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First Title value, for Searching Sabetian, Manushehr ( - 2015)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2017-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Manushehr Sabetian was a consultant surgeon at the London Welbeck Hospital. He studied medicine at Durham University, qualifying in 1954. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1958, his ChM from Liverpool University in 1962 and the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1967. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar in surgery at the Royal Infirmary in Liverpool, then a senior registrar at St Mark's Hospital, London and the Royal Northern Hospital, London. Manushehr Sabetian died on 3 February 2015.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006795
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First Title value, for Searching England, Henry Richard (1917 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-10-06 2013-12-09
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Henry Richard England gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1954. He was originally from Auckland, New Zealand, and was born on 30 June 1917. He died in London, aged 94, on 18 August 2011. He was survived by his wife, Joy.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001458
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Roger Barritt (1944 - 2012)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-09-07 2014-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Roger Barritt Jones was a consultant surgeon and clinical director of surgery and urology at Rotherham General Hospital. He studied medicine at Manchester University, gaining a BSc in 1965 and graduating MB ChB in 1968. After house posts, he was an assistant lecturer in anatomy at Manchester University, and a registrar in surgery at the University Hospital of South Manchester. Prior to his appointment to his consultant post, he was a senior registrar in general surgery at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. Roger Barritt Jones died on 18 June 2012, aged 67. He was survived by his wife, Hilary, and sons Andrew, Richard and Paul.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002847
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First Title value, for Searching Sharma, Chandra Maulishwar Prasad (1933 - 2009)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-18 2014-06-06
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Chandra Maulishwar Prasad Sharma was a consultant general and urological surgeon in Patna, India. He qualified MB BS in Patna in 1958 and gained his FRCS in 1965. He was a senior surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and a surgical registrar at West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen. He then became a consultant general surgeon for Dyfed Area Health Authority. In 2009 the Royal College of Surgeons was notified of his death.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001617
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First Title value, for Searching Preston, Timothy Russell (1931 - 2020)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-11-19
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Timothy Preston was general surgeon and urologist at Whiston and St Helens 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: E010039
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First Title value, for Searching Barton, Michael Treherne ( - 1976)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Michael Treherne Barton qualified MB BS in 1961 and worked as research surgical officer at St Paul's Hospital, London, surgical registrar at the Bromley Hospital and junior lecturer in anatomy at Guy's Hospital Medical School. He passed the FRCS in 1969 and was Freemasons Research Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1973. He became lecturer at the Institute of Urology in 1973 and died suddenly on April 7, 1976 leaving a wife, Mina and a son, Guy.
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First Title value, for Searching Mason, Joseph Ian Campbell ( - 2002)

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First Title value, for Searching McCalister, Alexander (1925 - 2018)

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by Peter McCalister
Publication Date 2018-02-26 2018-05-01
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Alexander McCalister (known as 'Alex') was a consultant general surgeon at the Ulster Hospital. He was born in Belfast on 6 June 1925 and grew up in rural Northern Ireland in relatively poor circumstances: his mother cooked on an open peat fire and they had no piped water in the home. His family suggested that Alex might become a carpenter, but his head teacher encouraged him to consider a career in medicine. He gained a local government scholarship and studied at Queen's University Belfast, qualifying in 1948 with first class honours. In 1968, Alex was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, County Down and worked there until his retirement in 1989. He also specialised in urology. He was known as a very good surgeon - quick, deft and neat - and urological colleagues would come to him if they needed an operation themselves. He was well-liked by staff and his nickname on the wards was 'uncle'. He was known for carrying out very early ward rounds, often at 6.30 am, which meant he could begin operating an hour and a half before everyone else. Alex joined the Territorial Army as a young doctor and became a colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, commanding his own unit, the 204 Field Hospital. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration, became a Knight of St John of Malta, and was an honorary surgeon to HM The Queen. He enjoyed travel and was interested in poetry, birds, trees, flowers and history (particularly military history). He made sure he kept up with current events, buying two newspapers every day. He was a deeply spiritual and religious person, and took his prayer book everywhere he went. He played the fiddle, having been taught by his father, who was a very skilled player. Alex met Claire Johnston while he was teaching medical students. They married in 1955 and had four children. The youngest became a doctor. After Claire's death in 1985, Alex married Heather Hector in 1989. She died in 2013. Alex died on 26 January 2018 from cardiac failure, aged 92, and was survived by three of his children. Sadly, he was predeceased by his eldest daughter, who died a fortnight before him.
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First Title value, for Searching Tooms, Douglas ( - 2007)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Douglas Tooms was a consultant surgeon to the Mid Worcestershire Hospital Group. He received his medical education in Cardiff and was a house surgeon and house physician at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. He was a resident surgical officer at the Gordon Hospital, a registrar at Warneford Hospital, Leamington Spa, and subsequently a senior registrar at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. Douglas was a colourful character who was known to be a good technical surgeon. He was appointed to the West Midlands as a consultant surgeon to both Kidderminster and Bromsgrove hospitals. His appointment followed the replacement of a very academic surgeon who had been so stressed by the wide variety of challenges in a small busy district general hospital that he had taken his own life. Douglas’ contrasting reputation provided the obvious solution for the local regional board. Though Douglas was happy to put his hand to anything, he developed an increasing interest in urology which, towards the end of his career, became his main activity.
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First Title value, for Searching Sanger, Bernard James (1910 - 1990)

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First Title value, for Searching Wiggishoff, Cyril Charles (1923 - 2015)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2018-04-23
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Cyril Charles Wiggishoff was chief of staff at St Joseph's Hospital, Chicago. He was born in Paris, France, on 17 March 1923, the son of Charles Cecil Wiggishoff, company director of his family's perfumery factory, and Marguerite Wiggishoff née Rouy. His paternal great grandfather, Jacques Charles Wiggishoff, was mayor of Montmartre and a noted bibliophile. From the age of five, Wiggishoff was raised in South Africa by an aunt and uncle. He was encouraged to read and developed a lifelong passion for books. He attended Durban Preparatory High School and, at the age of 17, gained an open scholarship to study medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. After two years, he enlisted as an able seaman in the South African Navy. He was at first assigned to a Norwegian whaling vessel, which had been adapted to fight. He was later commissioned as a sub-lieutenant, volunteered for submarine service and served with the Royal Navy's Seventh Submarine Squadron at Rothesay, Scotland. At the end of the Second World War, he returned to his medical studies, this time at Brasenose College, Oxford. He qualified in 1950 and held house posts at the Radcliffe Infirmary. He later trained at Manchester Royal Infirmary and St Peter's Hospital for the Stone, London. In the late 1950s, he went to Chicago, to the University of Illinois, as a Fulbright fellow. He then went back to Johannesburg in private practice, but returned to Chicago to continue his career in surgery. He spent 23 years as chief of staff at St Joseph's Hospital and was also a clinical associate professor of urology at the University of Chicago. Outside medicine he enjoyed history, wine, travel and sailing. In 1948, he married Stella Kyle. They had a son, Nicholas, and a daughter, Michele. He later married Marianne. In 1987, he and his wife moved to Fountain Hills in Arizona. Cyril was president of the friends of the local library. He died on 20 February 2015 at the age of 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Jennings, Melvin Calverley (1939 - 2006)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2012-01-06 2014-01-10
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Melvin Calverly Jennings ('Mel') was a urologist and general surgeon at East Surrey Hospital. He was born on 21 June 1939, into a surgical family. His father, Calverly Jennings, was a fellow of the college and a GP surgeon who worked at Epsom Cottage Hospital before the advent of the NHS. His mother Josephine ('Jo') Jennings was a nurse. Mel's elder brother, Nigel, became a barrister. Mel was educated at Epsom College, where he played rugby and was captain of the school team, and then went on to St Bartholomew's to study medicine. Whilst a student he continued his enthusiasm for rugby, playing for Bart's and Harlequin Wanderers, eventually becoming captain of the hospital team. After qualifying in 1963, he was a house surgeon to Robin McNab Jones in the ENT department at Bart's. His aim, however, was to specialise in urology. He held appointments in the renal unit at Hammersmith, as a surgical registrar at Redhill Hospital, and as a senior surgical registrar rotating between Portsmouth and Southampton under the tutelage of urologists Forbes Abercrombie and John Vinnicombe. He was appointed as a consultant at the East Surrey Hospital (formerly Redhill Hospital) as a general surgeon with an interest in urology, before creating a urology department. He was a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) and a keen supporter of the annual alpine workshop of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He also continued to support Bart's Rugby Club and was elected president. He benefited from the enthusiastic support of his wife Deanna née Layton ('Dee'), a specialist in sports medicine, whom he had met when they were students at Bart's. Together they arranged tours to Hong Kong for the Bart's rugby team and, before Bart's merged with the London Hospital, they took a touring side to South Africa to play in Cape Town and Durban. Mel and Dee had three sons, all of whom became fellows at the college: Andrew is a urologist, Simon an orthopaedic surgeon, and Robin a general surgeon. Whilst on holiday in 2004 Mel was diagnosed with a cerebral tumour, which was treated surgically, but he died on 25 June 2006, aged 67.
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First Title value, for Searching Coxon, John George (1920 - 2019)

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by Charles Coxon
Publication Date 2019-09-16 2020-03-10
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details John Coxon was a consultant urologist in Halifax, West Yorkshire. He was born in Cambridge. His father, Thomas Coxon, was an industrial chemist with ICI; his mother was Florence Madelaine Proctor Coxon née Lucas. He was educated at Sedbergh School in Cumbria and then studied medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London during the Second World War. In October 1939, he was evacuated to Wadham College, Oxford, for a year and then to Hydestile, near Godalming in Surrey, where St Thomas’ Hospital was then based. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1943; his graduation ceremony was postponed until 1992. After house jobs and a registrar post at St Thomas’, he entered National Service in the RAF, rising to the rank of squadron leader. He was posted to the Gold Coast in West Africa and then Changi in Singapore. On demobilisation, he was appointed as a supernumerary surgical registrar at St Thomas’ Hospital. He completed his training in Sheffield. In 1954, he was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at Staincliffe Hospital, Dewsbury, the General Hospital, also in Dewsbury, Batley General Hospital, the Royal Halifax Infirmary and the General Hospital, Halifax. In 1965, he moved to work entirely in Halifax, and from 1968 specialised in urology. He became the senior surgeon in Halifax and served on the hospital management board for a time. He was active in the British Association of Urological Surgeons as well as the local branch of the British Medical Association. He was also involved with the local branch of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. He was active in the British Association of Urological Surgeons as well as the local branch of the British Medical Association. He was also involved with the local branch of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. Predeceased by Ann in 2010, John died peacefully from pneumonia and acute kidney disease on 2 July 2019. He was 99. He was survived by his son, Charles, a retired GP in Peterborough, two daughters, Sarah Ann and Jennifer Mary, and four grandsons.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, George Stewart Murchison (1914 - 2011)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-11-25 2017-02-24
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details George Wilson was a urologist and chief of staff at the Welland Hospital, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Edinburgh on 29 October 1914, the son of George Stewart Wilson, a civil servant, and Catherine Wilson née Campbell. He was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and then went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University. He qualified in 1937. He was a resident surgical officer at Newcastle General Hospital and then, in April 1940, joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a major. He served in France, Nigeria and India. Following his demobilisation in April 1946, he briefly returned to Newcastle General Hospital and was then a resident surgical officer at Crumpsall Hospital, Manchester. In 1951 he emigrated to Canada. He began his career in Welland working as a general surgeon, but then specialised in urology. He became chief of staff of Welland Hospital. As medical chairman of the Welland Hospital building committee in the 1950s, he was instrumental in efforts to build the new hospital, which opened in 1960. He was a member of the Buffalo Urological Society, where he regularly participated in lectures and rounds, and was a senior member of the Canadian Urological Association. Outside medicine, he enjoyed golf, curling and sailing and working in the machine shop. He was president of the Welland Club, Welland Curling Club and Lookout Point Golf and Country Club. In 1944 he married Eleanor Hewitt. They had two sons, Ronald and Iain, and a daughter, Elspeth. George Stewart Murchison Wilson died on 30 May 2011. He was 96.
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First Title value, for Searching Gayen, Sudhanshu Sekkar (1930 - 2014)

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by Indu Gayen
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2015-08-14
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Sudhanshu Sekhar Gayen was a surgeon at Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Kent, and then a general practitioner. He was born on 1 August 1930 in the Midnapore district of West Bengal, India, the son of Jogendra Nath Gayen, a schoolteacher, and Bimala Bala Betz Gayen, a housewife. His family were landowners and were very well known in the local community. Sudhanshu lost both of his parents when he was very young. He loved school and from an early age wanted to become a doctor. He passed his school matriculation examinations in the first division and thereafter passed all his exams with honours. He was offered a scholarship to study medicine at Calcutta University Medical College. While the scholarship covered his tuition fees, he had to work to cover his living expenses and in his spare time he tutored school students. He passed his MB BS in 1956. Following house posts in Calcutta, Sudhanshu worked as a senior intern in surgery at Ottawa General Hospital, Canada. After a year he decided to move to the UK, where he held a series of senior house officer posts. He worked in the North Middlesex Hospital in north London, in the thoracic surgical unit, where he performed various major and minor operations and procedures, including intercostal intubation, pleural aspiration and bronchoscopy. He then moved to the North Herts and Lister Hitchin hospitals and performed major operations with the hospital consultant. As part of a team of colleagues he was in charge of 45 general and urological beds. At North Staffordshire Infirmary as a senior house officer he performed operations in the neurosurgical unit, including inserting burr holes and Spitz-Holter valves. In 1966 he was offered a post as a registrar in general surgery, orthopaedics and fractures at St Andrew's Hospital, London, during which time he passed his final fellowship examinations of the Edinburgh and English Royal Colleges. In 1969 Sudhanshu accepted a post as a registrar in urology and general surgery at Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Kent, where his pre- and post-operative care was acknowledged as outstanding by his consultant. He published several unusual cases in journals. He used to say that: 'To be a good surgeon it is not only necessary to perform successful surgery, but it is of paramount importance to provide post-operative care and support to meet individual needs.' In 1974, due to ill health and also exhaustion, he decided, with great personal sadness, to leave his surgical career. In 1978 he entered general practice, where he looked after nearly 4,000 patients. On 27 August 2014 he died after a long illness. He was 84. He was survived by his wife Indu, to whom he had been married for nearly 40 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006787
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First Title value, for Searching Ingall, John Robert Franklin ( - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-10
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ingall received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1952. He gained the London MB BS in the following year. After holding house posts at the Westminster Hospital and surgical registrarships there and at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, he moved to the United States, where he was Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was also Program Director, Regional Medical Program for West New York and consultant surgeon to the Sisters of Mercy Charity Hospital. He later practised as a general and urological surgeon at Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Jack Ingall died on 26 April 1994 in Hemel Hempstead Hospital, and there was a memorial service at St Alban's.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008021
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First Title value, for Searching Low, Antony Irving (1940 - 2001)

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First Title value, for Searching Jones, William Warner (1872 - 1952)

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First Title value, for Searching Melville, Charles Bernays (1903 - 1978)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10 2017-05-05
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon Urologist
Details Charles Bernays Melville was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 29 April 1903. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he was captain of school and athletics, and at the University of Melbourne where he was awarded a blue in athletics and in football. He obtained first class honours and an exhibition in medicine, graduating MB BS in 1927. He was resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He came to London, was resident surgical officer at All Saints' Hospital and worked under Terence Millin. He obtained the MRCS and LRCP in 1930, the FRCS in 1931, and became FRACS in 1934. On his return to Australia, he was appointed emergency surgeon to the Alfred Hospital and urologist to the Austin Hospital, Melbourne. He married Jean Cookes in 1928 and they had one daughter. He died on 6 July 1978, aged 75 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006746
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First Title value, for Searching Paine, Donald Thomas Hardy (1921 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-12-22
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Donald Thomas Hardy Paine was a urologist and general surgeon in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. He was born in London, England, on 20 July 1921, the son of Stanley William Thomas Paine, an engineer, and Rosina May Paine née Baker. He was educated at Trinity School of John Whitgift in Croydon from 1935 to 1940 and then started training as a veterinarian, but later changed to medicine. He was a house surgeon in Eastbourne, Croydon and Tunbridge Wells, and then a resident surgical officer at Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, from 1945 to 1948. He was subsequently a resident surgical officer (surgical registrar) at Blackburn Royal Hospital until 1950. From 1950 to 1952 he was a surgical specialist to the British Army of the Rhine. He returned to civilian life as a senior registrar at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, and then held a senior registrar post at St Peter's and St Paul's, Institute of Urology, from 1953 to 1955. In 1956, disagreeing with the socialisation of medicine in the UK, he emigrated to North Bay, where he was a general surgeon and urologist. He led the establishment of the northern Ontario kidney dialysis unit at Civic Hospital. He was director of the Ontario Medical Association from 1974 to 1979. In 1979 Paine, again fleeing this time the impending socialisation of medicine in Canada, he moved to the United States, to South Carolina near Myrtle Beach, where he continued as a urologist until his retirement in 1988. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sailboat racing. In 1974 he competed in the Wayfarer world championships in England. He also played tennis and curling, and skied while living in Canada. He was a Rotarian for 40 years and president of the North Bay Rotary Club. In 1945 he married Dorothy Cooper, a nurse. In 1954 he was married for a second time, to Barbara Bright, also a nurse. He had four children - Penelope, Richard, Victoria and Nicholas - and six grandchildren. Donald Thomas Hardy Paine died on 28 January 2011. He was 89.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006144
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First Title value, for Searching Weaver, John Patrick Acton (1927 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2014-04-07
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Patrick Acton Weaver was a consultant urological surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary and a senior lecturer in surgery at the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee. He was born in Oxford, the son of John Reginald Homer Weaver, professor of history and president of Trinity College, and Stella Mary Georgina Weaver née Acton, an author. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Ampleforth College, and then studied medicine at Oxford and Guy's. He was a house surgeon to Sir John Conybeare at Guy's and an anatomy demonstrator. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps, as a medical officer to the Gurkhas in Hong Kong and the King's Own Regiment 4th of Foot. He was a registrar at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, working with George Feggetter. In 1967 he joined Sir Donald Douglas' surgical academic team at the University of St Andrews at Dundee. He gave outstanding service, particularly when the unit moved to the new Ninewalls Hospital and medical school, and he ran the department during the time Douglas was president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His surgical interests gradually moved into urology, and he became a consultant urological surgeon in 1976, moving back to Dundee Royal Infirmary. He pioneered innovative techniques for the treatment of female incontinence. He was an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and secretary and then president of the 1921 Surgical Club. After retiring in 1992 he did locums in England, Scotland, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. He also worked with the Egyptian Army Medical Corps. He was recognised as an excellent surgeon and teacher. He took a particular interest in developing the careers of his junior staff, especially encouraging female house surgeons to continue in surgery and achieve their full potential. Outside medicine, he was interested in gardening, furniture restoration and art. In 1959 he married Mary Catherine Bainbridge ('Wendy') Robinson, who trained as a nurse at Guy's Hospital. They had three children - Elizabeth Anne, George William and Matthew John. John Patrick Acton Weaver died on 10 July 2011, aged 83.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001878
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First Title value, for Searching Ford, Trevor Francis (1946 - 2009)

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by Timothy G Williams
Publication Date 2012-01-06 2012-10-31
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Trevor Ford was a consultant general surgeon and urologist to the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, working at Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells. The adopted only son of an antiques dealer, Trevor was brought up in London. After pre-clinical studies at Oxford University, he proceeded to St George's Hospital Medical School. His definitive urological training at senior registrar level was at St Peter's Hospital and the Institute of Urology in London, where he worked with John Blandy and others. It was thought that he was the author of more papers than any other previous trainee. He published on gastric erosions, urinary tract stones and urological malignancy, amongst much else. Before going to Kent, he was a lecturer in surgery at St George's Hospital. Possessed of a sharp, dry sense of humour, he did not tolerate fools gladly. Usually very reserved, he was held in some awe by his juniors for his direct manner when the occasion demanded. His opinions were carefully considered, and much valued by his colleagues, though his commitment to smoking over-rode social constraint. He was one of the first in the UK to perform a radical prostatectomy, and deserved and received the respect of his patients, who saw in him a clinician who always strove to act in their best interests. With a white moustache and slightly portly figure, he was every inch a character. Trevor's company was always engaging, enlivening dull proceedings with pithy, pertinent comments streaked with wit. Sadly, he was such a private man that he eschewed personal memorabilia, and left instructions that there should be no memorial service or other tribute to a life in which he proved to be an extremely capable urologist. His hobby was classic cars, and he could sometimes be seen at the wheel of his Rolls Royce Continental, which he lovingly maintained. Indeed it won several concours d'elegance, or gatherings of classic cars, and both he and the car were very much admired by the French. He married twice, the second time very happily to Paddy, with whom he had a son, James. He had a daughter, Priscilla, from his first marriage. Trevor died on 5 August 2009.
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First Title value, for Searching Boothroyd, Lawrence Sydney Arthur (1920 - 2014)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Lewis, James Laurence (1949- 2020)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Philip Bentley
Publication Date 2020-03-19 2020-07-21
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Occupation Urologist General surgeon
Details James Laurence Lewis was a consultant surgeon and urologist for the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust based at Royal Tunbridge Wells. He was born in Los Angeles, California. His parents, Arthur Lewis and Evelyn Lewis née Eisner, moved to London when he was 14 and he went to St Paul’s School. He excelled academically and won a foundation scholarship. A talented trombonist, he won the school’s brass and woodwind prize two years in succession and also played double bass in a jazz band. He co-authored with his younger brother revue sketches that were performed at the school. He had set his sights on a medical career at an early age and studied at Guy’s Hospital, gaining his MB BS in 1972, achieving honours in the surgical part of the examination. While studying at Guy’s, he found time to direct two plays. After qualifying, he held a number of posts as part of the Guy’s surgical training scheme. After passing the primary FRCS at his first attempt, he decided to tackle the MRCP examinations and passed those in 1974. Then he passed the second part of his FRCS in 1976. As part of his studies for a University of London MS degree, he spent a year as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School. His research topic was an assessment of thromboresistant materials by I 125-fibrinogen scanning of intravenous cannulae and he was awarded his degree in 1985. In 1987, he was appointed as a consultant general and urological surgeon at the Kent and Sussex Weald NHS Trust (from 2000, the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust). He quickly set about founding a proper department of urology. With a consultant colleague, Trevor Ford, his department of urology prospered. He was always a great innovator. He was the first surgeon in the trust to recognise that laparoscopic surgery was the way forward. He was the one who went and did the courses and then came back and taught the rest how to do it. He pioneered radical retropubic prostatectomy for carcinoma of the prostate, but also found time to become an advanced trauma life support (ATLS) instructor. He was the clinical lead for information technology. Jim was always looking ahead. He was one of the first people to set up a partnership for himself and his urological colleagues in private practice. In addition, he was medical director for the Kent and Sussex Weald NHS Trust between 1996 and 2000. Over the course of his career, he published 18 articles in various medical journals. He retired as a surgeon in 2006 and moved back to southern California. He came out of his retirement to become medical director of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust between 2008 and 2010. Back in southern California, Jim continued to devote time to his lifelong interests in film, theatre, music and travel with his wife, Bev. On a visit to England in early 2019 for family celebrations, he had a dramatic deterioration in health with weight loss, malaise and epigastric discomfort. A CT scan showed advanced carcinoma of the pancreas with hepatic secondary deposits. He responded to urgent palliative chemotherapy. His condition improved enough for him to meet up with consultant colleagues for a traditional curry before he returned home to California. After a 12-month battle, which he faced with his usual forward thinking, positive attitude, he died on 2 February 2020. He was 70. Jim was married three times and had two daughters with his second wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009717
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First Title value, for Searching Hamer, William Anthony (1919 - 1993)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

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/380164380164
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details William Hamer, son of William, a chartered accountant, and his wife, Alice Marjorie, née Evans, was born in London on 22 July 1919. From Boston Grammar School and Oakham School, Rutland, he went to St Mary's Hospital, London. He held house appointments at the Postgraduate Medical School and was influenced by Professor Grey Turner, Mr Richard Franklin, Mr Alan Small and Mr Peter Martin. During the war he held the rank of squadron leader in the RAFVR. He was an accomplished general surgeon, with a special interest in urology, being a keen member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He did much to develop the surgical services in South East Essex, with the building of Basildon and Orsett Hospitals and the Brentwood Nuffield Nursing Home. He also forged links with the London teaching hospitals. At Oakham he developed a lifelong love of rugby football, and he starred in St Mary's formidable wartime team. In 1943 he married Mavis Robinson SRN, whose premature death soon after his retirement devastated him. He died of a bladder tumour on 15 July 1993, survived by his three married daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007981
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First Title value, for Searching Dunlop, John Arthur (1915 - 1972)

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First Title value, for Searching Heritage, Kenneth William (1901 - 1963)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377228377228
Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 2 November 1901 he was educated at Wyggeston School, Leicester and at the London Hospital, where he was awarded the Buxton Prize in anatomy and physiology in 1921. After qualification he held numerous house appointments at the London Hospital, where he became first surgical assistant and registrar to the Genito-Urinary Department, and was also surgical registrar to All Saints and the London Lock Hospital, resident medical officer to the Miller General Hospital, Greenwich, and resident surgical officer at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester. He was appointed consultant surgeon to numerous hospitals: Princess Beatrice Hospital, St John's, Lewisham, the Children's Hospital, Plaistow, High Wycombe War Memorial Hospital, and the Blackheath and Charlton Hospitals. Although his interests were largely in urology, he was a highly competent general surgeon. In spite of failing health he remained a dedicated, hard working man to the end of his life; kind, modest and retiring, but held in great affection and esteem by his colleagues and patients. He died suddenly on 7 February 1963 aged 62 survived by his widow and son.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005045
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First Title value, for Searching Milward, Francis John (1903 - 1997)

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First Title value, for Searching Ticehurst, Richard Norman (1917 - 2016)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by A J Dyson
Publication Date 2016-05-12 2016-05-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381308381308
Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Richard Ticehurst was a consultant general surgeon and urologist in Hastings, Sussex. He was born on 3 November 1917 into an old medical Sussex family renowned for its expertise in English wildlife, his father having written the seminal work on swans. He had an older brother, Hugh, who became a local farmer, and a younger sister, Annie. After a preparatory school in St Leonards-on-Sea, he won a scholarship to Tonbridge School, from where he read medicine at Clare College, Cambridge (his father's old college). His clinical training was at Guy's Hospital, where he was the fourth generation of Ticehursts to qualify. He remembered that his obstetric training included borrowing the hospital bicycle and attending deliveries in homes among the poor, cobbled streets of Southwark. National Service was performed as a ship's doctor in the Royal Navy, stationed mainly in the China Seas. His family had been surgeons in Hastings for two generations and he had accompanied his father on ward rounds when he was a child in short trousers. On his father's retirement, he duly applied for the family post. His reference said simply 'this man has the best pair of hands in London' and his interview committee consisted of a hospital manager, his father and his grandfather. He was, not surprisingly, appointed and worked for many years at the Royal East Sussex Hospital in Hastings. He was an excellent surgeon, always calm, swift, confident and very skillful, but with the idiosyncrasy that, being a fisherman, he used only fishing catgut. He proved an equally good colleague. He had no desire to build empires, pretend to be a manager or to amass a fortune: he was simply a first class and committed surgeon. Country pursuits were in his blood. He began hunting at Cambridge, running with the university beagles and eventually becoming their whipper in, which he continued in Sussex. Richard was renowned as an excellent shot. He was a member of several local shoots and bagged his last pheasant at the age of 95. He fished, often in Scotland, mainly on the Spey, where he often rented a cottage from the Duke of Gordon. He was still fishing (to the horror of the local gillies) when he was 91. When he retired, he retreated to his beloved, rather ramshackle, cottage in the country, where he devoted himself to his garden and to country life. He was never sociable, but had a few good friends and was always generous with the odd brace of pheasant. Richard Ticehurst was the epitome of an English country gentleman. He had been an excellent, well-respected surgeon. He was a kind, gentle and modest man but, behind a shy, reticent exterior, he had a clear, intelligent mind and a prodigious memory. He spent his last few months in a care home, where he died peacefully on 12 March 2016. He was 98.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009125
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First Title value, for Searching Willinsky, Bernard (1900 - 1970)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378464378464
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Willinsky was born in Toronto on 29 November, 1900, a younger son of Myer Lionel Willensky and his wife, née Vise, immigrants from Poland. An uncle had emigrated to Rhodesia, and was the father of Sir Roy Welensky. He graduated in dentistry at the University of Toronto in 1922 and then completed his medical training, graduating, with a prize medal, in 1928. He came to England for postgraduate work in surgery, with special interest in urology, and took the Fellowship in 1931. Returning to Toronto in 1931 he found a private clinic, in partnership with his elder brother Abraham I Willinsky, and was appointed to the surgical staffs of the Western Hospital and the Mount Sinai Hospital, becoming chief surgeon there and helping to plan the New Mount Sinai, where he was chief surgeon 1952-64. He was an active member of many professional societies, including the Academy of Medicine and the Medico-Legal Society of Toronto, and was a Fellow of the American Geriatric Society. Willinsky was a keen yachtsman, a founder and first commodore of the Island Yacht Club and a member of the Prince Edward Yacht Club. He was also active in Masonry at the Mount Sinai Lodge. He served on the Waterways and Safety Committee of the Canadian National Research Council, and was Director of Waterways and Safety in the Canadian Boating Federation. Willinsky died on 15 October 1970 six weeks before his seventieth birthday, survived by his two sons, his daughter and six grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006281
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First Title value, for Searching MacCormick, Kenneth (1891 - 1964)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377296377296
Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Born at Auckland in 1891 son of Judge C E MacCormick, Chief Justice of the Maori Land Court, he was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Otago University and graduated in 1914. As a Lieutenant in the Medical Corps, he served with the main body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli, Egypt, and France, was awarded the DSO in 1917 and was promoted Major. After the war he held posts in London at Charing Cross, St Peter's, the Bolingbroke, and the Cancer Hospital. He returned to practice at Auckland in 1922. For many years he served on the staff of the Auckland Hospital as a general surgeon with a special interest in urology. He retained his connection with the Army Medical Corps and was promoted Colonel. He was appointed Director of Medical Services to the NZEF in the Middle East and later in Greece just after the outbreak of the second world war, and was eventually MacCormick was appointed an honorary surgeon to King George VI in 1940 and created CB in 1943. Returning to his own country, MacCormick served on the rehabilitation committee and the examining board for pensions. He was Auckland President of the NZ Red Cross Society for fifteen years, and became Dominion President in 1961, travelling to Geneva for the international meeting in 1963. He was chairman of the Auckland Division of the BMA and President of the New Zealand Branch, which he represented at the Annual Meeting at Oxford in 1963. Kenneth MacCormick died on 23 January 1964 aged 73, survived by his wife, daughter, and four sons, one of whom is a doctor.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005113
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First Title value, for Searching Houston, William (1916 - 1991)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

