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First Title value, for Searching English, Sir Thomas Crisp (1878 - 1949)

2025-09-06T04:38:07Z

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Publication Date 2013-05-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 22 July 1878, the eldest of the two sons and three daughters of Thomas Johnston English, MRCS 1873, and Eliza Crisp, his wife. Dr T J English succeeded his father Dr Thomas English, MRCS 1848, in practice at 128 Fulham Road, South Kensington, and was anaesthetist to the Cancer Hospital; he died on 3 March 1920. The English family came from the North Riding of Yorkshire; a T N English was a surgical pupil of Sir Edward Home at St George's, in 1806. Crisp English was educated at Westminster School and at St George's Hospital where he was William Brown scholar; his father was a St George's man, but his grandfather had been at St Bartholomew's. He won the Murchison scholarship of the Royal College of Physicians in 1900, the year that he qualified, and the Jacksonian prize of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1902 for his essay on "Fracture of the skull, its consequences immediate and remote, including pathology and treatment". He took the Fellowship in 1903 and was a Hunterian professor in 1904, giving three lectures on "The after effects of head injuries". On the death of Herbert Allingham in 1904, English was elected an assistant surgeon at St George's. He was a sound surgeon of wide interests, and being of handsome appearance and social and intellectual distinction he soon established himself in a very successful practice. He was commissioned a captain in the RAMC territorial force on 4 March 1913, and served as medical officer in charge of troops at the Tower of London. He served with the British Expeditionary Force in France, was promoted to be a consulting surgeon to the Army with the rank of colonel AMS on 25 July 1917, and served with the British forces at Salonika and in north Italy. He was four times mentioned in despatches, was created CMG in 1917, and advanced to a knight commandership in the same Order the next year. He was also a knight of the Orders of St Sava of Servia and of George I of Greece. On his return to England he was a member of the Army Medical Board until 1933. He was consulting surgeon to Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank, to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, and to King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers. He was a Knight of Grace and a member of the Chapter-General of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. English became surgeon at St George's in 1912, and also lectured on surgery in the medical school. He was consulting surgeon to the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, the Grosvenor Hospital for Women, Queen Charlotte's Hospital, and Beckenham Hospital. He was a loyal St George's man, and strongly opposed the project of removing the hospital from central London. He was active in both the professional and scientific work of the British Medical Association, serving in the Representative Meeting in 1933-36 and 1938, on the central Council 1933-37, and on many special committees. He was president of the section of surgery at the Association's Portsmouth meeting in 1923, and president of the Metropolitan Counties branch in 1939-40. He was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1937. English was never a prolific writer, but he made several useful contributions to surgical literature, and summed up some of his experience in two small books published after his retirement. He married in 1905 Annie Gaunt McLeod, daughter of Angus McLeod of Edinburgh. Lady English died on 6 March 1946, and Sir Crisp English himself died on 25 August 1949, aged 71, at his country house Chilton Hall, Sudbury, Suffolk, survived by his daughter. He had formerly practised at 82 Brook Street, London, W. Publications:- *A system of treatment*, with Arthur Latham. London, 1912. 4 vols. Surgery at Salonika, with R E Kelly. *Brit med J*. 1918, 1, 305. The language of facts; Hunterian Society's oration. *Med Forum*, 1933, 1, 300. *Patients and appendicitis*. London: Churchill, 1946. *Diseases of the breast*. London: Churchill, 1948.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Ivor John (1919 - 1987)

2025-09-06T04:38:07Z

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Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation Consultant in physical medicine Gynaecologist
