Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Trauma surgeon

First Title value, for Searching Gajjar, Girish Sankal Chand (1940 - 2015)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2018-11-26
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Occupation Trauma surgeon
Details Girish Sankal Chand Gajjar was a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon. He gained his FRCS in 1994. His last-known address was in London.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008078
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First Title value, for Searching Kumarasinghe, Lachlan (1927 - 2006)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-16 2014-11-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373950373950
Occupation Trauma surgeon
Details Lachlan Kumarasinghe was a trauma surgeon at Kettering General Hospital. He was born in Colombo, in what was then Ceylon, on 16 September 1927, the son of Cyril Mendis Kumarasinghe, an interpreter, and Florence Bridget Kumarasinghe née Fernando. Two of his brothers - Hiary and Merlyn - also became surgeons and fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. Lachlan Kumarasinghe held his post at Kettering from 1970 until his retirement in 1992. His wife, Mrs B Kumarasinghe, informed the College of his death on 7 September 2006. He was 78.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001767
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First Title value, for Searching Lalljee, Nazim (1928 - 2014)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-09-19 2016-11-03
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378155378155
Occupation Trauma surgeon
Details Natzim Lalljee was a consultant trauma surgeon in Kidderminster Hospital, and head of the accident and emergency department until his retirement in 1996. He was born in Bombay, India on 5 May 1928. He studied medicine at Grant Medical College, Bombay, qualifying in 1952. He gained his FRCS in 1958. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a thoracic surgical registrar at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, and a residential surgical officer at Kidderminster and at Hull Royal Infirmary. Natzim Lalljee died on 1 July 2014. He was 86.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005972
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Philip ( - 2018)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-03-19
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Occupation Naval surgeon Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Philip Jones was a surgeon commander in the Royal Navy. 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: E009716
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, Raymond Henry Leighton (1927 - 2015)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2017-12-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379637379637
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Raymond Brown was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon who worked in Stockport. He was born on 29 November 1927 and studied medicine in Manchester, qualifying in 1951. He gained his FRCS in 1964.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007454
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First Title value, for Searching Hague, John Malcolm Seaforth ( - 2007)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-05 2015-03-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373999373999
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Malcolm Seaforth Hague was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Kettering General Hospital. He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1953. He was a registrar in general surgery at Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital before specialising in orthopaedics. He was a registrar and senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital prior to his appointment to his consultant post at Kettering. He is believed to have died in 2007.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001816
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First Title value, for Searching Marsden, Hugh Ernest (1917 - 2005)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-12-18
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009600-E009699
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Hugh Ernest Marsden was born on 17 June 1917 in Australia and qualified MB, BS from Sydney University before travelling to the UK to study for his fellowship. He worked as a surgical registrar at the Rochford General Hospital and passed his FRCS in 1952. On his return to Australia, he was appointed surgeon at the Woolongong District Hospital and became a consultant in trauma and orthopaedics. He died on 8 June 2005 aged 87.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009692
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First Title value, for Searching Birtwistle, Stuart John (1961 - 2020)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2020-11-02
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009800-E009899
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Stuart John Birtwistle (Birty) was born on 2 December 1961. He studied medicine in Dundee and graduated MB, ChB in 1988. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1992 and worked for the NHS as an orthopaedic surgeon in Leicester for over 30 years. He died on 13 June 2020 aged 60 years, survived by his wife Alison and his children, Laura and Joseph.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009858
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First Title value, for Searching Muir, Fiona May (1971 - 2015)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2017-06-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378977378977
Occupation Hand surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Fiona Muir was a consultant orthopaedic hand surgeon at the Sussex Orthopaedic Treatment Centre. She was born on 9 August 1971 and studied medicine at Bristol University, qualifying in 1994. She gained her FRCS in 1998 and prior to her consultant appointment was a specialist registrar at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. She died on 3 February 2015 at the age of 43.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006794
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First Title value, for Searching Fitzgerald, James Anthony Walden ( - 2014)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-12-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378319378319
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details James Anthony Walden Fitzgerald was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Southampton and at the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, Alton. He studied at Cambridge University and at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1961. He gained his FRCS in 1965. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior registrar and senior surgical officer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. James Anthony Walden Fitzgerald died on 19 August 2014.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006136
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First Title value, for Searching Nott, Malcolm George (1925 - 2004)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-10 2015-04-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373743373743
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Malcolm George Nott was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Rochdale. He was born on 8 July 1925 and studied medicine in Madras, India, qualifying MB BS in 1952. Prior to his appointment in Rochdale he held posts at Hartshill Orthopaedic Hospital, North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, and Biddulph Grange Hospital. He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association. The RCS was notified of his death in August 2004.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001560
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First Title value, for Searching Wise, Kenneth Stanley (1940 - 2023)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-12-19
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599
Occupation Hand surgeon Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Kenneth Stanley Wise was a consultant in orthopaedic surgery at Amersham and Wycombe hospitals.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010584
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First Title value, for Searching Burgess, David Martin (1928 - 2020)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-08-12
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009700-E009799
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details David Martin Burgess was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He was born in London on 10 February 1928, the son of Gilbert Beckett Burgess and Margaret Jessie Burgess née Morley. He attended Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1954. He gained his FRCS in 1960 and became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1964. He was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. In 1955 he married Jeanne Howells. Burgess died on 26 April 2020. He was 92.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009762
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First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Alwyn (1925 - 2016)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-07-12 2020-07-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381545381545
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon Hand surgeon
Details Alwyn Wilkinson was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Oldham Hospital. He was born on 9 March 1925. His mother’s maiden name was Day. He grew up in Hollinwood, Oldham and studied medicine at Manchester University. He qualified in 1949 and gained his FRCS in 1961. He trained in Manchester and Oldham, and worked in hospitals in Ashton and Bolton. In 1970, he returned to Oldham as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialising in treating hand injuries. He was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and a member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He retired in 1989. In 1961, he married Ursula M Atherton. They had a son, Robert, a daughter, Claire, and five grandchildren. Predeceased by his wife in 1997, Alwyn Wilkinson died on 13 February 2016. He was 90.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009362
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First Title value, for Searching Stossel, Clifford Alain ( - 2024)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2024-04-30
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Clifford Stossel was an orthopaedic surgeon who lived in Ashford, Kent. 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: E010612
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First Title value, for Searching Barton, Nicholas James (1935 - 2023)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2024-03-14
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599
Occupation Hand surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Nicholas Barton was a consultant orthopaedic and hand surgeon at Queen’s Medical Centre and Harlow Wood Hospital, Nottingham.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010598
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First Title value, for Searching Verinder, David George Reginald (1945 - 2015)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

First Title value, for Searching Moynihan, Francis John (1928- 2019)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-02-19
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009700-E009799
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Francis Moynihan was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital. He was born on 30 January 1928. He studied medicine at University College Hospital School of Medicine, qualifying in 1951. He was a house physician and house surgeon at University College Hospital and then a senior house officer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Prior to his consultant appointment in Hampshire, he was a senior orthopaedic registrar at Guy’s Hospital, London. He gained his FRCS in 1958. He died on 25 December 2019 in Salisbury, Hampshire, and was survived by his widow, Anne.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009712
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First Title value, for Searching Birch, Rolfe (1944 - 2023)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-11-10
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Rolfe Birch was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. 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: E010472
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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, David (1943 - 2021)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-07-28
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details David Campbell was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Countess of Chester Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010142
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First Title value, for Searching Bliss, Philip (1931 - 2022)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-12-09
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Philip Bliss was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and medical director at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. 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: E010181
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First Title value, for Searching Bryant, Kenneth Marrable (1927 - 2008)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-11-25
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009800-E009899
Occupation Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Kenneth Marrable Bryant was an honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St George’s and Bolingbroke hospitals, London. He was born on 13 June 1927, the son of Philip Harry Bryant and Hilda Gertrude Bryant née Linch. He studied medicine at King’s College London and Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1950. He was a registrar in orthopaedics at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and then a registrar and senior registrar in orthopaedics at Charing Cross Hospital. He gained his FRCS in 1958. He was subsequently appointed to St George’s and Bolingbroke hospitals. He was also a visiting consultant orthopaedic surgeon to HM Prison Service. He married Rosemary Hawkins in 1952. Bryant died on 6 November 2008 in London. He was 81.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009885
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First Title value, for Searching Clothier, John Campbell (1944- 2020)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-04-14
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Campbell Clothier was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Sandwell General Hospital, West Bromwich. He was born on 25 February 1944, the son of John G Clothier and Annabella Clothier née Gibson. He was educated at Repton School and then went on to study medicine at Oxford, gaining his MRCS LRCP in 1969 and a BM BCh in 1970. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a house surgeon, house physician and senior house officer in the accident and emergency department at Stafford General Infirmary. He gained his FRCS in 1976 and was a senior registrar in orthopaedics at St George’s Hospital, London. He was chair of Sandwell Healthwatch. Clothier died on 16 March 2020. He was 76.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009735
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First Title value, for Searching Arafa, Mohamed Aly Mohamed (1950 - 2015)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-04-17 2018-03-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379295379295
Occupation Hand surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Mohamed Aly Mohamed Arafa was a consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. His sub-specialty was hand surgery. He was born on 9 May 1950 and gained his MB BCh from Cairo University in 1973 and his FRCS in 1978. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar in Bristol and a senior registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. Mohamed Arafa died on 7 March 2015, aged 64.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007112
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First Title value, for Searching Milner, John Clifford ( - 2006)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-10 2015-07-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373752373752
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Clifford Milner was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Harrogate. He was born in Lancashire and educated at Manchester Grammar School. He went on to Manchester University Medical School, qualifying in 1959. He held junior posts in various Manchester hospitals, including Ancoats. During this period he was part of a team whose patients including many famous footballers requiring knee surgery. He then held a research fellowship at Western Reserve Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, where he researched prostheses and developed techniques for improving knee surgery, including repairing sports injuries suffered by American footballers. Once he returned from Ohio he worked in Aberdeen and then, in 1972, he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Harrogate. Outside medicine he was a keen sportsman and played both rugby and tennis. He enjoyed walking in the Yorkshire Dales and fishing. He regularly attended St Wilfrid's church, Harrogate, where he was churchwarden for many years. He was also a freemason and a former master of Doric Lodge. He retired in 1999, travelled frequently and spent time in his apartment in Spain. John Clifford Milner died suddenly while fishing on the banks of the River Nidd, North Yorkshire. He was 70. He was survived by his wife Beryl, their son David, daughter Caroline and a granddaughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001569
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First Title value, for Searching Templeton, John (1937 - 2018)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by David Griffiths
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2020-11-23
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Templeton was a professor of trauma and orthopaedic surgery at Keele University. He was born on 13 June 1937 in Ballyclare and grew up in Northern Ireland. He qualified in Belfast. After house jobs at the Royal Victoria Hospital, he moved to Saskatoon, Canada in 1962 and Montreal in 1966. After a year as a research fellow in Oxford, he was appointed to a consultant post in Montreal in 1970. He returned to Northern Ireland in 1978 and was appointed to the first chair of trauma and orthopaedic surgery at Keele University in 1988 and became the dean of postgraduate medicine. John retired from clinical practice in 2002 and then spent three years as medical director at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. He was instrumental in designing and implementing the Major Trauma Centre network in the UK and was renowned as an excellent teacher and an unflappable surgeon whose calm demeanour was much admired. He was married to Patricia and had three children (the eldest of whom, Peter, was also an orthopaedic surgeon and predeceased him) and seven grandchildren. John died of renal failure after a long illness on 30 April 2018. He was 81.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009488
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First Title value, for Searching McLain, Maurice William (1935 - 2023)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-12
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499
Occupation Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Maurice McLain was a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon in Northampton. 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: E010484
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First Title value, for Searching Farrier, Christopher Donald (1930 - 2019)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-03-22
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009900-E009999
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Christopher Farrier was an orthopaedic surgeon from Poole. 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: E009951
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First Title value, for Searching Hierons, Charles Douglas (1931 - 2017)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-07-12 2020-07-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381537381537
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Charles Hierons was a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead. He was born on 16 August 1931. His mother’s maiden name was Ward. He studied medicine at Durham University and qualified in 1954. He gained his FRCS in 1963. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a house surgeon at Birmingham Accident Hospital and at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, and then a registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. He retired in 1999. In 1961, he married Audrey M Ashworth. They had four children, Charles, Nigel, John and Jennifer, and seven grandchildren, Elizabeth, Honor, Stephen, Christopher, Catherine, Daniel and Jessica. Predeceased by his wife and daughter, Hierons died on 10 June 2017. He was 85.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009354
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Huw Owen (1941 - 2015)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2017-06-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378980378980
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Huw Owen Thomas was an orthopaedic surgeon at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals on the Wirral. He was born in 1941 into a medical family. He gained his MB BCh in Cardiff in 1966 and was a house surgeon in the accident unit at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. He went on to train in orthopaedic surgery in Liverpool, as his father had done before him. He was a senior registrar and senior lecturer in orthopaedics at Liverpool Royal Infirmary and Wrightington Hospital, Appley Bridge. He also spent some time as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Outside medicine, he was interested in classical music. Huw Owen Thomas died on 4 January 2015. He was survived by his widow, Judith (who is also a doctor), two sons and a granddaughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006797
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First Title value, for Searching Mendelsohn, Bertram Gerald ( - 1999)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380963380963
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Bertram Mendelsohn qualified from Leeds in 1951 and after junior posts specialised in orthopaedics. He was appointed consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery to the Bolton and District Hospital. He is thought to have died in June 1999, survived by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008780
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First Title value, for Searching Halliday, Andrew Edward Grant (1958 - 2010)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-02-03 2014-01-24
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001900-E001999
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374137374137
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Andrew Edward Grant Halliday was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Grantham. He qualified MB BS in 1981 and gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1987. Before he was appointed to his consultant post he was a registrar at Chelmsford and Colchester hospitals and then a lecturer in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Newcastle. He died suddenly on 22 December 2010, aged just 52. He was survived by his partner Debbi and his children - Jenni, Eleanor, Martin, Chris and Joe.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001954
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First Title value, for Searching Templeton, Peter Alexander (1963 - 2011)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-12 2014-04-09
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001800-E001899
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374037374037
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Peter Alexander Templeton was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary. He was born and grew up in Canada, where his father, an orthopaedic surgeon, was working. The family eventually returned to Belfast, where Templeton studied medicine, qualifying in 1987. He went on to train in orthopaedics in Leeds, and developed an interest in children's orthopaedics. He held a year-long fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. In 1999 he was appointed to his post at Leeds General Infirmary, where he became unit clinical director and regional training programme director. In addition, he was a lieutenant colonel in the Territorial Army and served as a trauma surgeon in Iraq and Afghanistan. Peter Alexander Templeton died on 21 May 2011 from coronary artery disease. He was 47. He was survived by his wife and three children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001854
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First Title value, for Searching Bromage, James David (1949 - 2020)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-08-12
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009700-E009799
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details James David Bromage was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Kettering General Hospital, Northamptonshire. He was born in Ibadan, Nigeria on 23 September 1949, the son of James Richard Vincent Arthur Bromage, a civil servant in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Frances Charlotte Bromage née Kerr, who had studied medicine at St Andrews University. Bromage attended St Mary’s School in Melrose and Sedbergh School in Yorkshire and went on to study medicine at St Mary’s Hospital. He qualified in 1973. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar in orthopaedics at St Mary’s Hospital, a senior registrar in orthopaedics at Charing Cross Hospital and a lecturer in anatomy at the University of London. He gained his fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh in 1979. Outside medicine he enjoyed skiing, golf, philately and wood work. Bromage died on 19 May 2020 at the age of 70.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009761
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Hugh Marshall (1938 - 2018)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

First Title value, for Searching Evans, John Dillwyn (1927 - 2023)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-02-13
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299
Occupation Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details John Dillwyn Evans was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the University Hospital of South Manchester and the North Cheshire Groups of Hospitals. 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: E010208
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First Title value, for Searching Boardman, Kenneth Peter (1946 - 2023)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 19-03-2024
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599
Occupation Foot and ankle surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Kenneth Peter Boardman was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010599
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First Title value, for Searching Stone, Kenneth Harold (1928 - 2021)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-07-06
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010100-E010199
Occupation Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Kenneth Stone was a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Barnet General, Highlands General and Wood Green hospitals. 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: E010127
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First Title value, for Searching Jeremiah, John David (1933-2023)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-04-20
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John David Jeremiah was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Whipps 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: e010226
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, John Frederic (1935 -2023)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-04-20
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Frederic Taylor was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool. 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: E010231
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First Title value, for Searching Read, Laurence (1936 - 2014)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-08-15 2016-10-07
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005800-E005899
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378008378008
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Laurence ('Laurie') Read was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, Worcestershire. He initially became a teacher, during which time he spent two years in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He then took up a place at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School as a mature medical student, qualifying in 1971 at the age of 35. Deciding to specialise in orthopaedics and trauma surgery, he was a registrar at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and then a clinical lecturer in orthopaedics and an honorary senior registrar at Hope Hospital, Salford, where he worked under Charles Galasko. In 1986 he was appointed as a consultant at the Alexandra Hospital, a new district general hospital in Redditch, where he helped establish the trauma and orthopaedic department. He retired from the NHS and private practice at the age of 67 and went back to Sierra Leone, where he worked for a mission hospital and treated many trauma cases. He also visited his old school, which had been burnt down in the civil war, and raised money to rebuild and restock it. He then spent a further two years in Cambodia, where he treated trauma patients and adolescents and adults with club feet. Laurence Read died on 14 May 2014 from complications of renal cancer. He had a wife, Sue.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005825
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First Title value, for Searching Kay, Neville Rupert Mason (1934 - 2020)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-11-02
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009800-E009899
Occupation Orthopeadic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Neville Kay was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon from Sheffield, North Yorkshire. 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: E009864
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First Title value, for Searching Kingsmill Moore, John Miles (1929 - 2015)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

First Title value, for Searching Blackburn, Munindra Nigel (1949 - 2013)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2015-12-14
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004700-E004799
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376965376965
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Munindra Nigel Blackburn was a consultant in trauma and orthopaedics at the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent, and a consultant in orthopaedic surgery at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. He was born in Bombay, India, on 17 January 1949, the only son of William Henry Blackburn, an art director. His mother's maiden name was Mehta. She was the daughter of a judge. All his other relatives were in medicine. He was educated at King's College junior and secondary schools in Wimbledon, and then went on to study medicine at King's College, London. Prior to his consultant appointments, he held posts in Plymouth, St James' Hospital, Balham, the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and Northampton General Hospital. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1976 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1977. Outside medicine, he was interested in sailing and motor racing. Munindra Nigel Blackburn died on 7 April 2013. He was 64.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004782
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First Title value, for Searching Reading, Alexander David (1965 - 2011)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-18 2014-06-03
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001600-E001699
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373798373798
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Alexander Reading was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Spire South Bank Hospital, Worcester, Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, and the joint clinic in Droitwich. He studied medicine in Glasgow, qualifying MB ChB in 1990. He gained his FRCS in 1994. He was a specialist registrar in orthopaedic surgery in the west of Scotland, and then held a clinical research fellowship in Leicester. In 2002 he was appointed to his consultant post. He specialised in hip and knee replacement surgery, and published papers on hip replacement, particularly on the prevention of infection. He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, the British Orthopaedic Research Society and the British Hip Society. In his spare time he was an assistant coach for a boys' football team, and played cricket, tennis and golf. Alexander Reading committed suicide on 15 June 2011, aged 45. He was survived by his wife Sarah, a former nurse, and sons Jonny and Wils.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001615
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First Title value, for Searching Chambers, Gordon Manson (1932 - 2016)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

First Title value, for Searching Bradley, William Neil (1961 - 2016)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-10-27 2019-12-03
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009200-E009299
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381442381442
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details William Neil Bradley (Neil) was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford. Born on 30 March 1961, he was educated at Bedford School. He studied medicine at London University and trained at Charing Cross and Westminster Hospitals, graduating MB BS in 1992. After becoming an orthopaedic registrar on the London based South-West Thames training programme, he undertook research in knee and hip replacement as a senior fellow at the University of Adelaide Medical School in Australia and the University of Surrey department of engineering. In 2002 he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon and rapidly developed a reputation for expertise in complex knee operations. He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association and the British Association for Surgery of the Knee. An enthusiastic rugby supporter, he enjoyed both playing and coaching the game. On 27 August 2016 he died of a heart attack while on holiday with his family, aged 55. He was survived by his wife Una and sons, James and Ben.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009259
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First Title value, for Searching Calder, Stuart James (1962 - 2014)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-11-25 2017-01-12
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006400-E006499
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378607378607
Occupation Hip surgeon Knee surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Stuart Calder was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Leeds. He studied medicine at Bristol University, qualifying MB ChB in 1986. He trained as a surgeon in Bristol, London and Yorkshire, and then spent two years carrying out research in Leicester, working with Paul Gregg. He was awarded his MD in 1997. He returned to Yorkshire for his orthopaedic training. From 1997 to 1998 he spent a year in Brisbane, Australia, on a fellowship in knee surgery, working with Peter Myers. In 1998 he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary, specialising in hip and knee surgery. He was also an honorary senior lecturer at Leeds University Medical School. In 1990 he married Clare. They had two daughters and two sons. Stuart Calder died in a surfing accident in the sea off Cornwall on 26 October 2014. He had been trying to rescue a group of teenagers who had got into difficulties. He was 52.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006424
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, David John (1960 - 2016)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-11-21 2020-01-21
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009200-E009299
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381468381468
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details David John Moore was a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Colchester General Hospital. Born on 3 November 1960, he studied medicine at London University, graduating MB BS in 1986. After house jobs at Whipps Cross Hospital, he moved to the London Hospital as registrar then senior registrar in orthopaedics. Passing the fellowship of the college in 1990, he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Colchester General Hospital specialising in trauma and orthopaedics. He was also on the staff of the Ramsay Oaks private hospital. Particularly interested in surgery of the foot and ankle, he was a member of the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society. A popular man, his colleagues started a fundraising page on behalf of cancer charities in his memory when he died on 8 September 2016 aged 55 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was survived by his wife Melanie and children Bethanie, Megan and Thomas.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009285
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First Title value, for Searching Laurence, Walter Nick (1918 - 2005)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2015-04-24
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001700-E001799
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373903373903
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Nick Laurence was an honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Brighton. He was born on 12 August 1918 and qualified in 1940. He was a wing commander and orthopaedic specialist in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and trained as a resident surgical officer at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital and as a registrar in orthopaedics at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. From the 1950s he worked as a consultant at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Brighton General Hospital and the Royal Sussex County Hospital. He was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. In the late 1960s, with his colleague Austin Brown, he advised on the design of the new accident and emergency block and orthopaedic department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. Nick Laurence died on 20 May 2005, aged 86, from head injuries following an accident. He was survived by his widow Eileen, children David, Sue and Nicholas, and six grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001720
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First Title value, for Searching Kok, Ronald Huck Chye (1935 - 2022)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-02-13
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299
Occupation Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon General practitioner
Details Ronald Huck Chye Kok was a general practitioner who lived in Scarborough. 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: E010209
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First Title value, for Searching Bulstrode, Christopher John Kent (1951 - 2023)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-02-23
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599
Occupation Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Chris Bulstrode was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at the John Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. 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: E010592
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First Title value, for Searching Bryant, Martyn John (1957 - 2003)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2013-02-07
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001500-E001599
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373698373698
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Martyn Bryant was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. He studied medicine in London and qualified MB BS from King's College Medical School in 1981. He began his training programme in Hull and then moved to Belfast where his senior registrar post gave him ample experience in the management of trauma. His MD thesis was on the survival of joint replacements. He returned to Hull as a consultant in 1993 and moved to Chesterfield in 1998. In the department of orthopaedics at the Royal Hospital, Chesterfield, he established a specialist service for shoulder and elbow problems. He had a reputation as a careful, caring and thoughtful surgeon and his experiences in Northern Ireland, led to him being able to remain calm and efficient in the face of major trauma. His interests included running and cycling. He died at home, aged 45 years, on 26 August 2003 after a diagnosis of carcinoma of the stomach, which he faced with dignity and the dry humour that was characteristic of him. He was survived by his mother, wife Marie, and two sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001515
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First Title value, for Searching Maudsley, Roy Homer (1918 - 2011)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2015-04-24
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001400-E001499
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373677373677
Occupation Accident surgeon Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Roy Homer Maudsley was a consultant accident and orthopaedic surgeon at the King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, Maidenhead General Hospital, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, and Heatherwood Orthopaedic Hospital, Ascot. He was born on 18 December 1918, the second son of William Maudsley, a clergyman, and Edith Annie Maudsley née Chapman. He was educated at Mount Florida Elementary School in Glasgow, Wyggeston School, Leicester and Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby. He studied medicine at Liverpool University, qualifying MB BCh in 1942 and MRCS LRCP in 1943. He held junior posts in Liverpool and then served in the RAF Medical Service as a flight lieutenant. He gained his FRCS in 1950. Prior to his appointments as a consultant surgeon, he was a surgical registrar at the British Postgraduate Medical School and then a senior orthopaedic registrar at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He was a fellow and honorary secretary (from 1968 to 1972) of the British Orthopaedic Association and honorary secretary of the section of orthopaedics at the Royal Society of Medicine (from 1967 to 1968). Outside medicine he was interested in golf, sailing and skiing. He married a Miss Madgwick in 1947. They had three sons. Roy Homer Maudsley died on 10 March 2011. He was 92.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001494
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Ronald Foster (1933 - 2017)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-11-02 2022-09-27
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009300-E009399
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381551381551
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Ronald Evans was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Birmingham Accident Hospital. He was born on 13 November 1933 in Liverpool. His father was Thomas James Evans, an oil company employee; his mother was Doris Selina Anne Evans née Foster. He attended the Liverpool Institute High School and went on to study medicine at the University of Liverpool. He qualified in 1958. During the late 1950s he carried out his National Service as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps including a posting in Cyprus. He held house posts in Liverpool and was then a registrar at Westminster Hospital and a senior registrar at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He gained his FRCS in 1967 and a masters of orthopaedic surgery in 1972, and in the same year was appointed to his consultant post in Birmingham. During his training, he remembered being particularly influenced by Lawrence William Plewes. In 1969, he married Gillian M Roberts. They had two sons, James and John, and four grandchildren, Rhiannon, Sam, Rhys and Harry. He retired to Llanaelhaearn in Caernarfonshire. Evans died on 17 August 2017 in Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire. He was 83.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009368
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First Title value, for Searching Raymakers, Roeland Leonard (1933 - 2017)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-11-02 2020-07-15
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009300-E009399
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381558381558
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Roeland Raymakers was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester General Hospital and Loughborough General Hospital. He was born in the south of the Netherlands on 3 February 1933, but moved with his family to Accrington, Lancashire, in 1934. He studied medicine at Westminster Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1957. He gained his FRCS in 1965. He was a resident medical officer and a casualty registrar at Westminster Hospital, and then a registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and a senior registrar at Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital. He also spent some time in Scandinavia on a travelling scholarship to study orthopaedic practice. In 1971, he was appointed to his consultant post in Leicester. He was clinical head of orthopaedics at Leicester Royal Infirmary from 1986 until he retired in 1993. In his retirement, he enjoyed travelling in Europe, watching sports and being in the Leicestershire countryside. In 1960, he married Joan S Creasey, a nurse. They had four children (Christopher, Katharine, Dominic and Susanna) and eight grandchildren (Eleanor, Otis, Anna, Lois, Max, Eve, Theo and Gabriel). Roeland Raymakers died on 21 March 2017. He was 84.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009375
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First Title value, for Searching Morris, John Vernon ( - 1978)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006700-E006799
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378954378954
Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Vernon Morris qualified in medicine from King's College Hospital. His first appointment was as research assistant in surgery at the West London Hospital and then he became senior surgical registrar at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital. He moved to the Plastic and Oral Surgery Centre, Odstock Hospital in Salisbury as a senior registrar and then to the West Dorset Hospital Group as consultant in trauma and reconstructive surgery. He was living in Weymouth when he died on 21 November 1978, survived by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006771
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First Title value, for Searching Dave, Nareshkumar Balvantrai (1937 - 2003)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-12-12
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E000000-E000999/E000500-E000599
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372759372759
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Nareshkumar Balvantrai Dave was born on 25 August 1937 and passed the FRCS in 1967. At some time he went to Tampa, Florida, USA, from where the College was informed of his death on 5 January 2003 by his employer. It is understood that he specialised in orthopaedics and trauma, but the College has no further information about him. We would be grateful for any details that can be supplied.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000576
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First Title value, for Searching Gough, Sidney George William ( - 1998)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008600-E008699
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380818380818
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Sid Gough attended Manchester University where he qualified in 1960. He did his training in orthopaedics at Manchester Royal Infirmary and the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham. He was appointed consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery at the Hope Hospital and Salford Royal Hospital. He died suddenly on 2 August 1998, survived by his wife, Catherine, children Helen and Michael, and grandchildren Claire, Cassie and Jules.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008635
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First Title value, for Searching Kates, Alexander ( - 1982)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-16
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006600-E006699
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378824378824
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Alexander Kates qualified in medicine from St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was a house surgeon. He became registrar at the Postgraduate Medical School, London, and then consultant in orthopaedic and traumatic surgery to the Kensington and Westminster Area Health Authority. During the second world war he served as a Major in the RAMC. He was a fellow of the RSM and a member of the Heberden Society. His wife, Wendy Elsa, is also a member of the College and holds the DObst of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She was medical consultant to the London Marriage Guidance Council. Their son, Nicholas Simon qualified MB BS from London in 1976. Alexander Kates died on 1 April 1982.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006641
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First Title value, for Searching Pinder, Ian Maurice (1933 - 2018)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-05-18 2021-01-06
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009400-E009499
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381849381849
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Ian Maurice Pinder (known to his colleagues as IMP) was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Newcastle upon Tyne. He studied medicine at Sheffield University and qualified MB, ChB in 1961. In 1966 he passed the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and worked at the Newcastle Royal Infirmary. He commenced his consultant career at the Hexham General Hospital before moving to the Freeman Hospital. During his time there it was said that his insatiable work ethic led him to take on the surgical treatment of large numbers of patients who suffered from severe deformities due to rheumatoid diseases. In many cases this restored their mobility and independence for life. Inevitably this led to collaboration with the rheumatology department and he was instrumental in the foundation of a combined musculoskeletal service at the hospital. For many years after he retired from the health service he kept up his elective practice, continuing to develop his internationally acknowledged expertise in hip and knee arthroscopy. Over time he contributed several important pioneering articles on knee surgery to the medical literature and became a constant source of advice and reassurance to his junior colleagues. Possessed of a keen sense of humour, he was said to be always ready to indulge in a spot of gossip or political intrigue. He died at the Freeman Hospital on 24 February 2018 aged 85 and was survived by his wife Susan, son Jonathan, daughter-in-law Karen and grandchildren Frederik, Eliya and Charlie.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009445
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Kenneth Halstead (1918 - 2013)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2015-12-14
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Occupation Accident surgeon Trauma surgeon General surgeon
Details Kenneth Halstead Smith was a consultant surgeon at Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital. He was born on 16 October 1918 in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Samuel Driver Smith, a schoolmaster, and Amelia Smith née Halstead, the daughter of a cotton manufacturer. He was educated in elementary schools in Burnley and then Burnley Grammar School. He went on to study medicine at Victoria University, Manchester, and carried out his clinical studies at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He qualified in 1943. From 1944 to 1946 he was a captain and general duty officer in the RAMC. He was a surgical tutor and a house surgeon to Alexander Michael Boyd at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was a resident surgical officer at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, and then a senior registrar and tutor at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Prior to his consultant appointment at Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital, he was a consultant in accident surgery at the General Hospital, Northampton. He was an associate member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and a fellow of Manchester Medical Society. In 1949 he married Elizabeth Makinson. They had two sons, Robert and Andrew, and one daughter, Susan. He died on 3 June 2013 at home in Deganwy. He was 94. He was survived by his widow and children, and grandchildren Caroline and Eleanor.
