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First Title value, for Searching Currie, John Alexander ( - 1984)

2024-05-15T09:39:57Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2014-06-27
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Occupation General practitioner Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Alexander Currie was a consultant urologist in Cape Town, South Africa. He was the son of James Oswald Currie, a medical practitioner, and was educated at Diocesan College ('Bishops') in Cape Town. During the First World War he was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery. He then went on to study medicine at Guy's in London, gaining his MRCS LRCP in 1923 and his MB BS in 1924. He returned to South Africa, where he was a general practitioner in Wynberg, Cape Province. He then went back to London to study urology and obtained his final FRCS in 1938. In the same year he was awarded his masters in surgery. During the Second World War, he served in the South African Medical Corps. After the war he established a private urological practice in Cape Town. He was also appointed to the staff of Groote Schuur Hospital and Victoria Hospital, Wynberg. Currie was president of the Medical Association of South Africa in 1961. After retiring from his private practice in Cape Town, he became a general practitioner on the island of St Helena for a year or so. He was married to Gertie, a former nurse, whom he had met at Victoria Hospital. Currie died on 23 August 1984.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002543
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First Title value, for Searching Boothroyd, Lawrence Sydney Arthur (1920 - 2014)

2024-05-15T09:39:57Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2018-03-05
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Urologist
Details Lawrence Sydney Arthur Boothroyd, known as 'Boots', was a consultant general surgeon and urologist at Lions Gate Hospital, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, on 12 September 1920, the son of Sydney Lionel Boothroyd, a master printer and lithographer and the founder of Calcutta Chromotype Limited, and Margaret Sarah Elizabeth Boothroyd née Butt, a milliner and later co-director of Calcutta Chromotype. Boothroyd spent his early years in Calcutta, before being sent to England at the age of eight. He was educated at Colet Court, St Paul's Preparatory School, and then Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire, and went on to study medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. During the Blitz he was posted to rooftop fire-duty. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1943 and was a house surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital and a house physician at Botleys Park Hospital. In 1945, he was conscripted into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in England and India, ending his service as a captain. He gained his FRCS in 1950 and was a registrar at the Royal Masonic Hospital under Sir Arthur Porritt, Sir Cecil Wakeley and Eric Riches, and then a resident surgical officer at Bolingbroke Hospital, working with Edward Muir. He gained his FRCS in 1950 and decided to emigrate to West Vancouver, Canada, in 1955. He worked as a general surgeon and urologist at Lions Gate Hospital and, later, as a family practitioner. He also volunteered overseas, training medical staff in small hospitals in the Caribbean and Africa. He retired in 1990. Outside medicine, he served on the West Vancouver School Board, as a school trustee and chairman. He enjoyed singing, dancing and performing - and organised the New Year's fancy dress balls at the West Vancouver Community Centre and musical revues at the West Vancouver United Church. Throughout his life he was an active sportsman. He also led his family on adventures, including cycling from John O'Groats to Land's End. In 1953, he married Margot Findlay, a graduate of the Royal Free Hospital Medical School. They had four children (Wendy Margaret, Gillian Sarah, James Findlay and Susan Elizabeth) and seven grandchildren. In his final years he suffered from dementia, and died peacefully in early December 2014 following a stroke. He was 94.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007653
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First Title value, for Searching Messent, Arthur David (1915 - 1985)

2024-05-15T09:39:57Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation General practitioner Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details Arthur Messent obtained an open exhibition to Mill Hill School and proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Brackenbury Prize in surgery and anatomy. He qualified in 1938 and after a short spell in general practice he joined the Royal Air Force and served in Coastal Command both in the Faroe Islands and the Middle East where he was mentioned in despatches. After the war he continued his surgical training, passed the FRCS examination in 1948, and held senior registrar appointments in Norwich, Reading and Hammersmith before his appointment as consultant in vascular and genito-urinary surgery to the Brentwood Group of Hospitals in 1955. In 1940 he married Margaret, a doctor's daughter and medical secretary at St Bartholomew's Hospital where one of their daughters eventually trained as a nurse. Their second daughter trained as a physiotherapist at the London Hospital. He enjoyed gardening, reading, entertaining and being entertained. He was kind, courteous and ready to help those in need, and it was sad for him and his family when he was struck by a long illness. He retired in 1980 to Nantgaredig in Carmarthen, his wife's birthplace, hoping to enjoy the countryside he loved and he died on 2 August 1985 survived by his wife and daughters, Rosemary and Ann.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007502
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First Title value, for Searching Modlin, Monte (1917 - 1980)

