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First Title value, for Searching Messent, Arthur David (1915 - 1985)

2024-05-14T00:44:22Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation General practitioner Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details Arthur Messent obtained an open exhibition to Mill Hill School and proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Brackenbury Prize in surgery and anatomy. He qualified in 1938 and after a short spell in general practice he joined the Royal Air Force and served in Coastal Command both in the Faroe Islands and the Middle East where he was mentioned in despatches. After the war he continued his surgical training, passed the FRCS examination in 1948, and held senior registrar appointments in Norwich, Reading and Hammersmith before his appointment as consultant in vascular and genito-urinary surgery to the Brentwood Group of Hospitals in 1955. In 1940 he married Margaret, a doctor's daughter and medical secretary at St Bartholomew's Hospital where one of their daughters eventually trained as a nurse. Their second daughter trained as a physiotherapist at the London Hospital. He enjoyed gardening, reading, entertaining and being entertained. He was kind, courteous and ready to help those in need, and it was sad for him and his family when he was struck by a long illness. He retired in 1980 to Nantgaredig in Carmarthen, his wife's birthplace, hoping to enjoy the countryside he loved and he died on 2 August 1985 survived by his wife and daughters, Rosemary and Ann.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007502
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First Title value, for Searching Sewell, Ivor Alwyne (1930 - 1992)

2024-05-14T00:44:22Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008303
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First Title value, for Searching Ware, Colin Clement (1932 - 2017)

2024-05-14T00:44:22Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009428
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, George (1920 - 1997)

2024-05-14T00:44:22Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008660
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First Title value, for Searching Forrest, Hugh (1929 - 1996)

2024-05-14T00:44:22Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007934
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