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Arthur Boulton ( - 1991)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Arthur Boulton Watson received his medical education at the University of Birmingham and qualified MB ChB in 1938. He gained his Fellowship in 1942 and the Birmingham ChM in 1946. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the second world war as a major and surgical specialist. After the war he was resident surgical officer at Leicester Royal Infirmary and later consultant surgeon to the Birmingham United Hospitals. He subsequently became consultant in orthopaedic and traumatic surgery at the East Birmingham and Solihull Hospitals. He died on 24 April 1991, survived by his wife, children and grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Morgan, Thomas Hubert ( - 1982)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378951378951
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Thomas Hubert Morgan studied medicine at Cambridge and University College Hospital. He became first assistant to the accident service at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and senior orthopaedic registrar and Nuffield research fellow to the Wingfield-Morris Hospital, Oxford. He moved to Swindon and became consultant orthopaedic and traumatic surgeon to the Swindon and Cirencester Hospital Groups. He was an associate of the British Orthopaedic Association. At the time of his death he was in the United States working as Associate Professor in the division of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He died on 28 June 1982.
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First Title value, for Searching Bremner, Robert Alexander (1926 - 2017)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-10-19
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Robert Alexander Bremner was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at York County Hospital and then York City General Hospital. He was born in Alloa, Scotland, the son of two schoolteachers. He attended Alloa Academy and then the University of Edinburgh, where he qualified in medicine in 1947. He then carried out his National Service, mainly in Northern Ireland, leaving as a captain. He held junior posts in Leeds and around the UK and was then a resident surgical officer at Wolverhampton Royal Infirmary and a registrar at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital at Oswestry. In 1953 he became a senior registrar at Middlesex Hospital, London, where he stayed for five years. During this time he went to the US to train in the latest operating techniques. In 1958 he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at York County Hospital and in 1977 moved to York City General Hospital, where he helped in the planning of the outpatient department. He carried out the first successful elbow replacement surgery in York and was known for his expertise in microsurgery, especially mending badly damaged hand tendons. In 1981 he led the surgical team that operated on the champion jockey Willie Carson who had fallen during the Yorkshire Oaks race and had sustained severe injuries, including a fractured skull. After retiring in 1985, Bremner spent 12 years working on medical tribunals. In 1962 he married Ruth. They had four children – Juliet, Alison, William and Harriet – and seven grandchildren. He died on 30 June 2017 aged 92 after a long illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, Maldwyn Jones (1940 - 2020)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Owen Griffith
Publication Date 2021-02-10
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Maldwyn Jones Griffith was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen, Wales. He was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales on 27 May 1940, the son of Herbert Jones Griffith, a minister, and Lena Olwen Griffith née Jones. He studied medicine at Liverpool University, where he was president of the Student Christian Movement. He worked at Liverpool Royal Infirmary, Wrightington and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and was an associate professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. As a junior doctor, Maldwyn was awarded the Royal Humane Society medal for bravery. In 1951 he became the first orthopaedic surgeon to be appointed as a Hunterian professor by the Royal College of Surgeons of England for research into adolescent hip disease. He was co-author of papers that established the Charnley hip replacement as the gold standard for several decades. He was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at West Wales General Hospital and became director of surgical services for the Carmarthen and District NHS Trust. In 1998, he was appointed OBE for services to medicine. His book *The historical Jesus: the origins of Christian belief* (Austin Macauley Publishers) was published in 2018. Maldwyn was recognised for his kindness and expertise. He died on 11 January 2020 aged 79 after a period of ill health and frailty. He was survived by his wife Elizabeth (née Tudor), two sons, Owen and Hugh, and five grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009917
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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, Peris Woodfine (1934 - 2017)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-02-17 2020-07-02
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Peris Woodfine Edwards was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny. He was born in Bangor, Wales on 27 January 1934. His father, John Gwynan Edwards, was a pharmacist and optician; his mother was Elsie Edwards née Jones. He attended John Bright Grammar School in Llandudno and then studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1957. He was a house officer at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead and at the Whittington Hospital in London. From 1960 to 1963 he held a short service commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving at the British military hospitals in Kinrara, Malaysia and in Brunei. He was an orthopaedic registrar at the Whittington Hospital, and a senior registrar at Cardiff Royal Infirmary and the Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital, Rhydlafar, Cardiff. In 1969, he was appointed to his consultant post in Abergavenny. He retired in 1995. He was chairman of the Gwent medical committee from 1989 to 1992 and a member of the Welsh medical committee for the same period. At the Royal College of Surgeons, he was a surgical tutor from 1988 to 1993 and a member of the Welsh board at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1990 to 1997. He was interested in golf, bridge and DIY. In December 1957, he married Judith E M Lines. They had three children – Gwynan, David and Jane. They divorced and in May 1981 he married Vanessa Mary Humphrys. They had a son, Benjamin James.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009305
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First Title value, for Searching O'Riordan, Sean Michael (1944 - 2006)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-18 2015-04-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373812373812
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Sean Michael O'Riordan was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Lincoln County Hospital and Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital. He was born in York on 3 August 1944, the eldest of three children of John Joseph O'Riordan, a psychiatrist, and Theresa Margaret O'Riordan née Markham, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at Barlborough Hall, Derbyshire, and Mount St Mary's College, Sheffield. He then studied medicine at the London Hospital Medical College, gaining a scholarship to study for a BSc in anatomy. He qualified MB BS in 1968. He was a house physician at the London Hospital. Prior to his consultant appointments, he was a registrar in orthopaedic surgery at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, and then a senior registrar at the London Hospital. In 1971 he spent 10 months in Ethiopia as a resident medical officer at the Gambo Leprosy Control and Rural Health Centre. Outside medicine, he was interested in golf and tennis. In July 1972 he married Ann Patricia Webb, a nurse. They had three children - Trish, Dee and Paul - and two grandchildren. Sean Michael O'Riordan died suddenly at his home on 2 May 2006, aged 61.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001629
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First Title value, for Searching Dowd, George Simon Edmund (1946 - 2016)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-07-29 2019-10-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381402381402
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details George Simon Edmund Dowd was an orthopaedic surgeon in London. Born on 9 November 1946 he studied medicine at Liverpool University and graduated MB ChB in 1971. After house jobs in orthopaedics at the David Lewis Northern and the Sefton General Hospitals in Liverpool he passed the fellowship of the college in 1975. Senior registrar in orthopaedics at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, he was appointed lecturer then senior lecturer in orthopaedics at Liverpool University. He became honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal Liverpool, Broadgreen and Royal Southern Hospitals. Subsequently he moved to London where he took up a consultancy at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, a senior lectureship at the Institute of Orthopaedics and a consultant post at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Finally he joined the staff of the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. Among his notable papers were those on supracondylar fracture in children and skin viability studies. He was a member of the British Association for the Surgery of the Knee, the British Orthopaedic Research Society and the British Orthopaedic Association. On 4 April 2016 he died aged 69 and was survived by his wife Angela.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009219
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First Title value, for Searching Clowes, Gordon Joseph (1921 - 2015)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2018-04-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379839379839
Occupation General surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Gordon Joseph Clowes was a general and trauma surgeon in Sydney, Australia. He was born in Sydney on 13 April 1921, the son of Joseph Clowes, a grazier, and Mary Clowes née Lancashire, a housewife. Both of his parents had been born in Manchester, England. His mother was a volunteer nurse in the First World War and his father served during the battles of Somme and Ypres. Gordon Clowes studied agriculture at Sydney University, and then changed to medicine, qualifying MB BS in 1951. He then held junior posts at Sydney Hospital, where he was particularly influenced by Eric Hedberg and Thomas Edward Wilson. In 1956, he went to the UK, where he worked at the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, London under Ian Aird, and at St Thomas' Hospital. He gained his FRCS in 1956 and his FRACS in 1958. He left the UK at the end of 1957 and returned to Australia. He was an honorary surgeon at the Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney (from 1958 to 1964), and a visiting surgeon at Liverpool Hospital (1958 to 1991), Camden Hospital (1958 to 1991), Nepean Hospital (1970 to 1980) and Campbelltown Hospital (1980 to 1991). He was also an indemnity consultant; he was a board member of New South Wales Medical Defence Union for 25 years and chairman for eight years. He was a councillor in his local area of Camden, New South Wales for eight years and deputy mayor. He was active in Camden Rotary and president in 1963. He was also a cattle and sheep grazier in the Tablelands area of New South Wales. He enjoyed skiing, travel and red wines and kept an extensive wine cellar. In 1955, he married June Clinton and they had four children (Melissa, Edwina, Duncan and Simon) and nine grandchildren. Gordon Joseph Clowes died on 23 January 2015. He was 93.
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First Title value, for Searching Porter, Derek Spencer (1930 - 2017)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2018-01-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381813381813
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Derek Spencer Porter was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon for Greenwich District Health Authority. He was born on 26 September 1930. He studied medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1954. He gained his FRCS in 1963. He served in the Royal Navy and subsequently became an orthopaedic registrar at the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital and a senior orthopaedic registrar at King’s College Hospital, London, before being appointed as a consultant at Greenwich. He wrote papers on Austin Moore arthroplasty and was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. Porter died on 12 December 2017. He was 87.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009409
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First Title value, for Searching Aroney, Michael Peter (1934 - 2001)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-02-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381230381230
Occupation General surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Michael Peter Aroney was a general and trauma surgeon in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was born on 16 August 1934 in Brisbane, Queensland. His father, Peter Nicholas Aroney, was a confectioner; his mother was Irene Adie née Mavromatis. He attended Brisbane State High School and then went on to the University of Queensland to study medicine, qualifying in 1958 with honours and the William Nathaniel medal. He held junior posts at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and then went to the UK for surgical training, at Lambeth Hospital, London, Fairfield Hospital, Middlesex, and Mayday Hospital, Croydon. He gained fellowships at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh, and later became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. From 1965 to 1966 he was a research fellow at the Lahey Clinic, Boston. He returned to Australia, to Sydney, where he was a senior surgical registrar at Prince Henry Hospital from 1959 to 1968. For six months in 1967 he served as a surgeon in Vietnam with the Australian government. He later became a visiting medical officer at Bankstown, Canterbury and Marrickville hospitals, with rooms in Macquarie Street and Marrickville, where he had a large following in the Greek community. Bankstown, Canterbury and Marrickville hospitals, with rooms in Macquarie Street and Marrickville, where he had a large following in the Greek community. He was secretary, chairman and then vice president of the Australian Association of Surgeons (AAS) in New South Wales during the ‘doctors’ dispute’ from 1984 to 1985, when doctors in the state demanded changes to their role and remuneration in public hospitals and to the federal government’s Medicare scheme. He was also a federal councilor of the AAS from 1980. Outside medicine he enjoyed fly fishing, music (particularly jazz) and Greek history. In 1960, he married Anna Simos. They had two daughters. Michael Aroney died on 29 December 2001. He was 67.
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First Title value, for Searching Duff, Iain Stewart (1936 - 2016)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Barrie Parker
Publication Date 2017-01-25 2017-02-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381475381475
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Iain Stewart Duff was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. Iain was of Scottish descent. His parents were devout, strict Christians. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and became captain and fullback for the first XV rugby team. He entered Westminster Hospital as an undergraduate and, following his house posts, decided on a surgical career. After a period of general surgical training, he elected to train in orthopaedics. He held registrar posts at St George's Hospital and linked training hospitals in south west London, and a senior registrar post at King's College Hospital. Iain was a very practical and skilled surgeon and, although not particularly academically inclined, he was well-liked by his colleagues and trainees. A general orthopaedic and trauma surgeon, his main interests were in hip and knee arthroplasty and sports injuries. With his continuing interest in rugby, it was not surprising that he became the medical officer of the England Rugby Union at nearby Twickenham, which he also served with distinction. He also held sessions at the Teddington Memorial and Royal Masonic hospitals. He was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a leading light of the local Kingston Medical Club. He enjoyed golf and skiing particularly, and I enjoyed his company on the slopes on many occasions. He also enjoyed travelling. My wife and I joined him and his sister Jean on trips to South Africa, New Zealand and Canada. Iain was a delightful companion at social occasions, with a great sense of humour. He had many girlfriends but never married. He remained active after retirement for several years, but suffered heart and spinal problems later, which he endured bravely. His death on 26 October 2016 was quite unexpected and sudden. He was 79. He was survived by his sister Jean, who was a Westminster nurse, and many close friends.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009292
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First Title value, for Searching Denman, Eric Edward (1927 - 2009)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Rosemary Denman
Publication Date 2011-12-14 2023-02-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373938373938
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Eric Denman was a senior consultant orthopaedic and accident surgeon at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon from 1965 to 1990. Eric was born to Albert Edward Denman and Gertrude Ann Harrison on 19 August 1927. His father was a civil servant; his mother was the daughter of a master mariner and was herself a Cape Horner (a sailor who has sailed round the treacherous Cape Horn). Eric was educated at Harrow Grammar School and then carried out his National Service in the airborne Royal Signals. He began his medical training at Cambridge University and then at University College Hospital. He went on to posts in Chichester and Leicester, and was a senior registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. He practised for a year in the Sudan from 1964 to 1965, where his wife and children joined him. Later he worked for six months in Swaziland. In 1965 Eric was appointed as a consultant in the new hospital in Swindon. He and his team were on duty when, in 1987, a lone gunman opened fire on the people of nearby Hungerford, killing and injuring several; the victims of the ‘Hungerford Massacre’ were sent to the Princess Margaret Hospital. Eric was also a regular anatomy demonstrator at Oxford University and sat on the *viva* examination panel for the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. After retiring, he moved from Marlborough in Wiltshire to Madjeston, near Gillingham, Dorset, where he studied a variety of subjects with the Open University and gained a degree in astronomy in his late seventies. During his lifetime, his hobbies included marathon running, hill walking, squash and photography. Eric died on 22 January 2009 aged 81 after a short illness. He was survived by his wife Elizabeth Jean née Drummond, whom he married in 1955, and their two children, David and Rosemary.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001755
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First Title value, for Searching Weisl, Hanuš (1925 - 2007)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by K M N Kunzru
Publication Date 2010-10-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373234373234
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Hanuš Weisl was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in South Glamorgan, Wales. He escaped his native Prague in the last kindertransport to London in June 1939. His parents, Alfred, a dentist, and Marie née Mandler, a doctor, eventually joined him in England after the Second World War. After qualifying from Manchester, he acquired British citizenship. He was appointed as a house officer in Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1948 at the inception of the NHS. After serving as an assistant lecturer in anatomy at his medical school, he worked as a surgical registrar at Rhyl, and became a senior registrar in orthopaedics at Cardiff and at Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital, Rhydlafar (near Cardiff). Working with Dilwynn Evans, he developed a special interest in children’s deformities. He was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Bolton in 1963, and returned to Wales in 1969 to Cardiff and Rhydlafar as a consultant, specialising in club feet, and later in deformities caused by spina bifida. He published on many subjects, mostly children’s orthopaedic problems, including papers on skull caliper tractions and hip problems in spina bifida. He died on 17 July 2007 from a cerebral haemorrhage after a fall at home. His wife, Reba, predeceased him in 1997. He left a daughter and a grand-daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001051
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First Title value, for Searching Good, Christopher John (1946 - 2014)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by John King
Publication Date 2014-11-25 2015-04-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378611378611
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Chris Good was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Newham General, Queen Mary's and Blackheath hospitals in London. He was born in Barnstaple, Devon, in 1946. His father was clerk of works for South Molton. When Chris was eight the family moved to Northern Rhodesia; his father became clerk of works to Zambia, after the country gained independence. In 1962 Chris went to England to study for A levels and gained entry to the London Hospital Medical College in 1964. He qualified MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1969. He held house posts at the London Hospital and was then a senior registrar at St George's. In 1983 he was appointed to his consultant post at Newham, and three years later joined the staff of Queen Mary's Hospital. Chris's attitudes to life were very much formed by his time in Africa. He was keen to pass on his considerable knowledge to those who showed any enthusiasm. This has been reinforced by letters to his widow from previous trainees. He was an excellent contributor at the weekly multidisciplinary team meetings, always aided by a prodigious memory. Perhaps his most unacknowledged contribution to medicine was his willingness to let his anaesthetist Archie Brain 'experiment' on his patients on the operating list. This led to the laryngeal mask, which is in universal use today in every operating theatre in the land. In his life outside medicine his memory was a major asset in his love of music, plants (he was gardening at sunrise most days) and food; he could recall menus, wines and their vintages and was always eager to discuss them. He passed on his love of music (as a listener and performer) to his boys; he loved cricket, but the boys were divided between that and rugby. He was an astute investor in musical instruments and modern art. In 1969 he married Dorothy Harris, a fellow student within the University of London, who became a history teacher. Chris Good died in 2014. She survived him, together with their two sons and two grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006428
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First Title value, for Searching Ring, Peter Alexander (1922 - 2018)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Simon Donell
Publication Date 2018-05-18 2018-05-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381850381850
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Peter Alexander Ring was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon of international repute who worked at Redhill General Hospital. He was born in Finchley, Middlesex, on 30 December 1922. His father, John Richard Ring, was a shop manager. His mother was Caroline née Matthews. Peter went to school at Christ's College, Finchley and on to University College Hospital, London. He qualified in 1945 with the Alexander Bruce medal for surgery and pathology. He did a house surgeon post at University College Hospital and registrar training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He continued his registrar training at Guy's Hospital, where he began his interest in the surgical management of osteoarthritis of the hip under John Stanley Batchelor, reporting the results of the unit's hip operations prior to artificial replacement in 1960. He then returned to University College Hospital as a senior registrar. Between 1956 and 1959, he was the Laming Evans senior research fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons. He became a consultant in 1960, establishing the orthopaedic and accident unit at the Redhill General Hospital. During the 1960's, he was one of the pioneers of total hip replacement, along with John Charnley and Ken McKee. He favoured an un-cemented design with a conical countersunk acetabular component with a long screw held in the iliopubic bar linked to a modified Austin Moore femoral stem. These he developed in what became a long and fruitful relationship with Maurice Down of Down Brothers. Later models had an all-polyethylene acetabular component. He found these had a higher failure rate from wear than the original metal-on-metal articulations. From 1968, he published extensively on the results and complications of un-cemented total hip arthroplasty. He also developed his own un-cemented knee replacement with a titanium femoral shell, screw-fixed tibial plate and polyethylene insert. He published his results. As with other early designs, it did not have a trochlear flange for the patella. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, he withdrew gradually from clinical practice, but maintained his lifelong interest in orthopaedics. He died on 16 March 2018, peacefully, at the age of 95. He had four children by his first wife, Stella, who predeceased him. He was survived by them, and by his second wife, Sheila, and by four grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Their golden wedding anniversary would have fallen later in the year.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009446
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First Title value, for Searching Horan, Francis Thomas (1933 - 2015)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-12-10 2018-11-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381196381196
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon Sports medicine specialist
Details Frank Horan was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Cuckfield Hospital, Sussex and a medical adviser to Lord’s Cricket Ground, London. He was born in Manchester on 24 July 1933 and was educated at Torquay Grammar School, where he enjoyed cricket, cycling and table tennis. In 1951, he gained a place at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London, but failed his first-year examinations and was asked to leave. He carried out his National Service in the RAF, where he worked as a radar operator, and continued to study to retake his exams. He eventually persuaded the dean of St Mary’s to readmit him and qualified in 1959. After junior posts, he passed his FRCS in 1966 and held a research fellowship in Montreal, gaining an MSc from McGill University in 1974. On his return to the UK, he was appointed to Cuckfield Hospital in Sussex. He was a key figure in the development of its replacement, the Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath, a purpose-built teaching hospital, where he became the medical director. His main research interest was dysplasias of the bone and he published more than 20 papers on the subject, many written with his colleague and friend, Peter Beighton, professor of genetics at Cape Town University. A bone disorder they discovered is named after them – Horan-Beighton syndrome. Horan was editor of the *Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery* from 1998. He travelled widely to promote the publication and to lecture on how to present scientific papers. As medical adviser to Lord’s and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) for three decades, he oversaw the treatment of players during test matches and county games. He improvised guards to protect batsmen’s chests and forearms, and developed heel inserts for bowlers. He was made an honorary life member of the MCC in 2006. He also treated jockeys, boxers, footballers and basketball players, as medical adviser of the British Basketball Association from 1976 to 1996. He founded the British Sports Trauma Association and was on the medical committee of the British Olympic Association. He was a keen rugby player as a student and later took up running. He ran Cape Town’s Peninsula marathon three times and in 1981 ran London’s inaugural marathon. In 1962, he married Cynthia Bambury, a nurse at St Mary’s. Frank Horan died on 4 November 2015 at the age of 82 and was survived by his widow, their two sons (John and Tom) and a daughter, Julia.
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First Title value, for Searching Chan, Raymond Nim-Wah (1939 - 2019)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2021-01-06
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Raymond Nim-Wah Chan, known as Ray, was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Leicester and a surgeon at Leicester City Football Club, and one of the first Chinese orthopaedic surgeons to come to the UK. He was born on 28 July 1939 in Hong Kong, the son of Chan Ying Hung, a prominent lawyer, and Gladys Chan née Lee Wang Ying, originally from Canada, where her family ran a Chinese sausage factory. The Chan family endured life in British Army refugee camps in China after the evacuation of Hong Kong during the Second World War. Chan’s education began when the family eventually returned to Hong Kong. He attended Wah Yan College, a Jesuit school, and was later sent to Campbell College in Northern Ireland for his sixth form studies. He went on to win a place at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and then University College Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1965 and gained his FRCS in 1971. He was a house surgeon at Birmingham Accident Hospital, a registrar at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry and a senior registrar in Bath. In 1976 he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary, with clinics at Leicester General, specialising in spinal surgery and hip and knee replacements. He retired in 1999. He was an avid supporter of Leicester City Football Club and also keen on rugby, motorsport and cricket. He enjoyed good food and wine. In 1965 he met Patricia Jane Hutchin, who was training to be a nurse at University College Hospital. They married in 1968 and had four children, Alice, Olly, Ben and Vickie, and three grandsons. They divorced and he married Maureen Gough. She predeceased him in 2011. Chan died from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder and emphysema on 1 April 2019. He was 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Weale, Adrian Elliott (1963 - 2018)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Fergal Monsell
Publication Date 2019-06-06 2020-03-10
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009600-E009699
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Adrian Weale was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He was born in Kent on 29 March 1963 to Felix Weale, a consultant vascular surgeon, and Audrey Weale née Elliott, a nurse. He was educated at the King’s School, Rochester and Gravesend Grammar School. He read medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, graduating MB BS in 1986. After house jobs in Hillingdon and St Mary’s Hospital, he was an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Manchester prior to undertaking general surgical training. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1991, underwent higher orthopaedic surgical training in the South West and was awarded the FRCS (Orth) in 1996. He was a research fellow and honorary senior registrar at the University of Oxford in 1997 and this work formed the basis of his MS thesis ‘The surgical management of osteoarthritis of the knee’, awarded by the University of London in 2001. He was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead Hospital in 1998 with a special interest in hand surgery, arthroplasty and trauma surgery. This developed during his consultant career and latterly he concentrated predominantly on knee arthroplasty, whilst continuing to contribute to the provision of general trauma surgery. He maintained an interest in academic surgery throughout his career and was widely published, particularly on the management of osteoarthritis of the knee. He developed a mature medico-legal practice, concentrating on personal injury reporting and was known for a forensic approach to this subject. He was a passionate teacher, highly regarded by his students and was awarded regional trainer of the year (runner up) in 2016. His personal approach and the guidance he provided to his trainees made him an extremely popular mentor to a generation of orthopaedic surgeons, many of whom attended his memorial service. He was married to Caroline (née Hayes) and had three sons, Christopher, Thomas and Toby, who were a source of great pride. He was also very proud of his family history and in particular his grandfather Frederick Weil, a Czechoslovakian journalist and a prominent critic of the Nazis, his father Felix, who arrived in England as a 14-year-old in 1938, and his brother, who predeceased him. He enjoyed life in its many guises. He was an accomplished skier and a lifelong, passionate supporter of Arsenal. His Monday morning trauma meeting would generally be prefaced by a discussion of events on the soccer field. He held firm views about the issues that were important to him and was a dependable friend to those he held dear. He was a complex man but, behind a veneer of formality, there lived a very generous and popular individual who will be missed by his family, friends and colleagues. Adrian Weale died following a myocardial infarction on 28 November 2018. He was 55.
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First Title value, for Searching MacQueen, Ian James (1920 - 2012)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-05-16 2019-05-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381326381326
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Ian James MacQueen was an orthopedic surgeon in Martinsburg, West Virginia and then Palm Beach Gardens and Jupiter, Florida. He was born on 28 September 1920 in London, the son of John Gillies MacQueen, a manganese and iron ore broker, and Doris Olivia MacQueen née Roberts, an actress at the Gaiety Theatre, London. He attended the Stationers’ Company School in London. During the Second World War, he served with the London Fire Service and attended the burning of the Hunterian Museum and Law Courts in an air raid during the night of 10 May 1941. From 1940 to 1942, he also studied sciences at Birkbeck College, London University. After the war, he studied at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, winning a junior proficiency prize in 1947 and qualifying in 1950. He was a house physician in Lowestoft and a senior house surgeon at Worthing General Hospital. In 1952, he was a senior house officer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He then became a junior lecturer in anatomy at the University of Sheffield. From 1954 to 1955, he was a registrar on the professorial unit at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital, Oxford. He was then a registrar at Heatherwood Orthopaedic Hospital, Ascot and subsequently a resident surgical officer in general surgery in Tunbridge Wells. From 1957 to 1958 he was a tutor in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Bristol and a resident surgical officer at the Winford Orthopaedic Hospital, Bristol. Also in 1958, he was awarded a World Health Organization travelling fellowship to Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. He then spent four years (1959 to 1963) as a senior orthopaedic registrar at Manchester Royal Infirmary. In 1963, he was appointed as a senior consultant orthopaedic surgeon in charge of accident and emergency services at the Mayday University Hospital and for the Croydon Area Health Authority. In February 1978, he emigrated to the United States, where he was in private practice in Martinsburg, West Virginia. From 1984, he was an orthopaedic surgeon in Palm Beach Gardens and Jupiter, Florida. He retired in September 1995. He was made a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers in 1990 and in 1996 became a freeman of the City of London. He had a lifelong interest in physical culture; he was a swimmer, diver, weightlifter and hand-balancer. From 1990, he was president of the Oscar Heidenstam Memorial Foundation, an organisation that honours and assists disabled physical culturalists, gymnasts and ballet dancers. In March 1946, he married Dorothy Maud Culver. They had a son, Jason, and five daughters – Jane, Anne, Amanda, Sarah and Fiona. He was widowed in 1982 and married Honora Dawn Matthews, a physiotherapist, in 1985. He died on 28 July 2012 at his home in Martinsburg. He was 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Gwyn Amman (1944 - 2022)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Clive Inman
Publication Date 2022-08-26
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Paediatric orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Gwyn Amman Evans was a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Oswestry. He was born in Denbigh, in the Vale of Clwyd, on 24 March 1944, the son of Owen John Evans, a presbyterian minister, and Annie Gwyneth Evans née Edwards, the daughter of a farmer. At the age of three the family moved to Bon-y-maen in Swansea, and he attended Bishop Gore Grammar School. He was keen on music and an accomplished pianist, accompanying school assemblies. He passed the associate of the London College of Music exam before leaving Swansea in 1962 to study medicine at Barts. In London he joined the London Welsh Youth Choir and continued to accompany services, his father taking on a church in Clapham. When he qualified in 1967, the dean, Ellison Nash, chose Gwyn to be his surgical house officer. In 1969 he worked at Birmingham Accident Hospital, where he was impressed by the humility of his boss. Returning to Barts to do surgical and anatomy demonstration jobs, he passed his FRCS. He joined a surgical rotation in Cardiff, where he wrote a paper on an incentivising spirometer for postoperative pulmonary complications, for which he won the Moynihan medal at the age of 30 (‘The evaluation of the incentive spirometer in the management of postoperative pulmonary complications’ *Br J Surg* 1974 Oct;61[10]:793-7). In 1974, he went to Oswestry, where he joined the orthopaedic rotation: to Hereford, Stoke-on-Trent for trauma, and then children’s orthopaedics under Rowland Hughes. He also gained a fellowship at Newington Children’s Hospital in Connecticut. The new Australian professor at Oswestry, Brian T O’Connor, asked him to write a job description for an ideal paediatric orthopaedic surgeon and six months later he was appointed to the job. He also worked at Wrexham Maelor in trauma and elective orthopaedics until 1999. Contributing enormously to the teaching of paediatric orthopaedics, he was the regional specialty adviser in north Wales and postgraduate tutor for the West Midlands. He served on the councils of the British Orthopaedic Association and the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society. He received the Sharrard medal for children’s services and the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery named its travel fellowship in his honour. He retired in 2004 and during his retirement, for nine months a year, he worked as a volunteer at the Dr H G Roberts Hospital in Shillong, Meghalaya, in northeast India, where he arranged for a generator to be installed and, with the help of funding from the Presbyterian Church of Wales, an intensive care unit was established at the hospital. At home he helped at the citizen’s advice bureau in Wrexham. He was strongly supported by his wife, Mary (née Tudor), his three children and seven grandchildren, and was strengthened by his deep faith which sustained him throughout his life. He died on 20 July 2022 at the age of 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Hadfield, Gordon (1924 - 2008)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Robin Hollingsworth
Publication Date 2016-05-12 2017-10-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381293381293
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Gordon Hadfield was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Rowley Bristow Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey. He was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire on 31 August 1924, the youngest of three brothers. Both his parents, James Arthur Hadfield and Grace Sherwood Hadfield née Calver, were consultant psychiatrists, and one of his brothers also became a psychiatrist. Gordon was educated at the Hall School, Hampstead and Westminster School, though he left Westminster at 16 because many of the teachers were called up for service in the Second World War. He studied medicine at King's College Hospital and qualified at the age of 22. From a young age, he was interested in mechanical engineering, particularly related to motorbikes and cars. It therefore seemed natural that, after his general medical education and preliminary surgical training, he would specialise in orthopaedic and trauma surgery. He became a senior orthopaedic registrar to Ronnie Furlong at St Thomas' Hospital, where one of his duties was to attend a Saturday morning operating list at the Rowley Bristow Hospital in Pyrford. In 1963 Gordon was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey and the Rowley Bristow Hospital. He was considered by many to be a master surgeon. He led and taught by example. His instruction to trainees was 'if you want to learn you need to turn up and watch'. His senior colleagues at the Rowley Bristow Hospital were Alan Apley and Franklin Adin ('Sam') Simmonds. At Pyrford it was said that Alan Apley would make a diagnosis, Sam Simmonds would recommend which operation and Gordon Hadfield would do the operation. Obviously, this was said tongue in cheek, but the implications were clear. Gordon had a major interest in trauma and was a very strong advocate of early weight-bearing for patients with stable lower limb fractures, whether internally fixed or treated conservatively, on the basis that it promoted healing. He applied his sound self-taught practical knowledge of mechanical engineering to designing and making or modifying orthopaedic splints and instruments, which would be carried out in the hospital workshop. He designed the lightweight 'Hadfield bed', which enabled patients with femoral or tibial fractures who were being treated on lower limb skeletal traction to exercise and flex their knees while traction was fully maintained. He also designed and used a halo pelvic traction device for the treatment of scoliosis. With Alan Apley, Gordon significantly contributed to the design of the first purpose-built accident and emergency department in the country, completed at St Peter's, Chertsey in mid 1960. Gordon helped run the internationally-known Apley Pyrford fellowship course for many years. He was particularly responsible for running the so-called 'fracture weekend' (one out of the three course weekends). As well as lecturing and demonstrating, he photographed and made slides of the X-rays taken of the patients' fractures shown on the course. Many surgeons throughout the world in all specialties have fond memories of attending this course. In addition to his hospital work as an orthopaedic surgeon, he was chairman of the medical executive committee and he sat on the advisory committee of the local health authority. He was president of the Rowley Bristow Hospital League of Friends for a number of years. Gordon retired in 1988 after suffering a heart attack. Outside of orthopaedic surgery, Gordon had a passion for motorbikes: he rode, repaired and modified them. He started riding motorcycles at the age of eight and later competed in trials, scrambling, road racing and speedway. Several world champions and other high profile motorcyclists came to him for advice on, and treatment of, various injuries. His son-in-law was a three-times world champion professional motorcyclist specialising in trials. During the Second World War, while a medical student, Gordon joined the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) as a motorcycle messenger. He was chief medical officer of the Auto-Cycle Union and president of the international medical panel of the International Motorcycling Federation. He also became chief medical officer and later president of the British Motorcycle Racing Club. He organised medical officers at major motorcycle track events, and after his retirement was responsible for overseeing the safety aspects of various motorcycle circuits throughout the world. He was a highly-respected member of the Vintage Motorcycle Club and proudly rode his 1914 Royal Enfield Motorcycle with wicker sidecar in the yearly London to Brighton vintage motorcycle event. To complete his very fulfilled life outside orthopaedic surgery, Gordon was a very loyal and prominent member of the Rotary Club of Weybridge and Byfleet. In 1947, he married to Eileen (née Dexter), who very sadly died in a tragic accident in 1998. Gordon died on 22 August 2008, aged 83. He was survived by his two daughters, his son (Christopher) and six grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Richardson, Robert Alan (1937 - 1999)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381059381059
Occupation General surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Robert Richardson qualified from Durham in 1961 and, after junior posts, specialised in orthopaedics, training in Newcastle, Middlesborough and at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Oswestry. In 1974 he was awarded the Malkin travelling scholarship, before taking up his consultant appointment at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, where he was in charge of trauma medicine. He also did elective orthopaedics at the Leicester General Hospital, where he was clinical tutor. His main interest was in the surgery of the shoulder, for which he started a combined clinic with rheumatologists and published papers on the management of acromioclavicular injuries. Outside medicine, his interests included motor car racing and railways. He was one of the few who could claim the distinction of having driven the Flying Scotsman. He died after a long period of ill-health on 2 August 1999, leaving a wife, Sylvia, and two children.