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/380196380196
Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details William Houston was born in Newry, County Down, Eire, on 7 October 1916, the son of William Houston, a wholesale draper, and his wife Hilda, née Robinson, the daughter of a hotel proprietor. He was educated at St Andrew's College, Dublin, and later at Trinity College, to which he gained an entrance scholarship. After qualification in 1939, he held house posts at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital in Dublin, and then demonstrated anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital. Subsequently he was appointed surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the Royal Free Hospital, and then trained in urology at St Paul's Hospital, London. In 1950 he was appointed consultant surgeon and urologist to the Bulawayo Group of Hospitals in Rhodesia, where he developed interests in prostatic disease in the Bantu, and in bilharzia and bladder disease. His interest in urology was inspired by Sir Eric Riches, Terence Millin, David Wallace and others, and he wrote some 40 publications, mainly on urological conditions, but also on thyroid disease, of which he saw many cases in central Africa. It is of interest that he was the first person to be awarded the FRCS diploma after the end of the second world war, on VE day, 6 May 1945. His hobbies included golf, bird-watching, big game conservation and photography. In 1944 he married Moreen Georgina Keating (whose grandfather was the Chief Justice of Ireland) and they had one son. William Houston died in January 1991.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008013
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First Title value, for Searching Shepperd, Norman Lyon (1903 - 1965)

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First Title value, for Searching Price, Bernard Henry (1913 - 1989)

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First Title value, for Searching Waterfall, William Blair (1912 - 2000)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-08
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in Bristol on 20 June 1912, 'Bill' Waterfall's father was Robinson Waterfall, a chemical manufacturer of fertilisers. His mother was Mary Louisa Radley, the daughter of a schoolmaster. He was educated at Bootham School, York, where he won an entrance scholarship, but was taken ill, and passed the London Matriculation from Plymouth Technical College, and was accepted at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He went to the London Hospital for his clinical training and, after qualifying in 1937, was house surgeon to Charles Lindsay and Charles Donald. He was then house physician in the skin department. At the outbreak of the second world war, he joined the RAFVR and worked in Cairo and then field hospitals, for which he was mentioned in despatches. After the war, he was a trainee registrar in urology at the Central Middlesex Hospital, where he was influenced by McNeil Love and Kenneth Walker, and was then registrar at Plymouth General Hospital. He was one of the few general surgeons to specialise in urology, and wrote several papers in the *British Journal of Urology*. He was a very keen ocean racer, and former vice-commodore of the Royal Western Yacht Club and a member of the Royal Ocean Racing Club. He married a Miss Tivy, daughter of an ophthalmic surgeon in Plymouth, in 1939 and they had three sons, one of whom, Nicholas Brian, became a consultant surgeon in Bedford. Bill Waterfall died on 12 August 2000.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008982
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First Title value, for Searching Leberne, Carl Frederick (1933 - 1985)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Carl Frederick Leberne received his professional education at the University of Sydney, whence he qualified MB, BS in 1955. After his training years at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, he specialised in surgery, beginning as a demonstrator in anatomy at Sydney University in 1958. On coming to Britain he held registrarships at the Hammersmith, London and West Middlesex Hospitals before obtaining first the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1961 and then the English Fellowship in 1962. Returning to Australia he was appointed teaching registrar in urology at the University of Queensland in 1964 and gained his FRACS in 1966. Most of his life was spent in the practice at Albury and Wodonga, Victoria, where he contributed extensively to the development of the area medical services, especially in urology. From 1982 until his death he built up a medico-legal practice in Sydney. A man of great energy, enthusiasm and imagination, well-known and respected for his expertise in his professional life, he was also widely educated and informed in the fields of literature, art and the theatre. He greatly enjoyed the outdoor life, especially water sports in which he met his death while surfing, on 8 April 1985, aged 52. He was survived by his wife, Pat, and their son and daughter, Christopher and Melissa.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007413
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First Title value, for Searching Oldfield, James (1923 - 1992)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380419380419
Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details James Oldfield was born in Sunderland on 10 July 1923. His father was Thomas Oldfield, a shipwright, and his mother was Annie, née Cockerill-Lawrence. He attended Bede Collegiate School, Sunderland, and then went to Durham University to study medicine on a Miners' Association Scholarship. He attended Durham University School of Medicine in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and qualified MB BS in December 1945. During his training he was particularly influenced by J Brumwell and George Feggetter in Newcastle, and later by Sir Clifford Naunton Morgan, when he spent a year at St Mark's Hospital in London in 1956. He served as a captain in the RAMC from 1946 to 1948, seeing service in Egypt and Greece. It was at the British Army Hospital in Kyfissia that he first met his future wife, Patricia. He gained his FRCS in 1950. He was demonstrator in anatomy at Newcastle in 1948, a senior surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle, and consultant surgeon to North Ormesby Hospital, Middlesbrough, from 1981 to 1984. James Oldfield was a popular surgeon in Middlesbrough and Teesside and he ultimately became the first pure urologist appointed to the area. He built up a very big department latterly at South Cleveland Hospital. He was active in local BMA matters in the Middlesbrough Division and President of the North of England Surgical Society in1986. He was always popular and approachable, and a good colleague to be with. He loved food and wine and good company and took great pleasure in teasing his colleagues. His interests, outside medicine, were music, fly fishing and golf. He married Patricia Mary on 15 September 1951 and they had four children: Jacqueline (a personnel manager), Edward (a surveyor), Christopher (who was handicapped) and Caroline (studying psychology). James Oldfield suffered a series of myocardial infarcts which led to his early death on 8 December 1992.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008236
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First Title value, for Searching Riddiough, Sidney (1891 - 1959)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377489377489
Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 21 September 1891 the son of J T Riddiough of Bradford, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and King's College, Cambridge, where he was an exhibitioner. Having obtained second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1912 and in the Mathematical Tripos in 1913, he became a master at the Leys School, but shortly afterwards he decided to study medicine at Guy's Hospital. Qualifying in 1917, he graduated BChir, MB in 1919 and after qualification he held the appointments of out-patients officer at Guy's Hospital and house physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. After a period in the RAMC when he was attached to the Highland Light Infantry on active service in France, he returned to Guy's to become chief clinical assistant in the department of neurology. In 1923 he entered general practice at Dewsbury, Yorks, joining the staff of the General Infirmary as an assistant surgeon. When he left in 1931, having become a Fellow, he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Infirmary. In 1932 he settled in consulting practice in Cambridge, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was consulting surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Huntingdon County Hospital, and Royston Cottage Hospital, and consulting urologist to Peterborough Memorial Hospital. Riddiough was a Freemason and held the rank of deputy provincial grand master of Cambridgeshire and was past grand deacon of England. Active in public life he was a member of the council of the borough of Cambridge, and also of the Cambridgeshire County Council. Of a genial disposition, he was an after-dinner speaker and raconteur of considerable note. He did not marry. Riddiough died on 7 January 1959 aged 67; the funeral was at Holy Trinity, Cambridge. He lived at 67 Bridge Street, Cambridge.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005306
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First Title value, for Searching Burke, Jeremiah (1913 - 1981)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378570378570
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Jeremiah Burke was born at Douglas, Cork, on 19 February 1913 the son of Jeremiah Burke, a farmer and his mother was Ellen O'Reagan, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at Christian College, Cork, and at University College, Cork (National University of Ireland), where he gained the Hutchinson Stewart Scholarship in anatomy and a scholarship in physiology, in addition to other university scholarships. He graduated MB ChB with first class honours in 1937 and held resident posts at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, and Paddington Hospital, London. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and served until 1946, with distinction in the Middle East, India, Ceylon and the Far East, reaching the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander. Following demobilization Jeremiah Burke was appointed registrar and later senior surgical registrar to St James's Hospital, Balham, and clinical assistant to St Peter's Hospital for Stone. In 1953 he became consultant surgeon to St James's Hospital and just before retirement honorary senior lecturer to St George's Hospital Medical School. He was a full member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and a member of the International Society of Urology. His main interest was urology, but he continued to carry out some general surgery so that he could teach good basic surgery to his registrars, housemen and students. His teaching was greatly appreciated and he also lectured in the courses for the FRCS. Jerry Burke was a good clinical and technical surgeon and had no time for gimmicky surgery. He was outspoken, dogmatic, conservative, with a fine sense of humour. He was a keen walker, ornithologist, naturalist and historian, he liked sailing and hill climbing and enjoyed visiting Scotland, Italy and Spain. He never married. He died on 17 January 1981 just three years after his retirement.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006387
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First Title value, for Searching Sewell, Ivor Alwyne (1930 - 1992)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details Ivor Alwyne Sewell studied medicine at King's College Hospital, qualifying MB BS in 1955. A lecturer in surgery at Westminster Hospital Medical School at the start of his career, he then became senior registrar in surgery at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He was awarded a PhD for research into the microcirculation in 1962. Later he developed interests in urology and vascular surgery and was appointed consultant surgeon at Tameside General Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne, in 1971. He had a life long interest in the Forces. He attended Sandhurst and was a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. He was surgeon major to the 52nd Lowland Volunteers until 1971. When he retired from the Territorial Army he was lieutenant general at 207 Manchester General Hospital and he continued to lecture at the combined services' training courses. As a founder member of the Military Surgical Society he designed a badge which would meet all the requirements of the College of Arms. He also helped develop ideas for the radical change in the structure of hospitals for the British Army of the Rhine and was subsequently awarded the Territorial Decoration. His many interests included management - he became a member of the British Institute of Management; railway engineering - supporting Dinting Railway Museum; oil painting and technical drawing. He produced many innovative teaching aids with these skills. He died on 30 July 1992 after a second myocardial infarction, survived by his wife, Jean, and two adopted children, Mark and Jackie. His epitaph reads 'Scholar, scientist, soldier, surgeon' - he was all of these.
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First Title value, for Searching Hollands, Frank Gordon (1912 - 1985)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-22
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Frank Gordon Hollands was born in Bakewell, Derbyshire on 5 October 1912, and received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he graduated in 1936. He served in the RNVR during the war and was then appointed surgical registrar to the United Birmingham Hospitals. He took the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1947 and the same year was awarded the Jacksonian Prize. He held a Hunterian Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1950 for work on bladder cancer. He moved to Derby in 1947 and was appointed consultant surgeon with a major interest in urology to the Derby Hospital Group. He was also a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and the International Society of Urology. In 1973 he was awarded the FRCS ad eundum. Gordon Hollands was a keen sportsman and an outstanding ornithologist and cine-photographer. He was a founder member of both the hospital cricket team and the Derby Ornithological Society. He won national acclaim for his excellent films on birds and nature subjects, including a BBC prize film on golden eagles, and he lectured extensively to societies all over the country. He also used his photographic skills in forming a tape-slide library for postgraduate teaching in the Trent Region and for several years before his retirement he was responsible for this service which was widely used in postgraduate teaching. He died on 29 January 1985, and was survived by his wife Pat and five children, one of whom is a GP in Dorset, and another a veterinary surgeon.
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First Title value, for Searching Corbin, John Ogilvie (1910 - 1971)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-30
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born at Adelaide, Australia on 13 February 1910, son of John Corbin, surgeon, and Margaret Ogilvie, he was educated at Queen's School, Adelaide and Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, after which he attended St Mark's College, University of Adelaide and graduated in medicine in 1933. While an undergraduate he obtained a blue for rifle shooting. He held house appointments in Adelaide and London, becoming a surgical registrar to the Birmingham General Hospital. In 1939 he was admitted a Fellow and during the early part of the second world war was employed in the Emergency Medical Service in London. In 1942 he joined the RAMC as a surgical specialist, serving until 1945 in the Middle East and Italy with the Eighth Army, acting as a forward surgeon at Anzio and Salerno. After the war for two years he was a consultant surgeon at Basingstoke but, becoming restless, he left for Nairobi in Kenya in 1952 to start a consultant surgical practice in urology. In 1960 he moved again, going back to his home town of Adelaide. He then left to fill a succession of contracts with the Governments of the Seychelles Islands 1962-1965 and of Lesotho 1966-1968; in 1970 he went to Sarawak with his family. Having been a clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital in London, he had a special interest in urology but remained an able general surgeon. His relaxations included shooting, tennis and sailing. He died on 31 December 1971 in the Sarawak General Hospital aged 61, survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Tasker, John Holmes (1917 - 1989)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Holmes Tasker was born in London on 20 January 1917, the son of Dr Ludwig Tasker, a general practitioner, and May, née Gadsden, a registered nurse. He was educated at Epsom College before entering Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1935 with the Haviland exhibition. After completing pre-clinical studies he entered University College Hospital where his father had been a student and he qualified in 1941 having won the junior clinical surgery prize in 1939. Shortly after qualifying he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps serving initially as general duties medical officer at Chester Military Hospital and 79th British General Hospital before being appointed ship's adjutant to the hospital ship *Empress of Russia*. Later in the war he served as a graded surgeon in North West Europe attached to 15th Scottish General Hospital and was mentioned in despatches in 1945. After demobilisation he passed the FRCS in 1948 and served as registrar at the Northern Hospital, Liverpool, from 1948 to 1949 and senior registrar to the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, from 1949 to 1955, when he was appointed consultant surgeon to Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, and the North Manchester Hospital. His work included both general surgery and urology and he maintained his interest in undergraduate teaching as medical students from Manchester were seconded to both these hospitals. He retired from practice in 1982 and was able to continue his interest in fly fishing and gardening, as well as a great love of classical music, especially Beethoven, until his death on 9 July 1989, aged 72. He was twice married and had four sons by his first marriage, two of whom are medical practitioners.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007697
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First Title value, for Searching Higgins, Andrew Fraser (1943 - 2000)

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First Title value, for Searching Barclay, Dorothy Margaret Somerville (1914 - 1964)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist
Details Dorothy Knott was born on 15 April 1914. Educated at St Felix School, Southwold and the London School of Medicine for Women she graduated in 1939. After holding resident appointments at the Three Counties Hospital, Arlesley, which was linked with the Royal Free Hospital under the Emergency Medical Service, she moved to Sheffield, where she held a surgical registrarship at the Royal Infirmary. She returned to London in 1946 and was appointed senior surgical registrar at the Royal Free Hospital; in 1948 she joined the consultant staff on the retirement of Miss E C Lewis, whose cases she took over. Mrs Barclay was a general surgeon, but began to specialise in genito-urinary surgery. She resigned from the staff in 1957 to look after her young family. Those who knew her personally or attended the hospital Christian Union, at which she spoke from time to time, realised that her thoughtfulness and consideration for others sprang from a deep Christian faith. Her teaching was always made practical by graphic illustrations from her own clinical experience. She married in 1949 Dr Oliver Barclay, of the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions. Dorothy Barclay lived at 17 Holly Lodge Gardens, London N6, and died on 19 May 1964 at the age of 50, survived by her husband and their four children. A memorial service was held at All Saints Church, Langham Place, on 10 June 1964.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004880
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First Title value, for Searching Price Thomas, John Martyn (1935 - 2000)

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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, William Eric Marcus (1897 - 1990)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details William Eric Marcus Mitchell was born at Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland, on 29 April 1897, the son of Dr John Finlay Mitchell, a medical practitioner and Anna, nee Shaw. His early education was at Campbell College, Belfast, and after leaving school he joined the Royal Irish Rifles, serving in France from 1916 to 1918 and being awarded the Military Cross in 1917. After demobilisation he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1922. Within a year of qualifying he had passed the FRCS to a surgical unit at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served under Sir Holburt Waring, Sir Girling Ball and McAdam Eccles. He was also clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital for Stone. He passed the MRCP in 1931 and emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia, where he was appointed surgeon to the Royal Jubilee Hospital. On the outbreak of war he returned to England, serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1939 to 1946 as officer commanding a surgical division with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. At the end of the war he returned to his post in Canada, practising general surgery and urology until he retired. He married Catherine Hamilton in 1922 and there was one daughter of the marriage. His outside interests were climbing mountains, photography and painting. He died on 27 December 1990, aged 93.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007520
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First Title value, for Searching Phadke, Gangadhar Martand (1901 - 1964)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Phadke was born in 1901 and educated in East Khandesh, India. His clinical medical training was received at University College Hospital. London, and he graduated in 1927. Returning to India he became surgeon at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Bombay, an appointment he held until his retirement, but continued as consulting surgeon until his death. He had an extensive practice in Bombay, was honorary surgeon to the Bombay Hospital and National Hospital, and was honorary surgeon and director to the Family Welfare Bureau of Bombay. He was President of the Association of Surgeons in India in 1957 and chairman of the Association's urology section in 1962. Phadke was a member of the Senate of the University of Bombay, and a member of Faculty of the University of Maharashtra. He was an examiner for the Master of Surgery degree in five universities - Bombay, Maharashtra, Nagpur, Gujarat, and Madras. One of India's most pressing problems - family planning - gave him great concern and he played a vital part in trying to solve this problem. He became a member of the Family Planning Board of the State of Maharashtra, the Central Family Planning Board of the Government of India, and the Scientific Committee of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. He published papers advocating sterilisation of the male, and devised a simple operative procedure for this, thus making mass vasectomy possible on a country-wide scale. He won the Bhansali award of the Bombay Medical Union in 1961. Phadke was unassuming and charitable; his recreations were Indian music, Marathi literature, and golf. He lived at Vadoda, East Khandesh and died on 14 September 1964, survived by his wife, daughter and son who was a surgeon.
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First Title value, for Searching Stidolph, Neville Edsell (1911 - 2005)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-11-30
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Neville Stidolph was a consultant in urology and general surgery at Whittington Hospital, London. He was born in Mossel Bay, South Africa, on 31 October 1911. His father, Charles Edward Stidolph, was a magistrate. His mother was Florence née Hinwood. He was educated at Grey High School, Port Elizabeth, where he was head boy. In 1929 he was Eastern Province champion in sprinting and hurdling and in 1930 South African champion in the 440 yards hurdles. From the University of Cape Town he won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford in 1932. There he won the Theodore Williams scholarship in pathology and the Radcliffe prize in pharmacology, and went on to St Mary’s Hospital for his clinical training. On qualifying he was house surgeon in obstetrics and gynaecology at St Mary’s and house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary. In 1938 he became a ship’s doctor and travelled all over the world, but in August 1939 he joined the Royal Air Force, rising to the rank of wing commander. He was senior medical officer at RAF Scampton in 1943 at the time of the Dam Busters raid. Later he served with the ground forces in Burma, and was flown to Bangkok to organise the repatriation of prisoners of war. In 1948 he was appointed consultant in urology and general surgery at the Whittington Hospital, where he created a special senior registrar post for Commonwealth surgeons and set up a structured training course for the FRCS. At the College he was the Penrose May tutor from 1963 to 1968 and a member of the Court of Examiners from 1968 to 1974. A handsome, athletic man, Neville Stidolph had great charm and presence. He married Betty Rhodes in 1941, and had two sons, Chip and Paul. Betty predeceased him in 2004. He died on 15 November 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Arthur Wilfred (1892 - 1973)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Arthur Wilfred Adams was born in Bristol on 30 September 1892 and educated at Clifton College, the Bristol Medical School and the London Hospital. He qualified in 1916 and then served in the RAMC. He took the FRCS in 1919, less than one year after demobilization, and proceeded to the MS in 1921. The following year he was appointed assistant surgeon to Southmead Hospital. He was in turn a specialist in many surgical fields. He was interested in paediatric surgery and pioneered spinal anaesthesia. He was one of the first Bristol surgeons who regularly undertook gastrectomy for peptic ulcer. After his appointment to Southmead Hospital he began a notable career in urology. In 1947 he retired as senior general surgeon to the Royal Infirmary to become surgeon in charge of the newly founded department of urology, the first of its kind in an undergraduate teaching hospital outside London. He was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1950. He was President of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1943 and a past President of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club. He was a staunch advocate of fresh air and exercise, much of which he took on his bicycle. He was a keen gardener and enjoyed tennis. The study of Latin, bird watching and star gazing were favourite pastimes. In November 1918, he married Hilda Kate Ewins who had been in the same year at the university and qualified in medicine. She died in July 1972. There were three children, a boy who died in 1956 and two girls. The death of his son was a severe blow but he regained his outward gaiety and soldiered on. He died on 9 December 1973 and is survived by his two daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006263
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First Title value, for Searching Matheson, Norman Murdoch (1897 - 1977)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Norman Murdoch Matheson was born in Stanway and was educated at Wellington College, New Zealand, and despite a serious rugger injury which necessitated six months in hospital he joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and served in an infantry battalion in France in 1918. He was demobilised in 1919 and returned to New Zealand to the University of Otago. He was a contemporary and friend of Sir Archibald Mclndoe and Lord Porritt. He graduated MB ChB NZ in 1924 and gained the University Medal for clinical medicine. After a house appointment at the Wanganui Hospital he came to England and qualified MRCS LRCP London 1928, FRCS 1929, MRCP London 1931 and FACS 1939. Among resident appointments he served at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital where he met his wife Louise Johnson, a fellow resident. He became surgeon to the Central Middlesex Hospital and thence to the Ashford Hospital, Middlesex. He was especially interested in urology and was an assistant editor of the *British journal of urology* for many years. He edited the seventh edition of Hamilton Bailey's *Emergency surgery*, 1958. He was Chairman of the Middlesex County Medical Society in 1946. In 1961 at the invitation of the British Council he acted as Professor of Urology at the University of Shiraz for several months. He was a keen philatelist and wrote a *History of medicine in stamps*. He had an unassuming manner but his astute clinical acumen was matched by a fine surgical technique. His wife was Medical Officer of Health to Staines. They had two daughters and a son who is a biologist in Canada. He died on 27 July 1977, in his 80th year.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006737
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First Title value, for Searching Duke, Athol Jones (1928 - 1990)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Athol James Duke was born in Dunedin in 1928 and his early education was at McGlashen College and at the Otago Boys' High School where he was head prefect and played for the school first XV at rugby. He entered Otago Medical School in 1947, qualifying in 1951, and after completing officer appointments at Auckland he came to England for postgraduate study. At first he worked in Fulham Hospital as surgical registrar and after passing the FRCS in 1955 was registrar at Edgware General Hospital. After his return to New Zealand in 1960 he was at first registrar at Middlemore Hospital, Otahuhu, Auckland, later being promoted to senior registrar at the hospital. He passed the FRACS in 1960 and in 1965 was appointed full-time surgical specialist at Green Lane and Middlemore Hospitals in Auckland. After a few years he changed to urology, initially in private practice and later as urologist at Auckland Hospital and the Otara spinal unit. He was a clinical teacher at Auckland University Medical School from 1977 to 1982. Poor health necessitated retirement from these posts in 1987 but from 1973 he had taken an interest in sexual counselling and marriage guidance. His wife Rae, whom he married in London in 1955, participated in this work and they both arranged clinics throughout the country to help patients with such problems. This work remained within his physical capability until shortly before his death. He and Rae established artistic homes in Auckland and Whangaparoa and after his retirement they spent time together on such mutual interests as tapestry, music, current affairs and philosophy. His family life was tragically affected by the loss of his youngest son in the air crash at Mount Erebus, Antarctica, in 1979 and by the sudden death of his wife in 1989. He died on 16 January 1990 aged 61, survived by his two remaining sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007238
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First Title value, for Searching Power, Stephen May (1902 - 1988)

