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First Title value, for Searching Flatman, Gerald Edward ( - 2012)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-02-20 2015-02-16
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Occupation oncologist Radiotherapist
Details Gerald Edward Flatman was director of the Glasgow Institute of Radiotherapy and Oncology, and a consultant radiotherapist at the Western and Royal infirmaries, Stobhill Hospital, the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Glasgow Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. He was also an honorary lecturer in radiotherapy at the University of Glasgow. He studied medicine at King's College, London, and Westminster Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1945. He was a surgical registrar at Westminster Hospital and then a resident surgical officer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and subsequently an assistant radiotherapist at the Middlesex Hospital. He was then appointed to his consultant post in Glasgow. From 1982 to 1984 he was vice president of the Royal College of Radiologists. Gerald Edward Flatman died on 17 December 2012. He was 91. He was survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Thurgar, Christopher John Lester ( - 1980)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

First Title value, for Searching Burton, Ross Fordyce (1922 - 2012)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

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 Sherrah-Davies, Evan ( - 2002)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Evan Sherrah-Davies went from Cambridge to the Westminster Hospital where he qualified in 1947. After house jobs he did his National Service in the RAF as a surgical specialist. After returning to civilian life he specialised in radiotherapy and became consultant radiotherapist to the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, Manchester. A man of great poise, he instilled enormous confidence in his patients. His death was reported to the College in February 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Soteriou, Helen Margaret (1920 - 2012)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-12-21 2015-02-16
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Occupation Oncologist Radiotherapist
Details Helen Soteriou neé Mellor was a clinical oncologist at St Luke's Hospital, Guildford, and Nicosia General Hospital, Cyprus. She was born in Liverpool on 11 April 1920, the daughter of Stanley Alfred Mellor, a Unitarian minister, who died when she was just four years old, and Anita Mellor née Thomson. She was educated at Rotherham Grammar School for Girls and went on to study medicine at the Royal Free Medical School. She gained her MRCS LRCP in 1943. Between 1944 and 1947 she served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, with the rank of captain. She gained her FRCS in 1952 and then trained in radiotherapy. She was a registrar at the Royal Marsden Hospital and a senior registrar in the radiotherapy department at Westminster Hospital. In 1955 she was appointed to her consultant post at St Luke's. She became head of the department there in 1959. In 1969 she married Andreas Soteriou, a Cypriot businessman, and emigrated to Cyprus, where she co-founded the radiotherapy and oncology department at Nicosia General Hospital. She later established the first private radiotherapy unit at the Evangelista Clinic. She retired in 1995 and was awarded an OBE in 1998. In addition to her clinical work, she was also actively politically, and joined in protests against the Turkish occupation of the northern half of the island. Helen Soteriou died on 19 November 2012, aged 92.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003324
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First Title value, for Searching Lee, Edward Stanley (1906 - 2001)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13
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Occupation General surgeon Radiotherapist
Details Edward Stanley Lee was appointed consultant to the Westminster Hospital at the early age of 29, having spent much of his early career there. He was also consultant to Guildford Radiotherapy Centre, Mount Vernon Hospital and Radium Institute, and was civilian consultant to the Army for neoplastic disease. He was a member of the grand council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, on the Court of Examiners at the College, and was an honorary member of the Royal College of Radiologists. He retired at the age of 65. He was married to Elizabeth, who predeceased him, and they had a son and daughter, who are both graduates of the Westminster. He died on 23 October 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Rothwell, Richard Ian (1942 - 2021)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Dan Ash
Publication Date 2022-04-04 2022-04-19
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Occupation Oncologist Radiotherapist
Details Ian Rothwell was a consultant clinical oncologist at Cookridge Hospital, Leeds. He was born on 25 July 1942 in Buckingham to Mary Anne and Edward Richard Rothwell. A keen Scout, he enjoyed leading mountaineering expeditions. He studied medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, during which time carried out an elective with the Red Cross in Yemen. After qualifying in 1966, Ian trained in surgery and, after obtaining his FRCS, went to work in Sabah, East Borneo, where he met his future wife, Mary. From 1968 to 1971 he was posted to Sandakan, Semporna and Keningau, after which he returned to the UK to undergo surgical training. He returned to Malaysia, and in 1974 was appointed as a surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. In 1976 he played a key role in helping the survivors of the ‘Double Six Tragedy’, an aeroplane crash which claimed the lives of 11 people, including the then chief minister Tun Fuad Stephens. Ian returned to UK in 1978 and decided to retrain as a clinical oncologist, which he did at Cookridge Hospital in Leeds. Soon after completing his training he was appointed as a consultant with a special interest in gynaecological cancer. He also took on the care of cancer patients in Pontefract, where he became a valued and respected colleague for 35 years. Ian suffered from three separate cancers during his life and overcame them all with quiet courage. This gave him considerable empathy, which was a great help to his patients as well as the local and national cancer self-help groups to which he gave unstinting support. In retirement he developed an interest in medical history and was a popular lecturer at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds and in a variety of other venues around Yorkshire. In his last few years Ian was sustained by his wife and close family, who were by his side when he died from cerebrovascular disease on 1 August 2021. He was 79. He was survived by Mary, his wife of 51 years, their three children Robert, Martin and Tracy, and five grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Pizey, Noel Cyril Douglas (1922 - 2001)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Noel Pizey was born on 19 December 1922. He trained in medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1946. After junior posts he specialised in radiotherapy, becoming senior registrar in the department of radiotherapy at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and senior radiotherapy and surgical registrar at St Thomas's, where he was active in the study of the use of hyperbaric oxygen in radiotherapy, and the value of trans-sphenoidal hypophysectomy in the management of metastatic breast cancer. He was appointed consultant radiotherapist at the General Hospital Bristol and the Royal United Hospitals, Bath. His death was reported to the College in February 2002 but no date was given.