2024-05-15T09:39:57Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
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Occupation General practitioner Urologist
Details Monte Modlin was born in Bloemfontein in 1917. He attended the South African College School in Cape Town and then entered the University of Cape Town Medical School. During the second world war he served for three years in the SAMC in Egypt. In 1943 he returned to South Africa and joined the air school in Oudtshoorn. After general practice in Oudtshoorn for six years he decided to specialise and spent the next four years working at Trinity College, Dublin, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, and Leeds General Infirmary, studying surgery and calcium metabolism. During this time he made many friends and developed what was to become a lifelong interest in the problem of renal stone formation, an interest which was stimulated by his work with Professor Pyrah at Leeds University. In 1954 he obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. Returning to South Africa in 1956, he commenced private practice in Cape Town and was appointed part-time consultant urologist at Groote Schuur Hospital where he started the renal stone clinic in 1962. Over the next twenty years he accumulated a mass of data on renal stones and did some excellent research work on their rarity in black people. He was acknowledged to be a world authority in this field and was regularly invited to international symposia. In June 1965 his research resulted in an MD thesis entitled *Some chemical and physical properties of urine with relation to renal stone formation - an inter-racial study*. He delivered a Hunterian Lecture in 1966 on the aetiology of kidney stones and, in spite of a series of illnesses and operations he started an ambitious study of the structure of stones using sophisticated apparatus - work which was halted by his death. His home in Sea Point reflected the diversity of his interests. He spent what leisure time he had pottering in his garden with his dogs and relaxing in his study while pursuing his interest in history with an emphasis on Jewish, Greek, Roman and Ancient Egyptian. He had a respectable knowledge of Egyptian and Greek archaeology and, in later years, studied Greek in order to understand the subtleties of ancient history better. He married Julia Judith Green, a fellow student from the University of Cape Town, in 1943 and they had a son, Irwin, who also studied medicine. It was while visiting his son, who was in the department of surgery at the State University of New York, that Modlin died suddenly. He was attending a symposium at Williamsburg, Virginia when he collapsed. He died on 23 June 1980 survived by his wife, Julia, his son and a granddaughter, Carmen.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006759
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First Title value, for Searching Johnson, Joseph Arthur Russell (1913 - 1984)

2024-05-15T09:39:57Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Joseph Arthur Russell Johnson was born on 30 December 1913 and his early education was at King Edward VII School in Birmingham, where he was a foundation scholar. He entered Birmingham University for his medical studies, graduating in 1936 and subsequently serving as house officer in his teaching hospital. He spent some time in general practice before the war and was also resident surgical officer at Birmingham Children's Hospital. Early in 1939 he joined the Territorial Army and shortly after the outbreak of war was called up, initially serving in the Middle East with a Field Ambulance and eventually becoming a graded surgeon. While serving in the Middle East he met and married Mary and in 1944 they returned with their young daughter. Shortly after demobilisation he passed the FRCS and later worked at St George's Hospital. Within a few years he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Salop Infirmary, honorary consultant surgeon to the Montgomery County Infirmary, Newtown, and to the Robert Jones and Afnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. Although a general surgeon he had a special interest in urology throughout his professional career. He retired in 1978 and towards the end of his life worked briefly in the new Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Apart from his professional work he was an enthusiastic countryman and gardener. He shared a great interest in fine art and furniture with his wife and was an authority on paintings. He died on 26 January 1984 aged 70 and is survived by his wife, two daughters, one of whom is in general practice, and a son.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007367
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First Title value, for Searching Slater, Russel Bell (1922 - 1972)

