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First Title value, for Searching Holding, Charles ( - 1901)

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First Title value, for Searching Buckley, George Holden (1896 - 1967)

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First Title value, for Searching Harding, John Anthony ( - 2014)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-12-08
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John Anthony Harding was a surgeon in New South Wales, Australia. He gained his FRCS in 1973. He died on 15 August 2014.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006138
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First Title value, for Searching Gooding, Michael Rees (1935 - 2021)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2021-09-29
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Michael Rees Gooding was born on 11 January 1935. He studied medicine at London University, trained at the Royal Free Hospital and graduated MB, BS in 1959. He spent time researching neurosurgery at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital and at Queen Square in London and in the USA at the University of California. In 1967 he passed the fellowship of the college. He was appointed consultant neurosurgeon at Hull Royal Infirmary and worked there on a ‘one in two rota’ for over 20 years with no registrar and only a senior house officer to help. A family man with many close friends, outside medicine he enjoyed fishing, listening to music and driving Jaguar cars. He died on 19 May 2021 aged 85.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010010
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First Title value, for Searching Hosking, Shorland William (1954 - 2010)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2014-11-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Shorland William Hosking was a consultant general surgeon in Poole, Dorset. He was born in Australia in 1954, and was brought up in India and then Guildford, Surrey. He was educated at King Edward's School in Witley, and then studied medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1978. He was a registrar in surgery at Hammersmith Hospital, London, then a lecturer in surgery at Sheffield University, and subsequently a senior registrar in Southampton. He gained his MD from Sheffield University with a commendation in 1988. He then developed his interest in upper gastrointestinal surgery and spent a year as a visiting lecturer working with A K C Li and Sydney Chung at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon in Poole in 1994. Outside medicine, he was an active member of St Mary's Church, Poole, and had a strong Christian faith. He loved the outdoors, and had a small boat. He had also learnt to fly. Tragically, he was killed in a light aircraft when it crashed on 17 April 2010. An inquest heard that he may have deliberately chosen not to make an emergency landing, fearing other people attending a sports event nearby might have been put at risk. He was survived by his wife, Helen, and two children, Samantha and Jeremy. A Shorland Hosking Fellowship has been established in his honour by the Association of Surgeons in Training and Operation Hernia, providing funds for higher surgical trainees to join an Operation Hernia team and work with them in a developing country.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001727
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First Title value, for Searching Golding-Wood, Philip (1914 - 1997)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Philip Golding-Wood was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist in Maidstone, Kent. He was born on 3 May 1914, the son of Benjamin and Bessie Wood in Speldhurst. His father was a general storekeeper. His mother's maiden name was Golding, and in 1953 he added his mother's name to his surname by deed poll. His father had lived a colourful life in South Africa, hunting big game and making a fortune in the gold mines and later losing it. The family returned to England, where his father taught him to box - this was to be very useful to him in the years to come. He was sent to Worthing High School. On leaving school, he went to Chelsea Polytechnic to study biology and this was a considerable financial strain on his family. The death of his mother left him in very poor circumstances and, as he had fallen out with his father, he was now forced to make his own way in the world. After passing his BSc with first class honours, he managed to win an open scholarship to University College, London, to study medicine. His scholarship lasted for three years only and so he had to earn money to keep himself during the clinical years. In the course of his pre-clinical training he won a half share in the University prize in anatomy. This was shared with Alan Graham Apley FRCS. He made up the balance required to keep himself by delivering yachts and by professional boxing. During his clinical years he won prizes in obstetrics, medicine and surgery. He qualified in 1941 and worked at the Hammersmith Postgraduate Hospital, where he met his future wife, Margaret Owens. He then moved to Newcastle as a house surgeon, where he got a wide experience in general surgery, before going into the RAMC in February 1942. He remained in the Army from 1942 to 1948, obtaining experience in neurosurgery. In 1945 he was promoted to surgical specialist and awarded the temporary rank of Major. During his Army service he was wounded twice and was twice mentioned in despatches. On leaving the Army, he passed the fellowship examination in 1949 and the diploma of laryngology and otology in 1952. He spent one year on the surgical professorial unit at Bristol as a senior registrar and then moved to the neurosurgical unit at Liverpool and finally to Newcastle where, for two and a half years, he was senior registrar to the ear, nose and throat department. He was then appointed consultant otorhinolaryngologist to the Medway group in 1953 and moved to Maidstone in 1955. His interest in neurosurgery and his wide experience led him to make contributions in the surgery of the pterygopalatine fossa and in the treatment of Menière's syndrome. His work in this field was recognised by the award of an Arris and Gale lectureship in 1961, followed by a Mackenzie Mackinnon research fellowship at the College from 1961 to 1964. In 1982 he gave a Hunterian lecture on 'vidian neurectomy and "so-called vasomotor rhinitis"'. Life had not been easy for Golding-Wood. Although he became engaged to be married soon after qualification, it was some time before he could afford to marry and, when he did, he relied on his wife Margaret to help to support the home. The trials he had endured made him forthright in expressing his opinions and, from time to time, he could be pugnacious, although, as the years passed, he mellowed. There was one son of the marriage, David, who followed his father into medicine and surgery and is now a consultant otolaryngologist. In retirement, he pursued many hobbies, including history, gardening, natural history and photography. During his professional career he published 30 papers and was an invited speaker at many international meetings. His wife died six years before him in 1991, after almost 50 years of a happy married life. He died after a short illness in January 1997.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008627
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First Title value, for Searching Colman, Robin Reuben Simon ( - 1979)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details After qualifying and holding training posts in Prince Henry's Hospital, and in Concord and Broken Hill, Robin Colman came to England in 1963, working mostly at Cheltenham, and passed the Fellowship in 1964. He returned to Australia to practise in Vaucluse, New South Wales, and died on 20 August 1979.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006352
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First Title value, for Searching Whitlock, Roy Ivor Harding (1916 - 2004)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2023-08-11
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Oral surgeon
Details Roy Ivor Harding Whitlock was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Belfast. He was born in London on 23 April 1916, the son of James Bertie Whitlock, an insurance clerk, and Marjorie Jeanne Whitlock née Crane. He attended St Paul’s School in London, where he was a classical scholar and excelled at sport, and went on to study dentistry at King’s College Medical School. After service during the Second World War in the dental branch of the RAF at Hawkinge, Kent and in India, he was a senior registrar at East Grinstead Hospital under the pioneering maxillofacial surgeon Sir Terence Ward. In 1953 Whitlock was appointed to his consultant post in Belfast, where his unit developed innovative techniques in facial reconstruction. He made his name as one of the first surgeons in the UK to develop the osteotomy technique for a protruding jaw. He went on to create various surgical instruments, including a horseshoe headrest used to keep the head still during operations. He trained consultants in Belfast and Londonderry and helped establish the specialty in the Irish Republic. When the Troubles began in 1968, he was at the forefront of treating casualties with bomb blast and gunshot wounds to the face, achieving excellent cosmetic results. He also worked with the Army forensic laboratory in Belfast to study the effects of high velocity bullets and plastic bullets on the face. He served on the regional hospital board for Northern Ireland until 1974. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England, he was the Charles Tomes lecturer in 1979. He was on the board of examiners of the Faculties of Dental Surgeons at the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and in Ireland. He was awarded an OBE in 1981, the year of his retirement. He married Lilian Weston in 1941. Whitlock was a passionate tennis player: he died on 24 July 2004 after a game of tennis. He was 88.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010412
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First Title value, for Searching Golding-Bird, Cuthbert Hilton (1848 - 1939)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Myddleton Square, Pentonville, London on 7 July 1848, the fourth child and second son of Golding Bird, MD, FRS, and his wife, Mary Brett. His father (1814-1854) was appointed assistant physician to Guy's Hospital in 1843 on the retirement of Richard Bright; his uncle, Frederic Bird, was obstetric physician to Westminster Hospital. His mother founded the Golding Bird gold medal and scholarship for bacteriology at Guy's Hospital. Golding-Bird was educated at Tonbridge School 1856-62, and afterwards at King's College School in the Strand and at King's College. He graduated BA at the University of London in 1867, and won the gold medal in forensic medicine at the MB examination in 1873. Entering the medical school of Guy's Hospital in October 1868 he received the first prize for first year students in 1869, the first prize for third year students and the Treasurer's medals for surgery and for medicine in 1873. For a short time he acted as demonstrator of anatomy at Guy's, but on his return from a visit to Paris he was elected assistant surgeon in 1875 and demonstrator of physiology, Dr P H Pye-Smith being lecturer. He held the office of surgeon until 1908, when he resigned on attaining the age of 60, was made consulting surgeon, and spent the rest of his life at Meopham, near Rochester, in Kent as a country gentleman interested in the life of the village, in gardening, and in collecting clocks. At the Royal College of Surgeons Golding-Bird was an examiner in elementary physiology 1884-86, in physiology 1886-91, in anatomy and physiology for the Fellowship 1884-90 and 1892-95. He was on the Dental Board as Examiner in surgery in 1902, a member of the Court of Examiners 1897-1907, and a member of the Council 1905-13. He married in 1870 Florence Marion, daughter of Dr John Baber, MRCS, of Thurlow Square, Kensington, and of Meopham. She died on 23 March 1919, and there were no children. He died at Pitfield, Meopham, Kent, of angina with asthma after much painful dyspnoea, on 6 March 1939, being then the oldest living FRCS. Golding-Bird was an exceedingly neat operator and a delicate manipulator. His training in histology, at a time when all section-cutting of tissues was done by hand with an ordinary razor, enabled him to make sections of the retina, drawings of which afterwards appeared in many editions of Quain's *Anatomy*. He did much useful work during his long period of retirement, for he was surgeon to the Gravesend Hospital and the Royal Deaf and Dumb School at Margate, chairman of the Kent County Nursing Association, a member of the Central Midwives Board, and churchwarden of St John's Church, Meopham. He was interested in local archaeology and wrote a history of Meopham which reached a second edition. He also published a history of the United Hospital Club and contributed many papers to the medical journals. He long retained his youthful appearance and it is recorded that when he had been assistant surgeon for some years, a question of amputation having arisen, the patient said she would not have her “leg took off by that boy”, but if it had to be done, pointing to the house surgeon, he should do it. He left his residence, Pitfield, to Guy's Hospital, £1,000 towards the maintenance of Meopham Church and churchyard, £1,000 upon trust for the Village Hall, Meopham, £300 to Kent County Nursing Association, £300 to Meopham and Nursted Local Nursing Association, £100 to the National Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children, £50 each to the Mothers' Union Central Fund, the SPG, the YMCA, the YWCA and the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, and the residue, subject to life interest, between Gravesend Hospital, Epsom Medical College, and the Village Hall, Meopham.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000458