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First Title value, for Searching Sambrook, Denys Knight (1916 - 2002)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Denys Sambrook did his medical studies at St Thomas's Hospital where he qualified in 1938. After junior posts in orthopaedics he decided to train as a radiotherapist and for a time worked as a consultant in radiation oncology at St John Regional Hospital, New Brunswick, Canada. After being appointed first consultant to the new unit in Swansea in 1951, his career was spent in the Swansea and West Wales Hospitals. He was active in the BMA, becoming Chairman of the Swansea and West Glamorgan Division. He published and lectured extensively on split course radiation therapy and chemotherapy, with a special interest in cancer of the ear, nose and throat. In retirement he read widely, especially in French and German, in which he was fluent. He died on 23 January 2002 of bronchopneumonia and left ventricular failure, and was survived by his wife, Angela, their three children and his grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Jackson-Richmond, James (1903 - 1984)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details James (John) Jackson-Richmond (who appears in the Medical Directory before 1973 as James Jackson Richmond) graduated MB BS at Melbourne University in 1933. After obtaining his Fellowship in 1941, he specialised in radiotherapy and was at various times radiotherapist in charge of the radiotherapy department at St George's Hospital, senior radium therapist at the Westminster Hospital and medical director of the radiotherapy centre at St Luke's Hospital, Guildford. As well as writing papers on the radiotherapy of tumours of the central nervous system, he contributed chapters to Cade's *Malignant disease and its treatment by radium*, 1952, and Deelcy's *Modern radiotherapy and oncology*, 1974. He retired in 1981 and died on 12 December 1984, survived by his wife, Louise, and their two daughters, Judith and Verity.
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First Title value, for Searching Green, Theodore Anthony (1908 - 1993)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Born on 3 September 1908, Tony Green studied medicine at Otago University before coming to England in 1935 to specialise in radiotherapy. He held a number of junior posts and studied at the Radium Institute. A firm belief of his was that the effective treatment of malignancy should cause as little upset to the patient as possible. He set up the radiotherapy unit at the Royal Northern Hospital where he developed the widely publicised system of *Track and Kill*, a method by which the radiation beam was made to follow the likely cause of neoplastic infiltration. Later he became a consultant at the Royal Free Hospital. He helped to found and raise funds for the Society for the Early Detection of Cancer, as he believed that early detection was a most important factor governing long-term survival. In retirement he pursued his hobby of horticulture, to which he applied his mechanical inventiveness and knowledge of automation. He twice won prizes for his irises at the Chelsea Flower Show. He died on 3 September 1993, survived by his wife, Susan, two sons (one of whom, Gavin, is an orthopaedic surgeon) two daughters and ten grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching McEwan, Irene Margaret Stanford (1925 - 2000)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Sherrah-Davies, Evan (1922 - 1991)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01 2015-12-16
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Evan Sherrah-Davies, who was to make his career in radiotherapy, was born on 8 October 1922 in Rossendale, Lancashire. He was the son of the local general practitioner, also called Evan, who proudly kept a meticulous record of Evan's achievements, and his wife Amelia, née Oakley. After a series of prizes at Charterhouse School he went up to Christ's College Cambridge as an exhibitioner, and from there with a scholarship to Westminster Hospital Medical School. He qualified MB Cambridge in 1947. After his house jobs he joined the RAF, where he gained considerable surgical experience. He then returned to Westminster as registrar to Sir Stanford Cade and took the FRCS in 1952, but his interests were already turning to radiotherapy. Five years' training at the London Hospital led to a consultant post as radiotherapist at the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute in Manchester in 1958. There he gave 27 years of distinguished service, contributing to the literature on the subject of lung cancer and other malignancies. He married first on 5 June 1952 Yvonne Idenburg, by whom he had one daughter, Lynne. This marriage ended in divorce in 1962 and in the following year he married Christina Hancock, a radiographer. By her he had another daughter, Helen, and a son, Vaughan, but none of the children entered the medical profession. He retired in 1985 and died on 6 January 1991.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008298
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First Title value, for Searching Monypenny, Edwin Richard (1917 - 1994)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24 2015-09-23
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Edwin (Ted) Monypenny was born in Sheffield in 1917, educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and qualified from Sheffield University in 1942. He was trained as a radiotherapist at the Royal Marsden Hospital, where he worked as a registrar, and in the Northern Ireland radiotherapy unit in Belfast. He gained the FRCS in 1956. After working in the radiotherapy unit at Sheffield Royal Infirmary he was appointed radiotherapist in administrative charge of the unit at the North Staffordshire radiotherapy unit in Stoke-on-Trent. He worked there from 1965 until his retirement from practice in 1982. He served on the council of the Royal College of Radiologists from 1979 to 1982, and was President of the Section of Oncology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1980 and of the Section of Radiotherapy in 1981. After retirement he took an active part as a member of the board of directors of St Giles Hospice, Lichfield, to which he was appointed medical adviser. On becoming its President, he devoted many hours of his time to the development of the hospice and its work. In 1942, Monypenny married Isabelle Guthrie Little, a consultant anaesthetist (FFARCS 1953) and their son Ian, born in 1950, is also a Fellow of the College and a consultant in general surgery, with an interest in oncology. Edwin Monypenny died on 20 July 1994, aged 77.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007510
