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First Title value, for Searching Brailey, Arthur Robertson (1877 - 1930)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The younger of the twin sons, with William Herbert Brailey, of William Arthur Brailey (1845-1915), MA, MD, ophthalmic surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Agnes, daughter of John Robinson, was born 8 October 1877. He was educated at Westminster School from 25 September 1890 until April 1896. He was admitted to a minor scholarship at Downing College, where his father was a Fellow and matriculated in the University of Cambridge in Michaelmas term 1896 and in the following year gained a foundation scholarship at the college. He entered Guy's Hospital, his father being then ophthalmic surgeon, with a university scholarship in 1899, acted as ward clerk to W H A Jacobson and was house surgeon to Louis Albert Dunn. He then served as clinical assistant to his father in the ophthalmic department of the hospital, and afterwards went to China as general surgeon and oculist to the Chinkiang Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he held a commission as surgeon-captain in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, rising to the position of senior medical officer in the London division, and was afterwards consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Air Force. He was also appointed honorary surgeon to King George V. In 1925 he retired from practice and devoted himself to his favourite pursuits of farming and yachting, living at the Clock House, Dunmow, Essex, which he had restored almost single-handed, for he was skilled at many trades. He was drowned with five others on 20 August 1930 from the yacht *Islander* which foundered in a gale in Lantivet Bay, near Fowey, and his body was buried at sea six miles out between Polruan and Fowey. On 12 July 1931 a ship's bell of silver was unveiled in HMS *President* in memory of Commodore H D King, RNVR with an ivory tablet nearby recording that it was given by the officers and ratings who served with and under Commodore King and the two brother officers of London division, RNVR, Surgeon-Captain Brailey and Commander Searle, who all lost their lives in the wreck of the *Islander*. Publications:- Congenital distichiasis. *Trans ophthal Soc UK*. 1906, 26, 16. Cysts of the pars ciliaris retinae. *Ibid*. 1907, 27, 95.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Robert Anthony ( - 1995)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-09-02 2016-02-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Robert Anthony Bailey was born in Greytown, Natal, South Africa, the son of Robert Bailey, a company secretary, and Hilda, a music teacher and housewife. He was educated at Grey School, Port Elizabeth, and then went on to study medicine at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, and the University of Cape Town. He qualified MB BCh in 1949. He trained at Provincial Hospital, Port Elizabeth, and at Conradie and Victoria hospitals, Cape Town. He also went to the UK and gained his FRCS in 1954. We know nothing of his subsequent career. Outside medicine he enjoyed golf, music and photography. In May 1954 he married Sheila Maureen Watts, who was also a doctor. They had three children, James, Jill and Nigel. He died on 15 October 1995.
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First Title value, for Searching Bradley, William Neil (1961 - 2016)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-10-27 2019-12-03
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details William Neil Bradley (Neil) was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford. Born on 30 March 1961, he was educated at Bedford School. He studied medicine at London University and trained at Charing Cross and Westminster Hospitals, graduating MB BS in 1992. After becoming an orthopaedic registrar on the London based South-West Thames training programme, he undertook research in knee and hip replacement as a senior fellow at the University of Adelaide Medical School in Australia and the University of Surrey department of engineering. In 2002 he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon and rapidly developed a reputation for expertise in complex knee operations. He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association and the British Association for Surgery of the Knee. An enthusiastic rugby supporter, he enjoyed both playing and coaching the game. On 27 August 2016 he died of a heart attack while on holiday with his family, aged 55. He was survived by his wife Una and sons, James and Ben.
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First Title value, for Searching Brayley, Nigel Frederick (1949 - 2018)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-11-24
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Occupation Specialist in accident and emergency medicine
Details Nigel Frederick Brayley was a consultant in the accident and emergency department at Colchester General Hospital. He was born in Clifton, Bristol, on 12 April 1949, the son of Cyril Wedlake Brayley, a tobacco machinery manager at Imperial Tobacco, and Rosalie Mary Brayley née Scobie, the daughter of an insurance clerk. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Bristol Cathedral School and went on to study medicine at the Royal Free School of Medicine in London. He joined the Royal Navy in 1971 and qualified in 1973. He was a house physician at west Norfolk and King’s Lynn and held posts at the Royal Naval hospitals in Gosport and Plymouth. He was a surgical specialist with the rank of surgeon lieutenant commander. During the ‘Cod War’ with Iceland in 1976 he served on *HMS Dundas*. He was a registrar in orthopaedics at the Royal Free and in Windsor, and then a registrar in the accident and emergency department of Gloucester Royal Hospital. He went on to a senior registrar post in accident and emergency medicine in Oxford. He was then appointed to his consultant post in Colchester. At Colchester he was also a part-time clinical lead for the NHS Information Authority and a part-time honorary senior lecturer at Essex University. He was a fellow of the Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine. Outside medicine he enjoyed sailing, swimming, camping, touring and gardening. In 1973 he married Myra Moran, a nurse. They had a daughter and a son. Brayley died on 6 December 2018 in France. He was 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, David Alan (1922 - 2007)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-02-03 2014-03-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details David Bailey was a consultant surgeon at University College Hospital (UCH). He was born on 1 March 1922. Qualifying in medicine from the University of Cambridge and UCH his first post was at the latter. After proceeding to the Royal Northern Hospital and Barnet General Hospital as consultant surgeon he returned to UCH as a consultant and senior lecturer in clinical surgery. He was also honorary consultant surgeon to St Luke's Hospital for Clergy in London. In 1963 he published a book *The infected hand* and, throughout his career, produced various papers on aspects of arterial surgery. He was a member of the BMA and a fellow of the RSM. He died on 8 August 2007, aged 85 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, John Stuart (1932 - 2016)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Ian Bailey
Publication Date 2017-03-16 2017-03-23
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details John Stuart Bailey (or 'JCB') was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon in Leicester. He was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, and spent his early years in Cairo, before being evacuated in 1940 to Durban and on to England. He was educated at Sherborne School, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and St Mary's Hospital Medical School. After house jobs, he started National Service and converted to a short service commission with the RAMC. He saw active service during the Brunei Revolt as a surgeon in a Far East field surgical team. On his return to the UK from Singapore, he worked as a general surgeon, before joining Charles Drew at St George's Hospital as a thoracic registrar. He subsequently spent 11 years as a registrar and then a senior registrar in thoracic and cardiac surgery at Westminster Hospital. During this time, he spent a year (from 1970 to 1971) at Toronto General Hospital working with W G Bigelow. Finding a consultant post in the mid 1970's was difficult and required resilience, JSB finally escaped London for Leicester in 1977. He enjoyed a happy and successful career until his retirement in 1995. JSB was part of a major transition generation in cardiac surgery. Beyond the early pioneers, he and his generation established safe and routine cardiac surgery. An early medical manager, he strove to understand the true costs of NHS care and pushed for honest, open and comprehensive reporting of outcomes. He was prepared to tackle controversy. On one occasion, he challenged coronary surgery in those who continued to smoke, provoking an aggressive public debate ('Coronary bypass surgery should not be offered to smokers' *BMJ* 1993 306 1047). He believed fervently in the NHS and social model of health care. He did not like the effect 'for profit' health care had on services and some surgeons. His beliefs and principles sometimes put him at loggerheads with parts of the surgical community. He reminded me, as a trainee general surgeon, when I was struggling with confidence after an unpleasant session with a trainer, not to become an egotistical, self-congratulatory surgeon. 'Remember' he said, '…it is the patients who are being brave!' He was president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland, and president of the Society of Clinical Perfusion Scientists, having helped the perfusionists establish a professional structure. JSB was made an honorary fellow of the Polish College of Surgeons in 1987. In 1992, he received further recognition for his work with Polish cardiac surgeons, with an award from the Bruckner Foundation. He and his wife had many happy visits to Poland and made many friends. Retirement did not create a void. He announced within weeks that he did not understand how he ever had time to go to work! Golf, genealogy, an amazing photographic record of butterfly life cycles, travel, community, friends and a growing extended family filled a healthy and happy retirement which lasted more than 20 years. John Stuart Bailey died suddenly, at home, on 18 September 2016, just short of his 83rd birthday. He was survived by his wife of 58 years, Alison, three children and 10 grandchildren. His ashes will be scattered in Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, his beloved holiday retreat of 44 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Ian Campbell (1929 - 2018)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2020-11-24
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Born on 5 October 1929, Ian Campbell Bailey came from an eminent Dublin family. He was the eldest son of James Rowland Bailey, a company director, and his wife Hilda Maud née Campbell, the daughter of Ottwell Campbell, a civil servant. Educated initially at Rathgar Boy’s Preparatory School, he then attended St Andrew’s College, Dublin from 1940 to 1947. He studied medicine at Trinity College, Dublin University and the Adelaide Hospital, graduating MB, BCh BAO in 1953. While there he was influenced by the work of the neurosurgeon Adams Andrew McConnell and Nigel Kinnear, the regius professor of surgery. He moved on to the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin where he gained his LM in 1954 and then travelled to England to work at the Leicester General and Royal Infirmary Hospitals the following year. After a spell in the University of Dublin’s department of anatomy from 1956 to 1957, he moved to the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) in Belfast as neurosurgical registrar and senior registrar working with Alex Taylor. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1963 and commenced work at the Guy’s/ Maudsley/ King’s College neurosurgical unit where he found the head of the unit, Murray Falconer, an inspirational teacher. From there he returned to the RVH for two years. Eventually Valentine Logue, the holder of the first university chair of neurosurgery in the UK, persuaded him to go to Uganda which, along with many other sub-Sahara countries at that time, lacked any serious neurosurgical facilities. Arriving in Kampala in 1969, he was appointed consultant neurosurgeon to Mulago Hospital and senior lecturer at Makere University. Later he wrote that he was pleased to have founded the neurosurgical unit before his work was curtailed by *the behaviour of that notorious dictator, Idi Amin*. Returning to the RVH in 1974 at the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland was, as one colleague put it, swapping one front line for another and he rapidly became very experienced in the treatment of gunshot and blast injuries to the head and spine. In Belfast he pioneered the use of titanium to repair skull fractures, a technique which became a global standard since the metal did not cause an immune reaction with tissue and protected the head from further injury. Continuing to work there until he retired in 1995 (having been head of department for five years), he published widely on his surgical experiences both in Africa and Belfast and gained a reputation for remarkable stamina in the operating theatre. He spent some time working in the Middle East including Saudi Arabia and Iraq and was also an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. A member of many professional bodies, he was on the Council of the Society of British Neurosurgeons from 1989 to 1993, a fellow of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa, and president of the Irish Neurological Society from 1989 to 1990. He retired to Boa Island in Fermanagh where he spent 20 years and became deeply involved in local life, joining the local Probus Club and the Fermanagh Knot, serving on the committee of the friends of Fermanagh County Museum and becoming a member of the vestry of the Priory Church, Killadeas. When younger he played tennis, rugby football and cricket, while in retirement he developed his lifelong interest in philately and won many medals for the displays he put on at various stamp exhibitions. On 18 June 1955 he had married Ruth Kathleen née Johnson, a former nurse at the Adelaide Hospital. He died suddenly on 2 January 2018 aged 88, during a Christmas visit to the Canary Islands. Ruth survived him together with their children, Christopher (born 11 May 1957) the Director of Northern Ireland Museums, Michael (born 28 June 1961) Director of Savannah Trails Safaris, Zambia and Caroline (8 February 1966) a marketing manager. He was also survived by his daughters-in-law Frances and Desiree, son-in-law Daniel and grandchildren, Matthew, Alice, Oscar, Freya, Oliver and Hugo.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Robert George (1956 - 2019)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-06-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Robert George Bailey was born on 3 February 1956 and studied medicine at Cambridge University, graduating MB, BChir in 1980. After working as a surgical registrar at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, he moved to Peterborough, taking up a surgical post at the Edith Cavell Hospital. Later he took up general practice and became a senior partner at the Minster Medical Practice in Peterborough. His body was discovered in the French Alps on 16 April 2019, four weeks after he had set off for a hike on his own on 21 March. He had been staying at Les Houches in Chamonix and, according to a friend he was on holiday with, decided to go off on his own while the others were going skiing. Apparently he suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure and had suffered a mini-stroke in 2016. At the inquest in January 2020 the coroner decided that he died from natural causes as there was no evidence that he had suffered external trauma and was an experienced walker. He was 63 when he died and was survived by his wife and two children.
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First Title value, for Searching Bradley, John William Paulton (1927 - 2013)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2015-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details John 'Jack' Bradley was a consultant surgeon at Hillingdon and Mount Vernon hospitals. He was born in Paulton, Somerset, on 20 October 1927, the second child and only son of William Henry Bradley, a medical officer and epidemiologist at the Ministry of Health, and Gladys Maud Bradley née Smith, the daughter of a mathematical instrument maker. He was educated at the Cathedral Choir School in Oxford and then Westminster School, and went on to study medicine at Christchurch College, Oxford University. Whilst a student he was a member of the University Air Squadron. He qualified BM BCh in 1952. He carried out his National Service as a squadron leader in the RAF and, in the late 1950s, was a senior medical officer during Operation Grapple, the British nuclear weapon tests of hydrogen bombs on Malden and Christmas islands in the Central Pacific Ocean. He was a house surgeon at the Gordon Hospital, the Royal Northern Hospital and St James', Balham, and then a registrar at Sutton and Cheam Hospital and Westminster Hospital. He subsequently became a resident surgical officer at Brompton Hospital and a senior registrar at St George's Hospital. During his training he particularly remembered being influenced by Lawrence Abel, Stanley Aylett, William Gabriel, Norman Tanner and Lord Brock. He was also a research fellow at the Buckston Browne research farm. Outside medicine he was interested in gardening and building. In 1959 he married Heather Diane Cornell. They had two sons, Russell and Jason, and a daughter, Lesley. He died on 30 September 2013 and was survived by his children and his second wife, Averil Mansfield, a former president of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and vice president of the Royal College of Surgeons.
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First Title value, for Searching Bramley, Sir Paul Anthony (1923 - 2020)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by John Williams
Publication Date 2020-08-12 2021-02-18
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Occupation Dental surgeon Oral surgeon
Details Sir Paul Bramley was a professor of dental surgery at the University of Sheffield. He was born in Leicester on 24 May 1923 to Charles Bramley and Constance Bramley née Jordan, the younger of their two sons. His father was a gifted engineering draughtsman; neither of his parents had a medical background. He was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School in Leicester, where his athleticism led to him excelling at rugby. A committed Christian, he joined the Crusaders’ Christian Union, known today as the Urban Saints. When applying for university, he chose dentistry, thinking it would be an easier option than medicine, but a local dentist, one of the leaders of the Crusader Group, persuaded him to read medicine as well. He went to Birmingham University at the height of the Second World War and found himself involved with others in civil defence. At night, they kept watch and dealt with such hazards as incendiary bombs, firefighting before the bombs did more damage. He also found time to captain the university rugby team and to play for the English Universities. Once qualified as a dentist, he was called-up to do his National Service in the Royal Army Dental Corps. An early opportunity arose for him to volunteer for secondment to the 224 Parachute Field Ambulance, part of the 6th Airborne Division in Palestine, which he accepted, since he felt this would be a much more exciting way of serving his two years. He had to jump many times, dangling a portable dental chair from his pack. Following this, he was able to return to Birmingham to complete his medical degree, which he had to self-fund by working evenings and weekends in a dental practice. In 1952, shortly before he qualified as a doctor, he went on a climbing holiday in the Lake District, where he met Morag Boyd, a medical student in Glasgow, who was planning to become a medical missionary for the Church of Scotland. It was not long before they decided to marry. However, Paul had to ask permission from her father, who firstly wanted some questions answered. Was Paul’s income adequate to keep her? ‘No, I’m a medical student.’ Next, did he have good job prospects? ‘No, I am not yet qualified.’ Lastly, did he have a life insurance policy? ‘No, I’m still a reservist attached to the parachute regiment and we are not eligible for life policies.’ They married shortly afterwards and he joined her in running a 100-bedded hospital in a remote area of Kenya, where you never knew what would walk through the door. Equipped with an emergency surgery textbook open on a music stand and one of them reading out the text, they performed everything, including wildly heroic surgery under primitive anaesthesia. It taught both of them self-reliance and the ability to adapt. After a year, they returned to the UK to start a family and for Paul to complete his specialty training, which he did as a registrar at the unit run by Harold Gillies and Norman Rowe and still housed at its war time emergency facilities in Rooksdown House, Basingstoke. A year later he was appointed to a consultant post in Plymouth, Devon and the Royal Cornwall Infirmary, Truro. The challenge was enormous since there were no facilities west of Bristol, seat belts did not exist, crash helmets were seldom worn, windscreens were only of toughened glass and cattle roamed freely across the unlit and unfenced moors. Although Plymouth was his main base, together with Truro, he went on in his role as director of oral surgery and orthodontics for the region to oversee units being created in Exeter and Torbay. With such an enormous area to cover it meant his team in Plymouth had to develop self-reliance and were encouraged to get on with whatever they were capable of and prepare the other cases for his return. He was a very capable surgeon and took a lot of trouble to teach his trainees a safe way of coping with a wide range of clinical cases. With this reputation, it was inevitable that he would be elected to the board of faculty at the Royal College of Surgeons and subsequently to the council, as well as becoming dean of Faculty along the way. His interest in education and training were marked in these College positions and, in 1969, he was tempted by the University of Sheffield to become professor of dental surgery and a consultant to the Trent Regional Health Authority (from 1969 to 1988). His subsequent appointment as dean of the school of clinical dentistry (from 1972 to 1975) saw him fulfilling the true lure of his Sheffield appointment when he oversaw a total rebuilding of the school of clinical dentistry, together with its entire undergraduate curriculum. This was a time of significant change in dental education focused on the Nuffield Foundation’s Inquiry into Dental Education, which he very significantly supported (from 1978 to 1980). He had served as one of the few clinicians on the Royal Commission on the NHS (1976 to 1979) and for this and his services to dentistry and surgery, he was recognised in 1984 by the award of a knighthood. He also received the prestigious award of the Colyer gold medal from the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the RCS, was national president of the British Dental Association (from 1988 to 1989), and an RCS external examiner to dental professional bodies and to many universities at home and abroad. He received honorary degrees from Birmingham, Sheffield and the Prince of Songkla University in Thailand. At home in Plymouth, he and Morag had a busy life. They raised their family of three daughters and a son, living in a village near Plymouth and Paul became a lay reader in the Anglican diocese of Winchester. Together they created a Sunday school on a nearby housing estate with no active church life, which grew rapidly to accommodate 300 children with 20 volunteer teachers. He considered this one of the most rewarding experiences in his life as well as the best possible training for a university teacher! In retirement, his enthusiasm and activity were still apparent, remaining as director of the Medical Protection Society and chairman of Dental Protection Ltd. He was a stalwart member of Hathersage Parish Church and edited a book on retirement (*Doing anything after work? …What about retirement?* Hucklow Publishing, 2010). Sadly, Morag died three years ago, whom he greatly missed. Despite physical handicaps, he lived independently almost until the end and was survived by his four children, 12 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. He believed our role in this world was to serve our fellow beings and this is exemplified by all he did.