Details Ivor John Thomas qualified from the London Hospital in 1942 and within three years had obtained both Edinburgh and English Fellowships. During the latter years of the war he was resident surgical officer at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, assistant surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service and surgical registrar and tutor at the Royal Free Hospital. In 1946 he was appointed assistant gynaecologist at Swansea General Hospital but within two years tragedy befell him and he lost his sight. Despite this he had the courage to undertake further training in physical medicine at Guy's Hospital under Dr E J Crisp and returned to Swansea in 1949 as consultant in physical medicine. His duties included work at Singleton, Morriston, Llanelli and Glanamman Hospitals. Despite his blindness he participated fully in professional activities and served as a member of the BMA Welsh Council, the Welsh Medical Committee, the Welsh Manpower Committee and the Welsh Committee for Hospital Medical Services. He had a great interest in Welsh affairs and frequently gave talks on radio programmes as well as reciting in Eisteddfodau in earlier years. He died on 21 July 1987 aged 68 and is survived by his daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Turton, James Richard Henry (1884 - 1977)

2025-09-06T04:38:07Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in 1884, James Turton was the son of a surgeon who practised in Brighton. He was educated at Epsom College and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He passed the Conjoint examination in 1907 and graduated MB BS in 1909, becoming FRCS two years later. He was house surgeon to Sir Crisp English at St George's Hospital before being mobilised as Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy at the outbreak of war in 1914. He served in the ships of the Grand Fleet. He was appointed honorary assistant surgeon to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in 1921, becoming full surgeon in 1927 and senior surgeon in 1944. His sound practical approach to the problems of running a complicated and busy hospital was well known, and his services were in great demand as chairman of medical committees. In 1947, he was appointed a representative of the Royal Colleges and the BMA on the Spens Committee that decided the remuneration of consultants in hospital practice and he became a member of the South East Metropolitan Hospital Board the same year. He was Past President of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society and a former Chairman of the Mid-Sussex Hospital Management Committee. He died at his home on 16 February, 1977, survived by his daughter, Mary, who nursed him in his last days. His wife, Ethel, predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Ewart, George Arthur (1886 - 1942)

2025-09-06T04:38:07Z

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Publication Date 2013-05-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 1 June 1886, the only son of James Cossar Ewart (1851-1933), MD, FRS, for forty-five years (1882-1927) Regius Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University, and his second wife Edith Sophia, daughter of George Turner, MRCS, of Sherborne, and sister of Sir George R Turner and Edward B Turner, both Fellows of the College (For a memoir of J C Ewart, see Royal Society of London, *Obituary notices of Fellows* 1932-35, 1, 189, with portrait.) G A Ewart was educated at Edinburgh Academy, at Clifton College 1900-04, and at Edinburgh University, where he was Vans Dunlop scholar 1905; he became a scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1906. He took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I, in 1908, and represented the University against Oxford as a cross-country runner the same year. At St George's Hospital Medical School, where he entered on 24 November 1909, he won the Brackenbury surgery prize in 1911, the William Brown scholarship in 1912, and the Herbert Allingham surgical scholarship in 1913. He served as house physician to Sir Humphry Rolleston, and house surgeon to Sir Crisp English, and as surgical registrar. He was appointed assistant surgeon in 1914, becoming, in due course, surgeon and lecturer in operative and practical surgery. He was also surgeon to the Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital and to the Rupture Society, and consulting surgeon to the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. He was a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons. During the war of 1914-18 he was commissioned captain, RAMC(T), on 4 January 1915, and later promoted major. He served at the 54th General Hospital with the BEF in France, and at the 4th London General Hospital at the Duke of York's Headquarters. Ewart married in 1914 his first cousin Dorothy, younger daughter of Sir George Turner, FRCS, surgeon to St George's Hospital. Mrs Ewart survived him with a son and two daughters. He practised at 44 Brook Street and later at 26 Queen Anne Street, and lived in Norfolk Crescent and later at the Old House, Weybridge, where he died, after one day's illness, on 2 October 1942, aged 56. Ewart's dramatic methods in surgery were based on a sound and sure technique. He excelled at emergency operations for acute abdominal diseases. He was a good teacher and a hospitable host. Shooting, photography, and natural history made up his non-professional occupations. Publications:- Acute retention of urine complicated by perforation of a duodenal ulcer. *Brit med J*. 1921, 1, 420. A case of hour-glass stomach. *Brit J Surg*. 1921, 9, 42. Gastric diverticula, with report of a case before and after operation. *Brit J Surg*. 1936, 23, 530.