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First Title value, for Searching Basu, Pradip Kumar (1942 - 2011)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by I M Hutton
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2014-06-06
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Pradip Basu was a urological and general surgeon in Lincoln. He was born on 4 January 1942 into a medical family in Calcutta, India, the sixth child of Bibhuti Bhusan and Durga Rani Basu née Sinha. His grandfather and father qualified in Calcutta; his father became chief medical officer to the east zone of India, and at one time worked for Eveready Batteries. Two of Pradip's sisters went on to become gynaecologists in Hull and Sheffield. In all 10 members of the family have been employed in the National Health Service. Pradip studied medicine in Calcutta, qualified in 1965 and then moved to the UK. His potential as a surgeon soon became apparent. He secured successive posts in Hull to registrar level, and then, in 1975, he was appointed as a registrar in general and paediatric surgery and urology in Rhyl, Wales. Appointments in Liverpool followed, as a senior registrar and honorary lecturer at Broadgreen, Whiston and Walton hospitals, where his expertise was further extended in vascular and endocrine surgery and urology. This period saw Pradip develop his research interests. These covered a wide range of topics, including those connected with renal transplantation. Studies were undertaken on bowel motility after ureteric implantation, the incidence of steroid-induced cataract, comparison of in-situ and reversed vein saphenofemoral bypass and myoelectrical changes in colonic disorders. He made many presentations to learned societies, including the British Transplantation Society, the British Society of Gastroenterology, the Association of Surgeons of India and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He wrote articles for the *British Medical Journal*, *Transplantation Proceedings*, the *European Journal of Cancer* and *Gut*. During this time, Pradip carried out 51 cadaveric renal transplants. His inevitable consultant surgical appointment was to the United Lincolnshire Hospitals in 1988, to which post he brought extensive experience. He immediately recognised the need for a specialist urological service, and set about constructing this with characteristic energy. Corridor meetings were always about 'equipment', and under his influence the department blossomed, replacing the previous mixture of general surgery to incorporate urology. This change was not at first welcomed by some colleagues, but Pradip always prevailed when difficulties were encountered. He was appointed as a PLAB examiner in 2000. He examined final year medical students at Nottingham and Leicester universities. For such a busy man, Pradip found as much time as possible for his family, to whom he was devoted. He had met Santa Biswas, his future wife, in Calcutta. They belonged to the same rifle shooting club. Santa went on to become the All-India 0.22 rifle shooting champion in 1965. During selection for the National Championships, Pradip had publically upbraided Santa for recommending certain pills to a friend for flu-like symptoms before a shoot, without medical qualification. This incident certainly brought him to her attention. In 1968 they married for love; arranged marriages were then the norm. Their two sons, Babu and Bobby, were very close to him, and he was immensely proud when Babu obtained an MBA, and Bobby qualified in medicine. Bobby worked in Rotherham, and frequently found himself in a urology clinic without senior support. Pradip made sure he was available for telephone consultations; Rotherham Hospital had an unpaid consultant! Pradip's outside interests were extensive. He and Santa continued with competition shooting: she became Lincoln women's champion, and he was always in the 'A' team, taking part in the National Shooting Championships at Bisley. His funeral was attended by the entire shooting team, and the coach. He loved cricket, and frequently got up in the early hours to watch test match cricket in other countries. He opened the bowling and batting for teams, including school, university, medical college and various hospitals. He was, in addition, an excellent character actor, taking part in many productions as a key member of a local theatre group. Pradip Basu was a gifted man, extremely dedicated to the hospitals in Lincoln and to those under his care. He was an outstanding colleague. His expertise was apparent from the beginning and his output was prodigious, in the days when this was permitted by management and nursing staff. He died on 4 November 2011, aged 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Damanski, Marek (1897 - 1980)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation General surgeon Geriatrician Medical Officer Urologist
Details Marek Damanski was born in Laka, East Poland on 22 May, 1897. He was the only son of a doctor of medicine and attended grammar school in Lwow before entering the University there. After graduating MD in 1923 he worked for two years in general surgery and then eight years in urology at the State General Hospital, Lwow, as well as six months in the urological clinic of the Necker Hospital, Paris. In 1932 he was appointed urologist at a policlinic for the local railway employees and became a member of the International Society of Urology in 1939. He had already been called up before the outbreak of the second world war and his consulting rooms were destroyed in early bombing by which time he was serving with No 6 Military Hospital. Shortly after this he was in Russian occupied territory and later worked in the Ukraine and Siberia where he is said to have suffered terrible privations. After Russia entered the second world war he joined the Polish Corps which subsequently moved through Iran to come under the command of the British Middle East and Central Mediterranean Forces. As a result of this, and fortunately being reunited with his wife in France, he settled in England, initially as medical officer to No 3 Polish Hospital, Penley. In 1949 he was appointed senior medical officer to the Liverpool paraplegic centre at Southport. His dedicated work there resulted in his being promoted to consultant in charge, and it is said that his tirelessness and perfectionism played a large part in raising the standard of management of paraplegics in Britain and abroad. He was intensely interested in clinical research and published more than two dozen papers. As a result of all this he was most fittingly awarded the FRCS ad eundem in 1967. Marek Damanski was a man of true old-world courtesy who endeared himself to colleagues and staff, and whose patients trusted him implicitly. When due for retirement he was deemed irreplaceable for a further three years after which he continued in great demand as a locum geriatrician. He died on 5 June 1980 and was survived by his wife, Irene Rauch, who was a great source of strength to him and a talented portrait painter. Their only daughter, a girl then aged 13, disappeared without trace during the German occupation, but they both maintained a dignified silence about this.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006401
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Thomas (1909 - 1999)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Tommy 'Tucker' Moore was welcomed in a great many surgical clubs and societies for his engagingly forthright interventions. His criticisms were pungent but invariably good-humoured, and he was very good company. He was born on 11 January 1909 in Sunderland, where his father and mother ran a newspaper shop. His father was a great supporter of Sunderland Football Club, which played in nearby Roker Park, and his brother became a professional footballer. His maternal grandfather was a co-founder of the Co-operative Wholesale Society and a Freeman of the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 'Tucker' went from the Venerable Bede's School to King's College, Durham, and its medical school in Newcastle, where he graduated MB BS in 1932. His inclination was at first towards a career as a physician but, having been told that he had an exceptional pair of hands, he switched to orthopaedics and then general surgery under Grey Turner. In 1937 he moved to Manchester as first assistant to H (Bertie) Rayner and developed an interest in urology. He joined the RAMC soon after the outbreak of war and was involved in setting up the 94th General Hospital, which in 1942 moved to Algiers and then finally to Hamburg. His skill and sense of humour made him a very popular officer. On his return, he was appointed to the staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmary and Altrincham General Hospital as a general surgeon and later as a urologist. His dedication to his work and to his patients was legendary and he built up a very successful practice. He made a number of contributions to the literature, particularly in relation to disorders of the female urethra, which, tongue in cheek, he referred to as 'the female prostate'. He was an enthusiastic member of the Moynihan Club and continued to enjoy travelling with it long after his retirement. He served as President of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Manchester Medical Society (in 1974). He was also a treasurer of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. Although he remained a football supporter, golf became his preferred sport and Turnberry was favoured for family holidays. He had met and married his wife Mary while in Newcastle in 1937. They had two sons, one of whom is Kenneth Moore FRCS, a consultant urologist. Tucker died on 18 May 1999, predeceased by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008796
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First Title value, for Searching Kille, John Narkett (1927 - 2015)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Mary L Kille
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2015-09-01
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details John Kille was a general surgeon and urologist in Burnie, Tasmania. He was born in Surrey, of parents Reginald Kille, an accountant, and Rene Vernon. As a boy he lived near Croyden, spending many hours watching civil aeroplanes and later RAF fighters and bombers, soon becoming a competent aircraft spotter. Evacuated to Bristol, these talents were useful during air raids; he became a 'runner', passing on information to the authorities. The family house was bombed and he watched melted Rowntree's chocolate flowing down the street. In Bristol he attended St Brendan's College. He joined the Air Training Corps, gaining his certificate as air crew and flying in many military planes. His ambition had been to join the RAF, but at his medical examination he was found to be red-green colour blind. Disappointed, John joined the Coldstream Guards, then was commissioned from the ranks into the 4/7th Dragoon Guards, choosing this regiment as it was the only one then on active service in Palestine (1947 to 1948), policing the British Mandate. Serving in tanks and armoured cars, he was with the last British force to withdraw, via Haifa. In 1949 he enrolled at Birmingham Medical School, qualifying in 1955 and marrying Mary Mackay (a student in the same year). He opted for a career in surgery, which was at that time difficult to achieve as there was a 'bulge' of highly qualified men returning from the Second World War, but he was able to take all the right jobs on the consultant 'ladder'. (He also climbed with 'The Vacancy Club', a mountaineering group of consultants and registrars, the aim of the latter being to dislodge the incumbents!) He was a resident surgical officer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the General Hospital Birmingham and senior registrar at both hospitals. He also worked at the United Oxford Hospitals. In 1960 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh. At this time he was advised that if he aimed to be a surgeon, he should change his surname. His response was in the negative: the name had stood his ancestors in good stead. (Since his death his name has been traced back to Francis Kill, born in Hampshire in 1610.) Fascinated by urology, he worked on the fledgling artificial kidney (dialysis) unit in 1962 and 1967 with James L Lawson, experimenting with osmotic membranes and electrolyte solutions mixed in buckets with teaspoons. His training in urology had started with Robert Kersey Debenham, and later with Guy Baines and Paul Dawson Edwards. Eventually he was appointed to the Hull Royal Infirmary as a urologist. He became a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. Five years later, taking a trip to Tasmania, he was so entranced by its beauty and way of life, that he and his family packed up and emigrated to Burnie. He worked at the North West General Hospital, where he was a general surgeon and later a specialist urologist, and his wife worked as an anaesthetist. As the hospital was affiliated with the medical school of Tasmania, he taught students and residents. His skills are long remembered for the clarity with which he would explain the relation of form and function. He was a member the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1983. He was able to combine his surgical work in Tasmania with living on a small farm, raising sheep, cattle and pigs, work he shared with his neighbour, a vet. On retiring he designed, and helped to build, a home in the bush overlooking the sea, where there was amazing wildlife, including Tasmanian devils, peregrine falcons and eagles, so indulging his passion for bird-watching - an enviable way of living. He was a talented painter and designed spectacular scenery for Rotary balls (once constructing a 7/8th model of Captain Cook's *Endeavour*) and some amazing sets for annual old time music halls. After gaining his private pilot's licence, he built his own X-Air Ultralight plane in his backyard and flew it on many trips over the beautiful coasts and islands of the northwest coast. He served for 16 years on the board of Umina Park and One-Care, Tasmanian aged care facilities. In 1989 he was awarded a Paul Harris fellowship, the highest honour in Rotary International, for his contribution to the community. Latterly he lost both legs to generalised vascular disease, but, undaunted, continued inventing ingenious ways of maintaining his independence, whizzing around his property in a 90cc four-wheel, all-terrain vehicle, strapped on with his old Army webbing belt. John Kille died on 9 May 2015. He was 87. He was survived by his wife Mary, two children, and nine grandchildren, all living interesting lives around the world.
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First Title value, for Searching Ware, Colin Clement (1932 - 2017)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Brian Sterry Ashby
Publication Date 2018-02-26 2018-05-24
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details Colin Clement Ware was a consultant general and vascular surgeon to the Southend-on-Sea Hospital Group, Essex, from 1971 to 1992. He was born in Barking, East London, on 16 July 1932. His father, Albert Ware, was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Annie Jelley, had been employed in the Post Office. He was educated initially at South East Essex Technical College, and went on to King's College, London. He took a BSc in chemistry in 1954. He then did his medical training at the Westminster Hospital Medical School and qualified with his MB BS in 1962, when he was awarded the University of London gold medal in obstetrics. Colin Ware particularly enjoyed the surgical aspects of his studies and early training. After qualifying, his junior hospital posts included a period at St James' Hospital, Balham, which was at that time a widely acknowledged surgical training unit. He completed his FRCS in 1965. He subsequently became a lecturer in surgery at St Thomas' Hospital, and was then appointed as a senior registrar in surgery back at Westminster Hospital. In 1971, he was appointed as a consultant general surgeon to the Southend-on-Sea Hospital Group, where he had also previously served in a junior surgical post. Though appointed to Southend as a general surgeon, he soon developed a major special interest in vascular surgery, and became an acknowledged expert in the field, especially in the surgical management of aortic aneurysms. His other special interest was urological surgery, with which he was still able to continue after the appointment of a specialist urological surgeon to Southend. He was a very intelligent man, but also kind and gentle, and popular in his contacts with patients, colleagues and staff. Colin married Jean Marian Martin, who was also a medical practitioner, qualifying MB BS in 1957, one of the earliest female medical graduates from St Bartholomew's Hospital. She entered community medicine was a particular interest in family planning. Colin and Jean had four daughters, all of whom survived their parents: Helen and Elizabeth are both teachers, Marian trained in investment banking, and Judith trained as a physiotherapist. There are 14 grandchildren. Despite his busy life as a surgeon, Colin Ware was clearly a family man. He was a devoted father and grandfather. He was also a keen sailor, an interest he maintained since university days. He kept a yacht when he was at Southend, and taught his children to sail. As a member of the Thorpe Bay Yacht Club for many years, he was a regular race winner on the Thames Estuary. He eventually graduated to a 30ft sail cruiser, on which he took the family on trips across the Channel to France and the Low Countries, and one year competed in the Round the Island Race. He was also an enthusiastic hockey player at club level and for many years played for Southend and Benfleet Hockey Club. Colin was a committed Christian and drew great strength and inspiration from the local church community at Shoeburyness and Thorpe Bay Baptist Church near his home in Southend, serving as a deacon there for many years. Even with his heavy work schedule, he always made himself available for help and advice when needed. Jean and Colin were bound by a profound love and commitment to each other and she strongly supported him during the years of study and long working hours as a surgeon. In 1992, he took early retirement, and they moved from Southend to the village of Mickleton, near Chipping Camden in the Cotswolds. Being able to make friends easily and always alert to the needs of others, he soon established himself, serving various functions with the local Methodist Church. He became a volunteer community bus driver, and a volunteer with the National Trust at nearby Hidcote Gardens. Sadly, Jean's health began to decline and their roles reversed, and he cared for her for a number of years. In early 2016, Colin has a severe stroke. He recovered partially after a period of several weeks in rehabilitation but not sufficiently to return home alone, and he made his own decision to leave Mickleton and enter a care home in Oxford, near the home of one of his daughters. Jean had developed advanced Alzheimer's disease and had already been in a nursing home for over 10 years. With the assistance of friends and family, Colin made regular visits to Jean during the last six months of her life. Though she was virtually unresponsive, these visits seemed to benefit them both. Jean predeceased Colin by seven months in the spring of 2017. Colin died on 1 November 2017, aged 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Osborne, David Robert (1943 - 2008)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-07-10 2015-09-14
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details David Osborne was a consultant surgeon who established the first urological department in Basildon. He was born in Weston-super-Mare on 12 December 1943, the son of Alan John Osborne, a leading aircraftman, and his wife, Tilly Fleming née Straiton. He was educated at Hazelcroft Primary School and then Weston-super-Mare Grammar School. He studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School from 1963 to 1968, winning the Ruth Bowden anatomy prize and the George Quist surgery prize, and playing in the first XV rugby team. After qualifying, he was a house officer at Hampstead General Hospital and then at St Andrew's Hospital. In 1970 he was a casualty officer at the Royal Free. He then held senior house officer posts at Luton and Dunstable, and at Frenchay and Southmeads hospitals, Bristol. He was then a registrar in general surgery at Cheltenham and Gloucester. From 1976 to 1983 he was a lecturer in surgery at the Royal Free Hospital. In 1983 he was appointed as a consultant general surgeon with an interest in urology to Basildon and Thurrock hospitals. In 1985 he became a consultant surgeon to South Ockendon Hospital and in 1991 became head of the department of urology with full-time responsibility for urology services. He established a specialist urology department with three surgeons, each with a subspecialty interest. He was interested in reading, gardening, walking and painting, and loved fine wines. In 1969 he married Brenda Mary Cornforth, a general practitioner and a fellow student at the Royal Free, who was the daughter of Sir J W Cornforth FRS KBE. They had one son, Andrew John (a GP in New Zealand), and a daughter, Catherine Jane (a marketing manager). He died on 17 October 2008. His love of surgery was so great that he continued seeing patients and operating until three weeks before he died.
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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Geoffrey Edward (1902 - 1973)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Geoffrey Edward Parker was born on 24 June 1902 and was educated at Windlesham House School, Hove, Marlborough College, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He came to St Thomas's Hospital for his clinical course and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the Cambridge MB in 1926. Two years later he took the FRCS. After holding junior posts at St Thomas's, the West London Hospital, and the National Temperance Hospital he ultimately became consultant surgeon to the French Hospital, the Italian Hospital and the Woolwich Group. He was specially interested in urology. During all this time his career closely resembled that of many a London surgeon, but it was in the latter part of the second world war that he distinguished himself to a unique degree. He served with the RAMC from 1942 in North Africa and Italy, but also acquired special experience in parachute jumping, unarmed combat and the use of small arms. Early in 1944 he was parachuted into France in the Jura mountains and worked as a surgeon with the Maquis, caring for the resistance fighters with supreme courage which was rewarded by the DSO in 1945, and also by the Croix de Guerre with Palm and Gold Star, and he was made Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur. Later he received honours also from Belgium and Italy. His experiences were described in his books *The black scalpel* 1968 *and Surgical cosmopolis* 1970. At Cambridge Parker was awarded a blue for boxing, and he also played squash and golf. In later life he did a good deal of writing and painting, his pictures having appeared in exhibitions in England, France and America. In 1930 he married Kathleen Hewlett Johnson and had two sons and a daughter. This marriage was dissolved and in 1967 he married Margaret Lois Wilsdon who survived him. Parker died on 5 December 1973 at the age of 71.
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First Title value, for Searching Pocock, John Arthur (1905 - 1968)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378206378206
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Arthur Pocock, the son of a general practitioner, was born on 22 August 1905. He went to school at Oundle and then to Cambridge and University College, London, where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1928. He took the Cambridge degree in 1931 and the FRCS in 1934, and after some junior appointments in London went to Bristol where he became senior resident officer and surgical registrar in 1937. At this early stage in his career he already showed the selfless devotion to his duties and to the welfare of his patients which was to be the outstanding feature for the rest of his life. His training at Bristol was interrupted by the second world war when he joined the RAF and served in many parts of the world till he finally landed in Egypt as a Wing-Commander in charge of a surgical division. After the war he returned to Bristol, and in 1946 was appointed surgeon to the Bristol Royal Hospital. With the advent of the NHS he became consultant surgeon to the United Bristol Hospitals and to Southwood Hospital. For many years Pocock was treasurer of the Surgical Club of South-West England, and a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons for although he was a general surgeon he always had a special interest in urology. His conscientious and competent discharge of his clinical duties won the confidence and the admiration of his colleagues who came to rely on his judgement and skill not only for their patients but for any member of their family in need of surgical treatment. Yet it was his outstanding personality and his manner of treating every patient as a personal problem which was of such special value in the training of his juniors, and for which he will long be remembered by all who were associated with him. When he died on 25 September 1968 after a long and trying illness he was survived by his wife Barbara and their daughter and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Calvert, Denis George (1928 - 1999)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Denis George Calvert was a consultant surgeon at Gloucester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Belfast on 23 April 1928, where his father Thomas George Calvert was an insurance manager. His mother, Isobel née Stafford, was the daughter of the fire chief of Belfast. He was educated at Epsom and the Middlesex Hospital, where he won the Freer Lucas scholarship and the Asher Asher prize. After junior posts at Harold Wood, Mount Vernon and the Middlesex Hospitals, he did his National Service in the RAMC, and then spent a year as a ship's surgeon on the Orient Line in 1956. He returned to become paediatric surgical registrar at the Westminster, registrar at Kettering Hospital and senior registrar at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, where he worked for Robert Cooke. He was appointed consultant surgeon to Gloucester Royal Hospital in 1967, where he made urology his special interest. He was a member of council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He was not afraid to embrace new technology and, when the minimally invasive technique of percutaneous nephrolithotomy came to the fore from the Institute of Urology in the mid 1980's, Denis had the foresight to appreciate this major advance and pressed for the appointment at Gloucester of a talented interventional radiologist, allowing him to become one of the first urologists outside London to remove renal stones percutaneously. By the time he retired in 1990 he had, with colleagues, been instrumental in building the Gloucester surgical department into a first class unit with sub-specialisation well developed. In 1962 he married Penelope Vince, and they had two sons, David and Ian, and one daughter, Sarah. His retirement was relaxed and enjoyable, playing golf, gardening and adding to his extensive wine collection. Sadly, in 1998 he developed lung cancer, showing great courage in the terminal stages of his illness. He died on 24 April 1999.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008511
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First Title value, for Searching O'Donoghue, Patrick Desmond (1922 - 2004)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Hilary Keighley
Publication Date 2005-11-23 2015-09-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372357372357
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Patrick Desmond O'Donoghue was a surgeon in Kenya. He was born in Kaiapoi, New Zealand, on 12 May 1922, the second son of Michael and Eva O'Donoghue. His father was a teacher and later schools inspector. Pat attended Christchurch Boys' High School, where he excelled in classics, sciences, literature, languages and sport, particularly cricket and rugby. He had a formidable intellect and he loved to write poetry and prose. He went on to study medicine at the University of Otago. He spent two years in house jobs in Christchurch, where he developed his particular interest in urology, and then, in 1949, sailed to England as a ship's doctor to specialise in surgery. He did a number of junior posts, including one at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and then became a registrar to Sir Cecil Wakeley at King's College Hospital. There he met Brenda Davies, an anaesthetics registrar at King's, and they were married in 1952. He went on to be a surgical registrar to Neville Stidolph at the Whittington Hospital for two years, gaining extensive experience in genito-urinary surgery, before going on to be RSO at St Paul's under Winsbury-White, Howard Hanley and David Innes Williams. This was followed by six months at the Brompton Hospital under Sir Clement Price Thomas and Charles Drew, who, in 1955, supported him with enthusiasm when he considered applying for a vacancy at St Mary's. However, at the same time a vacancy came up in Nairobi, for which he opted after much deliberation. His first appointment there was as a locum for Sir Michael Wood with the East African Flying Doctor Association, which cemented his love for the country and its people, and his desire to make a life for himself and his family in Kenya. From this he went on to become a partner in the Nairobi Clinic, where he rapidly developed an outstanding reputation as a very professional, capable and compassionate surgeon. He developed free outreach clinics for the Flying Doctor Service, covering remote areas of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, where surgery was often difficult and performed under the most basic conditions. He described operating in Tanzania where the humidity was so great that the door of the room had to be kept open, despite the many onlookers. There were times when the throng of patients delayed the departure of the flying doctor and when the runway lights were switched off at the small airport in Nairobi they had to land unannounced at the international airport, pursued by a meteor of which they were unaware, which landed close behind them. Pat was also chief surgeon at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, doing pro bono surgery for missionaries and many others. The bulk of his work was at the Nairobi Hospital, where he was well respected and liked by colleagues and nursing staff. Although he specialised in urology, he remained a very general surgeon, dealing with a wide variety of injuries, including severe mauling by leopards, buffaloes, rhinos and elephants. People were also flown in with spear injuries from inter-tribal battles and he also treated casualties from the ANC (African National Congress) bombing of the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi. Occasionally he was asked to escort patients back to their homes in other countries, including a cardinal who needed to be taken back to Rome, where Pat had an audience with Pope John XXIII. In 1968 he became president of the East African Association of Surgeons, and was instrumental in setting up the equivalent of a coroner's court, essential to protect both surgeons and patients in the ever-increasing world of litigation, a move which was approved by the attorney general in 1969. Pat led a very full and productive working life. He loved his surgery. Even after retirement he continued to read his medical and surgical journals with great interest, and wanted to be up to date with the evidence emerging from recent research. Golf was among his many interests: he continued to play until he could no longer walk round the course (he scorned the use of buggies). He loved to learn, particularly poetry and literature. He would often quote, among others, Keats, Yeats, Manley Hopkins and Dylan Thomas. He remembered passages from Virgil - he loved Latin. Pat and Brenda raised their four daughters (Gillian, Jenny, Geraldine and Hilary) in Nairobi. In 2002 Brenda unexpectedly died whilst on holiday in England. This was a terrible blow for Pat. He had described Brenda as his 'life's navigator'. He returned to Kenya for one more year and then moved to be with his daughter Hilary in Cooma, Australia. Pat made Cooma his home for a further year, before he passed away on 22 December 2004, aged 82. He had a strong Christian faith throughout his life and he had a wonderful, quiet sense of humour that remained with him until the day he died. He was an inspirational person.
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First Title value, for Searching Forrest, Hugh (1929 - 1996)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details Hugh Forrest, whose father was a draughtsman and whose mother, Annie Tough Hay was a secretary, was born in Greenock on 12 June 1929. His initial education was at Greenock High School, where he won a poster prize for National Savings; he then went on to medical school in Glasgow, graduating in 1955 with distinction in surgery and having won the William Hunter Medal for practical anatomy. He had completed his two years' National Service in the Royal Air Force (1947-1949) before going up to university, serving in the medical branch of the RAF as a corporal. After a period of training in general surgery based at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, he became interested in peripheral vascular disease and went to Heidelberg, Germany, for specialist training in vascular surgery. His consultant career started at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow in 1967, where he was appointed consultant general surgeon with an interest in urology, this appointment lasting until 1973. He then became a consultant general surgeon with a special interest in vascular surgery at the Western Infirmary and Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, in 1973. In both centres he expanded the existing vascular service, building up busy vascular units which attracted referrals throughout the west of Scotland. He served the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in many capacities and on many committees, and was a member of the College Council between 1985 and 1989. He was much concerned with surgical audit, an interest which he carried on into retirement as Chairman of the Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality, whose first annual report was published in December 1995. He was an examiner for the Fellowship in the Primary and the Final in pathology and surgery, was President of the West of Scotland Surgical Association, and represented Scotland on the Council of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, of which he had been a Fellow since 1972. Following retirement in 1991, in addition to his professional activities he developed a consuming interest in drawing and painting, taking classes and exhibiting his work. He also enjoyed golf, building remote control model boats from scratch, and trout fishing, becoming president of the local BMA Angling Club and winning the 1994 trophy at Loch Walton Angling Club. Another great interest was poetry, and the life and poems of Robert Burns. In 1959 he was ordained as an Elder in the Church of Scotland. The depth of his faith was reflected in his life and work, and his wisdom, experience and ability to put people at ease, whatever the circumstances, were well recognised among his friends and colleagues and much appreciated by his patients. In June 1963 he married Alison Hunter RGN, who survived him, together with their two sons Alan and Ewan, one a mathematician and the other a physician. He died of pancreatic adenocarcinoma on 11 February 1996.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, George (1920 - 1997)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380843380843
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details George Harrison was born on 3 January 1920 in Leeds. His father, also George Harrison, was an engineer. He was educated at Cockburn High School in Leeds and Leeds University Medical School, where he was strongly influenced by Archie Derwood, won the anatomy prize and at first intended to be an anatomist. As a student he often watched Beecham rehearsing his orchestra, which had been evacuated to Leeds. After house jobs in Leeds, he became a demonstrator in anatomy, and then did a junior job with Henry Hamilton Stewart in Bradford, who was one of the pioneers of transurethral prostatectomy by means of the cold punch. Henry Stewart was very impressed: George Harrison had extraordinary manual skill, being ambidextrous, he could write beautifully with either hand and was a successful amateur magician. During the war he was not called up, but served as RSO in Bradford, which received large numbers of wounded after initial treatment in the South of England. He was appointed resident surgical officer and later first assistant to Henry Stewart in Leeds and ultimately returned to Leeds as surgical tutor. He was appointed consultant in Derby in 1952 at the Royal Infirmary, the City Children's Hospital and the City Hospital. He was a true general surgeon: he once likened surgery for oesophageal atresia to "sewing together two wet cigarette ends". He started vascular surgery in Derby when grafts were hand sewn from Terylene shirt tails, and he had to teach his radiologists how to do a translumbar aortogram in the post-mortem room. His main interest was in urology; he was renowned for his proficiency with the cold punch, only taking up the hot wire when the rod lens and fibre light became available. He was an enthusiastic surgical traveller, became secretary of the Punch Club and President of the 1921 Surgical Club. He was always interested in teaching practical surgery and was proud that at least four of his trainees ultimately became professors of surgery. In 1947, he married Muriel Robertshaw, a nurse he had met at Bradford. They had one daughter, Wendy and a son, G S M Harrison (Mark), who became a consultant urologist. He loved music, especially Mahler, played the piano occasionally, was a keen gardener, and was always making and mending things. He was made a senior Fellow of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists, and received the Silver Jubilee medal in 1977. Outwardly dour - one of his anaesthetists described his appearance as one of "*diabolical discontent*" - underneath there was a delightful and sympathetic sense of humour, but he could be very direct, especially if he smelt pomposity. In 1993, he suffered a massive coronary thrombosis with ventricular septal perforation and underwent two open heart operations. He died on 3 January 1997, on his 77th birthday, survived by his wife, children and grandchildren, Rachel, Ruth and Frances.
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First Title value, for Searching Addison, Oswald Lacy (1874 - 1942)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375898375898
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 2 September 1874, the second child of Joseph Addison and Marianne Brown his wife. He was educated at Marlborough College and at University College, London. After serving as house surgeon to (Sir) Victor Horsley at University College Hospital, where he formed a friendship with George Waugh, qv, he was surgical registrar there and at the West London Hospital. He then succeeded Waugh as resident medical superintendent at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. With the West London and the Hospital for Sick Children he maintained a life-long connexion, retiring as consulting surgeon to each. He was also surgeon to the Infants' Hospital, Vincent Square, the Princess Louise Kensington Hospital for Children, and the Chiswick Cottage Hospital. He was an original member of the medical advisory board of the Treloar Hospital at Alton and was the second chairman of its executive committee. Addison was a painstaking and careful operator, gifted with dexterity and gentleness; though of good judgement he liked to defer to the opinion of his colleagues. He was particularly interested in the surgery of children, and a pioneer in the treatment of developmental errors of the genito-urinary system. He was an active member of the West London Medico-chirurgical Society. Addison married in 1909 Kate Brown, MB BS London 1908, who survived him less than three months, but without children. He was a keen salmon-fisherman and a student of the bird-life of the London reservoirs. He died at Bradfield Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 8 January 1942, in his sixty-eighth year. Mrs Addison qualified from the London School of Medicine for Women. She was clinical assistant in the skin departments at University College Hospital, the Evelina Hospital, and the Royal Free Hospital; clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children and St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin; and temporary physician to the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Blackfriars Road. She died suddenly on 24 March 1942. Publication: *Cystoscopy, in Garrod and Thursfield Diseases of children*.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003715
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, David Ronald (1910 - 1994)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details David Ronald Davies, always 'DR' to his friends, was born on 11 May 1910 in Clydach, Swansea, and remained readily identifiable as a Welshman throughout a long surgical career in London, followed by retirement to Exmoor. After schooling at the Ystalyfera County School, which inevitably gave him an enthusiasm for rugby, he entered University College Hospital Medical School, from which he graduated in 1934. His talents were immediately appreciated, and after resident posts and passing the FRCS in 1937 he was appointed assistant to the surgical unit then directed by Wilfred Trotter, who had inspired so many young surgeons. At the outbreak of war he was taken on by the Emergency Medical Service as an assistant surgeon at University College Hospital and at the Hampstead General but he joined the RAMC in 1941 and served as lieutenant colonel, first in the United Kingdom and then in India. After demobilisation he was appointed to the staff of the Harrow Hospital and of the Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Roehampton, but it was to UCH that he was to devote his career as a surgeon, teacher and administrator. He distinguished himself in all these roles and they absorbed all his enthusiasm, so that he found no reason to play any significant part in any wider surgical forum. Much of his work was urological, though he never abandoned general surgery. He became particularly expert in the surgery of the parathyroid glands, working with the research biochemist Charles Dent on the problems of hyperparathyroidism with renal calculus disease. He became a most influential member of the Board of Governors of the hospital and Chairman for many years of its medical committee at a time when new hospital buildings were being planned. He retired in 1978 to Withypool on Exmoor, and took little further part in medical business. In 1988 he suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered. He died on 8 September 1994, survived by his wife Christine, née Thomson, whom he had married in 1940, and his three sons, Timothy, Evan and Jeremy.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Richard Huw Patrick (1946 - 1995)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Huw Williams was born in Cardiff on 12 March 1946. He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff, where he qualified MB BCh in 1969. He trained in Cardiff where he became lecturer and was later Smith and Nephew research fellow in Newcastle upon Tyne. He was a founder member of the School of Postgraduate Studies in Medical Care at the University of Wales. In 1979 he was commissioned a surgeon lieutenant-commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. He was appointed consultant surgeon to Neath General Hospital in 1981. Having been a lecturer in Cardiff, he continued teaching students and postgraduates at Neath. He was a general surgeon of great merit, but it was in urology that he excelled. Huw was always great company and had a cheerful, vibrant personality. This was a great help in his organising capacity, and he played a full part in many medical societies and also in surgical administration in his hospital. He was involved in many research projects and published numerous papers in journals. Huw was devoted to his three children and in latter years, being a single parent, gave up private practice in order to be able to spend the maximum possible time with them. He and his family enjoyed sailing in his boat from Saundersfoot and also fishing. He was an expert skier. Being based in Neath, he supported Neath Rugby Club. His terminal illness - malignant lymphoma - necessitated him having a bone marrow transplant operation, total irradiation, and open heart surgery. He died on 15 January 1995 aged 48, and was survived by his son and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Hopewell, John Prince (1920 - 2015)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Robert Morgan
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2015-05-29
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Occupation General surgeon Transplant surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Prince Hopewell, a consultant urological surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London, was a pioneer in the introduction of dialysis into the UK and the development of kidney transplantation. He was born on 1 December 1920, the fourth child and only son of Samuel Hopewell and Wilhelmina ('Daisy') Hopewell née Edwards. His father was a south London general practitioner who had come to London in order to study medicine from the island of St Helena. In later life John Hopewell was able to trace the history of the family by reference to his family Bible, a second edition (1540) of the *Great Bible* published for the first time in English under the direction of Henry VIII. Until the early 18th century the family had been textile workers in Nottinghamshire, but with the Industrial Revolution overseas trade opened up new possibilities and in 1813 a family member, Richard Prince, was dispatched to St Helena, ostensibly to collect an outstanding debt. Realising the trading potential of the island in the days of sail, he stayed and established a chandlery business which flourished for three generations. Thereafter all male offspring of the family continued to incorporate the name Prince. The coming of steam ships and the opening of the Suez Canal caused a diminution in trade, something that may have encouraged the family to support his father in seeking a medical education at the London Hospital, eventually settling in family practice in Brixton, where John was born. He had a happy childhood and from a prep school in Dulwich won an exhibition to Bradfield College, where he continued to succeed academically. Although lightly built and not, by his own reckoning, good at ball games, he succeeded in representing his school in fencing and cross country running. During those years he developed a puckish sense of humour (he was cast as Puck in the school play) and this amiable quality stayed with him throughout his long life. In 1938 he won a place to study medicine at King's College Hospital, the preclinical school of which was evacuated to Glasgow in the early years of the war. He qualified in 1943 and was appointed to surgical house jobs at King's and Horton, where he dealt with Londoners injured in bombing raids and then, in large numbers, the casualties from the Normandy landings. He was called up in 1945, serving in the RAMC in India, latterly as a captain who was sometimes the sole surgeon in isolated hospitals in Cochin and Deolali in the south of the country. He returned to King's in 1948 as a surgical registrar, working again for the orthopaedic surgeon H L C Wood, whose house surgeon he had been and who became a role model for his future professional career. During this time he also worked for J G Yates Bell, who stimulated his interest in urological surgery and took an interest in his future training. He qualified FRCS in 1950 and after a period of research at the Buxton Browne Farm at Downe, which resulted in him giving a Hunterian Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons, he was appointed as a senior registrar in 1955 on a rotation between King's and Brighton. During the winter of 1955 to 1956 Yates Bell arranged for him a secondment to a leading urological department in San Francisco. It was there, at Stanford, that he first saw haemodialysis in action, where patients with polycystic renal disease were being dialysed with beneficial success, something which helped to influence the course of his future career. In 1957 he was appointed as a consultant surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital with the intention of setting up a department of urology, his vision being also to establish a programme for the treatment of end stage renal failure by maintenance dialysis and renal transplantation. At that time dialysis was being used only for acute renal failure and renal transplantation was also in its infancy. He persuaded the hospital to purchase one of the first dialysis machines from America in 1958 and, with the help of newly appointed medical colleagues, the first maintenance dialysis service in the UK was started in 1961. Shortly after he was appointed at the Royal Free, Roy Calne joined as a registrar and expressed an interest in researching methods of controlling the rejection response. John Hopewell encouraged him to do so and arranged animal research facilities for him at Downe. Calne's success with 6-mercaptopurine was thought sufficiently convincing for the team to feel justified in embarking on a trial of human renal transplantation. Three transplants were performed between 1959 and 1960. The first two grafts from cadaveric donors failed to function, but the third, taken from a live donor (the recipient's father) functioned for seven weeks before the patient's death from miliary tuberculosis, thought to have emanated from the donor kidney. It was, nevertheless, the first British live donor, non-sibling kidney transplant using an immunosuppressant that had been shown to be effective in animal trials. At first the success of maintenance dialysis persuaded Hopewell to take the decision to delay the further use of renal transplantation until 1968, by which time Calne, working in America, had modified and improved the immunosuppression regime with the introduction of azathioprine. Meanwhile at home the team had been expanded by an accumulation of clinical and laboratory experts and the appointment of A N Fernando as an assisting consultant transplant surgeon. The subsequent success of the transplant programme at the Royal Free was helped by Hopewell's meticulous surgical technique and acute surgical judgement, attributes that led to him having an extensive surgical practice, attracting referrals from colleagues throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. In the wider world of medicine he banded together the centres in London interested in developing renal transplantation to form the London Transplant Group and was instrumental in joining them with the British Society for Immunology to form the British Transplantation Society in 1972, when he was elected as its first treasurer. He was president of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Chelsea Clinical Society. Quietly formidable in committee, he was elected as chairman of the Hampstead District Health Authority, of the medical committee of the Royal Free, of the Camden District medical committee and the medical committee of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. He was a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1969 to 1975 and was elected as an honorary member of the New York section of the American Urological Association. In 1959 John Hopewell had married Natalie Bogdan, a Russian émigré who had won a scholarship to come to Britain to study medicine at the Royal Free. They met when she was appointed as a houseman on the surgical firm that he shared with George Qvist. During a very happy marriage they subsequently had a daughter, Valentina Ellen, and a son, Richard Alexei Prince, the latter being tragically killed in a car crash in 2008. In 1974 the Royal Free had just moved from the Gray's Inn Road to its present site in Hampstead, when his life took a sad and dramatic turn as Natalie was diagnosed as having metastatic cancer. She died in the following year at the age of 41. He eventually retired from the Royal Free in 1986. Two years before that he had married again, his second wife being Rosemary Radley-Smith, the daughter of the consultant surgeon Eric Radley-Smith who John had worked for as a young house surgeon. Rosemary had also trained at the Royal Free and had become a distinguished paediatric cardiologist, working closely with Magdi Yacoub at Harefield Hospital. On retirement he and Rosemary sailed to St Helena to research the history of the Hopewell family. He returned again in 1992 when the Foreign Office sent him to work there for a few months as the island's first urological surgeon. He was also can active member of the *Lives* committee at the Royal College of Surgeons for more than ten years. In 1995 the Hopewells moved to a Victorian vicarage in Langrish, near Petersfield in Hampshire, where they immersed themselves in the life of the community, taking on the editorship of the local paper, *The Langrish Squeaker*. He became a member of the Society of Ornamental Turners and procured a 19th century turning lathe, which he installed in his home workshop. Thereafter organisations of which he approved often found themselves the recipient of a Hopewell gavel of his own manufacture. He continued to write and in his 90th year produced a history of the treatment of renal failure in the UK by dialysis and transplantation. A convivial man, he always enjoyed a party and in his retirement was responsible for founding a retired consultants luncheon club at the Royal Free, an equally convivial summer reunion of urological consultants of the past (meeting under the soubriquet of the 'Urohasbeens') and also a popular annual past presidents dinner of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine. John Hopewell died at home on 14 January 2015 at the age of 94. At a memorial service in the nearby village of East Meon some 250 friends and colleagues assembled to celebrate a man who had not only made a great contribution to the development of renal transplantation, but also had enriched the lives of those who had known him.
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First Title value, for Searching Owen, Kenneth (1920 - 2013)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2013-12-16
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Ken Owen was a well-known urologist in London with an international reputation, particularly in the Middle East and throughout Europe, especially in Scandinavia and Italy. His first consultant appointment was as a general surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital in 1957, succeeding McNeill Love, who smoothed his passage into consultant life. After two years he obtained his main sessions at St Mary's Hospital, initially as a general surgeon. With the blessing of his colleagues, he switched to urology and founded the urology unit. He retained a strong interest in parathyroid surgery, and also developed the renal transplantation programme, thereby using his unique training in vascular surgery. Shortly after his appointment to this famous teaching hospital, he was made a member of the staff of St Peter's Hospital for Stone. Here he valued the contact with a broad spectrum of specialist urologists. He was born on 11 June 1920 in Wallasey, Cheshire, the son of Albert Edward Owen, a timber merchant. His mother, Ada née Holmes, was a housewife. She had major problems with chest infections, and doctors and nurses were constant visitors to the family homes. Her medical condition undoubtedly influenced Ken's choice of career. He also had one brother, Jack, who also had health problems and died prematurely. Ken's primary education was somewhat disrupted due to family moves, but his secondary education at Wallasey Grammar School was stable, productive and very happy under an inspiring headmaster, F L Allen. Ken's academic interests were spread equally between the arts and sciences, demonstrated by his choice of an anthology of poems for a chemistry prize. Music became an interest at school, and remained throughout his very full life: he loved a broad range of classical music and operetta. A very keen sportsman, he enjoyed rugby and all forms of athletics, particularly middle-distance running. In 1936 he attended the Berlin Olympics on a school trip. He had to study botany and zoology at a crammer in order to gain exemption from the first MB examination. Plans to go to Cambridge were shelved in view of the certainty of war, and he was awarded a scholarship to study medicine at St Mary's Hospital, known for its encouragement of sport. The war with Germany made for shorter courses in all medical schools, many of which were evacuated from London for preclinical teaching. Ken's first term at medical school was in Manchester: this proved a bonus, as he could go to performances of the Hallé orchestra. Sector hospitals such as Harefield and Basingstoke played a part in his clinical years, but much of his training was in London, where air-raids and their casualties were an accepted part of student life, together with fire-watching and Home Guard duties. For a time he lived in the bacteriology wing of St Mary's as a participant in the emergency blood transfusion unit. Instead of drips, the students injected blood using large triple nozzle syringes. There were no disposable items, and Ken had to sharpen and sterilise his own needle, gaining considerable experience in venepuncture. He was also actively involved in the emergency care of patients. Outstanding teachers during these formative years included Charles Pannett, George Pickering and the colourful surgeon Arthur Dickson Wright. They all encouraged active thinking, as opposed to learning by rote. Ken passed the primary FRCS early and this led to demonstrator positions in anatomy and physiology. He then worked for three months prior to qualification with Lawrence Abel and Kenneth Heritage at the Princess Beatrice Hospital. Immediately after qualification, he was appointed for a short period as house physician to George Pickering and then as a house surgeon to Arthur Dickson Wright and Valentine Ellis, both stimulating teachers. Dickson Wright's surgical throughput was enormous and ranged from brain tumours to rectal carcinoma and the 'cottage industry' of varicose vein surgery. In these war years, and as part of the Allied European invasion plan, Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke, was designated as a clearing hospital with supporting staff from St Mary's. As a base hospital it received large numbers of severely wounded soldiers. Dickson Wright chose to work in London during the day and drove Ken down to Basingstoke to deal with night casualties. His mentor's driving expertise did not match his surgical skill, and the journeys were even more stressful than a potential 24 hour shift. Ken's next training post was at Basingstoke as an orthopaedic house surgeon to Valentine Ellis, James Ellis and Heber Langton, all hard-working and skilful surgeons. He had volunteered for the RAF at the beginning of the war, but had been advised to continue his medical training. Following the end of the war, he decided to go to the Sudan, a post that fulfilled his requirement to carry out National Service. He was based initially in Khartoum, at the Kitchener Medical School, but spent most of his time at Wad Medani, in Al Gezira state. Often with limited facilities, he dealt with conditions varying from smallpox and tetanus to hip diseases, mastoid operations and camel bites, to name but a few. Surgery was performed using spinal anaesthesia or an Oxford vaporiser. However, sporting opportunities did arise: he played tennis and was introduced to polo playing. With independence for Sudan looming, Ken decided to return home. For a time he was a private assistant to Dickson Wright, before spending a year at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, working with a delightful Canadian born-surgeon, Hugh Blauvelt. Finally, he obtained a senior registrar post at St Mary's, first on the Handfield-Jones and Porritt firm. He then worked with Dickson Wright and John Goligher. Ken admired the latter for his surgical skill and honesty: they kept up a friendship after Goligher moved to Leeds. Like many St Mary's trainees, Ken's next move was to Boston, Massachusetts, with the aid of a Fulbright scholarship. He worked with the dynamic Francis D Moore, Mosley professor of surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham hospital and Harvard Medical School, well known for his studies on the metabolic response to surgery. Ken also taught operative techniques to medical students under the watchful eye of Carl Walter, the inventor of the Fenwal bag used in blood transfusions. Working in the Harvard Medical School laboratories with Robert Desautels, he did animal work on post-traumatic renal failure and established the role of osmotic diuresis in reducing the severity of organ failure. He made good use of the opportunity to witness the superb skills of Richard Cattell at the Lahey Clinic, and went to the Massachusetts General Hospital as often as he could. He also visited the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and its adjacent hospitals, witnessing the skilful work of Ollie Beahrs and others. Shortly after returning from the USA, Ken was appointed as assistant director to Charles Rob on the professorial unit at St Mary's and became involved in the burgeoning vascular surgery, as well as doing research on prosthetic materials. The work in Boston and a longstanding interest in renal physiology directed his future to urology, and he spent a year as a senior registrar at St Peter's Hospital for Stone. He found he was drawn into administrative work in an attempt to improve working conditions at St Mary's. This proved frustrating, with plans often repeatedly thwarted by politicians and administrators reneging on promises. However, promoting the cause of urology on the European and International scene was gratifying. He was a founder member of the European Society of Urology and the British representative on the Societé International d'Urologie. This gave him contact with established urology units run by well-known urologists such as Peter Gammelgaard in Copenhagen, Lars Rohl in Heidelberg and also Cesare Bartorelli of Milan, who shared Ken's interest in renal hypertension. A writer of many publications in varied journals, he wrote many monographs and sections in postgraduate textbooks, the main topics being renovascular reconstruction, renal transplantation, adrenal surgery (at which he excelled), as well as parathyroid surgery. For some 10 years, from 1967, Ken was a member of the Travelling Surgical Club (now the Travelling Surgical Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland). He was an active member of many other organisations, including the British Association of Urological Surgeons (he also served on council). He was president of the urological section of the Royal Society of Medicine and later an honorary life fellow. While president, he conceived the idea of 'uro-ski' meetings, where skiing and science were mixed, and members were joined by European colleagues. He was a freeman of the City of London, through the Society of Apothecaries. He was president of the Hunterian Society, and a council member and secretary of the Medical Society of London. Ken met Barbara Caroline Lewis, a nurse, during his early years at St Mary's and they married in 1947. She was very supportive of his multi-faceted life: without her help he could not have achieved so much. They made their home in Bancroft Avenue, London, where they brought up their family of three - Deborah Ann, Timothy Clive and David Christopher. Ken was happy to relax of an evening with family and friends, perhaps with a glass of homemade beer and Italian cheeses, eating his homemade bread: at some time he read the daily avalanche of journals coming through the letter box. In addition to his care of the garden, Ken found time to look after two allotments. The family also had a holiday home in the Algarve, where Ken grew grapes, oleander trees and exotic shrubs. When Barbara inherited Brynbanc, a smallholding in Wales, Ken turned it into a viable, modern dairy farm, with the help of local farm managers and quick weekend visits. Ken retired in stages, starting in 1980: he left his last consultant appointment (at King Edward VII Hospital) in 1990. In 1985 Ken and Barbara moved to Hillside Farm in Adelstrop in the Cotswolds, where they lived happily for 25 years. An inactive retirement was never on the cards. In addition to creating a beautiful garden, Ken now became a sheep farmer. He also found time to ride with local hunts, and began to study languages (he graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 2000 with a BA in modern languages). He also had the opportunity to spend quality time with his family, their partners and the grandchildren. Kenneth Owen died on 7 June 2013, just short of his 93rd birthday. He was survived by his wife, Barbara, his children and grandchildren. At a thanksgiving service for his life, his children summarised him as being risk-averse, yet someone who seized opportunities, opinionated, yet remarkably open-minded, and conventional, yet fascinated by innovation. Those of us who were privileged to be his colleagues found him approachable, likeable and someone who became a true friend.
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First Title value, for Searching Green, Norman Alan (1927 - 2015)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Tim Williams
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2015-07-03
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Alan Green was a consultant surgeon and urologist at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and a former president of the Travelling Surgical Society. He was born on 2 July 1927 in Leicester into a non-medical family. His father, Norman George Edwin Green, was a clerk for the Inland Revenue and his mother, Lilian Rhoda Green (née Goins), was a housewife who had worked in a factory. Both parents had sporting and musical genes. His father was advised to make a living as a professional footballer and cricketer, but was badly injured in the trenches at Ypres during the First World War, invalided home with a plate on his femur and discharged from the Army. Alan Green was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School in Leicester, perhaps more famous for the Attenborough brothers. He was awarded colours for rugby football and cricket, ran for the school at cross country and was the school gymnastic champion for three years. He was awarded a place at St Bartholomew's Hospital, all the questions at interview being on sporting activities, and when Bart's preclinical medical school was evacuated during the Second World War his first two terms were spent in Cambridge, where he was resident at Queens' College. Returning to London, he lived in digs previously occupied by Gordon Ostlere - aka Richard Gordon, who wrote *Doctor in the house*. At Bart's he played for the first XV, scoring the opening try against Penzance on the Bart's West Country tour, before sustaining a dislocated knee. A Sunday newspaper account of the match opined: 'Penzance did well in the first half to keep the score at Penzance 0 Bart's 3. But Bart's played much better in the second half with 14 men when Green had been taken off the field, the final score being Penzance 3 Bart's 3.' What an epitaph to a promising sporting career! A cancelled rugby match in 1947 did, however, mean that Alan spent the afternoon as a dresser on the wards instead, and in the sluice met student nurse Doreen Wright: four years later they were married. He was awarded two undergraduate prizes: the Wix prize for an essay on the 'Life and works of John Abernethy' and the Bentley prize for a dissertation on 'Congenital cardiovascular defects' in 1948. He became secretary and later president of the Abernethian Society. He qualified in 1950 and house appointments followed at St Bartholomew's Hospital. The next year (rejected for National Service because of his unstable knee) he became a demonstrator in anatomy for three years at Bart's with A J E Cave. After passing the primary FRCS, he decided on surgery as his career, although he enjoyed working in general practice for several months at a time. He worked as a junior registrar (senior house officer) at Bart's to John Hosford and Edward Tuckwell, then as a registrar in Norwich, where he accrued much experience from being on emergency call every second day at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and on the other days at the Jenny Lind Hospital for Children. Working with two consultants, he was tutored in major, intermediate and minor surgery. Norman Townsley trained his registrars in cold and emergency neurosurgery in addition to the wider aspects of general surgery. Prefrontal leucotomy was performed in a mental hospital on a Sunday morning. All forms of open prostatectomy were undertaken and the resident staff often performed emergency prostatectomy late at night. Gastric surgery was still common, but Alan was unpopular when he performed a simple mastectomy and axillary clearance, as taught by (Sir) Edward Tuckwell, as opposed to the accepted radical procedure. Perforated peptic ulcer admissions were very common, as were cases of small and large bowel obstruction. Splenic rupture, intussusception and paediatric pyloric stenosis seemed almost as common as acute appendicitis. Doreen and Alan were married in the church of St Bartholomew-the-Less in March 1951. They had three daughters (Kathryn Ruth, Sarah Elizabeth and Rachel Margaret), who showed considerable musical and sporting talent. Their son, David Alan James, is a structural engineer. In late 1955 Alan returned to Bart's as a chief assistant to John Hosford and Edward Tuckwell, and inevitably looked after their private patients at weekends. Saturday mornings were spent at St Mark's Hospital in City Road, London, with (Sir) Hugh Lockhart Mummery, an excellent mentor to clinical assistants. Then, in 1958 with the help of a Fulbright scholarship, the family set sail on the *Mauretania* for a year in America, where Alan gained experience in cancer chemotherapy with Sidney Farber, the father of folic acid antagonists, and other pioneering work, including liver transplantation with Francis ('Frannie') Moore at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Returning to the UK, Alan was seconded from Bart's to Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield. On emergency call most nights and sleeping in the hospital, he also covered all orthopaedic emergencies once a week and the orthopaedic registrar turned his hand to general surgery as a token of gratitude! During this two-year period Alan was also a clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital to Harland Rees. From Bart's he was awarded the Luther Holden scholarships on two occasions: in 1957 on 'The bacteriology of bile, and lymphatics of the gallbladder' and in 1960 on 'Regional perfusion of anticancer agents'. His MS thesis on 'Regional perfusion of anticancer agents' was accepted in 1964. Experience in London accrued in major thoracic surgery as his wide general surgical experience was consolidated: he learned the art of bronchoscopy, having already mastered gastrointestinal endoscopic techniques. In Norwich he had used an old thoracoscope for peritoneoscopy. Working with Alan Birt was a bonus in the field of direct vascular surgery as opposed to all forms of sympathectomy, in which he had been well trained. When the resident surgical officer post became vacant in Norwich he returned there in June 1964 to replace J M Ridley Thomas as a general surgeon with a urological interest, forming the second of two firms with Alan Birt, the other being headed by Norman Townsley. All surgeons had beds at the separate West Norwich Hospital, some three miles away, where ward rounds and operating took place on a regular basis. In view of his paediatric experience, Alan had sessions at the Jenny Lind Hospital for Children, joining his mentor Norman Townsley and taking emergency admissions on alternate days. Peripheral clinics and operating were the norm: lists in north Norfolk commenced after the outpatient clinic finished at 6pm and lasted three hours with the help of GP anaesthetists. Life was busy as in so many provincial consultant posts. Following the recommendation that Norwich should start a specialist urology unit, Alan became the first pure urologist in East Anglia, in the fine tradition of his 18th century predecessors who as the famous Norwich School of Lithotomy had been 'cutters for the stone'. Nonetheless he still covered general surgery when his colleagues were away (performing his only right hepatic lobectomy at this time, and repairing an aortic aneurysm presenting as renal colic!). Michael Ashken joined him in 1968 as a urologist, and Christopher Gaches in 1972 for vascular access and organ retrieval, supporting what was the first urology and renal unit in East Anglia. A number of medical and para-medical managerial posts followed, including secretary of the Norfolk branch of the BMA and numerous regional committees. A keen anatomist, he examined for the FRCS primary examination and in Edinburgh as well. He led examining teams for the English College in Khartoum and Sri Lanka, and served as chairman of the core group setting multiple choice questions. At times over 15 years he was external examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, where he was warmly welcomed by the examiners there. For the Edinburgh College he travelled to Hong Kong, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia to examine for the primary and final FRCS, and taught on postgraduate courses in Nepal, Singapore and Kuwait. He was awarded the FRCS Edin for services to the Edinburgh Royal College. In East Anglia, he was an external examiner over many years for the MB BChir in Cambridge. In 1981, Alan hosted a meeting in Norwich of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists and he subsequently became the Association's president. He was also president of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1985 to 1986, and also the Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society. In 2004 he was elected a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Barbers of London. For many years Alan was the backbone of the Travelling Surgical Society. He first travelled with the Travelling Surgical Club (as it then was) as a guest to Holland in 1970, and was formally elected at a home meeting held at Haslar in the autumn of 1970. Doreen and Alan made many friends at home and abroad travelling with the Club. Over the years he gave many short papers at meetings, the first being in Norway 1971 on 'Cryosurgery of the prostate gland', on which he was later to give a Hunterian lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1974. Other topics included 'The episcopal licensing of medical practitioners', 'Anatomy - the forgotten subject in medical education', 'Testicular tumours' and 'Parathyroid surgery'. Alan was elected president of the Society in 1989. As president Alan gave speeches in the language of the country visited, often being taught at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He held the post until 1991, when the club visited Newport for the AGM. He managed to say grace in Welsh and handed the baton on to Ivan Johnston. From 1997 until his death Alan was archivist of the Society. His assiduous collecting of memorabilia received on foreign travels was legendary. He did much to safeguard the records, retaining one complete set for the Society, and forwarding copies of the annual reports to the Wellcome library and the libraries of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Edinburgh each year. Retiring early from the NHS in 1990, he continued to engage in private urological practice with some medico-legal work until the age of 66. In retirement he was able to enjoy the close proximity of Norwich Cathedral in which he and Doreen, both committed Christians, had worshipped for many years. Their retirement home was in the Cathedral Close, from which they had an unrivalled view of the spire, and found attendance at choral evensong a sheer joy. Archival duties for the Travelling Surgical Society and writing tributes for the '*Lives of fellows*' of the Royal College of Surgeons occupied much of his leisure time. Alan Green died on 4 May 2015, aged 87. He was survived by Doreen, their three daughters and son. His friends and colleagues feel a bottomless depth of gratitude for the friendship that this god-fearing, gentle man extended to all around him. He will be much missed.
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First Title value, for Searching Johnson, Joseph Arthur Russell (1913 - 1984)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Feggetter, George Young (1905 - 2000)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-29
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 5 July 1905 in Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, George Young Feggetter was the sixth son and the ninth child of William Feggetter, a shipbroker and coal exporter, and Amelia née Young, the daughter of a tobacconist. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and studied medicine at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne College of Medicine at Durham University, where he won the Charlton and Dickinson scholarships and the Gibson prize. After qualifying, he did junior posts at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, was RMO at the Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, and became surgical registrar to the Royal Victoria Infirmary under Grey Turner, where he became particularly interested in urology. In 1933, he went to Berlin, where Von Lichtenberg was running a famous course in urology, based on the new technique of intravenous urography. He returned to become RSO at the All Saints Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases in London, where Canny Ryall and Terence Millin were innovators and pioneers in endoscopic surgery, notably transurethral resection of the prostate, on which he published two significant and critical papers. After a year at Kings Lynn, he returned to London to become first assistant at the British Postgraduate Medical School and also honorary registrar at All Saints. In 1938 he was appointed honorary assistant surgeon to the Royal Victoria Infirmary Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At the beginning of the war he worked for the Emergency Medical Service, joining the RAMC in 1942 as Major, becoming officer in charge of a surgical division and finally as Brigadier, consulting surgeon, in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He was mentioned in despatches. After the war, he returned to Newcastle, where he resumed his urological practice and was a founder member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons in 1945. With the advent of the NHS in 1948, he was appointed surgeon to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead, Hartlepool Hospital, Sedgefield, Alnwick Infirmary, and the Ministry of Pensions at Dunton Hill. Despite his extensive expertise in urology, he retained, as did so many of his contemporaries, an interest in general surgery and indeed published (in 1959 and 1963) important papers on the results of vagotomy and gastrojejunostomy for chronic duodenal ulcer. In 1940 he married Doris Weightman. They had one daughter and one son, Jeremy, who followed his father into urology. He died on 14 August 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Gill, William Gordon (1908 - 1976)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Hugh Fraser (1910 - 1986)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