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First Title value, for Searching Ashworth, Arnold ( - 1993)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ashworth received his medical education at Manchester, whence he qualified MB ChB in 1940. After war service in the RAMC he obtained the FRCS in 1950 and made his career in urology, holding consultant posts at the Crumpsall Hospital Manchester, at the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, the Royal Manchester Childrens' Hospital and at the University Hospital of South Manchester. He died on 16 September 1993.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007799
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First Title value, for Searching Eisenhammer, Stephen (1907 - 1995)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon Proctologist Coloproctologist
Details Stephen Elsenhammer received his medical education in Cape Town and Edinburgh, qualifying MB ChB Edinburgh in 1930. He obtained his Fellowship in 1941 and specialised in proctology, holding house positions at St Mark's Hospital before returning to South Africa and practising in Johannesburg for many years. He died on 27 March 1995 at the age of 88 in East Surrey Hospital.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007914
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First Title value, for Searching Golding, Sir John Simon Rawson (1921 - 1996)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details John Golding was born in London on 15 April 1921 and his early schooling was at Hilltop Court School, Seaford, and then Marlborough. From there he went to Caius College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1944. He did his National Service in the RAMC and in 1946 was posted to the Middle East where, in Tobruk, he enjoyed being the only doctor within hundreds of miles. He returned to the Middlesex Hospital in 1948, training in orthopaedics there and also at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. In 1953 he accepted the post of senior lecturer in orthopaedic surgery at the newly-opened University College Hospital of the West Indies in Jamaica, seven miles outside Kingston. Six months after arriving on the island it was swept by a devastating epidemic of poliomyelitis, which affected about 1500 people. It was this event, and the realisation that the epidemic would leave a huge load of severely disabled people, together with his response to this challenge, that provided the grounding for Golding's unique reputation in Jamaica. With characteristic vigour, he set up a rehabilitation unit in a disused drama theatre, which in time became the Mona Rehabilitation Centre, serving the whole of the English-speaking Caribbean. Thus, after the epidemic had died down, the need for the centre remained to treat people paralysed in road traffic accidents or by gunshot wounds. In 1956 he was one of five British orthopaedic surgeons who were invited to make a tour of the United States and Canada, and in 1959 he was appointed OBE. He lectured in many different countries and visited Haiti to work no fewer than sixteen times. He was a founder member of World Orthopaedic Concern and later its Secretary General. For his services to orthopaedics he was awarded the Order of Jamaica, the highest decoration that the country can give, and he was knighted in 1986. He established the Hope Valley School, ensuring that handicapped people had the stimulus of working alongside those who were not, together with a farm, and Monex, a company selling jewellery and woodwork made by the patients. The patients also made all the island's flags, repaired the hospital's linen, cleaned specimen tubes for re-use in the hospital laboratories and serviced headsets for Air Jamaica, together with many other fundraising initiatives. In 1994 he was elected Chairman of the Commonwealth Caribbean Medical Research Council, an organisation aiming to promote and coordinate research within the region. Golding himself made a number of research contributions on subjects of particular interest in the tropics, notably the bones in sickle cell disease, tuberculosis of the spine and scoliosis. He was also instrumental in setting up the 1966 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games, from which the Jamaican team emerged loaded with gold medals. Thereafter they took part in such contests all over the world. In later years Golding developed an interest in the hospice movement and in helping terminally ill cancer patients, and initiated the National Road Safety Council of Jamaica, a development concerned with his anxiety about the increase in road accidents. At the time of his death, breathalysers had been introduced and he was negotiating with the Government over legal requirements for seat belts and crash helmets. In 1965 he had been promoted to the Princess Alice Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at what had now become the University Hospital, and much of the foregoing activity was achieved in addition to the usual heavy workload of the professor of orthopaedic surgery. John Golding's principal relaxation was sailing, but there is little doubt that the overwhelming interest in life was his work. He wrote a book, *Ascent to Mona*, describing the development of medicine in Jamaica up to the time of the founding of the university, and he was also passionately interested in the Renaissance. His favourite maxim was 'the greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because we can do so little'. Golding died of a heart attack on 23 March 1996, having spent the last morning of his life visiting terminally ill cancer patients. He was survived by his wife, Pat, a son, Mark, a daughter Anna, four grandchildren, and a brother Anthony. His funeral was organised by the Jamaican Government and was attended by the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition. Numerous tributes were made by colleagues to testify to his impact on his adopted country. As already mentioned, he was honoured with the Order of Jamaica, and the road to the hospital has been named after him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007962
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First Title value, for Searching Rains, Anthony John Harding (1920 - 2014)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2014-07-18 2014-11-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Anthony ('Tony') Harding Rains was the first holder of the chair of surgery at Charing Cross Hospital, an authority on diseases of the biliary system, but arguably best known for his longstanding editorship of *Bailey and Love's short practice of surgery* (London, H K Lewis). Tony was the tenth child born to Robert Russell Harding Rains and Florence (née Rapson). His father was a medical practitioner, as were two great uncles in the 1840s, while his mother hailed from farming stock. He was educated at St Monica's School, Warminster, and Christ's Hospital School, Horsham, before proceeding by means of an entrance scholarship to St Mary's Hospital Medical School. Here he won the Kitchener scholarship and gained merit in anatomy and forensic medicine. Qualifying in 1943, he became house surgeon to C A Pannett, before joining the Royal Air Force, where he served in India and Japan as a lecturer in aviation medicine. After demobilisation, he worked with R M Handfield-Jones and Arthur Porritt back at St Mary's, before passing the FRCS in 1948 and relocating as a lecturer in surgery at Birmingham University to F A R Stammers. He later became a senior lecturer and then a consultant in Birmingham, but in 1959 returned to London as the foundation professor of surgery at Charing Cross Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his clinical career. He was not a prolific author, but became an authority on diseases of the biliary tree, giving a Hunterian lecture titled 'Biliary obstruction in the region of the porta hepatis' (*Ann R Coll Surg Engl*. 1959 Feb;24[2]:69-100) and publishing a book *Gallstones: causes and treatment* (London, William Heinemann Medical Books) in 1964, as well as several articles on related matters. However, in the field of medical publishing, his name was preeminent from 1965 as the co-editor (with W M Capper) of successive editions of *Bailey and Love's short practice of surgery*, at a time when this book was required reading for all UK medical students and trainees in surgery. Tony was a founder member of the Surgical Research Society and an honorary consultant to the Army. He was long associated with the Royal College of Surgeons, being an examiner in pathology for the primary FRCS and later a member of the Court of Examiners. He was the organising secretary of the international Lister Centenary Conference in 1967. He followed Sir Cecil Wakeley as editor of the *Annals* in 1969 and in 1974 introduced a restyled and resized journal, remaining editor until 1984. He was elected to Council in 1972, becoming vice president in 1983. The following year he gave the Hunterian oration titled 'The continuing message' (*Ann R Coll Surg Engl*. 1984 May;66[3]:151-8). He was created CBE in 1986. In 1943 he married and had three daughters, two of whom became nurses. Tony was a softly spoken, modest and gentle man. He was kind to his juniors and much loved. After he retired from Council, he left living in London for a country life, where he enjoyed gardening, painting and forestry. He rarely set foot in the College again, believing that when one retired from responsibility at the College one should stay away. He died on the 23 June 2014, aged 93.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005672
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First Title value, for Searching Dharmaratna, Daranagama Arachchige Jayasiri ( - 1996)

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First Title value, for Searching Farquhar, John Blair ( - 1994)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Farquhar received his medical education at Birmingham, qualifying MB ChB there in 1938. After he obtained his Fellowship, he specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, holding junior and registrar posts at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital and at the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women. Later he moved to Yorkshire and was surgeon to the Maternity Hospital at Leeds and to the Leeds Hospital for Women; he was also a consultant in surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics to the Leeds regional hospital board. He died on 7 February 1994.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007922
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First Title value, for Searching Innes, John Charles Alexander ( - 1985)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John Charles Alexander Innes qualified with the Conjoint Diploma from the London Hospital in 1939 and graduated MB BS in 1940, obtaining the Fellowship in 1947. After some house appointments he emigrated to Southern Rhodesia, where he practised at Bulawayo, Umtali and Salisbury, holding posts as honorary surgeon in the Rhodesian Government Medical Service from 1955 to 1969. His name disappears from the Medical Register after 1969 and he died on his farm at Mutare, Zimbabwe, on 2 February 1985.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007356
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First Title value, for Searching Harding, William (1809 - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, John Augustus ( - 1874)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Maconie, Alan Cameron (1901 - 1989)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15 2015-10-12
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Alan Cameron Maconie received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital whence he qualified MB, BS in 1923. After holding house posts at St Bartholomew's and the Royal Northern Hospitals, he specialised in otolaryngology and was successively surgeon in the ENT departments at the Virginia Water and Heatherwood Hospital, the Holloway Sanatorium, and the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Taplow. Later he became surgeon in charge of the ENT department, and consultant surgeon at the King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor and Maidenhead. His death was reported in the GMC list for 3 March 1989.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007475
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First Title value, for Searching Vythilingham, Kandiah (1910 - 1967)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Kandiah Vythilingham was born in Ceylon on 7 November 1910 and qualified with the LMS of Ceylon in 1937. He joined the Department of Health Services in 1939 and was appointed an acting medical officer at the Victoria Memorial Eye Hospital, Colombo. Thenceforward he specialized in ophthalmology, holding house appointments at Galle and Trincomalee but returning ultimately to the Victoria Memorial Eye Hospital, first as a medical officer, Grade I, and finally 1952 as Visiting Surgeon. Vythilingham was granted study leave in 1948 and came to England to obtain the DOMS and he passed the FRCS in Ophthalmology in 1951. He died in 1967.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006212