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, John Noel Gleave (1934 - 2022)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Martin Bailey
Publication Date 2022-04-19
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Occupation Otolaryngologist
Details John Noel Gleave Evans was a consultant otolaryngologist at St Thomas’ Hospital and at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London. He was born on 9 December 1934 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, where his parents were in the Colonial Service. He was educated at Guildford Grammar Preparatory School in Perth, Western Australia and then moved to the UK, where he attended Dulwich College Preparatory School and Cranbrook School in Kent, where he excelled at sport. He studied medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1959. Following his registration in 1960, he carried out his National Service, holding a short service commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was subsequently commissioned into the Territorial Army in 1964 and eventually became an honorary consultant in otolaryngology to the Army in 1989. He started his ENT training while he was in the Army and passed his diploma in laryngology and otology in 1961. Following his National Service, he returned to St Thomas’ as an anatomy demonstrator and then an ENT registrar. After gaining his final FRCS in 1965, he became a senior registrar in the ENT department at St Thomas’ and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. In 1971 he was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at St Thomas’, followed a year later by an appointment to Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1988 he also became an honorary consultant ENT surgeon at King Edward VII’s Hospital. John became internationally renowned as a paediatric otolaryngologist after developing the innovative laryngotracheoplasty operation for paediatric subglottic stenosis: this was reported in a ground-breaking paper in 1974 and is still referenced worldwide (‘Laryngotracheoplasty.’ *J Laryngol Otol*. 1974 Jul;88[7]:589-97). He developed a close and enduring friendship with Robin Cotton, who was working on an alternative technique for the same problem in Toronto and subsequently Cincinnati, and in 1981 they jointly published a five-year follow-up of their cases (‘Laryngotracheal reconstruction in children. Five-year follow up.’ *Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol*. 1981 Sep-Oct;90[5 Pt 1]:516-20). John lectured widely internationally and was honoured with many prizes and awards. He was president of the section of laryngology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1993 and master of the 10th British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology in 1999, the year he retired from clinical practice. In 1960 he married Elizabeth Glascodine (known as Liezel), a nurse at St Thomas’. They had four children: Philippa, Charlotte, Mark and Kate. They were renowned for their hospitality, and their house in south London was the venue for many enjoyable parties. In retirement John and Liezel moved to Hampshire where they cultivated a large garden. John died peacefully at home on 27 March 2022 at the age of 87. An unassuming, approachable and kind man, he was particularly supportive to trainees and colleagues starting out in the relatively young field of paediatric otolaryngology. He will be much missed.
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First Title value, for Searching Bradley, Charles (1841 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Bramley, Lawrence (1807 - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Sydney Bradley ( - 1981)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-14
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Sydney Bradley Williams qualified MB BS in Durham in 1956. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1960 and a Fellow of the College in 1962. He was appointed senior registrar in plastic surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and held this post for some years before moving to the Institute of Plastic Surgery at New York University Medical Centre in New York and becoming one of their Fellows. He is thought to have died in 1981 or 1982.
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First Title value, for Searching Jansz, Aubrey William (1926 - 2011)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Ken Brearley
Publication Date 2012-03-29 2016-11-17
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Aubrey Jansz, the youngest of three children, was born in Sri Lanka; his father was a bookstore manager and his mother a nurse. He initially attended Royal College, completing his secondary schooling at Alexandra College from where he won the prestigious Rustomjee Jamshediji Jeejeeboy Scholarship to study Medicine at Colombo University, graduating in 1948. Having completed Internship in Sri Lanka, Aubrey was then appointed Lecturer in Physiology at the University of Colombo and it was here that he was stimulated and encouraged to pursue surgery. Having obtained his First Part FRCS, he then travelled to UK to study and sit the Second Part FRCS, working at The Seaman's Hospital, Croydon General and Great Ormond Street Hospitals. His son, Martin, took Aubrey to visit The Seaman's Hospital in Greenwich some years ago, as he had a great fondness for it. Evidently he had been able to see the 'Cutty Sark' from his window and, more importantly, it was here that he learned so much from surgical mentors of many nationalities that he was able to be a 'good surgeon'. From earliest childhood, Aubrey had indicated that he wanted to help people and be challenged; hence his becoming a doctor and subsequently a surgeon was no surprise. In 1962, Aubrey, his wife Patricia and daughter Andrea migrated to Melbourne. Aubrey's first position in Melbourne was at the Prince Henry's Hospital where he took up a post as an Honorary Clinical Assistant Surgeon to the Outpatient's Department. This position kept him in touch with clinical surgery, but there were no operating rights as was the practice of that era. It was here that he met Ken Brearley (FRACS), the Acting Honorary Surgeon to Outpatients. At about the same time in 1963, Aubrey joined three other doctors in a practice in Melville Road, Pascoe Vale South; it was fairly common then for surgeons to work as 'GP-surgeons' in a general practice. In 1964 Aubrey was lured 'across the Yarra' by Ken, to take up a position at Preston and Northcote Community Hospital (PANCH) where the outpatient numbers there were building rapidly and Aubrey was appointed as a Clinical Assistant Surgeon to Ken's Unit. In those days the work was honorary, but after some years payment was introduced, courtesy of the Whitlam Government. And so it was that Aubrey commenced his long and rewarding career in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. Initially, whilst still at the Melville Road GP practice, Aubrey was operating at Sacred Heart, Vaucluse and PANCH hospitals, but soon after commencing at PANCH, he was appointed as an Assistant Surgeon in Ken's Unit which gave him operating rights and responsibilities. By 1975, his surgical practice was secure and he ceased GP work, however the legacy of his time in general practice lived on. In 1986, following the untimely passing of John Fethers, Aubrey was appointed Head of the Surgical 3 Unit where he became interested in Upper GI endoscopy and evidently introduced the first gastroscope to PANCH. His surgery was of a high standard and the care of his patients was exemplary. Aubrey possessed a quiet, pleasant and respectful personality which rendered him most popular with staff, colleagues and patients, added to which he also had a well-developed sense of humour. Ken remembers being told by Aubrey that he had once operated on a patient, a young girl with peritonitis from a ruptured appendix. On receiving the account, probably in the order of $200 in those days, the girl's father told him the fee was too high and refused to pay. Aubrey then suggested he should pay whatever he felt his daughter's life was worth; he duly received a cheque for $50! Inquisitiveness was perhaps something Aubrey inherited from his bookstore manager father. He delighted in books and found nothing more pleasant than spending half a day browsing around small bookshops in and around Melbourne, from where he would emerge with one or two extraordinary volumes. He later became PANCH Medical Librarian, a position he greatly enjoyed. Palliative Care and philosophical matters of life and death were things that had always interested Aubrey, and he was greatly impressed and influenced by the inspirational Helen Kübler-Ross who had given a number of lectures in Melbourne. His inquiring mind and reading on a broad range of subjects resulted in Aubrey challenging, in all manner of ways, colleagues, students and family alike, urging them to solve puzzles and to question statements made by others. This made him a great teacher for most of his life, combining common sense, humility and whimsy. In a way, the lessons were more about life and surgical attitudes than strict clinical material. Not surprisingly, Aubrey was held in high regard by all students attached to his Unit, as well as at St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School where he continued to take 'Lumps and Bumps' sessions for a good many years after he retired from PANCH and active surgery in 1992. One of the important hints he passed on was that: 'It is important to buy two copies of any special book, so that when a volume is lent to a colleague, you are thus assured of retaining a copy when this 'lent' book inevitably fails to return!' Another special attribute was the care and attention, surgical and emotional, that he gave to his patients at all times, both in the Public and Private sectors. Years after retiring, Aubrey's patients continue to ask after his health and comment on his interest in them as people, rather than them being 'just another case.' What greater legacy could one have? On one occasion Aubrey challenged his colleagues by enquiring: 'How many of you have had occasion to visit your patient in their home?' - his reason being - that to visit someone in their home really grounds the relationship and gives all kinds of insight into their lives. Aubrey Jansz made a wonderful contribution to the surgical care of the northern suburbs of Melbourne and to the much broader education of his colleagues and medical students at PANCH. He was much loved, respected and is fondly remembered by all as a gentle, compassionate and giving man. Moreover, he was a devoted family man who would frequently tell us of the progress of his children, Andrea and Martin, who certainly lived up to all the expectations held by Aubrey and his loving wife of 56 years - Patricia.
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First Title value, for Searching Bridge, Keith Buchanan (1903 - 1997)

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by Wyn Beasley
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2013-10-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Keith Buchanan Bridge was a consultant surgeon in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born on 4 July 1903 at Gisborne, on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, the second son of a farmer, Charles Harry Bridge, and his wife Christina née Macdonald. He was a boarder at Waitaki Boys' High School from 1916 to 1920, before moving further south, to what was then the only medical school in the country, Otago in Dunedin. During his time as a medical student he was a member of Knox College. He graduated MB ChB in 1925. From 1926 to 1928 he was a house surgeon at Wellington Hospital; then, as was the essential pattern for young men planning to specialise, he made the sea voyage to the UK. His first post was at the West London Hospital in 1930, where he worked for Tyrrell Gray. In 1931 he gained his FRCS and then became a resident surgical officer at Ancoats Hospital in Manchester, where his mentor was Peter McEvedy. In 1934 he worked at St Mark's Hospital, where W B Gabriel secured his commitment to colo-rectal surgery, and in 1935 he was at St Peter's. On his return to New Zealand, he resumed his association with Wellington Hospital. He became visiting assistant surgeon to the Children's Hospital in 1937, holding this position until he enlisted in 1940. The outbreak of the Second World War brought profound changes to the New Zealand medical scene. The country contributed a division, and this went overseas in three echelons, two to Egypt, the other to help the defence of Britain against the threat of invasion in mid-1940. By early 1941 the division was assembled in the Middle East in time to take part in the campaign in Greece. Meanwhile, by the end of 1940, it had been accepted that New Zealand needed a hospital ship of its own, and an elderly Union Company liner, the *Maunganui*, was taken over for conversion. The casualties from the Greek campaign emphasised the need, and the task of conversion was hurried along so that *Maunganui* was handed over on 21 April 1941. With her went Keith Bridge, to begin a year of service afloat before he joined the division itself. In North Africa he was attached to a mobile surgical unit in the pursuit after Alamein, bringing a surgical team well forward in accordance with the doctrine that evolved out of the lessons learnt during the previous war; and when 2 NZ Division formed to attack Mareth, Bridge's surgical team out of 1 General Hospital served to augment 4 Field Ambulance. Then, in the Italian campaign, now commanding the surgical division of 1 General Hospital, he was involved in the establishment of the hospital at Senegallia on the Adriatic coast, where on 3 September 1944 one of their first patients was General Bernard Freyberg, who had suffered a wound in an aircraft accident. Bridge finished the war as a lieutenant colonel, commanding 6 General Hospital at the end of 1945, and his services were recognised with the award of an OBE. In 1946 he rejoined the visiting surgical staff of Wellington Hospital, at first in a 'relief' position; but by 1951 he was a senior surgeon and head of one of four general surgical firms. He was recognised as a surgeon's surgeon, and to him would be referred colleagues, relatives, problem cases and potential disasters. He possessed the valuable surgical triad: diagnostic skill, good surgical judgment and meticulous surgical technique. Being a modest, even a shy man, he carried responsibility well, and, even though his role involved him in long procedures, he was well esteemed by his anaesthetic colleagues. Just before he sailed in *Maunganui* in April 1941 Keith Bridge had acquired the fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, which had been founded in 1927, blending elements from two existing colleges: the English Royal College, established more than a century earlier, and the American College, then 14 years young. He devoted himself to the new institution, serving on the Court of Examiners and as secretary, as an elected member and ultimately as chairman (from 1959 to 1961) of its New Zealand committee. In 1947 he married Kathleen Cook; they had a daughter and one son. On his CV he recorded no outside interests, and indeed work and his family were his life. But two of his abiding interests deserve mention: he was an avid follower of rugby football, his season ticket shrewdly placed at the centre of the main stand, and his normal reticence was easily overcome by a comment on last weekend's game. Then there was his devotion to fly-fishing at Taupo, where he and his colleague Ted Gibbs would often fish together. He did find room for involvement in the governance of the insurance co-operative known as the Medical Assurance Society, of which he had lately become chairman of directors when, in 1972, a group of members who had become justifiably dissatisfied with the administration of the society staged a revolt and succeeded in installing a new board. When Keith Bridge came up for re-election the following year, he withdrew from his involvement with the society; he had been deeply wounded by events, but had preserved his dignity throughout. He had retired from his appointment as senior visiting surgeon in 1966, having by then contributed 40 years to the institution (apart from his overseas training and war service), but at a time when there was much discussion of the problem that hospitals tended to allot their most junior staff to the 'front door', and the discipline of emergency medicine was yet to emerge, there was a frisson of excitement when Keith Bridge reappeared as senior casualty and admitting officer in 1967. His level of expertise in the handling of emergency cases presenting at Wellington Hospital became legendary. In 1973 'K B' retired again, but almost immediately he was back, this time in charge of the blood transfusion service - on a part-time basis, for a couple of years only, but long enough to make it a model of quiet efficiency. He then withdrew gently from his involvement in the Wellington medical scene. He lived for another two decades, and died - again, gently - on 23 October 1997, aged 94. His colleague Ted Watson remembers him as 'all in all a man much admired by those who had the privilege to work with him'.
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First Title value, for Searching Brumley, Stuart Purves (1935 - 2012)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2018-05-24
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Stuart Brumley was an ophthalmologist in Toorak, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 9 November 1935. His father, Louis Purves Brumley, was an engineer; his mother was Marjorie Caroline Kirton, the daughter of a member of the state parliament in Victoria. He had a sister, Rosemary, and two brothers, Ian and Graeme. He was educated at Camberwell Grammar School in Melbourne and Scotch College (from 1946 to 1953). He went on to study medicine at the University of Melbourne, qualifying in 1961. He was an intern at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and then went to the UK, where he was a senior house officer and registrar at the Royal Eye Hospital in London, and subsequently a registrar at the Croydon Eye Unit. He gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1967 and his FRCS in 1972. He was influenced by Sir Thomas Travers in Melbourne and Dermot Pierse in London. He returned to Australia, where he settled first in Doncaster and then Toorak, Victoria. His special interests were general ophthalmology, cataracts and refractive surgery. He enjoyed music, theatre and travelling. In 1968 he married Wendy Thorn, a psychotherapist he met while studying in London. They had a son, Stuart. Stuart Purves Brumley died on 15 April 2012 aged 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Henry Bennett ( - 1906)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-11-04 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital, where he gained the second Scholarship in 1869, and afterwards at St Bartholomew's Hospital. House Surgeon for five years at the Loughborough General Hospital and Dispensary, which was called later the Infirmary. He then practised at Grantham, Lincolnshire, first at 21 North Street, then at 35 High Street, and lastly at Vine House. He was Surgeon to the Grantham Provident Dispensary, Medical Officer to the Spittlegate District and Workhouse, Public Vaccinator to the Union, and Medical Referee to various Assurance Societies. He retired to Riversdale, Shelley Road, Worthing, spent the last year or two of his life in travelling, and died at Westleigh, Thrale Road, Streatham Park, SW, in 1905 or 1906. He was Medical Officer to the Actors' Association.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Edward Townley ( - 1979)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Edward Townley Bailey passed the Conjoint Diploma in 1921 and qualified MB BS the following year. He was surgical registrar and resident medical officer to the orthopaedic department of the Middlesex Hospital and orthopaedic surgical specialist to the London County Council. He became honorary consulting surgeon to the Highlands Hospital and the St Andrew's Hospital, Bow. He retired to Middleton-on-Sea, near Bognor Regis, and died there on 6 January 1979.
