder, in June 1969. They had three children, Mary, William and Louisa. Sadly Susan died in 1978. He married for a second time, to Ann, in 1983. He was a skilled cabinet maker, and enjoyed making beautiful pieces of furniture in his workshop. He died on 25 October 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Kendall, Brian Ernest (1929 - 2015)

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by Garry Kendall
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2016-07-08
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Occupation Neuroradiologist Radiologist
Details Brian Kendall was director of the Lysholm department of radiology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London. He was born in Bolton, Lancashire, the son of Gilbert Kendall, a tanner, and Elsie Kendall née Holt. Aged seven, following the death of his mother, his family moved to Limerick in Ireland. He went to boarding school at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, where he earned himself a scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin. There he excelled both academically and on the playing fields, as a middle distance runner, rugby player and competitive swimmer. After he qualified, he moved to London in early 1954 to continue his training. He had originally intended to pursue a career in paediatrics, but unfortunately he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis. He was advised that he would not be allowed to have direct patient contact for two years. So, with a young family to support and not wishing to put his career on hold, he transferred his training to radiology. In 1962 he obtained his first consultant radiologist post at the London Chest Hospital (a post he held until 1968). In 1964, he was appointed to the Middlesex Hospital staff, where he started to specialise in neuroradiology. Soon after this appointment, he went to Oslo in Norway for three months to get further training in this area. In 1967 he was appointed as a consultant at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Maida Vale. He continued there until, in 1974, he obtained a place in the Lysholm department of radiology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square. In 1975 he obtained a further post at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. He continued these posts until his 'retirement' in 1994, aged 65. Post-retirement he not only returned to the Middlesex Hospital, but also took a post at the Royal Free Hospital, where he continued training radiologists and doing interventional neuroradiology until 2009, when, at the age of 79, he finally stopped clinical work. Brian Kendall was fortunate to enter the field of radiology at a time when technological advances were set to transform the specialty. These opportunities he exploited to the best of his ability. He was dedicated to all areas of his work, both clinical and academic. He researched extensively in the fields of angiography, CT scanning and MRI, and was a pioneer in interventional neuroradiology. He was recognised as a world-leading diagnostic, paediatric, neonatal and interventional neuroradiologist. In 1977 he was awarded the Barclay prize by the British Institute of Radiology. In 1979 and 1981, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1988, he received the Barclay medal for original contributions in neuroradiology, also from the British Institute of Radiology. In 1984 he became director of the Lysholm department of radiology and, in conjunction with two other colleagues, helped make the department one of the most well-known throughout Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. He had a passion and enthusiasm for his work that he never lost up to the day he died. He loved teaching and trained a considerable number of neuroradiologists, many of whom attained leading positions in the field later on. Those he worked with have variously described him as a wonderful colleague with a quiet but commanding presence, a man of incredible intellect, a brilliant medical expert, a kind and courteous man with a very British sense of humour, an excellent teacher and a great inspiration. After retirement at age 65, in addition to his honorary appointments, he also started to develop his medico-legal practice. Here he continued to use his expertise and energy as an expert witness in medico-legal cases. His views were completely respected by medical and legal practitioners on both sides; he was described as fair, thoughtful, kind and, above all else, seemingly always right. He continued his medico-legal work until his death. Brian Kendall was a loving husband and father. In 1954 he married Sylvia Leslie Eugenie née Tyler, a fellow doctor, whom he had met whilst at Trinity College, Dublin. Sadly, his wife unexpectedly and prematurely passed away in 1996, age 67. He was survived by his son and three daughters, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Redding, John Magnus (1889 - 1930)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Born 19 July 1889 the eldest son and second child of John Howard Douglas Redding, MOH for the Huntingdon Urban District Council, who practised at Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, and Edith Mary Kelly, his wife. J M Redding was educated at Beaumont College, Old Windsor, 1903-07, and then began his medical education at Charing Cross Hospital. Here he was house surgeon and casualty officer, subsequently becoming house surgeon and clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. At the Chelsea Hospital for Women he was registrar during the years 1914 and 1915. He received a commission as temporary lieutenant, RAMC on 3 January 1916, and was promoted captain on 3 January 1917. He served in the line in France until October 1917, when he was operated upon at a casualty clearing station for a perforated duodenal ulcer. He was invalided home, and early in 1918 was attached to the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot. He then acted as clinical assistant in the x-ray and electrical department at Charing Cross Hospital, and in 1920 was appointed senior surgical radiologist at Guy's Hospital. He married in 1915 Florence Jones, and died in Guy's Hospital on 18 March 1930. Redding's career was spoilt by the sequelae of the perforated duodenal ulcer, for he was in constant pain which he bore bravely. Publications: *X-ray diagnosis, a manual*. London, 1926. *Aids to electro-therapeutics*. London, 1929. X-ray diagnosis, in Choyce's *System of surgery*, 3rd edition, 1932,1, 601. X-ray diagnosis of gastric ulcer, *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1921-22, 15, Medicine section, p. 8. Edited W I Bruce's *A system of radiography*, 2nd edition, London, 1924.
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First Title value, for Searching Lomas, Alan Lionel (1917 - 1985)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Alan Lionel Lomas graduated from the medical school in the University of Otago in 1938 at the age of 21 and for part of 1939 was house surgeon at New Plymouth General Hospital before joining the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at the beginning of the war. He served in the Western Desert and was awarded the Military Cross in 1942, the first New Zealand medical officer to be so decorated in the second world war. He was also mentioned in despatches on three occasions while serving in the Western Desert, Greece and Crete. Returning to New Zealand at the end of hostilities he became surgical registrar at New Plymouth Hospital before coming to England in 1947 to take the FRCS. On his return home he became senior surgical registrar at Auckland Hospital until he was appointed visiting surgeon at Hamilton and Waikato Hospitals in 1952. His main interest was in the treatment of malignant disease and he soon built up a busy public and private surgical practice. He recognised however that the development of a cancer unit required radiotherapeutic and oncological expertise and therefore resigned his hospital appointments in order to spend two years at the Royal Marsden Hospital studying physics and radiotherapy as well as passing the DMRT. On his return to New Zealand he set up a high quality radiotherapy department recognised by his admission as a member of the Royal Australasian College of Radiologists in 1972 and election to the Fellowship in 1984. He died on 18 May 1985, aged 68, and is survived by his wife, three sons and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Craig, James Oscar Max Clark (1927 - 2020)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Caroline Rubin
Publication Date 2020-08-12
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Oscar Craig was a consultant radiologist and honorary senior clinical lecturer at St Mary’s Hospital, London and a former president of the Royal College of Radiologists. He was born on 7 May 1927, the son of James Oscar Max Clark Craig and Olivia Craig. He qualified in Dublin in 1950 and immediately moved to London. After a short period in general practice, Oscar spent two years in the RAF from 1954 to 1956 and was then a senior house officer in surgery at Hammersmith Hospital and subsequently a register and senior registrar in the department of radiology at St Mary’s Hospital, London. In 1963, he was appointed as a consultant radiologist at St Mary’s Hospital and a lecturer in radiology (a senior lecturer from 1987). He served as honorary president of the British Medical Students’ Association. He was a visiting professor to the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, the University of Queensland, Australia, and at Concord Hospital, Sydney, Australia. A flamboyant and popular doctor, he was renowned as an excellent radiological opinion and teacher. He made a major contribution to the medical school, serving as director of clinical studies and postgraduate studies and delivering his immensely popular ‘freshers’ lecture’ from 1970, continuing well into his retirement. In recognition of this he was awarded a lifetime achievement award by Imperial College in 2012. A past dean, Peter Richards, once said: ‘Few people have contributed as much to the spirit, humanity and identity of St Mary’s as has Dr Craig.’ He chaired the cases committee of the Medical Protection Society, dealing with medical litigation, and was a member of council of the Society and the president’s advisory board. He was president of the Royal College of Radiologists from 1989 to 1992, which he loved, delivering numerous invited lectures and after dinner speeches, at which he excelled. Retirement in 1993 brought a new career – writing. He wrote five books – four memoirs and one poetry book. In retirement, he was elected president of the Harveian Society of London. In addition to his love for St Mary’s and radiology, Oscar was very much a family man and committed Christian. Married to Nancy (Louise Burleigh) since their early days at medical school in Dublin, they had four daughters and a happy and fulfilled life together until Nancy’s untimely death in 2008. Oscar was heartbroken but happily met his second wife Gill (Mary Gillian Sprange) and life restarted. Oscar was a friend, mentor and inspiration to generations of medical students at St Mary’s, at King’s College in the Strand, where he delivered a regular lunchtime lecture, and radiologists throughout the world, and will be sorely missed. He died peacefully at home on 5 February 2020 at the age of 92, following a long illness, and was survived by his wife Gill, four daughters, one stepdaughter and fourteen grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Blower, Alan Paske (1927 - 2010)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2012-08-29