First Title value, for Searching Doherty, William David (1893 - 1966)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation General surgeon Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist
Details Doherty, always called "George" though his real names were William David, was born on 17 July 1893 of Irish parents and educated at Dulwich College and King's College, Cambridge. He volunteered for active service when war broke out in August 1914, and served in France with the Royal Army Service Corps, attaining the rank of Captain, till he was recalled in 1917 to complete his medical training at Guy's Medical School. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1920, took his Cambridge medical degrees in 1921, and proceeded in 1923 to the Fellowship and in 1924 to the Cambridge Master of Surgery degree. At Guy's he served as house surgeon to Sir Alfred Fripp and was a demonstrator in anatomy; he was surgical registrar and tutor 1923-31, and assistant surgeon 1931-38. He succeeded A Ralph Thompson as genitourinary surgeon in 1936, and in 1948 followed T B Johnston in the very responsible post of Superintendent of the Hospital. He retired in 1958 and was elected a Governor of the Hospital, and of the Medical School from 1961. He was also a Governor of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich. During the second world war Doherty operated on two days each week at Orpington Hospital to which his in-patients had been evacuated from Guy's, and spent one night a week at Guy's to deal with surgical emergencies during the heavy German air-raids on London. When he became Superintendent, after the war, he restricted his clinical work entirely within the walls of Guy's, where he was also deeply involved in the successful but prolonged restoration of the hospital buildings after their severe damage by bombing. Doherty was an excellent teacher, and his wide knowledge of most fields of surgery made him an invaluable mentor to his assistants and nurses, beyond the bounds of urology. He was a genial, sympathetic friend to his colleagues, staff and patients. He had great physical and mental strength, balance and judgement. In his youth he was an outstanding athlete. At Cambridge he won a half-blue for water-polo and a blue for rugger; he played forward for his school and for Cambridge, and was Captain of Guy's XV for three years; he was capped seven times for Ireland in the rugby international matches, and was captain of the Irish XV in 1921. Doherty married in 1922 Annie Ruth Margaret Barker, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died on 31 March 1966 at Forge Cottage, Chipstead, Surrey, aged seventy-two.
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First Title value, for Searching Wade, Sir Henry (1877 - 1955)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in 1877 son of the Rev George Wade of Falkirk, he was educated at the Royal High School and University of Edinburgh, qualifying with honours in 1898. Two years later he volunteered for active service in South Africa as civil surgeon with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, being awarded the Queen's medal with four clasps. On his return to Edinburgh he was appointed assistant to Sir William Turner in the Anatomy Department, and on obtaining his Fellowship of the Edinburgh College he was appointed curator of the College Museum. For the next fifty years he served the Edinburgh College in a number of capacities as lecturer, as examiner, as President in 1935-36, as a member of council from 1943 to 1953, and as its representative on the General Medical Council. A member of the consulting staff of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, he was a lecturer in surgery in the school of medicine of the Edinburgh Royal College and was consulting surgeon to the Leith Hospital, retiring in 1939. In the 1914-18 war he served first as a Captain with the Scottish Horse Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance and then as consulting surgeon to Allenby's Egyptian Expeditionary Force, being twice mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. In the war of 1939-45 he acted as consulting surgeon to Bangour EMS Hospital, West Lothian. A member of the BMA for over fifty years, he was vice-president of the Section of Surgery at the annual general meeting in Edinburgh in 1927. A general surgeon, he was particularly interested in urology and between 1919 and 1939 he published thirty-five papers on urological subjects and contributed original observations from his unrivalled experience as a surgical pathologist, particularly with reference to prostatic surgery, genito-urinary tuberculosis and vesical neoplasms. In 1932 he delivered the Ramon Guiteras Lecture to the American Urological Association, and in 1949 the Vicary Lecture on the Barber Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was a lovable, extroverted personality whose hobbies included the growing of rare primulas in the garden of his seventeenth-century mansion-house in Pilmuir, Haddington. He loved travel and was a keen student of literature and verse. In 1924 he married Marjorie only daughter of James William Fraser-Tytler of Woodhouselee, Midlothian, who died in 1929. He died in Edinburgh on 21 February 1955 aged 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Burnside, Kennedy Byron (1913 - 1983)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27 2020-01-16
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Kennedy Burnside was born in Melbourne on 9 December 1913. He was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School before going to the University of Melbourne to read medicine. He graduated in 1937 and was successively resident and registrar at the Alfred Hospital in 1938 and 1939. During the second world war he commanded the 2nd Australian Mobile Bacteriology Laboratory from 1941. He was serving in Malaya at the fall of Singapore in 1942, after which he was imprisoned by the Japanese at a small prisoner-of-war camp. There he was senior medical officer looking after some 300 men, with a camp hospital servicing other groups in the district. There were a few British doctors, and later some Dutch, all of whom he dealt with scrupulously and impartially, showing invariable courtesy and good humour. He disliked humbug, however, and could be outspoken. During his time as a prisoner-of-war in Singapore and at Changi he not only ran his laboratory but wrote a book on the management and prevention of malaria. He kept a daily diary, which survives to this day and worked out the nutritional content of the rations and confronted the Japanese with his figures. He studied anatomy and mathematics and became adequately proficient in Japanese, Malay and French. After the war he took his MRCS and FRCS in England in 1947 and on returning to Australia in 1948 was appointed honorary surgeon to out-patients at the Alfred Hospital, and became FRACS the same year. He became interested in urology and taught himself endoscopic procedures, which he pursued with characteristic enthusiasm until he was recognised as an outstanding expert on endoscopic resection. At the request of the hospital he formed a separate urological unit in 1956. He retired from the honorary staff in 1973, and was appointed honorary consultant urologist. In 1973 and 1974 he was President of the Urolological Society of Australia. He was an outstanding teacher and presented numerous papers, some of a controversial nature, but always the product of his own experience rather than based on precepts from the literature. He never used notes. He had catholic interests outside his specialty, and his conversation on any topic was always illuminating and his views usually proved correct. His occupations apart from surgery included sound reproduction, photography, cabinet-making and water-skiing. He died on 12 June 1983, aged 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Slater, Russel Bell (1922 - 1972)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Macdougall, John Arnott (1925 - 1996)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17
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Occupation Dog breeder General surgeon Urologist
Details John Macdougall (known as 'John MacD' to his friends) was born on 18 February 1925 in Blackheath, South East London, where he attended Cherry Orchard Preparatory School, and subsequently the City of London School, where he excelled in both cricket and rugby. He then won an open scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to read natural sciences, and he represented the university at both squash and Eton Fives. He completed his clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying in 1948, and was a member of the team which won the inter-hospitals rugby cup in 1950. He held junior appointments at St Thomas's before becoming a senior surgical registrar there and also at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, and completing his urological training at the Institute of Urology in London. In 1962 he was appointed consultant general surgeon in Wolverhampton, but in 1973 he elected to become a full-time urologist, setting up the department of urology there. He was also visiting surgeon to the West Midlands Spinal Injuries Unit at Oswestry and he finally retired in 1987. John Macdougall was a skilled and experienced committee man and he played a major role in raising funds to build the new South Staffordshire Postgraduate Medical Centre. He was, however, known to an even wider public through his association with the Kennel Club, of which he became chairman in 1981. During his long chairmanship of fifteen years he completely modernised the Club's activities, as well as supervising the building of a library (which holds the largest collection of reference books on dogs in Europe) and relocating Cruft's dog show from London to the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. He also established the Kennel Club Charitable Trust, which supports research into canine diseases, canine rescue and the training of dogs for the disabled and he developed a computer database for the registration of over four million pedigree dogs in Britain. He initiated annual meetings with the American Kennel Club and other European societies, and established the Kennel Club Junior Organisation in this country. With his wife Daphne (a nurse) he bred poodles for a number of years and also found time to serve on the council of the Animal Health Trust, based at Newmarket, which researches into veterinary pathology. He died aged 71 on 7 November 1996 from carcinoma of the colon, having moved from Wolverhampton to Cambridge, and was survived by his wife and their two daughters, one a consultant gynaecologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, the other a general practitioner.
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First Title value, for Searching McEachern, Alistair Campbell (1904 - 1989)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Alistair Campbell McEachern was born on 30 June 1904 at Mt Gambier, South Australia. He was the son of Alexander McLean McEachern, a grazier and his wife, Catherine Jane, née McFarlane. He was educated at Mt Gambier High School and entered the Adelaide High School with the Thomas Price Scholarship in 1920. At the Adelaide School of Medicine he won the Davies Thomas Prize and the Everard Scholarship and qualified MB, BS in 1926. There he fell under the spell of Frederic Wood Jones. He came to England to read for the FRCS and was resident medical officer at King George Hospital, Ilford, from 1930 to 1933. On return to Adelaide he became assistant surgeon to the Adelaide Children's Hospital from 1937 to 1947 - an appointment which was interrupted by the war. He served with the 2nd AIF from 1941 to 1946 as Lieutenant-Colonel, RAAMC, and was Officer-in-Charge Surgical Division in three general hospitals. He was posted to Ceylon and North Queensland. He was appointed to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1946 where he served on the Board of Governors, and was active in the affairs of the RACS, as a member of Council 1961-1973, Senior Vice-President 1971-3; on their Court of Examiners (1954-1971) and Chairman (1963-1971). He was the Anstey Giles lecturer in 1974. The Royal College of Surgeons appointed him Hunterian Professor in 1957 when he was invited to become a member of the Court of Examiners. He wrote extensively on general surgery and urology and was on the editorial committees of the *British journal of surgery* and the *Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery*. Perhaps it was his Hunterian lecture entitled "*Towards Safety in Prostatectomy*" which made him most known to his contemporaries and juniors: in its day it was a landmark. His hobbies were photography, painting and ornithology. He married Dr Rita Margaret McAnaney in 1930 and they had three daughters, Heather, who became a social worker, and Jean and Margaret who were physiotherapists. He died on 6 May 1989 at the age of 85 survived by his family which by then included a grandson Dr Michael Eaton who was studying to become a surgeon and a granddaughter Dr Susanna Proudman who was attending a physician training programme.
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First Title value, for Searching Teevan, William Frederic (1834 - 1887)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