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First Title value, for Searching Cramsie, Jack Halling (1900 - 1946)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376298376298
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 15 March 1900, the only son of John Boyd Cramsie, a company director, and his wife Jessie Hailing McIntyre. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and University, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy. He was also clinical assistant at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. Cramsie took the Fellowship in 1929, though not previously a Member of the College, and spent some years in England. He practised for a time at 59 Queen Anne Street, London, and also at Leicester, where he was elected to the staff of the Royal Infirmary. He returned to Australia, practised for some years at Sydney, and died at his home 166 New South Head Road, Edgecliff, on 21 August 1946, aged 46.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004115
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First Title value, for Searching Brownless, Anthony Colling (1815 - 1897)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-05-26 2013-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born about the year 1815 and was the son of Anthony Brownless, Esq, a connection of the Maitland and Lauderdale families. He was educated at home by private tutor and then in the house of the Rev C E Smith, of Badlesmere, Kent. He was apprenticed to Mr Charles Wilks, surgeon, of Charing, Kent, and, while diligently continuing his classical studies, showed great aptitude for medicine and made himself thoroughly conversant with pharmacy and the structure of the human skeleton. While at Charing an accident happened which greatly handicapped his education: a horse fell on him and he received such an injury to the right knee that chronic disease of the joint was set up. In the summer of 1834 his health had so suffered that he was sent for a long voyage to St Petersburgh, Norway, and Denmark, and in 1835 he visited New York, other parts of the United States, and Canada. He was then able to return to Charing, where until October, 1836, he saw much of an extensive Poor Law practice. He became a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1836. At the end of the session he was considered one of the best anatomists in the school, and, notwithstanding a severe attack of fever with delirium which kept him in bed for weeks before the examinations, he came out second in anatomy and physiology. Study and ill health had pulled the indomitable student down considerably, and issues around his knee-joint compelled him to limp on crutches during the greater part of the session. He now made another voyage in search of health to Portugal and Spain, and spent the summer at Malaga, Cadiz, and Seville. In the autumn of 1837, his knee being still very painful, he gave up his hospital work, hired a farm from his father at Goudhurst, and amused himself with agriculture and the study of diseases of animals. Returning, though still on crutches, to St Bartholomew's in 1839, he continued his studies there and at the Royal General Dispensary. He acted as Clinical Assistant in the out-patients' department of the hospital and made the post-mortem examinations. In 1840 he obtained a certificate of honour for midwifery and the first prize for forensic medicine at St. Bartholomew's. After qualifying in 1841 he began to practise in Islington in 1842, but soon became assistant to John Painter Vincent (qv) at his old hospital, and gave his whole time to the wards for the next two years. He prepared himself to become a consulting and operating surgeon, and after practising as such at 4 Albion Place, Lonsdale Square, from 1843-1845, repaired to Liège and entered the University, where he devoted himself to anatomy and pathology - subjects for which that university was famous. He made his mark at Liège and became the friend of the well-known Professor of Anatomy, Dr Spring. He returned to London early in 1846 and look a house in Charterhouse Square, continuing to study for the College Fellowship. Fearing, however, that it would be long before he obtained an appointment on a hospital staff, he took the MD degree of St Andrews, and in February, 1847, was elected Physician to the Metropolitan Dispensary in Fore Street. His rise was now rapid, for he was kind and attentive to patients, accurate in diagnosis, and successful in treatment. In September, 1847, he was elected Physician to the Royal General Dispensary, Aldersgate Street, with which he had been previously connected, and continued to hold his other post. He not only acquired a large practice, but was an admirable teacher of anatomy, pathology, and practical medicine. Dr Protheroe Smith retired from the office of Assistant Teacher of Practical Midwifery at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1848, and the post was offered to Brownless, who, however, declined it. In August, 1849, in consequence of the refusal of the Committee of the Metropolitan Dispensary to reform the Apothecary's Depart¬ment, in which there had long been gross neglect of the patients, Brownless tendered his resignation of the office of Physician, and upon his leaving it almost all his patients followed him to the Royal General Dispensary. He resigned his post at the Royal General Dispensary in September, 1849, on account of ill health, and retired temporarily from private practice. His popularity at the Dispensary had been so great that the patients presented him with a testimonial at a public meeting of the subscribers, held at the Literary and Scientific Institution, Aldersgate Street, on October 9th, 1849. A large body of the Governors of both Institutions followed this good example, and voted 'a splendid testimonial' in acknowledgement of Brownless's public services. This was presented to him on May 7th, 1850, by the High Bailiff of Southwark, presiding over a public meeting at the Clarence Hotel, Aldersgate Street. The testimonial consisted of a finely illuminated memorial on vellum and a piece of plate, weighing upwards of 200 oz. Brownless afterwards went out to Australia, where he was elected Physician to the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum. In 1854 he was elected Physician to the Melbourne Hospital, and held that post until 1866, when he was appointed Consulting Physician and a Life Governor. He was a founder of the Medical School of the University of Melbourne and its first MD. For twenty-nine years in succession he was elected Vice-Chancellor of the University, and succeeded Dr Moorhouse, afterwards Bishop of Manchester, as Chancellor in 1887. He was a member of several important Government Commissions, and in 1870 was made a Knight of St Gregory the Great, and in 1883 a Knight Commander of the Order of Pius by successive Popes, who thus conferred on him papal nobility. At the time of his death, or not many years before, he was Medical Referee to the Victoria and Intercolonial Assurance Companies, and, besides his other offices, at one time held those of Physician to the Industrial and Reformatory Schools, to the Magdalen Asylum at Abbotsford, and to the Orphanage of St Vincent de Paul. His death occurred at Melbourne, where he had practised at 2 Victoria Parade, on December 3rd, 1897. He had married twice: (1) in 1842 to Ellen, daughter of W Hawker, MD, of Charing, and (2) in 1852 to Anne, daughter of William Hamilton, Captain, Rifle Brigade, of Eden, Co Donegal. Publications: "On the Treatment of Diseases of the Joints." - *Lancet*, 1846, ii, 241; 1847, i, 434. *The Merits of Mr. J. Painter Vincent: an Address*, 8vo, London, 1847. This pamphlet, which is in the College Library, is a eulogy of John Painter Vincent (qv), Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital. *An Address delivered at a Public Meeting of the Subscribers to the Vincent Testimonial*, 8vo, London, 1847. *Addresses delivered in the University of Melbourne*.
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First Title value, for Searching Harding-Jones, David (1936 - 2005)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

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Publication Date 2007-03-15 2014-04-09
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details David Harding-Jones was an orthopaedic surgeon in Carmarthen, Wales. He was born in Stratford, East London, on 3 August 1936, one of a pair of identical twins. His father, William, was a Presbyterian minister. His mother was Gertrude Alice née Roberts. He was educated at Bancroft's School, Woodford Green, and Charing Cross Hospital. After junior posts, he specialised in orthopaedics, becoming a registrar at the Westminster Hospital, rotating registrar at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, and Hereford General Hospital, and senior registrar at the United Cardiff Hospitals. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen. At the College he was regional adviser in orthopaedics for south Wales. He died on 27 March 2005 after a short and sudden illness and is survived by his wife June née Hitchens, whom he married in 1960, and by his three sons (Andrew, Ian and Neil), two daughters (Alison and Fiona) and five grandchildren (Bethan, Thomas, Iestyn, Ella and Angus).
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First Title value, for Searching Wangensteen, Owen Harding (1885 - 1981)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Owen Harding Wangensteen, the son of a farmer, was born at Lake Park, Minnesota, USA, on 21 September 1885. He always wanted to become a farmer and was fond of relating how he decided to become a doctor instead. When he was a high school junior, he had the opportunity to help fifty of his father's sows to farrow their young. His father was so impressed that he insisted young Owen become a doctor. The boy held off for three years. Then during a summer hot spell he had to cart manure for three weeks. Anything, he thought, would be better than that. So he liked to say that he entered the medical field 'through the portals of pigs and manure'. He attended the University of Minnesota where he first graduated BA then completed medical school under a wartime accelerated programme. On finishing his internship he spent a year at the Mayo Clinic on a research fellowship in medicine. He then returned to the University in 1925 to undertake a study on undescended testis, for which he received his PhD. For two years from 1927 he studied in Switzerland, first under Fritz de Quervain in his surgical clinic at Berne, and then with Dr Leon Ascher at the Physiologic Institute where he became firmly committed to the idea of a partnership between surgical research and physiology. On returning to Minneapolis he was promoted to associate professor and became the first full-time head of the department of surgery in 1930. He is reputed to have started with one surgical fellow and two interns to take care of 130 patients, he then progressively built up that department to have had a staff of 100 surgical fellows and 18 interns who were responsible for 200 beds. Dr Wangensteen's surgical interests were wide though he always referred to himself as a 'plumber of the alimentary tract'. He initiated the 'second look' after resection of intra-abdominal cancers and was a one-time advocate of gastric freezing in the treatment of peptic ulcer. It was due to his interest in intestinal obstruction that he came to develop the Wangensteen suction tube about which the poet Ogden Nash wrote 'May I find my final rest in Owen Wangensteen's intestine, knowing that his masterly suction will assure my resurrection'. He devised a number of radical operations for cancer and, in encouraging its early diagnosis, he established one of the first cancer detection centres. In a different field he was responsible for establishing a fine school of intracardiac surgery, his trainees including Richard Varco, Walton Lillehei, Norman Shumway and Christiaan Barnard. Altogether some 33 professors of surgery or departmental heads spring from his service and he turned a small and unknown department into a centre of surgical renown. He was a strong believer in the importance of the surgical laboratory in the training of young surgeons. Outside the practical surgical field he was responsible for a number of books as sole or part author and was a co-editor of the journal *Surgery* from 1937 to 1970. He is recorded as having written or co-authored some 900 medical papers and, shortly before his death, he and his second wife, who was a medical historian, had completed *The rise of surgery: from empiric craft to scientific discipline*. He thrived on work, often rising at 1.30, or 2.00 in the morning, working for several hours, then taking an hour's nap before leaving for the office. A man of endless energy, he was still working in Minneapolis until the evening of his fatal heart attack. Wangensteen was President of the American College of Surgeons 1959-60 and he was admitted to the honorary FRCS in the following year. Thereafter he and his wife were regular visitors to the College to work in the library on historical research; a notable example was their quest for, and location of books which had been in Lord Lister's library. He was an Honorary Fellow of two of our sister colleges in the United Kingdom and was recognised by the award of the honorary degrees of several universities as well as by honorary membership of many surgical societies and associations. When he died on 13 January 1981 he was survived by his wife, Sarah, his daughter Mary and sons Owen and Stephen who became a physician.