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Alan Blower served in the medical branch of the RAF as a consultant surgeon for 17 years, but had to retire on health grounds in 1970. He retrained in radiology, and became a successful and popular consultant at Peterborough. He was born in Greenwich on 31 January 1927, the only son of Thomas Paske Blower, a property owner in Greenwich and Deptford, and his wife Ethel Mary (née Mosses), the widow of a First World War pilot. Alan went to Wellington House School, Westgate, from 1935 to 1940 and for a further five years to Charterhouse for his secondary education. At school he was a good athlete and ran in short-distance races. He studied natural sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he took up rowing, and won the 'freshers' sculls'. Proceeding to Guy's Hospital, he lodged with Sir John Conybeare, author of the eponymous *Textbook of medicine*. This time was not only useful to Blower in terms of training, but also enhanced his social graces. Alan was fortunate to gain house appointments at Guy's Hospital and was greatly influenced by Grant Massie and Sam Wass. He joined the RAF on 30 March 1953 and continued his surgical training, partly under the supervision of W James L Harries, and obtained the FRCS in 1960. The week of negotiating this 'hurdle' was a cause for double celebration: his only son was also born in the same week. He was one of the few RAF surgeons to have a master's degree in surgery. Sadly, he suffered a cerebro-vascular accident due to a vascular malformation: this resulted in some loss of use in his right hand. He was forced abandon any thought of a promising career in surgery and took up radiology, having gained the relevant diploma. He made a remarkable recovery from his stroke and took up windsurfing to keep himself fit. Alan Blower became a consultant radiologist in Peterborough, where he was welcomed with open arms by the clinicians, as he took on the task of modernising the department. He transformed the radiology department from a 'read film only' service to a very active one in the clinical arena. He introduced arteriography and supported his urologist colleague, Alan Turner, in the use of plain film and ultrasound instead of IVP (intravenous pyelogram) in the investigation of prostatic problems. Ultrasound in obstetrics was introduced, as were many other innovations in diagnostic radiology. When CT scans were required, he was part of a group setting up a local fund to secure the equipment and was personally responsible for getting a mobile breast screening unit into the area. He also installed equipment in his own home for use in private practice and was popular with GPs in the area because he had his own portable X-ray machine. Alan Blower underwent successful treatment of a bladder cancer and, after undergoing carotid endarterectomy in Peterborough, he surprised everyone by recuperating in Spain three weeks after surgery. Although he retired from the NHS in 1992, Alan Blower continued to work as a locum in Peterborough and other East Anglian areas for many years thereafter. Although he was very active in his hospital work and a loyal and approachable colleague to clinicians of many specialties and general practitioners, in his spare time he pursued many hobbies. He was a member of a shooting syndicate in Stapleford Park and with his family he sailed a fireball boat on Rutland water. Up to 2007, he and his wife fished in Scotland on many rivers. Alan also took up golf again when new courses opened in the Peterborough area. Although his mobility deteriorated over the years, he played down any disability by using a golf buggy. In more sedentary moments he was a competent watercolour artist. He was active up to two weeks before his death on 9 March 2010 and was survived his wife Jean née Brodie, a Guy's trained theatre nurse, whom he had married in 1953, their three daughters, Amanda, Susan and Charlotte, and son, David Charles, 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Blomfield, George Wills (1904 - 1964)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist Radiologist
Details Born at Pontefract on 12 September 1904, the son of a general practitioner, George Blomfield was educated at Malvern and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in the mechanical sciences tripos. Despite his gift for mathematics and mechanical science he was, after three years as a marine engineer in Sunderland, attracted to medicine, which he studied at Leeds, and graduated MB, ChB in 1933, taking the Conjoint diploma in the same year. Obstetrics and gynaecology were his first care, and he filled a number of posts including that of tutor in obstetrics (1936-40) at Leeds. Radiotherapy interested him and, after a period as director of the radium department in Leeds General Infirmary, he succeeded Frank Ellis in 1943 as medical director of the Sheffield National Centre for Radiotherapy. He chose to concentrate his interests and exploit his special clinical background, and from this emerged the "Sheffield" system of treatment of carcinoma of the cervix, and of the bladder. In 1957-58 he was vice-president of the Faculty of Radiologists; he had been on the Council of the British Institute of Radiology, and in 1963 became president of the Sheffield Medico-Chirurgical Society. He was lecturer in radiotherapy at the University of Sheffield, and a member of the Cancer and Radiotherapy Advisory Committee of the Central Health Services Council. His recreations were skiing, skating, swimming, and mountain climbing, and he held a glider-pilot's certificate. Photography, astronomy, and painting were also among his interests. George Blomfield married Mary daughter of William Gough, professor of obstetrics at Leeds. They lived at 29 Taptonville Road, Sheffield; he died in the Royal Hospital, after a short illness, on 5 July 1964, aged 59, survived by his wife, four sons and a daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Officer, George Derek (1931 - 1976)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-18
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Occupation Radiologist
Details George Derek Officer was a Lancastrian by birth, but later went to King's School, Macclesfield, where he became captain of the school and captain of rugby. In 1955 he graduated in medicine at Birmingham University with honours in obstetrics and gynaecology. From 1956-1958, during his national service, he served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry at York Military Hospital. After house jobs in the United Birmingham Hospitals, he became a temporary lecturer in anatomy at the Birmingham Medical School and then served at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton, where he was surgical registrar. His interests, however, brought him to radiology and he began his training in September 1962 at the United Birmingham Hospitals, becoming a registrar in 1963 and a senior registrar in 1966. At the end of that year he was appointed consultant radiologist to Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada, where he gained valuable experience, especially in the field of diagnostic radiology relating to radiotherapy and oncology. His interest in lymphography resulted in a joint paper in *Clinical radiology*. He returned from Canada in 1967 and joined the staff of Dudley Road Hospital at a time when the department was expanding rapidly. He played an important part in the introduction of many of the newer techniques, including a lymphography service, as well as teaching. Many registrars studying for the Fellowship or Membership benefited from his evening tutorials; so too radiographers studying for their qualifications. His interest in teaching extended beyond the department and he was invited to take part in postgraduate courses. Later he was elected to the medical executive committee. He was also interested in the work of the Hospital Consultants' and Specialists' Association and was indefatigable in his efforts to rouse consultant opinion at a vital period. He and his wife, Jane, had one son and daughter. He died on 15 March 1976, aged 45 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Samuel, Eric (1914 - 1997)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Eric Samuel held the Forbes Chair of Medical Radiology at the University of Edinburgh. He was born at Cym Llyn Fell, near Swansea, on 26 August 1914, the son of William Samuel, a mining engineer, and Miriam Jones. He was educated at Ystalyfera Grammar School and the University College of Cardiff, before going to the Middlesex Hospital as the Freeman scholar and graduating with honours in 1936. He swiftly passed the FRCS, gained his MD and his diploma in radiology and was appointed assistant radiotherapist and Duchess of Bedford research scholar at the Middlesex Hospital. During the war he served in general hospitals in the RAMC, and became an adviser in radiology to the Army and officer in charge of the school of radiology at Millbank, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. For his research on war wounds he was awarded the Roentgen award of the British Institute of Radiology in 1945, the bronze star by the United States Army, and the Czechoslovakian order of the White Lion. After the war he was awarded a Nuffield Foundation scholarship in 1946 and in the same year was appointed honorary consultant radiologist to the Middlesex, the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital and the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in London. He decided to emigrate to South Africa, to become radiologist to the South Rand Hospital in Johannesburg, where he established an unrivalled reputation. He was also honorary consultant to the Ministry of Mines and the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit. He returned to Edinburgh in 1958 as consultant in charge of the X-ray department at the Royal Infirmary. He was an adviser in radiology to the Scottish Home and Health Department and in 1967 was made Forbes Professor of Medical Radiology at the University of Edinburgh. He was Vice-President of the Faculty (now the Royal College) of Radiologists from 1961 to 1962, and was the author of six textbooks on radiology. In 1977 he was appointed CBE for his services to medicine. He returned to South Africa and became an associate professor in Pretoria. In 1942 he married Vera Meredith, and they had a son, William, and a daughter. There are four grandchildren. He died of glioblastoma in Johannesburg on 27 April 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Ollerenshaw, Robert George Watson (1912 - 1986)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-02 2017-02-17
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Robert Ollerenshaw was born in Manchester, the son of Robert Ollerenshaw, FRCS, and Florence Eleanor (née Watson). He studied medicine at Oxford and Manchester (clinical studies) graduating in 1938. He had an abiding interest in the Territorial Army and had enlisted as an other rank in the Royal Artillery in 1930. In the second world war he served 1939-1946 in the RAMC in North Africa, Italy and the Middle East and was twice mentioned in despatches. Afterwards he continued with the territorials finally retiring as honorary colonel to 207 (Manchester) General Hospital, RAMC TAVR in 1972. After the war he trained as a radiologist, was appointed clinical lecturer in radiological anatomy in Manchester and then entered the developing field of medical illustration, becoming director of medical illustration, United Manchester Hospital in 1952 and making many significant contributions to his specialty, obtaining awards such as the Renwick Medal, Royal Photographic Society; the Henry Medal, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; and honorary Fellowship, Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1975. Other interests and contributions to the community included St John Ambulance, being Surgeon in Chief from 1966 to 1976, Commander in Greater Manchester from 1976 to 1984, becoming also a Knight of Justice of the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem. His public offices included Honorary Surgeon to the Queen, Magistrate, High Sheriff for Manchester and a deputy lieutenant for the County Palatine of Lancaster. In 1939 he married Kathleen (later Dame) Timpson and they had one son, Charles, and also a daughter, Florence, who predeceased him. He died on 16 October 1986, aged 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Howlett, Edward Henry (1856 - 1930)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376415376415
Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details The third and youngest son of Sir Arthur Howlett, KCB, and Mary Presgrave, his wife, was born in India on 29 September 1856. He was educated at Cranbrook School and Eastbourne College, before entering the Medical School at King's College, London. He served as house surgeon at King's College Hospital in 1877, and was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at the London Hospital in 1879. From 1 October 1880 until 30 September 1882 he was resident surgical officer at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, after which he went for a few months to the Monsall Fever Hospital. He settled in Hull in 1883 and was elected assistant surgeon to the Hull Royal Infirmary in the vacancy caused by the death of Dr Kelburne King, but did not become surgeon until 1897; he was appointed consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1914. He always took an active interest in the affairs of the Infirmary, was for twenty-two years a member of the board of management, and was chairman of the standing medical committee. He was also medical officer at Hull to the General Post Office and to HM Prison, making himself so respected in the latter position that on his death the warders asked to be allowed to act bearers of the coffin. Howlett busied himself, from their first introduction, with X-rays, both experimentally and clinically. He was appointed the first radiologist to the Hull Infirmary and held office until 1922. He married on 3 January 1884 Amy Davinia, only daughter of the Rev Richard Masters Hutchins, MA, of Trinity College, Cambridge, who survived him with two sons: Lieutenant-Colonel E G Howlett, MC, of the 7th Rajput Regiment, and Arthur Stanley Howlett. He died on 8 September 1930. Howlett was at one time an enthusiastic football player; in later life he turned to painting and produced some good work in portraiture and seascape.