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First Title value, for Searching Standeven, Alfred (1916 - 1983)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379866379866
Occupation Trauma surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Alfred Standeven was born in 1916 and graduated in 1939 after studying at Queen's College, Cambridge, and St Mary's Hospital. Shortly afterwards he joined the Royal Air Force, serving from 1941 to 1946. He passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1944 before being posted to serve as a surgical specialist in Burma and later in Japan. He was twice mentioned in despatches. After demobilisation he served as senior registrar, first at Southend and later at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. He passed the MCh degree in 1954 and the FRCS two years later. He then joined the surgical unit at St Mary's as first assistant and acquired considerable experience of vascular surgery. In 1958 he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospitals in Folkestone and in Dover and brought to them a vast experience of trauma surgery and vascular surgery. He retired in 1981 but the enjoyment of his last few years was marred by the need for repeated blood transfusions for multiple myeloma. He died on 6 May 1983, aged 67, and is survived by his wife Patricia (Paddy) and two daughters, one of whom is a doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Attara, George Antoine (1945 - 2018)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Hiro Tanaka
Publication Date 2019-01-15 2019-07-03
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon Hand surgeon
Details George Attara was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor, Wales. He was born in Cairo, Egypt on 29 December 1945 to an Egyptian father, Antoine Karim Attara, a merchant, and a Greek mother, Anastasia Attara née Mazarakis. This background gave him a deep appreciation of different cultures and the ability to speak multiple languages, including Arabic, Greek and French. He had an identical twin, Karim, also an orthopaedic surgeon, who is working in Dubai and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He and his brother were educated at the French Collège des Pères Jésuites Primary School and the Collège De La Salle in Cairo. They entered Cairo University to study medicine together in 1964 and graduated in 1970. During his university years, George was an avid music player, playing the guitar, keyboard and accordion. It was at during time that The Beatles were changing popular music globally and their band, Magic Fingers, was inspired by their style. Their favourite opening number was ‘Help’. George was also a competitive cyclist and won several trophies during that time. George completed his internship at Cairo University and moved to the UK in 1972. His first post in the UK was at the Royal South Hants Hospital in Southampton with James Stokes Ellis and it was here that he developed his interest in hand surgery. Having completed his FRCS and his orthopaedic training in County Durham, George spent the first decade of his career in the Middle East as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. From 1990 to 1991, working at the Northern Armed Forces Hospital in Saudi Arabia, he was part of the support effort for Desert Storm. He was subsequently appointed as chief of orthopaedic surgery at the King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah. In 1993, he returned back to UK when he was offered a post at the Princess Alexandra Royal Air Force Hospital in Wroughton. His military experience in Saudi Arabia and RAF Wroughton gave him specialist expertise in the management of polytrauma and war injuries. Throughout his career, he was always a passionate teacher and trainer. His unique, supportive style of training was ahead of his time and was inspirational to all those who trained with him. After the closure of RAF Wroughton, George moved to Gwynedd Hospital in 1996 and trained many generations of Welsh trainees until his retirement in 2007. He is remembered by those fortunate enough to learn from him as ‘Boss’ and lives on in their hearts and minds. I feel privileged to have been one those surgeons who were inspired by him and to this day, I still maintain the three principles of practice he told me on my first day as his registrar: ‘Be kind to your patients, be kind to your trainees and enjoy life.’ I have never seen so many patients admire and trust their surgeon in the way they did with George. George died peacefully at his home on 23 September 2018 aged 72. He was survived by his wife Judy, his brother, Karim, and his sister, Mary.
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First Title value, for Searching Benjamin, Alexander (1924 - 2018)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Nicholas Geary
Publication Date 2019-02-05 2019-07-23
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Alec Benjamin was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at west Hertfordshire from 1961 until 1984. Initially, he was on the staff of Watford General and Hemel Hempstead hospitals, but in the early eighties he moved his sessions from Watford to St Albans. He was born at home in Stoke Newington, London to Joseph Benjamin and Rachel Benjamin née Davids and soon moved to South Morden. His father was a rabbi and his mother ran the home. Alec wanted to become a doctor, but his headmaster tried to discourage him as during the war they had no physics master. Alec studied for his school certificate on his own and was admitted to the London Hospital Medical School, where he trained from 1942 to 1946. He was awarded the Charrington prize in practical anatomy and the Sir Frederick Treves prize in clinical surgery. Student life was split between London and being evacuated to Cambridge. He served in the Home Guard during the Blitz. On qualifying, he worked as a house physician and surgeon in paediatrics and orthopaedics, and then as a senior house officer in the orthopaedic department at the London Hospital. From 1947, he carried out his National Service in the RAF orthopaedic service. On leaving the RAF in 1949, he alternated between posts in orthopaedics and psychiatry at house officer and registrar level. Having obtained FRCS in 1953, from a psychiatric registrar post, he then embarked on a career in orthopaedics. He trained at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and St Mary’s, and was a senior registrar at Charing Cross. In training, he worked for some orthopaedic legends – Sir Reginald Watson-Jones, Norman Capener and Karl Nissen. He published on traumatic arterial spasm and Volkmann’s ischaemic contracture. He was greatly interested in rheumatoid arthritis, publishing widely and contributing to textbooks. He was a founder member of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Surgical Society, serving as secretary. He was interested in corrective double osteotomies in rheumatoid arthritis, in the fingers, shoulder and knees. The double osteotomy around the knee bears his eponymous name. Before modern joint replacement surgery, this allowed pain relief and mobility for these disabled patients. He was a founder member of the Cerebral Palsy Surgical Society and an early member of the British Orthopaedic Study Group. Alec held many administrative posts on hospital boards, the health authority and editorial boards. Alec was always keen to examine new ideas and new techniques, which he did critically. If a new technique passed his scrutiny, he would adopt it. He took on a different surgical approach to hip replacement six months before he retired. He was insistent on retiring from clinical practice on his 60th birthday. He said: ‘I want to stop operating before someone has to tell me I should stop.’ The administration obviously did not believe him. Despite giving six months’ notice, no arrangements had been made for Alec’s replacement. Arthur Rushforth, whose sessions he had taken over at St Alban’s, supported by Denys Wainwright, stood in as locum until Jonathan Beacon was appointed as his successor. Alec was a keen educator and a stickler for detail and quality. He was insistent on integrity, confidentiality and treating all equally. If as a trainee you measured up to his exacting standards, he would support your career vigorously. Both myself and a colleague who delivered a eulogy at his funeral have Alec to thank for our progress through difficult periods in our career paths. Alec was a family man. He met his wife Bobbie (Barbara Mary née Yates) while she was a psychiatric social worker. They went everywhere together and he was devoted to her. Bobbie sadly died in 2015. He had a great sense of humour; a patient once asked him how many children he had. He replied, ‘I have four children,’ to which the patient asked, ‘Are you Catholic?’ Alec’s response was, ‘No, just a careless Jew!’ Predeceased by his son David Harold, Alec died on 16 December 2018 at the age of 94 and was survived by three children (Ian Joseph, Rachel Anne and Elizabeth), seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Alec had so many interests outside medicine, and wanted to be involved in everything. He definitely suffered from what his grandchildren called ‘FOMO’ – ‘fear of missing out’. He liked skiing. He loved music, especially opera, poetry, murder mystery programmes and chocolate. He took tens of thousands of photographs, and produced amazing slide show presentations of trips abroad. He and Bobbie travelled a lot, and they particularly enjoyed spending time in New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Africa and Hong Kong, visiting children and grandchildren. He was a member of Ashridge Golf Club from 1962 and, after he retired, he enjoyed playing regularly. His children remember being sent out to pick elderberries to make wine and, in later years, he added sloe whisky to his repertoire. His culinary skills were legend – well, he enjoyed a good barbeque and his pièce de résistance was a combination of his cooking and surgical skills (a turducken, a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey). His grandchildren will forever remember his waffles! Alec was a kind man, with a fine sense of humour, a rounded individual, a very professional clinician and surgeon. He used to say: ‘I cannot repay those who have helped me in my career, but I can help those who come after me.’
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First Title value, for Searching Heywood-Waddington, Michael Broke (1929 - 2016)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-26 2019-08-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381347381347
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Michael Broke Heywood-Waddington was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Broomfield, Chelmsford and Black Notley hospitals, Essex. Born in Littlehampton on 24 April 1929, his father, William Broke Heywood-Waddington, was a general practitioner in Arundel and Littlehampton who had served in the Royal Navy in the First World War. His mother was Edna Madeleine Heywood-Waddington née Goddard, the daughter of a bank manager. He was educated at Dorset House, Littlehampton and Epsom College, and was awarded a major open scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge. After clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, he qualified in 1953. After a house physician post at the Middlesex Hospital, he went to Jamaica, where he was a house officer and senior house officer under Sir John Golding. While in Jamaica he was involved in treating the survivors of polio. From 1956 to 1959 he held a short service commission as a flight lieutenant in the RAF. He was posted to Iraq, as chief medical officer at the RAF base in Habbaniya, looking after 10,000 personnel. He returned to the UK, where he was a registrar in general surgery at Mount Vernon Hospital and a registrar in orthopaedics at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, where he trained under Norman Capener. From 1962 to 1967 he was a registrar and then senior registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, where he worked for Sir Herbert Seddon. In 1967 he was appointed to his consultant post in Essex. He organised the orthopaedic training rotation in East Anglia. He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, president of the orthopaedic section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1989 to 1990 and chairman of the regional advisory committee in orthopaedics for the North East Thames Regional Health Authority. Following his retirement in 1992 he developed a busy medico-legal practice. He was a member of the MCC and orthopaedic surgeon to Essex County Cricket Club. He was also interested in skiing, photography and steam engines. He had a heart attack in his fifties, but following surgery was able to continue working until his retirement. Michael Heywood-Waddington died on 17 February 2016 at the age of 86 and was survived by his widow, Virginia Susan (née Crichton), whom he married in 1969, and their son, John.
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First Title value, for Searching Isles, William Hunter (1916 - 1985)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details William Hunter Isles was born in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, Scotland on 17 June 1916, the son of William Isles, a company secretary, and Jessie Isabella (née Sutherland). He was educated at Lasswade School, Midlothian, before entering the University of Edinburgh, qualifying in 1943. His early appointments were as house physician at the Eastern General Hospital, Edinburgh, house surgeon at the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, and as senior house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Hull. After further appointments as surgical registrar at the George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton, and as orthopaedic registrar at the Coventry and Warwick Hospital, he passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1969 and the FRCS in the following year. He worked at the Manor Hospital, Nuneaton, and was appointed consultant surgeon in trauma and orthopaedics from 1976 until his retirement in 1981. His many outside interests included rugby football, golf, fishing for trout and salmon, shooting and hill walking. In 1973 he married Ann Shenstone Ellis, a radiographer, and there were no children. He died on 9 September 1985 at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, aged 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Baijal, Eric (1918 - 1983)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

First Title value, for Searching Sewell, Robert Henry (1920 - 2012)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-07-12 2014-07-18
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Robert Sewell was an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Greenwich. He was born in Horwich, Greater Manchester, on 21 September 1920, the son of James Scott Sewell, a general practitioner and a part-time medical officer of health, and Emily Sewell née Patton, a housewife. His elder brother, Thomas Patton Sewell, also qualified in medicine and became deputy medical officer of health for Lancashire. Sewell was educated first at home with a governess, and then attended Bolton School, where he was in the gymnastics eight and also played chess and boxed. In 1937 he went to Manchester University to read medicine. In 1940 he gained the anatomy prize, and in 1943, the year he qualified, the clinical surgical prize. As a student in Manchester Walter Schlapp supported him in his physiological research for his BSc degree, while Frederic Wood Jones encouraged him in his anatomy studies and advised him to take the primary FRCS in 1941, whilst he was still a student. Sewell was a house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1943, and a senior house surgeon at Preston Royal Infirmary in 1944. From 1944 to 1946 he was a registrar and senior registrar in trauma and orthopaedics to Sir Harry Platt at Manchester Royal Infirmary, treating casualties from the Second World War. He then served for two years in the RAMC and was posted to Jamaica as a surgeon to the North and South Caribbean Commands. Sewell returned to the UK in 1948, and became a surgical clinical assistant to the Metropolitan Hospital. From 1949 to 1952 he was a registrar and then a senior registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, where he worked with John Cholmeley, A T Fripp, J I P James, Philip Newman and David Trevor. J I P James initiated his interest in hand surgery, while David Trevor reinforced his continuing interest in children's surgery. In 1952, at the age of just 31, he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon to St Alfege's and the Miller General hospitals in Greenwich, where he faced the challenge of bringing together staff from two very different hospitals. He successfully developed an orthopaedic department and organised an accident and emergency service for Greenwich. He was also actively involved in the planning of the new Greenwich District Hospital. He chaired the medical committee for several years and, from 1973 to 1974, served on the Area Health Authority. From the late 1960s, he also built up a large medico-legal practice, as well as a small private orthopaedic practice. He described himself as a 'GP' orthopaedic surgeon. Because St Alfege's Hospital had the second largest diabetic clinic in the country, he became interested in the orthopaedic complications of diabetes. He was also interested in Dupuytren's contracture, congenital dislocation of the hip and talipes. He wrote on a variety of orthopaedic topics, including excision of the patella, Hand-Schüller-Christian disease and osteoarthritis of the hip. He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, chairman of the Greenwich branch of the British Medical Association, and president of the West Kent Medico Chirurgical Society. He was a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, a freeman of the City of London and a member of the City Livery Club. Sewell retired early, in July 1983. As he himself put it, he found he 'was no longer enjoying…clinical work due to the increasing interference of the NHS administration'. He continued his medico-legal work, and finally retired in June 1988. Outside medicine, he was interested in rose growing and showing (until he developed asthma), travel, reading and, in his retirement, following the stock market. In July 1945 he married Peggy Joan Kearton Chandler, known as 'Joan'. They had two daughters, Carole Gay and Cherry Margot. Robert Henry Sewell died on 14 April 2012, aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Golden, Gerald Newton (1900 - 1990)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379467379467
Occupation Accident surgeon Trauma surgeon General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Gerald Golden only revealed the year of his birth on his 90th birthday. He trained at the London Hospital, qualifying in 1923. Soon after he went to Brazil, mainly to work in a mission hospital and for his scientific work during a typhoid epidemic he was awarded MB by the University of Rio de Janeiro in 1929. After returning to the London Hospital he passed FRCS in 1931 and proceeded to work as a general practitioner/surgeon in Haslemere, Surrey. At one time he was orthopaedic and accident surgeon to the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, the Royal Hants County Hospital, Winchester, and orthopaedic surgeon to Haslemere and District Hospitals. During the second world war he was EMS orthopaedic surgeon, being appointed consultant at the end of the war. Gerald was a committed Christian and was always concerned with health problems in developing countries. After retirement to Colyton, Devon, in 1965 and the death of his wife he returned to practice in Nigeria, India and Afghanistan. He was a leading light in World Orthopaedic Concern. He died in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 13 October 1990.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007284
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First Title value, for Searching Pugh, Patterson David Gordon (1920 - 1993)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2019-11-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381367381367
Occupation Naval surgeon Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Patterson David Gordon Pugh was a surgeon rear-admiral in the Royal Navy. He was born in Carshalton, Surrey on 19 December 1920. His father, William Thomas Gordon Pugh, was medical superintendent of Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children, Carshalton; his mother, Elaine Victoria Augusta Pugh née Hobson, was the daughter of a farmer. Pugh was educated at Lancing College and then went on to Jesus College, Cambridge and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, where he gained the Freeman scholarship in obstetrics and gynaecology in 1944 and qualified in the same year. He was a house surgeon at the North Middlesex Hospital and served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve for two years from 1945, on HMS *Glasgow* and HMS *Jamaica*. He then returned to civilian life, as a house surgeon at the Middlesex and Hammersmith hospitals. In 1950, he joined the Royal Navy on a permanent commission. He served on HMS *Narvik* and HMS *Warrior* and became a consultant in orthopaedics in 1960. He was posted to Royal Naval hospitals in Malta, Haslar and Plymonth. In 1973, he was appointed as a senior medical officer at Plymouth. From 1974 to 1975 he was medical officer in charge of the Royal Naval hospital in Malta. From 1975 to 1978 he was surgeon rear-admiral of naval hospitals and also the Queen’s honorary surgeon. He edited several editions of *Practical nursing* (Blackwood, 16th to 21st editions), a textbook originally written by his father. He retired from the Navy in 1978 and was, for two years, a medical officer in the prisons department of the Home Office. He was awarded an OBE in 1968 and became a Commander of the Order of St John in 1976. He emigrated to South Africa in 1980. He was a prolific collector of Staffordshire portrait figures and naval ceramics. In 1970, his collection of over 5,000 pieces was loaned to the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, and was eventually sold to the museum. He wrote a classic text on the subject – *Staffordshire portrait figures and allied subjects of the Victoria era* (London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1970). He also wrote •Nelson and his surgeons: being an account of the illnesses and wounds sustained by Lord Nelson and of his relationship with the surgeons of the day• (Edinburgh, E & S Livingston, 1968), *Naval ceramics* (Newport, Mon, Ceramic Book Co, 1971) and *Heraldic china mementoes of the First World War* (Newport, Mon, England, Ceramic Book Company, 1972). He was married twice. In 1948, he married Margaret Sheena Fraser. They had three sons (one of whom is Lewis Pugh, an endurance swimmer and ocean advocate) and a daughter. They divorced in 1964 and in 1967 Pugh married Eleanor Margery Jones. They had a son and a daughter. Pugh died on 15 July 1993. He was 72.
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First Title value, for Searching Radcliffe, Frank (1908 - 1977)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379053379053
Occupation Accident surgeon Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Frank Radcliffe was born on 30 August 1908 at Oldham, Lancs. His father was a medical practitioner. He was educated at Oundle, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, graduating in medicine in 1932. After house appointments he was in partnership in general practice at Kettering and also honorary assistant surgeon to Kettering General Hospital. For most of that period he was also medical officer to the Post Office at Kettering. During the second world war he was orthopaedic specialist, Emergency Medical Service. From D-Day this appointment entailed much work at the City General Hospital, Leicester, and in addition a ward for the wounded was set aside at Kettering under his sole care. He had a further 40 beds at the British Red Cross Convalescent Home near Oundle. From 1948 to 1951 he was orthopaedic and accident surgeon at Kettering General Hospital and assisted at clinics at Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital, Northampton. His responsibilities at that time covered a population of 80,000. He published several papers, including one in the *British journal of surgery* on avulsion of the forequarter. With the establishment of the NHS he became consultant orthopaedic and accident surgeon at Kettering. Frank Radcliffe enjoyed horse-riding, gardening, and sailing. For many years he was a member of the Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club, and he sailed with great distinction in racing. He married Miss Harley Jones in 1934 and they had one son and one daughter. He died in 1977, aged 68.
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First Title value, for Searching Johnson, Peter George (1932 - 2023)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by David Dempster
Publication Date 2023-08-15
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Peter Johnson was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Frimley Park and Farnham hospitals, Surrey. He was born on 6 June 1932, the only child of Percy George Johnson, a local GP in the Staffordshire mining village of Silverdale, and Daisy Evelyn Johnson née Rowley. He was educated locally at Wolstanton Grammar School, before going up to Merton College, Oxford to read medicine. He transferred to St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School for his clinical training and graduated BM BCh in 1957. From 1959 to 1961 he carried out National Service in the Army, where he reached the rank of captain, serving as medical officer to the 29th Field Artillery Regiment, mostly in Germany. He later spent some years in the Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve, with the RAMC. Returning to St Thomas’, Peter held various posts, including house surgeon in both general and thoracic surgery, and casualty officer, before gaining his FRCS in 1967. Peter undertook his orthopaedic training at St Thomas’, under the direction of Ronnie Furlong, and whilst there met his future wife, Ann Williams, an orthopaedic ward sister. During training, he also spent time at the associated Lambeth Hospital and a year on attachment, as associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Part way through the year he returned briefly in April 1973 to marry Ann in her home town of Dolgellau, Wales, before returning to the United States with her to complete his year. Returning to England, he became a chief assistant to the orthopaedic department of St Thomas’ and over the next year or so published work on the management of spinal injuries, the management of the critically ill and, jointly, an account of fractures of the spine. Peter was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Frimley Park and Farnham hospitals in 1977 and, with Ann, moved into Strangers Corner, Farnham – the first house built by Harold Falkner, the renowned Arts and Crafts architect, where they lived together for the next 46 years. Although appointed as a general orthopaedic surgeon, he took a full part in the on-call rota, dealing with trauma, until just a few years before he retired. He always had a special interest in knee surgery and was an early advocate of knee arthroscopy. He was intrigued by adolescent knee pain and the mechanics of the patellofemoral joint. He continued to enjoy both hip and knee arthroplasty. Expecting high standards of both himself and his colleagues, he could at times be quite acerbic, but a sharp rejoinder would usually result in a gracious apology, sometimes associated with a round of coffee or a box of chocolates! Peter retired from Frimley in 1997 and embarked on an active life as a volunteer driver for Care Farnham and, with Ann, running annual charity events for Guide Dogs for the Blind. After the local Oxfam charity bookshop opened in 2005, Peter was an early volunteer. He was an avid reader and could seldom leave a bookshop without a new purchase, and his exposure to books in the Oxfam shop gave him further opportunity to indulge this hobby. He had an extensive and wide-ranging library. For some years Peter worked behind the reception desk and as a guide at the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, where he became known for his very dry sense of humour. Retirement also gave him time to resume piano lessons after a gap of almost 50 years, and he took several exams to achieve grade five. He enjoyed painting and produced work of a high standard. Peter and Ann split their time between their home in Farnham, and a house they maintained in Dolgellau, and Peter was a member of art societies in both areas. Peter developed a great affection for the part of Wales from which his wife originated, which he would describe as ‘God’s own country’. He spent time learning about Welsh culture and made a great attempt to become proficient in the language. In the last few years, Peter’s physical health declined, and he became less mobile and more frail. He died peacefully in his home in Farnham in May 2023, and was buried near his own and Ann’s parents in Dolgellau, after a bilingual service in the chapel in which they had been married, 50 years earlier.
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First Title value, for Searching Hughes, Steven James (1957 - 2018)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2021-08-12 2022-03-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/384969384969
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Steven Hughes was a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon who served with distinction during the Falklands War as regimental medical officer of the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment (2 Para). He was born on 12 June 1957 in Newport, Gwent, the son of Kenneth Hughes, an engineer in the RAF who later worked in local government, and Sylvia Hughes née Dawson. He attended Gowerton Boys’ Grammar School near Swansea and studied medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1980. As a student he joined the Territorial Army Parachute Field Ambulance and, in 1977, joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was a house surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital and a house physician at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor. He then attended a postgraduate medical officers’ course, based at Sandhurst, Aldershot and the Royal Army Medical College in London. In January 1982 he joined 2 Para as their regimental medical officer. He was preparing for a six-month tour of Belize, when, on 2 April, Argentinian armed forces launched an invasion of the Falkland Islands. In response, the UK government swiftly arranged for a Task Force of ships to take troops to the south Atlantic and, on 26 April, 2 Para sailed in the *MV Norland*, a ship requisitioned from P and O. On the voyage south, Hughes instructed as many paras as possible on the care of the wounded and arranged for each man to carry some basic medical equipment including intravenous fluid. During the night of 21 May, Hughes landed on the Falklands with his regimental aid post, as part of the first beach assault group. They made their way to the Sussex Mountains, where they established a makeshift base. On 26 May they received orders to move towards Darwin at night. During the march, Hughes fell in the darkness and realised he had broken his fibula: he tightened the laces on his boot to give as much support as possible and limped on. In the early hours of 28 May the battalion was ordered to move towards Goose Green, where the Argentinians had established a garrison. An intense battle raged, with many men wounded and deaths on both sides. By night fall almost the whole of the Goose Green peninsula had been taken and negotiations the next day led to the surrender of the rest of the garrison. During the intense fighting, Hughes treated the injured on the ground and helped evacuate casualties via helicopter. On 3 June he moved on to Bluff Cove by Sea King helicopter and later went on to Fitzroy. Five days later, on 8 June, the *Sir Galahad* and *Sir Tristram* ships were attacked by air off Fitzroy and badly damaged. Hughes helped the troops who had come ashore in a landing craft and then, with others, took the craft back out to the burning wreck of the *Sir Galahad* in the hope of finding more casualties. He successfully rounded up life rafts and survivors. The troops of 2 Parra went on to take Wireless Ridge, close to the capital Port Stanley, and it was here that Hughes learnt of the surrender of the Argentinian forces on 14 June. He was the only medical officer to serve in both land battles and was mentioned in despatches for his bravery. After his return to the UK, he took part in the delayed tour of Belize. In 1984 he was posted to the Cambridge Military Hospital at Aldershot as a senior house officer in general surgery. A year later, he was stationed at the British Military Hospital in Rinteln, Germany, where he was a registrar in surgery and orthopaedics for six months. He retired from the Army in 1986. In civilian life, he gained his FRCS in 1987 and was a senior registrar in orthopaedics in Oxford. He held a fellowship in trauma at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and worked in Australia as a consultant in hand and microsurgery. From 1999 to 2012 he was an orthopaedic consultant with the Heart of England NHS Trust. He then retired from the NHS but continued to practise in Abu Dhabi for several years. Like many of his comrades who had served in the Falklands, Hughes suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. He researched the condition, helped raise funds to support veterans and wrote about his experiences. In 1994 he married Carol Millar, a consultant paediatric anaesthetist. They had a daughter, Amy, and two sons, Jamie and David. Steven Hughes died of liver disease on 4 May 2018 aged just 60.