2024-05-15T09:39:57Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Military surgeon Urologist
Details Born 23 February 1922 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the only child of R O Slater, company director, and Emma Bell, his wife. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and at the Medical School of the University of Durham. He qualified in 1943 and was appointed house surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the Royal Naval Medical Service in the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant on 31 March 1944, and was present, aboard a landing ship, at the invasion of Normandy in June 1944. He joined the destroyer, HMS *Keppel*, patrolling in the English Channel, in September 1944, and the corvette, HMS *Lancaster Castle*, engaged on Arctic duties, in the following year. Slater was released from the Service in February 1947, but continued to retain an active interest as a reservist. He held appointments as surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and demonstrator in the department of anatomy at the Medical School of the University of Durham. He entered general practice at Boroughbridge, Yorkshire in 1954 but remained restless in civil life. On 31 July 1956, Slater re-entered the Royal Naval Medical Service with the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander. He was drafted to HMS *Theseus* and in the sick bay of the aircraft carrier demonstrated his surgical competence by performing a number of successful emergency operations, under trying conditions, on wounded evacuated from Suez during the crisis of November 1956. He was appointed specialist in surgery at RNH Hong Kong from 1957 to 1960; promoted Surgeon-Commander in 1961 and later served in a surgical capacity at RNH Haslar, and aboard the aircraft carrier HMS *Bulwark*. He was appointed medical officer-in-charge of RNH Mauritius and senior specialist in surgery in 1964, returning to the United Kingdom in 1966. Thereafter, he served mainly in RNH Plymouth, at first as a general surgeon and later as a urologist. He was appointed consultant in surgery in 1970 and promoted Surgeon-Captain in December 1971. Apart from being an accomplished surgeon and pleasant colleague, Slater was also a skilled amateur photographer. He married on 22 June 1950 Geraldine O'Connor who survived him. There were no children. He died on 14 June 1972 from an astrocytoma and was buried in the naval reservation in Weston Mill Cemetery, Plymouth. Publications: Duodenal diverticulum treated by excision of mucosal pouch only. *Brit J Surg* 1971, 58, 198. A case of closed injury of the upper ureter. *Brit J Urol* 1971, 43, 591.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006118
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First Title value, for Searching Gowland, Humphrey Walter (1918 - 1981)

2024-05-15T09:39:57Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Humphrey Walter Gowland was born in 1918 in Dunedin, New Zealand, the second son of Percy Gowland, who later became the eminent Professor of Anatomy at Otago Medical School. He was educated at first in Dunedin and later at Waitaki College where he had a distinguished international athletic career. He received his undergraduate medical education at Otago, qualifying MB ChB in 1941. He represented the University in cricket and football. His first house surgeon job was at Wellington Hospital. He obtained his Primary FRCS in Dunedin at the first examination for the College to be held outside the UK. He joined the New Zealand Air Force as a medical officer in 1943 serving at Woodbourne and later at Green Island. After the war, he spent a short time in general practice and then became surgical registrar at Wellington Hospital. In 1948 he proceeded to London to study for the Final FRCS and his old friend Dr Tuckey tells an anecdote of this time: 'In January 1948 I left for the UK and Humphrey followed towards the end of the year. I was doing medicine while Humphrey did surgery. Our wives and children shared much in common and we made a few expeditions together. Once on a non-stop trip in southern England on a double decker bus our sons both had urgent need to pass water, Humphrey led the way to the back platform and grasped his son with one hand and held on with the other while his son sprayed following cars, that son is now also a urologist'. He obtained his FRCS in 1949 and then worked at All Saints' Hospital in London during 1952-53 where his subsequent interest in urology was much influenced by Terence Millin. Gowland returned to New Zealand in 1953, entered specialist urological private practice and was appointed to the staff of Wellington Hospital where he served until his death. He became FRACS in 1953 and was appointed to the Dominion Committee of the Council of which he subsequently became Chairman. In 1964 the Medical Council was reconstituted and he became the representative of the RACS and served for four terms on Council. During this time, he became Chairman of the very difficult Penal Cases Committee and Chairman of Council itself in the last year of his life. He held every post of significance in medical and university circles in Wellington. Gowland retained his interest in aviation medicine and became a Wing-Commander in the Territorial Air Force acting as civilian consultant to the Civil Aviation Department and subsequently to the armed services. He became medical advisor to the Antarctic division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and was one of the few medical officers who visited Antarctica and the South Pole in person. Gowland retained his interest in sport, especially cricket and football. He was medical officer to the rugby football union, chairing its committee on spinal injuries. He was also made a life member of the cricket association. He was a Rotarian and gave much to community service, including the setting up of a spina bifida clinic at the Wellington Hospital. He was also concerned with postgraduate education for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and in his own speciality of urology. He had an enormous circle of friends who packed Wellington Cathedral for his memorial service. He died suddenly on 20 February 1981 aged 63, while operating at Bowen Hospital, Wellington.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006509
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