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First Title value, for Searching Campbell-Robson, Lorne (1916 - 1990)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Lorne Campbell-Robson was born on 10 October 1916, the son of Lorne C Robson a company director of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and his wife, Gladys, née Ray. In his early childhood he was a chorister at Westminster Abbey. His early education was at St Bees, Cumberland, and Oundle School, afterwards going up to Caius College, Cambridge, for his preclinical studies. He entered St Mary's Hospital for his clinical work and qualified in 1942. Shortly afterwards he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps where he attained the rank of Major and was mentioned in despatches. After demobilisation he returned to St Mary's Hospital as out-patient surgical registrar and radium registrar. He passed the FRCS in 1952 and the DMRT in the same year. He then embarked on a career in radiotherapy and was chief assistant in the radiotherapy centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital until 1954 when he was appointed consultant radiotherapist at the Leeds General Infirmary, to the regional radiotherapy centre at Cookridge Hospital, Leeds, and to Harrogate Health District. His particular interests were head and neck oncology and treatment of tumours in the urogenital tract. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in 1975. He retired from his hospital appointments in 1981 and held several locum posts in the Antipodes before returning to England in 1984. He settled in Oxford where he joined several literary and ecclesiastical societies and was a guide to the Bodleian and Ashmolean Libraries. He died on 24 September 1990, survived by his second wife, Gladys, a stepdaughter and four children of his first marriage.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007166
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First Title value, for Searching Bond, William Henry (1918 - 1985)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-23
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Radiotherapist
Details William Henry Bond was born on 29 December 1918. He was educated at Derby School and while a pupil there, he was a chorister at Derby Cathedral. He graduated MB ChB with first class honours in 1942 (University of Birmingham), having won a number of prizes and distinctions as an undergraduate. He became FRCS in 1944 and worked for two years as a part-time registrar in radiotherapy with John Bromley, the senior radiotherapist in Birmingham. In 1946, he joined the RAF medical service, based first at Ely and later in Karachi, where he was orthopaedic surgeon, with the rank of Squadron Leader, at No 10 RAF Hospital. After leaving the RAF in 1948, he continued his training in radiotherapy and became DMRT in 1949. He had been appointed assistant radiotherapist to the United Birmingham Hospitals in 1948 and became director when Bromley retired. He inherited a large department with growing demands on limited resources. He took a keen interest in the cancer registry and did much to establish the accuracy of the recorded information and he developed a special interest in breast cancer and radiation pulmonary fibrosis. His leisure interests were electronics, photography and sports cars. He was an enthusiastic radio "ham" and he made most of the equipment himself. He married Glenys, a medical student in his year, in 1943 and they had four daughters, one of whom is a radiotherapist. He retired early because of a myocardial infarction, and he and his wife spent most of his last years at their house in Dolgellau, Merionethshire. He died on 16 September 1985, in his 67th year, in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, survived by his wife and daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007127
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First Title value, for Searching Townsley, Gerald (1907 - 1975)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Born in Belfast on 27 December 1907, Gerald was the younger son of William Townsley and Anne, née Boyd. He was educated at Larne Grammar School and Queen's University where he obtained prizes in chemistry and anatomy and proceeded to a BSc degree with honours in anatomy, embryology and physiology in 1928. In his final year at the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast he won the prize in surgery. After qualifying in 1931 he followed his brother Norman to Salford Royal Hospital where he held several resident appointments under Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, J B Macalpine and R Ollerenshaw. He then proceeded to London and was appointed honorary surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children and later registrar to the radiotherapy unit at Mount Vernon Hospital. In 1933 he proceeded to the Primary Fellowship and obtained the Final Fellowship in 1936. He came in contact with Sir Cecil Wakeley at King's College Hospital and Godfrey Taunton, senior surgeon at St Bartholomew's, Rochester where, in 1936, he was appointed RSMO and in 1939 radiotherapeutic surgeon. In the immediate pre-war years he made long visits to continental clinics especially that of Professor Bohler, Vienna. At the beginning of the second world war his application to join the Armed Forces was not accepted as Rochester and Chatham were considered strategic targets for enemy action. Gerald Townsley was a good all round athlete and represented his University in sports. He captained his school and town teams in Rugby, during his early years in England was a regular player for Broughton Park, and the London Irish. He toured with the Manchester and Blackheath Clubs and was also a keen skier. In the post-war years he represented the Medway towns at badminton and tennis. After his retirement in 1973 his colleagues formed a trust in his honour for a travelling scholarship for young surgeons. His brother Norman was senior surgeon to the Norwich United Hospitals, and his cousin J D Boyd, an exact contemporary, was Regius Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge. Shortly before his retirement he married Marie Alice Wagner, daughter of George Wagner, a member and Vice-President of the Luxembourg Parliament. He died in King's College Hospital 9 April 1975 and the burial service was held in Rochester Cathedral 16 April.