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First Title value, for Searching Bradley, Charles Lawrence (1819 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Bradley, Richard Holland (1820 - 1897)

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First Title value, for Searching Bradley, Samuel Messenger (1841 - 1880)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-05-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Manchester and the Manchester Infirmary; soon after he was qualified he served as Resident House Physician. He then had a varied experience as locum tenens for six months of a general practice in Bowness, Windermere, and next for twelve months he made several voyages between Liverpool and New York in the Cunard Company’s service. He began general practice at Longsight, which involved him in a warm controversy with the Manchester Board of Guardians over the treatment of the sick. At an inquiry by the Poor Law Board he produced such strong evidence as to justify his statements, and his legal expenses were paid by a public subscription. For a time he acted as Surgeon to the Ancoats and Ardwick Dispensary and lectured on physiology at Stonyhurst College, for he was a successful and popular lecturer on natural history subjects, and a brilliant conversationalist. He published the first of numerous books, a *Manual of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology*, in 1869, of which a third edition appeared in 1875. Having qualified as FRCS in 1869, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Manchester Infirmary and Lecturer on Anatomy at Owens College; later he lectured on practical surgery, and in 1879 became Surgeon to the infirmary. In 1870 he joined Walter Whitehead and edited the *Manchester Medical and Surgical Reports*, later amalgamated with the *Liverpool Reports*. He wrote much in a popular style on the “Shape of English Skulls”, “On Controversial Aspects of Syphilis”, “On the Relationship of Anatomy to the Fine Arts”. Besides he was so skilful a painter as to be elected an honorary member of the Manchester Limners’ Club and exhibited pictures. He was also a member of the Literary Club and a composer of casual verses. He had striking clear-cut features, a slightly aquiline nose, high forehead, and massive jaw; he was a good linguist and possessed of musical talents. His contributions to surgery appear to have been limited to the “Treatment of Hydrocele” (*Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1872), and *Injuries and Diseases of the Lymphatic System*, 1879. His health not being good he went to Ramsgate for rest, where after getting wet he was seized with acute pleurisy and pericarditis, from which he died on May 27th, 1880, and was buried at Ramsgate. Publications: *Retrospect of Advance of Modern Medicine: an Introductory Address, Manchester Royal School of Medicine*, 8vo, Manchester, 1869. “The Unity of the Syphilitic Virus.” – *Med. Press and Circ.*, 1871, ii, 269. *Notes on Syphilis, with an Appendix on the Unity of the Syphilitic Poison*, 8vo, London, 1872. “A New Method of Treating Hydrocele.” – *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1872, i, 508. *Manual of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology*, 8vo, 1st ed., 1869; 3rd. ed., 1875. “Moral Responsibility,” 8vo, Lewes, n.d.; reprinted from *Jour. Ment. Sci.*, 1875-6, xxi, 251. *A Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Art of Surgery: a Lecture*, 8vo, Manchester, 1876. *Injuries and Diseases of the Lymphatic System*, 8vo, London, 1879. “The Evolution of Disease.” – *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1871 ii, 19. *The Collateral Statistics of English Surgery in Public Medical Charities for* 1870 (with Walter Whitehead), 8vo, 1871. “Description of the Brain of an Idiot.” – *Jour. Anal. and Physiol.*, 1872, vi, 65. *The Relationship of Anatomy to the Fine Arts*. A Lecture delivered in the Royal Institution, Manchester, 8vo, Manchester and London, 1880, etc. *A List of S. M. Bradley’s Published Writings* (1863-1876), was issued from the press without date. Bradley was Editor, in conjunction with Walter Whitehead, of the *Manchester Medical and Surgical Reports* in 1870-1871, and remained as an Editor for some time after the amalgamation of the publication with a similar one at Liverpool, when it became the *Liverpool and Manchester Medical and Surgical Reports*. He contributed several papers to these *Reports*, including one on the “Shape of English Skulls”, his object being to show that the existing classification of crania was no longer accurate. With the same object in view he also wrote on Australian crania (1871-1872). His paper on the shape of English skulls was based upon his measurements of the heads of male prisoners in the Manchester Borough Gaol, and he concluded that the skull is greatly modified by civilization.
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First Title value, for Searching Bradley, William Henry (1807 - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Coley, William Bradley (1862 - 1936)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 12 January 1862 at Westport, Connecticut, the eldest son of Horace Bradley Coley, farmer, and Clarine Bradley Wakeman, his wife. He was educated at Westport School, at Yale University (1880) and at the Harvard Medical School (1886-88). He acted as instructor in surgery at the New York Postgraduate School and Hospital from 1890 to 1897; was clinical lecturer in surgery at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 1898-1908 and was associate professor 1908-09. He was professor of clinical surgery at Cornell University Medical College, New York; chief surgeon to the Mary McClelland Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts; consulting surgeon to the Physicians Hospital, Plattsburg, to the Fifth Avenue Hospital and the Memorial Hospital for the treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York, and to the Sharon, Connecticut, Hospital. At the time of his death he was emeritus surgeon in-chief to the New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled. He early made his name in the operative treatment of hernia, and shortly before his death told the story of the radical cure of hernia in the *American Journal of Surgery* 1936, ns31, 397. Instigated by Sir James Paget's observation that malignant tumours occasionally diminish or disappear after an attack of erysipelas, he worked assiduously on the action of living streptococci upon sarcoma. He published a series of cases of inoperable sarcoma which appeared to have received benefit from the injection of a fluid containing Bacillus prodigiosus and Streptococcus erysipelatis. Other surgeons had a similar experience with "Coley's fluid" in from 2 to 4 per cent of similar cases. "Coley's fluid" was, in 1910, included in the list of non-official remedies compiled by the American Council on pharmacy and chemistry. The story was completed by Coley and his son B L Coley in 1926. Coley's work was done under great physical difficulties. He was a life-long sufferer from acromegaly, and he was "short circuited" for a duodenal ulcer. He died in a New York hospital of an acute intestinal affection on 16 April 1936, leaving a widow *née* Alice Lancaster of Newton, Mass, whom he had married on 4 June 1891, and two children. Publications:- Contribution to the knowledge of sarcoma. *Ann Surg* 1891, 14, 199; with bibliography, *ibid*, 1906, 43, 610. Primary malignant tumours of the long bones; end results in 170 operable cases, with Bradley L Coley, MD, *Arch Surg*, Chicago, 1926, 13, 779 and 1927, 14, 63. A special lecture delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 10 October 1935 on "The treatment of inoperable malignant tumours with the toxins of erysipelas and *Bacillus prodigiosus*, based on a study of end results from 1893 to 1934" was never published.
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First Title value, for Searching Layton, Thomas Bramley (1882 - 1964)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-02 2016-02-02
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Occupation Otorhinolaryngolologist
Details Born on 8 June 1882, the son of a solicitor, he was educated at Bradfield College and Guy's Hospital Medical School, which he entered in 1900, and graduated in 1906 with honours. After holding the usual house appointments he was surgical registrar at Guy's in 1908, and then decided to specialise in otolaryngology. When war broke out in 1914 Layton, who was an enthusiastic member of the Officers Training Corps of London University, found himself mobilised, and in command of a field ambulance. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and awarded the DSO in 1918. On returning to Guy's soon after the war as throat and ear surgeon, Layton was also appointed consultant otologist to the London County Council. He held this appointment until 1944, and in addition he served on the London Insurance Committee, of which he was the first medical chairman. He was a Hunterian professor at the College in 1919; when a group of rhinologists bought from Vienna for the College Museum the Onodi collection of anatomical specimens illustrating the nasal sinuses, Layton was asked to arrange and describe them; his illustrated *Catalogue* was published in 1934, and he was awarded the John Hunter Medal and Trien¬nial Prize. He gave the Erasmus Wilson lecture in 1935. As a young man he had been inspired by Markus Hajek at Vienna, and learned from him the importance of conservative treatment in disease of the nasal sinuses; Layton wrote several papers on the conservation of lymphoid tissue. He was President of the section of Laryngology in the Royal Society of Medicine 1939-41, and Master of the Society of Apothecaries 1940-41, of which his grandfather Bramley Taylor had been Master in 1912. Towards the end of the second world war Layton became a district director for UNNRA in Sicily, and in 1945 was medical superintendent of their hospital at Belsen, Germany on the relief of the notorious murder camp there. Layton was a blunt, honest, friendly man, unambitious but self-confident with no fear of holding unfashionable opinions; for instance he advocated the use of Wilde's incision for mastoid operations, and opposed operative treatment of the tonsils and adenoids, recommending breathing exercises instead. He had been a prominent member of Guy's Rugby XV and kept up his interest in the game; he loved the sea, and after retiring in 1947 served for some time as a ship's surgeon in RMS *Jamaica Producer*; in old age he still enjoyed long country walks. He was an omnivorous reader and a fluent writer; he wrote an essay on Dickens's medical men and a life of his revered master, Sir William Arbuthnot Lane. He gave most of his books to Bradfield College. "Tubby" Layton, as he was universally known, was devoted to the College and its interests, particularly the Museum and Library, and a helpful friend to its officials; he was a popular member of the Athenaeum. He practised at 55 Wimpole Street, and lived in later life at Lingfield. He married in 1909 Edney Eleanor Sampson, who survived him with a son and daughter. He died on 17 January 1964, aged 81. Publications: *Catalogue of the Onodi Collection*. RCS England 1934. *An industry of health*. London, Heinemann 1944. Sore throats and tonsillitis. *Practitioner* 1946, 157, 349. *Sir William Arbuthnot Lane*, Edinburgh, Livingstone 1956.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Bruce Noel (1928 - 2001)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Bruce Bailey was an innovative plastic surgeon at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, on 29 February 1928, where his father, John Bailey, was national secretary of the Cooperative party. His mother was Anne née Glaser, the daughter of a tailor. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Edmonton Latymer School, before going to the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1949. He did his National Service as a medical officer in the parachute regiment and was then a senior surgical specialist at Millbank for a further two years. His plastic surgery training was at Stoke Mandeville, where he worked with J P Reidy. From 1963 to 1990 he was a consultant at Stoke Mandeville. He was a general plastic surgeon through much of his career, but he developed expertise in burns, flap reconstruction and hand surgery. He spent a year at the Shriners Unit in Galveston, Texas, investigating the treatment of burns. He favoured early excision and grafting for large deep burns. But it was hand surgery that was perhaps his main love. He applied his skills to the treatment of major injuries and congenital hand deformities with his usual enthusiasm. He helped set up combined hand clinics with rheumatologists, after recognising that patients with rheumatoid hand deformities could benefit from early treatment and were not always being referred for surgery. He was always willing to adopt new methods and challenge convention. He saw the value of neonatal cleft lip repair and open-palm techniques for Dupuytren's contracture, both procedures that are not widely practised. He wrote a monograph on bedsores, favouring aggressive surgery, as he did for burns, but only when the wound was 'healthy' and the patient ready for the operation. He was a visiting surgeon at Gujarat Cancer Institute, India. As a result, several young Indian doctors came to work at Stoke Mandeville. He married Jean Ridden in 1950. They had one son, Michael Bailey FRCS, a consultant urologist at Epsom, and three daughters. He was a perfectionist even in his leisure pursuits: he sustained numerous injuries while parachuting, playing rugby, climbing and rally driving. Despite developing an allergy to bee stings, he kept bees, and also grew mushrooms and produced eggs at his country home. He played bridge with his wife, loved music and was an accomplished pianist. His photographic skills were used to amass a large collection of clinical slides, to illustrate his inspiring lectures. He developed Parkinson's disease, and had to retire early from the NHS. He died from an aggressive melanoma on 29 April 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Leonard Alec (1910 - 1997)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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Occupation Businessman Industrial chemist
Details Leonard Bailey was an industrial chemist and managing director of Ethicon, who used his scientific knowledge and impressive managerial skills not only to succeed in his own career, but also to help others. He was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, on 8 August 1910, the son of a deputy chief inspector of the Ministry of Health. He was educated at Cardiff High School, the University of Wales and University College London. He qualified as an industrial chemist in 1932. He started his career with Monsanto Chemicals and then moved to the pharmaceutical division of ICI. In 1943 he joined the medical inspectorate of the Ministry of Supply. At the end of the war he took what must have been one of the most decisive steps of his life when in 1945 he joined the pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson. In 1947 he became the sales manager and director of their subsidiary, Ethicon and shortly thereafter its managing director. In this capacity he displayed both his scientific background and his flair for business management and Ethicon Limited of Edinburgh became the most advanced suture organisation in Europe. Their technical knowledge was in constant demand and they helped to establish suture-manufacturing plants in various parts of the Commonwealth and Europe. They were the first to pioneer acceptable standards for surgical sutures, the first in this country to introduce radiation sterilisation and the first company to establish and maintain a research unit constantly seeking for improvements in the production of sutures already in use and the testing of new materials. Ethicon has always given the most generous support to surgical research and Leonard Bailey was the instigator of all this. Subsequently a series of fellowships was established to enable young surgeons to travel and study abroad. The tenure of an Ethicon fellowship has been the start of many successful surgical careers. In 1936 Bailey married Audrey Margaret Colley and they had a son and a daughter, who became a veterinary surgeon. Despite his involvement in a very busy professional life, Bailey found time to take a keen interest in civic affairs in Edinburgh and was a town councillor for 12 years, serving on many important committees concerned with the welfare of Scotland, ranging from Leith docks to hospital boards. His interest in and support for surgical affairs was widespread and in recognition of this he was elected an Honorary Member of the prestigious James IV Association of Surgeons in 1969, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, of Edinburgh, and of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was elected to the Court of Patrons of this College in 1970, in recognition of his substantial contributions; he was responsible for obtaining the gift from Ethicon for the oak panelling in the Council Room, gave generously to support the research establishment at Downe and, in addition to setting up the Ethicon travelling fellowships, he also donated funds to enable the presidents of the College to travel abroad. Surgery throughout the British Isles and elsewhere owes much to this man for his foresight and generous benefaction. He died on 11 September 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Henry Woodruffe (1788 - 1873)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-11-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Received his professional education at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals. At the time of his death he was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London, a member of the Royal College of Chemistry, and of the Epidemiological, London Meteorological, and Norfolk and West Suffolk Archaeological Societies, and the British Medical Association. He practised at Thetford, where he was at one time Surgeon to the District and Union House. He was author of *Anatomical Plates* and contributed to the *Journal of Public Health* and the *Obstetrical Society’s Transactions*. He died, in retirement at Thetford, on Dec 17th, 1873.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Robert Cozens (1868 - 1938)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Cole Henley Manor, Whitchurch on the Test, Hants, the village where banknote paper is manufactured. He was the second son of Joseph Latham Bailey, gentleman farmer, and his wife Martha Palmer of Lambourn, Kent. Educated at Cranford College, Maidenhead, he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in October 1885 and won the Brackenbury surgical scholarship in 1890. He served as house surgeon to Alfred Willett, FRCS and W J Walsham, FRCS for a year from October 1891, was elected assistant surgeon to the hospital in 1903, became full surgeon in January 1913, and resigned in 1919 when he was made a governor and consulting surgeon. In the medical school he was assistant demonstrator of anatomy 1894-97, and was subsequently a teacher of operative surgery. From 1896 to 1903 he was assistant surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital in the Kingsland Road. At the University of London he gained honours in medicine at the MS examination. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was awarded the Jacksonian prize in 1896 for his essay on "The pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of disease of the prostate gland". In 1908 he joined the territorial force with the rank of captain *à la suite*, and on the outbreak of war in 1914 was promoted major and served at the first London general hospital. His early retirement from all professional work in 1919 was due to ill-health, which took the form of mental depression associated with an increasing lack of interest in things pertaining to life, though he remained physically well. He retired to Hazelwood, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, where he spent the rest of his life, attended by his two nieces and looked after by those who had been his former pupils. He died unmarried on 18 March 1938. He left £100 to St Bartholomew's Hospital. Bailey was a very dexterous operator and a fine teacher of medical students. In the company of his house surgeons and dressers he was always direct and to the point. He excelled in bringing out the practical aspect of any matter under discussion. Something clear and definite invariably sank into the minds of those who attended his demonstrations and were taught by him in the wards and in the operative surgery classes. He was kindly and sympathetic to the individual needs of the student, and his former work in the dissecting rooms gave an anatomical background to his surgical teaching, which proved most helpful to pupils after they had gone into practice. Some of his obiter dicta are preserved under the title "What I always say is" in the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Journal*, 1937, pp 125, 147, 165 and 188. With his composed manner, sprucely dressed square figure, abundant locks and moustache, and unfailing smile, Bailey was a familiar personality in the hospital square and his resignation long before reaching the age limit deprived the hospital of St Bartholomew of a very able surgeon.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Henry Hamilton (1894 - 1961)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 1 October 1894 at Bishopstoke, Hampshire, son of Dr Henry James Bailey MB, MS (Edin). He was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate and then entered the London Hospital Medical College. His studies were interrupted by the first world war and whilst serving as a dresser with the first Belgian unit of the British Red Cross, he was taken prisoner. He was later repatriated and after qualifying in 1917 he served in the Royal Navy as a Surgeon-lieutenant in HMS *Inflexible* and *Monitor 19*. In 1920 Bailey took the FRCS and then held the posts of surgical registrar and first surgical assistant at the London Hospital. In 1925-26 he held the Gillson Scholarship, awarded by the Society of Apothecaries, and he was then appointed assistant surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Wishing to broaden his experience, he took the unusual step of resigning from the honorary staff of the Liverpool Infirmary to become resident surgeon at the Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham. It was during this period that Bailey gained the experience, particularly in emergency surgery, about which he wrote so successfully later. In 1931 he was surgeon to the Bruce Wills Memorial Hospital at Bristol, but the following year he returned to London as head of the genito-urinary department of the Royal Northern Hospital. In due course he joined the staff of several other hospitals, including the Italian Hospital, the Clacton Hospital, the Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, and St Vincent's Clinic. He was also surgeon and urologist to the Essex County Council and an external examiner in surgery to the University of Bristol. A Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons, he was also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Société d'Urologie, and a vice-president of the International College of Surgeons. Though he was disappointed never to have been on the staff of one of the teaching hospitals, he has been claimed as one of the greatest influences of the century on British undergraduate surgical teaching. He made his name by a series of surgical textbooks which won a prodigious success. His first book *Demonstrations of physical signs in clinical surgery* was published in 1927 while he was still at Birmingham. In 1930 appeared his *Emergency surgery* which was universally acclaimed. With R J McNeill Love he wrote *A short practice of surgery* which was first published in 1932. The success of Bailey's books was largely due to his lucid, crisp style and to the superb illustrations which he was one of the first to introduce in British medical textbooks. Bailey was a large man with abounding energy. His main relaxation was swimming and he kept his own pool which he used all the year round. In 1925 he married Veta Gillender, and their home became a welcome meeting place for students from all over the world, regardless of race, colour or creed. Their only son, Hamilton, was tragically killed in 1943 at the age of fifteen in a railway accident at Preston. On retiring Hamilton Bailey bought a house at Malaga, Spain, but died there a year later on 26 March 1961, aged 66. Publications: *Demonstrations of physical signs in clinical surgery*. 1927; 13th edit 1960. *Emergency Surgery*. 1930; 7th edit 1958. *A short practice of surgery*, with R J McNeill Love 1932; 11th edit 1959. *Notable names in medicine and surgery*, with W J Bishop 1944; 3rd edit 1959. Editor: *Pye's Surgical Handicraft* 11th edit 1938 to 18th edit 1962. Editor: *Surgery of modern warfare* 1940-41; 3rd edit 1944.