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First Title value, for Searching Balding, Daniel Barley (1831 - 1923)

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First Title value, for Searching Freeland, Ernest Harding (1863 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Lendon, Alan Harding (1903 - 1973)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

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Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Alan Harding Lendon was born in Adelaide on 11 August 1903, the youngest son of Dr Alfred Austin Lendon who had been a prominent member of the profession in South Australia. He was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide and at Adelaide University where he won the Davies Thomas Prize in 1924 and 1926, and the Everard Scholarship in 1927, the year of his graduation with the MB BS degree. He was secretary of the University Sports Association and won a blue for rifle-shooting. After a little over a year as RMO at the Royal Adelaide Hospital he came over to London to obtain the English Fellowship which he did in 1931. On his return to Adelaide he became private assistant to Sir Henry Newland and held a succession of appointments at the Royal Adelaide Hospital: honorary clinical assistant 1932-1935; honorary assistant surgeon 1935-1947; honorary surgeon 1947-1963; and honorary consulting surgeon 1963. During the second world war Lendon served with the Australian Army Medical Corps from 1940-1946 in the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Ceylon, and Australia, attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and being mentioned in despatches. After demobilization he devoted much attention to teaching and to organization of surgical education, being appointed a lecturer in surgery in the University of Adelaide in 1948, and Director of Surgical Studies from 1953 till 1958, when the first Professor of Surgery displaced him. He proved an extremely efficient administrator, and both teaching staff and students appreciated his interest in their work and his availability as a counsellor. His guidance in matters of hospital administration was also highly valued by his colleagues on the Board of Management. In addition to his clinical and administrative duties in Adelaide, Lendon had to make frequent journeys to Melbourne in the service of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, of which he became a Fellow in 1933. He was on the Court of Examiners from 1950-63, and Chairman of the Court from 1957-1963. He served on the Council of the College from 1955-1967, being Junior Vice-President in 1963-1966 and Senior Vice-President in 1966 and 1967. Undoubtedly the College was his chief professional interest over a period of nearly 20 years, and his service to the College was not limited to the meetings in Melbourne, since from 1948 till 1967 he was a member of the South Australian State Committee, having been its secretary in the early days and its Chairman from 1951 till 1964. It is also noteworthy that he was a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1953. It is inevitable that this account of Alan Lendon's life should emphasize his outstanding achievements as a teacher, an organizer, and a committee man, but a note must be added about his qualities as a practising surgeon. He was generally regarded as a sound clinician and a safe, reliable operator, but he was not an innovator, nor did he make any significant contribution to surgical literature. On the other hand, he will be remembered gratefully by many of his assistants whom he helped to obtain the FRACS diploma. Lendon played golf, and was an enthusiastic spectator of cricket, but his chief leisure interest was bird-watching, and at one time he was President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, and a member of other associations interested in the local wild life. He was an authority on Australian parrots, and revised and partly re-wrote Neville W Cayley's *Australian parrots in field and aviary*. In 1933 he married Margaret Edmunds and they had two sons and a daughter. It was unfortunate that his latter years were marred by ill-health which he bore with fortitude, but he died on 12 July 1973. His wife and family survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Harding, Herbert Edward (1907 - 1982)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Herbert Edward Harding was born in 1907. There is no record of his early education before he entered the London Hospital Medical College where he won a number of undergraduate prizes and qualified in 1931. After resident appointments at the London Hospital he completed the FRCS in 1933 to become surgical registrar and first assistant at the London where he worked for a number of surgeons, including Russell Howard. However, it was Robert Milne who inspired his interest in orthopaedic surgery, and he then worked as a registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. In 1939, at the age of 32, he was appointed orthopaedic surgeon to the Westminster Hospital where for twenty years he teamed up in great harmony and friendship with Edward Brockman. On the outbreak of the second world war he worked in the Emergency Medical Service and then in the Royal Army Medical Corps, first as a surgical specialist and later as an officer commanding a surgical division with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. On demobilization, he returned to the Westminster and also succeeded Dudley Buxton as Ministry of Pensions consultant in orthopaedic surgery at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. He was further appointed to St Stephen's Hospital, Fulham, the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, King Edward VII Sanatorium, and the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. At the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth he was appointed Gold Stick in charge of medical arrangements at Westminster Abbey. He was Dean of Westminster Medical School for ten years and a member of the London University Senate. Generations of students had cause to be grateful to him for his sound advice and support, and the school was equally indebted for his outstanding administrative ability. He served on the executive committee of the British Orthopaedic Association and was President of the Orthopaedic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Later on he was a long-standing member of the Medical Appeals Tribunal. 'Ding' Harding had wide medical experience, an enquiring mind and sound surgical judgement. He was an excellent teacher who regularly reduced problems to the bare essentials and he had wide interests outside medicine. In his early years he was a keen rider to hounds and point-to-pointer. He was also a good shot, an enthusiastic fisherman, a knowledgeable gardener and a golfer of fluctuating ability. It was his pleasure to share those interests with others, and he was as happy to sit on a bank watching a guest using his rod as to fish the best pool himself. He was a handsome, elegant and highly entertaining bachelor who cherished the company of his many friends. During a long terminal illness in hospital he remained witty, cheerful and entertaining, always making his visitors feel better for their visit to him. He died on 4 February 1982.
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First Title value, for Searching Harding, John Fosse (1808 - 1883)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

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Publication Date 2012-03-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised as one of the firm of Harding & Hewer, later Harding, Hewer & Calthorp, at several addresses in London: 6 Mylne Street, Myddelton Square; 13 Spencer Street, Northampton Square; and Sandford House, Highbury New Park, where he acted as Surgeon to the Finsbury Assurance Association and the Watchmakers' Benevolent Society, and Examining Surgeon to the Infant Orphans' Asylum and to the Camberwell Schools. He also had country addresses: Mount Sandford, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, and Ulverstone House, Uckfield, Sussex. He died at Eagle House, Hornsey, on December 24th, 1883. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: Harding contributed a number of papers to the *Lond. Med. Gaz*.
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First Title value, for Searching Harding, Thomas Massey (1825 - 1910)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at University College, London, and the Middlesex Hospital, at the latter becoming House Surgeon. He practised first at 66 High Street, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, where he was medical officer to the Dispensary and to the Stour-bridge District Union. He next moved to London and practised at 65 Euston Road, where he was Surgeon to the Hospital for Diseases of Women and Children, Vincent Square, Westminster, and Medical Officer to the 6th District of the St Pancras Union. Between 1870 and 1880 he migrated to New South Wales and practised at Goulburn and Murwillumbah. After retiring to Darling Street, Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, he died on March 18th, 1910. Publications: Harding made several contributions to the *Lond. Med. Times and Gaz*.
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First Title value, for Searching Harding, William Joshua (1874 - 1904)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

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Publication Date 2012-03-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was scholar in chemistry and histology and later Clinical Assistant to Medical Out-patients, and then House Surgeon at Westminster Hospital. He served with the South African Field Force during the Boer War, started practice at 42 Kempshott Road, Streatham Common, London, SW, took medical service in North Borneo, and died at Jesselton, North Borneo, on October 4th, 1904.
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First Title value, for Searching Holden, Norman Thompson ( - 1978)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-19
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Norman Thompson Holden studied medicine at Cambridge University, the Westminster Hospital and Guy's. He was senior registrar to the traumatic and orthopaedic unit at Ashford Hospital, Middlesex, and orthopaedic registrar to Guy's. He was then appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Enfield Group of Hospitals. He was a Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and of the Royal Society of Medicine. He died on 10 January 1978.
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First Title value, for Searching Holden, Luther (1815 - 1905)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-03-08 2012-03-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in his grandfather's house at Birmingham on Dec. 11th, 1815. He was the second son of the Rev. Henry Augustus Holden, who married his cousin Hyla Holden of Wednesbury in Staffordshire. His elder brother, Henry Holden, D.D. (b. 1814) , was Canon of Durham, a fine scholar and the editor with Richard Dacre Archer Hind of the *Sabrinœ Corolla*; the fourth brother, Philip Melancthon (1823-1904) was Rector of Upminster, Essex. Luther was educated with his father's pupils, at a private school in Birmingham, and at Havre, where in 1827 he learned to speak French fluently. He entered St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1831 as an apprentice of Edward Stanley (q.v.), and in 1838 went for a year to study in Berlin and for a second year in Paris. An Italian student in Paris taught him to read and speak Italian. He was appointed Surgeon to the Metropolitan Dispensary, Fore Street, E.C., in 1843, and was then living in the Old Jewry, teaching anatomy to private pupils, one of whom was William Palmer, the poisoner. Holden presented himself at the first examination for the newly established diploma for the Fellowship, and was one of the twenty-four candidates who passed successfully on Christmas Eve, 1843. Appointed in 1846, with A. M. McWhinnie (q.v.), Superintendent (or Demonstrator) of Dissections at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he was elected in 1859, jointly with Frederick Skey (q.v.), to lecture upon descriptive and surgical anatomy. He resigned the office in June, 1871. Elected Assistant Surgeon to the hospital in July, 1860, with Frederick Skey as his Surgeon, he became full Surgeon in August, 1865, with Alfred Willett as his Assistant Surgeon. He resigned his hospital appointments in 1880 on attaining the age of 65, and was made Consulting Surgeon. He then retired from his house, 54 Gower Street, which had a garden, moved to Pinetoft, Ispwich, and spent much of his life in travel. He visited at different times Egypt, Australia, India, Japan, and was entertained by the medical profession at Johannesburg in 1898. He was Surgeon to the Foundling Hospital from 1864 until his death. At the Royal College of Surgeons Holden was a Member of the Council from 1868-1884; an Examiner in Anatomy and Physiology, 1875-1876; a Member of the Court of Examiners, 1873-1883; and a Member of the Dental Board of Examiners, 1879-1882. He served as Vice-President for the years 1877 and 1878, was President in 1879 and Hunterian Orator in 1881. He married: (1) Frances, daughter of Benjamin Wasey Sterry, of Upminster, Essex, in July, 1851, and (2) Frances, daughter of Wasey Sterry, in 1868, who survived him. Both wives bore the same name and were of the same family. Both had independent fortunes. There were no children of either marriage. Holden died at Putney on Feb. 5th, 1905, and was buried in the cemetery of the Parish Church, Upminster. By his will he bequeathed £3000 to endow a scholarship in surgery in the Medical School at St. Bartholomew's Hospital; he also made handsome bequests to St. Bartholomew's and to the Foundling Hospitals. A three-quarter-length portrait in oils - an admirable likeness - by Sir J. E. Millais, R.A., hangs in the Great Hall at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. It was painted on the occasion of Holden's retirement from the active staff of the hospital and has been engraved. A crayon sketch by Gordon Stowers hangs on the walls of the College of Surgeons. It is dated 1881, and was exhibited at the Royal Academy. There is also a fine portrait by Maguire, dated 1851, in the College Collection. Holden was one of the last members of the school of surgeons who based their practice on anatomy, and for that reason he is remembered by his *Osteology* and *Surgical Landmarks* rather than by his surgical attainments. The imperfect treatment of syphilis in the mid-Victorian period allowed of the production of many aneurysms. Holden was a great advocate for the treatment of popliteal aneurysm by continuous digital pressure in preference to the Hunterian operation, which was often followed by secondary haemorrhage. He invented 'Holden's sausage', a cylinder of Gooch's splint containing a bag of shot. The cylinder was slung from a pulley above the bed, and was so adjusted as to press upon the fingers of the assistant who was compressing the femoral artery with one hand whilst the other was placed upon the aneurysm to make sure that the pulsation had ceased. The pressure was kept up for many hours by relays of students. The method was irksome to the students and painful to the patient, who had often to be kept under morphia. It was occasionally successful, but there was frequently so much chafing and bruising of the skin, that it fell into disuse. For many years he 'coached' students privately for their examinations, and no one possessed a stronger hold on the affections of his pupils, nor did anyone take greater pleasure in teaching, than did Luther Holdern. One thing he abhorred with all his might, and that was the modern specialist. He believed in the good general surgeon who knew his anatomy and physiology and their applications to surgery. He was an excellent operator, and devoted the greatest care to the work in the wards and to his clinical teaching. Years advanced, but they made little impression on Holden's marvellous physical vigour and lightness of heart. He was a very accomplished and courteous gentleman, with a charm of manner that gained the confidence of the most shy student. He cared little for private practice, but had a passion for teaching, and a patience that was inexhaustible, even when dealing with those whose mental capacities were least developed. He was the personal friend and confidant, as well as teacher, of all who experienced difficulty in acquiring what they had to learn, and he succeeded in teaching those whom no one else could teach. He was beloved alike by the students amongst whom it was his delight to work, and the colleagues with whom he was ever in harmony and affectionate relations. A fluent linguist and a good classic as well as a keen sportsman, he was a conspicuously handsome member of a handsome family, and it was interesting to notice that the older he grew the more handsome he became. He was seen at his best when he was riding to hounds. It is noteworthy, perhaps, that he was one of the few Presidents of the College who received no outside recognition in the form of honorary degrees or other decorative titles. A pencil sketch of his head is in the Royal College of Surgeons. PUBLICATIONS: - *A Manual of the Dissection of the Human Body*, in four parts without illustrations, London, 1850; 2nd ed., 1 vol., copiously illustrated, 8vo, 1851; 2nd ed., 1859; 5th ed., Philadelphia, 1885; 7th ed., 1901, 2 vols. *Human Osteology*, 2 vols., London, 1855; the later editions were in one volume; 8th ed., 1929. This work marked a distinct advance in the study of the human skeleton. It is written in an easy style by a master anatomist. The author drew the illustrations himself and they were etched on stone by Thomas Godart, Librarian of the Medical School at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who afterwards died in Australia. These illustrations formed at the time a new feature in the teaching of anatomy, for the origin and insertions of the muscles are shown upon the figures of the bones by red and blue lines. *Landmarks Medical and Surgical*, first published as a series of papers in the *St. Bart.'s Hosp. Rep.*, 1866, ii, and 1870, vi. They were issued separately in a large and revised form in 1876; 4th ed., 1888; and were translated into Spanish by Dr. Servendo Talón y Calva, Madrid, 1894. The book is an application of anatomy to surgery and shows how much anatomy can be learnt by studying the surface of the body whilst yet the skin is unbroken. There were at first no illustrations to distract from personal observations, but woodcuts were added in the later editions.