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First Title value, for Searching Maclaren, Robert Gordon Campbell (1923 - 1980)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Robert Maclaren was born in Glasgow on 27 October 1923 and was educated at Glasgow Academy. His preclinical medical education was at King's College, London, before qualifying from the Westminster Hospital. After two years of resident appointments at the Westminster and Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals, he served in the RAF from 1948 to 1950 before taking the FRCS. On demobilization he spent two years as a registrar in radiotherapy at Westminster Hospital during which time he completed the DMRT. In 1954 he was appointed radiotherapist to the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation at the Hamilton Clinic where he made important contributions during the next 25 years. In 1977 he became acting director of the Ontario Cancer Foundation and was appointed head of the department of radiotherapy at the Hamilton Clinic in 1978. He also served on the staff of the Hamilton Civic Hospitals, McMaster University Medical Centre, St Joseph's Hospital and Chedoke Hospital. Maclaren had a notable capacity for hard work and an intuitive sympathy which contributed greatly to his compassionate care of patients. His interests outside his medical work were wide and he was a founder member of the Bruce Trail Association in 1961. He was also a member of the Wild Life Advisory Board of the Hamilton Region Conservation Authority. He published a number of papers concerning cancer of the lip, the ovary and the rectum, and on the use of adjuvant chemotherapy. He died on January 28 1980 as a result of multiple injuries sustained in a road traffic accident. He was survived by his wife, Gertraut, daughter Gretal and two sons, Robert and Peter.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Robert Alexander Russe (1911 - 1958)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon Radiotherapist
Details Born on 21 October 1911 the second son of Robert Taylor, a fruiterer, and his wife née Young, he was educated at Hillhead High School, Glasgow and Glasgow University, where he graduated in science in 1933 and qualified in medicine in 1936. He served as resident surgical officer at Bolton Royal Infirmary, and was medical superintendent and surgeon at the Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, and at Driffield Emergency Hospital during the war of 1939-45. He took the Fellowship, though not previously a Member of the College, and the Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1947. He received the MCh degree from Glasgow in 1950, and the Diploma in Medical Radiotherapy of the English Colleges on 9 July 1953, when for reasons of health he decided to practise as a radiotherapist rather than a general surgeon. He was admitted to the Faculty of Radiologists, and appointed assistant radiotherapist under the Leeds Regional Hospital Board. He had been a Hunterian Professor at the College in 1949, when he lectured on acute pancreatitis. Russell Taylor married in 1941 Gladys M Witcombe, who survived him with their son. He died at 74 St Michael's Road, Headingley, Leeds on 29 March 1958, after long illness, aged 46. Publications: Spontaneous rupture of the urinary bladder. *Brit J Urol* 1948, 20, 117. Acute pancreatitis. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl* 1949, 5, 213. Wilms' tumour. *Brit J Surg* 1950, 37, 283.
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First Title value, for Searching Snelling, Margaret Dorothy (1914 - 1997)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Margaret Dorothy Snelling was a consultant radiotherapist at Middlesex Hospital and the first female President of the European Association of Radiology. She was born on 20 September 1914, and educated at Wimbledon High School for Girls. She went on to study at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine for Women, where she qualified in 1938. She held house appointments at the Royal Free and Chelmsford. In 1940 she was associate radiotherapist at the Middlesex Hospital and took her DMR and MRCP. With the men away at war, she became a surgeon at Chase Farm Emergency Hospital, in general and neurosurgery, and gained her FRCS. She was general and orthopaedic surgeon at Haymeads Emergency Hospital from 1944 to 1946, and assistant neurosurgeon in Sheffield. She returned to the Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy at the Middlesex in 1947, as assistant radiotherapist and deputy director to Sir Brian Windeyer, and was also consultant to the Marie Curie and Bedford General Hospitals. She was director of the Meyerstein Institute from 1969 to 1979. She was a pioneer in the use of computers, this being the subject of her presidential address to the British Institute of Radiology in 1967. She was internationally famous for teaching overseas postgraduate students, and after retirement she visited India, Egypt and the Sudan, to promote - in collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Authority - schemes for treatment of cervical cancer in the developing world, where it is very prevalent. When her sister-in-law died, she became a dedicated aunt to her children, and was stimulated to undertake a study of ovarian cancer. Her work was always characterised by dedication and kindness, and consideration for her patients. She was gregarious and sociable, tenacious and tough, and had a good sense of humour. Despite having an untreated congenital heart abnormality, she was a keen tennis player and fenced for London University. She died on 24 April 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Digges La Touche, Alexander Arthur (1899 - 1981)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-26
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Alexander Digges La Touche, the son of a general practitioner, was born at Ossett, Yorkshire, on 31 December 1899. On leaving Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, he entered the Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth before serving as an Executive Officer in the Royal Navy during the first world war. He retired as a Lieutenant RN in 1922 and became an undergraduate at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, before proceeding to Leeds for his clinical training. After taking the final Conjoint examination he was house surgeon and resident gynaecological officer at the General Infirmary, Leeds, and later assistant medical officer to the department of venereology. He then decided to take up radiotherapy and completed his Cambridge degrees after passing the DMR examination. He subsequently became director of the radiotherapy department at the General Infirmary, Leeds, and senior lecturer in radiotherapy at Leeds University. During the second world war he served in the medical division of the Royal Navy and was demobilised with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. Digges La Touche was a keen skier, swimmer and araneologist and held a private pilot's licence. He died on 14 January 1981 and was survived by his wife, Joan Cotton Marshall, whom he married in 1927 and they had one son.