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First Title value, for Searching Jarrett, Llewellyn Neville (1946 - 2006)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-08-21 2009-02-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372728372728
Occupation Trauma surgeon
Details Lyn Jarrett was a consultant in accident and emergency surgery at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham. He was born on 18 September 1946 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. His father, Neville Jarrett, was a banker and his mother, Rosamond née Morrison, a housewife. He was educated at the Methodist Boys’ High School and the Prince of Wales School in Freetown, before going to England in 1966 to study medicine at Newcastle. After qualifying, he completed house officer jobs at Sunderland General Hospital and a senior house officer post at Nottingham General Hospital, where he continued to train in surgery. He then moved to the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, and to registrar posts at Derby Royal Infirmary and Leicester General Hospital, before being appointed as a consultant in accident and emergency surgery at the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, in 1987. He developed an interest in sports injury during his training in accident and emergency surgery and was medical consultant to Nottingham Forest Football Club for more than 20 years. He was also chief medical officer at the Donington Park Racing Circuit and medical consultant to the Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team. He married Resil Nicol-Cole, a solicitor, and had two daughters, Lynne and Nnenna, both of whom followed careers in marketing. Lyn died after a brief illness on 8 December 2006.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000544
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First Title value, for Searching Hicks, John Herbert (1915 - 1992)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380184380184
Occupation Accident surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Hicks was born in Bristol on 1 February 1915, the son of William Herbert Hicks, a printer's manager, and his wife Norah Gertrude, née Lane. He studied medicine at Birmingham University, obtained his Fellowship in 1942 and served as a ship's surgeon in the Merchant Navy between 1942 and 1946. During his time as surgical registrar and resident surgical officer at Birmingham General Hospital he worked with H H Sampson, B T Rose, R Scott Mason and J B Leather, and obtained the MCh (Orth) from Liverpool in 1950. He was appointed surgeon to the Birmingham Accident Hospital in 1951, where he proved to be a thoughtful and innovative exponent of accident surgery. His outstanding contribution was in the rigid fixation of fractures, but he also worked on the composition of metallic implants and the dangers of corrosion, the management of infected fractures, the treatment of non-union and the mechanics and anatomy of the foot. He was a fine teacher, a botanist of distinction (he joined an expedition to Bhutan and had two plants named after him) and the author of amusing and provocative articles in medical journals. He married Dr Sheila C S Meux in 1955 and they had two sons and one daughter, who all survived him when he died on 4 January 1992.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008001
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First Title value, for Searching Wade, Preston Allen (1901 - 1982)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24 2020-08-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379203379203
Occupation Trauma surgeon
Details Preston Allen Wade was born on 22 March 1901 in Helena, Montana, the son of Claudia and John W. Wade. He moved East to enter the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center with which he was associated for the entirety of his medical career from student to Emeritus Professor. Pep, as he was universally known, early developed an abiding interest in the surgery of trauma. He first worked as a house officer in the old New York Hospital on 14th Street and he was to see its incorporation with the Cornell University Medical College and played an important role in that union. His service during the second world war established his pre-eminence in the treatment of trauma and he presided over the American Association for Surgery of Trauma and was editor of their journal. He was also in due course honoured by the Presidency of the New York Academy of Medicine. His lifelong philosophy was that 'the doctor is here not just to treat; his job is to help preserve the dignity of man'. He was 81 when he died suddenly in his home from a stroke on 17 August 1982. He was survived by his wife, Evangeline, and two stepchildren, H James Caulkins and Jean C McDaniel.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007020
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First Title value, for Searching Lam, Sorab Jamshed Sorabsha (1934 - 2010)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-15 2014-10-24
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Sorab Jamshed Sorabsha Lam, known as 'Soli', was a senior consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Bromley and Tunbridge Wells. He was born in Bombay, India, on 22 October 1934, the son of two distinguished lawyers, Jamshed Sorabsha Lam, a solicitor, and Mithan Lam née Tata, a barrister and one of the first women to be called to the British bar (in 1923). In 1950 Lam went to the UK, where he attended Dulwich College and then Guy's Hospital Medical School. He gained his MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1957. He was a house officer at Guy's and then a senior house officer at Birmingham Accident Hospital. From June 1960 he was a senior house officer in surgery at Manchester Royal Infirmary. In 1961 he gained his FRCS and became a registrar in orthopaedic and general surgery at St Olave's Hospital, then annexed to Guy's. From 1962 to 1963 he was a registrar in vascular surgery at St Mary's Hospital, London. He was then a registrar in surgery at Lewisham General Hospital, and a registrar in orthopaedic surgery at Birkenhead General Hospital and Guy's. From 1965 to 1969, he was a senior registrar in orthopaedic surgery at Guy's, during which time he spent a year on a Fulbright travelling fellowship as an instructor in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. In 1968 he was a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. In June 1969 he was appointed as a consultant to the Cray Valley and Sevenoaks Hospital Group, based at Orpington and Sevenoaks hospitals. In 1974, as a result of boundary and hospital reorganisations, he became a senior consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon to the Bromley Hospitals Trust (including Bromley, Orpington and Farnborough hospitals) and consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Tunbridge Wells Health Authority (Sevenoaks Hospital). For many years he was completely single-handed. He was particularly interested in spinal surgery, including correction of scoliosis, and in the reconstruction of knee and ankle joints. He was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and the British Scoliosis Society, a member of the European Spine Society, the Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie, the British Association for Surgery of the Knee and the British Elbow and Shoulder Society, and an associate member of the British Society of Surgery of the Hand and the Scoliosis Research Society. He was also a visiting surgeon in America, Tunisia, Australia and Cyprus. He was a founder member of the British Fulbright Scholars Association and on the executive committee for five years. In his younger days he was a very active sportsman; he was ranked number four in the world at squash and was a cricketer for the minor counties. He won numerous trophies for squash, swimming and table tennis. His first marriage ended in divorce, and he had no further contact with his children. In 1980 he married Margaret. Soli Lam died suddenly on 30 November 2010, aged 75. He was survived by his stepsons, Stephen and Tim. Two British Orthopaedic Association fellowships have been set up in his memory.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Raymond Arthur Charles (1933 - 2018)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Bruce Morris
Publication Date 2018-11-20 2019-03-06
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Occupation Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Ray Davies was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Gloucester. He was born in Romford, Essex on 9 September 1933 to Arthur Davies, a London dock official, and his wife, Elsie, a chiropodist. An only child, he grew up in Hornchurch. His secondary education was at Brentwood School, where he was an academic high achiever, receiving many school prizes, and leaving with six A levels. He was also an outstanding sportsman and a fine footballer, particularly excelling at athletics, where his principal event was throwing the javelin. In 1953, he commenced his medical studies at the London Hospital Medical School. After the second MB, he completed a BSc in anatomy in 1956 and qualified MB BS with a distinction in surgery in 1959. Throughout his student years he had continued to play football and competed for the university athletics club in the javelin event. His prowess at Amateur Athletic Association meets led to his selection for England and participation in the British Empire and Commonwealth Games at Cardiff in 1958. His early junior hospital doctor posts were at the London and other associated hospitals. In 1963 he moved to Sheffield, where he was first a registrar in general surgery and then held a post in plastic and hand surgery. He gained his FRCS in 1965 and in the same year started his registrar orthopaedic training at Exeter and Torquay hospitals, where he came under the influence of Robin Ling among others. He moved on to a senior registrar post on the Bristol circuit at Bristol Royal Infirmary in 1967. In 1970, he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Ray Davies was an orthopaedic surgeon before the advent of significant subspecialisation, a gifted surgeon who could perform expertly most procedures in both the trauma and elective fields. A modest, quiet, kind and knowledgeable man, his was a sound opinion and his good sense was invaluable to the department. His calm, reassuring demeanour was appreciated by both patients and staff. His wry sense of humour also had its place, especially in departmental meetings. He was not one however to push himself forward, but preferred to just get on with the job without complaint. He was a dedicated family man. In 1960, he married Wendy née Hadwen, a physiotherapist. He delighted in his home life with Wendy and their three children and it was there where he was happiest. He imbued his children with his values of selflessness, integrity, fair play, kindness and hard work. Ray had many interests. He was well read with a formidable general knowledge and he was a fine photographer. His principal hobby was gardening and he spent many hours in his greenhouse and tending his roses, especially after retirement. All his life he had a keen interest in sport. He was a supporter of West Ham United since his Essex boyhood and he attended live events such as cricket test matches at Lord’s and later Edgbaston, as well as tennis at Wimbledon whenever he could. He retired in 1998. He remained in Gloucester until his unexpected death from an unanticipated abdominal condition following a total knee replacement on 12 July 2018. He was 84. He was survived by Wendy and their three children – Stephen, Graham and Carol.
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First Title value, for Searching Beck, Alfred (1912 - 2006)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-07-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372551372551
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Alfred Beck was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon in Cardiff. He was born in Uhersky Brod, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic), on 28 January 1912. His father, Ignaz, was a wholesale merchant and councillor, from a prominent family in the Jewish community which included rabbis and businessmen. His mother was Rose Fürst. Alfred qualified at King Charles’ University, Prague, in 1935 and, after six months as a house surgeon at Ruzomberok, he completed two and a half years in the Czechoslovakian Army, before becoming a surgical registrar in Benesov, near Prague. A year later the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia and Alfred secretly crossed the border into Poland, where he joined a volunteer unit. He first went to France and then to England, where he was accepted at St George’s. He then worked as a doctor at Colindale Hospital, and narrowly escaped death in a bombing raid. After the war he found that his parents, two brothers and several other relatives had been killed by the Germans in Aüschwitz. He specialised in orthopaedic surgery, was for many years a registrar at St Mary Abbott’s Hospital, and then at Cardiff, where for over 20 years he was consultant in charge of the accident unit at St David’s Hospital. After retirement from the NHS he joined an independent medical group in the City of London, where he continued to work until he was 80. He published on stress fractures, devised an instrument for extracting the femoral neck, and a way of measuring disuse atrophy. A man of exceptional patience and modesty, he was a keen gardener, specialising in cacti. He died on 24 October 2006, and is survived by his wife Martha, whom he married in 1953, and his son Richard. His daughter Linda predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Phillips, Robert Sneddon (1932 - 2017)

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by Charles Galasko
Publication Date 2017-03-16 2018-06-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381507381507
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Robbie Phillips was an orthopaedic surgeon in Manchester, a proud Scotsman, an excellent surgeon and a first-rate sportsman who gave to his specialty and community. He was born on 15 September 1932 in Edinburgh to William James Phillips, a master plumber, and Mary Phillips née Sneddon. He attended Balgreen Primary School and then obtained a scholarship to George Heriot's School. He entered Edinburgh University in 1950 to study medicine and qualified in 1956. From 1957 to 1959, he served as a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. His pre-registration jobs were at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Western General Hospital. In 1959, he was a senior house officer at Western General Hospital and then a surgical registrar at the same hospital. There he met Jimmy Scott, the first consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Western General, who called all the surgical registrars together and asked if anyone would like to volunteer to become the first trainee orthopaedic surgeon. Never one to resist a challenge, recognising that orthopaedics was in its infancy, that the specialty offered much to patients and that he would take on a lot of responsibility as the first trainee, Robbie embraced the opportunity. After all, he had come into medicine to help others and this would allow him to do just that. From 1962 to 1963, he spent 14 months as a research fellow at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, where he researched the changes in venous blood pressure around arthritic joints at a time when osteotomy was in general use for patients with painful arthritic joints, with some preferring the Judet hemiarthroplasty or Smith-Petersen cup arthroplasty for arthritis of the hip. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter. Although the Americans wanted him to stay, he decided to return to the UK and completed his training as an orthopaedic registrar at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry and as a senior registrar at the United Manchester Hospitals and North Manchester Hospitals Group. In 1967, he was appointed as a consultant to the North Manchester Group of Hospitals, amongst the first in Manchester to be recognised for orthopaedic senior registrar training. He immediately became involved in teaching and administration, in addition to a heavy clinical commitment. At the time, there were four hospitals in the group - Ancoats Hospital, where much of orthopaedic practice was carried out, the Jewish Hospital, North Manchester General Hospital and Booth Hall Children's' Hospital. With the closure of Ancoats and the Jewish Hospital, much reorganisation of orthopaedic practice was required and Robbie played his part. At the time orthopaedics was developing rapidly, especially with Charnley's development of hip replacement surgery at nearby Wrightington Hospital. Robbie recognised the potential of such surgery to relieve pain and restore mobility, and as a new consultant introduced hip replacement to patients in north Manchester. He subsequently did the same with knee arthroplasty, as well as helping run the paediatric orthopaedic service at Booth Hall. He was made an honorary lecturer by the Victoria University of Manchester because of his teaching qualities and served as chairman of the trauma and orthopaedic subcommittee of the Regional Health Authority from 1985 to 1992, at a time when clinicians were able to influence regional policy. He was an orthopaedic adviser to the Royal College of Surgeons from 1989 to 1992, and was made an FRCS *ad eundem* in 1991. He was an excellent chairman and had the ability to involve all without being intimidating; he made sure there was always a lot of laughter. He retired from the NHS in 1992, but continued in his medico-legal practice for a few years. He was always regarded by his colleagues as 'honest and fair' and his opinion as a medical expert was always respected. He loved sport and excelled at cricket, which he played until he was 50. His hands showed the consequences of decades of wicket keeping. He played in the Central Lancashire Cricket League, just below minor counties level. He was a keen golfer, but did not reach the same level. He was captain of his golf club and president of the Cheshire Union of Golf Clubs. He was a proud Scotsman and it was always a pleasure to hear him address the haggis and spend a Burns Night in his company. He devoted time to his charitable work, helping raise money to establish the Oakwood Leonard Cheshire Home and chaired its management committee for a decade. He was a Rotarian. He was survived by his wife, Ella, who met him whilst she was still at school and he was a first-year medical student, his daughter, Gillian, an ophthalmic surgeon, his son, Graeme, an antique furniture restorer, and two grandchildren. He will be remembered as a man of charity, giving of his time and energy to worthy causes, as well as an excellent orthopaedic surgeon whose abiding passions were his family, cricket and golf.
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First Title value, for Searching Sudlow, Robin Andrew (1948- 2021)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Rosemary Sudlow
Publication Date 2021-05-19 2022-11-03
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009900-E009999
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Robin Sudlow was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Southend Hospital. He was born in Enfield, north London, on 25 January 1948 to Stanley Sudlow, a die caster, and Bessy Sudlow née Howard, who worked in the local pharmacy. His sister Roxanne, known as Roxy, was born four years later. He went to Enfield Grammar School and at an early age set his heart on becoming a doctor. Robin had to work hard to get into medical school, gaining a place at the second attempt after working in the school lab for a year. While he was rightly proud of what he achieved, he was saddened that a changing education system prevented children from his social background entering the world of medicine. He started at the London Hospital Medical School in September 1967. In a piece Robin dictated many years later, he remembered his house officer training and being influenced by Richard Earlam, Brian Roper, John Blandy and Gerald Tresider. He was subsequently a senior house officer at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital under the orthopaedic surgeons Lawrence Plewes and Martin Foss. Here he worked in the accident and emergency department with Derek Boston, who was to become a consultant colleague at Southend; they both gained considerable experience with a wide spectrum of cases. Robin then decided to take a GP locum post in Catalina, Newfoundland, Canada, where he faced everything from putting in a tracheotomy for a young man who had blown his nose off with a shot gun while snow was cleared for a plane to take off to take him to hospital (he survived) to weaning patients off a cocktail of drugs the previous doctor had dispensed from his own pharmacy. He then camped around north America and Mexico for five months before returning home. Despite the threat that there would be no job to return to, he was back at the London Hospital within 48 hours. As a registrar with David Ritchie and John Blandy he held a two-year experimental teaching post rotating between surgical specialties, which enabled him to gain his FRCS. Having worked with the orthopaedic surgeons Michael Freeman, Brian Roper and John Fixsen, he applied to do the orthopaedic rotation at the London. This involved working at Black Notley, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and a six-month stint in Johannesburg. A glitch in the rotation led him to Barts to work with Alan Lettin and John Fixsen, then back to the London. There was a scarcity of consultant posts, so he was told he should ‘take any job that was offered’. He found a post at Southend Hospital as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and began working there in January 1985. He had been prepared to go anywhere as a consultant, but Southend was ideal – near the sea for sailing and within an hour of London, for the theatre and opera. He joined Chris Spivey, a colleague from the London, and Derek Boston of Luton and Dunstable days. With only three in the department, they had to be Jacks-of-all-trades and were thankful for the breadth of their training. Over the next few years Robin was involved in recruiting and training, often with links back to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore and Tim Briggs. Registrars often filled consultant posts a few years down the line and made a working team that Robin was proud to be part of. The chief executive was very supportive of increasing the number of posts, and the surgeons in the department gradually specialised. Robin was able to do more hip replacements, but, linking back to his work with Michael Freeman, he refused to get involved with the Birmingham hip, having previously done research on the effects of ‘metal on metal’. Robin’s time assessing and interviewing for the Royal College of Surgeons of England was frustrated by a lack of understanding centrally of the experience that had been gained at peripheral hospitals. He lamented the move to ‘patients should be seen by a consultant’, believing it eroded teaching opportunities, practical training and the sharing of expertise. From his time with Brian Roper and John Fixsen, he developed paediatric orthopaedics. He would assess hemiplegic gait inpatients with cerebral palsy and use botulinum toxin, mainly into hypertonic gastrocnemius muscle, to improve the gait pattern. In Johannesburg, he had experience with Louis Solomon operating on club feet, so expanded on this and introduced the Ponseti method of plastering and managing club feet from birth. Robin escaped from work in the Rotary and by being a mason. He was secretary in various masonic lodges. He was involved with the Rotary Clubs of Rochford and of Thorpe Bay and particularly helped with international support, delivering wheelchairs to several African countries including Zimbabwe, Uganda and Lesotho. Robin loved his work and really appreciated the teams which supported one another and created such a happy work environment. After he retired, he often made the comment: ‘How lucky I was to come through when I did.’ Robin died on 24 February 2021 from a pulmonary embolus. He was 73. He is much missed by his wife Rosemary, whom he met at the Christian Union at the London Hospital where she was training in paediatric physiotherapy, their three children, Richard, Michael and Anne Marie and seven grandchildren, particularly the two he helped home tutor through the covid epidemic.
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First Title value, for Searching Botting, Terence David John (1934 - 2005)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-06-21 2012-03-22
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Terry Botting was an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon. He was born on 3 January 1934 in Birmingham. His father, Royston Eric Jack Botting, was a machine tool setter, and his mother was Jessica Sarah née Tidmarsh. He was educated at Bablake School, Coventry, and Birmingham University. He became consultant and senior lecturer in orthopaedic and trauma surgery at Selly Oak and Birmingham Accident Hospitals. He was somewhat unconventional in appearance, with a penchant for wearing jazzy ties and white shoes: his patients would often place bets as to what he would be wearing on his ward rounds. He married Diane Kathleen née Walsgrove in 1956, by whom he had three sons (Adrian Royston, Trevor George and Stephen David St John). She predeceased him in May 1986 and in 1987 he married for a second time, to Eunice Ann née Burrows. He retired in 1992, spent six months in France and then a year on a philosophy course at Warwick University. He also made frequent visits to Australia to visit his grandsons. He was a keen watercolourist and enjoyed golf and fly-fishing. He died suddenly at home on 28 July 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000241
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, Dennis Henry George (1917 - 1979)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

First Title value, for Searching Huckstep, Ronald Lawrie (1926 - 2015)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Ann Huckstep
Publication Date 2015-05-08 2016-06-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379413379413
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Ronald Lawrie Huckstep was the inaugural professor of trauma and orthopaedic surgery at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and before that at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He was born in Chefoo, China, on 22 July 1926. His father, Herbert George Huckstep, was appointed director of education in Shanghai, following a career of teaching in London, the West Indies and Shanghai. His mother, also a teacher, was born in China. Her Scottish father was an officer on a China tea clipper ship and remained in Shanghai as a Yangtse River pilot. Ron and his younger brother John spent their early childhood in Shanghai. Ron's formal education was interrupted on several occasions. In 1938 he was confined to bed for a year with rheumatic fever. In 1939, when he turned 12, it was decided that he should go to boarding school in England. After an eventful journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway, the family remained in Britain for a few months, then returned to Shanghai. Following the attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941, Ron and his family were placed under house arrest, but he was able, at the age of 15, to attend an engineering institute, engineering being his primary interest. Travel was soon forbidden, so he started basic studies for an external medical degree from a Paris University. In April 1943, Ron and his family, along with other British subjects, were interned by the Japanese, where they remained until 1945. Ron was able to continue his medical studies in a rudimentary fashion in the internment camp, thanks to the initiative of a missionary doctor, Donald Cater, who organised a secret medical class, using their own emaciated bodies as anatomy models. As a result of this, in 1946, Ron was accepted by Queens' College, Cambridge, to read medicine. Following graduation from Cambridge University, Ronald pursued his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital, London. After qualification and some early house appointments, he travelled to Kenya in 1954 to widen his clinical knowledge. It was the time of the Mau Mau uprising, and Ron was put in charge of a typhoid ward and an internment camp for Mau Mau suspects. His work in this field formed the basis of his Cambridge University MD thesis. Returning to London, he completed surgical house appointments at the Middlesex and the Royal National Orthopaedic hospitals. During this time, he gained fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and England. In 1959 Ronald was appointed as chief assistant to the orthopaedic unit at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. In that same year he was awarded a Hunterian professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for his work on typhoid fever. In 1960 he married Ann Macbeth (the daughter of Ronald Macbeth, an ENT surgeon). At this time, he was appointed senior lecturer at Makerere University Medical School, Kampala, Uganda, in order to establish an orthopaedic department within the department of surgery. During the course of ten years in Uganda, Ron developed a flourishing orthopaedic and trauma service, eventually becoming professor of trauma and orthopaedic surgery. With the help of the Round Table, he established a polio clinic and a workshop for the manufacture of simple appliances, such as calipers and crutches, as well as simple wheelchairs. Simple correction of deformities resulting from poliomyelitis was a large part of his work. He also travelled extensively in Uganda, establishing clinics in outlying hospitals. Pope Paul VI visited the clinic in 1969 during a pilgrimage to Uganda. In 1970 Ron was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for his work with disabled patients. During this time Ron worked on early models of the 'Huckstep nail'. He also developed the 'skelecast', a simple means of immobilising fractures. In 1970 the Commonwealth Foundation invited him to become their first travelling professor in order to visit developing countries. He embarked on a 50,000 mile round-the-world tour, over a period of four months. This was recorded in *Orthopaedic problems in the newer world: report on a Commonwealth Foundation lecture tour March-September 1970* (1971), published by the Commonwealth Foundation. As a result of this tour, Ron was instrumental in founding World Orthopaedic Concern in 1973, a forum for orthopaedic surgeons from around the world to meet and discuss the management of disabled patients in developing countries. As the political situation in Uganda became increasingly unstable, Ron accepted the position of inaugural chair of trauma and orthopaedic surgery at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, arriving in Australia in 1972 with Ann and their three children. The position presented new challenges, but a viable department, as well as a comprehensive orthopaedic programme, was established. He also streamlined the accident and emergency services, and served on road trauma and other committees. Ron was passionate about teaching, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He continued his research in various materials for implants. With a research team, he developed the Huckstep intramedullary compression nail for difficult fractures and also a ceramic hip. His publications were many and included a book on typhoid fever, simple guides to trauma and orthopaedics, as well as a simple guide to poliomyelitis. In retirement Ron continued to lecture and travel, keeping in touch with colleagues worldwide. His latter years were marred by increasing mobility difficulties following a hip fracture, but his mind remained active and sharp. He had a special interest in the activities of his six grandchildren. Ron Huckstep died on 10 April 2015, at the age of 88. His legacy is the gratitude of his colleagues, students and patients in many parts of the world.
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First Title value, for Searching May, Peter Cameron (1947 - 2008)

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by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2012-02-13 2016-02-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374197374197
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Paediatric orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Peter May was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the Princess Royal Hospital, Telford. He specialised in children's orthopaedics, foot and ankle surgery, the shoulder and rheumatoid arthritis. He hailed from the West Country, where he attended Torquay Boys' Grammar School and then studied medicine at King's College London and Westminster Medical School, qualifying in 1971. He was good at sports, particularly rugby and hurdling, and in his youth had won a gold Duke of Edinburgh's Award. After early jobs in Southampton and Plymouth, he passed the primary fellowship and moved into orthopaedics, always his first love, first at the Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital in Cardiff, where he passed the final FRCS in 1977, and then in Southampton and Bath. In 1975 he spent some months in the Middle East to gain extra experience, and in 1984 won a travel and research scholarship to study paediatric surgery at the Toronto Sick Children's Hospital. This stimulated his special interest in paediatric orthopaedics, which remained throughout his life. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon in 1989 to the new Princess Royal Hospital in Telford before it had officially opened and enthusiastically set about developing a new unit with the help of two other newly appointed colleagues. Owing to the effects of reduced hours of work for trainees, he lacked the support of junior staff for much of the time and therefore worked extraordinarily long hours. He initiated a trauma rota with his two colleagues, such that every third week he covered trauma exclusively, leaving the elective orthopaedics to others. This was an early example of a practice which has now become commonplace. In Telford he was known for his desire to maintain high standards, for he cared deeply about the welfare of his patients. He abhorred bureaucracy; Government targets, performance indicators, and especially joint waiting lists, which were anathema to him. His concern for high standards of care and good outcomes did not make him an enthusiast for day surgery, as can be surmised from the title of one of his papers 'Is day care good care?' Robust in argument and with strongly held views, he did not always endear himself. He loved writing lengthy provocative letters (known as 'Petergrams'), which were sometimes thought exasperating, but they always highlighted genuine concerns about patient care. When the Internet arrived, he took to it with enthusiasm and loved experimenting with different colours and multiple typefaces and sizes such that some of his lengthy emails appeared to be modern works of art! Jargon was another dislike; he considered blue-sky thinking should be restricted to walks in his beloved West Country! In his early 40s, against fierce competition from others more senior, Peter was comfortably elected to the Royal College of Surgeons' council in 1993 and served diligently for two terms, demitting office in 2005. He was especially active on the RCS training board, becoming chairman of the hospital recognition committee and making many visits of inspection at hospitals throughout the country. He was ahead of his time in arguing for regionalisation of RCS activities at a time when its activities were exclusively London- based. Indeed, he argued that the College building itself would be better based in Birmingham or Manchester, but in this he failed to persuade council. Peter was blessed with a loving and supportive family. Married to Jan, they had three sons Jonathan, Daniel and Nathan. He died suddenly at home on 7 July 2008, aged 61.
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First Title value, for Searching Candlin, Richard Eric (1919 - 2011)

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by Richard Eric Candlin
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2015-06-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373883373883
Occupation General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Eric Candlin was a consultant orthopaedic and general surgeon at St Leonard's, Manor House, Enfield War Memorial and Cheshunt Cottage hospitals. He was born in Mukden, Manchuria, China, the third child and second son of George Alfred Candlin, general manager of the Russo-Asiatic Bank in the Far East, and Ellen Frances Candlin née Binns, the daughter of a colliery agent. His paternal grandfather was a missionary in China. He was educated at Kent House School in Eastbourne and then Victoria College, Jersey. He was a pacifist in his youth, but was converted from this by a year at Heidelberg University (from 1936 to 1937), when he read chemistry and physics. Whilst a Harkness open scholar at St Andrews University, reading for his BSc, he was commissioned in the Supplementary Reserve in 1939, and went in the 7th Field Regiment Royal Artillery with the British Expeditionary Force at the outbreak of the Second World War, returning via Dunkirk. He later served with the 19th Field Regiment Royal Artillery in Italy. After the war he returned as a medical student to St Andrews, qualifying - with a few short cuts - in 1949. His interest in trauma was aroused by a stint as a house surgeon to the Medical Research Council's burns unit at Birmingham Accident Hospital. After learning his craft at Nottingham City Hospital and a period in general practice, he qualified FRCS in 1953. An appointment as a registrar then as a senior registrar in general surgery to the London and the Metropolitan hospitals was followed in 1964 by an invitation to apply for an appointment as a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at the latter, and later at St Leonard's Hospital, Shoreditch. In this period he was a locum in every metropolitan region in both general and orthopaedic surgery; and from 1964 to 1984 was at Enfield War Memorial and Cheshunt Cottage hospitals as a general surgeon, becoming a very dexterous vasectomist, clearing his waiting list of 19 on his last day! In 1969 he was appointed to the private Manor House Hospital, Golders Green, and developed a particular interest in hip surgery and arthroscopy. Because of the geographic spread of the hospital's patients, he acquired a nationwide view of his specialty and continued to operate until he was almost 70. Over the years, and in collaboration with his secretary, he built up a remarkably widespread medico-legal practice based on broad medical and social experience, exploitation of the business potential of computers, diligent pursuit of records and considerable presence as a professional witness. He made regular circuits from Kent and the South Coast, to Exeter and as far north as Cheshire and Yorkshire, and south to the Channel Islands to visit patients; he saw his last patient and completed his final case report in 2010. Elected to the reforming Conservative Islington Council in 1968, in his three years as a councillor he was chairman in turn of the committees for cleaning and baths, children, public health, environmental health and social services, and health (with housing). He was a lifelong beekeeper, keeping hives in sometimes peculiar locations as required by his peripatetic early career. Many a church fete benefitted from the honey, and in his late eighties he was still collecting swarms causing a nuisance in public places when asked to do so by the local police. He was a part-time assistant to his wife, a GP, by whom he had six children (Deirdre, Lucy, George, Zoe, James and Athene), in addition to a daughter, Diana, from his war-time marriage to Anne Fry. He died on 10 January 2011, aged 91. His wife, Anthea MacBean, predeceased him by three years to the day.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001700
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First Title value, for Searching Nevelös, Akos Béla (1942 - )

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380998380998
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Akos Béla Nevelös was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Bradford. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 November 1942, the son of Austin Nevelös and Emily Rosdy, both of whom were teachers. He was educated in state schools in Hungary, where he won prizes in physics and mathematics in the national schools competitions. He did his medical training in Budapest, graduating in 1967, in the first 20 out of a class of 420. Under the Communist regime he was at first assigned to the Department of Forensic Medicine, where he stayed for two years, during which time he spent six months in the Army during the invasion of Czechoslovakia. He then found himself training in Hungary for the war in Vietnam, and he reached the rank of Lieutenant in the Vietnamese division. Escaping to England, he obtained a post as a part-time research assistant in the Department of Forensic Medicine in Leeds and started as a casualty officer in Leeds General Infirmary in 1970. After a further ten years in surgical posts in Leeds, during which time he visited Homburg and the Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto, he was appointed a consultant surgeon in Bradford in 1980. His main interest was in the orthopaedic surgery of children and the cementless ceramic hip prosthesis. He wrote a successful thesis on the aetiology of Perthes disease in 1980. He was appointed head of orthopaedics and trauma surgery in Bradford in 1996. He married Ann Fewlass, a radiographer, in 1971. They had two sons, Paul and James, and one daughter, Lauren. His main interest was history, and he wrote a book on the effects of historical events on his life and the lives of his grandfather, father and sons. Ill health obliged him to retire in 1999, after the College had made him FRCS *ad eundem*.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008815
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First Title value, for Searching Sarkar, Sankar Das (1928 - 1998)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381088381088
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Born in Tarakeswar, West Bengal, India on 1 August 1928, Sankar Das Sarkar's father, Nilmadhab Sarkar, was a general practitioner. His mother, Kanaklata Mitra, was the daughter of a district judge in Bengal. His father died when he was only eight, and he went through years of struggle and insecurity. In 1942 he was declared a 'restrictee' for his political activities as a student. He was educated at the Burdwan Raj School, West Bengal, and entered Calcutta Medical College, where the Professor of Medicine, M N De, influenced him greatly. After being house surgeon on the professorial surgical unit, he served in the Calcutta Port Commissioners' Hospitals for four years, and then returned to be a demonstrator of anatomy at his old medical college to read for the primary. He went to England to study for the FRCS. He was house surgeon at Birch Hill Hospital, Rochdale, and then did orthopaedic senior house officer jobs at the Albert Dock Hospital and Grimsby General Hospital, followed by registrarships in Tunbridge Wells, Teesside, Clare County Hospital and Mount Vernon. He was appointed consultant surgeon in trauma and orthopaedics to the Sandwell and South Birmingham group of hospitals in 1969. In 1957 he married Uma Biswas, and they had two sons, Susen Prasad and Sandip Prasad. Sandip became a surgeon and an FRCS. Sankar retired in 1993, but continued to be in demand for his rendering of the songs of his fellow countryman, Rabindranath Tagore. He died on 6 July 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Stretton, John Weston (1888 - 1952)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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Occupation Trauma surgeon
Details Born on 21 June 1888 the son of John Lionel Stretton MRCS 1881, surgeon to the Kidderminster Infirmary, and his wife Lucy Houghton; his grandfather Samuel Stretton MRCS 1854 was appointed surgeon to the Infirmary in 1856, and the three generations thus served for ninety-six years, he was educated at Malvern College, and Caius College, Cam-bridge. At St Bartholomew's Hospital he was serving as house surgeon when war began in 1914. He joined the RAMC and served throughout the war. Returning to Kidderminster in 1919 he practised at 50 Bewdley Road, and was appointed in 1921 surgeon to the Infirmary, now the Kidderminster and District General Hospital, and also to the Guest Hospital, Dudley. He was particularly interested in traumatic surgery, and did original work in his treatment of inguinal and femoral hernia; for the former he modified Bassini's method, making use of silk nets specially woven by his wife, and for the latter he devised a special needle. "Mr John", as he was always called, naturally took his place in the public life of Kidderminster; he served as District Commissioner of Boy Scouts, and was keenly interested in the welfare of all connected with the Hospital. He married on 25 April 1923 Mary, sister of Professor J M Smellie FRCP, who survived him with three grown-up sons. He died suddenly at the end of the nurses' prize-giving at the Hospital on 27 September 1952 aged 64. The funeral was at St John's Church, Kidderminster. He had lived latterly at Lea Grange.