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First Title value, for Searching Regaud, Claude François (1870 - 1940)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-26
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Occupation Histologist Radiologist
Details C F Regaud was among the first to study the biological effects of radium and X-rays, and their application to the treatment of cancer. Though not a surgeon he worked closely with surgeons, and always put the resources of his laboratory at their disposal. In recognition of his work in support of surgery he was elected a member and later an honorary member of the Académie de Chirurgie, and an Honorary Fellow of the College. Regaud was born and educated at Lyon, taking the MD in 1897 with a thesis on "The lymphatics of the testicle and the false endothelia of the seminiferous ducts". As a research histologist in the University of Lyon he founded the *Revue générale d'Histologie* (1904) and contributed to its first number a monograph on "The nerve-endings and sensitive organs of the locomotor apparatus". He was called to Paris in 1913 to become the first director of the radio-physiological laboratory founded by Marie Curie in the Radium Institute, with a professorship at the Pasteur Institute, but during the war of 1914-18 he served in the Military Health Service and became director of the School of War Surgery at Bouleuse. He recorded his experiences in a large volume of *Lectures on War Surgery* published in 1918. He was elected to the Académie de Médecine in the Institut de France in 1924, and visited Canada and the United States that year. From 1925 to 1928 he collaborated with A M B Lacassagne in a series of influential researches on the radiotherapy of cancer and the effect of radiation on normal tissues. Their results were published in three technical monographs and a textbook. He later published memoirs of Emile Roux (1933) and of Madame Curie (1934). He had many distinguished pupils. Retiring to Lyon before the second outbreak of war, he died there late in 1940, aged 70, survived by his son. Having been born before the Franco-Prussian war, he had seen his country overrun three times by the Germans. Though somewhat reserved he was always friendly and helpful.
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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, Daniel Hugh (1914 - 1996)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Hugh Campbell was born in Kimberley, South Africa, on 8 January 1914, the son of Robert Hugh Campbell, an electrical engineer who was South African by birth, and Catherine, née Phillips, who was Welsh. The family left South Africa and settled in Britain when Campbell was six years old, and he subsequently obtained dual nationality. He was educated at Llanelly Grammar School and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1939. After house appointments at Willesden General Hospital he was appointed surgical registrar at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 1940, and later served with the RAMC in India as surgical specialist with the rank of major from 1941 until the end of the war. In 1946 he was appointed senior surgical registrar at University College Hospital, but after a serious illness (later diagnosed as multiple sclerosis) he had to give up his intention of pursuing a surgical career. He was one of three doctors at the hospital presenting at the same time with acute transverse myelitis (one of whom, Tom Smith FRCS, died) and he was treated by Sir Francis Walsh, the well-known neurologist. Despite diminished sensation in his hands and feet, he was able to take up diagnostic radiology and was appointed registrar in that specialty at University College Hospital in 1952, later taking the DMRD in 1954. Between 1954 and 1974 his condition remained fairly stable and he served as consultant radiologist at King's College and Dulwich Hospitals until he retired at 60. Even after this he continued to do locum x-ray sessions for several years while living in Dorset, until loss of sensation in his feet made it impossible for him to drive a car safely. In 1941 he married Ruth Elisabeth Weeks, a nurse, who survived him. They had no children. His outside interests included portrait and landscape painting and classical music. After several TIA's he died from a stroke on 7 July 1996 in Dorset.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Ernest Rohan (1906 - 1963)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-23
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Born on 21 December 1906 son of Ernest Thomas Williams, he was educated at Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital, where in 1928 in his final year he was Cheadle Gold Medallist in clinical medicine. After filling various junior appointments he became assistant to Dr Courtney Gage in the X-ray department in 1935, succeeding him as director in 1947. His other hospital appointments were to Queen Charlotte's Hospital and to the Willesden General Hospital 1932-46 and the Hampstead General 1939-48. At St Mary's he had been chairman of the Medical Staff Committee and for many years a member of the Board of Governors. In 1942 he received the Roentgen Award of the British Institute of Radiology, and in 1947 the Katherine Bishop Harman Award of the British Medical Association. At the time of his death he was President of the Faculty of Radiologists, of which he had been honorary secretary in 1949-54, Warden of Fellowships 1956-61, and in 1957 Robert Knox lecturer. At the College he was a Hunterian Professor in 1956 lecturing on "The Skull at Birth", and he was a co-opted member of the Council 1953-58. He was President of the British Institute of Radiology in 1944-45 and of the Section of Radiology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1955-56. A consultant of the World Health Organisation to the Far East in 1952, he was visiting radiologist-in-chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston in 1960, delivering the Merrill Sosman Memorial Lecture, and also in 1960 he was Baker Travelling Professor to Australia and New Zealand. In 1932 he married Barbara Joyce Symes and they had a son and a daughter. He died on 17 March 1963 aged 56 at his home in Totteridge, Hants. A memorial service was held in the chapel of St Mary's Hospital on 28 March at which the address was given by Sir Arthur Porritt PRCS.
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First Title value, for Searching Monro, Robert Stephen (1915 - 1984)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Born in Liverpool on 26 December 1915, to Henry Ramsay Monro and Marjorie (née Wace) Robert Monro claimed direct descent from the Monros of Foulis and London. No less than five generations of his family held the DM Oxon and FRCP London and served as physicians on the staff of the Bethlem Hospital, being descendants of Alexander Monro who was Principal of St Andrew's and Edinburgh Universities. Robert went to Uppingham School and Chillon College in Switzerland, before entering Cambridge in 1936. He obtained first class honours in 1940 and passing to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School he continued to win virtually every scholarship and prize available to him. His training posts were also at the Middlesex Hospital where he served as assistant to both Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson and Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. A spell of war service as a Major in the RAMC took him to Europe and India and he then was appointed as consultant surgeon to the Ipswich Group of Hospitals. Sadly in 1953 he developed muscular dystrophy and was seconded to the diagnostic radiology department where he made a distinguished contribution until retirement. In his youth he was a keen athlete and besides playing rugger, swimming and skiing, he was awarded a half blue for judo at Cambridge. He made many contributions to surgical literature including being joint author with Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor on two seminal articles on hindquarter amputation in 1952. He married a nurse, Gwendoline Ellen Roberts, on 7 June 1943 and they had a daughter, Penelope Susan and an adopted son, Andrew. On 26 May 1973 he married Phyllis Mary Newton who was a personnel manager and a headmistress. He died on 16 March 1984, survived by his wife, daughter and grandchildren Ben and Tamsin.