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First Title value, for Searching Back, Ivor Gordon (1879 - 1951)

2025-09-06T04:38:07Z

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Publication Date 2013-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 31 August 1879, the eldest son of Francis Formby Back of Harrow Weald, proprietor of *The Egyptian Gazette*. He won classical scholarships at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1901 with second-class honours in natural science. He distinguished himself at rowing and boxing. He took his clinical training at St George's Hospital, where he won an entrance scholarship, qualified in 1905, won the Allingham scholarship at St George's in 1906, and took the Fellowship in 1907. He was house surgeon, house physician and obstetric assistant at St George's, and was elected assistant surgeon in 1910 when Lawrence Jones, FRCS retired through bad health. Back carried on the sound methods of his immediate predecessors, Marmaduke Sheild, FRCS and Crisp English, FRCS. He won an Albert Kahn travelling fellowship in 1911, and wrote the required record of his voyage round the world, which was privately printed in 1913. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC, with the rank of captain, at the 4th London General Hospital, the 54th General Hospital in France, and as a surgical specialist at Catterick Camp, Yorkshire. He was elected surgeon to St George's in 1918, and became consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1938, but returned to active work 1943-45 during the second war. He was appointed a governor of the hospital in 1951. Back was assistant surgeon to the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Women and Children, and surgeon (proctologist) to the Grosvenor Hospital for Women, where he developed and practised the abdominoperineal technique for cancer of the rectum introduced by W Ernest Miles, FRCS. He also examined in surgery for Cambridge University. He was active in the affairs of the Medical Defence Union, serving on the council from 1944 and as president in 1949. Ivor Back married Barbara, daughter of F H O Nash of Battle, Goring, Oxfordshire, who survived him with one son, a barrister. He died on 13 June 1951, aged 71. He was a man of tall commanding presence and striking personality, and was proudly conscious of his descent, through his grandmother, from the great Duke of Wellington. He was a connoisseur of art and literature, and was deeply interested in criminology. As an expert medical witness in the courts he was absolutely imperturbable. He had considerable success as an occasional journalist, and he took high rank in Grand Lodge Freemasonry and was a past master of the Lansborough Lodge. His recreations were golf and fly-fishing. He was an excellent after-dinner speaker. His portrait in operating dress by Sir William Orpen is at the Savile Club, of which Back had been chairman. He had a large private practice in Queen Anne Street and later at 4 Park Square West, and lived at 8 Connaught Place, W2. Publications:- *Round the world and back*. Privately printed, 1913. *Surgery*, with A Tudor Edwards. London: Churchill, 1921. Diseases of the salivary glands, in Choyce's *System of surgery*. London, 1912; 3rd ed 1932. Technique of gastrojejunostomy. *Lancet*, 1933, 2, 802.