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First Title value, for Searching Mylvaganam, Henry Bailey (1880 - 1934)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details This Fellow practised in Colombo and Madras. His last known address was 6 Infantry Road, Bangalore, Southern India.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Gordon Nuttall (1905 - 1990)

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First Title value, for Searching Missen, Anthony John Bartley (1936 - 2013)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by William Shand
Publication Date 2018-05-18
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Occupation General surgeon Coroner Magistrate Medico-legal adviser
Details John Missen was a consultant surgeon at Hackney Hospital and an assistant coroner in north London. He was born in Wigan on 25 August 1926. Almost immediately the family moved to Suffolk when his father, Leslie Robert Missen, was appointed chief education officer for East Suffolk. John’s mother, Muriel Sarah Deakin Alstead, was a writer and an actress, who had the enviable gift of making friends, an ability she passed on to her two sons. John was educated at a local prep school in Ipswich before going to Lancing College in Sussex. Early interests at school included ornithology and coin-collecting, rapidly followed by archaeology through his interest in the excavations at Verulamium, St Albans. He was chairman of the Young Farmers’ Club and of the motor club, secretary of the badminton club and of the Shakespeare society, founder of the Linnaeus club and more, an inkling of why he developed such a wide range of interests in later years. From Lancing he went to Christ’s College, Cambridge. Here he sang in the choir, was president of the Milton Debating Society and founder of the Goat Club, an exclusive dining club in the college. One year he was part of the college Poppy Day appeal, putting on a revue with songs and sketches, and in his final year he donated his beloved 1926 Riley Nine Tourer to the Poppy Day rag week charity. A more serious pursuit was of course the study of natural sciences, with a view to doing medicine. In 1958, he entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital for his clinical training. Here he met Janet, his future wife, who had just come down from Oxford. John qualified in 1961, she in 1962 and they were married later that year. Essential house jobs followed and further examinations, including the FRCS, came next. A senior registrar post and a lectureship in surgery followed, together with the prestigious Cattlin research fellowship, all at Barts, and in due course he was awarded his doctorate in medicine. In 1972, having always been interested in medico-legal matters and rather to the surprise of his friends, John joined the Coroners’ Society of England and Wales, and applied for and was appointed to the post of assistant deputy coroner for inner London (north), a post he held until 1984. His appointment as a justice of the peace followed in 1995. Concurrently with all this, he was appointed as a consultant surgeon to Hackney Hospital. Part of this appointment was a surgical tutorship at Barts with responsibility for setting up the surgical teaching programme at Whipps Cross Hospital. However, in spite of one of the senior consultant surgeons at Barts describing John as having the best pair of surgical hands that he had ever seen, it was his medico-legal career that was now to take off. In 1980 John was admitted to the membership of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, although he was never in fact called to the Bar. In 1984, having been appointed as an assistant secretary to the Medical Defence Union (MDU), he left Hackney and Barts. His experience as a coroner and his medical background ensured that he was admirably qualified for this post, a rather archaic Civil Service title for an important job as a medico-legal adviser. During his years at the MDU, he became a highly respected and much appreciated member of staff and in due course was appointed to a post which rejoiced in the title of ‘senior medical claims handler’. His colleagues at the MDU were unanimous in their praise. ‘A steadier man of integrity and principle it would be hard to imagine’ said one, ‘a real brick’. ‘If you wanted a carefully thought out opinion about a serious problem, then John was your man,’ said another. All said that his work was meticulous, his search for clues in a morass of hospital records assiduous, and his subsequent reports beautifully crafted, and all agreed that, when John had something to say, you listened. There was of course a lighter side to all this for he and a colleague became avid collectors of quite unforgettable typos in hospital notes. And two hallmarks emerged – his immaculate three-piece suit and the wisp of smoke curling from beneath the door of his office, for he was by now a pipe smoker and a connoisseur of rather fine cigars: open the door and there he would be, engrossed in a stack of files and enveloped in a cloud of smoke. Above all however, he is remembered at the MDU for his wise counsel, calm demeanour and effective management. There are many in the medical profession who have very good reason to be grateful to John. Following his retirement from the MDU, he continued his legal career serving as a magistrate on the City of London Bench until 2001. Concurrent with his professional career, John developed and maintained strong connections with the City of London livery scene. His interest started at a comparatively early age when he became a yeoman of the Society of Apothecaries in 1967, being granted the Freedom of the City two years later. In 1971, he became a liveryman of the Society and in 1991 was elected to the court. Over the years at Apothecaries’ Hall he served on the livery committee and the charity committee, and for seven years was the Society representative on the court of City University. In 1978, he was admitted to the livery of the Barbers’ Company, joining the court there in 1991, the same year that he joined the court of the Society of Apothecaries – an extraordinary coincidence and a rare achievement. At Barber-Surgeons’ Hall he was a founder member of the historical group, now the Barbers’ historical society, serving as chairman of both that and the charity committee, and having then served in the post of all three wardens, he was elected master in 1997. He listed ‘avoiding public speaking’ on his CV under ‘interests other than hobbies’, but he was in fact a very good after-dinner speaker and his year of office was a great success. During the year however, he suffered a slight stroke, from which he made an excellent recovery and proceeded with the duties of master with undiminished gusto. Unfortunately, this setback in his health persuaded him a year or two later not to proceed to the private court and thence to the mastership of the Society of Apothecaries. Both the Society and the Company will remember with gratitude the very generous gift to each by John, of a banner (with a spare in each case) which fly over the entrance to the halls in Black Friars Lane and in Monkwell Square on high days and holidays. Away from the City and work, he had many other interests. He was a wine buff. He had a comprehensive knowledge of silver and amassed a splendid collection of magnificent pieces associated with the City Livery. He was an expert on clocks. A spin-off of all this was his appointment as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. But his greatest love, apart from family, was probably his collection of vintage cars, an interest he shared with Janet. Between them they acquired and maintained a remarkable garage. Many were the international rallies that they both attended all over Europe in one of their Bugattis on a near annual basis. John died on 21 December 2013 at the age of 77. He was survived by his widow Janet, liveryman of both the Society of Apothecaries and the Company of Barbers, by his daughter Clare, who is also an apothecary and barber, and by his son Andrew, barber and glass seller.
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First Title value, for Searching Elliott, Sir Randal Forbes (1922 - 2010)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Wyn Beasley
Publication Date 2016-03-24 2017-06-09
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Sir Randal Elliott was an eminent New Zealand eye surgeon. He was the youngest member of a distinguished medical family. Born in Wellington, New Zealand, he was the son of Sir James Sands Elliott, a prominent GP-surgeon who edited the *New Zealand Medical Journal* for over 20 years, and Annie Allan Elliott née Forbes. His two older brothers, James Kennedy, an orthopaedic surgeon, and Robert Allan, an otolaryngologist, had worthy military records in the Second World War. He grew up in Wellington, attending St Mark's School, then went as a boarder to Hereworth School in Hawke's Bay and to Wanganui Collegiate School. He did his medical intermediate year at Victoria University in Wellington, completing his course at the University of Otago Medical School in Dunedin. It was there that I first met him, when we were both involved in a student revue (the Capping Concert), presenting a comedy about a meeting of the Big Three at a mythical oasis where he, as Peter Fraser, the New Zealand prime minister, addressed the world leaders on their responsibilities. Now Fraser had been a patient and old friend of his father's, so Randal knew him well enough to provide a convincing likeness - for the whole week of the concert he did this, riding his noisy smoky motorcycle on to the stage to deliver his lines. After his houseman years at Wellington Hospital, and shortly after marrying a nurse, Pauline Young (who bore him a son and six daughters), Randal made what was then the customary pilgrimage to Britain, where he was a resident surgical officer at Moorfields, and then a registrar at University College and the London hospitals. In 1953 he returned to New Zealand as a part-time consultant at Wellington Hospital. He also practised privately as a neighbour of his older brothers on The Terrace in central Wellington. At the same time, he served in the active reserve of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, undertaking tours of duty to the Pacific, Sarawak, Sabah, Malaya, Thailand and Vietnam in the period 1953 to 1977, and retiring with the rank of group captain. He was honorary surgeon to no fewer than three governors-general, and an honorary surgeon to The Queen in 1964. He served terms as chairman of the eye department of Wellington Hospital (from 1965 to 1970), of the combined staff (from 1972 to 1974) and of the eye department of the new clinical school (from 1974 to 1976). But his interests spread much wider than that: he was an adviser in ophthalmology to the New Zealand Ministries of Health, Civil Aviation and Transport. His advice was widely sought, and willingly given. He had a year as president of Wellington Medico-Legal Society, a period as a member of the Traffic Accident Research Foundation and a year as chairman of the Road Safety Trust. He was an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and a guest lecturer at the universities of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. In his own special field he served on the executive of Ophthalmological Society of New Zealand (from 1960 to 1965) and was its president in 1973. His contribution to medico-political matters was notable. In the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, then undergoing quite severe growing pains and name changes, he was a member of the executive council from 1965, then deputy chairman (through a name change) until 1970 and finally chairman of the council from 1971 to 1973. He then chaired the central ethics committee, while remaining on the executive. Not surprisingly, his service was recognised with an OBE in 1975, followed two years later by elevation to a knighthood in the Order, in the year of his presidency of the - by now - New Zealand Medical Association. Now all these commitments - and there were others as well - might create the impression of a man frantically active in his good works, but Randal's style was unhurried, his speech always concise to the point of being almost brusque. In one field he was totally committed: his father had reached the highest rank in the Order of St John, and Randal gave generously of his time and zeal, as principal medical officer in the New Zealand Priory, subsequently as chancellor and then as hospitaller; while in the Order at large he served (from 1988 to 1989) as warden and senior surgeon at the Hospital of the Order of St John in Jerusalem. Like his father he reached the highest rank - bailiff grand cross. What is more, so much devotion to professional and related matters might suggest a man of the meeting room, but Randal was equally at home in outdoor pursuits. He listed his recreations as yachting, ski-mountaineering, tramping, kayaking and fishing. And when he and his two older brothers sailed in the yacht *Wakarere*, which they jointly owned, the vessel was in a constant state of mutiny. Randal Elliott was, in Doctor Johnson's term, a clubbable man. Always abstemious, he was a highly respected president of the Wellington Club (from 1986 to 1990), the opening of the new clubhouse, by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, bringing his term to a fitting climax. When, five years later, I was commissioned to write the history of the club, I persuaded Randal to be one of my literary referees. His response to the several chapters of material I sent him was always encouraging and commonly spiced with some anecdote, carefully printed in capital letters and suitable to enliven the events under discussion. Quite severe deafness and the onset of Parkinsonism, robbed his final years of the best of the human contact he had so enjoyed, and Pauline's death was a severe blow to him, but he is remembered with a blend of affection and something approaching awe. He died on 20 July 2010, aged 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Alison George Selborne (1915 - 1997)

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First Title value, for Searching Bromley, Lance Lee (1920 - 2013)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by P E A Savage
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2014-04-30
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Lance Bromley was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, London. He was born on 16 February 1920 to Lancelot Bromley, a surgeon at Guy's Hospital, and Dora Ridgway Bromley née Lee of Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Educated at St Paul's School, Lance Bromley obtained his 1st MB examination there and went up to Caius College, Cambridge, in 1938 to read medicine. On obtaining his 2nd MB, he was offered a place for his clinical training at St Mary's by the dean, Charles Wilson (Later Lord Moran). The Blitz on London in the early 1940s forced the medical school to evacuate its students to Harefield Hospital near Uxbridge in northwest London, an Emergency Medical Services hospital in the grounds of a sanatorium for patients with tuberculosis. The students were taught medicine by George Pickering and surgery by David Levi. Lance, like many medical students, was much more interested in meeting real patients, although he admitted to being rather nervous and hesitant to begin with. It was an excellent beginning to clinical training and he was to see a variety of medical and surgical conditions, many of which were in a very advanced stage. With the cessation of enemy bombing the medical school returned to Paddington. During this time he left the wards for three months - going back to anatomy and physiology and taking the primary examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Sport was not neglected and he was selected to play rugby for the Barbarians from 1940 to 1943. Around this time Lance was a demonstrator of anatomy and student clinical assistant in the neurology department, working with Wilfred Harris, who was an expert in treating trigeminal neuralgia by needling through the front of the face into the ganglion. Qualifying in December 1943, Lance was appointed as a house surgeon to the senior surgeon at St Mary's R M Handfield-Jones, who was to become his 'father figure' and mentor. As the war with Germany continued, Bromley joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in December that year and was sent by troopship to India. While house surgeon to Thomas Field at the 40th West African General Hospital he was responsible for the care of West African troops fighting the Japanese with General Slim's 14th Army in Burma. There were many medical conditions, but filariasis and yaws were common conditions and a number of soldiers were suffering from schistosomiasis requiring cystocopy for diagnosis and follow up. Back in London with the rank of captain, Lance passed the final FRCS examination and obtained an ex-service registrar post in general surgery at St Mary's soon, moving up to senior registrar. The first year was spent with R M Handfield-Jones, A E Porritt and John Simpson, an ENT surgeon; and the second with Arthur Dickson Wright. Lance recalled these being the two happiest and most interesting years of his life. The work was varied, with many acute conditions. Dickson Wright was a master technician who would tackle any surgical problem. Unfortunately he had no idea of time: arriving an hour or so late for his afternoon session only to mumble something and disappear, returning at 10.30pm with never a word to the waiting team. In the summer of 1949 Lance's surgical appointment ended and he spent three months as a supernumerary registrar on the medical unit. Donald Brooks, a physician at St Mary's and the Brompton, urged him to apply for the resident surgical officer post at that hospital. Appointed in 1949, he worked with Clement Price Thomas, Bill Cleland and Norman Barrett. Pulmonary tuberculosis was still a common condition, with streptomycin just beginning to be introduced. Thoracic surgeons performed thoracoplasties and segmental lung resections. Adhesion section done via a thoracoscope was a common technique to induce a complete pneumothorax. Lung cancer was especially common, and resection was the only hope of cure at that time. Cigarette smoke was just being recognised as a cause, but little was done to discourage it. Price Thomas, having chain-smoked throughout his life, including during outpatient sessions, was to develop lung cancer himself. On completion of the Brompton attachment, Lance was appointed extra senior registrar at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at the Hammersmith Hospital working with Bill Cleland, Hugh Bentall and Denis Melrose, who was developing a heart lung machine. While still at the Hammersmith Lance became a senior lecturer to the surgical unit at St Mary's under Charles Rob. In 1952 he met a physiotherapist, Rosemary Anne Holbrook, at a party and they soon married. Shortly before taking up his consultant appointment Lance and Anne, with baby Christina, spent 10 months in the United States on an American Association for Thoracic Surgery travelling scholarship. Based at Harvard in the laboratories of Francis D Moore, whose vision of surgical teaching included physics, physiology, biochemistry, nutrition and metabolism, Lance saw at first hand the developments in cardiothoracic surgery which were to influence his subsequent approach to the specialty. While at Harvard Anne and Lance befriended H A F Dudley, who had a research post there, but who had left his wife and children behind in Edinburgh. Later Lance was to play a large part in encouraging Hugh Dudley, who by then had been 'transported' to Australia, to accept the offer of the chair in surgery at St Mary's. In 1953 Lance was appointed as a consultant thoracic surgeon to St Mary's Hospital. These were exciting years, with the rapid development of cardiac surgery and he still had a part-time appointment at the Hammersmith, where cardiopulmonary bypass was being developed. The same year he was also appointed as a consultant general surgeon at Teddington Hospital for one half day a week, alternating an outpatients' clinic with an operating session. This rewarding appointment, away from the stresses of cardiothoracic surgery, continued until his retirement. In the early 1950s the traditional work of the thoracic surgeon, pulmonary, pleural and oesophageal, was steadily expanding into the fields of cardiac surgery. Closed procedures such as valvotomy were soon augmented by more complex operations with the introduction of cardiopulmonary bypass. Cardiac and thoracic surgery was not an easy undertaking in those early days; patients were often very high risk and even 'too late' for salvage. Procedures now considered routine were pioneering operations. Each operation required different surgical skills and an understanding of varying physiological changes. One needed to be both a master of surgical technique and an expert in peri- and post-operative management. Initially Lance performed his own cardiac catheterisations until Edwin Besterman joined him as a consultant cardiologist, when they were able to form a joint cardiology surgical ward, with a happy and efficient nursing team and their own mini ITU. Before each operating session there would be a full team meeting at which every clinical detail and investigation result was considered with great care. At the end of each operation he would dictate a full description of the findings and procedure, often illustrated with a sketch, which was typed up immediately by his secretary. Lance was a very sound surgeon and a very calm one - never known to raise his voice. He appreciated his staff and always thanked the nurses and perfusionists after an operating session. St Mary's was fortunate at that time to have two pioneering peripheral vascular surgeons on the staff, H H G Eastcott and Ian Kenyon, and together they performed a number of ground-breaking procedures. At the suggestion of Dickson Wright, Lance developed a link with medical services in Gibraltar and, with Edwin Besterman's connections in Malta, they made regular trips to these countries to see outpatients, perform bronchoscopies and arrange for complicated surgical cases to go to St Mary's for operations under health agreements between the UK and Gibraltar and Malta. With rheumatic fever common in those countries, there was no shortage of patients with mitral stenosis. Although Lance never showed any outward signs of the pressure of his work, the inevitable failures affected him. He cared deeply for his patients and if one did not survive surgery he would often take the next day off for reflection; and in later years he would dream of his 'failures'. He was soon invited to join the London Society of Thoracic Surgeons, where the 'second generation' of thoracic surgeons (the first generation included Clement Price Thomas, Russell Brock and Thomas Holmes Sellors), who had had their training in London, would meet once a year 'to report to each other their two most dreadful mistakes in the previous year'. Meetings started with a topic review or presentation of surgical outcomes followed, after lunch, by the presentation of individual surgeon's 'Charlies'. The meeting was always followed by a good dinner. The Charlies Club met from 1952 to 1992 and the final minute recorded: 'When the Charlies were first set up it was thought by some of us that we might, as years went by, become pompous and thus unable to think of any mistakes we may have made. Happily this did not happen and from the first to the last clinical meeting the essential spirit of the Club prevailed and there was no lack of ghastly errors to report' (Royal College of Surgeons of England Archives. MS0148. London Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Minutes of Meetings of The Charlies Club. 1952-1992). With an increasingly busy professional life, Lance and Anne moved from Roehampton to Hyde Park Crescent, a short walk from the hospital. Now with three daughters and a larger house, there was always extra room for visitors, and lonely trainees from the Antipodes were often to be found lodging in the attic. Lance was a family man and loved the evening meal with all the family in their basement kitchen. Family and friends joined together in a meal that would last for hours - with Lance fast asleep at the end of the table by the conclusion of the evening! For most of Lance's consultant career he was supported only by senior registrars rotating through general or vascular surgery. In the 1970s surgery for coronary artery disease was developing rapidly as coronary angiography became readily available under the direction of consultant radiologist David Sutton. Now in his 50s, Lance was not happy with undertaking the fine suturing of artery and vein grafts, and delegated this task to a number of able general senior registrars who worked as his first assistant. In 1976 Stuart Lennox, on the staff of the Brompton Hospital, became a part-time consultant at Mary's. Having been 'solo' for so many years, Lance was able to slow down at last. Lance enjoyed teaching and for several years was an examiner for the London final MB BS examination. Although he published a number of papers, he admitted to never being an academic and usually had to get up early to complete a paper to meet a deadline. Lance found his year as chairman of the medical committee interesting and challenging. Working with the house governor, Alan Powditch, and the matron, Miss Douglas, he dealt with the personalities and idiosyncrasies of his colleagues with charm and efficiency. Lance loved sailing and often said he would have liked to have been a yacht builder. Initially crewing for friends, he was able eventually to afford his own yacht and became a member of the Royal Ocean Yacht Club. Anne would usually accompany him (although she was easily seasick) and many of his friends and trainees were invited to join them on their Nicholson 32 *Murmur* sailing out of Newhaven or Gosport. On his retirement in 1980 at the age of 60, Lance became director of Medical and Health Services in Gibraltar for three years - where he could keep his last Nicholson boat *Sunmaid of Sussex*. In retirement he had time to take up golf again with renewed vigour and enthusiasm, and enjoyed gardening at their cottage at Barcombe. An early pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon who developed the speciality single-handed in his hospital, Lance Bromley is remembered with affection by his colleagues as a man of great integrity, by his many surgical trainees as a teacher, mentor and friend who showed his concern and interest in their careers, and by his patients for his kindness, gentleness and surgical skill. He was devoted to his wife Anne and their three daughters Tina, Louise and Rachel. He died on 25 April 2013, aged 93.