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First Title value, for Searching Van Miert, Pieter James Marinus (1919 - 1967)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Pieter Van Miert was born in Ireland and educated in Dublin at the Catholic University School and at University College where he graduated MB with first class honours in 1943. He immediately joined the RAMC and served in England and India till the end of the second world war in 1945. During the next six years he equipped himself as a surgeon and radiotherapist, taking the higher degrees listed above, and in 1951 was appointed radiotherapy registrar at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford. He moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1954 as radiotherapist at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, where the rest of his career was spent. He was elected an original Fellow of the new Faculty of Radiology of Ireland in 1964. Van Miert was a complete doctor. He felt a deeply religious concern for his patients, especially those incurably ill, he was a skilful deviser of new methods of treatment, and he was an active research worker. At first he was chiefly interested in radiological treatment of malignant disease of the female genital tract and collaborated closely with his gynaecological colleagues. Then he pioneered the treatment of osteoarthritis of the hip joint by placing cobalt-60 in the femoral head. In the laboratory he studied the fundamental effects of ionising radiation on the tissues, and was exploring the irradiation of the lymphatic capillaries in animals. Van Miert died on 20 April 1967, aged 48 survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching McArthur, John McArthur (1911 - 1981)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details John McArthur was born in Doncaster in 1911 and was one of three brothers who trained at Guy's Hospital. He graduated in 1934 and after several resident appointments at Guy's, including a house surgeon job with Sir Heneage Ogilvie, he decided on a career in surgery after demonstrating physiology. At the outbreak of war he spent some five years in the RAF medical branch attached to Bomber Command, returning to Guy's as a surgical registrar. He then served as a senior surgical registrar at Chester where he met his wife, Pauline, an anaesthetist. A long-standing interest in neoplastic disease attracted him back to the department of radiotherapy at Guy's, a small unit under the directorship of Carter Braine. From a senior registrarship there he moved to Newcastle as consultant radiotherapist in 1953 and, on the death of Carter Braine in the following year, he was appointed assistant surgeon to the radiotherapy department at Guy's. He also became consultant radiotherapist to Pembury Hospital in Kent and later held appointments at Farnborough Hospital and West Hill Hospital, Dartford. Following his succession as consultant radiotherapist at Guy's he remained there until his retirement in 1976 with emeritus status. John McArthur harnessed his skills as an experienced clinician and general surgeon to the discipline of radiotherapy. Together with Tony Wayte he helped to plan a new radiotherapy department at Guy's which was opened in 1960, and a year later this included one of the first linear accelerators in the country. He collaborated well with his colleagues in allied disciplines, gave forthright and clear statements of policy and maintained high standards of training. He was never keen to give formal lectures and preferred to devote himself to the service of his patients who appreciated his compassionate and commonsense approach. Together with Philip Reading, then consultant ENT surgeon to Guy's, he set up one of the first multidisciplinary clinics to review patients with head-and-neck malignancies. He had a very happy family life in Blackheath with many friends. He was interested in gardening, antiques and sport (especially cricket) and was justly proud of his villa and garden in Portugal. He died of malignant disease on 11 June 1981, after a long illness, born with dignity and courage, and was survived by his wife, son John, also an anaesthetist, and daughter Anne, a physician.
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First Title value, for Searching Francis, William John Lawrence (1906 - 1994)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Radiotherapist
Details William Francis was born on 10 June 1906 in Twechar, Dumbartonshire, the eldest son of the Reverend James Francis and his wife Janet Bilsland, née Mackellar. He was educated at the Greenock Academy and at Glasgow University, where he distinguished himself by winning the BMA Essay Prize. He qualified MB ChB in 1928, then came south for his junior hospital appointments between 1929 and 1936. At the Bradford Royal Infirmary he worked for James Philips who set him on the surgical road; in Salford he was strongly influenced by Sir Geoffrey Jefferson but here he also fell under the spell of the theatre sister Frances Chapman, whom he married in 1936. In the same year he gained both his FRCS and the ChM of Glasgow and was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Halifax Infirmary. At the outbreak of war he volunteered for military service but was directed to remain in Halifax as both surgeon and general practitioner. In 1946, however, he was able to join up and served as lieutenant colonel RAMC in Trieste, treating many of the wounded from the Yugoslav conflict. After demobilisation he decided on a career switch: he enrolled on a two year course in radiotherapy at Liverpool University, emerging with the MRad Liverpool and the DMRT in 1949. He was consultant radiotherapist at the Liverpool Radium Institute for two years but in 1951 was appointed to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in the same capacity, retiring in 1971 after twenty years of distinguished service. A kindly man of great integrity, he won respect for these qualities wherever he worked. He was a man of wide interests, enjoying literature, French conversation and astronomy, and regularly attended church. He took up computer programming at the age of 62. He died on 2 October 1994, his wife having predeceased him in 1989. He was survived by his only son, James Stewart Macduff Francis, a computer systems analyst.