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First Title value, for Searching Lee, Edward Stanley (1906 - 2001)

2024-05-21T09:57:07Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008731
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Robert Alexander Russe (1911 - 1958)

2024-05-21T09:57:07Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005413
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First Title value, for Searching Francis, William John Lawrence (1906 - 1994)

2024-05-21T09:57:07Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007938
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Ivor Glyn (1907 - 1989)

2024-05-21T09:57:07Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007764
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