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First Title value, for Searching Brearley, Roger (1922 - 2010)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2015-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Roger Brearley was a consultant general surgeon at Whiston and St Helens hospitals, Merseyside. He was born in Liverpool on 24 April 1922, the son of Thomas Brearley, an oboist in the Liverpool Philharmonic and Hallé orchestras. His mother's maiden name was Duncalfe. His great grandfather, George Duncalfe, studied medicine at Guy's from 1822; his son, Henry, followed in 1848. They both became general practitioners in the Midlands. Roger Brearley attended Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, where he was awarded the Lord Derby prize for chemistry and the Margaret Bryce Smith scholarship to Liverpool University. He studied medicine at Liverpool University, qualifying MB ChB in 1945, with a distinction in public health in the MB exam. He trained as a surgeon in Liverpool, at the David Lewis Northern Hospital, the Royal Infirmary and the Royal Southern Hospital, as a house officer, registrar and senior registrar, and passed his FRCS at the first attempt in 1949. He was a lecturer in the department of surgery at Liverpool and an assistant in the university surgical clinic at Padua, and was subsequently appointed as a consultant surgeon to Whiston and St Helens hospitals in 1960. At Whiston he became the first postgraduate tutor and was instrumental in raising the funds to build the Whiston Postgraduate Medical Centre. He was chairman of the Mersey regional postgraduate training committee and also served on the area health authority. In 1979 he was elected as a member of the General Medical Council. At the British Medical Association (BMA), he served on the consultants committee and represented UK consultants on the Standing Committee of Doctors of the European Economic Community (EEC), the European Union of Medical Specialists and the EEC's Advisory Committee on Medical Training, which he chaired. Here he was involved in drafting medical directives and recommendations designed to harmonise, to some degree, the various systems of training and healthcare found in the member states. His work was recognised by the award of a fellowship from the BMA. Outside work, he had a passion for music, particularly the music of J S Bach, and played the harpsichord. He owned a house in Langdale, in the Lake District, for many years and enjoyed walking. He was president of the Dante Alighieri Society in Liverpool, reflecting his love of the Italian language and Italian culture. Roger Brearley died on 31 May 2010 in Kendal, in a nursing home. He was 88. He was survived by Joyce (née Hewitt), his wife of 60 years, their sons, Stephen (also a surgeon) and John, and their daughter, Catherine. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Bromley, Lancelot (1885 - 1949)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 18 February 1885, the son of Sir John Bromley, CB, JP (1849-1915) of Seaford, Sussex, who was accountant-general to the Board of Education 1903-09, and his wife Marie Louise, daughter of Richard Bowman of Maidenhead. He was educated at St Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I, 1906. At St Paul's he was captain of the cricket XI and also excelled as a gymnast; he played cricket and hockey for his college at Cambridge, and golf for the university. He played hockey for Guy's in an eleven which won the inter-hospital cup in three successive seasons, and also played for Sussex. He kept up a life-long love of out-door sports, golfing, racing, yachting, and ski-ing with his family as they grew up. Bromley was trained at Guy's Hospital, where he was senior demonstrator of anatomy, house surgeon to Sir Alfred Fripp, and deputy resident surgical officer. He took the Conjoint qualification in 1909, and the Fellowship in 1912; at Cambridge he took the baccalaureate of surgery in 1911 and the mastership in 1913. He became surgical registrar at Guy's in 1911, and served as demonstrator and tutor in operative surgery. He was warden of college 1912-19 and dean of the medical school 1915-20; and was elected assistant surgeon in 1916. During the war of 1914-18 he saw active service as a captain, RAMC at Salonika and in Italy. In 1920 he was elected surgeon to Guy's, with charge of the neurological department. He was also surgeon to the Surbiton and Putney Hospitals, and from 1942 consulting surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Stoke Mandeville. He practised at 36 Queen Anne Street, W. For more than twenty years he examined in surgery at Cambridge, and always enjoyed the opportunities which this work provided for renewing his university connexions. He retired in 1942 to his home at Little Thatch, Seaford, Sussex. Bromley was a shy, modest, unassuming, and helpful man, known with affection to his colleagues and pupils as "Daddy". He married in 1914 Dora Ridgway Lee of Dewsbury, Yorkshire, sister of his contemporary at Guy's Medical School, Harry Lee FRCS, who practised as an ophthalmic surgeon at Leeds. He died on 17 December 1949 at Seaford, aged 64. Mrs Bromley survived him with their younger son, Lance Lee Bromley, FRCS, surgical registrar at St Mary's in 1949, and their daughter, the wife of R A P Hogbin, MRCS of Hampton Hill, Middlesex. Their eldest son, John, was killed in action while serving as a glider-pilot over Caen, on the opening day of the invasion of Normandy in 1944. Publications:- Acute abdominal conditions. *Practitioner*, 1922, 108, 137. Cordotomy in the cervical region. *Guy's Hosp Repts*. 1930, 80, 234. mall intestine obstruction. *Guy's Hosp Repts*. 1930, 80, 297.
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First Title value, for Searching Beagley, Harry Andrew ( - 2002)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2015-10-16
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Harry Beagley qualified at the University of Otago in 1946 and came to England to specialise in ENT surgery. He returned to Auckland as a consultant ENT surgeon, but came back to London as a consultant otologist at the Nuffield Hearing and Speech Centre of the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, and senior lecturer at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. He published extensively on the effect of acoustic trauma on the cells junctions in the organ of Corti. He retired to live in the South of France, where he died after a prolonged illness on 18 November 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Rye, Arthur Brisley (1812 - 1897)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Rochester, where his father practised as a surgeon for many years, and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After qualifying he was Assistant to Harrison, of Greenwich. He then practised for thirty years at Banbury, Oxfordshire, winning esteem and confidence both of patients and colleagues. In retirement he lived at Leckhampton and interested himself in the building and opening of the Delancey Fever Hospital, of which he acted as Hon Superintendent. Later he lived at Westbury, Caterham Valley. He was one of those happy, genial dispositions, always cheerful and humorous, never happier than when he could assist a medical friend by giving him a holiday and taking charge of his practice. He died at the above address at the age of 85, in the full possession of his faculties, on September 1st, 1897. He married twice, and left a widow, son, and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Beasley, Jack Hesketh (1899 - 1978)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Jack Hesketh Beasley was born in Toronto, Canada on 31 March 1899. He qualified in Canada and came to England, obtaining the FRCS while at the London Hospital. He practised in Blackpool as a surgeon until 1939 when he joined the RAMC and went to France as a surgical specialist with No 4 General Hospital. After the fall of France he was sent to Egypt and retired at the end of the war with the rank of Major. Following demobilisation he entered general practice, at first in Tring and later in Thundersley, Essex. He was an avid reader and historian and also spoke several languages. His grandfather was Colonel Hesketh who was reputed to have fired the last shot in the Crimean War and whose uniform is in the museum in Toronto, Canada. He died in March 1978, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Blaikley, John Barnard (1906 - 1975)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details John Barnard Blaikley was born in Finchley on 21 September 1906. His father was a banker and Michael Faraday was his great grand-uncle. He was educated at Christ's College, Finchley, and Guy's Hospital, where he qualified in 1928, taking the FRCS in 1931, the MRCOG in 1933, and the FRCOG in 1944. After a series of resident appointments at Guy's he was appointed first as pathologist and later surgeon at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He joined the staff at Guy's in 1941 and in 1944 became gynaecological surgeon to the Royal Marsden Hospital. In 1946 he was appointed director of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at Guy's and was medical superintendent from 1958 to 1966. He was consultant to Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital from 1954 to 1971 and to the Army in 1969-71. He was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1953 and was Vice-President from 1964 to 1967. He was appointed CBE in 1967. As an obstetrician and gynaecologist John Blaikley was the complete all-rounder. When he was a registrar he was concerned about the resuscitation of apnoeic newborn babies. With his Guy's colleague, G F Gibberd (qv), he designed the Gibberd-Blaikley bag for holding a supply of oxygen which was administered into the baby's trachea through a catheter. John Blaikley became expert at passing the catheter blind through the tiny larynx by touch, using the tip of his finger to guide it. Early on in his career he was responsible for histology at the Chelsea Hospital for Women and he kept up his interest in pathology in later years. He was a skilled obstetric manipulator and a first-class operating surgeon, excelling in cancer surgery. On his arrival as exchange professor at the Johns Hopkins Hospital he was ushered into a crowded pathological conference just after the great Emil Novak had revealed the diagnosis of a baffling histology slide. The English visitor was asked for his opinion, and to the surprise of the audience he made the diagnosis without hesitation and explained why. When a day or two later, he performed a very skilful Wertheim operation they realised they had a most unusual person among them. For many years he conducted the combined cancer clinic at the Royal Marsden Hospital and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. His knowledge of pelvic cancer was extensive, and his opinion was constantly sought by his colleagues. He served with H L Kottmeier and Joe Meigs on the International Committee for the Staging of Cervical Cancer. His friendship with Sir Arthur Sims and Mr and Mrs Black led to the founding of the Sims-Black Travelling Professorship in 1952, and he himself visited Australia and New Zealand and Hong Kong in 1958 with his wife Vivien. He was a popular examiner and visited Birmingham, Bristol, London and Oxford. In 1964 he served as President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He held an equally high reputation in the USA being an Honorary Fellow of the American Gynecological Club and the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, before whom he delivered the Joseph Price Oration in 1964. He died on 21 October 1975 aged 69 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Brearley, Kenneth Stewart (1928 - 2020)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-05-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Ken Brearley started life in Hampton (Melbourne) where he attended both Hampton Primary and Hampton High schools before winning a scholarship for Years 9-12 at Scotch College, which was quite some distance away in Hawthorn. In 1948, having won a place into Medicine at the University of Melbourne in the highly competitive years immediately after WWII, Ken was sent to Mildura, in regional Victoria. In 1947 the University of Melbourne had established a campus outside of Melbourne to accommodate the huge influx of students enrolling as servicemen returned. The whole first year of Medical studies took place in the former RAAF station, the so-called ‘Mildura experiment’. Ken graduated in 1952 and was awarded the Proxime Accessit Jamieson Prize in Surgery. His residency years were spent at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and then, typical of the era, a year was spent in the University of Melbourne School of Anatomy in preparation for the Fellowship exams which were duly successfully negotiated. In 1955 he set sail overseas to gain surgical experience in the UK. By this time he had married a RMH nurse. His first appointment was at the Hammersmith Post-Graduate Hospital in London, where his first child was born, and then north to the Leeds General Infirmary, Yorkshire, where his second child was born. At Leeds he spent a rewarding time working with both Prof John Goligher, a pioneer colo-rectal surgeon, and Mr Henry Shucksmith, a General Surgeon who became prominent in the newly-emerging specialty of vascular surgery. These experiences in Leeds held Ken in good stead for his return to Melbourne, where his third daughter and son were born. As was the standard practice of the day, Ken Brearley sought honorary surgical appointments across town with the hope that one of the positions would lead to a formal appointment. Thus, he was duly appointed an Honorary Assistant Surgeon to Outpatients at both the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Prince Henry’s Hospital, The Royal Children’ and Footscray Hospitals. These were temporary, unpaid positions to get one’s ’foot in the door’. Some years later he was appointed as Consultant General Surgeon to both the Royal Women’s Hospital and one of only two surgeons at the newly-built Sandringham Hospital. In late 1959, Preston and Northcote Community Hospital (PANCH), which was a brand new hospital in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, began recruiting its first medical staff. Opportunity knocked and Ken was one of the three foundation Honorary Consultant Surgeons appointed, the others being Mr John Fethers and Mr Ken Cox. This appointment became the centre of his professional career in the public hospital sector with Ken being Head of Surgical Unit 1 from 1960 until his retirement in 1994. In the early years, General Surgeons were required to cover all areas, thus, Ken would find himself caring for limb fractures, general surgery and for some 20 years undertook vascular surgery, dealing with elective and ruptured aortic aneurysms as well as femoro-popliteal bypass surgery. Ken was highly regarded by his surgical colleagues and recognised as always being friendly and approachable to all staff and patients alike. This meant that his patients thought highly of him and surgical trainees and medical students were pleased to be on his Unit. He was also remembered by all for his urbane attire and eclectic and ever present range of bow-ties. In the surgical sphere he was innovative, having published an article on his “Dr Blue Bag” which contained all the simple equipment that every doctor should have in the boot of the car for those unplanned medical emergencies we all encounter. This idea sprang from the major road trauma load arriving at PANCH and the knowledge that early resuscitation at the roadside saves lives. Ken was also pivotal in the introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy to the hospital, having taken himself to France for training. Ken was active in the structure of the hospital. He helped establish a Division of Surgery at PANCH, becoming its inaugural Chair and also served as chair of the Honorary Medical Staff Association and membership of the Joint Consultative Committee. Ken’s surgical career mirrored the lifespan of PANCH (1960-1998) and with the encouragement of senior executive staff, he embarked on a major exercise to record the history of the hospital in time for its closure by the Victorian Government of the day. The richly illustrated history that he wrote, “Images of PANCH – The Life of a Hospital” , is a wonderful record of the institution and its community. The high regard that so many in the PANCH community held Ken Brearley was reflected in their ready response to his invitation to contribute information and photographs to help in the production of this terrific book. As well as his commitment to PANCH, the young surgeon, Ken Brearley boldly established himself in rooms at the ‘top-end’ of Collins Street in 1960. He continued to practice there until his retirement. This achievement being recognised by the City of Melbourne in 2010 with a Platinum Award for his “Fifty Years of Continuous Small Business Proprietorship”. It was here too that Ken pursued a career in Medico-Legal work from the time of his retirement from PANCH until just shy of his 91st birthday. Ken organised a good work-life balance and enjoyed a rich life outside of Medicine. He was a beloved father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend to many. As he wrote in ‘Images of PANCH’: “My chief interest has always been tennis and I continue to represent Victoria in interstate Veteran Championships”. Ken was a longstanding member of both the Royal South Yarra Tennis Club and The Victoria Golf Club. He died peacefully on July 16, 2020, having had a dedicated surgical career and living life to the full throughout. This tribute was written by his surgical colleagues: Hamish Ewing, David Butterfield, Boon Hong with assistance from his daughter, Amanda Woodard.
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First Title value, for Searching Badley, John (1783 - 1870)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital; practised at Dudley, Worcestershire, where he died on April 16th, 1870. He was a favourite pupil of Abernethy, and Badley’s notebooks of Abernethy’s lectures were presented by his grand-daughter, Miss Laura E Badley, to Queen’s College, Birmingham. It does not appear that he ever held any public appointment.