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First Title value, for Searching Burns, Bryan Hartop (1896 - 1985)

2025-09-06T04:38:07Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Bryan Hartop Burns was born on 14 December 1896, at Higham Park, Rushden, Northants. He was the elder of the two sons of Hartop Burns, farmer, and Florence Ann, née Fuller. Both parents came from farming and landowning families in Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire. He was educated first at Kimbolton School (1904-1909) then at Wellingborough School (1909-1914). On leaving school he joined the Northamptonshire Regiment in January 1915 as a Second Lieutenant and served throughout the first world war, rising to the rank of Captain. This period included a short spell in Ireland during the disturbances in Dublin. On demobilisation he went up to Clare College, Cambridge, in 1919 to read medicine. He took his BA in 1922 and continued his studies at St George's Hospital Medical School. There he took the Conjoint qualification in 1923. In 1924 he won the Brackenbury Prize for medicine and in 1925 the Allingham Prize for surgery. He took his Cambridge degree in 1925 and in 1926 the FRCS. He was appointed resident assistant surgeon at St George's in 1928 and later general surgeon until his retirement in 1962. His main interest was, however, in orthopaedic surgery and he became orthopaedic surgeon to St George's during the same period. He was registrar to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He was also appointed surgeon to the Belgrave Hospital for Children and to the Royal Masonic Hospital. Burns named Sir Claude Frankau, Sir Crisp English and W H Trethowan as surgeons who had particularly influenced him, but Blundell Bankhart and Emslie stimulated his interest in orthopaedics. He published numerous papers on orthopaedic subjects and described the first insertion of a pin for fracture of the neck of the femur under X-ray guidance at a meeting of the Orthopaedic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1933. During the second world war he was director of orthopaedic surgery at Botley's Park War Hospital (later St Peter's), Chertsey, Surrey. This was one of the first receiving hospitals for casualties after D-Day. Here he had ample opportunity to develop his views on the importance of internal fixation of fractures for the purpose of early mobilisation. He had been treating upper femoral fractures with a long Smith Petersen nail inserted from above, and rapidly adopted the Küntscher nail for the purpose. He was a skillful innovator, with Burns plates and Burns radius-holding forceps and a self-retaining screw-driver to his credit. He was in the forefront of British hip surgery and made important advances in vertebral disc surgery with R H Young. After the war he published, with his friend and colleague V H Ellis, the work for which he may be best remembered and which has influenced generations of students: *Recent advances in orthopaedic surgery* (1946). He was an impressive and revered teacher of undergraduates and graduates. His distinctions included being a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons (1942-45), President of the Orthopaedic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and member of SICOT and the Société Française Orthopédique. On retirement he was appointed Emeritus Surgeon to St George's, and was able to devote more time to his interest in golf and cricket. He married in 1938 the Hon Dorothy Garthwaite, daughter of Lord Duveen. There were no children. He died after a short illness on 6 December 1984, eight days before his 88th birthday. His wife died shortly after, on 12 April 1985.
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First Title value, for Searching Woods, Reginald Salisbury (1891 - 1986)

2025-09-06T04:38:07Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-14
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Reginald (Rex) Salisbury Woods was born in Dulwich on 15 October 1891, the son of Henry Thomas Woods. His mother, Lilian, was the sister of Frank Salisbury CVO, LLD, the portrait painter. He entered Dulwich College in 1906 at the age of fourteen and in his last year was senior school prefect as well as being in the first XV at rugby. His interest in throwing the 16 pound weight started at that time when he attained the public schools record distance of 37 feet 7 inches. He left the school with an open exhibition at Downing College. He went up to Cambridge in 1911 and almost immediately won the weight and hammer in the Freshmen's Sports at Fenner's, afterwards being awarded a half blue. He represented Cambridge in 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1920 attaining his best distance at putting the shot 41 feet 1 inch at Queen's Club against Oxford on 27 March 1914 (the first undergraduate to achieve more than 40 feet). After acquiring an honours BA degree in 1914 he proceeded to St George's Hospital for his clinical studies at the suggestion of Sir Crisp English, a family friend, starting as dresser to Claude Frankau. Shortly after entering the medical school he won the senior universities entrance scholarship and in 1915 he gained the Webb Prize for bacteriology. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in April 1916 and passed the Cambridge MB two months later. In August 1916 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps serving in 54th Casualty Clearing Station where he found himself serving again under Claude Frankau, now Lieutenant-Colonel. In December 1918 he was posted to 4th London General Hospital which included part of King's College Hospital under Major, later Sir Ernest, Rock-Carling and where he was in charge of fractured femur wards. At that time skeletal traction was being introduced and he devised a hinged abduction bar fitted to the Balkan Beam for fractures of the upper third of the femur. The work was submitted in 1919 as a thesis for the degree of MD which was approved by the Regius Professor of Physic, Sir Clifford Allbutt. After demobilisation later that year he joined a general practice in Cambridge. In addition to professional commitments he found time to study for the final FRCS attending a course at the London Hospital. He passed the examination in November 1922, four months after winning the weight for England against Ireland and Scotland in Glasgow. He later represented his country at weight-putting in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics. At Cambridge he was always much involved with the treatment of sports injuries and he personally operated on many patients in the practice. Despite receiving invitations to apply for posts on the surgical staff at Addenbrooke's Hospital and St George's Hospital he remained in general practice. His views on treatment contrasted with the traditional doctrine of rest advocated by Hilton for all painful afflictions, traumatic as well as inflammatory. In 1943 at the suggestion of Sir Arthur Porritt he again joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and after working initially at the Cambridge Military Hospital with Ronald Furlong and Sir Edward Muir was posted as surgical specialist with the rank of Major to Diego Suarez at the northern tip of Madagascar. He later served in Mauritius before returning to England towards the end of the war as surgical specialist at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, when the Germans were attacking London with V1 and V2 bombs. He was demobilised in July 1945 and returned to his practice in Cambridge also resuming his office of Chairman of the Cambridge University Athletic Club. In 1918 he married Irene Pickering whom he had met two years previously when she was nursing at St George's Hospital and they had one son and two daughters. During the second world war his wife played a prominent role as deputy director in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, recognised by the award of CBE (Mil) in 1947. She predeceased him in 1976 and he died at his home on 21 September 1986 aged 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Kelly, Sir Robert Ernest (1879 - 1944)

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Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 7 April 1879, the fifth child and fourth son of Robert Kelly, a leading iron merchant of Liverpool, and his wife, *née* Brazier. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute and University College, then a constituent of the Victoria University. He was one of the first medical graduates of the University of Liverpool when it was constituted. At school and college he won many prizes; he was also Robert Gee Fellow in anatomy, Holt Fellow, and Alexander Fellow in pathology; he distinguished himself in forensic medicine and in surgery, and was one of the ablest pupils in the physiology school, then probably the best in England under Professor Charles Sherrington. He received his clinical training at the Royal Infirmary, where he served as house surgeon and became in due course assistant surgeon, and surgeon, and ultimately consulting surgeon. He was also elected to the teaching staff of the University, first as lecturer in surgery and from 1922 to 1939 as professor of surgery; on retirement from the chair he was granted the title of emeritus professor, and he was created a Knight Bachelor. Kelly was keenly interested in the Liverpool Medical Institution and served twice as its president, actively promoting its work. During the first world war Kelly served as consulting surgeon to the British Forces at Salonika, with the temporary rank of colonel, AMS. He had supervision of 21,000 beds, and was active in organizing rehabilitation centres and in having Thomas's splints, a