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First Title value, for Searching Aiken, David ( - 1987)

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Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details David Aiken qualified in Dublin in 1940 and retained a home in Londonderry all his life. He became a Fellow of the College in 1947 and practised in the Sheffield area. After holding posts as senior surgical registrar at the United Sheffield Hospital and resident surgical officer for the Christie Hospital and the Holt Radium Institute, Manchester, he became senior consultant surgeon to Doncaster Royal Infirmary. He was a Major in the RAMC (TA), a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He published several papers in the *British journal of surgery* the most recent of which was one entitled *New approach to prostatectomy* (1967). He died in 1987.
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First Title value, for Searching Kirshnan, Turuvekere Dharmayya Venkata (1905 - 1968)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Turner, Wing Lincoln (1916 - 1994)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08 2016-01-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380564380564
Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon
Details Educated at Liverpool University, Turner qualified MB ChB in 1941 and was elected to the Fellowship on 12 March 1979. After holding house posts at Mossley Hill Hospital, and Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, he was assistant medical officer at Fazakerley Isolation Hospital, Liverpool, before becoming consultant surgeon at Mossley Hill Hospital and Newsham General Hospital, Liverpool. In 1981 he became consultant surgeon in accident and emergency surgery at the Sefton and Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, and in 1983 was given the title of emeritus consulting surgeon at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. He retired in 1984 and died aged 78 on 2 November 1994, survived by his wife Margaret and son Martin.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008381
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First Title value, for Searching Elias, Ezzat Radi (1942 - 1984)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Krishnan, Turuvekere Dharmayya Venkata (1905 - 1968)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14 2017-05-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Turuvekere Dharmayya Venkata Krishnan was born on 4 June 1905, and after graduating in medicine in the University of Madras and holding junior posts in India he came to the United Kingdom and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and also in 1938 the Conjoint Diploma and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He then returned to India and joined the Indian Medical Service as a surgical specialist in May 1938, and received the rank of Captain by an emergency commission in November 1943. Krishnan became Superintendent of the Central Hospital, Dhanbad, India. He died on 6 July 1968.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006108
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First Title value, for Searching Springford, William Edmund (1913 - 1954)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377741377741
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Faversham, Kent, the son of William Lionel Springford, he was educated at Charing Cross Hospital, qualifying in 1936. After holding resident posts at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, and the Chesterfield and North Derby Royal Hospital, he was surgical registrar at Charing Cross Hospital, where he won the J H Morgan surgical prize in 1942. He was appointed to the staff of the Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, and was consulting surgeon to the Royal Masonic Institute for Girls. He lived at Copthorne, Ducks Hill, Northwood, Middlesex, and died there on 18 May 1954 aged 41, survived by his wife. Publication: Congenital elephantiasis. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1944, 37, 232-233.
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First Title value, for Searching Leicester, John Cyril Holdich (1872 - 1949)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376528376528
Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born 29 March 1872 at Scarborough, third child and eldest son of the Rev John Augustus Leicester, a priest of the Church of England who held no regular living, and his wife Charlotte Eliza Holdich. He was educated at Dulwich College and University College, London, where he took honours in physiology at the BSc examination in 1893. He qualified in 1896 from University College Hospital, and held house appointments there and at the Samaritan Hospital for Women. He took the Fellowship in 1898. Leicester was commissioned a lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 28 January 1899, and saw active service in China during the Boxer rising of 1900, for which he received the medal. He was promoted captain in 1902 and major in 1910. During the war of 1914-18 he was on active service in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and was twice mentioned in despatches. In 1919 he served on the Afghan frontier. He had been promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1918. For the greater part of his career Leicester practised as a gynaecologist at Calcutta. He was for two and a half years resident surgeon under C R M Green and afterwards surgeon at the Eden Hospital for Women, Calcutta, and professor of midwifery and gynaecology in the Medical College. He took the MRCP in 1905 and was elected FRCP in 1923. In January 1924 he was placed on the select list for promotion in the IMS, served for a period as acting Surgeon-General of Bengal and was appointed an Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy; he was created CIE in June and retired on 27 September 1927. He continued to practise privately at 6 Harington Street, Calcutta, but soon returned to London where he settled at 128 Chatsworth Road, NW2. He married on 3 December 1907 in St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, Queenie, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Dobson, MB, IMS, who survived him but without children. He died at his country home, Clare Cottage, Cold Ash, Newbury on 19 May 1949 aged 77. He left his entire fortune to be divided among numerous charities after his wife's life interest. Leicester was an excellent administrator, with a taste for detailed statistical investigations. He made numerous contributions to the Obstetrical Society and to the *Journal of Obstetrics*. He was an active churchman, gave valued service to the Oxford mission at Calcutta, and was a vestryman of Calcutta Cathedral. He was also a keen promoter of the Boy Scout movement in India and at home. Publications: Mechanical dilation of the cervix uteri in pregnancy. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1907, 11, 224. A short note on the duration of pregnancy and the relation between the weight of the child and the length of gestation of Europeans (in India), East Indians and natives. *Ibid* p 465. On the relation of the frequency of the foetal heart beat to the sex and weight of the child. *Ibid*, 1907, 12, 39. Menstruation in Europeans, Eurasians, and East Indians in India. *Ibid* 1910, 17, 414. A short note on the delivery of the foetal head after decapitation. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1908, 7, 478.
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, John Michael Harding (1847 - 1906)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-01
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born at Liverpool on May 6th, 1847, the son and grandson of surgeons. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and at the University of Liverpool, where he was Medallist in Medicine, Surgery, and Pathology, also at Brussels. Becoming FRCS, he settled in practice at Blackburn as assistant to Dr William Irving, Physician to the Blackburn Infirmary, later in partnership with him, and on his death carried on the practice, one of the largest in the district. He continued his medical studies, and passed examinations to within two years of his death. For twenty-one years he was Surgeon to the Blackburn and East Lancashire Infirmary. For many years he was local Secretary to the British Medical Association and was the first President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch. A keen volunteer, he rose to be Major in command of the North-East Lancashire Bearer Company RAMC, and Surgeon Major, Army Medical Reserve, in connection with which he gave and published ambulance lectures. He encouraged sports, was President of the Blackburn Cycling Club, and gave annually a silver cup to be raced for. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the County Borough of Blackburn in 1887. As a Roman Catholic he was Physician to the Franciscan Convent of St Anne, and to the Convent of Notre Dame, and he held strong views in favour of denominational teaching in schools. Besides, he was connected with numerous societies. He died suddenly of apoplexy at Arnheim, Blackburn, on March 20th, 1906, and was survived by a widow, four daughters, and four sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, John Graham (1930 - 1967)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details After qualifying from Sydney University, he worked in New Zealand 1953-1955 holding house appointments at Dannevirke Hospital, Hawke's Bay and Dunedin Hospital and as surgical registrar at Christchurch Hospital. He came to England in 1956, and after periods at St James's Hospital, the London Chest Hospital and the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital he obtained the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1958 and the English Fellowship in 1959. He was senior registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and was commissioned as a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve. During 1964-65 he was resident assistant at St James's Hospital, Balham, and continued to practise in London, living at Haverstock Hill NW3. He died about November 1967, in his late thirties.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006114
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First Title value, for Searching Morris, George Bentham ( - 1983)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details George Bentham Morris qualified MB, ChM Sydney in 1925 and began his career by holding posts at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, The Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney and the Royal Alexander Hospital for Children, Sydney. In the second world war he was a Squadron-Leader in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1940 to 1947, serving at No 3 medical receiving station in New Guinea in 1942, and was attached to the facio-maxillary and plastic unit, No 115 Australian General Hospital in 1943. In 1944 he came to Britain on attachment to the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, remaining there until 1946, when he obtained his FRCS. After the war he was for many years honorary consultant surgeon to the Base Hospital, Tamworth, New South Wales, as well as practising privately in Sydney. He died at Dunbogan, New South Wales in May 1983.
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First Title value, for Searching James, James Thomas (1857 - 1911)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-16
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was Broderip Scholar, Governor's Prizeman, and gained distinction in nearly all subjects. He was then successively House Surgeon, House Physician, and Resident Obstetric Officer. After that he acted as Clinical Assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, and later was appointed Surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, a post he held until a few years before his death. He practised in Harley Street, was consulted by a large number of patients, and worked with but brief holidays. Ill health followed, marked by insomnia and depression, and ended by a death, which necessitated the holding of an inquest, by the Coroner, on January 10th, 1911.