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First Title value, for Searching Bayley, Eric (1878 - 1967)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Bayley was born on 22 January 1878, the son of Edward Hodson Bayley, who was a wheelwright and later became MP for North Camberwell. He was educated at University College School, where he took an active part in all school plays in French, German and English, and was captain of rugby and cricket. He won scholarships to Charing Cross Hospital and qualified in 1902. After obtaining the Fellowship in 1905 he went into general practice in the City of London; he moved into Finsbury Square and married Margaret Colman in 1914. During the first world war he joined the Army, serving in Hospital ships, and twice went to Gallipoli; after this campaign he worked in Egypt, and was able to enjoy most of the ancient sights of that country. On returning to England, Bayley joined the Navy and served in HMS Warspite until the end of hostilities. In 1919 he returned to his practice which soon became very successful. He was appointed medical officer to the Metropolitan Police, and in 1923 principal medical officer to the Cable and Wireless Company. During the second world war he was in the Home Guard in London, sleeping in his consulting room all through the bombing, and was on duty at Electra House when it was hit by a flying bomb in 1944. Soon after the war he accompanied the chairman of Cable and Wireless on a tour of the Mediterranean, visiting Cyprus, Malta, Athens and Rome. Bayley was chairman of the Cable and Wireless Art and Craft Society and contributed specimens of his own tapestry work to the exhibitions. After retirement he went to live at Plumtree Cottage, Naphill, High Wycombe, Bucks and founded the Naphill Darby and Joan Club, later becoming its president. He was also president of the Naphill Horticultural Society and led a full social life until his final illness. He died on 18 July 1967, from cancer of the prostate, and was survived by his wife. A memorial service was held at Hughenden Parish Church.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Rhys Tudor Brackley (1925 - 2003)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Air Vice Marshal Rhys Tudor Brackley Jones was born on 16 November 1925 in Middlesex, the son of the late Sir Edgar and Lady Jones. He studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, where he qualified MRCS LRCP in April 1950 and became a house surgeon there. His surgical training rotation continued at Harold Wood Hospital, becoming a junior surgical registrar, before call up for National Service by the Royal Air Force in September 1952. He married Irene Lilian Henderson in August 1953. He was rapidly promoted to squadron leader in 1954 whilst serving at the RAF Hospital Wroughton. Typical service annual moves to RAF Hospitals Nocton Hall, Weeton, Uxbridge, Ely and Wegberg happened until 1960, when he passed his FRCS and was posted on active service to the RAF Hospital in Aden. This was a period of terrorist activity and he rapidly gained extensive experience in battle surgery. After returning to the UK, he continued as a general surgeon, gaining the wide experience the service required, before being promoted to wing commander in 1963. He had a sabbatical year and was appointed as a consultant by the Armed Services Consultant Approval Board at the College in 1967. An overseas posting to RAF Hospital Changi soon followed, where a wide range of general surgery was undertaken. After returning to the UK he had a further period of external study before being promoted to group captain. He was soon posted to the RAF Hospital Wegberg as the senior consultant. This hospital was at the western end of British Forces Germany and he was responsible for the surgical treatment of the Army as well as the RAF. He was a very capable surgeon and this was soon recognised by the Army surgeons, with whom he established an excellent working relationship. In 1978 he went to the senior RAF Hospital the Princess Mary’s and was in charge of the Stanford Cade unit, where all the RAF cases of malignant disease were treated. In 1982 he was appointed as a consultant adviser in surgery and was soon promoted to air commodore. This was a busy and difficult period following the Falklands war, and included the dissolution of all military hospitals. In 1987 he was promoted to air vice marshal, with responsibility for all postgraduate training of RAF medical officers. He rapidly became the senior consultant of the RAF and honorary surgeon to the Queen. He retired in 1990 and died suddenly on 8 December 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Etherington-Smith, Raymond Broadley (1877 - 1913)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30 2012-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The second son of J R Etherington-Smith, Recorder of Derby and a bencher of the Inner Temple, his mother being a daughter of Sir Thomas Pears, KCB. He went to Repton in 1890 and left in 1893, without distinguishing himself apparently at work or at games. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1895, and took his BA degree in 1899. His first two years at Cambridge were comparatively uneventful, but in his third and fourth years he established his reputation as a first-rate oarsman. When he began to row, the University Club was torn by dissension, and it was mainly due to his charming gifts of character and wise guidance that Cambridge was able to come to its own on the river. He rowed three times for Cambridge, and was President of the University Boat Club in 1899 when Cambridge won the boat race for the first time after nine consecutive defeats by Oxford. He captained Leander during four seasons, and in 1908 he was Captain of the United Kingdom Eight which beat the Belgian Crew in the Olympic Regatta. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital from Cambridge in 1900, with the highest reputation both on account of his athletic prowess and his personal qualities. He was a magnificent specimen of a man, tall, lean, with wavy fair hair, of the type loved by the Grecian sculptors. He had a host of friends who ardently admired him and affectionately called him 'Ethel-Smith'. Not that there was anything feminine about him, for he was eminently virile both in his physique and in his attitude to life and men. He went through his ordinary career as a medical student without special distinction, and graduated MB, BCh at Cambridge in 1903, at the same time taking his MA degree. In 1903 he was appointed Ophthalmic House Surgeon to W H H Jessop and Mr Holmes Spicer, and, on completion of this office in 1904, House Surgeon to Bruce Clarke. In 1905 he became Extern Midwifery Assistant, and later Resident Administrator of Anaesthetics, thus completing a period of two years and three months upon the resident staff. In 1906 he was elected Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical School, having Mr C E West and Mr Gordon Watson as his senior colleagues. In 1907 he was admitted FRCS, and in 1908 he was appointed Surgical Registrar to the West London Hospital, and later, in 1910, Assistant Surgeon. In September, 1909, he was chosen Warden of the College at St Bartholomew's Hospital upon the resignation of Mr G E Gask, a post he retained until his death. This office he filled with much advantage to the hospital, for his influence on the students was great and good. In 1910 he was chosen Surgical Registrar with Mr Elmslie, and in 1912 Assistant Surgeon to the hospital. He died on April 19th, 1913, after a two days' illness. He contracted a pneumococcal peritonitis operating on a patient with an abscess of the lung. A laparotomy was performed, but he never rallied. A Memorial Service was held in the Church of St Bartholomew the Great, his coffin being borne from the hospital to the church on the shoulders of intimate friends who had been his colleagues. He was buried at Putney Vale Cemetery. There are two memorials to Etherington-Smith. One is a tablet in the Chapel at Repton School, and the other is a two-bedded ward for the use of the Resident Medical Staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital. On the wall of this ward is a representation of his head in bas-relief, and there is a commemorative tablet in the operating theatre below it. The old operating theatre of the hospital, known as the 'Abernethy Theatre', was also reconstructed in his memory.
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First Title value, for Searching Green-Armytage, Vivian Bartley (1882 - 1961)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 14 August 1882 son of A Green-Armytage of Clifton and York, he was educated at Clifton College, at Bristol University and the Royal Infirmary, and in Paris. He was Montefiore surgical medallist at the RAMC College, was commissioned Lieutenant IMS in 1907, promoted Captain in 1910, Major in 1919, became Lieutenant-Colonel in 1927, and retired in 1933. During the war of 1914-18 he was three times mentioned in dispatches, receiving the Mons Star, the Croix de Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and the Order of the White Eagle, Serbia with crossed swords in 1917. From 1911 to 1922 he held the appointment of resident medical officer at the Eden and Presidency General Hospitals in Calcutta, becoming Professor of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at the Eden Hospital 1922-33. On his retirement from Calcutta, he was presented with a volume of his selected addresses by medical women of India, printed and published by them at Calcutta as a token of their esteem for and appreciation of a great teacher and loyal friend during twenty-five years work in Bengal. Returning to England he set up in practice as a consulting gynaecologist, and was appointed to the West London, British Postgraduate, Italian, and Tropical Diseases Hospitals. He was president of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine and vice president of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and was an examiner in these subjects for the University of Cambridge and for the Royal Colleges. In 1958 he was promoted Officier de la Légion d'Honneur. He was a skilful exponent of the operation of vaginal hysterectomy, as a result of his experience in India. He was very helpful to overseas postgraduate students and endowed a visiting fellowship tenable for four years at the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists. A great raconteur he delighted to entertain his friends and visiting gynaecologists at his clubs, the Oriental and the East India and Sports. He died on 11 April 1961 in London, aged 78, survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Pennington, Robert Rainey (1766 - 1849)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-10-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied under Percivall Pott at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and Pott was one of his eight examiners for Membership of the Corporation. He practised in Lamb's Conduit Street, and was President of the National Institute of Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery. For the last two years he practised in Portman Square, where he died on March 8th, 1849. The following by J F C appeared in the *Medical Times and Gazette*, 1869, i, 361;- “SOMETHING ABOUT ONE OF THE OLD SCHOOL “The late Mr Pennington, who was a fellow-student at St. Bartholomew's with Mr Abernethy, related to me the following anecdote in the course of a conversation at a very advanced period of his life. He and Abernethy were dressers at the same time to the celebrated Percivall Pott, and each claimed precedence. Pennington was certain that he was entitled to be first, but for some time, in order to avoid a quarrel, gave way to the ‘pretension’ of Abernethy. On one occasion, however, ‘Johnny’ carried his presumption a little too far. Pott was crossing the quadrangle of the Hospital, followed by the students. He was giving a kind of ‘running clinique’ on a case in which Pennington was deeply interested, and, anxious to hear all that was said, he stuck close to the teacher. Abernethy came up and absolutely elbowed me out of my position. I then found it was time to put a stop to his impertinence, particularly as the insult was given in the presence of so many of our fellows. I took no notice of it at the moment, though the circumstance did not escape the observation of Mr Pott. Immediately on the conclusion of “the round”, I made up my mind to act, and accordingly, in the presence of a number of students, I addressed Abernethy: “Jack, this won't do; I have given way to you too long, and for the future you must be content to play second fiddle.” Abernethy began to bluster, and said, “I'll be d—d if I do!” At that time disputes of the kind were settled in a summary way, and I immediately prepared to assert my right by an appeal to the fist. The place of combat was in the corner of the ground which is near to the anatomical theatre, and thither we repaired, followed by our anxious and admiring confrères. I took off my coat and prepared for action. Jack did not follow suit, and began, like Bob Acres, to show unmistakable symptoms of not coming to the scratch. In fact, he declined the ordeal of battle, and I was for the future first. We were closely associated for nearly fifty years afterwards, but we never had an angry word. Dining with him some forty years after in Bedford Row, the old quarrel between us accidentally cropped up. “Well,” said Abernethy, “the truth of the case was this – the moment I saw you uncover your biceps, I was certain I should be thrashed, and so, my boy, I surrendered at discretion.”’ “Pennington was a great physicker, and has often been called the originator of ‘homeopathy’. However this may be, he was in the habit of ordering three, four, or more draughts a day, to be ‘continued’ until further orders. These repetitions amounted, on an average, to one hundred a day, and his dispensary in Keppel Street, behind his house in Montagu Place, was a regular manufactory of physic. The boys who ‘took out the medicine’ were furnished with a string and hook, and the parcel was let down into the area by this simple mode. When orders were given by the patient that no more medicine was required, the fact was duly announced in a book kept for the purpose. ‘Ah,’ said Pennington, ‘I see I must change the medicine; I will call to-morrow.’ He did so, changed the colour of the dose, and the repetition was ordered for three weeks. In those days this was regarded as orthodox; but chiefly in respect to the ‘tip-top apothecary’. But then Pennington attended eleven out of the twelve judges, and could do pretty much as he liked. In proof of this I may mention a circumstance which was related to me by a gentleman who at one time was one of his dispensing assistants in Keppel Street. This gentleman some years since retired from general practice on account of ill health, and is now deservedly high in the profession as a dentist. “The late Lord Wynford, then Serjeant Best, was subject to severe attacks of the gout. The serjeant was irritable, and Mrs Best anxious and nervous. When she wished to see Pennington about her husband, she used to lie in wait for him in Keppel Street, and follow him into his dispensing establishment. Here she would stay with wonderful patience until he had finished his entries. On one occasion, says my informant, Mrs Best looked up imploringly to ‘the great man’. ‘The serjeant is very bad,’ said his wife, ‘in great pain.’ ‘Well,’ said Pennington, ‘what am I to do? I saw him yesterday; let him go on with his medicine.’ ‘But do tell me when you will kindly see him again.’ ‘Well,’ said he, ‘I will tell you to a minute. I will see him this day six weeks at 25 minutes to 12.’ But Pennington, however much he enjoyed a joke, did not carry this one out. He was at Best's house the next morning before breakfast. “Pennington boasted that he had never worn a great-coat in his life; nay, in the coldest weather you might see him in his pumps and silk stockings, for to the last he was proud of his ‘leg’. ‘Ah,’ said he to me on one occasion, ‘I am not such a fool as to neglect my creature comforts. I am clothed in flannel underneath, and have a pair of lamb's-wool stockings under the silk.’ I may mention here, en passant, that the late Dr Clutterbuck, who lived to nearly 90 years, and then succumbed to an accident, used to boast that nobody had ever seen him wear an outer coat, but he wrapped up almost like a mummy underneath. “Pennington's practice was large and laborious, and, in addition to seeing patients in town, he was frequently called upon to pay visits in the country. These he always managed to make at night. He would, after a hard day's work, take a warm bath, and travel in a post-chaise all the night, getting back in the morning sufficiently early to see his home patients. He had a vigorous constitution, and could sleep almost anywhere. It is said that Pennington made £10,000 a year for many years by physic. At all events he accumulated a very large fortune. He sold his practice to Mr Hillier, who, however, did not succeed in keeping it together. Pennington was a thorough man of business, and did not attend the societies. He was, however, very sociable and hospitable. When the National Association of General Practitioners was instituted, he was elected President, but he was then an octogenarian and did not display any of his former energy or ability. He was not a man of much acquirement, but he was possessed of a large amount of good common sense, had considerable power of diagnosis, and was most successful as a prescriber. He was a remarkably handsome man, with a fine presence and a manner which inspired confidence. He was in harness to the last.” A fine mezzotint in the College collection (Stone) represents Pennington as a quaint-looking old man with a humorous expression. It is from a painting by F R Say, and was engraved by W Walker in 1840.
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First Title value, for Searching Braine, Charles Carter (1860 - 1937)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation Anaesthetist
Details Born 13 February 1860 in Hertford Street, Mayfair, the son of John Carter of Elmlawn, civil servant, who had been in the Navy, and Hannah Elizabeth Miller, who came from Lincolnshire. The marriage took place at St George's, Hanover Square, in 1859. John Carter died, and in March 1871 Mrs Carter married Francis Woodhouse Braine, FRCS; Charles Carter took the name of his stepfather and was known for the rest of his life as Charles Carter Braine. He was educated at the upper school of Alleyns College of God's Gift at Dulwich from April to July 1873 and subsequently at University College. He was a student at Charing Cross Hospital, where he filled the post of house surgeon, and was anaesthetist from 1890 to 1919. He was also anaesthetist to the Royal Dental Hospital and to St Peter's Hospital for stone, positions which had been held by his stepfather. During the war of 1914-18 he was anaesthetist to the King George Hospital. He married on 16 January 1892 Harriet Jane Evans. She survived him with two sons, John Francis Carter Braine, FRCS, assistant surgeon to the actino-therapeutic department at Guy's Hospital at the time of his father's death, and Eric Carter Braine. He died at 200 Grove End Gardens, NW8 on 1 September 1937. Charles Carter Braine was a first-rate anaesthetist, beloved by all who knew him. He was president of the Society of Anaesthetists 1903-5; and made improvements in the Ormsby and Junker inhalers. Like his stepfather he was interested in freemasonry and was Past Junior Grand Deacon and Past Assistant Grand Sojourner in 1922. Publications:- *Notes on anaesthetics in dental surgery*, by A S Underwood, 2nd ed by Underwood and Braine. London, 1893. Artificial Respiration. Quain's *Dictionary of Medicine*, 3rd ed p 193. A safety Junker inhaler. *Brit med J*. 1892, 1, 1364. Position in kidney operations. *Ibid*. 1900, 2, 1715. Experiences of anaesthetics in 200 consecutive cases of prostatectomy. *Trans Soc Anaesth Lond*. 1906, 8, 54.
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First Title value, for Searching Braine, Francis Woodhouse (1837 - 1907)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-05-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of James William Braine (qv), a medical man in large practice; born at St James’s Square, London, on December 28th, 1837, the eldest of eleven children. He entered St George’s Hospital in 1854, and was successively House Surgeon, Surgical Registrar, and Demonstrator of Anatomy. He acted as private assistant to George Pollock (qv), Surgeon to the hospital, and thus gained experience in the administration of chloroform. Henry Potter, Chloroformist to St George’s Hospital, gave up his position unexpectedly owing to the death of a patient to whom he was giving the anaesthetic. The post was offered to Braine, who until then was educating himself for a post on the surgical staff of the hospital, and was Resident Medical Officer at the Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street. The offer was accepted with some reluctance. Braine took Potter’s house in Maddox Street, and became one of the early specialists in the administration of anaesthetics. He soon attained a European reputation. For twenty-six years, from 1868-1894, he was anaesthetist to the Dental Hospital in London, where he was appointed a Vice-President on his resignation of office. During this period Braine was the first to adopt in England the use of nitrous oxide gas for the production of anaesthesia. From 1873-1890 he was Chloroformist and Lecturer on Anaesthetics at Charing Cross Hospital, where his lectures were the first systematic course on the subject in this country. He was also Anaesthetist to St Peter’s Hospital for Stone, acting for sixteen years and retiring with the rank of Consulting Anaesthetist. He was one of the founders and the first President (1893-1895) of the Society of Anaesthetists, and was Hon Secretary of the Medical Society of London when it moved from George Street, Hanover Square, to Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, in 1871. For his services the Society awarded him a silver medal in 1875 and made him a Vice-President. He was twice married. He died on October 28th, 1907, and was buried at Harrow. Braine was an adept boxer, whip, and rider to hounds, his love of sport being an inheritance from his grandfather, who is described as a wealthy gentleman farmer living in Oxfordshire. In his younger days he took part in swimming matches under the assumed name of ‘Frank Stanley’. He was also devoted to games of skill. For many years he acted as Hon Secretary of the Fellows of the College of Surgeons’ dinner, which was held on the date of the Election to the Council, and by his social qualities and administrative ability did much to make the gathering successful. He held high rank as a freemason, and was appointed in 1901 to the acting rank of Senior Grand Deacon in the Craft, and Assistant Grand Sojourner in the Royal Arch. His life synchronized with the rise and development of the art of anaesthesia from experimental beginnings. He was one of the great practical pioneers, and lived to see it established on a firm scientific basis. Nitrous oxide could not be brought in cylinders when Braine began to practise. It had to be made at home and conveyed to the patient in a large bag from which the gas leaked, as often as not, until it frequently happened that hardly enough would be left to produce anaesthesia. It was so often impure that to the last day of his practice Braine always satisfied himself by inhaling a few whiffs before he gave it to the patient. He was greatly in favour of chloroform at the beginning of his career, but soon became an advocate for the use of ether, in the administration of which he was very expert. He always used the Ormsby inhaler, and was a firm believer in rapid induction, giving nitrous oxide first to full narcosis and then changing to ether, using separate inhalers. He very rarely used mixtures containing chloroform in later life. Publications:— Braine’s contributions on anaesthetics are to be found in *Brit. Dent. Jour.* and *Brit. Med. Jour.* for 1869-1871 and in *Lancet* for 1872, ii, 782.