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First Title value, for Searching Berg, Derek Oliver (1926 - 2014)

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by Graeme Morgan
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2017-10-19
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Oncologist Radiologist
Details Derek Berg was born in 1926 in Hong Kong, where his father was a shipping broker and Norwegian Consul-General. His Australian mother Constance died of cerebral malaria just before his third birthday, and Derek was sent to live with his aunt in Adelaide. His father remarried and he returned to Hong Kong, travelling with his stepmother - who he was led to believe was his own mother. At the age of 10, Derek was sent to boarding school at St Giles British School in Tsingtao, China, and travelled there by cargo ship, taking up to 10 days. In 1939 the school closed due to the outbreak of World War II, and Derek returned to Australia to live with his step-uncle at Bundarra in northern NSW. He became a boarder at The Armidale School (TAS), where he excelled at athletics and was a member of the rugby First XV. It was here that he built up life-long friends, as, without a family, he spent most of his holidays at the homes and stations of families he never forgot. He was unhappy at TAS and was unaware of the fate of his parents. On mature reflection he would regret it, but he left school at 16 to stay with an aunt in Sydney. He tried to join the Navy. Despite stating that he was older in age, he was not accepted as he was found to be colour blind. He therefore instead joined the Bank of New South Wales (Westpac) in O'Connell Street, Sydney, and studied at night to pass the Leaving Certificate. In 1945 he joined the Army and became Private Berg (NX206272). One month later Germany surrendered, although Derek was sure there was no connection between the two events. In 1946 Derek was reunited with his father and step-mother in Sydney. In 1941 they had become prisoners of war. When Derek saw them for the first time in 7 years, they were painfully thin and their possessions consisted of two little bags. They had lost almost everything. Derek enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney in 1947. While 600 students enrolled, only a group of 100, which included Derek, graduated in 1953. As a student, Derek was a boarder at St Andrew's College for several years and played rugby for the University reserve grade, as the First XV at that time had 13 players who had played for either the Wallabies or the All Blacks (selected from NZ students studying at the Sydney University Veterinary school, as veterinary studies were at the time not being offered in NZ). After graduating, Derek became a doctor at the Sydney Hospital, where he decided to become a surgeon. He travelled to England as a ship's surgeon on a cargo vessel and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1956. He then spent a year as a registrar at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, where his surgical skills were developed with operating lists taking up to 16 hours. On his return to Australia, Derek obtained a position as a GP/surgeon in Tamworth, where he later became a specialist surgeon. Derek built up contact with GPs in surrounding towns and often flew up to Collarenebri, Wee Waa or Walgett or drove to Quirindi, Walcha or Barraba for minor surgical procedures, with the local GP being the anaesthetist. He also spent time in Sydney at Royal Prince Alfred, St Vincent's and Prince Henry's Hospitals to assist and learn about thoracic surgery. Derek obtained the Australasian Fellowship in Surgery and later (after Vietnam) the American Fellowship in Surgery. In 1968, with Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, Derek volunteered for a 3-month period as a surgeon in Long Xuyen, in the Mekong delta 150 km south-west of Saigon. It was an exhilarating time for him professionally. Lighting and hot water were not always available in the operating theatres, but the doctors made do with torches and candles. The medical team was extremely busy, and Derek started operating the morning after his arrival and virtually never stopped for 3 months. The majority of cases were gunshot, shrapnel or mine injuries, but there were also perforated typhoid ulcers and complications of tuberculosis and diphtheria. In 1969 Derek returned home and resumed his practice in Tamworth. Soon to follow was the setting up of a consultative cancer clinic at the Tamworth Base Hospital by Professor Leicester Atkinson from the Radiotherapy Department at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. Derek was actively engaged with the clinic, and this was the catalyst that kindled his interest in the treatment of cancer by radiotherapy. In early 1971 Derek was appointed a senior surgeon in Papua New Guinea in Goroka in the highlands for the first 3 months and then at ANGAU Hospital in Lae. Surgical problems included injuries from arrows and spears, parasitic diseases and infections. Cancer of the mouth was very common and was attributed to the habit of chewing betel-nut. The Australian Head & Neck Oncology Group held their annual meeting in Lae in 1972, and Derek presented a paper on treatment of mouth cancers. St Vincent's Hospital Sydney subsequently arranged to send senior surgical registrars to Lae on a rotating basis for 3 to 6 months. Under the supervision of the Queensland Radium Institute (now Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital), a radiotherapy unit was established at ANGAU in 1972. A Cancer Workshop was held in Lae in 1974 and resulted in Derek and Dr John Niblett (founding director of radiotherapy at Lae) producing a booklet, *A Guide to Management of Malignant Disease in Papua New Guinea*. A third edition was published in 2006. Professor Leicester Atkinson from Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, was a frequent visitor to PNG and Lae and talked to Derek about a new career move, given his interest in treatment of cancer. In 1977, Derek joined Prince of Wales as a registrar and embarked on a four-year training course. At the time he was 50 years of age and had five children to support on a registrar's wage. … He subsequently became a staff specialist in radiotherapy at Prince of Wales, responsible for the St George Hospital 'peripheral' clinic. In 1982 Derek was appointed Director of Radiotherapy at St Vincent's Hospital. The department was at a crisis point when he took over, as not only was the department in decline, treating only 20 or so patients a day, but in late 1981 the Trinker Report on Radiotherapy in NSW had recommended that radiotherapy at St Vincent's should be closed or amalgamated with the nearby Prince of Wales Hospital. However, the Sisters of Charity averted this by meetings with the then NSW Health Minister (Mr Laurie Brereton), and a new cobalt machine was purchased with funds from the Curran Foundation. The St George Hospital clinic was also transferred to St Vincent's and provided an immediate supply of patients for treatment. St Vincent's was the beginning of an extraordinary happy, rewarding and successful time for Derek professionally. He had an immediate support base from surgical friends from his time at Tamworth and also from registrars (now consultants) whom he helped train at Lae. The Wagga Wagga Clinic - the oldest peripheral clinic of any discipline in NSW, established by Leicester Atkinson in 1954 - was expanded by Derek. In addition, Dr Graeme Morgan, who became a life-long friend and a partner in the new St Vincent's Clinic department, established a new clinic at Griffith Base Hospital. Consultative clinics in head & neck, haematological and lung cancers were continued, along with support for total body irradiation prior to bone marrow transplantation, and new clinical cooperation was developed in gynaecological and urological cancers. A gynaecological cancer clinic was established with Professor Neville Hacker at the nearby Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington. Here Derek helped develop a technique of small-field irradiation, rather than whole-pelvis treatment, to be given postoperatively to high-risk, node-negative Stage 1B cervix cancer patients. This approach has now become the standard of care for this group of patients. In urological cancer, Derek's visit to Perth to learn the new technique of permanent I-125 seed implantation for early carcinoma of the prostate resulted in the first treatment at St Vincent's Clinic of a patient with his disease in 1995. Around 1000 patients had been treated at the unit using this technique by the time Derek retired. In 1991, Derek and Graeme Morgan borrowed heavily to establish a radiotherapy department within the newly opened St Vincent's Clinic that provided a state-of-the-art facility to expand radiotherapy services at St Vincent's. Much to the delight of Sister Bernice and many others at St Vincent's, this initiative proved to be extremely successful. As a clinician, Derek was first-class, and his caring and supportive approach to patient care was well recognised by the colleagues, patients and families with whom he came into contact. He was always available to see a patient at any time and did not restrict his availability to standard hours of duty. With his gentle and unassuming but vibrant and energetic behaviour, Derek was a quiet achiever, leading the department from the front foot. He had the unique ability to make every member of the staff feel special, taking time to chat and to encourage and acknowledge the contributions each person was making. In 1998 Derek retired from St Vincent's and moved to Noosa, where he and Judy spent 13 fun-filled, relaxing years. During his time Derek wrote an autobiography, *My Paper Trail*, plus a biography of his father, *The Shipping Broker*, and was in the process of writing a third, *World Faiths*, about his concepts of the meaning of religion and life. Derek always maintained his love for St Vincent's Hospital, the Sisters of Charity, Sister Bernice and the medical staff. When he was found to have prostate cancer, he and Judy returned to Sydney to be closer to care at this hospital. Later through his illness, he went on to receive palliative radiotherapy for bony secondaries in the very department he had played a key role in establishing. Ironically, Derek died on World Cancer Day, 4 February 2014. We extend our deepest sympathies to Judy and the Minchin family, to Derek's children - Janet, Andrew, Michelle, Amanda and James - and their partners, and to his 10 grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Braine, John Francis Carter (1893 - 1953)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Born on 21 January 1893, son of Charles Carter Braine FRCS and Harriet Jane Evans his wife. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, and immediately on qualifying in 1916 he entered the RAMC and saw active service in France and East Africa. After the war he came back to Guy's as demonstrator of anatomy (1919) and was Griffiths demonstrator of pathology under Professor Adrian Stokes. He took the Fellowship in 1922, and the MD of Durham with a gold medal in 1925. Braine specialised in therapeutic radiology, and established at Guy's the first deep X-ray plant in England. He was chief assistant in the actinotherapy department, and became surgeon to the radio-therapeutic department in 1935 and its director in 1939, when he was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Radiology. He was at various times officer-in-charge of the electro-therapeutic department at the Princess Louise Hospital for Children, Kensington, radiologist to the West London Hospital, surgeon-in-charge of the radium department at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, and a civil consultant in radiotherapy to the Royal Navy. During the war of 1939-45 he worked at the evacuated country centres of Guy's Hospital: Sherwood Park, Tunbridge Wells (1939), the Wildernesse, Seal, Sevenoaks (1941), and Pembury (1945). He was a foundation member of the Society of Radiotherapists of Great Britain and Ireland, a British delegate to the 5th International Congress of Radiology at Chicago in 1936, and assistant treasurer of the 6th Congress in London in 1950. Braine brought sound judgment and enthusiasm to his work, and was encouraging, generous and hospitable. He was physically robust and of an equable, modest temperament. He was proficient as a mechanic and photographer, and was interested in farming and in art and architecture. He practised at 55 Wimpole Street, and lived at Magpie Shaw, Speldhurst, Kent, where he died on 20 September 1953, aged 60, survived by his wife and daughter. A memorial service was held in Guy's Hospital Chapel on 29 September.