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First Title value, for Searching Hunter, Gordon Andrew (1937 - 2015)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Marvin Tile
Publication Date 2016-05-12 2016-11-03
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Gordon Andrew Hunter was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, the first and largest level one trauma centre in Canada, and professor in the department of surgery, University of Toronto. He was born on 25 May 1937 in London into a medical family. His father, John William Hunter, who was born in Fife, Scotland, was medical officer of health at East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital. He died when Gordon was 10 years old. His mother, Antoinette Smyth, was Irish and an orphan. She trained as a nurse and after her husband's death became matron of two convalescent institutions in Suffolk for the veterans of the Second World War. Gordon's older brother, Ian Anthony Hunter, became a family doctor in New Zealand. Gordon was educated at Epsom College. He kept in touch with and contributed to his school until he died. He began his medical education at University College London, qualifying in 1960. He won several prestigious awards, including the Fellowes silver and Belasco medals. His postgraduate surgical training included two appointments at University College Hospital, London, and then one at St Mark's Hospital, London. One of Gordon's mentors was Max Rosenheim, who taught Gordon that 'every patient should leave your office feeling better, despite the delivery of bad news'. Throughout his career, Gordon tried to live by this standard. It was at his registrar appointment at Birmingham Accident Hospital that he developed his life interest in trauma. This was followed by a registrar year at University College Hospital, London, followed by a senior registrar year in Kingston, Jamaica, at the University of the West Indies, also with a large trauma volume. From 1966 to 1969, he was a senior registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, in trauma and orthopaedics. Gordon and his family went to Canada in 1969 as a senior clinical fellow to David McIntosh, a renowned orthopaedic surgeon, especially in the field of knee injury. Following his fellowship year in Toronto, he was offered a consultant post at Sunnybrook Hospital, a University of Toronto teaching hospital. He joined the staff in 1970, and remained there until his retirement from active practice in 2002, mainly for health reasons. He was especially active at the Sunnybrook Centre for Independent Living (SCIL), where he ran the amputation service and was involved in foot and ankle problems, especially in the diabetic patient. He was instrumental in initiating a foot and ankle educational program in the orthopaedic division at the University. He was later appointed medical director of SCIL, a position he held until his retirement from active clinical practice at Sunnybrook. Following his retirement, he maintained his interest in orthopaedics by working as a consultant for Canadian Trauma Consultants until 2013. His interest in trauma remained foremost in his career. He was an early member of the prestigious Hip Society, and wrote many papers on the natural history and results of treatment of hip fracture and dislocations. The Hip Society awarded him the Otto Aufranc award for outstanding research in 1976. His trauma interests evolved into the difficult problems of limb salvage and amputation, another area where he wrote extensively. He became a world authority and was a sought after speaker on that subject. Gordon had a passion for mentoring and teaching. In 1986, the year he became a full professor at the University of Toronto Medical School, he was awarded the prestigious Bruce Tovee award in surgical education. To the residents progressing through the trauma rotation at Sunnybrook, he was a true mentor. He influenced many to remain in a career in trauma care. To his surgical colleagues, he was a loyal friend. He had an interest in every case, and would openly share his experiences. In his early years, he enjoyed tennis, sailing and swimming; he and his wife showed much common sense moving into their home with a pool in the Lawrence Park area of Toronto, almost across the street from the trauma centre at Sunnybrook; he could easily walk to work. He was an avid gardener. As he was forced to slow down by his health concerns, he enjoyed being with his family in the countryside. Often, I would see him walking his treasured dog Benji, in the beautiful parkland at Sunnybrook. He always maintained a keen interest in world affairs. Gordon met his wife, Virginia ('Gini') née Smith when he was a registrar at University College Hospital, London, and she was a third year nursing student. They married in February 1965 and shared their lives together for 50 years. They had two children, Carolyn and Jonathan, and five grandchildren (Thomas, Emma, Alexandra, Campbell and Sophie). His first cardiac bypass procedure was in 1984; he recovered and continued working as an orthopaedic consultant. His second cardiac bypass procedure was in 1993, a very difficult period for him and the family. He again was able to return to work in orthopaedics. In spite of being critically ill at the time of his cardiac procedures and other illnesses, his true personality shone through. He greeted us all with a smile and a quip and worried more about us than himself. This attitude remained though his final illness and his time in the palliative care unit at Sunnybrook - 'his' hospital. Gordon Andrew Hunter will be remembered as a mentor and educator in orthopaedic trauma. Above all, he treated every patient with care and compassion. His contributions in management of limb salvage and amputation in polytrauma are renowned. He was a wonderful colleague and a loyal friend. He was a man of courage and optimism, even during his many illnesses, always showing that special wry humour. Despite a rewarding career in Canada, he ever remained an Englishman, with fond memories of his frequently visited home county of Suffolk. He died on 11 June 2015, aged 78.
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First Title value, for Searching London, Peter Stanford (1922 - 2015)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Peter Craig
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2015-06-26
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Occupation Trauma surgeon
Details Peter London, known by all as 'PSL', was one of a group of far-sighted surgeons who believed fervently in improvements in the treatment and prognosis of victims of trauma. He led team three at the world's first trauma centre in Bath Row, Birmingham, known until 1974 as the Birmingham Accident Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre. Having established himself as a consultant with by then extensive experience of injury management, he wrote *A practical guide to the care of the injured, etc* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone, 1967), which became the bible for all junior surgeons passing through his unit and was written in classic PSL style of clarity and brevity. He became an imposing, upright, immaculately dressed and moustachioed speaker at numerous meetings both in the UK and worldwide, when his words always caught the attention of his audience. He introduced himself as 'London, Birmingham', to the amusement of those lucky enough to be present. He was born on 30 April 1922 in Mejillones, Chile, the son of Cyril Stanford London, a locomotive engineer, and Ethel London née Barker, a housewife. After being a pupil at the King's School, Wimbledon, he preceded to St Thomas's for undergraduate training, qualifying in the summer of 1944 (a year early because of the Second World War) with a distinction in surgery. Following junior house appointments at St Thomas' Hospital, he did his National Service (from 1946 to 1948) in the Royal Air Force. After leaving, he began working in trauma and was called out to retrieve a man whose leg had been crushed under a tank, which was very likely to collapse further and crush him as well. For this heroism he was awarded an MBE in 1951. For his continuing support of the Order of St John and advocacy of this cause and the advancement of first aid techniques, he was made a Commander of the Order (in 1972). After his military service he gained his FRCS in 1950. Much later, in 1980, be became a member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and, in 1985, was made an honorary fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. He was a very strong supporter of the Medical Society of London and was an outstanding editor of their *Transactions* for many years. In 1945 he married Alice Patricia Gerahty and they had three children, two sons (Nicholas Stanford and James Echlin Stanford) and one daughter (Philippa Echlin). Tragically, in 1977, his eldest son, Nick, fell during military training in the Brecon Beacons in Wales, rupturing his kidney and the emergency staff in the local hospital missed the diagnosis and tragically he bled to death. He was told of his son's death whilst presenting a lecture, but in typical style went on to complete it. His whole professional life had been directed to improvements in the management of the severely injured and the irony of this disaster undoubtedly and understandably had a serious impact on him and the rest of his family. All those many surgeons who had the privilege of joining him on team three remember their time with both affection and respect for what he and they did and for the outstanding results his unit managed to achieve. There was an almost military atmosphere within the team and many of the registrars were indeed on secondment from the Army. Their roster was based on a three-week cycle and 24-hour days on 'take'. On a three-week cycle, this resulted in seven 24-hour periods on resident duty for all the housemen and women, senior house officers and registrars, with several of the intervening days used to clear the cases needing operating time, ward rounds, more definitive later surgery and out-patient follow up and fracture clinics. It was a busy and stimulating environment. It also defined a way of giving 24-hour cover for emergencies, with a dedicated team and continuity in the management of injured hospitalised cases, from the entrance through to out-patient follow up with the same team - not something replicated today. The roster itself resulted in more than 80-hour weeks in the hospital for the junior staff, something unthinkable under the present European Working Time Directive. One of the idiosyncrasies of team three were the midnight suppers held on nights on call when the registrar would shop for a takeaway meal and Peter would supply one or two brown pharmacological two litre Winchester brown bottles of cider to complement the meal. It was extremely rare for a major incident to happen after midnight, so the meal allowed the team to discuss the 'take' of that day and learn lessons in a convivial environment. His colleague, Mike Porter, continued this tradition when he was heading the team. He wrote extensively and was one of the founder editors of *Injury*, now a worldwide reference source on all aspects of trauma, helped enormously internationally by the support of one of his previous senior house officers, Ken Boffard, now emeritus professor of surgery in Johannesburg. PSL managed to attract a wide circle of young surgeons with an interest in trauma, many from the Army, but others from all over the National Health Service. Sadly, his aspirations for a truly effective trauma care facility were ultimately thwarted, firstly because we in this country do not presently (and thankfully) experience the devastating effects of both low and particularly high velocity bullet wounds and because the number of road accidents has been substantially reduced by the introduction of seat belts and other safety measures. Though now seriously out of date, his book still exemplifies how sensible logic and advice can make substantial inroads into the management of numerous injuries, giving victims the chance of active and productive long term futures. It needs updating and should be revised by a new generation of trauma surgeons. He could at times appear somewhat aloof and distant, but beneath this was a man of considerable wit and humour with far-sighted ideas, which he promulgated in an academic fashion to the benefit of both the victims of trauma and society in general. He died on 24 January 2015, aged 92. It was a great privilege to come to know him and work for him for six months and I regret sadly his death, albeit at a great age.
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First Title value, for Searching Jefferiss, Christopher David (1940 - 2004)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-08-16
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Christopher Jefferiss was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Devon. He was the son of Derek Jefferiss, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Exeter. Like his father, he was an undergraduate at the Middlesex Hospital, where he qualified in 1964. He held a variety of junior posts at the Middlesex, Weymouth and District, and the Royal Devon and Exeter hospitals, before becoming a senior house officer at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter in 1970, gaining the FRCS in the same year. He then abandoned his intention of becoming an obstetrician and gynaecologist in favour of orthopaedics, becoming successively registrar, senior registrar and finally consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the Princess Elizabeth and Royal Devon and Exeter hospitals, eventually specialising in the surgery of the hand and the foot. He was an active member of the Hand Society and also the British Society for the Surgery of the Foot, and published 14 papers as author and co-author, mostly to do with the hand. Christopher played a leading part in the postgraduate orthopaedic training programme in Exeter. He became lead clinician in orthopaedics in 1996, and in 1997 clinical director for trauma, orthopaedics and rheumatology. In 2001 he was awarded a certificate of commendation by the BMA and the chairman’s award from the Devon and Exeter NHS Trust in recognition of his outstanding service. He was much sought after as a medico-legal specialist and was regarded by all as a man of great integrity and wisdom. He died on 26 November 2004 from a cerebellar tumour, and is survived by his wife Madlen, a former Bart’s theatre sister and by their three children, Fred, Lizzie and Emily.
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, James Grayton (1913 - 1976)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details James Grayton Brown was born in Victoria, Australia on 27 February 1913. He was educated at the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne University, Trinity College and at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He qualified MB BS Melbourne in 1936 and MS Melbourne in 1939. In 1939 he won the Hallet Prize and passed the FRCS in 1940. In 1944 he obtained the FRACS. He won the Fulton Scholarship in obstetrics and gynaecology at his medical school and was resident medical officer and resident surgical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He was elected visiting surgeon to this hospital in 1947 and consultant surgeon in 1972. He was registrar to Sir Alan Newton in 1939 and assistant to Sir Victor Hurley from 1946 to 1949, both of whom greatly influenced him. During the second world war he served with the RAAF, in 1939 to 1940 in the UK, in Australia between 1940 and 1942 and the South West Pacific from 1943 to 1945 with the rank of Wing Commander. One of Brown's particular interests was road traffic injuries and their prevention. He was Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Road Trauma, 1969 and Deputy Chairman of the Victoria Road Safety and Traffic Authority. When invited to give the Henry Windsor Oration he chose as his topic *Road trauma - a community crisis*. He also served as Chairman of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Victoria State Committee in 1962 and contributed scientific papers to a number of surgical journals. He married Miss Wilson in 1939 and they had three sons and one daughter, two of whom became dentists. His non-medical interests were golf, growing orchids and bream fishing. He died on 23 September 1976 aged 63.
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First Title value, for Searching Batten, Richard Lindsey (1920 - 1997)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2015-10-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380275380275
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Richard Batten was the son of Lindsey Batten, FRCP, FRCGP, a Bart's-trained GP in Hampstead. Batten's disease, an inherited neurological condition, was named after his ancestor, also of Bart's. Richard trained at the Westminster Hospital, entered the RAMC on qualifying, and served in Italy. After demobilisation he was a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at the University Hospital, Ibadan, then returned to the Birmingham Accident Hospital. He rode a motorcycle at one stage, and after an accident he was admitted in coma to the hospital where he was working. A verbal instruction '*Put him on a quarter-hourly*', meaning observation, was misinterpreted as '*morphia, gr*. 1/4, hourly' by the night sister. By the time his father arrived to see him he was deeply unconscious. The senior Dr Batten managed to save Richard's life by observing that he had pinpoint pupils and stopping the morphia! The olafactory nerve lesion caused by the accident so impaired his taste that he was "*said to be the only taker of the braised ox liver on the Birmingham General Hospital luncheon menu*." Afterwards, Richard was instrumental in the campaign for helmets to be made compulsory for motorcyclists, and enlisted the support of the Duke of Edinburgh. He was a very popular teacher, and always wore a fresh rose from his garden in his buttonhole. He was the first editor of the journal *Injury*, which he helped to found in 1983, and made contributions on the internal fixation of fractures. He was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. He suffered from progressive muscular dystrophy for 30 years, with stoicism. He died on 29 December 1997. He is survived by his wife, Mary, and three children.
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First Title value, for Searching Bucholz, Robert William (1947 - 2016)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by J A Herring
Publication Date 2017-05-19 2017-07-12
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Robert William Bucholz was an orthopaedic surgeon and professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, and a former president of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. He was born on 31 July 1947 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father was a physician who practised internal medicine. Bob, as he was universally known, grew up planning to enter the world of business and economics. After leaving high school in 1965, he entered Yale University and graduated with a major in economics. Probably due to his father's influence, he changed his career course and attended Yale School of Medicine. After a one-year surgical internship at the University of Colorado, he returned to Yale for a residency in orthopaedic surgery. While at Yale, working with one of his mentors, John Ogden, he studied children with avascular necrosis (AVN) following treatment of developmental dislocation of the hip. This collaboration produced the Bucholz-Ogden classification of AVN, which advanced knowledge of the disorder and remains one of the standard classifications in paediatric orthopaedic practice. During his residency, he met and subsequently married a young medical student, Marybeth Ezaki. When Ezaki chose to carry out her orthopaedic surgery residency at Parkland Hospital, an affiliate of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Bucholz elected to join the orthopaedic faculty at that institution in 1977. As Ezaki finished her residency and planned to study hand surgery with a British surgeon, Bob took a research position at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Engineering Centre in Oxford. There he helped introduce several concepts of trauma surgery which were in vogue in Dallas, but had not yet been in practise in the UK. Back in Dallas, Bucholz' career trended steadily upward. He was interested in trauma management, which was practised at the highest level at the Parkland Hospital, and he also became expert in the treatment of disorders of the cervical spine, with numerous publications in this area. He was awarded a Berg-Sloat travelling fellowship by the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, and subsequently received the American Orthopedic Association-American-British-Canadian (ABC) travelling fellowship in 1985. He was promoted to full professor, and in 1989 he became chairman of the department of orthopedics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He also held the Dallas Rehabilitation Institute distinguished chair in orthopedic rehabilitation. The department grew in size, prestige, and productivity under his leadership. He was known as an outstanding teacher and mentor to students and residents at all levels of training over his 38-year tenure at the University. These generations remain as a lasting legacy to his career. Bucholz was an active leader in many organisations. With the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery, he was chair of the educational programming committee for five years, and subsequently became the 72nd president of the Academy. He was an examiner and a director of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, and a member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. He was an avid reader of medical literature and was a long-time reviewer for *The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery* (American edition) and held the post of associate editor, and was also deputy editor for trauma for the Journal. He was an editor for five editions of *Rockwood and Green's fractures in adults* (Philadelphia, Lippincott). Bob loved time with his three daughters and one grandchild, and had a passion for travel. He was an avid nature lover and outdoorsman, especially adept at climbing 14,000 foot Colorado mountains. He was a student of history, especially that of the American Civil War, the Second World War and 20th century American history. Bob was one of the true lovers of life. He was robust, energetic, engaging and in possession of a brilliant intellect. His sense of humour was unique and there was a mischievous side to his personality. He devoured crossword puzzles, loved trivial pursuit games and competed with a vengeance at Scrabble. As he faced the daunting inevitability of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (motor neuron disease), he never wavered in his intellectual endeavours, but could not defeat the relentless physical decline. As his wife noted '…in true form, Bob hosted [the] JBJS Journal club in our home three days before he died.' He died on 20 May 2016, aged 68. The world certainly lost one of the truly great persons of orthopaedic surgery with his passing, and he is greatly missed.
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First Title value, for Searching Therkildsen, Lance Karl Hyde (1937 - 2021)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by David Nairn
Publication Date 2022-01-18 2022-04-19
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Lance Karl Hyde Therkildsen was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in west Essex, based at Epping, Bishop’s Stortford and Harlow. He was born on 26 July 1937, the only son of Karl Therkildsen and Hilda Therkildsen née Hyde. He owed his name to a Danish grandfather, but never actually visited Denmark until his 80th birthday. His father was a horticulturist and plantsman who specialised in alpines and roses, setting up in Southport, where he opened a nursery. It was here that Lance was raised and also attended preparatory school. He won a place to study classics at Tonbridge School in Kent but, once established, opted instead to study sciences. At Tonbridge he developed an interest in choral music and joined the choir, which started a lifelong love of music. He was accepted by St Bartholomew’s Hospital to read medicine and thoroughly enjoyed his five years as a medical student, during which time he became a keen university oarsman, spending many hours rowing on the Thames. After qualifying in 1961, he had house appointments at the Metropolitan Hospital, which was the elective wing of St Bartholomew’s at the time. He then obtained his diploma of obstetrics and gynaecology, an unusual choice for an orthopaedic surgeon, but which probably kindled his interest in disorders of children, which later became his orthopaedic sub-specialty. He later became a casualty senior house officer at the West London Hospital, where he obtained his primary FRCS; more importantly, he met Valerie Bone, a nurse who later became his wife. They married in 1968. His surgical registrar appointments were at the Bromley Hospital and the Chelmsford and Essex Hospital, during which time he achieved his final fellowship. At Chelmsford he worked for John Moore and Michael Heywood-Waddington, two illustrious Essex orthopaedic surgeons who ignited his desire for a career in orthopaedics. His subsequent appointment at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital as an orthopaedic registrar led to a successful application to the newly formed Percival Pott orthopaedic higher surgical training rotation, into which he was absorbed. Members of this prestigious group were automatically promoted from registrars to senior registrars. The rotation then consisted of posts at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, Great Ormond Street and St Bartholomew’s, from where the trainees after accreditation were expected to become consultants. After accreditation he was appointed in 1977 to the three hospitals that made up the West Essex District, based at Epping, Bishop’s Stortford and Harlow as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon with a special interest in children’s orthopaedics, and principal paediatric trainer in the district to the Pott rotation at Harlow. He ran the casualty service at St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping until a full-time accident and emergency consultant was appointed in February 1990. As a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon he frequently performed procedures that would now be done only in dedicated children’s hospitals, such as open reduction of developmental dysplasia of the hip and complex clubfoot correction. He was an excellent teacher of surgery with great patience in guiding and assisting his registrars from ‘the other side of the table’. He was involved in many regional, district and local committees and ran the Harlow Biennial Open Day meeting on four occasions over a six-year period to 1999. He was elected president of the Percival Pott Club for the year 2001 to 2002. As a person he was entirely devoid of ego; he was perpetually good-humoured and cheerful. He was blessed with a great sense of humour and fun, together with a tinge of endearing eccentricity, providing ammunition for many subsequent anecdotes. He and his wife Valerie were always wonderful hosts, entertaining colleagues and junior staff alike, all of whom regarded them as their friends. Throughout his life he derived most pleasure, outside surgery, from his family, his home and his love of choral music. Both his sons attended the King’s School, Ely as choral scholars, which they very much enjoyed. He died on 27 September 2021 and was survived by his wife Valerie, his sons Karl and Adrian, and four grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Charles John (1929 - 2007)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2009-11-18
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Moore was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in the Chelmsford Hospital Group and to the Regional Orthopaedic Centre, Black Notley, from 1967 to 1994 and, on retirement, an honorary consultant to the Mid-Essex NHS Trust. Born on 10 October 1929, he went to preparatory school in Lytham during the war years and then to Aldenham School, before entering Cambridge University to study natural sciences. From 1948 to 1951 he was a resident in Trinity Hall, before going to St Mary’s Hospital in London for his clinical studies. After qualifying, John entered the Army for National Service and joined the SAS, serving with great distinction in 22 SAS regiment based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In May 1957, Captain Moore was parachuted into the jungle on the Perak/Thai border and walked several miles over difficult and treacherous terrain to render aid and rescue two injured ‘policemen’. They recovered in hospital and John was mentioned in despatches. His natural reticence meant he failed to reveal this side of his life to his many friends and, until his death, the true facts were only known to close Army colleagues. Resuming his medical training after National Service, he decided to pursue a surgical career and orthopaedics as a specialty. A spell as a senior house officer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital led to a registrar post in Sheffield with Holdsworth. Here he met his future wife, Anne Young, a doctor whose parents lived in the city. They married in Sheffield. For his senior registrar training he went to the (Royal) London Hospital and was made a consultant at Chelmsford and Black Notley hospitals in 1967. With his colleague and contemporary in Chelmsford, Michael Heywood-Waddington, he built up a credible and excellent orthopaedic service, also running the ‘accident department’ with limited support from junior staff. They provided an expanding service bordering both Colchester and London. Operating lists were split between St John’s and Broomfield hospitals until 1985, when a third colleague was appointed and beds and accident and emergency facilities moved to Broomfield. Throughout these formative and difficult years, John Moore proved to be a loyal and hardworking colleague who demonstrated the qualities of commonsense, competence and integrity of the highest order. The spirit of mutual goodwill and respect in the Chelmsford hospitals continued to grow between all levels of staff and outside, with general practitioners who were of a uniformly high standard. John looked after his fair share of general orthopaedics and fractures, and undertook all forms of major joint replacements, but he developed a special interest in rheumatoid disease and surgery of the hand. He was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He enjoyed an extensive private practice and, from 1996, concentrated on medico-legal work. At Black Notley, as part of the Regional Orthopaedic Centre Team, an equally happy atmosphere prevailed, and John played a part in contributing to the paid and unpaid activities, including training, audit and clinical case discussions. He was a skilled craftsman in the theatre and at home was an excellent silversmith. During all his years in Chelmsford, John lived at Bracondale House in Little Baddow with his wife, Anne, and their three children, Andrew, Elizabeth and Richard, two of whom were born in Chelmsford. They were a close-knit family. Predeceased by his wife, Anne, in 1998 after a long illness, John Moore faced his own final illness over three years with dignity and courage, always conscious that he was over the mean survival time for his malignant blood condition. He remained positive and without self-pity, living life to the full in spite of many admissions to Springfield Hospital. John enjoyed fishing in Scotland, as he had done throughout his professional life, and attended colleagues’ farewell dinners out of his respect for them. He died on 20 May 2007. At a well-attended memorial service held at Little Baddow Parish Church, his colleague and exact contemporary in Chelmsford, Michael Heywood-Waddington, gave an address that ended: “I know that all of you here will agree that it has been a privilege to know John, and in whatever way you have been a part of his life, I hope I have been able to express adequately our thanks that he was the sort of man he was – quiet, modest, generous, kind, able and loving. We will miss him greatly.” John Moore is survived by his three children, Andrew, a mechanical engineer, Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Grimwood, who served in the Armed Forces before she married, and Richard, who also initially served in the Army but in civilian life became a ‘specialist’ carpenter. There are three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Beavis, John Patrick (1940 - 2018)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sir Terence English
Publication Date 2019-03-04 2019-05-10
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Occupation Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details John Beavis, a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, co-founded the charity IDEALS – International Disaster and Emergency Aid with Long term Support. He was born on 8 June 1940 in Brighton and came from a modest background, but the post-War Labour government gave him the opportunity of a good education, which he used well, qualifying in medicine in 1967 from University College London Medical School. After house jobs, he spent the next five years as a medical officer in the Royal Marines. He then specialised in orthopaedics and, after a registrar post at Guy’s, his first appointment as a consultant was to Lewisham Hospital. Later he was transferred to Medway in Kent, where he had a busy practice. However, at the age of 53, he developed angina. A coronary artery bypass graft operation was performed, but some weeks after returning to work he had a bad attack of chest pain, as a result of which he was retired early from the NHS. Still being of an energetic nature and with a desire to help, he chose to go to war-torn Bosnia, where he set about training surgeons in Sarajevo to deal with some of the more complex traumatic injuries with which they were faced. On one of his return flights he met businessman Simon Oliver, who was so impressed by what he heard that he offered to fund a charity which would be staffed by volunteer surgeons and physicians, so that his work could be continued and expanded, both in Bosnia and elsewhere. Thus IDEALS – International Disaster and Emergency Aid with Long term Support – was born with John Beavis as the founding chairman. The next project was in north west Pakistan where, having met and charmed the local surgeons in Peshawar, courses in primary trauma care were delivered by UK volunteers to hospital and rural doctors, teaching them how best to deal with severely injured patients at the time of injury. Training courses were also held for local instructors, who were then able to take the programme to surrounding hospitals. These courses became so popular that during the ensuing years, with continuing support from IDEALS, they spread throughout Pakistan, where eventually more than 2,000 doctors received training in trauma care. When the earthquake struck north west Pakistan in 2005, John arranged for food, medical equipment and tents to be delivered to one of the devastated villages. Later, with funding from IDEALS, a whole village was transferred and rebuilt with help from the villagers on land purchased for them some 50 miles away. Similarly, when the tsunami struck southern Sri Lanka, IDEALS was there providing emergency aid for residents of a seriously damaged village, with the charity funding rebuilding of their fishing boats and part of the local school. For the last ten years, his main interest was in Gaza. As in Pakistan, the first visit was to determine whether courses in primary trauma care would be welcome. They were; friends were made and teams from IDEALS, in partnership with Medical Aid for Palestinians, were soon being asked to become involved with other medical and educational projects in Gaza. These included lectures at the medical school and training three local orthopaedic surgeons in complex limb reconstruction at King’s College Hospital, London. Other specialties such as plastic surgery and public health also benefitted from John’s capacity to engage with people, find out where help was needed and then try to provide it. All in all, he must have made over 30 visits to Gaza during the last decade of his life. While at medical school he married his high school sweetheart, Kate Frankland; they shared a loving relationship throughout the years that followed and were blessed with three children. Although his professional life as an orthopaedic surgeon was sadly cut short, his energy, capacity for friendship, generosity of spirit and contributions to deserving causes never failed. On retirement in 1993 he was elected an honourable citizen of Rochester for services to local orthopaedic patients and their families; in 2001, he was awarded the Bosnian medal of honour for his work in Sarajevo during and after the civil war and in 2003 he was appointed as a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons for his work on improving the management of war injuries. In 2016, he was the recipient of the Hugh O’Flaherty International Humanitarian award in recognition of his valuable work. He died on 5 December 2018 at 78 from cancer of the lung, despite being a non-smoker, with news of the award of his OBE being announced a few weeks after his death.
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First Title value, for Searching Clinton-Thomas, Charles Latimer (1912 - 1991)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380047380047
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Charles Clinton-Thomas ('CT') was born on the 15 January 1912 in Dehra Dun, India, the eldest son of Brigadier Robert Clinton-Thomas RE and Evelyn Baddeley. He was educated at Charterhouse and University College Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1937. His early appointments were at UCH, West London Hospital, Charing Cross and the Connaught Hospital, where he was much influenced by Joe Fathi and John Scholefield. He served in the RAF from August 1939 to March 1945, reaching the rank of wing-commander. After the war he returned for more surgical training and took the FRCS in 1948. He had a restless career. He served in the Colonial Medical Service in Malaya from 1951 to 1954 throughout the Emergency. He was for a short time acting Medical Superintendent at the Christian Medical College, Vellore. After a spell in private practice in Canada he joined the Bahamas Medical Service from 1957 to 1964, where he became well known for his skill in orthopaedics and trauma. Despite his isolation he read avidly, and would invite many of the more famous innovators in surgery to visit Nassau to operate on the local population gratis. He continued in private practice there until he went to Bulawayo in 1977. He retired in 1985 to Wales to pursue his hobby, bridge. He published one notable case report of a gigantic leiomyolipoma of the kidney in 1956 which set an unbroken record. In 1958 he married Mary Gwynne Lloyd. He died on holiday in Devon on 22 September 1991.