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First Title value, for Searching Gordon, Mendel (1902 - 1983)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Mendel Gordon was born on 31 May 1902. He went to school in Bournemouth before training at King's College, London and Charing Cross Medical School, where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1929 and was awarded the Governor's gold medal in medicine and surgery. After house surgeon appointments at Charing Cross Hospital he became registrar in ear, nose and throat surgery at the Royal Free Hospital. He served throughout the second world war in the RAFVR holding the rank of Squadron Leader. Later he worked with Sir Archibald Mclndoe in plastic surgery. He held appointments at the National Temperance Hospital, Sydenham Children's Hospital and Mayday Hospital. His principal interest in later life was in rhinoplasty. He died on 2 March 1983, survived by two sons and a daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007286
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First Title value, for Searching Goldin, Jacob Henry (1939 - 2021)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-11-19
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Craniofacial surgeon
Details Jacob Goldin was a pioneering craniofacial surgeon and a former president of the European Society of Craniofacial Surgery. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
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First Title value, for Searching Holden, Maurice Harold (1937 - 2018)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-07-04
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299
Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Maurice Harold Holden was a consultant oral surgeon at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010269
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First Title value, for Searching Atkinson, Richard ( - 1901)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Holden, Harold Benjamin (1930 - 2021)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-02-23
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Harold Holden was a consultant ENT surgeon and former dean of Charing Cross Medical School. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010090
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First Title value, for Searching Lingen, Charles (1811 - 1878)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Coupland, James Alane (1880 - 1957)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Sylvester, George Holden (1856 - 1934)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376840376840
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 25 October 1856 at South Petherton, Somerset, the eldest of ten children (seven sons) of Samuel Augustus Sylvester, who had retired from his sheep station in Australia in 1855, and Mary Catherine, his wife, daughter of the Rev Joseph Holden Johnson, Vicar of Tilshead, Devizes. He was educated at Weston-super-Mare and received the early part of his medical education from Samuel Grose, FRCS, at Melksham, Wilts, before he proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital. He became surgeon, AMS, 31 July 1880, surgeon-major and major, RAMC, 31 July 1892, lieutenant-colonel 1900, and was granted local rank of colonel whilst acting as PMO of a General Hospital in South Africa, 12 February 1901. He retired on 19 October 1907, and was re-employed during the war from 1 February 1915. He was on the Livery of the Grocers' Company, and was then a freeman of the City of London. He died unmarried at Bournemouth on 23 March 1934, and his ashes were buried at Tonbridge.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004657
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First Title value, for Searching Powell, Rhys Vaughan (1891 - 1951)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376660376660
Occupation General surgeon
Details He was educated at King's College Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, house physician, and clinical assistant. After holding other resident posts and a period as second assistant at the Central London Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital, he was surgical registrar at Willesden General Hospital. Powell qualified through the Society of Apothecaries in 1914. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC with the rank of captain, gazetted 16 December 1915. He took the Conjoint qualification in 1921, but did not proceed to the Fellowship till 1935, when he was practising at 106 Harley Street. Later he lived at 62 North Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, where he died on 27 April 1951, aged 60. Publications: Chronic appendicitis. *Med Press*, 1935, 191, 48. Diverticulosis of appendix. *Ibid* p 387.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004477
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First Title value, for Searching Ingall, John Robert Franklin ( - 1994)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380204380204
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ingall received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1952. He gained the London MB BS in the following year. After holding house posts at the Westminster Hospital and surgical registrarships there and at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, he moved to the United States, where he was Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was also Program Director, Regional Medical Program for West New York and consultant surgeon to the Sisters of Mercy Charity Hospital. He later practised as a general and urological surgeon at Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Jack Ingall died on 26 April 1994 in Hemel Hempstead Hospital, and there was a memorial service at St Alban's.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008021
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First Title value, for Searching Ashworth, James (1927 - 2007)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by John Blandy
Publication Date 2012-01-27 2012-08-29
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374111374111
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details James Ashworth was an orthopaedic surgeon in Darlington and Northallerton. He was born on 2 November 1927 in Rossendale, the eldest son of George Ashworth, a yarn agent, and Doris Ashworth née Honey. He attended Haslingden Grammar School and Manchester University, where he was in the cross-country running team and played rugby. He qualified in 1951 with distinctions in medicine and forensic medicine. After junior posts at Manchester Royal Infirmary, he completed his National Service in the RAMC as regimental medical officer to the 1/7 Gurkha Regiment. On leaving the Army he specialised in orthopaedics, holding registrar and then senior registrar posts at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford and the United Leeds Hospitals. He was then appointed as a consultant to Darlington and Northallerton. He married Mary Sinnott in 1966, with whom he had two daughters. Ashworth died in 2007.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001928
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First Title value, for Searching Dalgleish, Roy (1929 - 2014)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Kathryn Dalgleish
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2015-12-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380239380239
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Roy Dalgleish was a consultant surgeon at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1929 and studied medicine at the University of Witswatersrand, qualifying MB BCh in 1952. After junior posts in Johannesburg, he went to the UK for further postgraduate studies and clinical and research work. As well as holding his consultant post, he was a senior lecturer in ophthalmology at the University of Manchester. He published several papers outlining original research work in his specialty. Following his retirement, he maintained his ties with South Africa and, with his wife, spent six months of each year there at their coastal home. This pattern continued for over 20 years. His hobbies included breeding pedigree cattle in north Wales. Roy Dalgleish died from acute myeloid leukaemia on 13 December 2014. He was survived by Vivienne, his wife of 52 years, their four children and their grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008056
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First Title value, for Searching Stusser, Israel (1876 - 1943)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376836376836
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London in 1876, the eldest son of Abraham Stusser, merchant, and his wife, *née* Sladowsky. He was educated at the South African College, Capetown, but returned to England for his medical training at the London Hospital. After holding resident posts there he studied under August Bier in Berlin and Anton von Eiselsberg in Vienna. Stusser returned to South Africa in 1905 for the sake of his health, and practised at Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, where he held the official post of district surgeon. He served for a time as chairman of the 1st division of the Cape Western branch of the South African Medical Association, affiliated to the British Medical Association. Stusser married in 1907 Pauline Lewin, and there were three daughters of the marriage. He died at Sea Point, Cape, on 11 August 1943. He was a linguist and classical scholar.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004653
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First Title value, for Searching Hurley, Michael Vincent (1893 - 1964)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378019378019
Occupation General surgeon
Details Michael Vincent Hurley was born in 1893 and graduated MB BCh in the National University of Ireland in 1919, in Dublin. After holding a number of junior hospital posts in London he passed the Conjoint Examination and also the FRCS in 1923, and became a registrar at Poplar Hospital in 1924. In 1925 Hurley went to the United States and became a Fellow in Surgery at the Mayo Clinic where he worked till 1927. He ultimately settled in New York, where he was appointed associate surgeon to the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled, and surgeon to the New York Polyclinic Hospital, and Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the Polyclinic Medical School. He was certified by the American Board of Surgery in 1939 and was a member of the American Medical Association. Michael Hurley died of coronary disease on 29 May 1964 at the age of 71.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005836
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First Title value, for Searching Pronger, Charles Ernest ( - 1926)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375188375188
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at St Thomas's Hospital, where he became Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. He was in general practice at Barnstaple and was Surgeon to the Barnstaple and North Devon Infirmary. He moved to Harrogate in 1892 and practised as an ophthalmic surgeon; he was Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Harrogate Infirmary, to the Yorkshire Home for Chronic and Incurable Diseases, and to the Northern Police Orphanage. He originated the Eye Department at the Infirmary and raised funds for that purpose. In particular he studied small errors of refraction, holding that individuals with minor degrees of refraction suffered more eye-strain than those with grosser errors. He was one of the first in the country to emphasize the importance of their recognition and correction. He died at Litchdow, East Parade, Harrogate, on April 2nd, 1926, and was survived by his widow. Publications: "Slight Errors of Refraction." - *Lancet*, 1905, i, 1573.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003005
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First Title value, for Searching Haldin-Davis, Haldinstein David (1881 - 1949)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376326376326
Occupation Dermatologist
Details Born 9 May 1881, the eldest child of Richard Abraham Davis, merchant, and his wife, a daughter of Philip Haldinstein of Norwich. He was educated at Charterhouse and at Balliol College, Oxford, of which he was a scholar, and took first class honours in physiology. He was president of the University Junior Science Club. He had his clinical training at St Bartholomew's, intending to be a surgeon. He held various house appointments, and was for a time an assistant at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. Under the influence of H S Adamson he became interested in skin diseases, and was appointed chief assistant in the skin department at St Bartholomew's. He was then appointed to the staff of the dermatological department at the Royal Free Hospital, and devoted himself particularly to the Blackfriars Hospital for Diseases of the Skin. He was also visiting dermatologist to the Children's Hospital, Paddington Green. Haldin-Davis was a pioneer of the x-ray treatment of ringworm, and for many years conducted a successful clinic under the Willesden Borough Council. During the first world war he served in the RAMC in Palestine, and on demobilization was appointed dermatologist to the Ministry of Pensions. Subsequently he was a medical referee under the Home Office, and from 1948 under the newly created Ministry of National Insurance. Haldin-Davis was secretary of the dermatological section at the British Medical Association's annual meeting in 1922 and a vice-president in 1927 and 1929. He was president of the dermatological section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1937-39. He had no aptitude for research, but was a skilled clinician and lecturer, and an acute critic in demand as a reviewer. He practised at 52 Harley Street, and as he took an interest in civic affairs, particularly in housing and town planning, and was a good man of business he was elected a Borough Councillor of St Marylebone. After his retirement he lived at Greens End, Forest Row, Sussex, and served on the local hospital committees at East Grinstead and Tunbridge Wells. Haldin-Davis married in 1924 Lily, widow of Frank Samuel. He died on 2 February 1949, aged 67, at his home in the country, survived by his wife and step-daughter. He was a popular man of ready wit and generous hospitality, familiarly known as "Hal", and was a member of the Johnsonian Club. Publications:- *Skin diseases in general practice*. Oxford University Press, 1913; 3rd edition, 1937. *Modern skin therapy*. London: Cape, 1930. He gives here detailed descriptions of technique, and records his method of x-ray treatment for tinea tonsurans.