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First Title value, for Searching Hey, Wilson Harold (1882 - 1956)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation General surgeon Mountaineer Radiologist
Details Born on 1 September 1882, son of Thomas Hey JP of Colne and his wife Martha Jane Tatham, whose father was a solicitor there, Wilson Hey was educated at Burnley Grammar School and the University of Manchester, winning scholarships and prizes. He took his clinical training at the London Hospital, and qualified in 1905. At the Royal Infirmary, Manchester he served as house surgeon and resident surgical officer, and was awarded the Tom Jones memorial fellowship. He was elected to the honorary staff early in 1914, but on the outbreak of war joined the RAMC and served as a surgical specialist in France, reaching the rank of Major. After the war he resumed his practice in Manchester, joined the Royal Infirmary again, and was appointed to the Staff of Ancoats, the Christie, and the Children's Hospitals, and the Hartley Hospital, Colne. He was a pioneer in using radium for treatment of cancer, and later devised an operation for prostatectomy which was widely accepted. He was a good teacher, enlivening his lectures with anecdotes. He lectured on clinical surgery at Manchester University and examined at Cambridge. He was the first president of the Manchester Medical Society when it was reconstituted in 1950 by the amalgamation of five societies, having already been president of the old Medical Society and of the Surgical and Pathological Societies. Wilson Hey was a skilled mountaineer; he served on the Council of the Alpine Club, and was founder and president of the Manchester University Mountaineering Club. As chairman of the Mountain Rescue Committee he organised rescue equipment posts, wherever rock climbing is practised in Great Britain. He insisted that morphine be kept at each post, in case of painful injury, but the Home Office refused permission for the drug to be available without control. Hey deliberately flouted their orders, and was summoned in 1949 for failing to notify the inspector about his stock of morphine. He was fined £10 but gained the necessary publicity to extort an agreed arrangement from the authorities. Hey married in 1916 Elsie Brown (MB ChB Manchester 1909), who survived him with two sons and two daughters, one a doctor. He died at his country house, Fernilee Hall, Whaley Bridge, near Stockport, on Sunday 15 January 1956, aged 73. He had practised at 16 St John Street, Manchester. He was of strong and cheerful personality with a quiet manner. Publications: Early closure of gunshot wounds. *Brit med J* 1917, 2, 445. Benign enlargement of the prostate. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1943/46, 64, 271. Asepsis in prostatectomy. *Brit J Surg* 1945, 33, 41. The catheter and the prostate. *Brit med J* 1946, 1, 757, and correspondence at p 997 and 2, 241 and 624. Prostatectomy, in H P Winsbury White's *Textbook of genito-urinary surgery*, Edinburgh 1948, pp 477-481, and Cancer of the prostate, in the same, pp 522-525.
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First Title value, for Searching Jupe, Montagu Horace (1893 - 1980)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-16
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Horace Montagu Jupe was born in Putney on 13 October 1893, the third child of William Digby Jupe, a jobber on the London Stock Exchange, and of Ella Jupe (née Hughes). After education at Hillside Preparatory School, Reigate, Charterhouse School, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he qualified at the London Hospital in 1917. While a medical student he served as a Surgeon-Probationer Sub-Lieutenant RNVR during the first world war from 1915, and as a temporary Surgeon-Lieutenant RN after qualifying in 1917. He was then receiving room officer, house surgeon, house physician and resident accoucheur at the London Hospital, acknowledging his indebtedness to Russell Howard, of whom he was especially fond, and to Sir James Walton and Jonathan Hutchinson, Jnr. An aptitude for physics attracted him to radiology, and, after taking his diploma, he was appointed radiologist to the London and was director of the department from 1943 until his retirement in 1958. Jupe was a founder member of the British Association of Radiologists when it was formed in 1934, and its honorary secretary when it amalgamated with the Society of Radiotherapists to form the Faculty of Radiologists. He was Vice-President of the diagnostic section of the Faculty 1948-49, and Warden of the Fellowship 1951-56 as well as an active member of the British Institute of Radiology, serving on its council from 1947 to 1950. He was President of the Section of Radiology of the Royal Society of Medicine and his contributions to his speciality were also recognised by the Roentgen Award in 1937, Honorary Fellowship of the Australian College of Radiologists in 1953, and the Skinner Lectureship in 1959. Though noted for his eclectic interests, he developed a special interest in radiology of the central nervous system, working closely with Sir Hugh Cairns with whom he jointly wrote the section on the central nervous system in the *Textbook of radiology by British authors*. He also worked closely with Dr Donald Hunter on the constitutional diseases of bone and collaborated with him in writing the appropriate section of the same textbook of radiology. Jupe wrote further papers on ventriculography, cerebral tumours and hydrocephalus. Outside his strictly technical work he was notable as a kind and considerate colleague whose old-world courtesy and concern for others made him especially popular with his juniors, most of whom kept in touch with him after leaving the London. A highly experienced skier in his younger days, he turned to gardening for interest and relaxation during his long retirement. He married Isabel Rainey in 1925 and they had no children. When he died on 6 May 1980, aged 86, he was survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Stowell, Thomas Edmund Alexander (1887 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Radiologist
Details Thomas Edmund Alexander Stowell was born in 1887; he was educated at St Paul's School and St Thomas's Hospital where he was awarded the William Tite Scholarship for 1905-1906. As a postgraduate he studied at Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Zurich, Vienna and Harvard, holding clinical appointments at St Thomas's and the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool. At different times he was honorary surgeon at the Victoria Infirmary Northwich, senior honorary surgeon and radiologist at the Mid-Cheshire Orthopaedic Clinic, Northwich, and a surgeon in the EMS. Possibly his longest and most important appointment was that of chief medical officer to Imperial Chemical Industries, and therefore he was one of the pioneers on the subject of industrial health. A member of the court of examiners for the diploma in industrial health, he was Chairman of the Council of Industrial Medicine and of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Industrial Welfare Society. Senior Vice-President of the Congrès International de Sauvetage et de Premier Secours en Cas d'Accidents, he was for many years interested in accident prevention and first aid instruction and was a lecturer and examiner for the St John Ambulance Association and the British Red Cross Society. A devoted churchman he was a member of the House of Laity of the Church Assembly and was chairman of the Childrens Committee of the London Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare. His surgical activities were seriously curtailed by his developing Dupuytren's contracture, necessitating the amputation of three fingers. At one period he was a lecturer at the London School of Economics, a member of the British Social Hygiene Council, a Member of the Ministry of Pensions Committee on Compensation for Injuries Sustained by Members of HM Forces and many other bodies connected with industrial health, with first aid and safety, and with public morality. A great interest was the solving of historical medical mysteries and he became involved in controversial arguments as to the identity of Jack the Ripper following an article he wrote in *The Criminologist*. He was a keen and distinguished Freemason. In 1913 he married Lilian, elder daughter of W Wagner of Hayle, Cornwall by whom he had a son, who became a doctor, and a daughter who was killed accidentally in 1958. He died on 8 November 1970 in Southampton.
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First Title value, for Searching Middlemass, Sir John Howard (1917 - 1983)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Howard Middlemiss was at school at Repton and received his medical training at Durham University where he qualified in 1940. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in India and Normandy as a Lieutenant-Colonel and during this time he developed his interest and concern for countries overseas. At the end of the war years he returned to Newcastle for his specialist training before his appointment as director of radiology in the Bristol United Hospitals. In 1965 he was given a personal chair in radiology and from 1977 to 1980 he proved an energetic and farsighted Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. It was soon evident that apart from his expert knowledge and ability he had a flair for teaching and running a large department. He attracted young doctors from many countries and the radiology department flourished in Bristol. In 1953 he made his first visit to Africa - a visit that committed his heart and mind to the developing world. He travelled widely in the 1950's and mainly in the underdeveloped countries where he not only helped to develop centres but schools of radiology; one of these was in Burma. On his return after these visits he would bring interesting, rare and sometimes quite bizarre radiographic examples of diseases never seen before in England. His experience was gained by hard work which he enjoyed and fortunately he was able to impart this knowledge with enthusiasm to his colleagues at home. He continued to strive to improve the standard of training in radiology and it was due to his strength that the Royal College of Radiology was founded, and he was rewarded by being elected the first President in 1975. The College bestowed on him the gold medal in 1982. Howard Middlemiss was a radiologist in general but he developed a special interest in bone tumours and was the leading light in the now famous Bristol Bone Tumour Panel, where his conduct of meetings punctuated by his ready wit was a stimulus for the young trainees. He published many papers and latterly undertook the post of editor of the *Textbook of radiology by British authors*. In 1942 he married Mary Pirrie who was his constant companion and support. They had a son and two daughters. He was survived by his wife and family when he died suddenly at his home on 27 April 1983 aged 66 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Phelps, Peter David (1939 - 2002)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Peter Phelps was a consultant radiologist at the Royal Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London. He