First Title value, for Searching Raper, Frederick Peter (1913 - 1966)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in 1913 at Grassington, Yorkshire, he was the elder son of Professor H S Raper DSc, FRS, Professor of Physiology in Leeds from 1917 to 1923 and in Manchester from 1923 to 1946, when he became Dean of the Faculty until his death in 1951. Raper was educated at Giggleswick School and the medical school of Leeds, which he entered in 1931. After qualification he held appointments as house surgeon and receiving room officer culminating in his appointment in 1941, after being admitted a Fellow, as resident surgical officer in the General Infirmary, holding this position until 1944. He then entered the RAMC serving until 1947 as a surgical specialist in India. Returning to Leeds in 1947 he was appointed surgical tutor to the University and in 1950 was awarded a travelling scholarship by the United Leeds Hospitals, tenable at Ann Arbor, Michigan for further training in urological surgery. Returning to Leeds in 1951 to the post of senior registrar in the United Hospitals and St James's Hospital, in 1952 he was appointed consultant urological surgeon. In April 1964 he became senior consultant and senior clinical lecturer on the retirement of Professor L N Pyrah. He held many appointments in addition to those in the hospital and university. A member of the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons from 1959 to 1962 and secretary of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1956 to 1957, becoming Vice-President from 1957 to 1961, he was secretary of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chirurgical Society from 1957 to 1961. He was also President of the Leeds Medical Sciences Club from 1964 to 1965. As a surgeon Raper was an expert craftsman, gentle and dexterous, and was at the same time an able diagnostician. Although he had had a very thorough grounding in general surgery, when it was decided in 1948 to form a department of urology in Leeds, he expressed a desire to become attached to it and to abandon general surgery. His year's experience at Ann Arbor convinced him of the correctness of his decision. Latterly he had become deeply involved with F M Parsons in the problems of renal transplantation, particularly the feasibility of using cadaver kidneys. As a member of the planning committee of the new teaching hospital in Leeds, he had devoted many hours to the consideration of the problem associated with the integration of a new medical school adjacent to both hospital and university. He was a popular teacher with both under and postgraduate students: possessing considerable powers of exposition aided by a dry sense of humour. Outside his profession he had many interests. A painter in water colours from early days, and a lover of music, he was an enthusiastic walker in the Yorkshire Dales from his cottage at Malham. Raper died suddenly in the General Infirmary on 31 January 1966 at the early age of 52, leaving a widow and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Logie, Norman John (1904 - 1972)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-11
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Norman Logie was born in Glasgow on 1 January 1904, the son of a general practitioner who was a Glasgow Honours graduate; his mother had been a nurse at Belvidere Fever Hospital, Glasgow. He was educated at Glasgow High School, but his University was Aberdeen, the family having moved north to Rothes, and he graduated there in 1927, winning the Keith Gold Medal in clinical surgery, and then became house surgeon at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. In 1928 he came to London and held house appointments at the West London Hospital and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. After two years in London he returned to Aberdeen as assistant in anatomy and clinical tutor in surgery, which brought him under the influence of Sir John Marnoch and his successor Professor James Learmonth, and in 1933 he obtained the English Fellowship. Logie was an officer in the medical unit of the University OTC and was therefore called up in 1939 and served in Tobruk with the 15th Scottish General Hospital, fortunately being ordered back to Cairo shortly before Tobruk was captured. In 1942, as a Lieutenant-Colonel, he was sent back to Britain to instruct junior officers in the management of battle casualties, and shortly after D-day he landed in Normandy with the 77th General Hospital with which he remained till the end of the war and for his good work was mentioned in dispatches. It was after the war that he began to take a special interest in urology. He had always been a general surgeon, with experience during the war of wound treatment in the early days of penicillin, and of the treatment of burns; but gastroenterology, particularly partial gastrectomy for duodenal ulcer took a prominent place in his practice and his published results compared very favourably with the more recently introduced vagotomy and drainage procedures. But in time his work became more and more urological, and it was therefore appropriate that, when in 1967 a urological department was established at the Royal Infirmary, he should be the first consultant in charge. This outline of his career, though indicating his ability and his wide experience, would be incomplete without some reference to Norman Logie the man, whose devotion to his duties as a surgeon and teacher were so highly valued and greatly appreciated by patients, colleagues, students and trainees. He was involved in the affairs of many professional bodies, including committees of his hospital group, of the University and also of the City of Aberdeen, and he was the founder and Captain of the North-East Scotland Seniors Golfing Association. He also made many worthwhile contributions to surgical literature. He had a very happy home life with his devoted wife, a son who graduated in medicine and had commenced his surgical training, to his father's great satisfaction, and a daughter, who all survived him. He died, after long suffering from intestinal cancer, on 15 March 1972.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005901
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First Title value, for Searching Ramage, John Steven (1900 - 1986)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Stephen Ramage, the son of William Ramage, a coal master's traveller, and of Isobel Leitch Ramage (née Forster), was born at Greenock, Scotland, on 22 September 1900. He was educated at Greenock High School and Glasgow University, and also spent one year at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1922. After resident appointments at Bury Infirmary 1922-1924, he was resident surgical officer at North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary and was appointed as assistant surgeon there in 1925 and consultant surgeon in 1935, an appointment which he held until his retirement in 1965. He also worked at Haywood and Burslem Hospitals. "JSR", or Johnny, as he was affectionately known, was an individualist and a very sound all round general surgeon, though developing a growing interest in urology later. He showed great determination as an operator but was a man of sound judgement who instinctively knew when not to operate. He had a wide knowledge of the surgical literature and a phenomenal memory for cases and faces which gave him the reputation of a walking *Index Medicus*. He was an enthusiastic teacher, thereby epitomising the great traditions in which he had been reared. Never an innovator, he was always ready to practise recently published advances. He was an active member of the BMA and was Chairman of the Stoke-on-Trent Branch at the inception of the NHS and Chairman of the North Staffordshire Division in 1963. A former President of both the Midland Surgical Society, the Midland Urological Club and the North Staffordshire Medical Society, he was a founder member of the North Staffordshire Medical Institute, it's first Chairman and later a Vice-President. He had onetime examined in surgery for Birmingham University. Very appropriately he was elected FRCS ad eundem in 1963 and also received the honorary MA of Keele University in 1965. Johnny lived a busy social life and was captain and president of Trentham Golf Club, and president of the local Caledonian Society. He was a senior alderman and past mayor of the Ancient Corporation of Hanley. He had a fantastic knowledge of sport and would commonly confound less well informed mortals on soccer, golf and the sport of kings. When he ceased operative work in 1965 there was greater time and opportunity for all these activities. He had married Dr Mary Muriel Moller, a consultant anaesthetist, in 1930, and they had one son and four daughters of whom three were respectively physiotherapist, nurse and radiographer. When he died on 7 March 1986 he was survived by his wife and five children, and was described by one of his retired surgical colleagues as "the doyen of surgery in North Staffordshire - the area owes more to him than any other surgeon who has ever worked here."
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First Title value, for Searching Smart, John Gordon (1926 - 2013)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2014-07-18
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details John Gordon Smart was appointed to the Leicester Royal Infirmary as a general surgeon with an interest in urology in 1965. Later he became the first pure urologist to the hospital and was responsible for building up the urology unit to become the largest in the Trent region. Possessing an administrative flair, he also started the day unit service and directed it after its inception in 1979, being responsible for the planning and later the running of the definitive day stay unit at Leicester's City General Hospital. Eleven specialties used the unit and it boasted one of the largest through-puts in the country. He was born in London on 5 June 1926, the second son of John McGregor Smart, a merchandise buyer and importer, and Margaret née Edwards, a seamstress. His older brother, Donald, also studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital and became a general practitioner. Gordon started his secondary education at William Ellis School in Highgate, north London, and continued at Highgate School (for some of the war years the school was evacuated to the country). He was extremely athletic in these schooldays, a fast sprinter and good at both rugby and soccer: indeed, he was approached to have a trial for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Training at Middlesex Hospital, he graduated in 1949 and served six months as a house surgeon under R Vaughan Hudson, then a senior surgeon at Middlesex Hospital. National Service followed in the medical branch of the RAF from 1950, when he was stationed at RAF Scampton with 617 Squadron ('The Dambusters'). After a year he was promoted to squadron leader for his work on high altitude flying. Already developing an interest in art, Gordon particularly admired the pencil drawings drawn by many of the airmen who lost their lives during wartime operations: he felt that they received scant recognition. Returning to civilian life, although electing to pursue a career in surgery, he first needed to obtain a post in medicine and became a house physician at Willesden General Hospital. Following this, he benefitted from a six-month spell in general practice as he covered his older brother Donald's absence on sick leave. After studying on the Royal College of Surgeons' course and passing the primary FRCS, he commenced his surgical training as a casualty and receiving officer at senior house level to the Dreadnought Seaman's hospital. This post was a requirement for those sitting the final FRCS examination at the time. He furthered his experience at senior house officer level in general surgery and urology at St James' Hospital, Balham, being privileged to gain experience with Norman Tanner in gastroenterology, and was introduced to urology by H K ('Pop') Vernon and H Burke. After attending a postgraduate course at St Thomas' Hospital, he passed the final FRCS examination in 1957, before continuing his general surgical experience as a registrar for a year to H L Cochrane at Fulham Hospital. He broadened this good base at registrar level in a two-year rotating post, starting with R W ('Bob') Nevin at St Thomas' Hospital, then at the Hydestile branch, the Royal Waterloo Hospital, before gaining further experience in the casualty department back at St Thomas'. A locum senior registrar post for a year at St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, added to his overall experience as he worked with two general surgeons, Bernard Williams and J W Younghusband, and also W Wiggins-Davies, whose main interest was in urology. Gordon felt he needed further experience in the developing specialty of urology and obtained a rotating senior registrar training post at St Thomas' Hospital and St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. Starting in Chertsey, he worked with a most delightful general surgeon, Murray Pheils, who was an excellent teacher. In 1965 Pheils left this post and a lucrative private practice to take up a newly created position as professor of surgery at the Repatriation Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales. Back at St Thomas' Hospital, Gordon worked with the urological surgeon T W Mimpriss, achieving his aim of concentrating on urology. He saw and treated a lot of urothelial tumours of the bladder and upper tracts and published a paper on 'Renal and ureteric tumours in association with bladder tumours' (*Br J Urol*. 1964 Sep;36:380-90). Further research work into the use of radioactive phosphorus in prostatic cancer led to a South West Regional Board prize and a paper 'Radioactive phosphorus treatment of bone-metastatic carcinoma of the prostate' (*Lancet*. 1964 Oct 24;2[7365]:882-3). He was able to drop some clinical commitments and, with the aid of funding from the regional board, he set up a laboratory and employed a technician for studies on urinary infection. This valuable experience in research led to a thesis for the MS degree and to his election as Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. He delivered a lecture on 'The diagnosis and localisation of urinary infections' at the College on 10 March 1966. His successful application for the post of consultant surgeon with an interest in urology in Leicester was supported by T W Mimpriss, Murray Pheils and R W Nevin, the highly respected general surgeon and long-time dean of the St Thomas's Medical School. Once in post, he showed the determination and eloquence he had exhibited back in his schooldays. In 1943, as a schoolboy, he had taken part in a BBC Home Service programme presented by the eminent sociologist Karl Mannheim, discussing a variety of topics, including 'Why do we agree over right and wrong?', 'Can society survive without common values?' and 'The power of society to influence man's behaviour'. As a consultant surgeon, Gordon showed he was clearly a person who had strong opinions on what he felt was best and proved outspoken in committees. He was supported by his consultant colleagues in the development of the urology unit and day care facilities. Not afraid of hard work, he worked up to the last moment before enjoying family holidays - something appreciated by his patients who recognised his personal care. He did not suffer fools gladly, but was very supportive of all the clinical staff, particularly the nurses. He assumed many roles even before he became a consultant. From 1962 for six years he was an examiner for the Royal College of Nursing and tutor in anatomy for the Association of Occupational Therapists for two years. After his consultant appointment, from 1974 to 1982, he was a Royal College of Surgeons tutor for the Leicester area. From 1986 he represented all surgical specialties and day services on the management board. His colleagues thought so highly of his endeavours that he was elected chairman of the Leicester area consultants committee for two years from 1976, after less than 10 years as a consultant. He enjoyed his membership of the Punch Club, an informal group of urological surgeons, and was a supportive member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and the urology section of the Royal Society of Medicine, being an elected member of both councils. As a mark of esteem his colleagues in hospital and general practice elected him president of the Leicester Medical Society from 1989 to 1990, having served as secretary some 10 years previously. During his training, at a party, he met Joanna ('Jo') Brenchley, a nurse at Middlesex Hospital. They married in Ospringe, Kent, in 1956, and she supported Gordon during much of his surgical training, undertaking a variety of jobs herself, ending up studying at the Bar. After moving to Leicester, she became a Justice of the Peace, working on the criminal and domestic benches. Jo was also a member of the Police Authority, being heavily involved in a charity which supported prisoners in their rehabilitation once they had served their sentence. Fiona, their only child, was born in 1966, after Gordon had taken up his consultant post. She became a civil servant and then set up her own company. Gordon and his wife were very fond of travel, visiting India, Pakistan, Israel and Jordan. Gordon was also interested in arts and antiques. Having collected many paintings, he enjoyed painting himself in both oils and acrylic. He was a great admirer of Turner's works. In his own painting, he was a perfectionist, just as he was in his distinguished surgical career. Sadly, shortly after his retirement, Jo was diagnosed with advanced myeloma. Gordon supported her during her various treatments, and nursed and cared for her until she died in 2004. Fiona, always encouraged by her father throughout various stages of her life, was equally supportive of him in his later years. J Gordon Smart died peacefully at his home in Wymeswold, Leicestershire, on 22 February 2013 aged 86, with Fiona by his side.
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First Title value, for Searching Hamilton, Samuel Gordon Ian (1934 - 2016)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Andrew J Yates-Bell
Publication Date 2017-04-21 2017-07-26
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Ian Hamilton was a consultant general surgeon and later consultant urologist at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro. He was born in Belfast as his father, William James Hamilton, an Irishman himself, wanted him to be eligible to play rugby for Ireland - regrettably something he never achieved. Ian was part of a remarkable medical family. His father was a professor of anatomy and embryology, an author of many well-known books on embryology and dean of Charing Cross Medical School. His mother, Mary Campbell Hamilton née Young, was a qualified doctor but never practised. His sister, Margaret, did dentistry at University College Hospital, becoming a paediatric dental surgeon. His brother, Peter, was a consultant eye surgeon at Moorfields and the Middlesex Hospital. Another brother, David, was a consultant nephrologist at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital; David's twin brother, Alan, died young, but not before he had delivered a Hunterian lecture in 1981. Ian spent his formative years at Harrow School, where he played full back for the school first XV. He then moved on to Clare College, Cambridge, and continued to play rugby for the first team. He was also well-known for his punting on the river Cam, although his future wife fell into the river in full evening dress! He also played rugby for the Harlequin's second team. He went on to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. After qualifying, he gained surgical experience in a variety of hospitals in the south, including St Bartholomew's, the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and St James' Hospital, Balham. In 1960, he was a demonstrator in anatomy at the University of Cambridge. He was then appointed as a junior surgical registrar, again at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After his junior posts, he moved to the West Country, where he joined the Bristol Royal Infirmary surgical rotation with Southmead and the Royal Devon and Exeter hospitals. Ultimately, he achieved his aim of a consultant appointment in a cathedral city - the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro in June 1969. This included visits to smaller hospitals in Cornwall. The definitive post not only included general surgery, but also a major interest in urology before a urological department was established later, with the appointment of two urologists. He also managed to take time off as a ship's surgeon on the *Canberra* to Australia. He was one of the founding fathers of the Duchy Hospital, adjacent to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, and was tireless in raising funds and designing the hospital. In April 1981, the hospital was opened by The Queen Mother, who invited Ian and Caroline, his wife, to dine on the Royal Yacht *Britannia* in Falmouth harbour. Ian travelled widely with the 1921 Surgical Club of Great Britain, of which he was president from 1988 to 1989. He was on the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and was an honorary member of the Medical Association of Groningen, Netherlands, and the Louisiana State Medical Society. Ian married my sister Caroline in 1964 at All Souls, Langham Place. Caroline was the daughter of Geoffrey Yates-Bell, a consultant urologist at King's College Hospital. Ian and Caroline had two sons, Simon and Michael, and a daughter, Suzy, who works in Truro as a physiotherapist. Caroline acted as his private secretary, working well into the small hours of the night. She was also a formidable tennis player, playing at Wimbledon over many years, and representing Surrey at doubles. Through Caroline's connections, the family enjoyed the first Saturday at Wimbledon for many years. There are six grandchildren. Ian loved the Isles of Scilly and spent many holidays on Tresco. He was always joined by his children and grandchildren, who enjoyed his painting competitions and treasure hunts when younger. Later in the evening, he was the life and soul of the party with his odes, especially written for each adult and child, causing much hilarity. He was also a very keen gardener, with a leaning to the 'Hamilton tradition' of potatoes and beetroot! Ian died on 28 October 2014 in Truro. He was 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Pyrah, Leslie Norman (1899 - 1995)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-11 2014-07-18
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Leslie Norman Pyrah was born at Farnley, near Leeds, on 11 April 1899, the son of a headmistress. Unfortunately no further details of his forbears are available. He was educated at Leeds Central High School and served in the army during the final stages of the first world war. He then read medicine at Leeds University, interrupting his course to take an honours degree in physiology. On qualification he did a wide variety of resident training posts during the next five years, notably with Berkeley Moynihan at the Leeds General Infirmary, where he became surgical tutor. In 1932 he secured a travelling scholarship to visit urological centres in Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, Innsbruck and Paris, and was then appointed assistant surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary and Public Dispensary in 1934. He was also visiting surgeon to a number of neighbouring hospitals and lecturer in surgery to Leeds University. Following appointment as consultant surgeon to St James's Hospital in 1940 and to the Infirmary in 1944 he built up a large general surgical practice. In 1948 he was elected to the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) which had only formed three years earlier. He then co-founded the Urological Club, comprising urologists from the teaching hospitals. His consuming interest in urology led him to give up his general surgical practice and start a department of urology in Leeds. By 1956 he was appointed professor of urological surgery in his outstandingly successful department which had attracted researchers of the highest calibre. In the same year he became director of the Medical Research Council Unit in Leeds and set up the first renal haemodialysis unit in the UK with Dr Frank Parsons as its head. He and Professor Bill Spiers persuaded the Wellcome Foundation and other benefactors to fund a four storey research building for the Infirmary which was completed in 1959. Pyrah did outstanding and tireless work in promoting urology and urological specialist centres throughout Britain. He was President of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1958; President of BAUS from 1961 to 1963; a member of College Council from 1960 to 1968 and was appointed CBE in 1963. In his youth Leslie Pyrah was a gifted pianist (at one time considering a possible career as a concert pianist) as well as a formidable tennis player. He enjoyed good food and wine and was an excellent cook with a particular taste for sauces. He also collected Chinese porcelain and Dutch paintings. Affectionately known as 'Poppah Pyrah' he had a somewhat portly figure and, even in the hottest climate, he always wore a mackintosh and a crumpled grey felt hat. He was a true Yorkshireman of rugged independence, friendly and approachable, never pulling rank and notably hospitable at all times. Pyrah married Mary Christopher Bailey in 1934. She died in 1990 and they had a son and a daughter who survived him when he died on 30 April 1995, another son having predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Baines, Guy Harrison (1911 - 1985)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation Farmer General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Guy Harrison Baines was born on 16 September 1911 at the Vicarage, St Helens, Lancashire, where his father Albert Baines, a Cambridge graduate, was a clerk in Holy Orders and later archdeacon of Halifax. His mother Mabel (née Harrison) came from Liverpool. After early education at Mostyn House, Parkgate, he went to Charterhouse where he became head of his house and represented his school at football, boxing, athletics and swimming. At St John's College, Cambridge, he secured an honours degree in natural sciences in 1932 and became demonstrator in anatomy and physiology. He was president of the University Medical Society and gained blues for boxing and swimming before becoming Hector Mackenzie Exhibitioner at St Thomas's Hospital in 1933. After qualifying in 1936 he held resident surgical posts at his teaching hospital and took the primary FRCS before moving in 1939 to the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, where he was surgical registrar and resident surgical officer while completing the final Fellowship in 1939. He joined the RAMC in 1943, becoming a surgical specialist in the First Airborne Division with which he served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy and was then transferred to Burma. There, with a mobile surgical unit, he took part in the Arakan campaign before returning to hospital and field surgical units in NW Europe. After VE day he commanded hospitals at Sandbostel and Belsen concentration camps before becoming officer in charge of the surgical division at No 25 General Hospital. He there met Janet Douglas Ward, a physiotherapist, whom he married just after the war. In December 1945, just before his demobilisation, Guy Baines was appointed assistant surgeon to the Queen Elizabeth and Children's Hospitals in Birmingham, and surgeon to the Guest Hospital, Dudley. He rapidly built up a large practice in general surgery, with a special interest in urology, and eventually devoted himself entirely to urology. He published valuable papers on ectopic ureter, nephrocalcinosis and abacterial pyuria and became an active and popular member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. A man of strong and handsome appearance, a conservative but skilful surgeon, his courtesy, charm and kindly consideration for his patients caused him to be in constant demand. Shortly after their marriage he and his wife settled on a 100 acre farm in Worcestershire, where they raised a family of four children and kept a fine dairy herd. After suffering a myocardial infarct in 1970 he sold the farm but continued with his surgical work until normal retiring age in 1976 when he took up market gardening and served on medical tribunals. He loved the country life but later suffered increasing cardiac disability until his sudden death on 13 December 1985, aged 73. An unselfish and generous man of assertive character, his cheerful temperament and wide interests made him an excellent colleague and staunch friend. He was survived by his wife and by his two sons, Robert and Michael, and two daughters, Rachel-Claire and Julie-Anne.
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First Title value, for Searching Ross, James Cosbie (1904 - 1989)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details James Cosbie Ross was born in Liverpool on 17 May 1904. He was the son and grandson of doctors, his father being James Ross, a general practitioner in Walton, Liverpool. His mother was Delia Cosbie and James, as the eldest child, took the name of Cosbie. James used this name and linked Ross as 'Cobbie Ross'. He was educated at Liverpool University Medical School. All his life, pre- and postgraduate was spent in Liverpool. He qualified MB, ChB in 1925 with honours and distinction in medicine, passed the MRCS, LRCP the same year, gained the Fellowship in 1930, and the Liverpool ChM in 1931. Cosbie Ross was appointed to the staff of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1932 as a general surgeon. He continued at this hospital until 1945 when on the appointment of Charles Wells as Professor, he was transferred to the Royal Southern Hospital as a senior. He was particularly influenced in his training by Sir Robert Kelly. He showed a progressive interest in urology and in 1943 gave a Hunterian Lecture entitled 'Injuries of the urinary bladder'. At the Royal Southern Hospital he founded a urological unit, one of the first such units in the north west of England. Here he worked on tuberculosis of the renal tract and on urological problems association with spinal injury. He wrote many papers on genitourinary tuberculosis and contributed urological chapters in several textbooks. He wrote a textbook himself *Essentials of surgery for dental students* and he was the lecturer in surgery to the Liverpool School of Dental Surgery for many years. Maybe he will find a place in the Guinness book of records as he wrote no less than seventy-nine articles on urological subjects and some twenty-four on the neurological bladder. Ross indeed did pioneer work in relation to the urological problems of spinal cord injury. He became assistant editor of the journal *Paraplegia*, edited by Sir Ludwig Guttman, 'father' of the spinal unit at Stoke Mandeville. He was appointed director of urological studies at Liverpool University where he was also Chairman of faculty. He was an external examiner to the University of Manchester. He was made an honorary member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and became President of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club. His interests included shooting, fishing, walking (including long distances on Hadrian's Wall and the Pennine Way), sailing and collecting early English watercolours. He acted as honorary appeals director for the final phase of the building of the Anglican Cathedral at Liverpool. His last book was in conjunction, with his brother - *A gifted touch* - a biography of Agnes Jones, the friend and collaborator of Florence Nightingale. He married Muriel Orton in 1934, having one son, Andrew, and one daughter, Lindy. His wife died in 1963. His son, who also qualified at Liverpool, is a gynaecologist at Middlesbrough. A few months before he died he was awarded the 1989 medal of the International Medical Society for Paraplegia, of which he was a foundation member. He died on 15 September 1989 having developed a paraplegia from secondary malignant disease in the spine, the primary being prostatic.
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First Title value, for Searching Stewart, Henry Hamilton (1904 - 1970)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Henry Hamilton Stewart was born on 23 August 1904, the son of H A Stewart, a practitioner at Thornton, Bradford. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School, King's College Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. At Cambridge he was placed in the first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos of 1925. At St Thomas's, as a clinical student, he gained the Cheselden Medal, the Solly Medal and the Toiler Prize, all in 1928. After qualification, he held house appointments at St Thomas's, first as a casualty officer, followed by that of a house surgeon and, after being admitted as a Fellow, as a surgical registrar to Sir Percy Sargent. Returning to Bradford he was appointed assistant surgeon to Bradford Royal Infirmary and surgeon to the Childrens Hospital, at the age of 28. He rapidly built up an outstanding reputation as a general surgeon but as time progressed he became more and more a specialist in the field of urology. He was a founder member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and was awarded the St Peter's Gold Medal of the Association in 1968. He was one of the early members of the Punch Club and an acknowledged expert in the difficult technique of punch prostatectomy performing more than 4000 operations between 1947 and 1965. On his retirement in 1969 he was made a Freeman of the city of Bradford, a unique honour for a medical man. His work culminated in his founding of the Postgraduate School of Studies in Medical and Surgical Sciences at the University of Bradford to which he was appointed Honorary Visiting Professor and a member of the Council of the University. He consolidated the position of urology in Bradford by establishing a joint unit at St Luke's Hospital and the Infirmary. In 1952 he was appointed a Hunterian Professor at the College as he was an early exponent of the operation of partial nephrectomy in selected cases of renal calculus, his results showing a remarkably low recurrence rate. His scientific approach to a problem and his surgical ingenuity were well demonstrated by his plastic operation for congenital hydronephrosis associated with a lower polar vessel. As a man he was full of ideas carefully thought out and of great courage and endurance, having to contend with serious illness and disability in his later years. As a surgeon he was deeply interested in his patients, possessed of great patience and exquisite thoroughness in all he undertook. He had a charm of manner, a great sense of humour and a slow deliberate manner of speaking, particularly when he was driving home some point in an argument or in teaching. He was a lifelong member of the Bradford St Andrew's Society and its President in 1954. His favourite recreation was salmon fishing. He married Edna, née Pullan, who survived him with their three sons, one of whom is a surgeon. He died on 21 November 1970 aged 66. A memorial service was held in Bradford Cathedral on 25 November 1970. Publications: Partial nephrectomy in the treatment of renal calculi. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl* 1952, 11, 32. A new operation for hydronephrosis in association with a lower polar (or aberrant) artery. *Brit J Surg* 1947, 35, 51.
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First Title value, for Searching Pyragh, Leslie Norman (1899 - 1995)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Leslie Norman Pyragh was born at Farnley, near Leeds, on 11 April 1899, the son of a headmistress. Unfortunately no further details of his forbears are available. He was educated at Leeds Central High School and served in the army during the final stages of the first world war. He then read medicine at Leeds University, interrupting his course to take an honours degree in physiology. On qualification he did a wide variety of resident training posts during the next five years, notably with Berkeley Moynihan at the Leeds General Infirmary, where he became surgical tutor. In 1932 he secured a travelling scholarship to visit urological centres in Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, Innsbruck and Paris, and was then appointed assistant surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary and Public Dispensary in 1934. He was also visiting surgeon to a number of neighbouring hospitals and lecturer in surgery to Leeds University. Following appointment as consultant surgeon to St James's Hospital in 1940 and to the Infirmary in 1944 he built up a large general surgical practice. In 1948 he was elected to the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) which had only formed three years earlier. He then co-founded the Urological Club, comprising urologists from the teaching hospitals. His consuming interest in urology led him to give up his general surgical practice and start a department of urology in Leeds. By 1956 he was appointed professor of urological surgery in his outstandingly successful department which had attracted researchers of the highest calibre. In the same year he became director of the Medical Research Council Unit in Leeds and set up the first renal haemodialysis unit in the UK with Dr Frank Parsons as its head. He and Professor Bill Spiers persuaded the Wellcome Foundation and other benefactors to fund a four storey research building for the Infirmary which was completed in 1959. Pyragh did outstanding and tireless work in promoting urology and urological specialist centres throughout Britain. He was President of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1958; President of BAUS from 1961 to 1963; a member of College Council from 1960 to 1968 and was appointed CBE in 1963. In his youth Leslie Pyragh was a gifted pianist (at one time considering a possible career as a concert pianist) as well as a formidable tennis player. He enjoyed good food and wine and was an excellent cook with a particular taste for sauces. He also collected Chinese porcelain and Dutch paintings. Affectionately known as 'Poppah Pyragh' he had a somewhat portly figure and, even in the hottest climate, he always wore a mackintosh and a crumpled grey felt hat. He was a true Yorkshireman of rugged independence, friendly and approachable, never pulling rank and notably hospitable at all times. Pyragh married Mary Christopher Bailey in 1934. She died in 1990 and they had a son and a daughter who survived him when he died on 30 April 1995, another son having predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Guerrier, Hugh Philip (1913 - 2002)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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Occupation General surgeon Proctologist Coloproctologist Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Hugh Guerrier was a consultant surgeon in Torbay. He was born in Muswell Hill, London, on 2 January 1913, the only son of Arthur Philip Guerrier, a solicitor, and his wife, Hilda Gwendolene née Davies, whose father was a general practitioner. Hugh was educated at Cambridge House School, Margate, and Highgate School. He first entered the insurance world, working for the Alliance Assurance Company, but in 1934 decided on a career switch to medicine. He studied at Guy's, where he proved himself to be a good tennis player. After qualifying in 1940, he continued in a wide variety of house appointments in and around London in the early war years. He was an outpatient officer at Guy's, then a resident obstetrician, house surgeon and physician at the Southern Hospital, Dartford, then an orthopaedic house surgeon at Lewisham. He finally took a post in Ipswich. He then joined the RAF as a Flight Lieutenant. On returning to civilian life, he gained his FRCS in 1947, and was a registrar at Guy's and then a senior registrar in the department of surgery, where he received training in the developing specialty of urology. In his formative years, he was influenced by Sir Heneage Ogilvie, F R Kilpatrick, W D Doherty and, during clinical assistant posts at St Peter's Hospital, by J Sandrey, and by W B Gabriel at St Mark's Hospital on the City Road. He was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at the Torbay Hospital, Torquay, in 1953, but he continued his specialist interests in urology and, to a lesser extent, proctology. He wrote articles on haematuria and haematospermia, contributed to the *Encyclopaedia for general practice* (edited by G F Abercombie and R M S McConaghey, London, Butterworths, 1963), and to the *Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine* on Paget's disease of the anus. He developed links with the established urology department in Bristol, with John Mitchell, Ashton Miller and Norman Slade, to keep this interest alive. It was in Torquay that he continued to enjoy tennis, also developing further outside interests in sailing, golf and gardening. He was an active member of many learned societies, including the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS), of which he was an associate member, serving on it's council from 1970 to 1974. He hosted a successful annual meeting of BAUS in 1974 during his last year on council. Although separated from the metropolis, he was an active member of the sections of urology and proctology of the Royal Society of Medicine, rarely missing a meeting of either and serving on both councils. Many will remember him as a congenial and loyal colleague, whose quiet demeanour and whimsical sense of humour was welcoming. He married Shelagh Streatfeild, a doctor and an anaesthetic registrar at the Royal Free, in 1939. They had four sons, the eldest of whom became a consultant in ENT surgery in Winchester. He retired in 1977, and eventually moved to live in East Sussex, where he and his wife enjoyed gardening and some sailing. He found golf difficult in later years because of cardiac problems. Shelagh, his wife, died in 1988. Hugh continued to live in East Sussex, although his health gradually failed after a stroke. He died on 21 March 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Gowland, Humphrey Walter (1918 - 1981)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Elliot-Smith, Arthur (1901 - 1972)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Arthur Elliot-Smith was born in Cairo on 3 June 1901. He was the son of Sir Grafton Elliot-Smith the distinguished anatomist and anthropologist; his mother's maiden name was Kathleen Macready. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, before coming to University College Hospital and on from which he took his Conjoint Diploma in 1924. He received the Cambridge MB BChir in 1961. He was a good athlete and played both rugby and cricket for his hospital, and became President of the Rugby Football Club. After becoming a Fellow of the College in 1930 he was a surgical assistant at the recently opened Royal Post-Graduate Hospital, Hammersmith, where he worked with Professor Grey Turner; although his interests as a general surgeon were wide, he was already showing a particular interest in urology and paediatric surgery. He had been seconded to the Post-Graduate Hospital from the London County Council service, and returned as senior surgical officer to St Giles Hospital, Camberwell, until his appointment as surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, early in 1939. This coincided with the early days of the development of the Nuffield post-graduate departments and the new Clinical School. House officer and registrar posts under him were keenly sought after, because he was a superb surgeon and an excellent teacher. He was a modest man with a constant air of serenity which endeared him to patients, students, nursing staff and colleagues. His judgment and attention to pre-operative and post-operative care matched his technical skill, so that his colleagues regularly sought his surgical help for themselves and their relatives. He was a clinical lecturer and examiner in surgery for Oxford University. At the outbreak of the second world war he joined the RAMC and served in North Africa and Italy, later becoming consultant surgeon to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force with the rank of Brigadier. On returning to Oxford Elliot-Smith was also appointed consultant surgeon to Savernake Hospital, Marlborough, and throughout the Oxford region his influence on surgery became progressively greater. He was a fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and an Associate Fellow of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. Though gentle he was fearless, and could be outspoken when matters of principle were involved. On his retirement in 1966 he returned to North Africa to work at the Moussat Hospital in Tripoli where he studied the differences in the disease patterns of desert-living and rich urban Arabs. He studied experimentally alimentary transit-times and became intensely interested in dietary fibre. On his return to Oxford after two years in Tripoli his interest in foods and their relation to disease and in soil preservation resulted in his election as President of the Oxford branch of the Soil Association and then of the McCarrison Society. He was an initial Trustee and Honorary Treasurer of the International Institute of Human Nutrition. He also found time to accept responsibility for a new Simon Trust Vasectomy Clinic in the ante-natal department of the Churchill Hospital and during the first two years of its existence he created such confidence that over 2,000 out-patient vasectomies were performed under local anaesthesia. In 1937 he married Nancy Williamson; their family of four sons and his garden were his two great interests outside his profession; he was particularly interested in hybridizing roses. He died in his garden when in apparent excellent health on 5 August 1972 shortly after his 71st birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Irvine Battinson (1919 - 1999)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Irvine Smith was a consultant surgeon to Burton-on-Trent General Hospital. He was born in Ilkley on 5 December 1919. His father, Fredric Battinson Smith, was a forensic pathologist who had won the Military Cross in the first world war and later advised the Ministry of Health on setting up a national pathology service. His mother, Mary Irvine (née Johnstone), came from a medical family; her father, Thomas Johnstone, had been dresser to Lord Lister at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Irvine's uncle, George Johnstone, became public health officer for Preston. Irvine was educated at Marlborough and King's College, Cambridge, and did his clinical work at University College Hospital, where he was taught by R S Pilcher, H P Himsworth and F P Browne. After house jobs at the Royal Northern Hospital and Great Ormond Street, he did his National Service in the RNVR, serving as a Surgeon Lieutenant in HMS *Bigbury Bay* and *Liverpool*. He returned to University College Hospital as a demonstrator of anatomy to study for the primary and was then resident medical officer at the Cancer Hospital, and subsequently house surgeon at West Middlesex Hospital and then at Hammersmith, before passing the final FRCS in 1949. He had a special interest in the treatment of cancer, and was house surgeon to the radiotherapy unit at Hammersmith, before going on to be registrar at Preston Royal Infirmary and later Leeds. In 1955 he spent a year at the Mayo Clinic as a research fellow, returning to Leeds as tutor in surgery and senior registrar. There he threw himself into calculous disease in Leslie Pyrah's new unit, and published many papers on the topic. He became something of an expert in the use of the ileal loop and the complications of ileostomy. He was appointed to the consultant staff of Burton-on-Trent General Hospital in 1957. At Burton, although he increasingly specialised in urology, he remained a very general surgeon and was much sought-after as a teacher by young surgeons on the Birmingham rotation. He had a wide range of interests. His urological colleagues will remember his landmark study on trans-uretero-ureterostomy. His surgical colleagues remember him for his advocacy of hemihepatectomy for severe blunt injury - then unheard of. He set up the urological department at Burton-on-Trent. He was also a pioneer in day care surgery - the Burton unit is named after him. He was the prime mover in setting up the postgraduate medical centre at Burton in 1972, where a plaque records him as 'Irvine Smith, Founder'. Irvine had innumerable interests; he had been a keen Boy Scout, and later, an enthusiastic climber (he broke his spine climbing into King's as an undergraduate). He was a diligent and popular member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, disguising a discerning intellect behind a front of apparent diffidence. In later years he became a highly regarded medical historian, making Stephen Hales his particular subject. He married Kathleen Lilley Turner in 1950, who had qualified from UCH and had a considerable interest in family planning. They were divorced in 1985. They had three sons, Robin Goulty (who died as a baby), Geoffrey Lilley (a Professor of Virology at Imperial College, London) and Christopher Frederic (an engineer), and two daughters, Anne Johnstone (who has worked in the blood transfusion service) and Dorothy Battinson (a teacher). In addition to a considerable interest and expertise in medical history, he was a keen ornithologist. He died on 2 October 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Rees, Harland (1909 - 2002)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Harland Rees was born on 21 September 1909 at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, into a medical family. His father, David Charles Rees, was a specialist in tropical medicine and had served in Lugard's frontier force, which kept the French at bay in West Africa in 1897. Four years later, he went to South Africa to deal with an outbreak of plague after the Boer war and stayed. Harland's great grandfather, David Rees, had obtained his MRCS in 1807, and Harland was proud to have the diploma in his possession. His mother was Myrtle May née Dolley. Educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown, in South Africa, Harland proved himself an excellent games player. A member of the cricket XI and rugby XV for three years from 1926 to 1928, he was captain of both in the last year. Of the 1926 XV, six were to gain Oxford blues and one of them, B H Black, played for England. As a cricketer, Rees promised to be one of the outstanding batsmen of his generation in South Africa. Representing Eastern Province while still at St Andrew's, in 1928 he played against a strong MCC side for the South African Schools' XI. Having made a stylish 60 runs, he earned praise from the famous England cricketer, Herbert Sutcliffe, as the schoolboys passed the MCC total to win the match. In 1929, Harland Rees won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where he joined his brother at University College to read medicine. In addition to these studies, after a year recovering from a broken arm, he concentrated on rugby, winning his blue in 1930 and continuing to play against Cambridge until 1933. Clinical studies were undertaken at Charing Cross Hospital, and he continued to play competitive rugby at fly-half for Blackheath, Middlesex and the Barbarians. Invited to play for Wales, for whom he qualified through his Welsh ancestry, he declined the offer, secretly hoping that a call would come from England, but it never did! After qualifying in 1936, he undertook junior posts at Charing Cross and later in 1939 was assistant to T J F Barrington at St Peter's Hospital for Stone in London. At the outbreak of the second world war, he was posted to Ashridge Hospital, where he worked for eight months without taking a single day off, before returning to St Peter's for a year as resident surgical officer. Having joined the RAMC in 1942, Harland Rees served in India and Burma, winning his wings as a parachutist, and narrowly escaping capture by the Japanese. On one occasion he had a brush with authority when the commanding officer insisted that the troops should go on a six mile run in blazing heat after a day's march. Sadly, Rees was proved to be correct when one unfortunate soldier collapsed and died. Ultimately a Lieutenant Colonel, Rees became officer in charge of the surgical division of 53 General Hospital, the base hospital in Burma. During this period he was adviser in surgery to the Allied Forces in Siam and was involved in the committee formed to investigate the suspicious death of the crown prince from a gunshot wound. The final conclusion was that it was an accidental death, but Harland Rees remained unconvinced by the verdict. After the war, he returned to civilian life and became registrar to the Postgraduate Medical School at the Hammersmith Hospital and clinical assistant at St Peter's. In 1947, he obtained a consultant surgeon post to outpatients at Hampstead General Hospital and held similar posts at King's College Hospital and St Peter's Hospital, his inclination being towards urology as a specialty. Retiring in 1974, he was made honorary consultant urologist at King's College Hospital. During the fifties, he bought 35 acres of overgrown and untended land, formerly a quarry pit, at Kensworth in Bedfordshire. Many a weekend was devoted to energetic and imaginative clearing of land, planting trees, and building a road to a new house that was built in the sixties and provided a weekend retreat. It was here that he spent his retirement. An idle life after a surgical career was never his aim. In addition to caring for the land he developed an interest in local politics, serving on the South Bedfordshire District Council as a Conservative. He was chairman from 1986 to 1987. Both Harland and his wife were also keen supporters of local musical events. Harland Rees married Helen Marie Tarver in 1950. She predeceased her husband by one year, dying in 2001. They had a daughter (who died in 1976) and two sons. Harland Rees died on 9 July 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Boreham, Peter Francis (1922 - 2014)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2014-08-11