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Michael Richard Robertson (1942 - 1977)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Michael Richard Robertson Martin was born in Ilford and educated at Brentwood School and the London Hospital. He graduated MB BS in 1965 and after house appointments embarked upon his surgical career, holding posts at his old teaching hospital and at the Westminster Children's Hospital and Cardiff. He took the FRCS in 1970. In 1977 he was appointed consultant surgeon to Maelor General Hospital, Wrexham. His qualities of thoroughness, kindness, and an easy identification with his little patients found their natural outlet when his earlier career took him along the path of paediatric surgery. These qualities, coupled with his unfailing good humour and dedication, inspired the utter confidence of all sorts and conditions of men when he returned to general surgery. He was a man with many interests outside surgery, notably sailing, music, and walking. He and his wife Gillian had three sons. He died on 29 March 1977 after a road accident. He was 35 years old.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006738
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First Title value, for Searching Hobbs, John James Barclay ( - 1972)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Richards, Frederick William (1841 - 1871)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-31
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on June 12th, 1841, the son of John Richards, solicitor, of Charterhouse Square, and his wife, Fanny. He entered Merchant Taylors' School in March, 1849, was afterwards apprenticed to Fred John Butler at Winchester, and received his professional education at St Bartholomew's Hospital. At the matriculation examination of the London University in 1860 be took honours in mathematics, chemistry, and botany, at the first MB honours in physiology and materia medica, and in the Medical School of his hospital he obtained the First Year's Prize for general proficiency and practical anatomy; in the second year that for anatomy, physiology, and chemistry. After holding the post of Midwifery Assistant in 1866 he joined Dr Butler in partnership at Winchester, and was appointed Assistant Physician to the Hospital there. His promising career was cut short at the age of 29 by his death on February 23rd, 1871. He left a widow and two children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003069
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First Title value, for Searching Shepherd, Francis William (1906 - 1978)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Evans, Charles (1816 - 1886)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Alder, Alexander Bruck (1926 - )

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Morris, John Bentham (1932 - 1970)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-18
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details John Bentham Morris was born in 1932, the son of a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon, and was educated at King's College, Auckland, and then proceeded to the University of Otago where he graduated in medicine in 1956. After holding junior appointments in New Zealand he came to England and obtained the FRCS in 1960. He then concentrated on orthopaedic training by holding appointments at the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital, the Park Hospital at Davyhulme, Manchester, and at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital before going to the United States as a British Orthopaedic Travelling Fellow. On his return to New Zealand he became an orthopaedic surgeon at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, and had established himself as a dextrous operator, whose good judgement and integrity were respected by his colleagues, when his life was cut short by malignant disease at the early age of 37. Morris was a fine sportsman, particularly distinguished for his record as a cricketer but being a university blue for rugby as well as cricket. When he died on 10 January 1970 his wife and three children survived him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005956
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First Title value, for Searching Allan, Francis Glen (1900 - 1975)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Tulloch, Alan Keith (1910 - 1986)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Birdsall, Samuel Ernest (1908 - 1985)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-04-24 2018-05-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Samuel Ernest Birdsall was born on 14 February 1908 in Skipton, Yorkshire, the only son of James Ernest, an optician, and his wife, Eva. He attended Skipton Grammar School winning an open exhibition to Christ's College, Cambridge. His clinical studies were carried out at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, from whence he graduated in 1932. Junior hospital appointments at St Bartholomew's were followed by consultant appointments in otolaryngology to the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, the Woolwich and District War Memorial Hospital, the Paddington Green Children's Hospital and the Prince of Wales' Hospital, Tottenham. He served as a specialist in otolgy in the RAMC during the second world war holding the rank of Major. He wrote several articles including a chapter on the surgery of the larynx and trachea in *Modern operative surgery*, edited by Grey Turner and Lambert Rogers. His extra curricular activities were outdoor. He was a keen fisherman and enjoyed shooting. He died on 21 February 1985 and was survived by his two sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007138
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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, John (1804 - 1887)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Hackney, the son of John Jackson, on Nov 17th, 1804; he was educated at St Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, and University College Hospital; entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on June 27th, 1830; was promoted Surgeon March 1st, 1847; became Presidency Surgeon, Calcutta, Physician to the Medical College Hospital, and the first appointed Professor of Medicine and Clinical Medicine in the Calcutta Medical College, 1841, besides holding other important positions. He retired from the IMS on December 31st, 1855; practised at 28 George Street, Hanover Square, then at Hendon, Middlesex, later at Frant, near Tunbridge Wells, and died at Brighton on March 31st, 1887. As Surgeon in charge of the Native Hospital at Calcutta, he was a member of the Committee appointed to inquire into the anaesthetic effects of mesmerism for the purposes of operation. Publication: *A Short Sketch of some of the Forms of Tetanus as they appear in India*, 8vo, London, 1856.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002333
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First Title value, for Searching Dunlop, John Arthur (1915 - 1972)

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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Griffith Ifor (1889 - 1966)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 14 February 1889, Griffith Evans was educated at Ruthin School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained second-class honours in the final school of Natural Sciences (physiology), and had his medical training at St George's Hospital, London. He joined the RAMC as a student on the outbreak of war in 1914, and qualifying in 1916 continued to serve till 1919. After holding the posts of house surgeon and surgical registrar at St George's, he was resident medical officer at King Edward VI Hospital for Officers, London, during 1920. Evans then returned to his native Carnarvon, where he practised at 37 Castle Square till his retirement. He was surgeon to the Carnarvonshire and Anglesey Infirmary till 1938, and President of the North Wales branch of the BMA in 1942-43. Evans's book *Essays on familial syphilis* (1929) was awarded the Charles Hastings certificate of merit by the BMA and the gold medal of the Hunterian Society in 1931; He served as High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1942-43. Evans came back to London in his retirement, living at Melbury Road, Kensington. He died in St Mary Abbot's Hospital on 20 September 1966, aged seventy-seven. His wife, Dilys, died on 26 May 1967.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005721
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First Title value, for Searching James, John Gwyn Howell (1919 - 1995)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-10
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details John Gwyn Howell (Toby) James was born in Pontypridd on 5 May 1919 to Thomas Edwin James, a bank manager, and his wife Margaret, née Williams, a farmer's daughter. After early education in South Wales he studied medicine in Cardiff, and graduated MRCS, LRCP at the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1942. His war service was in the RNVR between 1942 and 1946, mainly in small ships from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, and he attained the rank of surgeon lieutenant commander. After the war he embarked on a career in orthopaedics, holding registrar and senior registrar posts in Cardiff and Birmingham before becoming, in 1952, a consultant in Neath, Port Talbot, Bridgend, Aberdare and Rhydlafar where, in addition to his usual work he built up a service for the surgical treatment of patients with legs of unequal length. Ill health forced him to give up his work at Bridgend, but he continued at Neath and Port Talbot until he retired in 1983. He enjoyed shooting, fishing and painting, and pursued his interests in local history and genealogy, despite failing health in later years. He died aged 76 on 6 January 1995, survived by his wife Nansi, three sons (one an orthopaedic surgeon) and two grandsons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008028
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First Title value, for Searching Faulkner, Mildred (1897 - 1982)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Webster, Frederick Edward (1902 - 1968)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in 1902 at New Plymouth, New Zealand, he was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Otago University, Dunedin, graduating in 1924. After holding resident posts at Auckland Hospital in 1925-26, he spent 1927 as a Government medical officer in Levuka, one of the Fiji Islands. He came to England in 1928 for postgraduate work at Guy's Hospital, and took the Fellowship in December 1929. He returned to New Zealand in 1932, to practise at Herne Bay, Auckland. He went on active service with the New Zealand Army Medical Corps in 1940, and while serving as a Captain with the 6th Field Ambulance in North Africa was taken prisoner in 1942. He escaped in 1944, and resumed his practice at Auckland. He became senior surgeon to the Greenlane Hospital, and was a member of the New Zealand Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He represented that College on the Auckland Hospital Board and became chairman of the Board's Appointments Council. He was killed in a car accident on the State Highway No 1, fifteen miles north of Taupo, in the early afternoon of 24 April 1968, aged sixty-five, shortly after his retirement from practice. He had lived latterly at Remuera, Auckland and practised in Symonds Street.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006198
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First Title value, for Searching Sharp, Henry Sutcliffe (1910 - 1984)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Moore, Walter William (1880 - 1954)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Tasmania in 1880, he was taken to New Zealand as an infant of a week old by his father, a schoolteacher, who settled at Waikowaiti in North Otago, and in due course he entered Otago University where he graduated in medicine and science and then came to England, becoming one of the first New Zealanders to be admitted a Fellow. Returning to Hawkes Bay in 1907, he was appointed superintendent of the Napier Public Hospital. After holding this appointment for three years he set up in private practice in Tennyson Street at Napier. In the war of 1914-18 he served abroad but was invalided back to Napier, where in 1923 he established his own private hospital in Marine Parade. In the earthquake of 1932 the building was totally destroyed and he came to England to settle in private practice in Hastings up to the time of his death. Both he and his wife were keen about flying and in 1935 he obtained his pilot's licence flying with the Hawkes Bay and East Coast Aero Club, flying the club aeroplanes to all parts of New Zealand. He married Ivy May Moore and died without issue on 6 April 1954 survived by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005176
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First Title value, for Searching Jebens, Erna Henrietta (1890 - 1964)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-03
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on 14 August 1890, she was educated privately. She drove an ambulance during the early years of the 1914-18 war, and entered the London School of Medicine for Women in 1916, moving to St Mary's Hospital for her clinical studies, and qualified with the Conjoint diploma in 1921. After holding house appointments at St Mary's and elsewhere she took the FRCS in 1926. A year later she joined the anatomy department of the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, at first as demonstrator and later as part-time lecturer until she resigned in 1954. Her main clinical appointment was as orthopaedic surgeon to the Battersea General Hospital, where she founded the orthopaedic clinic in the 1930s, until her retirement under the age limit in 1955. During the second world war she was assistant surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, and later to the East Ham General Hospital in the Emergency Medical Service. Miss Jebens was much interested in the theatre, literature, and foreign travel. After her retirement she published the research on the viscosity and pH of synovial fluid, which she had carried out with Mrs Monk Jones, MSc. She practised at 56 Wimpole Street, and died on 6 January 1964 aged 73.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005080
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First Title value, for Searching Millard, Albert Henry (1915 - 1975)

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First Title value, for Searching Sheikh, Hyder Ismail (1931 - 1971)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Hyder Ismail Sheikh was born on 5 April 1931 at Shahada, Maharashtra, India and educated at the University of Bombay, where he graduated in 1956 with first-class honours in medicine and surgery. After holding house appointments at the Jamsetji Jeejeebhoy Hospital, Bombay, he came to England and was elected senior house officer at the Victoria Hospital, Blackpool in 1959. Later he held house or registrar's posts in general, orthopaedic or thoracic surgery at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, the North Lonsdale Hospital, Barrow-in-Furness, the Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, and the Park Hospital, Manchester. He gained the Fellowship in 1961. He emigrated to Canada in 1966 and settled in practice as a thoracic surgeon at Edmonton, Alberta, living at 15111 Rio Terrace Drive. He was appointed a Fellow in the Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery of the Medical Research Institute of the University of Alberta and Associate Resident in the parallel division of the University Hospital; he was later a sessional instructor in the University. Sheikh died of carcinoma, a month before his fortieth birthday, on 7 March 1971, survived by his wife Joan and their three young children, a daughter and two sons. Publication: Duodenal ischaemia complicating acute pancreatitis. *Brit med J* 1965, 1, 1539-40.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006063