was born on 22 May 1939, in Harrow, Middlesex. His father, Donald Percy Phelps, was part of the family who owned Meyer and Phelps, the surgical instrument makers. His mother, Phyllis Mabel née Willis, became a director of the family firm, as did his younger brother. Peter Phelps was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and trained in medicine at Charing Cross Hospital, where he qualified in 1962. He was a keen sportsman and played rugby for United Hospitals and for Buckinghamshire. After qualifying, he decided to make a career in otorhinolaryngology and went into the training programme under Ronald Macbeth at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. He became a Fellow of the College in 1968, but, towards the end of his training, he developed tinnitus and then a profound nerve deafness and he was advised that he did not have a future in otolaryngology and was advised to change his interest into fields with less patient contact. The neuroradiologist at the Radcliffe, Philip Sheldon, suggested that he should take up radiology of the ears, nose and throat and, to this end, arrangements were made for him to work one day a week under Glyn Lloyd at the Royal National Throat and Ear Hospital. He had passed his FFR at the first attempt. Thus began a most fortunate and fruitful period of co-operation for the specialties. In a very short time Peter became the national expert on the radiology of congenital diseases of the ear and his opinion was greatly in demand and respected internationally. He published three textbooks on his discipline, one of which, *Diagnostic imaging of the ear* (London, Springer-Verlag, 1990), won the George Davy Howells memorial prize in 1991. After 1988 he divided his professional time between the Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry and Grays Inn Road, eventually becoming the consultant in charge there. His opinion was often sought in co-operation with his radiological colleagues at Great Ormond Street. He was a founder member of the European Society of Head and Neck Radiology and in 1996, as secretary, hosted a very successful meeting at Coventry. In 2001 he was awarded an honorary life membership of the Society in recognition of his outstanding services. This brief outline of Peter's life gives no idea of the character of the man. He was a big man in every sense of the word. Always cheerful and amusing, he made light of his disability that had prevented him from following his chosen way of life. He was very approachable and patient in answering the queries that colleagues presented to him. He always wanted to know how the operative findings corresponded with his opinion. It is likely be many years before someone with the same attributes will appear to carry his work forward. He underwent a very successful cochlear implant in 1997 and did imaging latterly for the cochlear implant programmes both in London and Birmingham. He was very proud to be a member both of the patients and surgeons associations. Socially, Peter lived life to the full. He was an acknowledged expert in the field of vintage cars and kept a selection of them in his country home, which he serviced himself. His other great love was narrow boating on canals and many holidays were spent boating with his family. In 1972 he married Susan Vicky Brown who is a general practitioner in Bedworth, Warwickshire. There were two children of the marriage, Rosalind and Nigel. Peter died of cancer on 7 February 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Harmer, William Douglas (1873 - 1962)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Radiologist
Details Born on 25 August 1873 in Norwich, son of F W Harmer cloth merchant and glacial geologist, and brother of Sir Sidney Harmer KCB, FRS, he was educated at Uppingham and King's College, Cambridge, proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualifying in 1898. After qualification and house appointments first at Great Ormond Street and then at St Bartholomew's he taught anatomy and operative surgery obtaining his mastership of surgery in 1901 and being the last graduate to be designated MC as opposed to MChir. He was appointed warden of the medical college in which capacity he prevented the pre-clinical school from being absorbed into that of University College, thereby preserving the complete entity of the medical school. In 1904 he was appointed assistant surgeon, but in 1906 he contracted a severe pulmonary infection and spent a year at Davos, Switzerland. It was here that he mastered the art of needlework and a piece of embroidery in petit point which he brought back was used as a firescreen in his London home. In 1907, returning fully recovered, he was persuaded by his colleagues to accept full responsibility for the throat department and to give up general surgery as it was thought this would be too arduous. At this period it had been the usual practice for one of the assistant surgeons to have charge of the throat department in addition to his general surgical duties, and Harmer had followed D'Arcy Power. It was also customary at this period for otology, if recognised as a specialty, to be treated in a different department to laryngology. Harmer, far from working less arduously, was busier than ever. In the 1914-18 war he served as Captain RAMC and made an important contribution to the study of wounds of the larynx, part of the time serving in Russia. He had already in 1913 begun research into the use of radiotherapy in disease of the throat, and after the war he became attached to the Radium Institute and was appointed honorary surgeon to Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood also. In 1931 he was appointed Semon lecturer to London University, and in 1932 he published a monograph on the use of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer of the upper air passages. To the end of his active career he treated cancer of the vocal cords by radium needles introduced through a window in the thyroid cartilage, which in his hands gave better results than other forms of treatment. He retired from St Bartholomew's at the age of 55 but continued working at the Radium Institute and Mount Vernon until 1948. Harmer made a gift to the rare book room of the College library in the shape of a handsome rosewood bookcase, and in 1963 a bequest under his will. A countryman and a keen sportsman with rod and gun, he also played golf at Cambridge down to a handicap of three, with wooden clubs of his own making, and was also a champion skater. He married in 1906 May, daughter of Dr John Hedley and sister of JP Hedley FRCS. She died suddenly while on holiday in New Zealand in 1954. She had been for many years prominent in the work of the Ladies Guild, the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. They had three sons, the second of whom, Michael FRCS, is a surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He died at his home at Littlestone, Kent on 24 October 1962 aged 89, and a memorial service was held at St Bartholomew's the Less on Wednesday 7 November.
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First Title value, for Searching Holland, Charles Thurstan (1863 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-10 2014-02-07
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Born at Bridgwater, Somerset, on 7 March 1863, second son of William Thomas Holland, pottery manufacturer and alderman, and Florence DuVal his wife. He was educated privately at the Rev W Hargreaves's school at Clifton before entering University College Hospital Medical School. Taking the Conjoint qualification in 1888, he settled in general practice at Liverpool, where he became associated with Sir Robert Jones. In 1895 Jones heard privately of Röntgen's discovery of the rays named after him; realizing its possibilities for his orthopaedic work, he persuaded Holland, who was an expert photographer and had become interested in physics through the influence of Oliver Lodge, then professor at Liverpool University, to collaborate with him. Together they produced the first X-ray photograph taken in England, of a bullet embedded in a boy's wrist. In 1896 Holland was appointed radiologist to the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, setting up his apparatus in a half-underground room below stairs, probably the first such appointment; in 1904 he transferred to the Royal Infirmary, where he remained till 1923. He was also radiologist to the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital from 1907 to 1932, and was consulting radiologist to the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association. He practised at 43 Rodney Street. Holland received a commission *à la suite* on the formation of the RAMC Territorial Force on 7 July 1908, and was gazetted major on 1 May 1918. During the four years' war he was consulting radiologist to the Western Command, and organized a radiological service from Pembroke to Carlisle. He sat on the War Office Committee on Radiology in 1918. During these years of busy administrative work he perfected a new technique for localizing bullets, devising a depth finder on the principle of the gunner's height finder. In 1920 Holland was appointed lecturer in radiology at Liverpool University, a post which he held till 1931, and in 1922 he received the degree of ChM for his organization of the radiological diploma. He was elected a Fellow of the College as a member of twenty years' standing in 1928, and in 1935 received the honorary LLD of Liverpool. Holland did more than any man to establish radiology as a substantive specialty, but he sacrificed the opportunity for research to administrative business and the promotion of his cause. He was president of the Röntgen Society of London in 1904 and 1916 and of its successor the British Institute of Radiology in 1929-30. He was president of the electrotherapeutic section at the Liverpool meeting of the British Medical Association in 1912, and of the electro-therapeutic section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1913. He was a vice-president of the section of radiology at the International Medical Congress in London in 1913, president of the radiology division of the International Congress of Radiology and Physiotherapy in London in 1922, and president of the first International Congress of Radiology in London in 1925. He was an honorary member of the Liverpool Medical Institution and of radiological societies in America, Austria, Germany, Italy, Norway, and Switzerland. He contributed the survey of radiological literature to the Medical Annual for many years until 1931. Holland was a keen mountaineer and a fine alpine photographer. He was president of the Liverpool Amateur Photographers' Association in 1905 and 1916 and of the Lancashire and Cheshire Photographers' Union in 1906-07, and won three medals from the Royal Photographic Society. He was president of the Liverpool Medico-literary Society in 1895 and of the Liverpool Wayfarers' Club in 1910-12. Holland married on 16 April 1890 Lilian Fergusson, of Liverpool, who died in 1924. He died on 16 January 1941 aged 78, survived by one son. Holland was a big man with a heavy moustache. He was blunt and downright but kindly, with a zest for life and a grim sense of humour.