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First Title value, for Searching Braine, James William (1796 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Balding, Daniel Barley (1831 - 1923)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-11-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Middlesex Hospital, where he was Resident Medical Officer. Practised at Royston, Hertfordshire for more than forty years, during which time he was well known as Coroner for Hertfordshire and as a Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. For many years he was Medical Superintendent of the Royston Hospital. He was keenly interested in all matters relating to the Poor Law, on which he was a frequent contributor to the *British Medical Journal*, and was President of the Poor Law Medical Officers’ Association. He was Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel in the 1st Herts Volunteer Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. In his retirement he lived at The Beeches, Royston, where he died on April 8th, 1923.
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First Title value, for Searching Osgood, Robert Bayley (1873 - 1956)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born at Salem, Massachusetts on 6 July 1873, son of John Osgood he graduated MD at the Harvard Medical School in 1899, and began to practise as an orthopaedic surgeon in Boston. Not long afterwards, in 1903, he published a paper on lesions of the tibial tubercle occurring during adolescence, this being the first description of the disorder which later came to be known as Osgood-Schlatter disease. During all his professional life he was on the staff of the Massachusetts General and Children's Hospitals, in charge of the orthopaedic service at each; and at the Harvard Medical School he was appointed John Ball and Buckminster Brown Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1922. His work brought him international renown, and he was an honorary member of the British and Australian Orthopaedic Associations. In 1925 he gave the Hugh Owen Thomas Lecture at Liverpool, and in 1943 Sir Heneage Ogilvie conferred on him at the British Embassy in Washington the Hon FRCS. He was also an Honorary Member of the Section of Physical Medicine of the Royal Society of Medicine. During the first world war Osgood served with the American forces overseas, and in 1918 was appointed a consultant to the office of the Surgeon-General in Washington. He was chairman of the advisory board of orthopaedic surgeons to the Trustees of the Shriners' Hospitals for Crippled Children, President of the American Orthopaedic Association in 1921, and President of the New England Surgical Society. Osgood's command of orthopaedics was profound and he exerted a great and useful influence on American orthopaedic surgery. He was generous to causes and individuals. He was a direct descendant of a John Osgood who emigrated from Hampshire to Andover, Massachusetts in 1638. He married Margaret Chapin in 1902, and they adopted a daughter. He died on 2 October 1956 aged 83. Select publications: Nerve grafting in infantile paralysis. *Boston med surg J* 1910, 162, 893. Orthopaedic work in a war hospital. *Boston med surg J* 1916, 174. 109-127. Notes on excision of septic joints. *Amer J orthop Surg* 1918, 16, 132-140. Internal derangement of the knee. *J Bone Jr Surg* 1923, 5, 635-697. Orthopaedic aspects of chronic arthritis. *J Bone Jt Surg* 1926, 8, 1-41.
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First Title value, for Searching Radley, Sidney Bertram (1888 - 1967)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Sidney Bertram Radley was born on 18 September 1888 and received his medical education at Manchester University and St Bartholomew's Hospital, graduating in London with honours and a distinction in medicine in 1911, and in Manchester with second-class honours in the same year. In 1913 he took both the Conjoint Diploma and the FRCS. In the first world war he served in the RAMC in the Middle East and in India and on demobilization he joined a partnership in general practice in Newark and also became honorary surgeon to the Newark Hospital. By the time of the second world war he was senior surgeon to the hospital and retired in 1955. Radley was President of the Nottingham Branch of the British Medical Association in 1953-54. He was a keen member of the Newark golf club and among his wide interests were archaeology and ornithology. He was a valued member of the Newark Town and District Club, and his wise counsel was much appreciated by his junior colleagues. His wife died in 1963, and there were no children of the marriage. He was ill earlier in the year, but had returned almost to his usual activity up till the time of his death at his home in Newark on 13 September 1967, within a few days of his 79th birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Rainey, Edward Holmes (1886 - 1974)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Edward Holmes Rainey was born at Paignton on 5 April 1886 and educated at Bedford School and the London Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1909. He was house surgeon to Russell Howard and in 1913 took the FRCS. He then settled in general practice at Eastbourne, Sussex, but soon volunteered for war service, which he spent in the hospital ship Mauretania in East Africa and the Dardanelles. The last year of the war he served on the western front and was badly gassed. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the Order of St Sava by the King of Serbia. Back at Eastbourne he built up a large practice and for 20 years was surgeon on the staff of the Princess Alice Hospital. In 1938 he became a rural practitioner in Norfolk and for the next 20 years worked there in partnership with his wife. During the second world war he was medical officer to the local Home Guard, and following enemy bombing at Norwich he converted part of his Georgian house into a nursing home. In retirement he was busy in his garden and active as President of the Harleston branch of the British Legion. He was also a lay reader. Edward Rainey had a long and busy life, devoted to his profession and his patients. In 1911 he married Irene Parsons and they had five daughters and one son who is in general practice. In 1938 he married Helen Ruth Goodman MD. He died on 8 December 1974, he was 88 years of age.
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First Title value, for Searching Barley, Dennis Alfred (1917 - 1996)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2015-10-16
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Occupation ENT surgeon Musician
Details Denis Barley qualified from King's College Hospital where he won scholarships in anatomy and physiology, was house physician and house surgeon, and specialised in ENT, becoming senior registrar in the ENT department at King's. He served in the RAMC as Major and then became a consultant ENT surgeon in Plymouth. He died on 20 August 1996. The following obituary was received after volume nine of the *Lives* had been published: Dennis Alfred Barley was born in London on 20 February 1917, the son of Frederick William Barley, a Government surveyor, and his wife Alice, née McLaughlin. He was educated at Bec School in Tooting and then went to London University where he was a scholar at King's College, having gained a scholarship in anatomy and physiology, and graduated in 1939 with the conjoint diploma. In 1940 he took his MB BS and worked as a house surgeon at King's College Hospital, where his teachers were Sir Victor Negus and Sir Terence Cawthorne. He took the diploma in laryngology and otology in 1941 and during army service was a specialist in otolaryngology. In the Far East he served in the RAMC from 1940 to 1946 and attained the rank of major. He worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital when it was moved out of London during the Blitz, and in Edinburgh, where he had to take instant charge of the wards when the leading surgeon was summarily dismissed for diagnosing all the patients as having the same condition! In 1948 he passed the Fellowship of the College and was appointed senior registrar at King's and later consultant otolaryngologist at Plymouth Hospital. During a distinguished career at Plymouth he was renowned for always carrying out a certain eye operation although it was not his specialty. On 13 May 1961 he married Michèle Thomas and they had three sons - Mick, who became a solicitor, Christopher, a telecom product manager and Paul, an accountant. Throughout his life Barley was as interested in music as he was in medicine - indeed he referred to it as his 'second profession'. He was both a composer and a performer. As a student he was responsible for providing music for the Christmas show at King's and in later life he acted as organist at his parish church. He was a keen sailor and had been a member of the Royal Yacht Club, Plymouth, since 1946. He developed carcinoma of the throat in 1984 and although this was cured his mouth was damaged and he could only drink, not eat. The cancer spread to the glands of his neck and he died on 20 August 1996, survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Nicholson-Lailey, John Raymond ( - 1979)

2024-05-12T02:01:02Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-18
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details After his early education at Trowbridge High School, 'Nick' as he was known to his many friends, joined the Artists' Rifles, and was later commissioned in the Royal Artillery in the first world war. After the war he went to Bristol University where he qualified in 1923, taking the MB BS and FRCS in succeeding years. He showed special interest in gynaecology as a student, and won the Henry Prize in midwifery and gynaecology in 1923. He was appointed consultant general surgeon at the Taunton and Somerset Hospital in 1930, but specialised in gynaecology and obstetrics after 1945. He was active in the BMA, elected member of Council in 1950, Chairman from 1962 to 1966, Vice-President in 1968. He was Vice-Chairman of the Council of the World Medical Association in 1964, when Manchester University conferred on him the honorary LLD. He was made FRCOG in 1965. In 1932 he married Dr Penelope Alice Peach, and had two daughters and one son, also a doctor. He died on 29 November 1979 after a long illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Riley, Francis ( - 1919)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-07 2018-06-08
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at Westminster Hospital, where he was Guthrie Scholar in 1891, President's Prizeman and Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1893, and later House Surgeon. He served next as Medical Officer on the steamships Fifeshire, Mound, and Buteshire, then practised for a time at Winton, New Zealand, when he was Public Vaccinator. About 1900 he returned to practice at Pen-y-bryn, Hereford, subsequently at 3 Culverden Gardens, St John's Road, and finally at Howard Lodge, Mount Zion, Tunbridge Wells. He died in or before 1919.
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First Title value, for Searching Radley Smith, Eric John (1910 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Eric John Smith was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He was born on 31 March 1910 in Norwood, Surrey, the second son of Robert Percy and Edith Smith. His early life was overshadowed by the death from Hodgkin’s disease of his elder brother who had been a child prodigy, and Eric spent his schooldays trying to fulfill the promise of his brother. In this he was far from unsuccessful, winning prizes and commendations at all his schools – Paston’s in Norfolk, Haverford West Grammar and Sutton County Grammar (the moves being occasioned by his father’s work as a construction engineer). He went up to King’s College Hospital at the age of 17 and again distinguished himself, being rewarded with the Jelf medal and Huxley prize, as well as gaining four distinctions in his finals. A keen sportsman, he represented the college at cricket and rugby. He was proud of being the last house surgeon of Lord Lister’s last house surgeon (Arthur Edmunds) and was appointed as a surgical registrar at King’s, and later house surgeon at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. At the age of 29 he was appointed to consultant sessions at Brentford Hospital, thereby beginning an association with Brentford Football Club, one that lasted for the rest of his life, as he became in turn medical adviser, director and President. At the outbreak of the second world war he was appointed consultant general surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service at Horton Hospital, Epsom, in which over 60,000 patients were treated during the war. His special contribution was to act as triage officer at Epsom station when trainloads of casualties arrived, and with his quick assessment and remarkable memory he directed each one to the appropriate ward in the hospital. At the same time he was working at Hurstwood Park Neurological Hospital. When in 1946 he joined the Royal Air Force as a surgical specialist, he undertook further neurosurgical specialist duties. In 1948 he spent a year with Olivecrona in his neurosurgical unit in Sweden, one of the world’s pre-eminent centres. He was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, continuing his interest in neurosurgery by undertaking some of the earliest prefrontal leucotomies in the UK. He also pioneered hypophysectomy in the treatment of breast cancer. It is curious that this most conservative of men should have made his special contribution in two of its most radical fields. He was also surgeon to the Royal Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, and much valued the work he was called upon to undertake in close association with his colleagues there, especially in the area of intracranial sepsis. During his active years, and indeed long into retirement, his expert opinion was much sought in legal cases, due to his clarity of thought and expression. In 1937 he married a King’s sister, Eileen Radley, not only incorporating her name with his as ‘Radley Smith’, but being called ‘Radley’ thereafter by all his colleagues and acquaintances. They had a son, Nigel, and three daughters, of whom the eldest, Rosemary, qualified in medicine and had a distinguished career as a paediatric cardiologist. Sadly his son predeceased him as a result of lung cancer. Despite the time he gave to football, almost never missing a Brentford match, Radley took a great interest in farming, specialising in raising dairy cattle. He died on 19 January 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Braine, John Francis Carter (1893 - 1953)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Born on 21 January 1893, son of Charles Carter Braine FRCS and Harriet Jane Evans his wife. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, and immediately on qualifying in 1916 he entered the RAMC and saw active service in France and East Africa. After the war he came back to Guy's as demonstrator of anatomy (1919) and was Griffiths demonstrator of pathology under Professor Adrian Stokes. He took the Fellowship in 1922, and the MD of Durham with a gold medal in 1925. Braine specialised in therapeutic radiology, and established at Guy's the first deep X-ray plant in England. He was chief assistant in the actinotherapy department, and became surgeon to the radio-therapeutic department in 1935 and its director in 1939, when he was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Radiology. He was at various times officer-in-charge of the electro-therapeutic department at the Princess Louise Hospital for Children, Kensington, radiologist to the West London Hospital, surgeon-in-charge of the radium department at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, and a civil consultant in radiotherapy to the Royal Navy. During the war of 1939-45 he worked at the evacuated country centres of Guy's Hospital: Sherwood Park, Tunbridge Wells (1939), the Wildernesse, Seal, Sevenoaks (1941), and Pembury (1945). He was a foundation member of the Society of Radiotherapists of Great Britain and Ireland, a British delegate to the 5th International Congress of Radiology at Chicago in 1936, and assistant treasurer of the 6th Congress in London in 1950. Braine brought sound judgment and enthusiasm to his work, and was encouraging, generous and hospitable. He was physically robust and of an equable, modest temperament. He was proficient as a mechanic and photographer, and was interested in farming and in art and architecture. He practised at 55 Wimpole Street, and lived at Magpie Shaw, Speldhurst, Kent, where he died on 20 September 1953, aged 60, survived by his wife and daughter. A memorial service was held in Guy's Hospital Chapel on 29 September.
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First Title value, for Searching Riley, Frederick Ratcliffe (1865 - 1932)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 25 February 1865 at Barnstaple, Devonshire, the first child of William Mamford Riley, a civil servant, and Caroline Budd, his wife. He was educated at Eye Grammar School and at the London Hospital. He went to New Zealand in 1892, where he practised in the country for some years and ultimately settled in Dunedin. In 1909 he was appointed lecturer on obstetrics in the Otago Medical School and became afterwards professor of obstetrics and gynaecology in the University of Otago. He retained his country interests throughout his life and owned a large sheep run in central Otago. He served for many years as a member of the City Council, and was for a long period an elder of his church. He married Susan Graham, who survived him with two sons and two daughters. He died on 1 August 1932 and was buried in the Northern cemetery, Dunedin, NZ.