Liverpool invention, produced. He was created CB for his services in 1916, and afterwards served on the Army Council Medical Advisory Board. He also received the Medaille d'Honneur des Épidémies for his work at Salonika. Kelly was elected to the council of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1928 and served his full sixteen years with distinction, retiring only a few months before his death. He was a vice-president 1938-40, and gave the Bradshaw lecture in 1938 on "Recurrent peptic ulceration, causes of, and design for second operation on stomach". In 1937 he was president of the British Medical Association, which held its annual meeting in Liverpool that year; and the same year took charge of the surgical unit at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, for some weeks under the Hospital's scheme for external visitors. He represented Liverpool University on the General Medical Council. Kelly remained throughout his career a general surgeon and was equally interested and equally skilful in many branches, orthopaedics and brain surgery making perhaps the greatest appeal to his talents. He was always attracted by mechanically ingenious instruments and for some time employed a hand-driven de Martel's trephine, the power being supplied by his assistants. His use of Souttar's craniotome in an operation for removal of a cerebral tuberculoma was filmed. In accordance with Liverpool tradition Kelly welcomed American surgeons passing through the city, and was always in touch with American surgical thought. In 1912 he introduced to England from America the tracheal administration of ether. As a teacher Kelly employed the simplest methods: his illustration of compression fractures of the skull on an orange, and spiral fractures of the tibia on a piece of chalk, were long remembered by his students; and he followed Thelwall Thomas's tradition of using a multicoloured pencil for his excellent line drawings. Kelly was a man of great personal charm, naturally modest and tactful, and of absolute integrity. In fact his quiet easy manner almost disguised his great intellectual and administrative gifts. He played a leading part in medical and cultural affairs in Liverpool. He carried through the formation of the Royal Liverpool United Hospitals out of the four general hospitals, and also urged the fusion of the local hospitals and was an activator of the Liverpool Associated Voluntary Hospitals Board. Music was his chief recreation; he was prominent in the management of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, and was an excellent amateur cellist. He was also a patron of the drama, especially at the Liverpool Playhouse; and seldom missed an interesting dramatic production, such as those at the Westminster Theatre, when in London. He also collected furniture and glass; and was skilful at colour photography. He was well read, particularly in the literature of the border territory between science and philosophy. But with all these earnest interests he remained a most approachable and sociable man of ready hospitality. Though not much of a games player he was elected captain of the Wallasey Golf Club. Kelly married on 5 October 1911 Averill Edith Irma, daughter of James Edlington M'Dougall, MD, of Liverpool and afterwards of Limpsfield, Surrey. Lady Kelly survived him with one daughter, an honours graduate in English literature at Oxford. Sir Robert Kelly died on 16 November 1944 at his own house, 80 Rodney Street, Liverpool. A memorial service was held in Liverpool Cathedral on 23 November, conducted by the Bishops of Liverpool and Warrington and the Dean of Liverpool. He left contingent bequests of £10,000 each to the Royal College of Surgeons and the University of Liverpool for research. Publications: Suture of crucial ligaments of knee joint. *Liverpool med-chir J* 1913, 33, 488. Surgery in Salonika, with Sir T Crisp English. *Brit med J* 1918, 1, 305. Operation for chronic dislocation of peroneal tendons. *Brit J Surg* 1920, 7, 502. Surgery of intracranial tumours. *Liverpool med-chir J* 1932, 40, 57-63. Three enteroliths in single coil of jejunum. *Brit J Surg* 1932, 20, 168-170. Case of parathyroid tumour associated with generalized osteitis fibrosa, with H Cohen. *Brit J Surg* 1933, 20, 472-478. Surgical treatment of syringomyelia. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1935, 58, 141. Ideal internship. *Hospitals*, 1936, 10, 102. Early history of the Liverpool Medical Institution. *Med Press*, 1937, 194, 496. Surgery one hundred years ago. *Lancet*, 1937, 1, 1361. Recurrent peptic ulceration, Bradshaw lecture. *Lancet*, 1939, 1, 1-5. Cancer from the point of view of the surgeon. *Brit J Radiol* 1939, 12, 523. Some experiences of vascular surgery during and after the last war, Annual oration 1942. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1943, 63, 168-177.