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Peter Boreham was a much-loved and highly respected general surgeon in Cheltenham with a major urological interest. He was born on 26 May 1922 in Szechuan, China, into a missionary family. He was the second son of the Reverend Frederick Boreham and his wife Mildred née Slater: an older brother, Douglas, died in infancy just six weeks after Peter was born. Peter's early years were not without hazard: he was shipwrecked at the age of two on the Yangtze River. He had two younger siblings, Cicely, who became a headmistress, and John, who was knighted, and was director of the Central Statistical Office. Frederick and Mildred Boreham returned to England from 1924 to 1929 to serve in various livings, including Norwich, where Frederick was priest at New Catton. It was here that Peter started his education in the kindergarten of Norwich High School for Girls. Later, in 1931, when both parents were back in China, he was sent as a boarder to Feltonfleet Preparatory School, where he was later joined by his sister and brother. Peter's departure from Feltonfleet was quite spectacular: he had an accident with a glass door and was taken away by ambulance with a tourniquet around one limb, never to return to his prep school! His secondary education was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire. Peter proved a good but not exceptional scholar, and excelled at swimming and athletics. Having decided on medicine as a career, in 1940 he went to Cambridge to study natural sciences and was resident in Jesus College. In Cambridge he became a member of Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union and made many friends through this organisation: this was an acknowledgment of his own Christian faith and his parental influence. He left Cambridge having obtained a BA degree, and went to Middlesex Hospital in 1942 for his clinical training until 1945. During these war years much of his training took place out of London at Aylesbury and Northwood, Middlesex and Harlesden. Having qualified MB BChir from Cambridge, in 1945 he worked as a house surgeon to Arthur S Blundell Bankart, a well-known orthopaedic surgeon on the staff of Middlesex Hospital who had paediatric and neurosurgical leanings. He was better known for his work on shoulder joint dislocation and his description of the 'Bankart lesion'. Peter observed a charming physiotherapist who was watching this famous surgeon operate and was also on his ward round. Peter went to a 'nurses hop' (informal dance), where he was happy to find Kathleen Edith Born, the physiotherapist who had caught his eye earlier. Some six weeks after they first met, Peter proposed and was accepted. On 18 January 1946 Peter and Kathleen (shortened to 'Ka' and pronounced 'Car') were married by Peter's father in West Alvington Church, Kingsbridge, Devon. Clearly during his training life was hard for the newly-weds. Peter was still doing house appointments in 1946 at Middlesex Hospital, working with two well-known surgeons, David Patey and Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. Patey was a general surgeon with wide interests and was a superb clinical teacher, perhaps better known for his work on breast diseases: he was also founder of the Surgical Research Society. Gordon-Taylor built up a reputation as a fearless surgeon in the First World War and his knowledge of anatomy allowed him to attempt formidable operations. Peter then became a casualty officer at Middlesex Hospital, as accident and emergency experience was at the time a requirement for any doctor wishing to sit the FRCS examination. In mid-1946 it was time for him to do National Service, and he joined the RAMC. After preliminary training, he was posted to the British Army of the Rhine. Having already decided on surgery as a career, he used this period to engage in postal courses to progress his studies for the FRCS. In August 1947 Michael, their first child, was born in Torquay, and Peter was allowed two weeks 'compassionate leave' when Michael was ill. Following two years of National Service, Peter was discharged, later to join the Territorial Army with the rank of major when working as a senior registrar. Back in the recently-formed NHS in 1949, he took up a post as a resident medical officer at a mental hospital in Camberwell, Peter, Ka and young Michael living in a flat in Maida Vale. In May 1949, having passed the FRCS, he obtained a post as a registrar back at Middlesex Hospital, working with Sir Eric Riches and Cecil Murray. This was a popular firm with students and trainees alike: both were superb technicians and good teachers, Sir Eric in urology and Murray in general surgery, particularly in the days when partial gastrectomy was the preferred treatment for chronic peptic ulcer. He continued in this post until 1952, being elevated to senior registrar for the last two years. Their second child, Jenny, was born in December 1949, and this necessitated moving to larger living accommodation in Hampstead Garden Suburb early in 1950. On 1 March 1953, their third child, a second daughter, Judy, was born. After working for three years with Riches and Murray, Peter obtained a research post at Middlesex Hospital to work on 'implantation metastases in surgery'. This provided him with sufficient material for two papers. Already attending meetings of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine, he gave a short paper on 'The surgical spread of cancer in urology' (28 April 1955), which was then published in the *British Journal of Urology* (*Br J Urol*. 1956 Jun;28[2]:163-75). In this he described six cases of carcinoma of bladder recurring in the urethra. A second article on 'Implantation metastases from cancer of the large bowel' was published in the *British Journal of Surgery* (*Br J Surg*. 1958 Sep;46[196]:103-8. Short papers on rare cases increased the number of publications on his CV. He started applying for consultant posts, only to find that there were 60 or more applicants for each post in this post-war period: but was encouraged when short-listed for the odd one. It proved necessary to embellish his CV with a masters degree in surgery. The MChir Cambridge involved writing three papers each of four hours: one had four questions with no choice, another had two questions without a choice and one had one question, again without a choice! Senate House in Cambridge, where he sat to write papers, was not warm in the winter months and 'regular' candidates learned to bring rugs and hot coffee to help. Three vivas of half an hour each completed the examination. Peter obtained this highly prized degree at the second attempt. He next gained a year's appointment as a resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital, London. Although the post entailed becoming a 'house-surgeon' again, it was the best job at this stage of his career, enabling him to get concentrated experience in coloproctology. Working with W B Gabriel, O V Lloyd-Davies and Sir Clifford Naunton Morgan was a superb way of adding another 'specialty' to his already broad experience. Gabriel, often known as the 'Archangel Gabriel', was a man with an imposing presence and great physical and moral strength: he had a reputation for total patient care and long operating lists. Oswald Lloyd-Davies was a superb technician with an inventive mind who, with Naunton Morgan, perfected the technique of synchronous combined excision of the rectum for carcinoma. The lithotomy-Trendelenburg position, for which he developed special leg supports, is generally known as the Lloyd-Davies position. Naunton Morgan, also on the staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital, was a man of boundless energy and an enthusiastic teacher. Peter's next appointment was again at senior registrar level, although he effectively worked as a second consultant. It was at the Whittington Hospital, north London, where he worked with Neville Stidolph, a South African-born general surgeon with a major interest in urology, who also had an extensive private practice. Peter consolidated his knowledge and experience whilst applying for more consultant posts. Shortlisted for several, in 1958 he was at last successful in Cheltenham for a post advertised as a consultant surgeon with an interest in urology. This post he held until he retired in 1987. Peter and Ka were able to put down roots at last in Cheltenham. At their large Georgian home, the Borehams enjoyed tennis and eventually had a swimming pool built by Peter and his son, Michael. There were plenty of activities centred round their home and they were able to form many friendships in the neighbourhood. The family became active members of Christ Church, Cheltenham, and from 1960 to 1965 Peter was a churchwarden. Two further children were born in Cheltenham - Sarah in 1960 and Caroline in 1961. The enlarged family were able to enjoy holidays in the UK and abroad, camping in Spain and France. Peter was passionate about sailing his Wayfarer dinghy, using his children as ballast. On occasions they were tipped into the freezing Easter waters of Falmouth. As one of three general surgeons, in addition to looking after the majority of urological patients, Peter dealt with a third of the general surgical emergencies. He paid visits to Tewkesbury Hospital and developed a reputation amongst his juniors and colleagues as caring and compassionate to patients, but expecting others to adopt his high standards. As a surgeon he was calm, precise and workmanlike. Perhaps appearing a little stern to those who worked with him, they loved his intelligence, his wry smile and sense of humour which was never far away. He was a great supporter of postgraduate activities, and played a full part in hospital committees, including chairmanship of the consultant staff, whose business he handled with characteristic brevity and effectiveness. He was a consultant member of the former hospital management committee, disbanded during one of the first of the many NHS re-organisations. He served as a member of Gloucester Health Authority and of the South West Regional Higher Awards committee. An active member of the Gloucester branch of the British Medical Association, he became its president in 1975. He was a member and president of South West Surgeons Club and the South West Urologists group. In 1973 he was president of Cheltenham Rotary Club and during his presidency raised money to provide a Land Rover ambulance for a hospital in Kambia, Sierra Leone. In 1961 he was elected to the 1921 Surgical Travelling Club and was an active member for 25 years, serving first as secretary and later as president. Peter and Ka went on the twice yearly visits to most major surgical centres in Europe and a few in the USA. In retirement he wrote *Surgical journeys* (Merlin, 1990) - a history of this club. This was Peter's final publication and was a masterpiece of research. Retiring from the NHS in 1987, a large number of his junior staff came to a farewell dinner in his honour: they made a presentation of a silver salver, with their signatures engraved on it. Naturally, his family and many friends were delighted that all his work, both medical and voluntary, was recognised nationally by the award of an OBE in 1987. Peter and Ka went on a world tour visiting cousins in Canada and Australia, and former trainees with whom he had kept in touch. Peter was made chairman of the Kambia, Sierra Leone, appeal, and they both went to visit and work alongside doctors in the local hospital. Later they were able to welcome many Kambian staff who came to Cheltenham for professional training. Ill-health dogged the later years of his retirement. In 1994 he lost the sight in one eye due to polymyalgia rheumatica. Six years later, he needed major by-pass heart surgery in Bristol. After these health scares Peter and Ka moved out of their large Georgian house into a smaller, more manageable home. In 2002 he needed further surgery, this time for spinal stenosis and, some five years later, he underwent prostatic surgery. Developing very severe pneumonia in 2010, Peter was treated in Cheltenham General and Tewkesbury, the hospitals he had worked in for so many years. Eventually nursing care proved necessary, and he moved into St Faith's Nursing Home. Here, with failing eyesight and general vascular degeneration, he was visited twice a day by his dear wife Ka, who held his hand as they listened to the classical music he had enjoyed throughout his life. Although ailing, he never lost his faculties, and retained much of his excellent memory to near the end. Peter Francis Boreham died with all the family present on 8 March 2014, aged 91. He was survived by his five children, Michael, Jennifer, Judith, Sarah and Caroline, 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Several of the family have followed Peter into medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Burgess, Arthur Henry (1874 - 1948)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-24
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born at Stretford, near Manchester, on 2 February 1874, the second child and eldest son of John Henry Burgess, a merchant, and his wife, nee Sharrocks. He was educated at Rose Hill School, Bowden, Cheshire and, after a year in a shipping office, at Owens College, Manchester, where he won the Dalton natural history prize and graduated in zoology in 1892. In the medical school he was Dauntesey scholar 1892, junior Platt physiology exhibitioner 1893 and senior 1894, university scholar 1894, Turner scholar and Dumville surgical prizeman 1896. He had taken the MSc in physiology in 1895 and qualified in medicine and surgery in 1896, taking the Conjoint examination the same year, which was his only divagation from a wholly Manchester education. He was appointed resident surgical officer at Manchester Royal Infirmary, took the Fellowship in 1899, and became assistant surgeon to the infirmary in 1905. He was promoted surgeon in 1910, and consulting surgeon in 1934. He was surgeon to the Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, and the Manchester Union Hospital, Crumpsall, at both of which he had held resident posts, and to the Christie Cancer Hospital. As lecturer on surgery in the Victoria University, he was remarkable for his careful and detailed teaching, and he was elected professor of clinical surgery in 1921. Burgess joined the territorial RAMC on its formation in 1908. During the war of 1914-18 he was consulting surgeon to the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, and in charge of No 33 General Hospital, having previously been surgeon to the officers' section of the 2nd Western General Hospital, Manchester. He was consultant in surgery to the Ministry of Health emergency medical service in the war of 1939-45. At the College he was a member of Council from 1925, a vice-president in 1934-36, Bradshaw lecturer 1933, and Hunterian orator 1941. Owing to the bomb damage to the College house, his oration was delivered in the rooms of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was president of the British Medical Association when it met at Manchester in 1929, and of the Association of Surgeons in 1933. He was elected an honorary Doctor of Manitoba University as immediate past president of the BMA at the Winnipeg meeting in 1930, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons when he delivered the J B Murphy oration at Chicago in 1931. Burgess was technically a supreme general surgeon. As a young man he set out to achieve complete efficiency, and was never content without the greatest care in preparation and all other details. He achieved safety and. ease in all kinds of abdominal operations. Urology was always a main interest, but he also undertook thyroid surgery, and was an early practitioner of spinal analgesia and of electro-surgery. He always took advantage of whatever any of the ancillary sciences could provide to help, the surgeon. Burgess married in 1901 Elspeth, second daughter of Thomas Robinson of Leek, Staffordshire. Mrs Burgess died on 31 August 1941. Burgess died suddenly at Edinburgh, where he had gone to attend the annual meeting of the Association of Surgeons, on 6 May 1948, aged 74. He was survived by four sons and a daughter. He had lived at Ashlea, Cheadle, Cheshire, and practised at 17 St John Street, Manchester. Burgess was a tall, very upright, good-looking man, somewhat stiff in manner but essentially friendly and hospitable. He was a sound musician and took an active interest in the Manchester College of Music. He had travelled widely, and often took his holidays in Ireland, where he claimed to have visited every county. Publications:- 500 consecutive cases of acute appendicitis. *Brit med J*. 1912, 1, 415. The debt of surgery to the ancillary sciences (presidential address BMA). *Brit med J*. 1929, 2, 131. Electrosurgery (Bradshaw lecture RCS 1933). *Lancet*, 1933, 2, 1355 and 1411. Charles White (Hunterian oration RCS 1941). *Lancet*, 1941, 1, 235.
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First Title value, for Searching Cox, Robert (1912 - 2000)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-23
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Robert 'Bobbie' Cox, formerly senior surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, was born in Batu Gajah, Perak, Malaya, on 24 October 1912, the son of Irish parents who came from Cork. His father, Robert, was a doctor, and his mother, Mary Ann neé Cummings, a nurse. At the age of eight, the family relocated to the UK, to Dulwich, where his father became a family doctor. At this time Bobbie could speak fluent English and Malay, but could neither read nor write. This lack of formal education was rectified at Brightlands Preparatory School, before he entered Dulwich College. His father died, aged 45, of septicaemia from a carbuncle of his neck. Robert had just matriculated and had, against his father's wishes, but with his supportive advice, decided on a career in medicine. As his mother was destitute, he fortunately gained an entrance scholarship to the Westminster Hospital, commencing his training at King's College. Here he gained the Chadwick prize in both surgery and clinical surgery, the Hanbury prize in diseases of children, and the Abraham prize in pathology. He played scrum-half for the hospital and was proud to become president of the rugby club at a later date, when he made a habit of taking nurses, doctors and other theatre staff to vital cup matches, before returning to complete a full operating list! After house appointments and registrar training at both the Westminster and Royal Northern Hospitals, with such famous names as A Tudor Edwards, Sir Lancelot Barrington Ward, Kenneth Walker and G T Mullally, he took a well-earned break as a ship's doctor to Shanghai. During the second world war, he served as a Major in the British Expeditionary Force in France, before going to North Africa and taking part in the desert campaign with the Eighth Army. It was in Aleppo, Syria, that he met Joan Mayoh, a Queen Alexandra's nurse, in 1943. They married in Brindisi, Italy, in 1944, and she became a vital part of his successful career. Of his experiences in the war he spoke little, although he kept a diary of events which is a family treasure. Clearly, he was affected by entering Belsen; his respect for life and his caring approach pervaded all that he did. At the end of the war, he returned to an austere civilian life. The governors of the Westminster Hospital wisely appointed him assistant surgeon to Sir Stanford Cade and Sir Clement Price Thomas as a mark of Bobbie's promise and in order not to lose his talents. He was an exceptionally dextrous and precise surgeon; his teaching by the bedside and in outpatients sparkled with humour. But he would never tolerate inefficiency, stupidity or timidity. At these times his twinkling Irish eyes became laser-like. Although he had a leaning towards urology, coupled with the generality of surgery, his Hunterian Professorship in 1957 was entitled 'The management of dysphagia due to malignant disease of the thoracic and abdominal oesophagus', not a subject for the fainthearted in those days. He was secretary of the section of surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1955 to 1957, and remained an associate member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, his opinions being highly regarded in this field. As secretary of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland from 1966 to 1971, and a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1965 to 1971, he was widely respected for both his wisdom and judgement. In university life he examined in London and Manchester. But he remained totally loyal to the Westminster Hospital for giving him a start in life - becoming senior surgeon in 1972. He held other appointments at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and to British Airways. Some honorary appointments he rated above all others, in particular those connected with the Army. He was honorary consulting surgeon to Queen Alexandra Hospital, Millbank, from 1960 to 1967, consulting surgeon to the Army and to the Royal Hospital for Pensioners, Chelsea, making weekly visits. For this he was appointed a CBE in 1974. From a small flat in Pimlico, he moved to Howards Lane in Putney, where he created a beautiful garden. No evening was complete without a horticultural ward round, usually with gin and tonic in hand. Bobbie was very knowledgeable, often confounding visitors with the Latin names of plants, shrubs and trees. A keen fisherman, he retired to an idyllic spot by the river Itchen, in Hampshire, where he created another beautiful garden. Sadly, Joan developed increasing dementia, while he underwent a pericardiectomy himself. The need for continuing medication for this and his prostate cancer was a fine balancing act, which he bore with typical stoicism and witty asides. His comments were often pithy and terse, but the delightful Irish twinkle was never far away. Although small of stature, he was a giant in many ways. Above all, he was a family man with two sons, Robert and Patrick (one a consultant urologist), and a daughter, Rosemary, who became a Nightingale nurse. Initially he cared for Joan in her long illness, until she needed care in a nursing home. Yet during these times, a simple phone call was answered 'How nice to hear from you, dear boy!' Eventually, after her death, he moved to Cornwall to appreciate one last summer with his son and daughter-in-law. Bobbie died on 7 February 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Donovan, Hugh (1897 - 1959)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-10 2022-01-21
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 24 September 1897, son of Lieutenant-Colonel H L Donovan RAMC, he was one of a large family which contributed notably to medicine and the Services. Major-General Sir Patrick Hehir, Indian Medical Service, was an uncle, and three of Donovan's brothers became well-known Birmingham doctors. Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Hugh Donovan was a scholar, played in the XV and was colour-sergeant of the OTC. At Birmingham University his medical studies were interrupted by the first world war and he served as a surgeon-probationer in destroyers. His clinical studies were outstanding for he won all the medals, prizes and scholarships for his particular year. After qualifying in 1920 he was house surgeon to Seymour Barling before entering the Indian Medical Service. When he found that Service life was not to his taste he returned to resident hospital posts. Once Donovan had decided to be a surgeon he took the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1924 and the English in 1925. His main interest was urology, which he studied in London, and was a clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital. Soon afterwards he was appointed assistant surgeon at the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham. In later life he decided to withdraw from general surgery and practise only as a urologist, and he became one of the leaders in his field. He built up a large department, with extensive out-patient services, which he aimed to make the urological centre for the West Midlands. Donovan was president of the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1953-54, and vice-president of the Section of Surgery at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in Birmingham in 1958. He accepted the presidency of the British Association of Urological Surgeons for 1960, but had to withdraw because of ill health. On 19 December 1932 Hugh Donovan married Mabel Thorburn Johnstone MD, of Letchworth, an old friend and former fellow-student. It was a most happy marriage, and when Donovan's wife died leaving two small children, it was a tragic blow for him. He threw himself even more into his work and eventually impaired his health. He was a man of independent views, and a lively conversationalist with a whimsical Irish charm. He lived at 1194 Warwick Road, Solihull and later at Green Acres, Copt Heath, Warwickshire. He died on 16 December 1959 at the age of 62. Publications: Speculation on the nature of the chemical structure which is the essence of the malignant cell. *Nature* 1943, 152, 509. Severe anaemia and hyperpiesia associated with prostatic obstruction. *Brit J Urol* 1947, 19, 126. Care of the urinary tract in paraplegic patients. *Lancet* 1947, 1, 515. **See below for additional obituary uploaded 19 January 2022:** Hugh Donovan was a consultant in Birmingham and one of the first surgeons to specialise in urology, becoming a leader in this field. He was born on 24 September 1897 in Burma, the son of a Hugh Latimer Donovan, a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and Rosabel Sinclair Donovan née Kirkwood, who was originally from Dublin. There were many doctors in the family, including two uncles, Sir Patrick Hehir of the Indian Medical Service and William Donovan, a senior doctor in Erdington. Hugh’s first cousin was Charles Donovan, professor of pathology in Madras, who independently discovered the causative parasite of kala azar but was pre-empted in publication by a few weeks by William Leishman. Three of Hugh’s brothers, Harry, Ivar and Edwin, were well-known Birmingham GPs. Hugh saved the life of Ivar when as a small boy he fell into a rainwater tank in a greenhouse. His sister Lillie Mary, who also qualified in medicine at Birmingham, married Kenneth Bernard Pinson, a senior anaesthetist in Manchester. Hugh was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he was a scholar, played rugby and was colour-sergeant of the officers’ training corps. At Birmingham University his medical studies were interrupted by the First World War, and he served as a surgeon-probationer in destroyers. His clinical studies were outstanding, and he won all the medals, prizes and scholarships in his year. After qualifying he was a house surgeon to Seymour Barling in Birmingham before entering the Indian Medical Service. When he found that service life was not to his taste, he returned to resident hospital posts. Once Donovan had decided to be a surgeon, he took the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1924 and of England in 1925. His main interest was urology, which he studied in London, as a clinical assistant at St Peter’s Hospital. Soon afterwards he was appointed as an assistant surgeon at the Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham and was subsequently appointed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham as a consultant in general surgery. After the Second World War, he gradually withdrew from general surgery and practised as one of the first pure urologists, becoming one of the leaders in this specialty. He built up a large department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, with extensive out-patient services, which he aimed to make the urological centre for the west Midlands. Donovan was president of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1953 to 1954, and vice president of the section of surgery at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in Birmingham in 1958. On 19 December 1932 Hugh Donovan married Mabel Thorburn Johnstone, of Letchworth, an old friend and former fellow-student. It was a most happy marriage, and when Donovan's wife died in 1941, leaving a daughter and a son, it was a tragic blow for him. He threw himself even more into his work, which eventually impaired his health. He was a man of independent views, a lively conversationalist with a whimsical Irish charm. He enjoyed hill walking, often with friends and colleagues, and suffered his first myocardial infarction whilst on such an expedition. He died from the effects of coronary artery disease on 16 December 1959 at the age of 62, before he could take up the presidency of the British Association of Urological Surgeons to which he had been elected. Ian Donovan
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First Title value, for Searching Serjeant, John Cornelius Blair (1917 - 1997)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details John Cornelius Blair Serjeant was a consultant general surgeon and urologist at Shotley Bridge General Hospital, County Durham. He was born at Masham, Yorkshire, on 17 January 1917, the son of Robert Serjeant, a surveyor of HM Customs and Excise, and Agnes, his wife, formerly Blair, who was a teacher. His brother, Robert Bertram, was Professor of Arabic Studies at Cambridge, and his sister Aileen was a graduate of Edinburgh and a well-known translator. The family was brought up in Edinburgh. John's early education was at George Watson's School and then Edinburgh University, where he studied medicine, qualifying in 1939. He held a house surgeon post with Norman Dott at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and also at Leith Hospital. He joined the RAMC in January 1941 and was posted overseas to India, later serving in the Burma campaign. He was promoted to Captain and made graded surgical specialist. On demobilisation, he joined the Territorial Army and was granted the TD in 1955, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1961. He retired from the TA in 1970. After the war, he started the long struggle of surgical training, mainly under McNeil Love at the Royal Northern Hospital. He became a Fellow of the Edinburgh College in 1947 and of the London College in 1955. He became senior surgical registrar to St Peter's Hospital for Stone and then assistant surgeon to Addenbrookes in Cambridge. In 1960, he was appointed consultant surgeon to the North West Durham hospital group and to Shotley Bridge General Hospital. He shouldered the wide surgical practice of the time with energy and ability, and continued his special interest in urology. His excellent technique allowed him to perform cystectomies and conduit procedures efficiently at a fraction of the time of the practice today. Day surgery appealed to him and he established an excellent unit in 1966, many years before it became the norm elsewhere. He was a good teacher and students from Newcastle Medical School were keen to join his firm. He gave strong support to the British Association of Urological Surgeons, serving on its council, and also to the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association. A colleague writes that, during the industrial troubles of the Barbara Castle period, John went to operate at the day unit, only to be told by a union steward that his private patient on the list had been cancelled. He replied, "OK, will you tell the patients, many being burly miners, that you have cancelled the entire list?" The steward replied that only the private patient had been cancelled. John stood firm, saying: "As far as I am concerned you have cancelled the lot and you are free to discuss your grievances when you have explained the cancellation to the patients." There was a short union meeting and afterwards the whole list went ahead as planned. There was no further trouble at Shotley. He was a man of many interests. He sailed on the Derwent, studied military history, particularly the Wellington period, made and exhibited model soldiers, and had a deep love of the music of Bach. There were few Easters when he missed a recital of St Matthew's Passion. He married Terry Dew in 1946, who predeceased him. He retired to Surrey, dying from carcinoma of the prostate on 3 September 1997. He is survived by his son, David, a lawyer. There are two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Rawlinson, James Keith McClure (1923 - 2014)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2014-12-12
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Keith Rawlinson was a general surgeon with an interest in urology at Walton Hospital, Liverpool. He was born on 1 August 1923, the second son of James Herbert Rawlinson (always known as 'Rawli'), a pre-NHS surgeon who practised at the Liverpool Northern Hospital, and Mabel Rawlinson née McClure, a nurse. His mother died in 1930 when Keith was just seven, and he and his older brother were cared for by an aunt until Rawli remarried in 1938. His stepmother, the widow of a family friend, Henry Roberts, became known as 'Granny' George in the family. Keith's brother, J Geoffrey Rawlinson, worked in the chemical industry after serving in the Army during the Second World War, and then spent 25 years as a management consultant. The two brothers were close and in their younger days went on holidays together, fell walking and exploring the Lake District. Keith developed Perthes' disease of the hip in his early years: this was treated with bed rest and he was put in a frame. Although the osteochondritis settled down, he was left with a permanent and characteristic limp, and in adult life tended to use a stick. After preparatory school at Braeside, Hoylake, he went to Oundle School for his secondary education. Here he had a good academic record, winning several form prizes and an award for shooting. Other competitive sports and subsequent Armed forces enrolment were clearly out of the question in view of his previous hip disease. He entered Liverpool University for his medical training and served in the Home Guard whilst studying. He saw plenty of action during the wartime raids on Liverpool when incendiary devices were dropped on West Kirby and other areas. Medical students also cared for the returning wounded soldiers as part of their routine clinical experience. He qualified in 1947 and house appointments followed in the Liverpool area. His first house surgeon post was with Philip Reginald Hawe at the David Lewis Northern Hospital, who had a reputation as a good general and paediatric surgeon, and was a fine teacher. A house physician post to Leslie Cunningham followed, again at the Northern Hospital. Keith may have contemplated a career in orthopaedics, as he proceeded to an orthopaedic house surgeon post with E N Wardle for a year, and was upgraded to junior registrar. However, general surgery beckoned, and he returned to work with Hawe for two years as his registrar. By then his chief had developed a specialist interest in head and neck surgery, and thyroid diseases in particular. Keith was given three months' study leave to attend fellowship courses in London, including one at St Bartholomew's Hospital. During this time he passed the FRCS. He was now in a position to gain more general experience, this time with A Rose at the Royal Southern Hospital in Liverpool from October 1952 to September 1953, and then for two years up to March 1957 with J B Oldham, another excellent clinical teacher. His new chief was a perfectionist who ran an excellent unit, but could be outspoken at times. Keith's higher surgical training at senior registrar level was supervised by Charles Wells. Trainee and trainer were both born in Liverpool, and educated there as undergraduates. Wells was appointed to the Royal Southern Hospital as a general surgeon with interests in urology, inflammatory bowel disease and gastric surgery. He built up a large practice in the NHS and in private work and had an enormous capacity for hard work. Expecting his trainees to develop the same ethos, by the time Keith joined him Wells had already assumed full-time academic professorial status, and was attracting many able young trainee surgeons from all over the United Kingdom and from overseas. A hard taskmaster, he encouraged Keith in his research work for his masters degree, which he wrote up as 'Intestinal motility in the post-operative period'. Pending gaining a permanent consultant post, Wells encouraged Keith to undertake locum consultant positions. One of these was in 1958 on the Isle of Man: here he gained notoriety for saving the life of a motorcyclist who had been involved in a serious accident during the TT race and needed emergency neurosurgery. The following year, he worked in a more sedate post at Musgove Park Hospital, Taunton, for six months. In 1960 he was appointed as a general surgeon with an interest in urology to Walton Hospital, Liverpool: after 12 years he switched to practise pure urology and, initially with Norman Gibbon, ran the urology services at Walton for 17 years. He was very interested in urodynamic studies and explored the place of self-hypnosis in the management of urge incontinence. He engaged in private practice from Rodney Street, Liverpool, and operated from Park House with his friend and anaesthetist, Tom Forrest. Keith was a member of the Liverpool Medical Institution, being its secretary for a few years and becoming a life member in 1993. He and his wife enjoyed membership of the Grey Turner Travelling Surgical Club from 1963 to 2000, and he was the 'chronicler' of its travels at home and abroad for almost 20 years. He played an active part in the Innominate Club of Liverpool, founded in the 1930s as a dining/debating club for medical practitioners. Usually meeting each month in the winter, members gave talks to each other on non-medical subjects: some of Keith's subjects were on 'time', 'watch this space', 'Iona' and 17th century Swedish warships and astronomy. All these topics indicate that Keith was widely read: he felt it was important to find time during the day to pause and reflect on something outside oneself. He was a committed Christian, but questioning of matters relating to his personal faith. Family life was important to him. He met Griselda Carlisle, his future wife, at her 21st birthday party in August 1951. She was the youngest daughter of Henry Carlisle, a general practitioner, and was a talented pianist. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music, taught in London and performed. They were married on 23 May 1954 at St Peter's Church, Heswall. Griselda gave occasional recitals and accompanied soloists in their early married life, but her professional life really took off again in the mid-1970s, once the family was established at school and university. She accompanied choral groups, and taught in schools and at Liverpool University. Keith and Griselda had three children, Nigel, Iain and Fiona. Nigel trained in surgery and was later ordained as a minister. Iain qualified as a lawyer and has worked in banking and as a company and charity director. Fiona trained as a GP and then became a consultant in palliative medicine. In spite of his hip disability, Keith became a member of the Caldy Golf Club, having been a member of the Royal Liverpool Golf Club as a boy, when he played with his father. He was an active member of Clwyd Anglers, and fished there most Wednesdays on his afternoon off work. He enjoyed trout fishing, and tied his own flies. In Scotland, Keith and Griselda fished on the Dee, but their main fishing was on the Polly River. Since the end of the First World War, Griselda's father had taken a month's holiday every year at Inverpolly Lodge and the extended family carried on this tradition up until 2013. A caravan also allowed the Rawlinson family weekend breaks away from the pressures of medical life. Keith enjoyed creating things, including the setting up a hydroponic system in his greenhouse to water lettuces and tomatoes. He made radio-controlled cars, boats and, rather ambitiously, an aeroplane. He built a dinghy in the glass house at home for the family to enjoy. Fond of classical music, Keith was a regular attender at Royal Philharmonic concerts. He played the organ at home: it had two manuals with a full pedal board. As the children learned to play recorders, not to be outdone, he joined them. When he started a new instrument he would take lessons and practise seriously. He was fond of his MGB sports cars, but rarely exceeded the speed limit. The evening meal was often delayed as Keith was frequently late back from work. Meals taken together were always dynamic times as conversation flowed back and forth. Griselda was always the rock underpinning and building 'Glenburn' in Heswall, Merseyside, their permanent home. This was the house to which the family returned, came for sanctuary, brought friends and partners, and in which life decisions were made. Keith retired in 1989, but was invited back to help with 'waiting list initiatives'. He continued to read the *BMJ*, quizzing his medical children on articles before they had time to read them! Keith and Griselda found more time to travel together. They toured New Zealand in 1992 and Canada and the Rockies in 1994 in a campervan, and they were able to visit their son Iain when he was living in South Africa. Keith continued exercising daily in the hope of staying as mobile as possible, and took up golf again, but he needed artificial joint replacements to both hips and both knees. He continued to be mentally agile and stimulation came from playing bridge. In later years, he tackled the intricacies of technology, learning to use Skype and latterly an iPad. As his general health began to deteriorate, adaptations were made within the house: inevitably with the 'Keith Rawlinson' touch of creativity. Keith Rawlinson died peacefully with his family present at his home on 12 March, 2014 aged 90. He was survived by his wife of 59 years, Griselda, his children Nigel, Iain and Fiona and his grandchildren Claire, Anna-Fleur, Sam, Adam, Tom and Kitty. Keith's passion for learning, his interest in life and his ability to extract the very most out of each day will be remembered by all who knew him.
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First Title value, for Searching Ward-McQuaid, John Francis Neil (1918 - 1988)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Francis Neil Ward-McQuaid, the son of Colonel John FTP Ward-McQuaid and his wife Enid Ecila, née Cheshire, was born on 30 December 1918 at Neston, Cheshire. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, where he won several prizes and was a notable cricketer. As the son of a serving army officer he was awarded a Kitchener Scholarship to St Mary's Hospital Medical School. After graduating in 1942 he did one resident appointment and then joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in which he remained for several years after the end of the second world war. He had become a graded surgeon in the Middle East and his last appointment was as surgeon to the Trans Jordan Frontier Force, at Zerka, with the rank of Major. On demobilisation he was surgical registrar and tutor at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and then senior registrar to Arthur Dickson Wright at St Mary's Hospital before being appointed consultant surgeon to Mansfield and Kings Mill Hospitals. These were both immensely busy institutions in the Nottinghamshire mining area where Neil acquired rich experience in general and urological surgery. He was a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and served on its Council and was also a member of Council of the British Association of Surgical Oncologists. At the Royal College of Surgeons he held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and was a Hunterian Professor. He served on the Court of Examiners for two spells and was ultimately its chairman. He was also President of the Section of Surgery at the Royal Society of Medicine. A keen and active member of the International Society of Surgery, he organised an excellent meeting at Mansfield in 1980 between that society's regular biennial international gatherings. Despite his exceedingly busy life in two regional hospitals, where he himself made significant contributions to notably high standards of care, he conscientiously fulfilled his many other professional commitments and published a number of papers on general and urological surgery. He was active in church affairs and was awarded a papal knighthood of St Sylvester in recognition of his years as master of the Nottingham Catholic Guild of Doctors. He had a quiet, friendly, unflamboyant style with a teasing sense of humour and it was said that his whole personality was admirably illustrated on the cricket field where he was an accurate and cunning spin bowler. He was steadfast and loyal to all his friends and an entertaining companion. He married Elizabeth Conway, a schoolteacher, in 1943, and they had six children. One of their two sons is a consultant anaesthetist and the other a psychologist. Of the four daughters, one is a nurse and another is a hospital manager in the United States. On his retirement Neil greatly missed his hospital work and was soon overcome by ill health. When he died, aged 70, on 8 July 1988, he was survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, James Christie (1899 - 1984)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation Farmer General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details James Christie Anderson, third child and third son of James Alexander Anderson, a schoolmaster, and Jeanie (née Boswell), was born in Dundee on 4 December 1899. After early education at Butterburn School and Dundee High School he secured an entrance scholarship to St Andrew's University where he originally intended to study agriculture. But his studies were interrupted by the first world war when he joined the Navy as a probationer Surgeon Lieutenant in 1917. On returning to Queen's College, Dundee, he won the obstetrics and gynaecology medal before graduating in 1922. He was house surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, before serving as resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital in London. During this period in London he played rugby football for the London Scottish. He then moved to Chesterfield before becoming surgical registrar at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, in 1926. He passed the FRCS in 1928 and was appointed honorary consultant surgeon at Sheffield in 1934. He was also lecturer in surgery and applied anatomy to Sheffield University. Originally a general surgeon, Jock, as he was universally known, developed a growing interest in urology to which he later made a number of important contributions, notably in relation to carcinoma of the bladder and also hydronephrosis. The Anderson-Hynes pyeloplasty procedure was devised in concert with a plastic surgeon colleague in Sheffield. Having enrolled in the Territorial Army before the second world war, he was called up on the outbreak of hostilities and became officer in charge of the surgical division of No 29 British General Hospital with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He served in Persia and Iraq and later in Normandy after D-day. When hostilities ceased he was called on to tend the victims of Belsen. He was awarded the OBE and TD and was mentioned in despatches. On demobilisation in 1945 he returned to Sheffield where his surgical work became primarily urological. He was President of the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1961 and hosted a meeting in Sheffield of the British Association of Urological Surgeons in 1962. He also served for two spells on the court of examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons up to 1968 and was on the advisory panel on the training of surgeons. Outside his surgical work with relatively little knowledge of agriculture, Jock purchased a farm in Lincolnshire in 1948. Busily engaged in surgery during the week, farming soon became his second love at weekends. This led quite naturally to a new life after retirement when he and his wife bought a farm in Western Australia some 200 miles south of Perth where he raised sheep and a splendid herd of cattle and, not forgetful of his first love, became an elected Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1971. One of his sons, James Christie Anderson, FRCS, is an orthopaedic surgeon in Perth; the second son is a veterinary surgeon also in Australia, and two of the three daughters emigrated to Australia, so that the family largely remained in proximity after his retirement from Sheffield. Jock Anderson was a most industrious, cheerful and kindly man who made innumerable friends all over the world. Above all he loved a good argument. His surgical firm at Sheffield was a happy one for he gave much encouragement to his juniors and had the knack of bringing the best out of everyone. He had an abiding interest in history; was blessed with a good memory, and was a generous and charming host, with as much enthusiasm for vintage wines as for vintage Rolls-Royces. When he died in Perth, WA, on 3 February 1984 he was survived by his wife, his five children and fourteen grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Wade, Robert (1798 - 1872)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-16
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Occupation Apothecary General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on November 23rd, 1798, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, in which town his father carried on business as a brewer. He received his early education at a neighbouring school, and having been duly apprenticed came to London when 20 years of age. He had expected at once to attend lectures and hospital practice, but his father having become involved in difficulties, young Wade was thrown upon his own resources. Of a robust frame, strong will, and a hopeful disposition, he looked to the future with confidence. He became assistant to one of the 'top apothecaries' in the West End, and for some years was a veritable drudge. He made up all the medicines, attended most of the night cases and all the lower class of midwifery. He entered St George's Hospital about the year 1817, passed the College of Surgeons in 1819, and the Apothecaries' Society in 1820. The office of Apothecary to the Westminster General Dispensary falling vacant, Wade became a candidate for it and was elected by a small majority. He fulfilled the duties of his appointment with great credit to himself and benefit to the institution for some years. About 1828 he commenced practice on his own account, at 68 Dean Street. For some time he eked out a somewhat scanty income by taking pupils, who always spoke of him afterwards with affectionate respect. Wade, on his retirement from the office of Apothecary to the Dispensary, was unanimously elected Surgeon to the institution, and this office he held to the day of his death, performing the duties with such fidelity and punctuality that he was presented by the Governors with a handsome piece of plate in recognition of his services. The name 'specialist', when he took the office of Surgeon to the Dispensary, was all but unknown, but circumstances drove him, as it were, to choose a particular line of practice. Amongst the crowd of patients which attended on his 'days', numbers were affected with stricture of the urethra in all its forms. He soon found that some of them could not be successfully treated by simple dilatation, and he directed his mind to discover some means by which they could be treated with safety. Shortly before, the system of treatment carried out most extensively by Sir Everard Home had fallen into discredit, in consequence of the disastrous results ensuing from it. Home had recourse to the nitrate of silver, and no doubt was very successful in many cases, but he carried his practice to a degree of heroism which ended in its downfall. Thomas Whateley, after the failure of the lunar caustic, practised and advocated the use of the potassa fusa in the more intractable kinds of stricture. He had but a limited success, and at his death no one seemed desirous to become his successor. Then a new system of treatment was practised by some surgeons of more or less eminence, G J Guthrie (qv) and R A Stafford (qv) being foremost amongst them. This consisted in what was termed internal incision: a bougie armed with a knife was inserted into the urethra, and when the seat of the obstruction was fairly reached, the knife, being worked by a spring at the handle of the instrument, was protruded and the stricture freely divided. For a time all went well, but cases of severe haemorrhage were common, and fatal results occasional, so this variety of internal urethrotomy lost ground and died with Stafford, who, notwithstanding all its dangers and drawbacks, contended to the last that it was, on the whole, the most efficient and the safest that could be employed. Wade had opportunities of trying these plans of treatment, and after a long and anxious trial came to the conclusion that Whateley's was the best remedy; but he was soon convinced that the caustic potash had been used too freely by Whateley, just as the lunar caustic had been too freely employed by Home. He accordingly commenced his application of caustic potash in very minute quantities, and gradually increased them. He soon found that all the benefits of this agent could be obtained without resorting to the more powerful, and sometimes dangerous, amount employed by Whateley. Always cautious and painstaking, he hesitated long before he gave his views to the profession. At length, fortified by an experience of several hundred cases in public and private practice, he ventured to stand forth as the advocate of the use of that remedy in cases of irritable and intractable stricture. He denounced at first in unmeasured terms the 'perineal section' of Syme; but he was not a bigoted antagonist, and when he found he was wrong he acknowledged his error. One instance will suffice. Thomas Henry Wakley (qv) proposed and practised a most ingenious plan of treating stricture by gradual dilatation. In one edition of his work Wade strenuously opposed this plan, believing that it would cause laceration and danger; but he felt bound to satisfy himself on that point, and after some trial of the plan was convinced that in certain cases it might be employed with safety and advantage. In the very next edition of his work on stricture, he not only acknowledged his error, but actually gave a lithographic illustration of Wakley's instruments, and spoke of them with approbation. This is to his honour; for the *Lancet*, which represented the interests of Wakley, had attacked him with a rancour which was neither just nor justifiable. In 1834 he delivered a course of lectures on pathology at the Little Windmill Street School. He took few holidays - 'work to him was leisure'; but he annually rented a house at Hampstead for a 'little change', where he walked and talked with his family and friends amid the quiet lanes, the fertile fields, and the wooded heights of that suburban 'paradise'. A great appreciator of everything beautiful in nature, and a lover of the arts, he was anxious to obtain some works of William Henry Hunt (1790-1864). It was not, however, till 1851 that his means allowed him to indulge in what he then regarded as an expensive outlay. This was done with much caution and misgiving. The drawings by this distinguished artist at this period were but one-tenth of the value which they afterwards realized at public auctions. In an interview with William Vokins, who at this time had the majority of Hunt's works from the easel, and while contemplating a drawing of a 'Bird's Nest', the price of which was but twenty-two guineas, Wade expressed his great desire to purchase, but added: "I am but a poor surgeon, and though I should like it much, I hardly feel justified in doing so; but tell me honestly, should it so occur that I am unable to retain it, is it likely I may get my money again?" Being perfectly assured on this point, Wade bought the picture, and it was the nucleus of a collection of drawings of fruit, flowers, etc, entirely by this master - not large, but admitted to be unique in quality by everyone acquainted with the matter who had seen them, either on his walls or at the loan exhibitions, to which he was at all times a willing contributor. The possession of these drawings led to his acquaintance with the artist, and he became his medical adviser, attending him in his last illness. The collection - a remarkably fine one - was subsequently sold by Christie & Manson, and fetched enormous prices. Wade died at his house in Dean Street, Soho, two hours after a cerebral haemorrhage, on January 16th, 1872. Publications:- *Observations on Fever*, 8vo, London, 1824. *Practical Observations on the Pathology and Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra*, 8vo, London, 1841; 2nd ed, greatly enlarged, 1849; 4th ed, 1860. *Conservative Surgery of the Urethra...Treatment by Potassa Fusa*, 12mo, London; 2nd ed, 1868.
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First Title value, for Searching Swan, Russell Henry Jocelyn (1876 - 1943)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon Genito-urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born 20 July 1876 at Gosberton, Lincs, the second son of Richard Jocelyn Swan (1849-1925), MRCS 1870 (see *Lancet*, 1925, 2, 1257), and his wife Ana Elizabeth, elder daughter of Robert Russell Harper, MRCS 1875, of Holbeach, Lincs. R J Swan was the second son of John W Swan, MRCS 1835, of Ballyragget, Co Kilkenny; he practised till 1879 at Northleach, Glos, then for six years at Gosberton, and at Camberwell from 1885 till his death in 1925; his brother, Robert Lafayette Swan, was president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1899. Both the Swans and the Harpers had many medical forbears. R H J Swan was educated at Wilson's School and Guy's Hospital Medical School, where he was demonstrator of anatomy and of biology. He took first-class honours in medicine at the London MB examination when only twenty-two, and served as house surgeon and obstetric registrar at Guy's. He played Rugby football for the Hospital, and was an elusive half-back. He then served as house surgeon at St Peter's Hospital for Stone, where he acquired the interest in genito-urinary surgery which coloured his whole career. In 1902 he took the London MS and the Fellowship, though not previously a Member of the College. He was elected to the staff of the Royal Cancer Hospital, Fulham Road, where he served successively as surgical registrar, assistant surgeon, surgeon, and finally surgeon emeritus. He became also consulting surgeon to St Paul's Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases, to the Walton Cottage Hospital, and to the Watford Peace Memorial Hospital, and he served on the grand council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. During the first world war Swan was commissioned a temporary major, RAMC on 1 February 1917, and served as district consulting surgeon in the Eastern Command. He was surgeon to the Royal Herbert Hospital at Woolwich and to the American Red Cross Hospital for Officers, and later surgeon to the RAF hospitals. He was mentioned in despatches and created OBE for his services. At the outbreak of the second war in 1939 he gave up his large private practice and became divisional surgeon in the emergency medical service at Park Prewett, Basingstoke, where he carried on his duty even when his health began finally to fail. Swan was an excellent all-round surgeon, whose main interests were in cancer and genito-urinary diseases. He was also specially interested in the surgery of peripheral nerve injuries. His operations on the breast were models of technique, for he was a fine operator, careful and thorough, of sound judgement and calm decision. He served on the editorial board of the *British Journal of Urology*, and was president of the section of urology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He was also a member of the Société internationale d'Urologie. In 1917 he operated successfully upon the King's aunt, HRH the Duchess of Albany. Swan married twice: (1) in 1908 Una Gladys, daughter of A Waterlow; she died in 1924 of an obscure malignant disease, leaving a son and three daughters; (2) in 1927 Joyce Hazel, younger daughter of H M Thornton of Purley. Mrs Swan was taken severely ill on their honeymoon and was paralysed for some months; she recovered and survived him, but without children. Swan died in London on 2 March 1943, aged 66. He had practised at 75 Wimpole Street. A memorial service was held at the Royal Cancer Hospital on 9 March. He was a man of great charm, gentle, and considerate. He was a good player of golf and lawn-tennis. Swan had travelled much and took cinematograph films of the places he visited. He was a good raconteur, and also made a valuable collection of postage stamps. Publications: Genito-urinary diseases, in French's *Index of differential diagnosis*, Bristol, 1911. Primary unilateral renal tuberculosis. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1910, 64, 39. Some reflections upon villous-covered tumours of the urinary bladder. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1925-26, 19, urol p 1. New growths of the kidney. *Brit med J* 1933, 1, 606.
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First Title value, for Searching Nitch, Cyril Alfred Rankin (1876 - 1969)