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First Title value, for Searching Riley, Peter William Stewart (1910 - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Peter William Riley was born in Dunedin in 1910, the son of Professor F Radcliffe Riley, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He was among the first day pupils at John McGlashan College when it opened in 1918 and was a prefect and a member of the school cricket and rugby teams. He entered the Otago Medical School and graduated in 1934. He was house surgeon at Dunedin Hospital. With a postgraduate scholarship he studied in Melbourne and London, becoming FRCS and MRCOG. He returned to Dunedin as resident surgical officer in the late 1930s. During the war years Riley served with the 3rd New Zealand Division in the Solomon Islands with the rank of captain. On returning to Dunedin he decided to enter general practice, initially in Dunedin and after 1946 at Lauder in Central Otago. He worked for the Vincent Hospital Board covering a large, sparsely populated area. He was superintendent at Ranfurly Hospital for a period. In 1954 he returned to Dunedin and worked in general practice until 1980. He was a quiet, self-effacing man who always did his best for his patients. He was a keen fly fisherman with a love of the Lake Hawera area where for a time his father owned Timaru Creek Station. He was proud of his association with McGlashan College. His wife, Kathleen, died four years before him. He died on 13 April 1994, survived by three sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Baily, Ralph Arthur John (1919 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details John Baily was born in Southampton on 29 June 1919, the only son of Guy Baily, an engineer, and of his wife, Kathleen Mary, née Tarrant. His father was at sea while John was a boy, so during his early years he lived with his grandparents in Glasgow. His first school was Glasgow Academy, where his family background of hard work and thorough attention to detail may have been reinforced by the Scottish educational system. He then went to Woodrough's School, Moseley, Birmingham, and on to public school at Cranleigh. From there he went to Clare College, Cambridge, to study for a medical career. His clinical training was at Guy's Hospital, London. After qualifying, during the second world war, he worked in house jobs in the Guy's sector before joining the Royal Navy in 1944 as a Surgeon-Lieutenant. There he was responsible for the health of a flotilla of mine-sweepers in home waters. After the war he decided upon a surgical career. His first appointment was as surgical registrar at the Essex County Hospital, Colchester. There he became particularly interested in orthopaedic surgery. He went on to a post as orthopaedic registrar at Ipswich, and then, for further experience, to Winford Orthopaedic Hospital, Bristol, as a house surgeon. After that he became senior orthopaedic registrar, first in Southampton and then in Bristol, where he was appointed tutor in surgery. In 1957 he was appointed consultant surgeon in orthopaedics at the General Hospital, Weston-super-Mare, and also 20 miles away in Bristol at Winford. He divided his time between the two, but always carried out his full share of the work at each until he retired in 1983. At first he worked single-handed, but even after the appointment of a colleague he still fulfilled an "on-call" commitment every other day with minimal junior staff to assist him. In spite of his busy life he found time to develop his particular interest in surgery of the knee and replacement of the joint. With other consultants in the area he developed the Bristol Knee Group. He was one of the first surgeons to realise the value of computer records, and from early days all experience of developments in the surgery of the knee was recorded in easily-accessible form. His skill as an operator and as a teacher were not only appreciated by his colleagues and friends, who all entrusted themselves and their families to him, but in wider orthopaedic circles. With other members of the South West Orthopaedic Club he often joined in meetings of the Orthopaedic Club of the West of France. All his friends throughout his life had noticed that he had a pronounced stutter, which they soon forgot. When he gave a paper at these meetings, whether in English or French, the stutter disappeared. One of his hobbies was photography, at which he was highly skilled. His papers might be illustrated by slides and colour prints which he had made in his own darkroom. He was also interested in World Orthopaedic Concern, and the service which it provided in Bulawayo. In addition to being an accomplished photographer, Baily was an oenophile and a keen sailor. While sailing out of Brixham harbour in 1970 he suffered a severe "coronary" which necessitated a stay of three weeks in Torbay Hospital. Nevertheless he returned to work for the NHS and in his popular private practice, and continued sailing. On his retirement from the NHS in 1983 he took a crew of congenial companions in his 30-foot catamaran from Plymouth to Athens. In 1945 he married Betty Longmire and they had four children, Gillian, David, Patricia and Guy (who studied medicine and later qualified from Guy's). On a wine tasting holiday with his wife in Italy and Yugoslavia he experienced severe angina. He returned to England and was treated in the coronary care unit at Bristol Royal Infirmary. He died on 8 October 1990, survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Beasley, Arthur Wynyard (1926 - 2019)

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by Prepared with the assistance of Spencer Beasley and other members of the Beasley family
Publication Date 2021-05-18
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Wyn Beasley, with incredible power of observation and memory, and placing great value on intellectual curiosity, acquired an encyclopaedic knowledge of a broad range of subjects. Traversing both arts and sciences he could readily be described as a polymath. Even though he was a very capable musician and artist, he chose to follow a career in orthopaedic surgery, committing strongly to [Royal Australasian] College activities resulting in his election to Vice-President and the Court of Honour. Once he retired from surgery, he devoted the remainder of his life to researching, describing and writing widely acclaimed articles and a series of scholarly historical books. Arthur Wynyard Beasley (known as Wyn throughout his life) was born in Auckland, the only child of Arthur Beasley, a school headmaster, and Gladys Hannken. Arthur was a calm, kind, patient and generous man while Gladys, of Teutonic descent, was strict and protective to the extent young Wyn had to come home from school for lunch with her each day, rather than play with his friends. Wyn was brought up in a family with a strong musical background. He attended Mt Albert secondary school, where despite taking Greek and Latin among his subjects, he gained the second highest mark in the national University Scholarship examinations. In following a career in medicine, Wyn was clearly influenced by his cousin, Donald Beasley, 6 years his senior, who had followed that path. Completing his intermediate year at Auckland University Wyn entered Otago Medical School in 1945. Residing at Knox College and enjoying new-found freedom and novel experiences, Wyn’s medical education was compromised to such an extent he nearly failed to complete his medical degree. At one point, he won a music scholarship, but senior medical school staff warned him that if he accepted it, he would no longer be able to continue in medicine. Not having played sport previously, he overcame this disadvantage by taking up long distance walking and gained a University Blue. Whilst on the train heading northwards to represent Otago University at an Easter Tournament he met Alice Clarke, a Phys Ed student and netball representative. A friendship quickly blossomed and Alice helped Wyn refocus on his priorities, at least to the point where he finished his degree, following which they married. At the end of 5th year Wyn found himself working in the Dunedin Orthopaedic Department as acting house surgeon with Walden Fitzgerald. This proved a life-shaping experience and in 1951, after spending his 6th year in Auckland, Wyn began work as a house surgeon on the Allan (Sandy) MacDonald and Selwyn Morris orthopaedic run at Middlemore Hospital. Sandy, having a medico-legal interest, emphasised the importance of simple language and clear communication at all times. Writing should be simple and accurate, with the careful selection of words to convey the correct meaning and the avoidance of jargon. Profoundly influenced by this working environment Wyn requested an extra three months on the run, so at the end of his house surgeon year, with three months in A & E, he had spent most of his time doing orthopaedics and trauma. Although he enjoyed the next year as an assistant in general practice, it confirmed for him “that orthopaedic surgery was of greater interest”. With a Medical Bursary to honour, Wyn elected to spend the next year as a medical officer in the Army. As well as furthering an existing interest in the Army, being based at Linton Military Camp provided an opportunity to attend medical staff meetings at Palmerston North Hospital. It was there he met Dick Dawson, an outstanding personality and an innovative thinker, who was the sole orthopaedic surgeon at Palmerston North. Expressing the need for a registrar to meet the demands of a heavy workload he arranged for Wyn to commence his first surgical registrar position the following year. In 1955, in common with most aspiring colonial surgeons at that time, Wyn and Alice with their first child, Spencer, travelled to England so Wyn could further his surgical training. Spending the first three months at the Royal College of Surgeons taking a full-time preparatory course, Wyn successfully completed the primary examination. He then obtained a position at Heatherwood Hospital with Roy Maudsley. This was followed by a position at St Margaret’s Hospital, Epping, where he worked with Geoffrey Fisk, a pioneer in hand surgery. Wyn was awarded his FRCS(Ed) during 1956. Towards the end of 1956, with money running short, Wyn accepted a position as senior registrar in Wellington Hospital and the family of five, following the birth of John in 1955 and Richard in 1956, returned to New Zealand. The family was completed with the birth of Graeme in 1964. Within a short time of his return Wyn had completed his FRACS examination and was soon after offered a consultant post. Although working as a general orthopaedic consultant to Wellington Hospital, Wyn’s practice had a paediatric bent and included private practice. In addition, Kennedy Elliott, who was on the staff in Wellington at that time, encouraged him to take an interest in artificial limbs. Wyn was Chairman of the Division of Surgery 1978-82 and head of the Wellington orthopaedic service 1980-89, retiring from clinical practice at the comparatively early age of 63 years. Wyn’s career was also influenced by Sir Alexander Gillies, who had a longstanding commitment to the Red Cross and the Crippled Children’s Society. In 1967 Wyn was encouraged to travel to Western Samoa to “assess cripples – i.e. those on crutches or walking funny”. While many of these people had disabilities reflecting Yaws and selective palsy at the site of intramuscular injection, there was also polio, neglected club foot and cerebral palsy. During 1968-69 Wyn made return visits as a member of surgical teams. In the 1970s, as Chair of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, he travelled to Ethiopia and Viet Nam to visit relief teams. From an early stage, Wyn took an active interest in the activities of the RACS. He became Secretary to the New Zealand Committee in 1966 and an elected member in 1972, serving as Deputy Chair in 1975. He was a member of the Court of Examiners 1972-82 and was elected to Council in 1975 serving until 1986 including a term as Vice President 1983-85. In recognition of his significant contributions to the College, Wyn was made a member of the Court of Honour in 1986. He took an active role within the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association serving on the Executive and Manpower Committee and as the NZOA Nominee to the NZ Artificial Limb Board for thirty years. Wyn had leadership roles in the Wellington Division of the New Zealand Medical Association and the International Society for prosthetics and Orthotics and was President of the Traffic Accident Research Foundation and Council. Perhaps less well-known, but unsurprising given Wyn’s focus on knowledge, was his very significant contribution to secondary school education in Wellington serving on the Wellington College Board of Governors 1981-89 and the Wellington Secondary Schools Council 1986-89, He served ten years as a board member of the Everton Hall Trust Board 1974-84 – developing and administering a Presbyterian-Methodist hall of residence for Victoria University. Wyn had a long commitment to the NZ military service beginning with his appointment as Regimental Medical Officer to 1Bn The Auckland Regiment [CRO] in 1951 when a house surgeon. This was further stimulated during his year as a medical officer at Linton Camp in 1953. Reflecting his training during the relatively short period following the second world war, Wyn retained strong links with the military after his return to New Zealand, rising to the rank Colonel and was awarded the OBE in 1971 for his contributions. Wyn finally retired from the military in 1990 having served as Colonel Commandant of the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps for the four preceding years. On ceasing clinical practice Wyn turned increasingly to his love of language, historical research and writing. During the next three decades he became widely recognised for his scholarly lectures and publications. He wrote and published 13 books and contributed to numerous others. As a long-time member of the Wellington Club and its President for three years he wrote *The Club on The Terrace: The Wellington Club 1841-1996* (1996) and its more recent history in *Great Advantages: the continuing story of the Club on The Terrace* (2017). His commitment to the College was reflected in his writing *Portraits at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons* (1993) and *The Mantle of Surgery: the first 75 years of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons* (2002). Three other widely acclaimed publications concerned the lives of historically important people – *Fellowship of Three: the lives and association of John Hunter, James Cook & Joseph Banks* (1993), *Churchill: the supreme survivor. A medical history of Sir Winston Churchill* (2013), and *Zeal & Honour: The life and times of Bernard Freyberg* (2015). His final book, on the contribution made by Cook’s surgeons, is awaiting publication. With a great grasp of language and an ability to speak clearly and simply, Wyn was frequently invited to provide named lectures which included the Hamilton Russell Memorial Lecture (twice), the Herbert Moran Memorial Lecture (twice), the Sir Edward [Weary] Dunlop Memorial Lecture, and the RCSEng Hunterian Lecture. His artistic flair and knowledge of heraldry has been permanently captured in his design of the RACS flag. Unsurprisingly, reflecting a life committed to service in multiple fields of endeavour, Wyn has been the recipient of numerous honours. These have included the OBE(Mil) 1971, ED 1974, FACS 1979, FRCS Eng 2001, CNZM 2005 and membership of the RACS Court of Honour. Wyn’s life reflected a strong moral compass and altruistic instincts founded upon his Christian faith. He was astute, articulate, witty and well informed and had an extraordinary ability to see connections and associations that eluded most. Wyn had a gifted way with words, and mastery of both spoken and written English. He had a presence about him and was disciplined and controlled, considering his thoughts carefully in developing an opinion. He was a generous and charming host, and highly respected by his friends for his wisdom and grace. Everything he took on he did well, usually to perfection. Wyn was a caring and kind husband, a wonderful and loving father, a great man, and friend to so many. He is greatly missed by Alice, his children -Spencer, John (deceased), Richard and Graeme, and by 14 grand-children and seven great grand-children. Wyn Beasley was someone who made the most of his life and left the world a better place for it.
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First Title value, for Searching Edmunds, Walter (1850 - 1930)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and at Addenbrooke's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He graduated BA at Cambridge after he had been placed in the second class of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1872, and then entered St Thomas's Hospital, where he acted as resident accoucheur and house physician in 1877. He took part in the Turco- Russian war as a surgeon, and upon his return to England was appointed the first resident medical officer at the St Thomas's Home for paying patients. In July 1898 he was elected surgeon to out-patients at the Evelina Hospital for Children and resigned the post in 1903. In 1901 he was appointed surgeon to the Prince of Wales' General Hospital at Tottenham and held office until 1910 when he was appointed consulting surgeon. During these nine years he was the representative of the medical staff on the Board of Management and remained as a governor after his retirement. He presented the hospital with an X-ray equipment when radiography was still in its infancy. He died unmarried at Worthing on 23 September 1930. Being relieved of the necessity of earning a living by the practice of surgery, for he inherited a competence from an uncle, and being also of a retiring disposition Edmunds devoted his life to experimental research in surgical pathology. His first essay in 1885 began in the pathological laboratory at the University of Leipzig, then under the control of Professor Birch Hirschfeld where, collaborating with Charles Ballance and aided by the advice of Dr Hueber, a series of experiments were carried out to ascertain the best method of ligaturing the large arteries in their continuity under the newly-introduced Listerian methods. The first results were published in 1886 in a paper read before the Royal Medico-chirurgical Society, but the experiments were continued under Victor Horsley at the Brown Institute and in the pathological laboratory at St Thomas's Hospital under Charles Sherrington until the final results appeared in a classical work issued in 1891 entitled A treatise on the ligature of the great arteries in continuity; the conclusion arrived at being that, in opposition to the teaching of previous surgeons, a large artery should be tied with a round absorbable ligature without injury to its walls. Edmunds then turned his attention to the thyroid and, again working at the Brown Institute in the Wandsworth Road, was amongst the first to produce myxoedema experimentally in a monkey by extirpation of the gland. He also proved that it was possible to save dogs from the immediate effects of complete removal of the thyroid and parathyroids by the liberal use of milk and the injection of calcium salts. In connexion with the thyroid experiments he at one time kept a herd of goats which had been deprived of the thyroid gland, and the milk from these goats was sent daily to St Thomas's Hospital for the use of patients suffering from exophthalmic goitre. The goats were kept on a farm in Sussex belonging to William Arthur Brailey, then ophthalmic surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital. Edmunds was always a steady supporter of the Invalid Children's Aid Association. He took much trouble in selecting sites for the homes of children suffering from rheumatic disease of the heart, and established a convalescent home for them at Worthing. Apart from surgery he was much interested in music and had made a fine collection of gramophone records; he was also well-known as an amateur in colour photography and as freemason he was Worshipful Master of the King's College Lodge No 2993. Publications:- Ligation of the great arteries in continuity, with C A Ballance. *Med-chir Trans*. 1886, 69, 443. *A treatise on the ligature of the great arteries in continuity with observations on the nature, progress and treatment of aneurism*, with C A Ballance. London, 1891. 568 pp. Experiments on the thyroid and parathyroid glands. *Proc Physiol Soc*. 1895, p xxx. Observations and experiments on the pathology of Graves' disease. *J Path Bact*. 1896, 3, 488. *The Erasmus Wilson lectures on the pathology and diseases of the thyroid gland*. Edinburgh, 1901. *Sound and rhythm*. London, 1906. *Exophthalmic goitre*. London, 1921; 2nd edition, 1922.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Joseph Priestley (1845 - 1933)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Born at Edgbaston, Birmingham on 29 October 1845, the son of Brooke Smith. His father belonged to an old Unitarian family and the son was named after Joseph Priestley, the preacher and discoverer of oxygen, who was driven to the United States when the Birmingham mob burnt his house. Brooke Smith was an active member of the Birmingham Town Council and formed a friendship with Joseph Chamberlain, which was maintained throughout life by his son. Priestley Smith was apprenticed at the age of seventeen to a mechanical engineer, and the four years' training thus gained influenced his life's work in ophthalmology. He was educated at Sydenham College and entered Queen's Hospital in 1867, where he acted as dresser to Sampson Gamgee. Whilst still a student he volunteered for service during the Franco-German war in 1870. He was appointed dresser to a Red Cross Field Hospital at Bingen, and was afterwards placed in charge of the tent hospital at Am Thürmchen, where he remained until the end of the war. He then returned to England and became a student for a short time at the London Hospital and acted as clinical assistant at Moorfields. As soon as he had received the diploma of MRCS he was appointed house surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, where he stayed for two years, and in 1874 was elected ophthalmic surgeon to Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, a post he held until his retirement from practice in 1916. In 1895 he became lecturer in ophthalmology to the Faculty of Medicine in Birmingham, and in 1900 he succeeded J Vose Solomon in the higher post of professor. In 1916 he retired and was complimented by the University of Birmingham with the honorary degree of LLD and the title of emeritus professor of ophthalmology. He married a daughter of James Russell, MD, physician to the Birmingham General Hospital, who died before him. Priestley Smith died at 52 Frederick Road, Edgbaston, on 30 April 1933, full of years and greatly esteemed. Priestley Smith was known throughout the world for his studies in glaucoma. He was an accomplished operator, the inventor of a perimeter and a tonometer; honest, no self-seeker, and modest to a degree. He excelled in mechanical aptitude, in an appreciation of mechanical principles, and in a determination not to theorize until he had founded his theories upon observed facts. He was an accomplished artist in watercolours, illustrated his lectures with drawings on the blackboard, was an excellent speaker, a good linguist, and a skilled musician. At the Royal College of Surgeons in 1878 he won the Jacksonian prize with an essay on *Glaucoma, its causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment*. In 1889 he delivered an Erasmus Wilson lecture on *The pathology of glaucoma*. In 1881 he founded the *Ophthalmic Review*, of which he was co-editor until the 28th volume in 1909. Many honours fell to him as of right. In 1888 he was called upon to open the discussion on glaucoma at Heidelberg; in 1890 he shared with W A Brailey the Middlemore prize given by the British Medical Association; and in 1892 he was president of the ophthalmological section at the annual meeting of the BMA. In 1898 he was Bowman lecturer and chose *Converging strabismus as the subject*. In 1901 he was elected honorary Fellow of the Royal and Imperial Society of Physicians of Vienna, a rare distinction. In 1904 he was presented with the Nettleship gold medal on the occasion of its first award. In 1905 he was president of the Ophthalmological Society, and in 1914-16 he acted as president of the ophthalmological section of the Royal Society of Medicine. In 1927 he received the Lucien Howe medal from the American Ophthalmological Society; it had been given previously to Professors Kohler, Fuchs, and Edward Jackson. Finally in 1932 he was given the Gullstrand gold medal of the Swedish Medical Society. A three-quarter length portrait by Harold Speed was painted in 1928. It is an excellent likeness, and hangs in the board room of the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham. Publications: *Glaucoma, its causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment*, Jacksonian prize essay. London, 1879. *On the pathology and treatment of glaucoma*, Erasmus Wilson lecture. London, 1891. Growth of the crystalline lens. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1883, 3, 79. Primary glaucoma in relation to age. *Ibid* 1886, 6, 294. Aetiology and educative treatment of convergent strabismus, Bowman lecture. *Brit med J* 1898, 2, 1. Treatment of strabismus in young children. *Int Ophthal Congr* 9, Utrecht 1899, *Trans*, p 11. The blood pressure in the eye, etc. *Brit J Ophthal* 1917, 1, 4 and 657. On tonometric values. *Ibid* 1919, 3, 293.
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Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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