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First Title value, for Searching Laidlaw, Cecil D'Arcy (1921 - 2004)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-12-19 2007-08-23
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Occupation Radiologist
Details D’Arcy Laidlaw was a radiologist in Brisbane, Australia. He was born in Witbank, Transvaal, South Africa, on 12 November 1921. His father John was an inspector of railways. His mother was Caroline née Wilson. He was educated at Reading School, from which he went to Oxford for his preclinical studies, going on to St Bartholomew’s. With the advent of the Second World War, D’Arcy was keen to serve in the forces, a desire intensified by the death of his brother, Kenneth Wilson Laidlaw, during the retreat to Dunkirk in June 1941. As a consequence, D’Arcy chose to study for the conjoint, the shortest route to qualifying as a doctor, gaining the MRCS LRCP in 1943. After completing a surgical house job at Leicester City General Hospital he joined the RNVR and served on the aircraft carrier HMS *Formidable*, mainly in the Pacific. The *Formidable* was attacked three times by kamikaze planes, which gave him and his colleagues much experience of trauma and burns. After VE day *Formidable* repatriated prisoners of war from South East Asia to their homes in India and Australia. On being demobilised, he became a casualty officer at the Royal Free Hospital, then held RSO posts in Grantham and Leeds. He then held a series of registrar jobs in Wakefield and Hereford, and then worked as an orthopaedic registrar in Bath, before passing the FRCS after attending the course at Guy’s. He then held registrar posts at the City General Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, St Chad’s Hospital Birmingham, and in Bristol, where he became private assistant to R V Cooke in 1957. In the same year he gained his MB BS by sitting the London University examination. In 1958 he was a temporary senior surgical registrar at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, and for the next two years he was a senior registrar in Bristol and Exeter, and did research into the cause of clubbing which was published in Clinical Science in 1963. In 1962 he developed widespread severe acute rheumatoid arthritis, which forced him to give up surgery. He retrained in radiology at Bristol Royal Infirmary, qualifying DMRD in 1966. He emigrated to Australia in 1966 to become director of radiology at the Wimmera Base Hospital, Victoria, and then joined a private radiology practice in Melbourne. D’Arcy then took the position of director of radiology at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane, in 1972, where he taught medical students and registrars. In 1981 he established his own private practice at Sherwood, subsequently expanding this to Strathpine in Brisbane. He had a lifelong passion for art, especially painting and sculpture, and underwent a formal training, which culminated in a degree in fine art in 1989. He exhibited in Brisbane and Noosa, Queensland. In 1951 D’Arcy married Florence Lois née Smith, a general practitioner, who predeceased him in 1976. They had three children: their daughter, Ailsa Mary Carole, is a general practitioner, one son, Phillip Kenneth D’Arcy, was a medical student who died before he could qualify, and a second son, Andrew Alistair Louis, is an electrical engineer. D’Arcy Laidlaw died on 7 September 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Van den Brenk, Hendrick Athos Sydney (1921 - 1992)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation Oncologist Radiologist Radiotherapist
Details Hendrick Van den Brenk, a radiotherapist, radiologist and experimental oncologist in Australia and England, was born on 22 June 1921 in Sydney, Australia, and qualified MB BS at Melbourne in 1944. He gained the MS degree in 1954, the same year in which he passed the Fellowship. After practising as a general surgeon in Boort, Victoria, he spent two years as senior research fellow in physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons. Returning to Australia, he was consultant radiotherapy research officer at the Melbourne Cancer Institute from 1956 to 1967. He then became Richard Dimbleby Fellow in Cancer Research and honorary consultant physician at St Thomas's Hospital, London, from 1967 to 1978, becoming the Foundation Richard Dimbleby Professor of Cancer Research at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School from 1975 to 1978. On returning to Australia he was SMO (Appeals) on the Repatriation Committee from 1979 and SMO of the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs. Harold Hewitt, MD, FRCR, writes in the *British Medical Journal*: '"Van" had an international reputation as a clinical radiotherapist, radiobiologist and oncologist. He published over 250 papers which, fifteen years after his retirement from clinical and laboratory work, retained a high citation index. 'While working as chief of the radiobiomedical unit of Melbourne Cancer Institute Van carried out one of the first controlled clinical trials of hyperbaric oxygen as an adjunct to radiotherapy. In 1967 he was appointed foundation director of the Richard Dimbleby Laboratory of Cancer Research at St Thomas's Hospital, London. There he devoted himself to experimental research at the bench. After returning to Australia in 1977 for family reasons he became senior medical officer of the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs and then, after his 'retirement', medical officer to a high security prison. 'Van's toughness (he lost the sight of one eye in infancy and had severe angina for his last twenty years and malignant disease for his last three) contrasted with his sensitive nature. He was a talented violinist and pianist and a philatelist and angler. His acerbic rejection of overpromoted theories and inflated egos was given an extra edge by a guttural ingredient (from his Dutch parentage) in his Australian accent. His wife, Miriam, died before him; he is survived by his daughters, Christine and Judy, and six grandchildren.' He died on 21 August 1992, aged 72 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Carling, Sir Ernest Rock (1877 - 1960)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Born on 6 March 1877, the third son of F R Carling JP of Guildford, he entered the medical school of the Westminster Hospital in 1895; in 1900, while still a student, he volunteered for the South African war, serving with the Imperial Yeomanry Field Hospital and returning to qualify in 1901. The following year he obtained honours and a gold medal in the London MB examination. After a series of house appointments and a period as demonstrator of anatomy, he was appointed to the staff of the Westminster Hospital in 1906. He was also appointed to the Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich and served as consulting surgeon to Chislehurst, Watford, and Hornsey Hospitals. Later he became consultant to King Edward VII Convalescent Home for Officers at Osborne. In the war of 1914-18 he was mobilised as Captain, RAMC(T), with the 4th London General Hospital, later proceeding to Belgium and France as surgical specialist with the rank of Major. After the war he was a pioneer in the use of radium and in 1928 established a radium centre at the Westminster Hospital, setting up there with the help of his son, Francis Carling, the two original radium bombs. In 1929 he published a book of instruction on radium practice in association with J Paterson Ross, and he was made a member of the Medical Research Council and of the Radium Trust. In 1930 as dean of the medical school he rendered most valuable service in the planning and development of the new Westminster Hospital. With the outbreak of war in 1939 he was appointed consultant adviser to the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Home Security and after the war took part in the Ministry's survey of the Hospital Services. He was deeply interested in the social aspect of medicine, being a member of the executive council of the Institute of Almoners, and was associated with the Nuffield Provincial Hospital Trust. He was a member of a number of committees connected with atomic energy, being chairman of the International Commission on Radiological Protection and the Radium Commission of the Central Health Services Council. He was a wise and experienced examiner, having examined at London, Sheffield, and Edinburgh Universities. As a member for ten years and sometime chairman of the Court of Examiners his clinical acumen and administrative ability were universally acknowledged by his colleagues. He was vice-president of the Section of Surgery of the BMA in 1934 and a member of the Association's Fracture Committee. In 1942 he was elected vice-president of the Westminster Hospital in recognition of his services, with special reference to the rebuilding of the Hospital. He was a popular and kindly man, despite his highly critical outlook, inspiring deep affection in all those who worked in association with him. He married Petra, daughter of the Rev E D Rock of Creeting St Peter, Suffolk, by whom he had two sons; she died in January 1959. He died suddenly at his home 49 Hallam Street, W1 on 15 July 1960. A memorial service was held in St Margaret's, Westminster on 3 October 1960. Publications: *Course of instruction in radium practice*. 1929. *British Surgical Practice* (with J P Ross). 1947. *British Practice in Radiotherapy* (with B W Windeyer and D W Smithers) 1955. Ionising radiation and the public health. Harker Lecture 1956.
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First Title value, for Searching Bull, James William Douglas (1911 - 1987)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation Neuroradiologist Radiologist
Details James William Douglas Bull, the son of a general practitioner in Buckinghamshire, was educated at Repton and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before securing an entrance scholarship to St George's Hospital Medical School and graduating there in 1936. One of his uncles was a radiologist and Bull made an early decision to specialize in radiology. In 1938 he was awarded a Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship to study newer techniques for the more precise location of brain tumours under Erik Lysholm in Stockholm. This attachment was interrupted by the outbreak of the second world war when he joined the RAMC and was posted to Malaya as a specialist radiologist with the rank of Major. For some four years after the fall of Singapore he was a Japanese prisoner of war, a period of which he later rarely spoke but which he certainly never forgot. After demobilisation he returned to Stockholm to complete his Rockefeller Fellowship. Shortly after returning to England he was appointed to the consultant staff of St George's and to the National Hospital, Queen Square, and Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases. At Queen Square he developed an outstanding department of neuroradiology, dedicated to his friend and teacher, Erik Lysholm. Thereafter, with characteristic enthusiasm and application, he remained at the forefront of development in his specialty, practising and preaching the necessity for punctuality, accuracy and precision in every aspect of his work. A handsome man, with a fine presence and a splendid voice, he was a superb lecturer and equally effective in his informal teaching. For all these reasons he became a great ambassador for Britain, ever keen to extol and support British achievements. He immediately recognised the great potential of computed tomography and magnetic resonance and spared no effort in trying to persuade British manufacturers of the vital commercial importance of these discoveries. Alas, the economic state of the United Kingdom at that time, and of British industry, deprived us of the rich fruits of many further developments in this field. Whatever may have been the failures of industry James Bull's personal influence on the training of neuroradiologists was immense; indeed, most British and many Commonwealth specialists in this field were taught by him and given loyal support subsequently. He was notably generous to his trainees and colleagues, giving strong back-up to every promising idea and full credit to its authors. James Bull's personality and mastery of his specialty inevitably led to wide honour and recognition. When Dean of the Faculty of Radiologists he served on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and was later President of the newly founded Royal College of Radiologists. He was President of both the Radiological and Neurological Sections of the Royal Society of Medicine; President of the British Institute of Radiology, as well as founder President of the British and European Societies of Neuroradiology. He also served on the Council of the Royal College of Physicians of London and was consultant neuroradiologist to the Royal Navy. His services to his specialty were, though many thought inadequately, recognised by the award of the CBE in 1977. Bull published a number of papers on contrast myelography before his writings on computed tomography and was a contributor to Feiling's *Modern trends in neurology*. His many outside interests included golf and keeping rainfall and temperature records for the Henley-on-Thames area where he lived for many years. He also wrote a history of the building of the London to Birmingham railway. His wife Edith predeceased him in 1978 and he was survived by his son and daughter when he died on 5 June 1987.