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First Title value, for Searching Jose, Sir Ivan Bede (1893 - 1969)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-18
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ivan Jose was born on 13 February 1893 in China where his father was an Anglican missionary. When he was ten years old the family moved to Adelaide, South Australia, where his father became first the Rector of Christ Church, North Adelaide, and later Dean of the Adelaide diocese. Ivan had two younger brothers, and all three of them were imbued from their childhood with a spirit of service, inherited no doubt from their father. Wilfred, the second son was killed in action in France in 1917, and Gilbert, the youngest, who qualified in medicine, served in the Australian Army Medical Corps in the second world war and died as a prisoner-of-war. Ivan went to school in Adelaide, first at Queen's School and then at St Peter's College, for which he had a lasting affection. At the outbreak of the first world war he was within a year of the final MB, but at once enlisted as a private in the AAMC. However, after two months in camp he was sent back to qualify, which he did in August 1915 and then rejoined the Medical Corps as a Captain. He served for a short time on the Suez Canal and then joined the 14th Field Ambulance in France, rose to the rank of Major, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917. Directly after the war he concentrated on surgical training, and in 1922 he obtained the Fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England; the MS of Adelaide in 1923; and the Australasian Fellowship in 1929. He was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924, and served as surgeon to inpatients from 1930 till obligatory retirement in 1950, under the 20 year rule, after which he acted as honorary consulting surgeon. He was a general surgeon with a special interest in urology, but his outstanding contribution was to teaching, in which he excelled at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. He was made the first Director of Surgical Studies in the Medical School in 1936, and proved to be not only an inspiring leader, but also a capable administrator, introducing many improvements in the organization of surgical teaching in the school. He also served on the Council of the University of Adelaide from 1954 till 1966. He never looked for praise or renown, and his quiet almost shy manner masked an underlying resolution and determination which, usually by peaceful persuasion, gained his point and carried the day. It was therefore inevitable that he should be in demand for service on many medical bodies - President of the South Australian Branch of the BMA in 1954; on the Council of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1945 to 1957 and President for the final two years of that period; Chairman of the South Australian Division of the Australian Red Cross Society and a member of the National Council, to which he made a distinguished contribution; President of the Australian Postgraduate Federation in Medicine, which involved coordination of interstate activities, and links with similar bodies overseas; a vigorous part in hospital building in Adelaide, both the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and St Andrew's Presbyterian Private Hospital; and he also assisted greatly in the development of the Blood Transfusion Service. It might be supposed that these "public" duties might have interfered with his own practice of surgery, but this was not so, and there were countless patients who were reassured by his own quiet confidence as well as profiting from his surgical skill. Furthermore, he managed to find time for relaxation on the golf course, though as a younger man he had done well at cricket and tennis, and latterly he derived great pleasure and satisfaction from converting an area of scrub land to the south east of Adelaide into first-class grazing property. In May 1919 he married Imogen Hawkes who throughout his career gave him tremendous encouragement and support, whether on so many happy occasions when she played her part as a most charming hostess, or during the grim long months of his final illness which he bore with characteristic fortitude. They shared the delight of the richly deserved honour of his knighthood in 1963, and of their golden wedding which gave them great joy. They had three children, of whom the youngest, John, is following in his father's footsteps as an urological surgeon. Ivan Jose died at the age of 76 on 23 November, 1969, leaving behind him a magnificent record of service to his country, his profession, his University, his College, and his fellow men.
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First Title value, for Searching Riches, Sir Eric William (1897 - 1987)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Eric William Riches, the second child and eldest son of William Riches, a schoolmaster, and of Kate Riches (née Rowbotham), was born on 29 July 1897, at Alford, Lincolnshire. He was educated at St Dunstan's, Alford, and Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Alford, before securing an entrance scholarship to Christ's Hospital where he won a number of prizes. After a further entrance scholarship to the Middlesex Hospital in 1915, he deferred his admission to join the Army, serving first in the 10th Lincoln and then the 11th Suffolk Regiments. Awarded an MC in 1917, he was demobilised in 1919 with the rank of Captain to enter medical school where he won a second year exhibition, the Lyell Gold Medal in surgery and a Senior Broderip Scholarship. On graduating in 1925 he was house physician to Drs R A Young and George Beaumont, and then house surgeon to G G Taylor (later Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor) before demonstrating anatomy at the Middlesex and working as a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. He secured the MS and final FRCS in 1927 and became surgical registrar to Blundell Bankart and Alfred Webb-Johnson before his appointment to the surgical staff of the Middlesex in 1930. He began primarily as a general surgeon with a special interest in urology and was also appointed to the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth and to St Andrew's, Dollis Hill. He became consultant urologist to the Army and to the Royal Masonic Hospital, and consulting surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions Spinal Injuries Centre. Eric Riches was a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1938, and both Hunterian Professor and Jacksonian Prizeman in 1942. He served six years on the Court of Examiners and sixteen years on Council, being Vice-President in 1961-62. He was successively Bradshaw lecturer, Arnott demonstrator and Gordon-Taylor lecturer. For many years he acted as curator of historic surgical instruments at the College. He was a most energetic man who took an enthusiastic interest in teaching his students and in training young surgeons. He published many urological papers and wrote or contributed to several books, including *Modern trends in urology* and *Tumours of the kidney and ureter*. He was also a lively and effective speaker at the many societies he supported: President in medallist of the British Association of Urological Surgeons; President and Lettsomian lecturer of the Medical Society of London; President and orator of the Hunterian Society. At the Royal Society of Medicine he was a Vice-President, honorary librarian, and had been President of the Clinical, Surgery and Urology Sections. He was also chairman of the editorial committee and treasurer of the *British journal of urology*. He received the well-earned accolade of Knight Bachelor in 1958. But his reputation was international; he had been elected to the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons in 1953; he was Vice-President of the International Society of Urology in 1961 and president at that society's 13th Congress in London in 1964. He retained a great love for his old school, Christ's Hospital, where he became a governor in 1958 and a member of the Council of Almoners in 1960. In 1966 he was appointed to the house and finance and education committees, and became deputy chairman in the following year. From 1970 to 1976 he succeeded his old friend and patient, Sir Barnes Wallis as treasurer and chairman of the Council of Almoners. Sir Eric was a superb surgical technician and innovator, a modest man with a friendly smile, and it was inevitable that he should build up a large and highly successful private practice which he continued for many years after his retirement in 1962: indeed he eventually had to be given firm encouragement to stop operating. He included among his hobbies photography, golf and music, with considerable enthusiasm for the last two, though even he admitted that his standard of performance on the cello did not quite match up to his earlier surgical skill. For the last few years of his life, in sad contrast to his lively character and exuberance in former years, he survived in poor and deteriorating health. He was twice married, first to Dr Annie Brand. They had two daughters: one of whom, Dr Anne Riches, is in general practice. After the death of his first wife he married Ann Kitton, a nurse at the Middlesex Hospital, and they had one daughter. When he died, aged 90, on 8 November 1987, he was survived by his second wife and the daughters of both marriages. A thanksgiving service was held at St Marylebone Parish Church where the address was given by Professor Leslie LeQuesne with the Christ's Hospital Choir and Brass Ensemble in attendance.
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Ronald Henry Ottywell Betham (1897 - 1973)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details R H O B Robinson was born in 1897 in London. He was known to his friends as Joey. His childhood was spent in Upper Wimpole Street where his father practised as a consulting surgeon; and he lived all his days in a world of surgery that was changing. His career spanned the years that marked the evolution of surgery from Edwardian to contemporary methods. His father was called "The General" at St Thomas's Hospital and he brought Joey up in the strict regime and social manners of the times. These were the days before telephones or motor cars; days when the night staff at the hospital could only communicate with the consulting surgeon by sending a porter to Wimpole Street in a hansom cab. As a boy Joey met all the distinguished surgeons of the late Victorian era and he was taught to revere the art of a profession that many considered to be at its acme. Science had not yet taken over. He was educated at Malvern College and Kings College, Cambridge, where he won a senior scholarship - an award of which he was very proud. He arrived at St Thomas's as a medical student at the beginning of the first world war; but soon afterwards, he enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Surgeon Probationer. By 1921 he had the FRCS Diploma and soon afterwards he was elected to the consulting staff of St Thomas's Hospital as a general surgeon. There were very few special departments in those days and general surgery was the calling of those who aimed high. Strange as it may now seem he wrote the chapter on orthopaedic surgery in the first edition of the book by Mitchiner and Romanis. He was Arris and Gale Lecturer in 1930. When Joey first became a surgeon to out-patients at St Thomas's the majority of his colleagues prided themselves on their ability to operate with great speed, and to be able to work in almost any improvised surroundings - the kitchen of a private house for instance - and with the uninformed assistance of general practitioner anaesthetists. Joey never operated except in a properly equipped operating theatre, and he strove to perfect for himself techniques that later became commonplace: pre-and post-operative care, an accurate incision, good exposure, haemostasis and gentleness. Although he began his career as a general surgeon he soon specialised in urology. He became the senior surgeon at St Thomas's and he filled his important post with care and dignity. He was devoted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England and he served as chairman of the Court of Examiners, member of Council, and chairman of the library committee. At the age of 65, at the time of his retirement from St Thomas's Hospital, he also retired from the Council of the College as a matter of principle. He was also President of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vice-President of the British Association of Urologists, and Master of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers. In spite of these important offices, held in the service of surgery, he did not seek and he did not get any special honours. Indeed his sterling merits were only known to his intimate friends: to others they were hidden under a cloak of humility. Throughout his life he had great strength of purpose; an attribute that was revealed when he was a junior doctor and courting Miss Audrey Walker. This young lady was, at first, doubtful of his merits and she went to India to reflect. Joey gave up his work, went to India, brought her back to England and married her: and they lived happily ever after. In his home he was fond of gardening and of flowers: he took a professional interest in motor cars and was a devotee of vintage Bentleys. His patients often found him shy but they saw so much of him that they soon were able to discuss their fears and anxieties with him, and from him many drew their resolve. The medical students, on his firms, were likewise rather inhibited at first but, with time, they came to appreciate his great clinical scholarship. And it is noticeable that many of them kept up their association with him long after they had left St Thomas's. His conversation was somewhat formal but the shafts of dry wit that crept into the things he said were the more effective because they were unexpected. He was well-read, learned about general affairs, and somewhat philosophical; and in all his dealings with his fellow men he was scrupulously fair. Above all else he was a sensitive, tolerant, gentleman. He died on 6 February 1973, and was survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Nicholls, Sir Marriott Fawckner (1898 - 1969)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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Occupation General surgeon Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist
Details Born in London on 12 May 1898 the son of Marriott Edwin Nicholls he was educated at the City of London School, Clare College, Cambridge and St George's Hospital, London. His undergraduate studies were interrupted by the first world war, during which he enlisted with the Royal Fusiliers at the age of seventeen and served with them from 1915-1919. After demobilization in 1919 with the rank of Captain he returned to his studies at Cambridge and graduated BA in 1921. For his clinical work he entered St George's Hospital qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1923. He took the FRCS in 1926, graduated BCh two years later and obtained the MChir in 1932. While at St George's he was awarded the Allingham Scholarship in surgery in 1925 and the Sir Francis Laking Research Scholarship in 1928-9 and again in 1929-30. He held the usual junior surgical appointments including that of assistant curator of the Museum (1926), a post which until its abolition was a nursery in pathology for young aspirants to the surgical staff. In 1932 he was appointed to the consultant staff of St George's and soon established himself as a successful surgeon and a popular and lucid teacher. He was also consultant to the Royal Chest and the Belgrave Children's Hospitals and general surgeon to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Later his interests centred on genito-urinary surgery. His reputation in this field was recognised by his appointment to serve on the Council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, and later by his election as President of the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1960-1. He was Dean of the Medical School from 1936-1956 - a very long spell by any standards. This record is notable in two directions, first his twenty years of office, whereas the service of deans, then as now, does not usually exceed ten years; secondly it was then, and is even more so now, unusual for a practising surgeon to be dean of a London teaching hospital. His work as Dean was early interrupted by the outbreak of the second world war. In characteristic fashion, he left his hospital career to serve in the RAMC for the next six years (1940-1946), first as Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of a surgical division, stationed for some time at Freetown, and later as Brigadier and consultant to the 14th Army, South-East Asia Command. He was appointed CBE in 1946. On demobilization, for the second time in his life, he returned to his duties as Dean and surgeon to the hospital. It was during the ten year period that followed (1946-1956) that he made his greatest contribution to his medical school, whose life and fortunes were reborn and recast as a direct result of his wisdom and diplomacy. In 1946 he found a position in which the future of the school and hospital were both uncertain. A new site for the rebuilding of the hospital was being sought and was finally designated by the Ministry of Health at Tooting in South London. The new project, however, had to be phased, and the site being some distance from the parent hospital at Hyde Park Corner presented problems of transport and accommodation for the students and of a division of duties for the teachers. He played an invaluable part in overcoming these difficulties. Synchronously he pursued a policy of academic development within the school. In this sphere he was the driving force behind the gradual evolution of a series of new university departments and their associated academic staffs, appointments which were later to become chairs, first in pathology and its allied subjects, and afterwards in medicine and surgery. Throughout this period he worked in the closest harmony with the Board of Governors, the university authorities and the Academic Council of the school. In 1956 when he relinquished his office as Dean he had transformed the loose situation he inherited into an integrated university unit of medical education of great potential. At this stage he did not forsake his academic associations, transferring his activities to become the first director of the surgical unit. Apart from the attributes of character essential to such achievements, he had a most engaging personality. He was without envy. He had a special élan and zest for life and good fellowship. Equipped as he was intellectually and blessed with a sense of fun always near the surface, he added authority, colour and gaiety to any gathering in which he found himself. He was a memorable figure, tall and slim, approachable, yet somewhat aloof. He inspired affection and not a little awe in students, and in his house-surgeons a respect and devotion which he returned. In committee he had a flair for sensing the strength or weakness of an argument and the gift of timing his own intervention at the most effective moment. He had the knack of lowering the temperature in a heated exchange and cutting short the discursive debater by some aptly humorous remark. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a Member, and for two years Chairman, of the Court of Examiners. In this post he was popular with colleagues and candidates alike. He was particularly quick to notice the nervous examinee and to get the best out of him or her. His fellow Members of the Court held him in such regard that, at the end of his term of office, they broke with tradition and made him a presentation of a silver cigarette box. In his private moments he was a keen sportsman and loved cricket and fishing and the countryside of Gloucestershire and Ireland. Although with the passing years he spent more recreation time on the river bank than on the cricket field, he remained a staunch supporter of the cricket club and actually played for the staff against the students when he was over sixty. There were many cricketers and others who recalled with wistful pleasure his genial hospitality at his country home in Northleach. He had a host of friends but was particularly remembered with affection by his students of both sexes to whom he was universally known as 'Nick'. In 1962 at the age of sixty-four he started a new career as professor of surgery in the University of Khartoum succeeding Julian Taylor. His skill as a teacher, his diagnostic acumen, his administrative ability and his innate friendliness were not lost upon his Sudanese students who held him in the warmest personal regard and admiration. He became an important member of the British colony exerting much influence in maintaining good relations during a most difficult period. His continuous hard work and service to his profession and his country were recognised by a knighthood in 1969. He died in Khartoum, the university city of his adoption, from coronary thrombosis on 25 August 1969, at the age of seventy-one.
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Sir Henry, Bart (1820 - 1904)