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Arthur Edward (1919 - 1999)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Arthur Jones was a pioneering radiotherapist. He was born in Wrexham, North Wales, on 1 February 1919. His father, Edward Hugh Jones, died when he was young and he was brought up by his mother, Margaret Lloyd Jones. He was educated at Grove Park School, where he became interested in physics, and his decision (at the age of 17) to become a radiotherapist was encouraged by his mother. He won the Jeaffreson entrance exhibition to Bart's in French and mathematics, and there proceeded to gain a dazzling number of awards. He gained scholarships in anatomy and physiology, the Harvey prize in physiology, the Wix prize, the Brackenbury scholarship, the Dame Dorothy Jeffreys exhibition, the Dodd memorial award and the Wall bursary. Girling Ball was the Dean, but his real hero was Frank Lloyd Hopwood, the Professor of Physics. He was dresser to Paterson Ross, who was the clinician who influenced him most. On qualifying, he was house physician to Christie and house surgeon to Douglas Northfield at the London, who kindled his interest in the nervous system. On joining the RAMC, he served at the Military Hospital for Head Injuries at St Hughes, Oxford, along with Walpole Lewin, under Sir Hugh Cairns and Sir Charles Symonds, ending as a Major in charge of a neurological centre in Hamburg, where he became an expert in the management of head injuries. On returning to Bart's after the war, he served as chief assistant to I G Williams, and, in 1950, he was appointed consultant (at the age of 30), as deputy director in the radiotherapeutic department. He became physician to the department in 1961 and director in 1972. In 1974, the title of Professor of Radiotherapy was conferred on him by the University of London, the first such title to be awarded to an NHS consultant. He was Vice-President of the Royal College of Radiologists from 1967 to 1968, and was co-opted to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons to represent radiology in 1973. He was Hunterian Professor in 1960, and was made an FRCS by election in 1978. He was much sought after to lecture abroad and served on innumerable committees. He was Dean of the Medical College at Bart's from 1968 to 1969. He was particularly interested in music and the history of art. He married Caroline Bonsor in 1945. They had one daughter, Deirdre Anne, and one son, Daril Peregrine Lloyd, a dental surgeon. He died on 4 July 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Phillips, Ralph Francis (1903 - 1989)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-02
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Ralph Francis Phillips was born in London on 8 May 1903 the son of Lorraine Phillips, a printer, and Emma, née Kerrison. At the age of ten he went to Christ's Hospital, where he remained for nine years until he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. There he won the junior scholarship in 1923, the senior scholarship in 1925, the Brackenbury scholarship in surgery in 1927 and later as a post-graduate the Luther Holden research scholarship in surgery in 1930. He qualified in 1927 and after junior appointments passed the London MS in 1930 and the FRCS two years later. Although he had intended to pursue a career in surgery, his interest was particularly in the treatment of malignant disease and he joined the department of radiotherapy at St Bartholomew's as chief assistant from 1932 to 1940. He passed the DMRE a year after joining the department, working under Dr Neville S Finzi, who had been in charge since 1912 and who had pioneered treatment with mega-voltage irradiation. As early as 1938 he was able to demonstrate its value in producing complete regression of an inoperable rectal carcinoma in a patient who survived for over twenty years. At the outbreak of war he was placed in charge of the radiotherapy department and was the sole radiotherapist running both the deep x-ray and supervoltage departments. Despite a heavy workload he was able to write Supervoltage x-ray therapy, in conjunction with George Innes, which was published in 1944 and was widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. It attracted the attention of the distinguished American, James Ewing (of Ewing's tumour) who had met Ralph Phillips before the war and was determined to secure his services for the Memorial Hospital in New York. He started work there as attending radiotherapist in 1945 but shortly after his arrival suffered a serious recurrence of pulmonary tuberculosis, success-fully treated with streptomycin which had then just become available in the United States. He soon resumed his work especially in the treatment of bone tunours and childhood cancer with megavoltage therapy. He was elected Hunterian Professor in 1952, giving a lecture on the treatment of neuroblastoma and in the same year was appointed Professor of Radiation Therapy at Cornell University, New York, and later departmental chairman at Memorial-Sloane Kettering. His retirement in 1968 was marked by an international symposium in his honour. After retirement he continued to live at Mendham, New Jersey, with his wife, Barbara whom he had married in 1932. His only son Paul graduated MD from Albany University and became Professor of Medicine at Syracuse University, New York. He died at his home in Mendham on 17 July 1989 aged 86 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Smithers, Sir David Waldron (1908 - 1995)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-02
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details David Waldron Smithers was born on 17 January 1908 in Knockholt, Kent, the home of his father Sir Waldron Smithers JP, stockbroker and staunchly Conservative MP, and of his grandfather Sir Alfred Smithers MP, chairman of the Canadian Grand Trunk Railway. A knighthood was clearly an obligatory achievement for David and was most richly deserved when it came. Charterhouse, Clare College Cambridge and St Thomas's provided his education. He qualified in 1933 and in the same year married Gladys Margaret Angel, by whom he was to have a son, Andrew, now a merchant banker, and a daughter, Elizabeth, now married to a major general. After sampling several specialties in junior appointments he settled on radiotherapy, although at the time this also required considerable experience in diagnostic radiology. He was appointed director of the radiotherapy department at the Royal Marsden in 1943 and Professor of Radiotherapy in the Institute of Cancer Research in 1946. With the ready co-operation of the surgeons he transformed the work of his department and the general policy of the Royal Marsden, making it a leading centre for the treatment of cancer not only by external irradiation but also by the use of implanted radio isotopes. He acknowledged as his particular guides on the surgical side Cecil Joll and Laurence Abel, as well as Sir Clement Price Thomas at the Brompton, where he was also a consultant. In his turn he exercised enormous influence over the younger generation of surgeons, particularly the urologists. As Chairman of the Faculty of Radiology from 1958 to 1961 he was a co-opted member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons and was elected a Fellow in 1963. Besides working for the advancement of his specialty he gave stalwart service to many NHS bodies, as a member of the Central Health Services Council, the Standing Medical Advisory Committee and the Cancer Advisory Sub-Committee. He was knighted in 1969 and also received widespread international recognition. He was made a Knight Commander of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. With all this he remained the most friendly and approachable of men and settled to a serene retirement cultivating remarkable roses in a garden of his own creation, while writing a stylish but light-hearted biography of Jane Austen, a volume of reminiscences and an amusing account of doctors who were also writers. He died peacefully at home on 20 July 1995, survived by his children.