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First Title value, for Searching Young, Michael Harry (1936 - 2022)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-01-11
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Occupation Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Michael Young was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Cardiff. The eldest child of Harry Young and Nora Young née O’Connor, he was educated at Edmonton County School and Sheffield University. He was the first in his family to attend university. His father, a policeman, died in a road accident during his undergraduate course and Michael helped support the family during a difficult time. Despite this, he excelled in his studies, winning the bronze medal, gaining a distinction in surgery and winning the Mark Gregory prize. He graduated with honours. His postgraduate training was in Sheffield, Edinburgh and Toronto. He was appointed as a senior lecturer at the Welsh National School of Medicine and a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Cardiff hospitals. His research interests had been in epiphyseal growth and surgical infections, but his clinical interests were in joint replacement surgery. He was instrumental in the development of both hip and knee replacement surgery in Cardiff and south Wales. He was an able surgeon, always ready to put the patient’s interests first and they in return held him in high regard. He became director of the orthopaedic department and in retirement worked on medical tribunals. He married Pamela Bayless, a pharmacist, who had been at school with him. Apart from work, which he always enjoyed, his family was the most important thing to him. His outside interests revolved around the natural world: he was an avid fly fisherman and birdwatcher. He and his wife were keen walkers and spent many happy hours walking in the hills and woods. He also took up croquet, and was involved in running his local club, and bell ringing at his local church. His wife predeceased him. Michael died on 11 September 2022 at the age of 85 and was survived by his four children; Gareth, an accountant, Katie, a GP in Hertfordshire, Margaret, a teacher, and Jill, who works in the voluntary sector.
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First Title value, for Searching Aberdeen, Eoin (1924 - 1986)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379252379252
Occupation Cardiac surgeon Thoracic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Eoin Aberdeen was born in Melbourne in 1924 and qualified in medicine there in 1948. Before coming to England in 1955 he was a medical and surgical registrar at the Royal Children's Hospital and a flying doctor in North-West Australia. After a spell in the burns unit at Birmingham he became surgical registrar in the thoracic unit at Great Ormond Street having passed his FRCS in 1956. He returned to Melbourne to continue his paediatric surgical training but soon returned to the Hospital for Sick Children in London as senior registrar in the thoracic unit. After a year in the United States with Dr Frank Gerbode at Stanford University he returned to Great Ormond Street where, in 1963, he was appointed consultant thoracic surgeon. His work there concentrated on open-heart surgery in infants and small children. He was a perfectionist; each case was meticulously investigated preoperatively, complete and detailed records of all procedures were made and he concentrated on achieving a high standard of postoperative care. His work, especially on transposition of the great arteries, brought him international fame. In 1971, at the height of his success, he left Great Ormond Street for the United States where he felt he would have better opportunity to pursue his interests in measurement and documentation, in particular in the management of complex congenital cardiac anomalies. He was first, chief of cardiac surgery at the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, from 1971 to 1974, then in similar posts at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York (1974-76) and the Children's Hospital, Newark (1976-78). When he resigned his post at Newark he decided to quit cardiac surgery altogether and in 1980 took a post as emergency-room physician at the Medical Center at Syracuse University. His failure in the USA was partly self-inflicted. He was a highly intelligent man with an almost encyclopaedic grasp of paediatric and cardiac surgery. By means of computerised data storage and retrieval he had built up an unrivalled collection of relevant articles, each carefully annotated. His readiness to compare results of surgical treatment did not always make him friends but he never spared himself criticism. In 1983 he was stricken by severe illness which added to his troubles but he bore all with courage, resignation and humour. He died on 24 March 1986 aged 62. He was supported throughout by his wife, Virginia who survived him together with their two daughters and one son.
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First Title value, for Searching England, James Patrick Sidney (1930- 2020)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Monica England
Publication Date 2020-10-19 2020-12-18
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon Specialist in sports medicine
Details James Patrick Sidney England, known as Patrick, was an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the North Middlesex and Hammersmith hospitals in London. He was born on 5 May 1930 in London to Herbert Reginald England and Violet May England née King, the eldest of four children. His father was a consultant obstetrician and medical superintendent of Forest Gate Hospital, where Patrick spent his early childhood. He started his education at the Abbey School in Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire and spent the remainder of his schooldays at Downside School in Somerset. He enjoyed an extremely happy time there, and as well as his academic achievements he excelled at sport, and left with what was to be a lifetime passion for all sports, but in particular rugby. He played cricket for his school and also for the Army, and was middleweight boxing champion both at school and at university. Following school, Patrick was accepted at the London Hospital to pursue his medical training and qualified in 1955, going on to gain his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1962 and of England in 1967. He had various house physician and house surgeon posts, one of which was with the very eminent Sir Reginald Watson-Jones, which led to his interest in orthopaedics. Following these, he gained a short service commission to the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving at Aldershot and Wheatley military hospitals, finishing as captain and with a reserve posting as commander of a para field surgical team. His first post as an orthopaedic and trauma consultant was at the North Middlesex Hospital group in 1970, followed in 1971 by his appointment to Hammersmith Hospital, where he worked until 1997. These posts included the teaching of junior doctors and also of physiotherapists, on whose board of examiners he was a member. In addition, he had a very busy private practice with many overseas patients coming to consult him, as well as being invited to visit a number of countries in the Middle East to hold clinics and carry out surgery there. Patrick was involved in much research over the years and published many papers. He was a pioneer in the use of carbon fibre resurfacing of joints, and was very keen on developing the successful replacement of ankle joints. Inevitably a major interest was injury in sport and he treated many sports people throughout his career, very often getting them back to their sport when they had previously been told it would not be possible. He managed to combine his love of sport with his love of medicine. He was orthopaedic surgeon to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club from 1970 to 1985. He was a member of the Rugby Football Union’s injuries working party from 1984 to 1992 and team doctor for the 1999 Rugby World Cup. He was the first president of the British Association of Trauma in Sport, and founder member of the British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma Association. All these posts he carried out with enormous passion and commitment. Patrick was very proud to be a vice president of the Society for Assistance of Medical Families (previously the Society for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, founded in 1788) and had a very longstanding association with them, as did his father before him. He was also a member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. Equally he was delighted to be able to make a contribution as medical adviser to Special Olympics GB, joining in 1997 and becoming a board member in 2008. Despite all his commitments, Patrick continued playing rugby at a high level over many years. He played for London Irish in the sixties, during which time his father was president of the club. Also of course the London Hospital team, very often with ‘Poppa’ England (as his father was known in the rugby world) watching from the touchline. In later years, he played for Saracens and went on many overseas tours with the teams. He is remembered by his team mates as a fearsome player but enormous fun to be with and always up for a pint after the game, if hospital duties permitted of course. Patrick also had a great love for good food and wine. He was a member of the Saints and Sinners Club of London, the London Hospital Dionysian Society and the Ordre de Coteaux de Champagne, to name a few of the societies. Membership of course came with the added bonus of many wine tours and wonderful dinners. From his first marriage to Gillian (née Ganner) Patrick had five children – Philip, Michael, Andrew, Patrick and Sarah. He married secondly, Monica (née Finn), in 1993 and when he eventually retired they settled happily in Rutland, where he enjoyed playing golf and supporting the local rugby team. Patrick died on 8 July 2020 aged 90. He is remembered as a great surgeon, an enthusiastic sportsman, and a charming, generous and wonderful man, who lived every aspect of his long life to the full.
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First Title value, for Searching Kirby, Norman George (1926 - 2019)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2019-09-16 2019-09-20
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Occupation Military surgeon Trauma surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Major general Norman Kirby was a military surgeon and director of clinical services, accidents and emergencies, at Guy’s Hospital, London. *On wings of healing* (Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons) by Howard Cole is the definitive account of the airborne medical services from their beginning in 1940 to 1960. It was published in 1963, in a maroon binding reflecting the regimental colours of the airborne forces. On page 218, Cole records that on 5 November 1956, during the Suez Crisis, a parachute surgical team led by the unit surgeon, captain Norman Kirby, dropped on El Gamil airport in Egypt and set up a casualty collecting post and operating theatre. Kirby was soon busily engaged. This particular conflict, Operation Musketeer, described by Kirby as ‘a political disaster but a surgical success’, brought to a conclusion the story of the beginnings of airborne medical services as told in the book. Norman Kirby, having entered the annals of British military surgical history, went on to serve it and the cause of trauma management in the United Kingdom for decades to come. Norman Kirby was born on 19 December 1926 in Coventry, the son of George William Kirby and Laura Kirby née Sparrow. He went to school at King Henry VIII School in Coventry and subsequently studied medicine at Birmingham University, qualifying in 1949. That year he married Cynthia Mary Bradley, commencing a long and happy marriage that produced a son, Robert, who also became a surgeon, and a daughter, Jill, a broadcaster and travel writer. Norman’s surgical training was undertaken in the NHS at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Birmingham Accident Hospital and two years at the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital, London, as well as in Army hospitals. He gained his FRCS in 1964. The early awakenings of the military side of his career first blossomed in 1948 when he became a member of the Territorial Army whilst still a student. After qualification, he became regimental medical officer to 10th Parachute Regiment and, following two years National Service, he decided to stay in the regular armed forces. In the subsequent years, he had plenty of opportunity to exercise his skills in trauma management coping with, amongst others, treating EOKA terrorist casualties in Cyprus and casualties of the officer’s mess bomb in Aldershot in 1972. In 1978, he was made director of Army surgery and honorary surgeon to the Queen and elevated to the rank of major general. He received the OBE in 1971 and the Order of Saint John in 1977. After leaving the Army in 1982, following a highly successful career, he returned to civilian life and the NHS as head of the accident and emergency department at Guy’s Hospital. He might have thought that this appointment would be busy but straightforward and surgically based, as indicated by his title of accident and emergency surgeon, but he soon found his experience of managing military casualties was also required in civilian life, dealing with casualties from terrorist bombs, train accidents and civilian disasters, notable amongst which was the sinking of the *Marchioness* boat on the River Thames (in 1989). The year 1992 was especially taxing, with three terrorist bomb explosions in the city centre and the London Bridge rail crash. His and his staff’s exemplary and kindly management of the victims of the Cannon Street rail disaster in 1991 was brought to the attention of the House of Lords by Lord McColl during a debate on the provision of major accident services in London. In subsequent years, it soon became apparent that his management skills and diplomacy were also needed in the machinations surrounding the ultimately successful transition of his specialty from being ‘casualty’, as represented by the Casualty Surgeons’ Association, to the newly-named, independent specialty of accident and emergency medicine with its own Royal College. He used his considerable experience to help bring this transition about, even though it is possible that personally he would have preferred to be a trauma surgeon in one of the newly developing centralised trauma centres of which he approved. He retired from Guy’s in 1993. Throughout the two principal phases of his career, he was heavily involved in educational activities. He edited and wrote several books on disasters and emergencies, including the 1981 edition of the *Field surgery pocket book* (London, HMSO), treasured by generations of military surgeons, and gave lectures on the management of injury and disasters in the United Kingdom and overseas. He was an examiner for the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh. He was also active in medical societies and livery companies, holding office in many. Needless to say, he received honorary fellowships from colleges and learned societies. He was particularly proud of the award of the Mitchener medal by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1982. Norman Kirby died on 25 July 2019 aged 92. Predeceased by his wife, he was survived by his son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Cothay, Delia Margaret Helen Hernaman (1921 - 2016)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by John Older
Publication Date 2016-03-24 2017-04-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381269381269
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Margaret Cothay was an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, in charge of the accident and emergency department. She was born in Sunderland, County Durham, on 23 November 1921, the daughter of Frank Hernaman Cothay, a mining engineer, and Helen Cothay née Osbourne. She spent part of her childhood in Nigeria, and was educated at Sunderland High School for Girls and then Lillesden School, Hawkhurst, Kent. From 1941 to 1945, she was a shorthand typist at the Inter Services Research Bureau, Baker Street, London, working in the French and Norwegian sections. During this period, she attended night classes at the Regent Street Polytechnic, studying for the first MB. Discharged from war service, she then spent a year studying physiology at Bedford College. She later attended King's College and Westminster Medical School, where she was awarded the Chadwick prize in surgery. She was appointed as a house surgeon to Sir Stanford Cade and Robert Cox at Westminster Hospital. This was followed by an appointment as house physician at St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight. She went on to senior house officer posts at the Royal Northern Hospital, London, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore and the Birmingham Accident Hospital. This involved a wide range of surgical specialties and culminated in working with Sir Denis Browne at Great Ormond Street. At this time, she was studying for her primary and final fellowship. She then worked as a registrar in Surrey and Hampshire, centred at the Farnham and Lord Mayor Treloar hospitals. This was a very busy period, with clinics, ward rounds and operations in numerous hospitals, dealing with a wide variety of musculoskeletal problems, both elective and trauma. It culminated in the post of senior casualty officer at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, which she held for 12 years. In 1972 Margaret Cothay was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in charge of the accident and emergency department at the Royal Surrey County Hospital. This was an important period for medicine at Guildford. She played a key role in the design of the accident and emergency department in the new hospital, and when The Queen, accompanied by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, opened the new Royal Surrey County Hospital in February 1981, Margaret Cothay personally welcomed her to her department. The two high points in her interest in trauma were the Sutton Coldfield derailment, near Birmingham, in 1955 and the Guildford bombing in 1974. She was at the centre of activity during both of these disasters, and she passed on the knowledge she gained to the next generation. Her research interests centred on brittle bones, bone pain, malignant changes developing in osteomyelitis and fractures in children involving the medial humeral epiphysis, work which led to articles published in orthopaedic journals. Behind a reserved front, Margaret Cothay was a very active and caring surgeon. She had high standards for herself and for those in her team. She was very disciplined and correct, but always available and charming. With multiple complex injuries, she was a good delegator. Margaret Cothay never married. Her home was surrounded by a garden with a rich diversity of trees, shrubs and flowers, and she was a very practical and knowledgeable president of the local garden club. She enjoyed cross stitch and needlework, at which she was outstanding. She also became a skilled carpenter. Overall, she contributed much to her local community, especially the parish church. She had many friends, but was a very private person. Margaret Cothay died on 2 March 2016 at the age of 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Cobb, Nigel John (1929 - 2018)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Nick Geary
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2020-04-08
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Nigel Cobb was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Northampton General Hospital from 1968 to 1993. He was born in Manchester on 5 March 1929, the son of Cyril Cobb and Gladys Cobb née Reece. He had an older sister and a younger brother, Leon. At the age of 18 his father had been sent to the western front in the First World War and was invalided out with severe shell shock, as a consequence Leon’s mother became the mainstay of the family. At the time of the Depression the family left Manchester for a new life in Gloucestershire. During the Second World War, Leon contracted diphtheria and was sent to an isolation hospital some five miles away. Nigel was delegated to cycle in all weathers to the hospital to deliver homemade jellies to his brother. He would pick up a handful of gravel to throw at Leon’s window and, having got his attention, would put on a mime show and do tricks on his bicycle to entertain his little brother. At 15 Nigel enjoyed making balsawood gliders, meticulously cutting the pieces from a template printed on the wood, gluing them together and putting a tissue skin over the top. In the field, Leon would help launch the glider, which would fly in three or four elegant circles, before stalling and crashing. Nigel would gather up the crushed pieces and spend the next few evenings carefully dissecting the remains, reconstructing the glider ready for the next time – possibly a trauma surgeon in the making! Nigel eventually became head boy at the local Cotswold grammar school and went on to Bristol University medical school, qualifying in 1952. He then carried out his National Service in the Royal Navy. While serving on a survey ship on the Arabian Gulf, the surveyors found an undiscovered sub-surface mountain. In accordance with naval tradition, the new discovery was named ‘Cobb Mountain’ after the ship’s doctor. When Nigel left the Navy, he joined his brother, who was working at the University of Toronto. Nigel passed the LMCC, the licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada, to practise in Canada, and became successful as a GP. The weekends were spent skiing, a sport he continued into his eighties. In the 1960s, Nigel returned to London, where he shared a flat off the Earls Court road with his brother. At St Mary’s Hospital Nigel was schooled as an orthopaedic surgeon under the guidance of George Bonney. He later worked at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. In 1967 he was appointed as a consultant in Northampton and began working there in 1968. When he arrived the department, then largely at Manfield Hospital, was very different to the one he left behind when he retired. His new colleagues were of an older vintage and had trained before the war: Nigel was appointed to develop new procedures such as joint surgery and joint replacements. He had great manual skills and was meticulous in his attention to detail. He liked people and really enjoyed treating children, with whom he built up excellent rapport. He persuaded one five-year-old that he was Father Christmas’s brother. This led to the little boy telling a bewildered Father Christmas in a local department store that he knew his brother. He built up a very good relationship with Edmund ‘Ted’ Sever in the provision of care to people with rheumatoid arthritis. Nigel also had a considerable medico-legal practice. It was said of him that he never exaggerated his evidence and he always stood by what he had written and said: he refused to allow his evidence to be misinterpreted or twisted by barristers in cross examination. He was said to be an impressive witness. In 1982 Nigel Cobb achieved fame. The occasion was when Barry Sheene, two-time world champion motorcyclist, careered into another bike during a warm-up for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Most people watching the fireball thought that, were Sheene to survive at all, he’d never walk again. Nigel Cobb in nearby Northampton General Hospital set about reassembling the motorcyclist’s limbs, a task that was followed in some detail by press and television. Nine weeks after an accident that had left the champion’s legs like ‘crushed eggs’, Sheene was back on his bike, a contender once more. The episode emphasised two facets of Nigel’s character: he was a likeable and charismatic figure to whom the television cameras naturally gravitated and, more consequentially, he was a brilliant and meticulous surgeon. He was known in foot and ankle circles particularly for the operation he developed in about 1979 to reconstruct the torn tibialis posterior tendon in the foot. He was reticent about writing up the operation: Basil Helal wrote about it in the end. Nigel was invited to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital to demonstrate this ‘signature’ operation. The originality of his thinking, his charisma and his ability as a lecturer ensured that he became a regular and popular member of the faculty of the hospital’s annual course in foot and ankle surgery, illustrating his talks with beautiful, hand-drawn slides. Nigel had exceptionally good manners and a delightful chuckle. He was such interesting company and would gradually reveal all sorts of unexpected interests and areas of knowledge. He could always see the amusing side of life, and was not averse to recounting jokes against himself. Over a meal once, when I was struggling with a sauce bottle, Nigel recounted having breakfast at Lyons Corner House with Sir Herbert Seddon and I think Ginger Wilson. Sir Herbert was experiencing difficulty with the viscosity of the ketchup in the bottle. Nigel took the sauce bottle to show the professor how to reduce the thickness of the sauce by shaking the bottle. Having omitted to screw the top on tight, his demonstration resulted in the professor and the adjacent tables being dosed with Heinz ketchup! In 1969, an anaesthetist, Eileen Darwood, joined the team, and in 1972 she and Nigel married. They rather startled some of the (more traditional) among their colleagues by doing things their own way and living some of the time apart. Eileen’s present to herself was a new house: she needed to be close to the hospital when on call. Nigel loved the village of Whiston, where he had built a good house and a fine garden, and this house was for times of ease when both could be there together. He owned an adjacent bungalow he used as his medico-legal office. Nigel and Eileen had a reputation for organising magnificent parties and social events, the like of which Northampton is unlikely to see again. Nigel remained in Whiston, Northampton after his retirement in 1993, where his many and eclectic interests included beekeeping, embroidery, gardening, trumpet playing, cooking and gardening. He also created stained glass. He was interested in furniture, so he took himself to John Makepeace in Dorset to learn professional cabinet making. Few men have their own highly sophisticated sewing machine and use to it with such skill, making curtains and covering cushions and sofas. The results were beautiful. His calligraphy was remarkable; he had, of course, being Nigel, gone to classes to learn this skill, and this made receiving a letter from him a great joy. He loved his budgerigars and his Shih Tzu dogs. He was an enthusiastic skier and was a member of the British Orthopaedic Study Group which met every year in Zürs, Austria, combining skiing and study, staying in the same hotel for over 50 years. Nigel used to chair the entertainment evening on the last night, persuading various senior orthopaedic surgeons to perform artistically or do silly things. For me, the sight of a well-known orthopaedic surgeon pirouetting down the aisle, wearing his wife’s shower cap and singing ‘The hippopotamus song’, will always take some beating. Nigel was real gentleman, very courteous and extremely good company. He was a hit with the ladies in the ski locker room and, as he grew older, would always manage to find a willing female assistant to fasten his ski boots for him. Unfortunately, he was late down one morning when all his usual helpers had gone and he had to do his own boots up: he skied off with his boots loose and sustained a shattered ankle. The fracture was fixed locally in Austria, but required revision surgery. I was very flattered when Nigel asked me to take this on. Although his fracture healed, he never went skiing again. Nigel died on 20 June 2018 at the age of 89 and was survived by his widow, Eileen. An abiding memory must be of a man of impeccable manners, of enormous kindness and wonderful courtesy. Hans-Jögr Trnka, president of the Austrian Foot and Ankle Society, summed it up in the email he sent following Nigel’s death, describing him as ‘One of the greats of foot and ankle surgery…’
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First Title value, for Searching Waugh, William (1922 - 1998)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-08
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Occupation Accident surgeon Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details William Waugh was Professor of Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery at Nottingham University Medical School. He was born on 17 February 1922 in Dover, where his father, also William, was a general practitioner. He was educated at Eastbourne College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, going on to win an entrance scholarship to King's College Hospital Medical School. There he won the Legg prize in surgery. In those student days he already showed many of his outstanding characteristics. He always set himself the highest standards, and used his inquiring and critical mind to find out the best solution to any problem. This serious underlying streak in his nature by no means prevented him from being a popular social figure and stimulating companion. He was good with his hands in a practical sense and showed himself to be an accomplished artist. After the usual round of junior appointments in the King's sector and passing the FRCS, he entered the RAF as a surgical specialist serving at Wroughton and then Aden. He returned to King's in 1950 as an orthopaedic registrar and later a senior registrar, in which post he passed the Cambridge MChir, and spent six months as a clinical assistant at the Toronto General Hospital. In January 1955, he was appointed first assistant in the Nuffield department of orthopaedic surgery at Oxford, where he continued until September 1957, when he was appointed consultant surgeon at Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital and Nottingham General Hospital. In 1977, he was appointed Professor of Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery at Nottingham University Medical School, a post he held until his retirement in 1984. William Waugh was first of all a warm and considerate human being and secondly an accomplished, caring and highly regarded surgeon. His orderly mind made him an outstanding teacher. His academic bent made him an excellent member of the editorial board of the *Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery* from 1970 to 1974. His chief clinical interest was in the treatment of arthritis of the knee joint, about which he lectured and gave papers in Europe and North America. In retirement he wrote *John Charnley: the man and the hip* (London, New York, Springer-Verlag, c.1990), *A history of the British Orthopaedic Association, the first 75 years* (London, British Orthopaedic Association, 1993) and also edited the fourth edition of *The whiskies of Scotland* (New York, New Amsterdam, 1987). His career was blessed by a very happy family life. In 1947, he had married a fellow student at King's, Janet McDowall, the daughter of the Professor of Physiology at King's College. They had two daughters and five grandchildren. William listed his hobbies and interests as being those of photography, gardening and architectural history, but anyone who knew him would have added life itself and the people around him. He died on 21 May 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Harper, William Michael (1955 - 2008)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-06-16 2013-09-06
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details William Michael Harper was professor of orthopaedic trauma at the University of Leicester. Born in Jersey, 'Joe' Harper was proud of his roots in the Channel Islands and was equally fond of the years he spent in Bolton, Lancashire, where he went to school. Harper was one of the pioneering band of students that made up the first cohort at the Leicester Medical School in 1975. A gap year before commencing his studies was not spent trekking in the Himalayas, but in a factory in Bolton. Not one of the archetypal medical students of his day, 'Joe' Harper possessed a mop of unruly hair, generally had a cigarette dangling from his mouth, and had a broad Lancastrian accent. He did not flaunt his academic ability, but never struggled with the course work and moved easily into his clinical studies. This period of undergraduate training was interrupted on two occasions. He apparently caught chicken pox from a patient and was banished from the wards. According to a colleague, he 'attempted to make an early comeback but he was, in more ways than one, "spotted"'. A fractured femur, under unknown circumstances, occasioned an even longer absence and may have stimulated his later interest in orthopaedics. Awarded his MB ChB in 1980, he undertook junior surgical training in Leicester, where he obtained his first true exposure to his chosen specialty in the trauma and orthopaedics unit. It was said by one of his classmates that: 'the odds on his becoming a professor would have been as long as on an Englishman winning Wimbledon!"' He moved around the country to obtain more experience in general surgery at senior training level, before returning to Leicester as a lecturer in orthopaedic surgery. His academic career blossomed in the department then run by Paul Gregg. From 1988 to 1990, he held the Smith and Nephew trauma research fellowship in the department of orthopaedic surgery. During this specialist training, Harper researched different questions in the management of fractures of the neck of the femur. In a randomised trial, he evaluated internal fixations and hemiarthroplasties. He assessed the results and attempted to find the best surgical option, also noting the modes of treatment failure. This work was submitted to the university for an MD thesis in 1995. Completion of his higher surgical training saw him appointed as a senior lecturer/honorary consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery at the University of Leicester in 1993. His work on fractures of the neck of the femur continued and he established the renowned Trent regional arthroplasty study with Gregg in 1989. This was the inspiration for the National Joint Registry, now well established by the Department of Health. Much of this work continues, as does the new undergraduate musculoskeletal programme in the University. He fought hard to maintain trauma and orthopaedics as an independent department within the medical school. In the mid-nineties, Harper was appointed as clinical director of the trauma unit at the Leicester Royal Infirmary and was instrumental in changing clinical practice in several important ways. These included the appointment of a consulting physician to oversee the medical management of patients with fractures of the neck of the femur and nurse-led clinics for simple fractures. A framework of management for complex trauma was established and soft tissues were not ignored, and he set up and ran a multidisciplinary team for the management for bone and soft tissue tumours. As professor, he made a significant contribution to research and training, and in the Trent region area developed various aspects of his chosen specialty, particularly in the management of sarcoma. It took nobody by surprise at this later stage when 'Joe' Harper became professor of orthopaedic trauma at Leicester University in 1997 and, not long after that, head of the academic unit when Paul Clegg moved to Newcastle. He ran a busy research unit, publishing extensively on outcomes of arthroplasty of the hip and knee. Under his guidance many young doctors completed their MD dissertations on subjects ranging from cementation in hip arthroplasty to infection management. Increasingly senior roles in UK orthopaedics engaged his attention and he was the chairman of the Association of Professors of Orthopaedic Surgery from 2000 to 2003, a member of the Intercollegiate Specialty Board of Examiners for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery from 2002, and of the Specialist Advisory Committee in the disciplines from 2005. With his publishing skills, he became a valued member of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery for two terms. These commitments were enough for a very full life, but he spent much time on local issues, being very supportive of his staff and colleagues, all of whom held him in the highest regard. Outside these commitments, he enjoyed a relaxed family life. With his wife Liz and daughter Alice he spent time in northern France, renovating a farm cottage over many years. He was a lifelong collector of stamps, Marvel comics and cards. Throughout a two-year illness leading to his death on the evening of 13 May 2008 he managed to maintain his optimism and showed great courage and independence, pursuing his clinical and academic work almost to the end. He was survived by his wife and daughter. Of his open-minded approach, it was recorded: 'There could be no doubt that, with "Joe" Harper, what you saw was what you got.'
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Thomas Kinman Fardon (1932 - 2016)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by David Sonnabend
Publication Date 2017-02-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381484381484
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Few if any have had as great an impact on Australian orthopaedic surgery as had Tom Taylor. 'TKFT' was born in Sydney in 1932, the son of Dr Charles and Mrs Dot Taylor of Bondi. In 1941, when invasion by the Japanese appeared possible, Tom's education (on a scholarship at Sydney Grammar School) was interrupted by a prolonged stay with family in Adelong. Tom subsequently studied medicine at the University of Sydney, graduating with honours in 1955 and also being awarded a University Blue for boxing. Following two years of residency at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Tom took himself to Edinburgh, where he spent a year demonstrating in anatomy and two years as an orthopaedic registrar in the Royal Infirmary and Princess Margaret Rose Hospital, working with J I P James. During that time he obtained fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and Edinburgh. In 1960 he moved to the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford. He held a Nuffield Dominions Fellowship in orthopaedic surgery at Oxford for four years, working with Professor J Trueta. He was awarded a DPhil (Oxon) for a thesis on "Some Aspects of Structure, Growth and Degeneration of the Intervertebral Disc", and gave a Hunterian Lecture on this topic to the Royal College of Surgeons. His work involved the then new technique of X-ray crystallography. In 1964 Tom took up an academic post at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he further developed a lifelong interest and an internationally recognised expertise in the burgeoning field of spinal surgery. In 1969 Tom was appointed as the Foundation Professor of Orthopaedic and Traumatic Surgery at the University of Sydney. His clinical appointments were at the Royal North Shore Hospital and at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children. In this role, Tom had a unique and profound effect on the development of orthopaedic surgery, research and training in Australia. He established the Raymond Purves Orthopaedic Research Laboratories at RNSH, and was an internationally recognised authority on spinal trauma and paediatric spinal pathology. He created the SpineCare Foundation, which cares for children with spinal cord disease or injury, and initiated the schools scoliosis testing program for adolescent girls. Together with the late Murray Maxwell, he was also largely responsible for setting up the AOA registrar training scheme in Sydney. Together with Peter Brooks, he established the Bone and Joint Foundation at the University of Sydney, and subsequently the Institute of Bone and Joint Research. Working extensively with Peter Ghosh, the director of the RPR Laboratories, Tom had a prolific research career, with over 180 peer-reviewed publications, mostly spine-related. These achievements were all the more remarkable given the prevailing largely empirical and often anecdotal approach to orthopaedic surgery. Tom helped to introduce 'evidence-based medicine' to Australian orthopaedics. He was a firm believer in 'classical education,' and amongst his many charitable commitments, he promoted and supported scholarships at his alma mater, Sydney Grammar School, for worthy students from needy families. Tom's commitment to the AOA was massive. He served as Editorial Secretary for four years, chaired the Federal Training Committee for a similar time, and was the Censor in Chief from 1985 to 1988. He sat on committees too numerous to mention, and was a member of the RACS Court of Examiners for many years. He served on numerous editorial boards, including the *Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (B)*, *Spine* and the *Journal of Spinal Disorders*. Tom was a very private person who demanded respect from all. His main clinical interests were in spinal deformity, particularly paediatric, and the treatment of spinal injuries. He was adored by his patients, particularly the children and their families. He treated all equally, with kindness and compassion. In the face of considerable resistance, Tom promoted surgical intervention (where appropriate) for the treatment of spinal injuries which had traditionally been treated non-operatively. Tom declined formal recognition as a matter of principle. A man of strong opinions, always willingly expressed, and a strong sense of fairness, he never shirked conflict with bureaucracy. In his trademark turned up coat collar he was a formidable presence. His registrar teaching sessions were legendary. The highest standards were demanded, and nobody could hide in the back row. The Friday morning x-ray sessions with his radiology colleague George Chapman were highlights of every registrar's learning experience. Tom nurtured the careers of many young surgeons. Numerous Australian and overseas orthopaedic fellows subspecialised in spinal surgery under Professor Taylor's supervision. He had a particularly strong bond with New Zealand orthopaedics. Tom's commitment to teaching extended far beyond the outpatient clinic and the operating room. Following revision of the Sydney medical curriculum, Tom despaired of the drop in the standard of anatomy knowledge and was a passionate and effective advocate for the return of detailed anatomy teaching to the Sydney University curriculum. After his 'retirement' in 2001, Tom continued to teach anatomy to registrars, as well as teaching orthopaedics to Rural School undergraduate students in Dubbo. Through a family bequest, the A M Taylor Fund, he promoted junior consultant overseas study fellowships, and more recently, overseas orthopaedic exposure for undergraduates, with the intention of encouraging the best into orthopaedics. In retirement Tom enjoyed the companionship of his friends at the Australia Club and the Royal Sydney Golf Club. His lighter side was reflected in his quirky book, *Crepuscular Golf*, an entertaining read for golfers and orthopods alike. (In keeping with Tom's generosity of spirit, 'all proceeds to charity.') He read widely and enjoyed fine food and golf. In recent years, Tom struggled with a severe and debilitating neuropathy. He never complained, and as with the rest of his life, simply 'got on with the task at hand.' Tom is survived by his daughter Faith, his son Michael and five grandchildren. Listing his career achievements does not begin to describe the wonderful complexity that was Tom Taylor. He was a giant of Australian orthopaedics, and has left an extraordinary legacy. The entire Australian community is the poorer for his passing.