2024-05-15T22:41:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-05
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Occupation General surgeon Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist Public health reformer
Details Born at Framlingham, Suffolk, on August 6th, 1820, the only son of Henry Thompson, a tradesman who kept the village shop, by his wife Susannah, daughter of Samuel Medley (1769-1857), the artist who painted the portrait group of the founders of the Medical Society of London, and was one of the founders of University College, London. He was educated under Mr Fison, a Nonconformist minister at Wrentham, and early engaged in mercantile pursuits, as his parents, who were uncompromising Baptists, dreaded a scientific education and disliked the idea of a profession. Coming to London he was, however, apprenticed to George Bottomley, a medical practitioner at Croydon, in January, 1844, and in October he entered University College, London, to study medicine. Here he won the gold medal in anatomy in 1849, the gold medal in surgery in 1851, and took the MB degree. From June, 1850, he acted as the first House Surgeon to John Eric Erichsen (qv), who had recently been appointed Surgeon to University College Hospital. Joseph Lister (qv) was one of his dressers, and it was partly on Thompson's advice that Lister went to Edinburgh to work under James Syme. Thompson entered into partnership with his former master, George Bottomley, at Croydon, in January, 1851, but after a few months returned to London and began to practise surgery at 35 Wimpole Street, where he lived the rest of his life. He acted for a short time as Surgeon to the St Marylebone Infirmary, but in 1863 was elected Assistant Surgeon to University College Hospital, becoming full Surgeon in 1853, Professor of Clinical Surgery in 1866, Consulting Surgeon and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery on his retirement in 1874. Thompson determined to devote himself particularly to genito-urinary surgery and visited Paris in July, 1858, to study the subject under Jean Civiale (1792-1867), who was the first to remove a vesical calculus by lithotrity. Beginning life thus as a pupil of Civiale, Thompson adopted his methods and at first crushed stones at repeated intervals, leaving it to nature to void the fragments, until in 1866 J T Clover (qv) invented the rubber evacuator and evacuating tubes. When Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818-1890) recommended crushing at a single sitting and removal of the fragments by operative measures, Clover's apparatus came into general use. He also began to advocate the discredited operation of suprapubic cystotomy about 1886, and it has since come into general use. He was thus a pioneer in the removal of tumours from the urinary bladder. Thompson's successful crushing operations at University College soon attracted attention, and in 1863 he operated upon Leopold I, King of the Belgians, completing the work Civiale had begun eighteen months previously. In July and December, 1872, Thompson treated Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, at Camden Place, Chislehurst. He performed the operation of lithotrity upon him under chloroform on Jan 2nd, 1873, and again on January 7th. A third sitting was arranged for midday on January 9th, but the Emperor died of uraemia at 10.45 am, an hour and a quarter before the operation was to have begun. Thompson's attainments and interests were exceptionally versatile. He was not only pre-eminent in his own branch of surgery, but his zeal for hygiene made him a pioneer in the cause of cremation. He was also an authority on diet, a devoted student of astronomy, an excellent artist, a collector of china, and a man of letters. He first drew attention to cremation by an article in the *Contemporary Review* in 1874. Experiments had then been made recently in Italy, but it was not until 1874, and chiefly by Thompson's energy, that a Cremation Society was founded in England. From that time onwards he was its President and did all in his power to promote the practice both here and on the Continent. A crematorium was built at Woking in 1879: its employment was forbidden by the Home Secretary and it was not used until March, 1885. The Government had in the meantime brought a test case against a man who had cremated his child in Wales, and Sir James Stephen decided that the practice was not illegal if no nuisance was caused. In 1902 Thompson took a leading part in the formation of a company which erected the crematorium, under the guidance of Mr Eassie, CE, at Golder's Green near Hampstead Heath, then an outskirt of London. Astronomy occupied much of Thompson's leisure, and he built an observatory at Molesey, where he had a country house. He presented some fine instruments to the Greenwich Observatory, the last being a telescope twice the size of any previously in use. It was manufactured at Dublin by Sir Howard Grubb, and was erected in 1897. Thompson doubtless inherited his artistic faculties from Samuel Medley, his maternal grandfather, but his original talent was fostered by study under Edward Elmore, RA, and Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, RA. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1865, 1870, annually from 1872-1878, and again in 1881, 1883, and 1885. Two of his pictures were afterwards shown in the Paris Salon, and to this exhibition he contributed a landscape in 1891. He was also an eminent collector of china and acquired many fine specimens of old white and blue Nankin. A catalogue illustrated by the owner and James McNeill Whistler was issued in 1878, and the collection was sold at Christie's on June 1st, 1880. Besides numerous articles in magazines Thompson wrote two novels under the name of 'Pen Oliver'. *Charlie Kingston's Aunt*, published in 1885, presents the life of some fifty years earlier. *All But, a Chronicle of Laxenford* (1886) is illustrated by twenty full-page drawings by the author, in one of which he portrayed himself as he was in 1885. Cultured society had great attractions for Thompson. As a host he was famous for his 'octaves', which were dinners of eight courses for eight people at eight o'clock. They were commenced in 1872, and the last, which was the 301st, was given shortly before his death. The guests were as carefully chosen as the food, and for a quarter of a century the most famous persons in the worlds of art, letters, science, politics, diplomacy, and fashion met at his table in Wimpole Street. King Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, dined there once, and his son, King George V, when Prince of Wales, attended Thompson's 300th octave. There is a portrait group of one of the octaves in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, No 116, with the original studies by W J Solomon, RA. Thompson received the honour of knight bachelor in 1867 and was created a baronet on February 20th, 1899. He married on December 16th, 1861, Kate Fanny, daughter of George Loder, of Bath. Lady Thompson was well known as a pianist. She was paralysed for some years, but survived her husband, dying on August 30th, 1904, leaving a son, Henry Francis Herbert, and two daughters. Sir Henry Thompson died at 35 Wimpole Street, W, on April 18th, 1904, and was cremated at Golder's Green. A three-quarter-length portrait painted by Sir J E Millais, RA, in 1881 hangs in the Tate Gallery. There is a bust by F W Pomeroy, RA, in the Crematorium at Golder's Green. A cartoon portrait by Ape in *Vanity Fair* (1874) is subscribed 'Cremation'. There are numerous photographs in the College Collection, and an excellent one in University College, Gower Street. Publications: *The Pathology and Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra both in the Male and Female*, 8vo, London, 1854; 4th ed, London and Philadelphia, 1885. Translated into German, München, 1888. *The Enlarged Prostate, its Pathology and Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1858; 6th ed, London and Philadelphia, 1886. Translated into German, Erlangen, 1867. *Practical Lithotomy and Lithotrity*, 8vo, London, 1868; 3rd ed, 1880. Translated into German, Kassel and Berlin, 1882. *Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Urinary Organs*, 8vo, London, 1868; 8th ed, 1888. Translated into French, 1874, and again in 1889. Translated into German, Berlin, 1877. *On Tumours of the Bladder*, 1884. *Lectures on some Important Points connected with the Surgery of the Urinary Organs*, 8vo, London, 1884. *On the Suprapubic Operation of Opening the Bladder for the Stone and for Tumours*, 8vo, London, 1886. *Traité pratique des Maladies des Voies urinaires*, a collected edition of Thompson's surgical works, was published in Paris in 1880. *Cremation*, 16mo, London, 1874; 4th ed, 1901. *Modern Cremation, its History and Practice*, 12mo, London, 1889; 4th ed, 1901. Thompson was also part-author of the article on cremation in the *Encyclopaedia Britannica* (9th ed). *Food and Feeding*, 8vo, London, 1880; 12th ed, enlarged, 1910. *Diet in Relation to Age and Activity*, 1886; 4th ed, 1903; revised edition, 1910.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003240
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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