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First Title value, for Searching Paterson, James Ralston Kennedy (1897 - 1981)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-25
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Occupation Radiotherapist
Details James Paterson was born in Edinburgh on 21 May 1897. After education at George Heriot's School, Edinburgh, he served from 1915 to 1918 as an officer with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was awarded the Military Cross. Graduating with honours from Edinburgh University in 1923, he shortly went into radiology and held training appointments in Chicago, Toronto, South Africa, and a Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. He returned to Edinburgh in 1930 in acting director of the department of radiology at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He then decided to specialise in the newly emerging specialty of radiotherapy. In 1932 he was appointed director of the Manchester and District Radium Institute which became the amalgamated Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute in the following year. The most formative years of the Manchester department were in its first decade when Paterson built up a centralised well-equipped radiotherapy centre with a network of peripheral clinics extending to a population of four and a half millions. The Paterson Parker rules, a system for ensuring precise and reproducible dosimetry in radium therapy is still in regular use to-day all over the world, though now very largely applied to radium's successors. With a carefully picked staff his department developed the Manchester method of treatment for cancer of the cervix uteri, the technique of precise and balanced beam directed X-ray therapy, and the concept of optimum dose, all of which were fundamental to the development of modern radiotherapy. Paterson was a pioneer in public education about cancer and set up what is now the Manchester Regional Committee on Cancer Education. This centre was unique in devising methods of measuring the effectiveness of this public education. Aware of the need for fundamental research, he developed what is today the very large multi-disciplinary Paterson Research Laboratories, with a staff exceeding 200, and where his wife, Dr Edith Paterson, was the first radiotherapist elucidating clinical problems in the laboratory. His bold organisational skill led to many invitations from overseas to visit and advise governments and related organisations. He was President of the British Society of Radiotherapists, 1938-1939, a founder member of the Faculty of Radiologists (now the Royal College of Radiologists) and its President from 1943 to 1946. He was elected to the FRCS in 1948 and appointed CBE in 1950, during which year he was President of the first post war International Congress of Radiology in London. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Society of Apothecaries in 1961 and of the Faculty of Radiologists in 1966, having been appointed Professor of Radiotherapeutics in the University of Manchester just two years before his retirement. He and his wife then turned their energies to developing a first-class sheep and cattle farm near Moffat, in Scotland. They both retained their lifelong interest in the affairs of the Christie Hospital and made their old friends warmly welcome at their new home. Paterson died there on 29 August 1981 and was survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Van den Brenk, Hendrick Athos Sydney (1921 - 1992)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

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 Windeyer, Sir Brian Wellingham (1904 - 1994)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

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 Williams, Ivor Glyn (1907 - 1989)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-14
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Occupation General surgeon Radiotherapist
Details Ivor Glyn Williams, the third son of Josiah Williams, a wholesale grocer, and of Ellen Williams (née Rowlands), was born at Pwllheli, North Wales, on 29 August 1907. He was educated at Pwllheli Grammar School and the University of London, before graduating in 1931 at the Middlesex Hospital where he was successively house physician, house surgeon, obstetric house physician and house surgeon to the ENT department. He recorded his indebtedness at this stage to W Sampson Handley, Gordon Gordon-Taylor, Victor Bonney, Eric Pearce Gould and David Patey. After securing his FRCS in 1936 he decided to specialise in radiotherapy and was appointed assistant radiotherapist to the Meyerstein Institute where he joined BW (later Sir Brian) Windeyer. He soon had the distinction of being awarded a Rockefeller Travelling Scholarship (1938-1939) to study megavoltage radiotherapy which was then in its early stages in the United States. He visited many of the major cancer centres there and developed several lifelong friendships, notably with CD Haagensen of Columbia Medical Center, though he never shared that great man's enthusiasm for radical mastectomy. During the second world war "IG" as he was widely known, worked at the Middlesex and at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, serving both as radiotherapist and general surgeon to the Emergency Medical Service. He and Brian Windeyer, together with Professor (later Sir) Alan Moncrieff, took a particular interest in childhood malignant disease at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. In 1944 he was appointed consultant radiotherapist to Cardiff Royal Infirmary. By 1947 he was back in London as the first director of the new independent department of radiotherapy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he had a large complement of beds widely scattered around the hospital. Despite the disadvantages of such geographical spread, "IG" always regarded this as giving him a unique opportunity to bring his staff into close touch with every medical and surgical unit. He also had charge of the only one million volt X-ray therapy machine, installed as early as 1936 by the generosity of Lady Houston and used uninterruptedly throughout the war. After analysing the early results he extended the techniques for management of advanced rectal and cervical carcinoma, and also for treatment of tumours of the thymus and glomus jugulare. All this was achieved in collaboration with colleagues in many different specialties, leading on to the acquisition of a 15 MV linear accelerator with both X-ray and electron beams for clinical and experimental research. After a collaborative review with Reginald Murley and Michael Curwen of the Bart's breast cancer experience in the 1930s (which included the significantly conservative practice of Sir Geoffrey Keynes), the group had no hesitation in advocating simple surgery with or without radiotherapy. Williams was a notable exponent both of more kindly surgery and radiotherapy, ever ready to spare his patients the ordeal of needless overtreatment and thereby collaborating happily with many surgeons from outside St Bartholomew's. He also made notable contributions with the ophthalmologist, HB Stallard, to the treatment of retinoblastoma. With the recognition that malignant disease was second only to accident as a cause of death in childhood, it was natural for the Hospital for Sick Children to turn to IG Williams when developing treatment facilities. Although he regularly visited and formulated treatment policies with his many paediatric colleagues there, he rightly persuaded them that it would be in the best interests of their young patients to have the radiotherapy at Bart's. His vast experience in this field was shown in his book *Tumours of childhood* (1972). Although an outstanding exponent of his specialty, IG was first and foremost a kindly doctor; his compassionate management of patients, young and old, was a joy to behold. Glyn had a well earned international reputation in paediatric oncology, whilst nationally he had been President of both the British Institute of Radiology in 1956, and of the Radiology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1968. Under his kindly direction his department became ever more highly regarded by a wide range of clinicians in many specialties. He was a quiet man and a rather private person with a delightful sense of humour. He married Dora Hughes in 1936 and they had one daughter and one son. On retiring from his hospital appointments in 1972 he and Dora returned to North Wales, close to his birthplace, where he happily cultivated his garden and enjoyed the companionship of family and friends. During that period he happily survived the elective resection of an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta and a gastric resection for cancer, as well as a succession of Stokes-Adams attacks which were relieved by cardiac pacemaker. When he died suddenly at Pwllheli on 9 June 1989, aged 81, he was survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching Hilton, Mrs Elfrida Lilian Gwendolen (Gwen) (1898 - 1971)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-11