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First Title value, for Searching Wallace, Sir Cuthbert Sidney (1867 - 1944)

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Publication Date 2006-05-18 2023-01-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Surbiton, Surrey, on 20 June 1867, the fourth and youngest son of the Rev John Wallace, of Weysprings, Haselmere, and his wife Marion Kezia Jane Agnes Greenway, the daughter of Francis Howard Greenway, a convicted forger and later a prominent architect in Australia. He was educated at Haileybury, 1881-86, and at St Thomas's Hospital. After taking the Fellowship in 1893 he went on, the following year, to the London M.B., B.S. examination, at which he won the gold medal in obstetric medicine and qualified for the gold medal in surgery. At St Thomas's Wallace served as house surgeon, senior obstetric house physician, and surgical registrar 1894-96, and in 1897 was appointed resident assistant surgeon. In this post he began the introduction of the strictest asepsis into the Hospital's practice, and by his enthusiasm and practical ability persuaded the senior staff and the governors to carry through the necessary re-equipment of the operating theatres and the modernizing and electrifying of the wards. The material needs of this pioneer policy were supplied by the Gassiot bequest. As a result of this modernization, hospital authorities and surgeons of many countries came to look to St Thomas's and to Wallace for inspiration and advice in similar problems. In the middle of this work Wallace volunteered for active war service in South Africa. He served 1899-1900 as surgeon to the Portland Hospital under his friend Anthony Bowlby of Bart's, won the medal, and recorded his experiences jointly with Bowlby in *A civilian war hospital*, published in 1901. His experience of the surgery of war-wounds came to stand him in good stead for later, greater campaigns. Returning to London he developed a brilliant career. Wallace's hands were particularly in demand in cases of enlarged prostate and of acute appendicitis; his surgery was marked by skilled economy of time and perspicacious common-sense. At St Thomas's he passed through the offices of assistant surgeon 1900, surgeon 1913, and lecturer on surgery. He was also surgeon to the East London Hospital for Children. He was dean of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1907, a post to which he returned more than ten years later. On the outbreak of the war he went to France as consulting surgeon to the First Army, British Expeditionary Force, with the temporary rank of colonel, Army Medical Service, dated 29 April 1915; he was promoted major-general on 19 December 1917. Bowlby as consultant to the Second Army at St Omer had oversight of the First as well. Authority disapproved of surgical interference in gunshot wounds of the belly; but Wallace was sympathetic to the urgent appeals of his juniors, and "smuggled" the necessary instruments to the front when inspecting casualty clearing stations; thanks to his encouragement the field surgery of abdominal wounds quickly vindicated itself in practice. John Campbell made the first successful operation for gunshot wound of the stomach, Owen Richards, F.R.C.S. the first successful small-intestine resection, and Claude Frankau, F.R.C.S the first successful resection of the colon for gunshot injury. Wallace's survey of these and further results in his *War surgery of the abdomen*, 1918, became a classic textbook, in demand on the renewal of war in the next generation. He also published jointly with Sir John Fraser, K.C.V.O., *Surgery at a casualty clearing station*, illustrated by Lady Fraser, 1918. While in France, Wallace took a major share in the disposition and administration of the base hospitals. On 28 October 1915 he was called to attend King George V, who had been thrown from his horse while inspecting the R.F.C. aerodrome at Hesdigneul; the King was seriously injured, but resumed full activity in the following February. Wallace was nearly captured at St Venant, when his driver took a wrong turn during the German spring offensive of 1918. For his war service Wallace was created C.M.G in 1916 and C.B. in 1918, and promoted K.C.M.G. in 1919; he had been several times mentioned in despatches, and was also awarded the American Distinguished Service Medal. It was in these years that Wallace found scope for the fullest exercise of his great abilities both surgical and administrative. On his return to St Thomas's he served as senior surgeon and director of the surgical unit for several years, being then elected consulting surgeon, and was dean of the medical school for a record period. He was also dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of London. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was elected both to Court and Council in 1919, and served on the Court for ten years and on the Council for twenty-four years till within a few months of his death. In 1923 and 1929 he was appointed an examiner in surgery on the Dental Board; he gave the Bradshaw lecture in 1927, and the Hunterian oration in 1934. He was a vice-president in 1926-27, and president 1935-38. In 1937 he was created a Baronet. Wallace was elected a trustee of the Hunterian collection in 1942. In February 1943 he put before the Council an informal memorandum on the Fellowship. He gave the College library a specially typed copy of the unpublished autobiography of Sir George Makins, under whom he had long served at St Thomas's, at the College, and in France; he had it finely bound by Mrs Loosely, sister of Sir D'Arcy Power, one of the best bookbinders in the country. Wallace's counsel was much in demand. He served on the Radium Commission and the Medical Research Council, and was chairman of the M.R.C. radiology committee; from 1930 he was director of medical services and research at the Mount Vernon Hospital, Hampstead, under the M.R.C. and the Radium Commission. From 1920 he was a hospital visitor under King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and later a member of its general council and distribution committee. He was also chairman of several committees of the British Empire Cancer Campaign; and for nine years (1935-44) chairman of the London and Counties Medical Protection Society. During the official visit of British surgeons on 5 and 6 July 1937 to the newly reconstituted Académie de Chirurgie in Paris he was decorated an Officer of the Legion of Honour by the President of the Republic. In 1929 he was gazetted honorary colonel of the 47th (2nd London) Unit of the R.A.M.C. (T.F.). On the outbreak of the second world-war Wallace was appointed chairman of the consultant advisers to the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service; he was also a member of the Army Medical Advisory Board, and in June 1940 was appointed chairman of the Medical Research Council's committee on the application of the results of research to the treatment of war wounds. He received honorary degrees from Oxford, Durham, and Birmingham Universities, and was an honorary Fellow of the American Surgical Association. He took an active interest in the welfare of his old school, Haileybury. Wallace married on 6 July 1912 Florence Mildred, youngest daughter of Herbert Jackson of Sussex Place, Regent's Park, who survived him but without children. He had lived at 5 Cambridge Terrace, Regent's Park N.W., and died in Mount Vernon Hospital on 24 May 1944, less than a month before his seventy-seventh birthday. He was privately buried and a memorial service, arranged by the Royal College, St Thomas's, and Mount Vernon, was held in the chapel of Lincoln's Inn on 8 June 1944. His country house was at Whipsnade, near Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Wallace was a brilliant surgeon whose *obiter dicta*, such as "the surgeon who does not trust the peritoneum if not fit to do abdominals", or "the key to gastrectomy is the mobilisation of the lesser curvature", were treasured by those who heard them. He made his way to a unique place among his fellow surgeons by sheer ability and honest practical shrewdness, coupled with a warm-hearted wish to help, whether as surgeon, teacher, or counsellor. He was of middle height and upright carriage, and in later years with his bright complexion and white hair had the air of a distinguished solider, accentuated by his pepper-and-salt suit and blue-and-white spotted bow-tie. He was an excellent chairman, as economic of time here as he had been in the operating theatre. His somewhat brusque manner and speech were belied by his humour and his ability to win the affection of all with whom he worked. *Publications*: Wallace contributed in early years to *St Thomas's Hospital Reports* and to the *Transactions* of the Clinical and Pathological Societies. His writings include: *A civilian war hospital, being an account of the work of the Portland Hospital and of experience of wounds and sickness in South Africa* [issued anonymously, with A. Bowlby]. London, 1901. *Prostatic enlargement*, with section on *Bacteriology* by Leonard S. Dudgeon. London, 1907. A study of 1200 cases of gunshot wounds of the abdomen. *Brit. J. Surg.* 1917, 4, 679-743. *War surgery of the abdomen*. London, 1918. *Surgery at a casualty clearing station*, with Sir John Fraser; illustrated by Lady Fraser. London, 1918. *Surgery of the war*, edited jointly with Sir Wm. Grant Macpherson, Sir A. A. Bowlby, and Sir T. Crisp English, in the official War Office *History of the Medical Services in the Great War of 1914-18*. H.M.S.O., 1922, 2 vols. A review of prostatic enlargement, Bradshaw lecture, R.C.S. *Lancet*, 1927, 2, 1059-1064. *Medical education 1760-1934*, Hunterian oration, R.C.S., 1934. Not published, the author's transcript is in the College library. *Thoughts on the Fellowship*, 1943. Unpublished memorandum laid before the College Council, February 1943. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 2 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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