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First Title value, for Searching Windeyer, Sir Brian Wellingham (1904 - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation Radiologist Radiotherapist
Details Brian Windeyer was born in Sydney on 7 February 1904, the son of Richard Windeyer QC, a barrister, and Mabel Robinson, whose father had graduated in medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. His family had been associated with the legal profession in Australia for five generations. He was educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, and St Andrew's College, University of Sydney. As a young man he played rugby as scrum-half for Sydney University and for the combined Australian and New Zealand Universities, and he never lost interest in this sport. He qualified in 1927 and decided to make radiotherapy his chosen career in medicine. In 1929 he went to Paris to work as assistant to Claude Regaud at the Fondation Curie, and in 1931 he was appointed radium officer to the Middlesex Hospital, an association which lasted for the next 38 years. In 1936 he became medical officer in charge of the new Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy, and in 1942 he was appointed to the chair of radiology (therapeutic) at the Middlesex. With the outbreak of the second world war he was appointed director of the Emergency Medical Service radiotherapy department at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, while also working as medical commandant of the Middlesex Hospital. He had a multi-disciplinary approach to cancer and started weekly combined clinics with other specialists and joint ward rounds with Sir Stanford Cade at Mount Vernon, a practice which is universal today, though unusual at that time. In 1954 he was appointed Dean of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, and within a short time introduced plans for its redevelopment. Generous financial support was forthcoming form Lord Astor of Hever and Sir Edward Lewis and others, and over the next eight years the new school (named the Windeyer Building) and a new students' residence (Astor College) were built. Brian Windeyer always showed great interest in student activities, and held this post until 1967. He was President of the Faculty of Radiologists from 1949 to 1952, a member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1948 to 1953, and Hunterian Professor in 1951. He served on numerous governmental committees, including the Royal Commission on Medical Education, and he was Chairman of both the Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee (1961-1970) and the National Radiological Protection Board (1970-1978). He was adviser to the Ministry of Health and the Atomic Energy Authority, and a member of the Medical Research Council. He was knighted in 1961. He was also awarded numerous honorary fellowships and doctorates from universities, both at home and abroad. In 1967 he was appointed chairman of the academic council of London University, and vice-chancellor two years later (1969-1972). By now a public figure, he was involved in some controversy when he deplored the rising tide of sexual permissiveness and indiscipline amongst students, practices which he did not hesitate to condemn. Brian Windeyer will be remembered especially for his contributions to radiotherapy, his enormous energy and organisational ability, and his approachability and humanity as a doctor. He married twice - firstly in 1928 to Joyce Russell (they had a son and a daughter) and secondly in 1948 to Anne Bowrey (they had a son and two daughters). He died in Oxford, aged 90, on 26 October 1994.
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First Title value, for Searching Pinch, Albert Edwin Hayward (1868 - 1948)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Born 28 February 1868, the eldest son of Felix Pinch, civil servant on the Irish establishment, and his wife, *née* Hayward. He was educated at King Edward's School, Bath and at Bristol University College Medical School. After clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital he was admitted MRCS in 1894, and was elected to the Fellowship two years later. From 1894 to 1896 he was medical tutor and assistant lecturer in physiology at University College, Bristol. He was commissioned as surgeon-lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 29 July 1896, becoming captain in 1899. Pinch did brilliantly both at Bristol and the Army Medical School, Netley. He gained the first entrance scholarship, the Suple scholarship, and the Clarke scholarship in medicine, surgery, and obstetrics at the Bristol Medical School: the Fayrer prize in pathology the De Chaumont prize in hygiene, the Montefiore prize in surgery, and the Herbert scholarship at Netley. He served in the Bengal Presidency as one of the last officers commissioned on the special Bengal list, but contracted plague, and was invalided home with no hope of recovery. In fact he lived for nearly fifty years. He recovered sufficiently to become resident medical superintendent of the Medical Graduates' College and Policlinic at 22 Chenies Street, London, holding the post from 1899 to 1909 during which time he was also pathologist to the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Disease of the Hip, Queen Square, Bloomsbury. In 1908, after the King had been successfully treated by radium in Paris, Lord Iveagh and Sir Ernest Cassel presented a stock of radium for medical use in London. Sir Frederick Treves was appointed president of the Radium Institute in Riding House Street, Portland Place, established to administer this gift, and Pinch was chosen by him as resident medical superintendent and general director in March 1909. Pinch was sent on a tour of French, German, and Austrian radium institutes and clinics before taking up the post which he held till 1930. The Radium Institute was established for the treatment of patients by radium and to carry researches into the therapeutic and physical properties of radium and compounds. For this position Captain Pinch was admirably suited; urbane, tactful, and absolutely honest, he put the institute on a sound basis, which was satisfactory alike to the medical profession and to science. No patient was received until after arrangements had been made with the institute by the patient's medical attendant, while the results obtained were published annually. In these *Reports* Pinch included the cases where no benefit had been received as well as those which had been treated successfully, and pointed out the forms of disease which were most likely to be helped. The work of the Radium Institute was taken over by National Radium Commission in 1930, and Pinch was retired with the honorary status of consultant. Pinch gave up his work on radium, in which he had been deeply interested and retired to Westward Ho, North Devon, where he was able to enjoy his favourite recreation of golf. He usually spent a month every year salmon-fishing in Scotland. Through the long years of retirement he was frequently in ill-health as a result of his earlier illness and the effects his work with radium. He had a severe cerebral stroke in 1946, and died of cerebral haemorrhage in Bideford Hospital on 14 October 1948, aged 80. Hayward Pinch married in August 1896 Helen Nora Poole, who survived him, but without children. He left the remainder of his fortune, after his wife's life interest, to help necessitous students at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Bristol University Medical Faculty. Mrs Hayward Pinch died on 6 January 1953. Publications: *The Radium Institute, London; a clinical index of radium therapy*. London, 1925. *Manual of technique in radium therapy*. London, 1926. 40 plates. *Superficial radium therapy*. London, 1927. 50 plates. Radium therapy, in R Hutchison and H S Collier's *Index of treatment*, 1911, etc. Die Radiumtherapie der bösartigen Hautkrankheiten, in *Handbuch der gesamte Strahlenheilkunde*, 2nd edition, Munich, vol 2, part 2.
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First Title value, for Searching Stebbing, George French (1884 - 1947)

2024-05-05T16:50:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Born on 2 October 1884 at Hazlemere, Woodside Park, Finchley, the fifth child and third son of Alfred Charles Stebbing, merchant, and Elizabeth Elstob, his wife. He was educated at Emanuel School, Wandsworth Common and at Guy's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and out-patients officer, after taking honours and distinction in surgery at the MB, BS examination. Stebbing felt no inclination for private practice, and failing to see an institutional opening of the kind that he wished, he took the advice of Sir Charters Symonds to make one for himself, and in 1908 joined the staff of Lambeth Infirmary, then under the medical superintendence of A L Baly, MRCS, who gave him every encouragement in establishing a surgical clinic there. Stebbing served as a naval surgeon during the war of 1914-1918, and on return to Lambeth became interested in the treatment of malignant disease by radium. He quickly realized that radium treatment ought not to be merely an item in the surgeon's armamentarium, but that for its full exploitation a new specialty of radio-therapy must develop in which surgeon and physicist should co-operate. The rest of his life was given up to a single-minded promotion of this project, while he continued his surgical work. He brought about an arrangement between the Ministry of Health and the Lambeth Board of Guardians for the supply of radium and establishment of deep X-ray plant at the Lambeth Hospital in 1929, and from then onwards till the end of his life was both surgical specialist and radio-therapist to the hospital. The same year, 1929, he was appointed to the newly formed National Radium Commission and served as its honorary medical secretary till 1947. He was responsible for the framing of its policy, which took shape in three stages: first, the formation of radiotherapy units with adequate equipment, technical as well as medical staff, space and beds enough for fully efficient working; second, the addition of facilities for all forms of cancer treatment; and finally, the centralizing of these units in the provincial university regions. Stebbing was a member of the Ministry of Health cancer subcommittee, and later of the Medical Research Council nuclear physics committee. He was chairman of council of the London and Counties Medical Protection Society; was a founder of the Society of Radio-therapists and became its president, and a founder of the London County Council clinical research committee, and the first chairman of the LCC Medical Society which developed from it. But for his last illness he would have been president of the section of radiology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was an original Fellow of the Faculty of Radiology (1939) and its honorary treasurer. He also served as clinician to the Radium Beam Therapy Research, 1934-38. Stebbing was an examiner for part 2 of the Diploma in Medical Radiotherapy of the Conjoint Board, and became a co-opted member of Council of the College under the 1947 Charter. His name appeared in the New Year's Honours List 1948, for award of the Companionship of the Order of the British Empire, ten days after his death. Stebbing married on 30 April 1919 Margaret Warburton McCroddall, who survived him with two sons, both medical students, and a married daughter. He died on 22 December 1947, aged 63, at Brigown, 38 Telford Avenue, Streatham, SW2. A memorial service was held at St Philip's, Kennington, on 12 January 1948. At the beginning of the war of 1939-45 he and his wife moved into residence at Lambeth Hospital, to give greater attention to the permanent inmates there. Stebbing was a man of integrity and moral courage, with a clear head and tireless energy. Though he was somewhat ruthless and uncompromising in the pursuit of his ideals, his charm and sincerity, combined with a cheerful sense of fun, won him innumerable friends. Publications: A case of ateleiosis, with F Parkes Weber, *Brit J Child Dis* 1916, 13, 200. The intravenous injection of oxygen gas as a therapeutic measure, with F W Tunnicliffe. *Lancet*, 1916, 2, 321. Fractures of metatarsal bones by indirect violence, with A G R Foulerton. *Lancet*, 1927, 2, 1225. Fractures of the upper end of the femur. *Brit J Surg* 1927, 15, 201. Chordotomy; section of the anterolateral tracts for the relief of pain, with notes of seventeen cases. *Lancet*, 1929, 1, 654. Sir Charters Symonds, an appreciation, with a portrait. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1933, 83, 259. Wavelength as a factor in radiotherapy. *Brit J Radiol* 1938, 11, 177. Modern methods in the treatment of cancer. *J Roy Sanit Inst* 1939-40, 60, 284. Radiotherapeutic education of the future. *Brit J Radial* 1942, 15, 294. Radiotherapy in carcinoma of kidney and bladder. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1945, 38, 250. Diagnosis of cancer in a National Medical Service. The Skinner lecture, Faculty of Radiologists. *Lancet*, 1945, 2, 65. Total war on cancer. *Brit med J* 1946, 2, 77.
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