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First Title value, for Searching Price Thomas, John Martyn (1935 - 2000)

2024-05-15T13:00:36Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02
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Occupation Anatomist Breast Surgeon General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Martyn was born in London on 6 August 1935. His father, Sir Clement Price Thomas, was surgeon to King George VI, President of the BMA, the Association of Surgeons, the Royal Society of Medicine and Vice-President of the College. His mother was Dorrie Ricks. He was educated at Leighton Park and then went into the RAF medical branch to do his National Service, before going on to St Thomas's. There he won the Grainger prize in anatomy and was greatly influenced by Sharpey-Schafer and Arthur Buller. He was house surgeon to Robert Nevin and house physician to Bill Medd and Kingston. After a period as an anatomy demonstrator, he went to Hammersmith as house surgeon to Richard Franklin and Selwyn Taylor, before going on to Oxford to complete his surgical training. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport in 1975, where he developed a special interest in urology and breast cancer. In 1995 he moved to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, to teach anatomy and be a consultant to their breast unit. He was a talented painter and sculptor, and a member of the Chelsea Arts Club, as well as a keen sailor and golfer. In 1962 he married Deirdre Irene McMaster. They had three daughters, Emma, Kate and Clem, who inherited his artistic talents. He died on 6 June 2000 from a sarcoma of the oesophagus.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008854
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, James Oswald (1921 - 2000)

2024-05-15T13:00:36Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Anatomist Urologist
Details James Robinson, formerly senior surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, was born on 25 June 1921 in Brisbane, Australia. At an early age his parents moved to France, where his father, Ernest Longton Robinson, died in 1928. His mother, Mary Gordon Olive née Love, then married Rupert Shelton Corbett (a Barts surgeon). After a period at prep school in Sussex, James went to Charterhouse School from 1935 to 1939, before entering Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, for his pre-clinical training. His clinical years were spent during the war at St Bartholomew's, from which he qualified in 1944. After house appointments, he became Squadron Leader in the RAF until 1947. He was a natural teacher, first of anatomy at the medical college of St Bartholomew's, where he edited the 9th edition of *Rawling's Landmarks and surface markings of the human body* (London, H K Lewis, 1953), before proceeding to his post-fellowship training as chief assistant to the late John Hosford and Sir Edward Tuckwell. At this period he was co-author of *The diagnosis and management of urological cases - a handbook for students, residents and general practitioners, etc*, (London, Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1955) with Bruce Pender, and also produced *Modern urology for nurses* (London, Heinemann Medical). He spent a year in the USA, from 1955 to 1956, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as instructor in surgery with Frederick Coller and Reed Nesbit, before returning to the North Middlesex Hospital. Over the years he made many American friends, including Ben Eismann, professor of surgery in Denver, with whom he had several near-disastrous skiing trips; his love of that country was to prove life-long. Appointed to the consultant staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1958, he inspired numerous medical students by his superb teaching and relaxed, simple and well-ordered approach. Above all, he was noted for his courteous approach to patients and students, both in outpatients and on ward rounds. At times he admitted to frustration, "If only they answered a question 'I don't know'!" Life was never dull in his company; students on his firm enjoyed evening parties, usually in black tie, in hostelries up and down the Thames. He was devoted to the students, being President of the students' union for many years. Unfailing loyalty to the hospital and medical college for a quarter of a century led to his becoming the youngest member of the board of governors. In this capacity he represented a rather restless group of younger consultants when change was inevitable. His chairmanship of committees, including the medical advisory committee and the medical council, was done with ease, being both tactful and firm. A positive solution to difficult problems, without confrontation, occurred with James in the chair. When Barts developed a new major accident plan, it was 'Jimmy', as he was affectionately known, who re-designed it and brought it into the twentieth century. Indeed he was at a hospital in Gerrards Cross when he heard of the Moorgate Underground disaster. He drove at high speed back to Barts, to be near the centre of action. He was a prime mover in establishing the Barts Research Development Trust. He enjoyed the privilege of being on the consultant staff of King Edward Hospital for Officers, the Royal Masonic Hospital and Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. He was also honorary surgeon to St Dunstan's, the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain and the Coram Foundation for Children. James was a member of many societies, including the Travelling Surgical Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Medical Society of London, the Hunterian Society, and the Knights of the Round Table, to name but a few. He gained much pleasure by being elected to the Frederick