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005700-E005799
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377968377968
Occupation Radiotherapist
Details Gwen Hilton was born on 22 September 1898, the daughter of Micaiah John Muller Hill, FRS, Professor of Pure Mathematics, University College, London, and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of London. Her mother was Minnie Grace, daughter of Marriott Ogle Tarbotton of Nottingham. There were two other children by the marriage, both sons. Gwen was educated at Roedean School, University College, London, and University College Hospital. At UCL as a student in 1920 she took the gold medal in the senior physiology class and in 1921 the BSc with first class honours. In 1924 at UCH Medical School she graduated MB, BS London. In 1925 she married Reginald Hilton who later became consultant physician to St Thomas's Hospital. Her only child, Clare (Mrs Terrell) is also a radiotherapist. She was appointed assistant radiologist to UCH in 1931 and in 1932 took the DMRE. From the first her interest lay in radiotherapy and in 1938, on the establishment of a radiotherapy department at the hospital, she became its first radiotherapist. In 1940 she was made a Fellow of the Faculty of Radiotherapists. In 1948 she was given the title of Director of the Radiotherapy Department, UCH. She retired in 1963 with the title of consulting radiotherapist to the hospital. In 1946 she was elected a Fellow of University College and in 1955 an Honorary FRCS. In 1959 her services to radiotherapy were recognised by her appointment as CBE. The radiotherapy department at UCH was very much of her own creation, not only in its professional excellence, but also in the way in which it reflected her talent for artistic decoration and her taste in pictures. It was her constant endeavour to make her patients feel the friendly welcome and confidence which she established throughout her staff which was the reflection of her own generous and sympathetic personality. In return she was rewarded by the trust and often by the personal friendship of many. Her intersts, shared with her husband, were wide and included music, languages, travel and literature and she was a keen gardener. They lived at 8 Elm Tree Road, St John's Wood, NW8. In her latter years after she retired from UCH her activity was greatly reduced by illness though she kept her interest in people and the arts and with it a valuable sense of humour. She died on 8 July 1971, aged 72. Her husband died in 1969.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005785
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Bloom, Harris Julian Gaster (1923 - 1988)

2024-04-30T11:19:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-24
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007100-E007199
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379315379315
Occupation Pathologist Radiotherapist
Details Julian Bloom was born in Sheffield on 30 June 1923 and moved to London at the age of seven where he was educated at the Fleet School, Kilburn, and the Regent Street Polytechnic. In 1942 he entered Middlesex Hospital Medical School and in 1946 was student house surgeon to Lord Webb-Johnson, Sir Eric Riches and Sir Brian Windeyer. He qualified in 1947 and after serving as house physician to Dr G E Beaumont was appointed assistant pathologist to the Bland-Sutton Institute. At this stage he started research on the natural history of breast cancer, its pathology and prognosis which led to a joint paper with W W Richardson in the *British journal of cancer* relating the grade of malignancy to prognosis in a study of 1,409 patients. He passed the London MD in 1949, and took the MRCP in the following year. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1950 serving as a specialist in pathology at the military hospital in Oxford, attaining the rank of Major. His research work continued with a joint study on the early diagnosis of spinal tumours. After demobilisation he became senior registrar at the Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy, working under Sir Brian Windeyer. He passed the DMRT in 1954 and the FRCR in 1956. He joined the department of radiotherapy at the Royal Marsden Hospital in 1958 at a time when high energy linear accelerators were becoming available and in the days when the treatment of malignant tumours by chemotherapy was being introduced. In addition to his appointment at the Royal Marsden Hospital he was consultant radiotherapist to St Peter's, St Paul's and St Philip's Hospitals and to the Institute of Urology, to St Mary Abbot's Hospital and to Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton. In addition he was visiting Professor to the Institute of Cancer Research, London and honorary consultant in radiotherapy to the neurosurgical department of St George's Hospital. He was also adviser to the developing cancer services in Israel. His chief interest was the application of radiotherapy and high-dosage chemotherapy to the treatment of intracranial tumours and with the support of neurosurgeons from the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Atkinson Morley's Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street he established a specialised neuro-oncology unit for both children and adults at the Royal Marsden Hospital with specialists in endocrinology, medicine, psychology and rehabilitation. In 1972 he was elected Chairman of the Brain Tumour Study Group of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology. His capacity for clinical work was prodigious and he applied painstaking attention to detail. He spared no effort for his patients and out-patient clinics and ward rounds sometimes continued until midnight. Above all he displayed humanity and kindness to his patients and had a warm understanding of their problems. Many honours were accorded to him including election to the honorary fellowship of the American College of Radiology, the American Academy of Paediatrics and the Belgian Radiotherapy Society. In 1985 he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. He retired from his health service appointments in 1987 but continued his professional life as co-chairman of the Cromwell Centre for Radiotherapy and Oncology. He continued to work there until two weeks before his death on 21 December 1988, tragically from the disease which his life's work had been devoted to treating. To commemorate his 30 years on the staff in 1988 the principal lecture theatre in the Royal Marsden Hospital was named the "Julian Bloom Lecture Theatre" and an international conference was held in honour of his career. He married Barbara Snowman on 1 March 1955 and there were two daughters and one son of the marriage. One daughter has qualified in medicine and is a general practitioner, another daughter is working as a paramedic in the United States and his son is a medical student at Middlesex Hospital.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007132
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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