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First Title value, for Searching Alpar, Emin Kaya (1943 - 2005)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-03-15 2007-08-02
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Occupation Trauma surgeon
Details A trauma surgeon, Emin Alpar was a former medical director of the Birmingham Accident Hospital. He was born on 30 August 1943, in Istanbul, Turkey, the son of Mithat Alpar, an industrialist, and Nevin Alpar, a housewife. He was educated at Ankara College, where he gained a baccalaureate in 17 subjects, and went on to study medicine at Ankara University. In 1966 he graduated with first class honours. He trained in surgery at Bristol, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, Liverpool and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York. He was particularly influenced by Donal Brooks, Robert Owen and Sir Reginald Watson-Jones. In 1973 he returned to Turkey to complete his National Service, working as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Sarikamis Military Hospital. In 1975 he was appointed associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Hacettepe University. Five years later, in 1980, he transferred to Birmingham, as a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham department of surgery. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Birmingham Accident Hospital (1981), Birmingham General Hospital (1993) and University Hospital Birmingham (1995). From 1990 to 1993 he was medical director of the Birmingham Accident Hospital. In 1994 he set up a MMedSci course in surgery of trauma at the University of Birmingham, and was course director until 2000. He was chairman of the Institute of Accident Surgery from 1993 to 2002. Essentially a trauma surgeon, he felt that the trauma surgeon must be a generalist because trauma does not observe anatomical boundaries. He was particularly interested in the treatment of whiplash injury and the association with atypical carpal tunnel syndrome. A committed teacher and trainer, he was supportive of all staff. As a result of his experience he was much in demand as an expert witness in medico-legal disputes. Alpar played basketball as a young man and enjoyed swimming and walking later in life. He was interested in history and specifically the history of medicine. In 1966 he married Oya, now professor and head of the centre for drug delivery research at the School of Pharmacy, University of London. They divorced in 2003. They had two sons – Bora and Burak, both of whom work in the finance sector. Alpar died early in November 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, Peter Ernest Heaton (1932 - 2006)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-07-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372559372559
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Peter Wilson was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. He was born in Deptford, London, on 16 October 1932, the son of Joseph Henry Wilson, a housing administrative officer for Bermondsey Borough Council, and Sarah Heaton, a teacher of physical training whose father had owned a brewery. The first of his family to go into medicine, his younger sister also eventually became a doctor. He was educated at several schools, including Upholland Grammar School and Newcastle-under-Lyme High School, where he gained colours in hockey, cricket and rugby, before going on to St Thomas’ Hospital in 1950. After junior posts he did his National Service in the Royal Navy and then specialised in orthopaedics, becoming a registrar at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Oswestry and then a senior registrar at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Birmingham under Peter London and J H Hicks. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital in 1970. Peter was particularly interested in the treatment of multiple and major injuries and was a pioneer in the operative fixation of fractures. Having been chairman of the regional junior hospital staff committee from 1968 to 1970 and a member of the BMA junior group council (from 1969 to 1970), he went on to chair the regional senior hospital staff committee from 1970 onwards, and was medical director of the trust board. He was active in the St John Ambulance Brigade. He retired in 1994, and continued to play golf, cricket and cultivate his garden. He was married twice. In 1951 he married Sheila Patricia Hansen, who predeceased him. They had three children, a daughter (Sallie Anne) and two sons, Michael John, a solicitor, and David Ian, a plastic surgeon. In 2002 he married Anne Elizabeth Mary Stott née Binnie. Peter Wilson died on 19 November 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Addison, John Raymond (1916 - 1979)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Raymond Addison was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1916 and educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, New Zealand. He studied medicine at Dunedin and graduated from Otago University in 1940. He joined the medical service of the New Zealand Navy in 1941 and saw active service in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. He was serving in HMS *Leander* when the cruiser was badly damaged in a torpedo attack in the Pacific Ocean. In 1945 he returned to his old medical school where he developed an interest in orthopaedics and in 1947 he came to England to widen his experience in his chosen speciality. Within a few months of arrival here he passed the final examination for the FRCS. He held the post of resident surgical officer at the Royal Hospital in Wolverhampton and later joined the junior staff of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. This was followed by appointment as senior registrar in the orthopaedic department of Guy's Hospital where he was influenced greatly by JS Batchelor with whom he developed a lasting friendship. In 1952 he was appointed consultant in traumatic and orthopaedic surgery to the Worthing and Chichester group of hospitals, which was a newly created post. Here with enormous energy and drive he organised an extremely efficient service throughout this wide area. At Guy's Hospital he developed an interest in problems concerning the hip joint, which continued throughout his career. He was one of the earliest surgeons to perform immediate prosthetic replacement for fracture of the neck of the femur in the elderly and presented his experience in a paper delivered to the Royal Society of Medicine in 1959. His experience of total hip replacement was extensive and he developed a non-dislocatable prosthesis for use in the very elderly. He was a superb technician who demanded high surgical discipline from himself and his colleagues who worked with him. He enjoyed teaching his junior colleagues so that many young surgeons profited greatly from his practical outlook and wide experience. Unfortunately he wrote very little. He was a Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association, served on the council of the Orthopaedic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, later becoming its honorary secretary and he was a founder member of the Arbuthnot Lane Orthopaedic Society. John Addison, somewhat shy, with an acute sense of humour, had a lasting loyalty to the country of his adoption. He was a great rugby enthusiast, taking up golf later, he read widely and travelled extensively. He was devoted to his wife Geraldine and three children, one of whom entered orthopaedics.
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First Title value, for Searching Cregan, James Cyril Fraser (1918 - 1993)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details James Cyril Fraser Cregan, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Manchester, the son of James Grattan Cregan and his wife Gertrude, née Fraser, was born in London on 16 November 1918. His uncle, grandfather and great-uncle had all been doctors in London, Warwickshire, Manchester and Cheshire. His early education was at Buxton, followed by the Leys School, Cambridge, and then Manchester University and Medical School, where he graduated MRCS and LRCP in April 1942. After two months as a house surgeon he joined the RAMC and was attached to the 41st RM Commando, winning the Military Cross on 8 June 1944 during the Normandy landings. He was wounded and sent home in September 1944 and passed the MB BS as an external student in April 1945. Returning to Manchester as demonstrator of pathology, followed by junior orthopaedic appointments at Ancoats Hospital, he became senior registrar in orthopaedics at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1947 and obtained his Fellowship in 1948. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the South Manchester Hospitals in March 1950 but two years later, due to ill health, he became part-time consultant in orthopaedics and trauma to the University Hospitals of the South Manchester Group. In 1975 he became Director of Accident and Emergency Services at Manchester University, where he was also lecturer in orthopaedic surgery. He was a member of the Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie and of the Société Française de Chirurgie Orthopédique et Traumatologique. He also made many contributions to the literature in various international surgical journals. In his spare time, James Cregan was a keen gardener, and enjoyed fishing, shooting, drawing, fell walking and playing the piano. He was married first to Joan Marie, née Gilleney, and they had a daughter, Rosalind. In 1964 he married Yvette Denise née Birchall, and there were two sons of the marriage, Neville and Robert. He died after a long illness on 3 December 1993, survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching Pyper, John Graham (1912 - 1987)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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Occupation General surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Graham Pyper, the eldest of three sons of John Pyper MA, a schoolmaster, and of Bessie Pyper (née Patton), was born at Bangor, County Down, on 26 June 1912. His second brother became a consultant physician and the youngest an orthopaedic surgeon. After education at Bangor Grammar School, where he was an exhibitioner, and at Queen's University, Belfast, he graduated in 1935. At university he had a distinguished sporting record, receiving a blue for swimming and a half blue for athletics, and winning gold medals for diving in several university championships. He also represented the British universities at the world student games in Turin in 1933. After resident appointments at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, where he obtained a gold medal for his MD in 1938, he was a demonstrator in physiology at Queen's, before working at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. From November 1939 to December 1945 he served in the RAMC as a general duty officer, and as a blood transfusion officer in Malta where he was mentioned in despatches in 1942. He was then a graded surgeon in the Middle East Forces before demobilisation with the rank of Captain. He returned to the Royal Victoria Hospital as a surgical registrar and worked with Robert McConnell, James Loughridge and Sir Ian Fraser, but he also recorded his indebtedness to Russell Howard of the London Hospital. After appointment as consultant surgeon to the old City and County Hospital, and at Waterside Hospital in Londonderry, he carried an enormous workload of general and traumatic surgery almost unaided. He served as honorary secretary to the planning committee for Altnagelvin Hospital which was the first completely new hospital to be built in the UK after the war. Despite several major heart attacks he continued to work there as senior surgeon until 1973 and was later appointed as a life governor. He was also a founder member and chairman of the Londonderry Swimming Club; president of Rotary 1970-71; a trustee of Magee University until 1973, and chairman of the building committee and a member of the court of the New University of Ulster until 1973. In 1956 he had been appointed honorary surgeon to the Royal Navy in Northern Ireland, and as a magistrate in 1971. He was remarkable for his unstinting service, his skill, and the enormous amount of time which he devoted to care of the sick. He retired from the National Health Service, mainly on health grounds, in 1973, to become senior medical officer and surgeon to Ascension Island, serving there until 1977 when he retired to Framlingham in Suffolk. In later years he included photography and hill walking amongst his hobbies. During the war he met and married Patricia Brightman when she was serving in the Transport Corps, and they had three sons and a daughter. When he died on 15 May 1987 he was survived by his wife, children and seven grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Horn, Joshua Samuel (1914 - 1975)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-19
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Occupation Accident surgeon Trauma surgeon Anatomist General surgeon
Details Joshua Samuel Horn was born in London of Jewish parents on 14 July 1914. He won a scholarship to University College Hospital, where he had a brilliant career and collected various undergraduate medals and prizes. 'Josh', as he was known, had charm, dedication, and courage. During the hungry 'thirties, and influenced by the struggle against unemployment and fascism, he joined the Socialist Medical Association and the Communist Party, remaining a Marxist all his life. After qualification in 1936 he became lecturer in anatomy at Cambridge, then returned to University College Hospital. He came under the influence of Wilfred Trotter, whom he greatly admired, and took the FRCS when he was only 23 years old. During the blitz he worked as a surgeon in the dockside area of London; then spent four years in the RAMC, moving with the troops of the second front from Normandy to the Rhine and later to West Africa, where he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1948 he was appointed surgeon to the Birmingham Accident Hospital. There his special interests were hand surgery and the repair of nerves. He wrote a number of papers and was a founder member of the Institute of Accident Surgery. At the age of 40 he was struck with multiple sclerosis, which characteristically he bore with great fortitude, but fortunately was able to continue for 15 years a surgical career in Peking. He helped to pioneer the reattachment of severed limbs, and, as an adviser to the Ministry of Health, he founded an accident hospital in Peking and planned modern burns units. He was elected to the executive of the International Society for Burns Injuries. His activities took him far and wide through People's China, learning at first hand the medical and social changes which had followed liberation during the cultural revolution. He wrote about his experiences in a fascinating book, *Away with all pests: an English surgeon on People's China*. Returning to England in 1969, he was appointed lecturer in anatomy, his old love, at the London Hospital. Although his health was deteriorating, he lectured widely on medicine in China, helping many to understand the marriage between traditional and modern medicine and the peasant-doctor movement. He was a fine speaker. He intended to write more on the changing Chinese medical and social scene, and, in 1974, revisited Peking for this purpose. He collapsed in his hotel room from a heart attack, and as he was too ill to move, his room was converted into an intensive care unit for days before his transfer to hospital - an indication of the esteem in which he was held. He was married and had one daughter and one son. He died in Peking on 17 December, 1975, aged 61 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Trunkey, Donald Dean (1937 - 2019)

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by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2019-07-23
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Occupation Trauma surgeon General surgeon
Details Donald D Trunkey (universally known as just ‘Don’) was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1986. This accolade was bestowed on him not for his prowess in surgical technique, nor for advancing fundamental research in the laboratory, although he was adept and productive in both these areas, but for what would today be called health services research. His investigation of the need for speedy delivery to injured patients of high quality surgical services prior to and on arrival at accident and emergency centres revealed huge inadequacies in treatment both in the USA and worldwide. His recommendations for improving the delivery of such services have been widely adopted and have saved countless lives. For this he has been called ‘the father of organised trauma care’. The summarised record of his achievements between 1970 and 2015 is held in the archives of the Oregon Health and Sciences University and fills 74 pages. He was born on 12 June 1937 in Oakesdale, Washington State, the son of Doug Trunkey, a blacksmith and machine shop owner. His initial education was at St John’s High School, where he was a valedictorian. He studied medicine at the University of Washington, qualifying MD in 1963, following which he undertook a rotating internship with J Englebert Dunphy at the University of Oregon. He then spent two years in Army service in Germany, during which time Dunphy moved to San Francisco to head their trauma services. At the end of his Army service, Don returned to again work under the supervision of Dunphy in San Francisco. Increasingly he felt committed to a career in academic general surgery with a major interest in trauma surgery. To consolidate this, he spent a year as a National Institutes of Health fellow with Tom Shires in Dallas, undertaking basic science research into trauma. He rose to become chief of surgery at San Francisco General Hospital, a position he held for eight years, subsequently returning to Oregon in 1986, where he established their trauma system. It was during this time that Operation Desert Storm occurred in the Middle East and he volunteered to head the surgical services of an Army hospital in Saudi Arabia, where he applied his critical thinking to improve the management of war injuries amongst the soldiers. He became the McKenzie professor and chair of surgery at Oregon Health and Science University in 2001. His career as a pioneering academic trauma surgeon, whose research into systems of delivery of trauma care services were to give him an international reputation, took off during his time in San Francisco, where he was soon challenged by the apparent disparity in outcome following injury in the then two systems of care for injured patients in San Francisco and its neighbour Orange County. Trunkey and his colleagues J G West and R C Lim looked at the death rates from motor vehicle accident injuries in these two adjacent counties with similar populations but widely different geography and health care delivery. San Francisco County was a densely populated urban community with hospital accident and emergency services provided by a single large university hospital. Orange County, in contrast, had 31 hospitals providing such services in hospitals scattered throughout the county. The revolutionary finding of the studies was that two thirds of non-central nervous system related deaths and one third of central nervous system related deaths from injury were judged to be preventable in Orange County against one such death in San Francisco. The research was published in *Archives of Surgery* in 1979 and aroused major interest in the USA and subsequently in the UK (‘Systems of trauma care. A study of two counties.’ *Arch Surg*. 1979 Apr;114[4]:455-60). On the basis of these findings, Trunkey and his colleagues called for the centralisation of such cases into trauma centres. In the UK, the concept of such management was not entirely unknown as Eugene Hoffman in his 1976 Hunterian lecture recommended ‘major injuries should be admitted only to units where experienced resuscitation and surgical teams can treat them immediately’. Trunkey was appointed the *British Journal of Surgery* travelling fellow in 1987, hard on the heels of Graham Hill, who held the fellowship the previous year and had stated in his report ‘some way should be found to establish trauma centres within regions and to transport severely ill patients to them’. Trunkey’s report was devastating: ‘In general trauma care is fragmented, disorganised, and has an unacceptably bad outcome. Pre-hospital care of the accident victim is sub optimal. The patient is usually taken to the nearest hospital without regard to surgical availability.’ Faced with such opinions, it was predictable that in 1987 a report would recommend: ‘there is a need to review and concentrate services for trauma’. Whilst this was taking place the Royal College of Surgeons, under the auspices of its Commission on the Provision of Surgical Services, produced a working party report on the management of patients with major injuries (*Commission on the Provision of Surgical Services. The Management of Patients with Major Injuries.* London, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1988). Contained in this report were the results of UK studies of preventable deaths with methodology similar to that used by Trunkey, West and Lim. The results were published in the *BMJ*, showing near identical findings and led to the tardy but effective introduction of trauma systems used in the United Kingdom today (‘Retrospective study of 1,000 deaths from injury in England and Wales.’ *Br Med J [Clin Res Ed]* 1988;296:1305). Another aspect of Trunkey’s work was his criticism of the US health services, expressed in papers with titles such as ‘Dysfunctional care in a dysfunctional healthcare system’ (2006). He was a critical friend of the NHS and expressed his views in a paper with the intriguing tile of ‘The medical world is flat too’ (*World J Surg*. 2008 Aug;32[8]:1583-604). Given he was such an outstanding academic surgeon, it will be asked why he wasn’t awarded the distinction of being president of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). The intriguing answer is to be found in an interview with Frederick Luchette published in *The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma 75th Anniversary 1938-2013* (Chicago, Illinois, The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, 2013). In 1980, Don was appointed to the American College of Surgeons’ committee on trauma, a body which he felt was dysfunctional. In trying to modernise it he fell foul of the board of regents in general, and the executive director of the college in particular, whom Don described as ‘a control freak’. As a result, he was disciplined by the board and told that he would never hold office in the ACS and never serve on the board of governors, and so it remained. However, Trunkey continued working hard to get the ACS committee on trauma to change, particularly in relation to seeing ATLS (advanced trauma life support) established and subsequently be translated into other languages and disseminated worldwide. The beneficiary of this was the Royal College of Surgeons: an instructor course was held in the College in 1988, the first ATLS instructor course held outside the United States. However, Don’s career continued to flourish and he received numerous accolades, including the presidency of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (in 1986). Most notably, in 2009 he was made president of the American Surgical Association, the most prestigious appointment for an American academic surgeon. The year before, in 2008, he and Basil Pruitt, an American burns surgeon, jointly received major recognition for their services to trauma victims by being given the King Faisal international prize. Don was also made an honorary member of the British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine. Donald Trunkey, in addition to being a notable surgical academic, was a widely read and cultured man with whom it was a delight to converse. Throughout his professional life, he was supported by his indomitable wife Jane (née Henry) and their two children – Derek and Kristi. They, and his surgical admirers across the world, were delighted when the American College of Surgeons relented and in 2018 honoured him and his life’s work with the rarely awarded title of ‘icon in surgery’. He died on 1 May 2019 in Post Falls, Idaho at the age of 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Foss, Martin Vincent Lush (1938 - 2008)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-10-17
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Martin Foss was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He was born in Bristol on 12 February 1938, the son of George Lush Foss, a general practitioner, and Eileen Isabelle née Buller. His paternal grandfather, Edwin Vincent Foss, was also a general practitioner. Martin was educated at St Michael’s Preparatory School and at Marlborough, from which he entered Jesus College, Cambridge, going on to University College Hospital for his clinical course. After qualifying he became house surgeon to David Matthews and Doreen Nightingale at University College Hospital and then house physician to Lord Amulree at St Pancras Hospital, the UCH geriatric unit. Between 1964 and 1966 he worked for Donal Brooks and Kenneth Stone as orthopaedic and casualty senior house officer at the Barnet General Hospital, followed by a further year as an orthopaedic senior house officer at the North Middlesex Hospital. This was followed by two years as general surgical registrar at the Whittington Hospital, during which time he passed the FRCS of both colleges. He then specialised in orthopaedics and trauma, first as an orthopaedic registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and then as a senior orthopaedic registrar at University College Hospital. In 1973 he was appointed consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He retired in 1996, having served as medical director of the Luton and Dunstable NHS Trust from 1991 to 1996. Martin undertook the full range of orthopaedic surgery in a very busy unit on the M1 motorway, but had a special interest in paediatric orthopaedics. His only publication was on bone density, osteoarthritis of the hip and fracture of the upper end of the femur in 1972. At Cambridge he played a full part in college life and won his oar in the successful first VIII. He loved the outdoor life, birdwatching, painting, walking and, after he retired, travelling. He was a lifelong freemason, gaining high office as provincial grand master for Bedfordshire. He married Anthea Noelle Johnson in 1963 (they divorced 1992), with whom he had two daughters, Victoria Charlotte and Caroline Louise. He died on 2 February 2008. Alan Lettin
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First Title value, for Searching Hambury, Harold John (1910 - 1975)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation Medical Officer Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Harold John Hambury was born of Jewish parents on 8 December 1910 in the German city of Stargard, Pomerania. He studied medicine at Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg, where he qualified in 1934. Owing to Nazi persecution he went to England in 1937 with little money and little knowledge of English. Being unable to practise medicine, he took a job as tutor to an Army officer's son, with whose family he went to India. There he was helped by the American United Presbyterian Mission and was given a post as medical officer to the mission. On the outbreak of war he and his wife were interned in India as enemy aliens. He worked as medical officer to the camp and eventually obtained a commission in the RAMC, attaining the rank of Major. On demobilization he returned with his family to England, where he took the Conjoint examination and then the FRCS. After working for some years in London he was in 1953 appointed SHMO in charge of the casualty departments at Swansea and Morriston Hospitals. In 1964 he became consultant orthopaedic and traumatic surgeon, remaining in the post until his death. In 1956, at the time of the Suez crisis, he was appointed to a commission in the Army Emergency Reserve with 28 General Hospital RAMC(TA). Later that year he was classified as a senior specialist in surgery and promoted to Acting Major. After further posts he was in 1967 appointed Honorary Colonel to 382 Field Medical Company, RAMC(V). He contributed regularly to training periods at home and in the British Army of the Rhine. In addition to his surgical work he undertook research projects concerned with the possibility of stimulating bone growth and accelerating the union of fractures by means of small electric currents. In 1973 he was invited to speak on his research work at the New York Academy of Science, to which he was elected an active member the following year. He also served on the advisory committee on research in artificial limbs at the Department of Health. Jo Hambury was a man of wide and cultivated tastes, but his great love was natural history. He became an authority on the wild flowers of Glamorgan and Gower and gave lectures illustrated by his own exquisite photographs. He was a founder member of the Gower Ornithological Society and spent much of his leisure time bird-watching. He was also active in medical politics and in 1973 was Chairman of the Glantawe Medical Staff Committee. He served as a secretary of the BMA's Swansea Division and was elected its chairman in 1974, but his period of office was cut short by his last illness. Two strokes in quick succession left him aphasic and almost completely paralysed. He recovered enough to walk a little and go out to his favourite Gower countryside, and as his speech recovered he dictated a book on the experience he had been through. He was married and had one daughter. He died on 25 May 1975, aged 64 years.
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First Title value, for Searching MacFarlane, Campbell (1941 - 2006)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-05-10 2008-12-12
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Occupation Trauma surgeon
Details Campbell MacFarlane was a trauma surgeon who served with distinction in the Royal Army Medical Corps, before emigrating to South Africa, where he became the foundation professor of emergency medicine at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He was born on 16 October 1941 in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, the son of George MacFarlane and Anne Christessen Gove Lowe, and was educated at Webster’s High School, Kirriemuir. He gained a Kitchener scholarship and attended the University of St Andrews, graduating with commendation in 1965. While at university he gained several distinctions and medals, including a student scholarship to Yale University for the summer term of 1964. After house jobs he joined the RAMC, where he won medals for military studies, military surgery, tropical medicine, army health and military psychiatry from the Royal Army Medical College. He was then posted to Singapore, where, in 1971, he was the first westerner to obtain the MMed in surgery from the University of Singapore. He passed the FRCS Edinburgh in the same year. Over the next decade he worked in civilian and military hospitals in Catterick, Eastern General Hospital (Edinburgh), Musgrave Park Hospital (Belfast), Cambridge Military Hospital (Aldershot), Birmingham Accident Hospital, Guy’s Hospital (London), Queen Alexandra Military Hospital (Millbank), Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital (Woolwich), Westminster Hospital, St Mark’s Hospital (London), as well as the British military hospitals in Rinteln, Berlin, Hannover and Iserlohn in Germany. He saw active service in Oman, Belize and Belfast while commanding a parachute field surgical team. In Northern Ireland he performed life-saving surgery not only on soldiers but also on members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The parachute unit was also deployed on NATO exercises in the UK, Germany, Norway, Denmark and Turkey. Finally, he was appointed senior lecturer in military surgery at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, where his lectures were avidly attended. He was a contributor to the *Field surgery pocket book* (London, HMSO, 1981) and carried out research at the Porton Down Research Establishment, which benefitted from his extensive battle surgery experience. He retired as a lieutenant colonel after 16 years active service. He was appointed chief of surgery at the Al Zahra Hospital in the United Arab Emirates in 1981 and there proceeded to set up its first private hospital. In 1984 he accepted the position of chief of surgery and director of emergency room services at the Royal Commission Hospital in Saudi Arabia. Two years later, in 1986, he moved to Johannesburg to become senior specialist in the trauma unit at Johannesburg Hospital and senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, as well as principal of the Transvaal Provincial Administration Ambulance Training College. A decade later he became head of emergency medical services training for the Gauteng Provincial Government, South Africa, and in 2004 he was appointed to the founding Netcare chair of emergency medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand. Campbell maintained his international contacts and visited the UK regularly. After gaining the diploma with distinction in the medical care of catastrophes from the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, he lectured on their course and became an examiner. Campbell was a member of the editorial boards of *Trauma*, *Emergency Medicine* and the *Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps*. In 1999 he was the Mitchiner lecturer to the Royal Army Medical Corps and in 2000 gave the Hunterian lecture at the College on the management of gunshot wounds. He was a founder member and chairman of the Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa. He was elected as a fellow of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine, a fellow of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine (UK) and a founding fellow of the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His many outside interests included scuba diving, military history, languages (Afrikaans, French and Spanish), martial arts and sailing. He married Jane Fretwell in 1966, by whom he had two daughters (Catriona and Alexina) and a son (Robert). They were divorced in 1986. He died unexpectedly at JFK Airport in New York on 7 June 2006 while returning from representing South Africa at a meeting of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine in Halifax, Canada.
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First Title value, for Searching Mills, Ronald Hubert Bonfield (1923 - 1989)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-23
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Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Robert Hubert Bonfield Mills was born at Merthyr Tydfil and educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and University College Hospital, graduating MB BCh in 1946. After national service in the Royal Navy he entered general practice in Merthyr Tydfil. Having obtained his Fellowship in 1953, he left general practice in 1954 and was appointed surgical registrar at Merthyr General Hospital. In 1956 he was appointed specialist in accident and emergency surgery at East Glamorgan General Hospital, where he later became consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon. He was chairman of the Welsh Committee for Hospital Medical Services from 1977 to 1981 and was chairman of the Welsh Council of the BMA from 1981 to 1983, as well as serving on a number of Welsh medical committees. An approachable, kindly and helpful man, Mills devoted himself to his professional commitments, though his family occupied chief place in his life. He retired in 1984 and died on 21 August 1989, survived by his wife, Audrey, a son, and a daughter who is a consultant obstetrician. See below for an amended version of the published obituary: Robert Hubert Bonfield Mills was a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at East Glamorgan Hospital, south Wales. He was born in Merthyr Tydfil on 31 December 1923. His father, Lewis Mills, was a sanitary inspector and chairman of Merthyr Tydfil football club and the Dowlais choir. His mother, Margaret Ann née Bonfield, was a teacher who was granted a retrospective degree from Cardiff University. Mills was educated at Castle Grammar School in Merthyr. He then went on to St John's College, Cambridge, and University College Hospital, graduating MB Bchir in 1946. During his National Service he was a surgeon lieutenant in the fleet air arm of HMS Illustrious. He was subsequently a general practitioner in Merthyr Tydfil and was then appointed as a surgical registrar at Merthyr General Hospital. In 1956 he was became a specialist in accident and emergency surgery at East Glamorgan Hospital, where he later became consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon. He also had a medico-legal practice. In 1959 he gained his MD, writing on 'the problems of closed liver injuries'. He was chairman of the Welsh Committee for Hospital Medical Services from 1977 to 1981 and was chairman of the Welsh Council of the BMA from 1981 to 1983, as well as serving on a number of Welsh medical committees. He married Audrey Vera Mountjoy and they had two children, Angela, a gynaecologist, and Nigel, a solicitor. He was interested in travel and photography. A keen pianist, he received a gold medal at the age of 13. As a student he played rugby for London Welsh. He was an approachable, energetic, hard working and kind man, with an enormous sense of humour. Mills devoted himself to his professional commitments, though his family occupied chief place in his life. He retired in 1984 and died on 21 August 1989.