Coller Surgical Society in the USA and becoming an honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the Georgia Militia. His Cambridge connections made a profound impact on him: he was for 18 years President of the Cambridge Medical Graduate's Club, after being secretary for many years. Although it is now a dining club, he steered the members into providing scholarships, by raising money for the regius professor of physic. He married Pamela Charney in 1946 and they had a daughter, Caroline, and a son, Michael. After they divorced, he married Patricia Laxton. She died of cancer and sometime later Jimmy met and married Veronica Clifton, with whom he spent many happy years. In retirement he and Veronica moved to the USA, where he was appointed professor of medical history at the University of Texas, Dallas. He made many important contributions to the literature and lectured widely on medical and military history. They came back to the UK to live in Lymington in Hampshire. He enjoyed golf, tennis, photography and cabinet making, and took a great interest in the history of Lord Nelson. Dogged by cerebro-vascular problems, his locomotion and sight deteriorated, and he spent his last year in a nursing home, where he died on 19 April 2000.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005638
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Arthur Ralph (1876 - 1955)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation Anatomist Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 3 September 1876 son of Vincent Thomas Thompson QC, Assistant Recorder of Leeds, he came of a family many of whose members distinguished themselves through three or four generations in law, medicine, and administrative or academic work; they were related by marriage to similar prominent professional families such as the Brodies and de Morgans. Reginald Thompson FRCP, physician to Brompton Hospital, was his uncle. He was educated at Leeds Medical School and Guy's Hospital, and studied in Paris. While at Guy's he was a strong "forward" in the Rugby XV and later played for Barbarians. Qualifying in 1901 he was a house surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Shadwell, and at Guy's successively demonstrator of anatomy, anaesthetist, surgical registrar, and the first resident surgical officer. While demonstrator of anatomy he wrote a classic paper on dislocation of the hip in infants. Under the influence of Arbuthnot Lane, then the outstanding personality at Guy's, he kept up his anatomical studies, gave a Hunterian lecture at the College in 1908 on the anatomy of long bones in relation to fractures, and became a vice-president of the Anatomical Society. He was appointed in 1910 to be the first surgeon-in-charge of the new genito-urinary department at Guy's, a post he held till retirement in 1936, when he was appointed a consulting surgeon emeritus, for he had built up the department admirably to the highest standards. During the war of 1914-18 he also served at the Grove War Hospital, Tooting. He was President of the Section of Urology in the Royal Society of Medicine in 1931-32, and a member of the International Society of Urology. He examined in anatomy for the Primary Fellowship 1918-23, and was secretary and vice-president of the Chelsea Clinical Society. His great ability and experience were offset by faults of social character. Absolutely honest, he was absolutely without tact, cultivated his prejudices, and was so blunt of speech that he was nicknamed "Rudy". When asked why he wore a bowler hat in the wards, he replied "To annoy the Matron". His uninhibited comments lost him friends and virtually destroyed his private practice, but he was his own only enemy; to those who could bear his mannerisms he was an amusing well-informed companion, and he did acts of kindness by stealth. During the years 1944-53 he was an assessor to the Ministry of Pensions, and a frequent visitor to the College. He had practised at 143 Harley Street and 31 Queen's Gate Terrace. He married in 1906 Florence Wansey who survived him with their two sons and two daughters. He died in Guy's Hospital on 16 October 1955, aged 79, and a memorial service was held in the Hospital Chapel on 28 October. Publications: Joint author with Sir Alfred Fripp: *Human anatomy for art students*. London 1911. Excision of the hip-joint. *Guy's Hosp Rep*. 1905, 59, 347. Relationship between the internal structure of the upper part of the femur and fractures through the base of the neck of the femur. (Hunterian Lecture) *J Anat*. 1907-08, 42, 60. Figures relative to congenital abnormalities of the upper urinary tract, and its surgical anatomy. 1913-14, 48, 280. The capacity of, and pressure of fluid in the urinary bladder. *J Anat*. 1918-19, 53, 241. Primary union in operations on bladder and prostate. *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1923, 16, Urology, p. 47. Some features of the elbow joint. *Journal of Anatomy* 1923-24, 58, 368. Some points in connection with the successful issue of simple prostatectomy. (Presidential address, Section of Urology.) *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1931-32, 25; 907. Homer's surgery. *Manchester Univ Med Sch Gaz*. 1954, 33, 238; summary in *Proc Roy Soc Med*, History section, 1953, 45, 765. Recollections. *Guy's Hosp Gaz*. 1951, 65, 347, 363, 384, 409, 425, 447, 466, 494; 1953, 67, 277; and 1954, 68, 73. These "Recollections" show Thompson at his best: generous, amusing, but never unkind character sketches of surgeons and anatomists whom he had known since his student days, with sufficient technical detail to make them interesting as a record of the surgery which he had seen or practised.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005416
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