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First Title value, for Searching Trueta, Joseph (1897 - 1977)

2024-05-05T11:30:23Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Joseph Trueta was born in Barcelona on 28 October 1897, the son of Dr Raphael Trueta and the great grandson of Antony Trueta, surgeon to General Lancaster's Army in the Franco-Prussian war of 1795. He became Licentiate in Medicine, University of Barcelona, in 1921, proceeding MD in 1922. He worked on the junior surgical staff until 1928 when he was appointed assistant surgeon. In 1929, he became chief surgeon to the Caja de Provision y Socorro an organisation which treated 40,000 accidents a year. He was appointed, in 1933, Assistant Professor of Surgical Pathology in the University of Barcelona and in 1935, chief surgeon to the Hospital de la Santa Cruz y Sant Pau and Professor of Surgery. When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, Barcelona was subjected to continuous air raids and Trueta led the management of air raid and battlefield casualties, developing a special interest in severe soft tissue and bone injuries. Trueta practised wide and thorough wound excision and immobilisation of the limb in plaster of Paris with the wound left open, obviating the need for frequent dressings. This greatly reduced the risk of tetanus and gas gangrene, because the wound edges and floor had a good blood supply and devitalised tissue had been removed. His skill and care saved many limbs that would otherwise have been amputated and undoubtedly, many lives were saved. His technique was not original. He made this quite clear in the preface to his book, *The principles and practice of war surgery* published in 1943 in which he acknowledged his 'great debt' to P L Friedrich and Winnett Orr and pointed out that his 'main contribution had been to combine several established principles'. A man of liberal convictions, he realised that as the Nationalist armies approached Barcelona in the winter of 1938, it would be impossible for him to work with them and he decided to move himself and his family to England early in 1939. After a period in London, where he lectured on military traumatology and practical air raid precautions, he was invited to the Wingfield-Morris Hospital in Oxford where he was made adviser to the Ministry of Health. It was at G R Girdlestone's suggestion that he stayed in Oxford caring for battle casualties and training Allied surgeons in his methods. He was appointed surgeon in charge of the accident service at the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1942 and Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1949. He developed the Orthopaedic Centre at Headington with the financial help of Lord Nuffield. He pursued his scientific and academic studies which by 1961 had resulted in more than 130 papers, monographs and books, including many on the growth and nutrition of bone. His experience in the management of severe injuries and of the crush syndrome led him to investigate the renal circulation, in collaboration with A E Barclay, a well known diagnostic radiologist then at the Nuffield Institute of Medical Research in Oxford. Their *Studies of the renal circulation* published in 1947 described original observations on previously unknown vascular shunts and had far-reaching clinical importance. His studies on the pathogenesis of osteomyelitis and on osteogenesis attracted visitors to Oxford from many parts of the world, and he was honoured by societies and universities in North and South America and Europe. He also published papers on medical history and, in 1946, a history of his native land, *The spirit of Catalonia*. A tall, handsome, athletic man with a vivacious, friendly spirit and a ready wit, he and his wife, Amelia, and their three daughters made a welcome contribution to Oxford society. On reaching the professorial age limit in 1966, he retired and returned to Barcelona to continue working in the University there. Eighteen months before his death he presided in Barcelona at a meeting of the Girdlestone Society where many of his ex-pupils were present. A day of scientific papers was followed by a visit to the monastery at Mont Serrat and then a reception and dinner at which he rose to address the members of the Society at lam. The pupils were exhausted but the chief was in scintillating form. Joseph Trueta was a gentleman, warmly regarded by his colleagues for his cultural and intellectual gifts and for his courtesy and integrity. His wife, Amelia, died in 1975 and Trueta died after a short illness on 19 January, 1977, survived by his daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, James Stokes (1912 - 2007)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-11-08 2009-01-16
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Jim Ellis was professor of orthopaedic and accident surgery at the University of Southampton. He was born on 13 April 1912 in Selborne, Hampshire, the son of Frank Stokes Ellis, a wine merchant who went on to serve in the First World War with the Royal Fusiliers, and Ada née Parkes, whose family were jewellers in London. Ellis was educated at Eastbourne Preparatory School and then Charterhouse, where he decided to become a doctor. He went on to study at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he met Monica Verdon-Roe, then at Girton. After a five-year engagement the couple eventually married in 1938. After Cambridge, Ellis went to St Thomas’ Hospital in London, qualifying in 1937. Two years later he gained his FRCS, and the Cambridge MChir in 1941. After qualifying he worked in the casualty department at St Thomas’, as Bernard Maybury’s house surgeon. He was then appointed to the senior casualty post and, at the outbreak of the Second World War, was surgical registrar to W H C Romanis. During the war he was in the Emergency Medical Service, first on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, as a general surgeon. He then attended Watson-Jones’ first trauma course in Liverpool, and was sent to Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke, in charge of what was later to become the orthopaedic department under V H Ellis from St Mary’s Hospital. In 1946 he transferred to the Army, as a major in the RAMC, in charge of the orthopaedic department at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot. In 1948, Jim was a member of the first group of ABC (American-British-Canadian) Travelling Fellows, visiting North America. He retained his links with his North American colleagues, and was often host to United States and Canadian doctors. He returned to the UK, as chief assistant to the orthopaedic department at St Thomas’ under George Perkins. In 1950 he was appointed as a consultant surgeon to the Winchester and Southampton group of hospitals. In 1968 he began to work part-time for the Wessex Regional Hospital Board, first as director of postgraduate studies and later also as chairmen of the board’s medical advisory committee. When the new medical school at Southampton was opened he became the first professor of orthopaedic and accident surgery in 1971. He retired in 1976. Ellis became a member of the editorial board of the *Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery* in 1964 and completed two four-year terms of office. From 1970 to 1971, he was president of the orthopaedic section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and was later chairman of the orthopaedic higher surgical training committee of the College and vice president of the British Orthopaedic Association (1975 to 1976). His main professional interest was in the surgery of the hand, and he was a member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He was an examiner for Liverpool and Edinburgh universities and visited Iraq in 1973 and South Africa in 1976. Since childhood, Ellis had been fascinated by the theatre, with all aspects of costume and staging, as well as performance. His early memories included attending performances at Eastbourne’s Variety Theatre with his father. As a student at St Thomas’ he played in the hospital’s Christmas shows for five years before the war and then again ten years later, in the late 1940s. His performances were legendary and he might have pursued a successful stage career had he not chosen medicine. After becoming a consultant he performed in the local village drama group in Hampshire, in the annual pantomime, but also in plays and play readings. While he wrote outstanding music and lyrics for the pantomime, he himself would play the dame. These performances were superb and, with his exceptional comic talent and timing, he was able to reduce audiences to helpless laughter night after night. His last work in the theatre was directing *The Boy Friend* for the Winchester Amateur Dramatic Society, put on at the newly re-launched Theatre Royal Winchester. In retirement, Ellis and his wife went regularly to the theatre, to Chichester, Southampton and Salisbury, and, while on breaks to London, saw two plays a day for two or three days, keeping up with the latest performances. He was also interested in architecture, archaeology and, in earlier years, gardening. Ellis and his wife lived in a large early 19th century house near Otterbourne for 20 years, where they brought up their family of three children, two of whom survive him. They also had a holiday home at Welcombe, in north Devon, which they bought in the 1960s. Always adept with his hands, Ellis gradually modernised the cottage, undertaking all the plumbing and electrical work himself. Jim’s eyesight became increasingly compromised by macular degeneration, which he suffered without complaint. Monica died after a short illness in 2001. Jim continued to live alone in their house in Otterbourne village for a further two years, helped by a team of carers. He finally moved to a nursing home for the last years of his life, where he died on 3 May 2007, just after his 95th birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching McDermott, Francis Thomas (1931- 2020)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation Trauma surgeon
Details Professor Frank McDermott had a long and distinguished surgical career. But it was his academic research approach providing a strong evidence base for his advocacy in road trauma prevention that proved the greatest benefit to the lives of Victorians, and those further afield. An early pioneer of road safety, he led the way towards much ground-breaking and often world first, road trauma prevention legislation. These include mandatory seat belt wearing, drink driving countermeasures and helmets for cyclists. Thousands of lives have been saved as a result of these road safety initiatives. Professor McDermott was a member of the RACS Road Trauma Committee, which was part of an advocacy campaign in the 1960s promoting mandatory seat belt wearing. It was an emotive time and Frank recalled the vigorous attack by the media in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. A commercial television network agreed to the Road Trauma Committee’s suggestion that police heroes of television dramas wear seat belts. Significantly, in 1970 Victoria became first jurisdiction in Australia and the world, to introduce compulsory seat belt wearing legislation. In 1974 blood alcohol tests on all Victorian road crash casualties over 15 years of age became compulsory. This provided a critical window of opportunity for data collection which was used to guide policy making. Frank was involved in the analysis of blood alcohol test results from almost 43,000 road crash casualties which found that 50% of drivers involved in fatal crashes had an illegal blood alcohol concentration. This led to the conclusion that alcohol was ‘the most important single contributing cause of serious road crashes and fatalities in Australia’. In 1991 Ian McVey, then Chair of the TAC’s Medical Advisory Panel and Director of the Alfred Hospital’s TAC funded Trauma Centre, arranged for Frank McDermott and Stephen Cordner (Director of the recently established Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine) to get together. With Frank’s research experience and skills leading the way, and based on autopsy results, research to evaluate the management of trauma care in Victoria was devised. The outcome, relying on a multi-disciplinary investigation, was a method to establish whether the deaths could have been prevented if the retrieval, emergency, surgical and related care had been optimal. The Consultative Committee on Road Traffic Fatalities (CCRTF), co-chaired by Frank and Stephen Cordner, was set up the next year with funding from the Transport Accident Commission of $250,000 per annum. Its aims were to identify organisational and clinical errors in the management of medically treated road trauma fatalities; and to use this information to improve Victoria’s trauma care system. In his early career Frank McDermott was actively involved in surgical research in the Monash University Department of Surgery at the Alfred which gave him fantastic grounding for establishing, running and advocating the findings of the CCRTF. According to Stephen Cordner, the academic leader in the CCRTF was Professor McDermott. Frank, in conversation, would often gratefully recall his mentor, Sir Edward Hughes, who instilled in him the need for academic inquiry into surgical practice. The CCRTF arguably became the most comprehensive preventable death audit ever undertaken and found that of the deaths on Victorian roads occurring after the arrival of the emergency services, one third were preventable (or potentially preventable). This resulted in a new trauma care system for Victoria. Dedicated trauma centres were set up at three major city hospitals and staffed by specialist trauma teams. The CCRTF researched the issues, defined the problems, advocated for the solution, and measured the improved consequences of the changes. The CCRTF reports became seminal documents in international trauma care, providing a benchmark for preventable death panels and informing the World Health Organisation, International Surgical Society and the International Association for Trauma Surgery and Intensive Care about quality improvement in trauma management. As chair of the RACS Victorian Road Trauma Committee Frank McDermott led a strong and relentless advocacy campaign for mandatory bicycle helmets in Victoria. Mandatory bicycle helmet legislation was passed in Victoria in 1990 – another ‘world first’. Frank was justifiably proud of his involvement with the bicycle helmet road safety initiative as he saw on Melbourne streets an increasing number of cyclists wearing a helmet. As a College we are proud of Frank’s achievements which have led to a safer environment for all road users in Australia, New Zealand and many other parts of the world. This reflects well on our Fellowship and commitment to improving the welfare of our communities in Australia and New Zealand. The College, and the community, are indebted to Frank for his perseverance and lifetime commitment to research. Educated St Kevin’s College, University of Melbourne Fellow Royal College of Surgeons England 1960 Fellow Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 1964 Fellow American College of Surgeons 1984 Awarded Hunterian Professorship by Royal College of Surgeons of England 1978 and 1993 Awarded AM for services to the community, particularly in accident prevention and treatment of road trauma victims 1994 Honorary membership of the American Association of Surgery for Trauma 2000 Awarded RACS medal 2001 Member RACS Trauma Committee 1995-2001 Member Victorian Trauma Committee 1993-1997 Chair Victorian Road Trauma Committee 1982-1996 (member since 1973) Deputy Chair Road Trauma Advisory Committee 1982-2001 Co-Chair Consultative Committee on Road Traffic Fatalities 1992-2002
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First Title value, for Searching Walt, Alexander Jeffrey (1923 - 1996)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-05-10 2022-02-03
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Occupation General surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Alexander Walt was a former president of the American College of Surgeons. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1923 and went to school and university there. After qualifying in 1948 he completed his house jobs at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, before winning a Dominion studentship to Guy’s Hospital in 1951. He then completed a surgical residency in the USA, at the Mayo Clinic, from 1952 to 1956. He returned to the UK, as a surgical registrar at St Martin’s Hospital, Bath, where he remained until 1957. He then went back to Cape Town, to the Groote Schuur Hospital, as an assistant surgeon for the next four years. He was subsequently appointed to Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, USA, where in 1966 he became professor and chairman of the department of surgery. He was recognised by his peers by his election to the presidency of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma in 1997, the presidency of the Western Surgical Association in 1987, and the presidency of the American College of Surgeons in 1995. **See below for an additional obituary uploaded 8 October 2015:** Alec Walt was born in Cape Town in 1923, the son of Isaac Walt, a wholesale grocer who had emigrated to South Africa from Lithuania to escape the pogrom. When only two and a half years of age, his mother, Lea, née Garb, and two sisters were killed in a train crash, but his father was determined that all three sons be educated – and all three became doctors. At Grey High School in Port Elizabeth he distinguished himself as a sportsman and formed a lifelong friendship with Bill (later Sir Raymond) Hoffenberg. Together they entered the University of Cape Town as medical students in 1940, but an acute sense of patriotism led them to volunteer for service with the army medical corps – which was approved only at the third attempt. They served for three and a half years with the 6th SA Armoured Division and 5th US Army in Egypt and Greece, and throughout the whole of the Italian campaign, during which time they spent many hours planning how to fail trivial army examinations so that they could remain together as privates in the same unit. It was service with a surgical team in the field which instilled a long-abiding interest in trauma and served him well in later years during his time in Detroit. He played rugby for the Mediterranean forces, and was disappointed that circumstances did not allow him to accept a place in the army team in London where he hoped to see his brother after a 25 year absence. With army planning at the time, he also missed the appointment for an interview for a possible Rhodes scholarship. On demobilisation in 1945, Alec Walt returned to medical school, graduating in 1948 and serving his internship in Groote Schuur Hospital. In 1947 he married Irene Lapping, with whom he had been close friends since boyhood, and they went abroad for his surgical training, firstly to attend the basic science course for the primary fellowship of the College, and then to undertake residency training at the Mayo Clinic. While there he qualified FRCS Canada in 1955 and MS Minnesota in 1956. Returning to England as surgical registrar at St Martin’s Hospital, Bath, he took his final FRCS in 1956 before returning to Groote Schuur with his wife and three children – John Richard, born in 1952, Steven David, born in 1954, and Lindsay Jane, born in 1955 – as an assistant surgeon and lecturer. However, he became increasingly concerned that his family should not be brought up in the political climate of South Africa and in 1961 left a flourishing practice to return to the United States and an appointment with the Veterans Hospital in Detroit. His abilities were clearly recognised, for in 1965 he was appointed Chief of Surgery at Detroit General (later Receiving) Hospital, and the following year Chairman of Surgery and Penerthy Professor of Surgery of the Wayne State University School of Medicine, from which he retired in 1988. He was assistant and, from 1968 to 1970, associate dean of the medical school. As Professor of Surgery, Alec Walt gained recognition as a superb teacher and distinguished academic. He was designated ‘clinical teacher of the year’ on no fewer than three occasions and in 1984 received the Lawrence M Weiner award of the Alumni Association for outstanding achievements as a non-alumnus. On his retirement in 1988, he was a visiting fellow in Oxford with his old friend Bill Hoffenberg, then President of Wolfson College and also of the Royal College of Physicians. He was elected to the Academy of Scholars and was designated Distinguished Professor of Surgery of Wayne State University. Alec Walt’s avid thirst for knowledge made him an active and prolific clinical investigator, his 165 published papers and reviews concentrating on the surgery of trauma and of hepatobiliary disease which, along with breast cancer, were his prime interests. His army experience, which endowed him with unusual skills in the organisation of trauma services, stood him in good stead during the Detroit riots in 1967, when his paper on the anatomy of a civil disturbance and its impact on disaster planning was a classic. On four occasions he took surgical trauma teams for training in Colombia, whose government presented him with the Jorge Bejarano medal in 1981 Principal author of the first paper describing the prognostic value of oestrogen receptors in breast cancer, he was an active participant in therapeutic trials in this disease and latterly became a strong proponent of the need for multidisciplinary care. His final contribution to Detroit surgery was his development of the Comprehensive Breast Center in the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, now named the Alexander J Walt Center. Alec Walt had a distinctive clarity of writing and speaking which led to his appointment to the editorial boards of several medical journals, including the <i>Archives of surgery</i> and the <i>Journal of trauma</i>. He was in great demand as a lecturer, honouring numerous prestigious national and international commitments. He was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1969 and Moynihan Lecturer in 1988, and in 1995 gave a keynote address at the 75th Anniversary Meeting of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. He held leadership positions in many North American surgical organisations, including the Presidency of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the American Board of Medical Specialties and was Vice-President of the American Surgical Association. He was elected an honorary Fellow of the College of Surgeons of South Africa in 1989, and of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Australasia in 1993 and 1995 respectively. A keen contributor to the affairs of the American College of Surgeons, Alec Walt served as a Regent from 1984 to 1993 and as Chairman of the Board of Regents from 1991 to 1993. He was elected 75th President in 1994, an office to which he immediately brought great panache. Unfortunately, during his presidential year he developed a massive recurrence of a bladder cancer, first treated twelve years previously. With typical courage he elected to have chemotherapy ‘spaced’ so that he could preside over the Annual Clinical Meeting, at which his successor was to be inaugurated. The attributes which contributed to Alec Walt’s great distinction as an academic surgeon were a keen intelligence, capacity for hard work, absolute integrity, a deep concern for all people, particularly the young, and, greatest of all, a deep and sincere humility. He did not suffer fools gladly and had no hesitation in attacking the uncritical, unscientific or badly presented paper with a characteristic irony; but he would always have a kind congratulatory word for those who had given of their best. A top sportsman – champion hurdler at school, captain of cricket and an athletic Blue at university – he led by example, not dictate. Realising a boyhood dream of climbing to 17,000 feet in Nepal with one of his sons and his daughter at the age of 62 while recovering from treatment of his bladder cancer, he took with him Tennyson’s Ulysses, a favourite poem, passages from which he would loudly declaim. He was devoted to his wife Irene, his three children, his son-in-law and his 20 month old granddaughter Eve Lenora, all of whom gave him the love and respect which nourished him throughout his professional life, and supported him during his final illness. Alec described his mother as a ‘homemaker’, and his wife had been no less. From the earliest days of his marriage Irene provided a home with an ever-open door, a kindness which endeared her to impoverished and hungry British fellows at the Mayo Clinic, of which I was one. Vivid personal memories of Alec Walt are firstly early days together in Rochester, Minnesota when, as the deluded captain of the first and only Mayo Clinic cricket team which lost their match in Chicago he chastised us for our dismal performance and undisciplined behaviour on the previous night; later, when as visiting professor to his department in Detroit, joint discussions with his students revealed the depth of his feelings for the inequalities of care for women with breast cancer which, later on at midnight in the emergency room, was extended to all of those others whom society had deprived; then at the Asian Association of Surgeons when, as President of the American College of Surgeons he gave a masterly address on surgical training, during which his deep sense of responsibility for the future of young surgeons was only too evident; and finally, on the beach in Bali, when we shared our feelings of good fortune to have had a job in life which had provided us both with such great fulfilment, pleasure, and even fun. Shortly before his death he advised his son John to ‘work hard, be honest, and the rest will take care of itself’ – advice which is exemplified by the life he led. He died on 29 February 1996 aged 72, survived by his wife Irene and his children – John, a lawyer, Steven, a professor of law, and Lindsay Jane, a sculptress. Sir A Patrick Forrest with assistance from Mrs Irene Walt
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First Title value, for Searching Makins, Sir George Henry (1853 - 1933)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-05-11 2012-03-14
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Occupation Military surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Born at St Albans, Herts, 3 November 1853, the only son of George Hogarth Makins, MRCS, and his wife Sarah Ellis. His father practised medicine at Walton-on-Thames and was Master of the Society of Apothecaries in 1889, but his chief interests lay in chemistry and metallurgy. He was at one time professor of chemistry at the Middlesex Hospital, and was advisor to H.M. Mint in matters concerning the coinage. He also played the organ at Hook Church, Surrey, having previously made a pitch-pipe for the vicar, which is preserved in the church. George Henry Makins was educated at the King's Collegiate School, Gloucester, and entered St. Thomas's Hospital, London in 1871, when George Rainey lectured and William Anderson was demonstrator of anatomy. He was house physician to J. Syer Bristowe in 1876, and at the end of his term of office went to Bethlehem Hospital, where he made a life-long friendship with Sir George Savage, who was afterwards superintendent of the hospital. From Bethlehem he went as house surgeon to the Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich, and then returned to St Thomas's, where he was house surgeon during the year 1878 to Francis Mason and William MacCormac. He spent some months at Halle and Vienna in 1879, and on his return to London in 1880 he was appointed resident assistant surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital, a post he held for five years. During this period he worked with Charles Smart Roy, who was then superintendent of the Brown Institute in the Wandsworth Road. He was elected surgical registrar to St Thomas's Hospital in 1885, and became assistant surgeon at the Evelina Hospital for Children. In 1887 he was elected assistant surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital in place of Francis Mason, becoming surgeon in 1898, and resigning under an age limit in 1913. His services at this time were so well recognized that he was given the title of emeritus surgeon with the care of patients for an additional term of two years. During 1887-99 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School, and in 1890 he succeeded Edward Nettleship as dean of the School. In this position he did much to complete the school buildings by the addition of two wings. In 1900 he was appointed lecturer on anatomy conjointly with William Anderson. His war service began in November 1899, when he accompanied Sir William MacCormac to South Africa as a civilian consulting surgeon, at the beginning of the Boer War. He first treated the wounded at the base, but was at the front during the fighting about the Modder River and with Sir Frederick Roberts' advance to Bloemfontein and Pretoria. For his services he was decorated C.B. He returned to England in 1900 and in 1901 published *Surgical experiences in South Africa*, which became a textbook at the Staff College and was used both in France and Germany. In 1908 he joined the Territorial Force, received a commission as major RAMC, à la suite, and busied himself with work for the British Red Cross at Devonshire House. In September 1914 he left for France as consulting surgeon, having Sir A. A. Bowlby as his colleague. He landed at St Nazaire and gradually made his way to Paris, where he worked for a short time in the British hospitals. From Paris he moved with G.H.Q. to St Omer, and spent a short time at Boulogne with F. F. Burghard and Percy Sargent as his colleagues. He finally took over the supervision of the newly established hospital centres at Camiers and Étaples, and made frequent trips up the line to the front. At Étaples he established a research centre, where new methods of wound treatment were put on trial. He left France in July 1917 and was appointed by the Government of India chairman of a commission to report on the British station hospitals. The Commission occupied seven months, which were spent in travelling over 11,000 miles in a special train, reporting and inspecting on hospitals all over India. Whilst in India he heard that H. M. King George V had conferred upon him the unusual honour of Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George. He returned home in March 1918 and retired from military service with the rank of major-general. He then gave up private practice, left 49 Upper Brook Street, and moved to 33 Wilton Place. He was for some years a member of the executive committee and later chairman of the Athenaeum Club. It was during his chairmanship that an additional storey was added to the Club buildings. At the Royal College of Surgeons Makins was a member of the board of examiners in anatomy for the Fellowship, 1884-94; and a member of the Conjoint examining board, 1894-99. He served on the Court of Examiners 1901-08; elected to the Council in 1903, he was a vice-president in 1912 and 1913 and president 1917-20. In 1913 he delivered the Bradshaw lecture, and in 1917 he was Hunterian orator. In April 1929 he was awarded the honorary gold medal of the College in recognition of his services, more especially in arranging and describing the specimens in the Army Medical War Collection. He was for some years treasurer of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and chairman of the distribution committee of the Hospital Sunday Fund. He married in 1885 Margaret Augusta (d. 1931), daughter of General Vesey Kirkland of Fordel, Perthshire, and widow of Major-General B. Fellowes; there were no children. As Miss Kirkland she accompanied her father wherever he was engaged in military service; as Mrs Fellowes she went with her first husband to South Africa, the West Indies, and Ireland. When he died in 1879 she entered the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas's Hospital and, after a short training, was selected by Florence Nightingale to accompany Sir Frederick Roberts' force to the Transvaal in February 1881. On her return to England she was appointed sister-in-charge of Leopold ward at St Thomas's Hospital, and in 1882 she was seconded for service in the Egyptian war. She again returned to St Thomas's Hospital, and in 1884 was amongst the first to receive from Queen Victoria the decoration of the Royal Red Cross, which had been instituted in the previous year. She accompanied her second husband, G. H. Makins, to the Boer War in 1899. During the war of 1914-18 she was in charge of the Hospital for Facial Injuries in Park Lane. Makins died after a short illness at 33 Wilton Place, S.W., on 2 November 1933, the eve of his eightieth birthday; he was buried in Kensal Green cemetery. He left £1,000 to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School's war memorial fund. Makins was possessed of great administrative and constructive ability, which was shown so early that MacCormac as secretary-general of the International Medical Congress held in London in 1881 made him the assistant secretary. In this position Makins, by his mastery of detail, did much to ensure the running of the huge meeting, whilst MacCormac took general control and by his personality and linguistic powers supplemented the work. In 1913 Makins as treasurer was most helpful at the International Medical Congress, which was again held in London. As a surgeon he stood in the first rank, skilful, imperturbable, conservative, but resourceful. His wartime experience made him especially interested in diseases and wounds of the blood-vessels. As a man he was certainly the best loved surgeon of his generation. Absolutely honest in thought and purpose, he was a genuine friend, and had a keen desire to help in every good cause. Courteous to all, quiet and unassuming, he was seen at his best sitting before the fire in an old jacket with a pipe in his mouth and his elbow on his knee. In disjointed sentences and with a characteristic smile he would then thresh out a difficult problem in surgery, or give good practical advice. When necessity arose he spoke impressively, shortly, and always to the purpose. Tall, but of a spare and active habit, he took early to mountaineering and was a member of the Alpine Club. He was too a skillful dry-fly fisherman, and shared a cottage on the Test with Sir George H. Savage. A bronze bust by Mrs Bromet stands in the inner hall at the Royal College of Surgeons; it does not do him justice. Makins himself presented it to the College in 1931. *Publications:* *Surgical experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900, being mainly a clinical study of the nature and effects of injuries produced by bullets of small calibre.* London, 1901; 2nd edition, 1913. A case of artificial anus treated by resection of the small intestine. *St Thos. Hosp. Rep.* 1884, 13, 181. Rickets, in Treves, *System of surgery,* 1895, 1, 363. Surgical diseases due to microbic infection and parasites. *Ibid.* 1895, 1, 294. Injuries of the joints; dislocations, in Warren and Gould, *International text-book of surgery*, 1899, 1, 589. *Gunshot injuries of the arteries* (Bradshaw lecture, R.C.S.). London, 1914. *On gunshot injuries to the blood-vessels, founded on experience gained in France during the great war 1914-1918.* Bristol, 1919. *Operative surgery of the stomach,* with B. G. A. Moynihan. London, 1912. The influence exerted by the military experience of John Hunter on himself and the military surgeon of today. (Hunterian oration, R.C.S.). *Lancet,* 1917, 1, 249. *Autobiography*:- typescript copy, with portrait-photograph, in the R.C.S. library.
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First Title value, for Searching Barros D'Sa, Aires Agnelo Barnabé (1939 - 2007)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-11-08 2014-07-18
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Occupation Trauma surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Aires Barros D'Sa was a pioneering vascular and trauma surgeon in Belfast. He was born in 1939 in Nairobi, Kenya, into a Goan family. His father, Inaçio Francisco Purifcação Saúde D'Sa, was a civil servant. His mother was Maria Eslina Inês Barros. Aires grew up in Kenya and was educated at Duke of Gloucester School. He originally intended to study medicine in Bombay, but his plans changed following the Indian blockade of Goa, which heralded the end of Portuguese rule there. He went to Queen's University, Belfast, instead, on a scholarship, as one of only a handful of overseas students. He held a succession of junior posts across Northern Ireland, including at the Royal Victoria, Belfast City, Ulster and Lurgan hospitals. From 1975 to 1977 he was a senior registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, and then spent a year at Providence Medical Center, Seattle. In 1978 he was appointed as a consultant vascular surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital. He quickly stood out for his charm, warmth and humour, thirst for knowledge and superb clinical acumen. A loyal champion for his nurses and junior staff, he fought continually to ensure the best resources for them and for his patients, and had scant patience with red tape. He expected his own high standards to be met: lazy, incompetent staff were not tolerated and rude patients found terrorising nurses were simply wheeled off the ward, not to be readmitted. The Troubles in Northern Ireland reached their height in the 1970s and the Royal Victoria Hospital received the majority of victims. Many required treatment for horrific bomb blast, shrapnel and gunshot injuries. During this time, Aires gained an international reputation for his pioneering use of shunts in the management of complex limb vascular injuries. His surgical technique was unparalleled - his mentor, Sinclair Irwin, said Aires had the 'best hands' he had ever seen - and, aligned with his courage, stamina and coolness under pressure, he undoubtedly saved many lives and limbs. While Aires, along with colleagues, applied impeccable standards of care to all patients, he despised terrorists and had no time for extremists from either side. In recognition of his pioneering work in vascular trauma he was appointed Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1979. Over the next decades he travelled extensively as an invited lecturer, notably in 1983, when he was elected by the James IV Association of Surgeons to represent the British Isles as the 77th James IV Surgical Traveller to North America, Australia and South East Asia. Aires recognised clear advantages in developing vascular surgery as a distinct specialty. In 1978 he initiated the establishment of a dedicated regional vascular surgery unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital, only the third of its kind in the UK, and in 1979 instituted a clinical vascular lab. In 1996 he established a registry for vascular surgical patients in Northern Ireland, among the UK's earliest regional databases. It is still in use today. Despite increasing national and international commitments, Aires retained a love of teaching. Students learned from his expertise, not least his exceptional care and thoughtfulness towards patients in pain and anticipating major surgery. As a lecturer, his excellent knowledge of anatomy and dynamic delivery enlivened the driest subjects. Often he would arrive early for lectures and cover the blackboards with superb anatomical drawings. He designed crests for the Ulster Surgical Club and the Joint Vascular Research Group, one of five national and European societies of which he was a founding member. Hugely committed to vascular research, he published extensively, in particular on vascular trauma. He authored and edited three books, including *Emergency vascular and endovascular surgical practice* (London, Hodder Arnold, 2005). He sat on the editorial board of several vascular journals and was a reviewer on many more. The latter years of Aires' career brought many accolades. In 1999 he was made honorary professor of vascular surgery (personal chair) at Queen's University, and in 2000, in recognition of his services to the specialty, he was awarded an OBE. The following year he was president of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and hosted the annual conference in Belfast. In 2003 he became Deputy Lieutenant of County Borough of Belfast, and in 2005 the Royal Victoria Hospital honoured him by naming the laboratory he had founded 'The Barros D'Sa Clinical Vascular Laboratory'. Health problems prompted his premature retirement in 2001. His final operation was on a young man from South Africa with a large carotid body tumour. A recognised expert in this difficult field of surgery, Aires had one of the largest case series in Europe. He arranged a special weekend slot and successfully removed the tumour after eight hours of surgery. Aires was a true gentleman, a generous friend with an infectious joie de vivre, and a legendary host. His interests spanned politics, literature and the arts; he was an orchestra patron, an environmentalist, and a keen supporter of Irish rugby. Travel remained his foremost love; he and Libby had several global excursions planned for their retirement years. Above all, he was a passionate family man and believed that his life's greatest achievement was raising his four daughters. In his final year, the arrival of a grandson brought him enormous joy. Aires Barros D'Sa died on 29 January 2007 from bronchopneumonia a week after having cardiac surgery. He was 67. He was survived by his wife Libby, a retired anaesthetist, daughters Vivienne, Lisa, Miranda and Angelina, and grandson Tom Barnabé. Lisa Barros D'Sa Paul Blair
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