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First Title value, for Searching Green, Douglas (1887 - 1954)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Douglas Green belonged to a well-known Ecclesfield family. Educated at Barnsley grammar school, he obtained an open scholarship and a major open county scholarship from the West Riding of Yorkshire to Sheffield University medical school. Green excelled both at work and games: he was a keen Association footballer and he won the physiology scholarship in the intermediate examination of the University of London. After graduating in 1910, Green spent three years in resident posts at Sheffield Royal Infirmary, where he developed an inclination for surgery. Hence whilst holding a resident post at St Luke's Hospital, London, he attended a postgraduate course at University College Hospital and took the FRCS in 1914. He served with the RAMC in France and the Middle East as a regimental medical officer during the first world ward, and afterwards settled at 2 Camping Lane, Woodseats, Sheffield as a general practitioner. During the second world war Green was chairman of Sheffield pensions board and the medical recruitment board. For many years he was honorary secretary of the local branch of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, and was an active member of the West Riding Medical Charitable Society in 1950, at the end of his presidency. Green was twice married. He had one son and two daughters, one of whom was a doctor, Dora Green MRCS, LRCP, and the other was senior occupational therapist at the City General Hospital, Sheffield. He died on 25 July 1954 at the age of 76.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005529
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First Title value, for Searching Mehta, Sorab Jal (1929 - 1972)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-18
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Sorab Jal Mehta was born in 1929 and had his medical undergraduate education at the Grant Medical College, obtaining the MB BS degree from the University of Bombay in 1953. After holding junior appointments at home he came to England in 1955 and did his surgical training at the Birmingham Accident Hospital, Newport General Hospital, and St Lawrence's Hospital, Chepstow, and took the FRCS in 1958. On his return to Bombay, Mehta was appointed honorary plastic and reconstructive surgeon to Wadia Children's Hospital, the Tata Memorial Hospital, and the Goculdas Tejpal Hospital, this third attachment carrying with it the title of Honorary Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Grant Medical College. An accomplished and dedicated surgeon, his clinical and technical ability soon took him to the top in his special field. But in addition to his professional accomplishments his interests ranged widely over music, art, philosophy and religion, subjects which he could discuss with expert knowledge and appreciation. A warm-hearted and generous friend, his passing away at the peak of his career left a void not only in plastic surgery but also in the hearts of his many friends. "Whom the gods love die young" is an old saying, and how true it is of Sorab Mehta who died after a short illness on 6 November 1972. He was survived by his wife and two sons aged 16 and 14 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005941
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First Title value, for Searching Sengupta, Amarendra (1933 - 1987)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Gareth Gambold (1937 - 1978)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon Paediatric urological surgeon
Details Gareth Gambold Thomas was born on 13 July 1937 at Tonypandy, South Wales. After education at Porth County Grammar School and Edinburgh University he began his training in paediatric surgery in Swansea, continuing it in Edinburgh and again in Wales at the Cardiff Royal Infirmary. After becoming FRCS in 1968 he was senior registrar in Sheffield, taking a special interest in the problems associated with spina bifida, and thereafter at the Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool. He was also honorary clinical tutor in paediatric surgery at Liverpool University. In 1976 he was invited to join the staff of the Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, and he was put in charge of the paediatric urological department. He built up a unit of the highest standards, his work and worth being appreciated by many paediatric surgeons and urologists in the Netherlands. He was working there when he died suddenly on 12 June 1978 at the age of 40. He maintained a constant interest in the academic aspects of his work and made contributions to the literature. He was also a keen Territorial, holding the rank of Major and senior surgical specialist in the Army Volunteer Reserve, being awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1974. A kindly man, devoted to his family, he was survived by his wife Jennifer and his three children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006993
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First Title value, for Searching Carpmael, Norman (1875 - 1912)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-02-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on October 3rd, 1875, the youngest son of Alfred Carpmael, solicitor, of Norwood, and his wife Jane Josephine (*née* Rainbow). He was educated at Dulwich College, where he was captain of the shooting VIII for four years. From Dulwich he went to University College, London, and obtained the Gold Medal for Botany, and the Silver Medal for Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. In 1896 he entered St Thomas’s Hospital, and there held the appointments of Anatomical Registrar, House Surgeon, and Clinical Assistant in the Skin Department. He captained the Hospital Rifle Team, when he won many trophies, including the United Hospitals Challenge Cup for the highest aggregate at Bisley. This cup he won outright after holding it for three years in succession and five years in all. In 1907 he entered into partnership with Dr William Lengworth Wainwright at Henley-on-Thames, where he showed himself to be an able and hard-working practitioner. He interested himself in the Henley Miniature Rifle Club, and became its captain. In addition to rifle-shooting he was a keen fisherman and was one who could and did make his own fishing rods. He died at Henley-on-Thames in March, 1912, after a brief illness from a cerebral tumour, and was buried at the Norwood Cemetery. He was unmarried. Two brothers and five sisters survived him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000852
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First Title value, for Searching McCraith, James (1810 - 1901)

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First Title value, for Searching Blight, William Lyne (1861 - 1940)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Robertson, Maurice Alexander (1906 - 1970)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation Epidemiologist General surgeon
Details Maurice Alexander Robertson was born in Aberdeen in 1906, and was educated at Sedburgh School and St John's College, Cambridge. He came to the London Hospital for the clinical course and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1930, and also graduated MB BCh. After holding the usual junior hospital posts he obtained the FRCS in 1935, and went to South Africa in 1939 as surgeon to the Admiralty in Port Elizabeth. He established himself there in private practice and was appointed honorary surgeon to the Provincial Hospital, Port Elizabeth where he served with distinction for many years. Robertson impressed his colleagues, and especially his trainees with his kindness to and interest in his patients, and his conscientious attention to his periods of duty. He was a member of the Hospital Board, President of the Cape Midland Branch, and a Federal Councillor. Unfortunately ill-health forced him to abandon clinical work in 1964, and he spent the last 6 years of his life at the Cancer Research Unit of the National Cancer Association in Johannesburg. Robertson's chief interest was in cancer epidemiology, and he completed three major surveys of the patterns of cancer in Southern Africa. He died in Rhodesia in December 1970, and was survived by his wife and his daughter, Dr Bartlett, who was a paediatrician in Salisbury.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006093
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First Title value, for Searching Wostenholm, Maurice Humphrey (1915 - 1952)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377696377696
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in South Africa on 31 May 1915 the son of Harold Wilson Wostenholm, a financier, he was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1937. He took his medical training at the London Hospital, qualified in 1941, and after holding the usual house appointment at the Hospital served in the RAMC till the end of the war in 1945, as a graded surgeon with the rank of Captain. He was first assistant in the ear department at the London Hospital in 1946, and took the Fellowship in 1947. He then settled in practice at 23 Dalkeith Road, Harpenden, Herts, and was appointed in 1951 ear nose and throat surgeon at Bedford General Hospital and was also attached to the St Albans City Hospital. He was a brilliant operator, of sound judgment. His enthusiasm, energy, and tireless attention to detail were combined with an amiable and helpful nature. He had proved himself supremely self-disciplined through difficulties and frustrations. Wostenholm married in 1940 Marigold Jessie de Mancha. He and his wife were killed in a car accident on 12 December 1952, aged 37 and 38. One son had died in childhood, and they were survived by three sons. They were buried at Westfield Cemetery, Harpenden.
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First Title value, for Searching Letcher, Herbert George (1903 - 1952)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Herbert, Gerald (1904 - 1982)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-18
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Gerald Herbert was born in Liverpool on October 7, 1904, the first son of Lt-Col H Herbert, FRCS, IMS, an ophthalmic surgeon, and his wife Agnes, née Killey. After leaving the IMS his father became a consultant ophthalmologist in Nottingham. Gerald Herbert was educated at Lees Preparatory School, Hoylake, Charterhouse, Selwyn College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital where he won the Cheselden Medal in surgery. He qualified MRCS LRCP in 1929. After holding house surgeon, casualty officer and senior casualty officer posts at St Thomas's he became RSO at Preston Royal Infirmary. He took his FRCS in 1931. He was always interested in surgery and was much influenced by Sir Max Page. After his junior hospital appointments he joined a general practice in Rugby with a special commitment to surgery. He was honorary surgeon to the Hospital of St Cross, 1934-39. From 1939 to 1943 he served with the RAMC, attaining the rank of temporary Lieutenant-Colonel and working in India as a surgical specialist and officer-in-charge, surgical division. After the war he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Chesterfield Royal Hospital, where he worked until his retirement in 1969. He was a careful and dexterous surgeon with sound judgement allied to remarkable intuition. This made him a welcome colleague to those who relied on his loyalty, unselfishness and willingness to help, especially to help the underdog. In 1952 he married Martha Wilson by whom he had a son and a daughter. His retirement was devoted to happy family life and to gardening. He died at his home in Chesterfield on May 23, 1982, aged 77.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006573
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First Title value, for Searching Herschell, Woolf (1903 - 1977)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378757378757
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Woolf Herschell was born in South Africa in 1903 and did his medical training at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, qualifying BA MB Cape Town in 1931. After holding a number of medical appointments in Cape Town he came to England in 1940, and worked at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore as resident surgical officer. Due to diabetes he was unfit for medical service and stayed on at Stanmore until the end of the war. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1949. At this stage he decided to make England his home and orthopaedics his career. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the Windsor Group of Hospitals in 1950. He was a great help in building up the accident and orthopaedic service in the Windsor area. Despite his medical disability he was a loyal and hard working colleague, seeing large numbers of outpatients, doing long operating lists, and taking his turn in all the emergency work. He had always been interested in orthopaedic appliances since his days at Stanmore, and did much to ensure that such appliances were made to a high standard. He returned to South Africa on holiday on several occasions to visit relatives and friends. In his private life Willie, as he was known to his friends, was a collector of objets d'art, particularly Goss china of which he had an excellent collection. He was a lover of good food and had a considerable knowledge of wine which he had acquired on his frequent European holidays. He died on 27 January 1977, aged 70 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006574
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First Title value, for Searching Lees, Alec Antony (1890 - 1971)

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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Norman Edward (1927 - 1977)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379116379116
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Norman Edward Shaw was born on 4 April 1927 at Stapleford, Derbyshire. Graduating through the University of Sheffield and holding training posts in the Royal Infirmary he entered national service, being regimental medical officer to the Coldstream Guards serving in Germany. From 1955 he proceeded with his surgical training at Mansfield, the Sheffield University anatomy department, the Children's Hospital and the Royal Infirmary, followed by specialist training and research at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Institute of Orthopaedics, London. He was Arris and Gale lecturer at the College in 1964. In 1965 he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Oswestry, and later honorary surgeon to the Bethesda Hospital for Handicapped Children. In the Army Emergency Reserve he kept his ties with the Army, but he also served in the St John Ambulance Brigade becoming area commissioner and a serving brother of the Order of St John. He was a member of the council of the Medical Protection Society and, at the time of his death, chairman of the Medical Board of Manchester Royal Infirmary. His professional standards were high, he was a hard-working perfectionist, skilled in his clinical work, teaching and writing. He had a special interest in crippled children and spinal surgery. His recreations included golf, sailing and music. He was an enthusiastic football supporter and gave service to several professional clubs. He was devoted to his family and was survived by his doctor wife, Margaret, and children, Andrew, Alison, Shiobhan and Duncan. He died on 14 May 1977.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006933
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First Title value, for Searching Agnis, John Crown (1828 - 1866)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372834372834
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Langford, Malden, Essex, on Nov 11th, 1828, and dying unmarried was the last representative of an ancient Cambridgeshire family. He was a very promising lad, and at the age of 16 entered University College, London, and soon carried off the Senior Greek Prize, “being a mere boy in comparison with his competitors” (*Lancet*). He received his medical education at University College Hospital, became House Surgeon, and was gazetted to the 3rd Light Dragoons on Aug 11th, 1854. He afterwards became Assistant Surgeon to the Horse Guards Blue in 1860 (Sept 18th), holding this post to the end of his life. As an operator he was “bold and skilful”, “notably endowed”, as his *Lancet* biographer remarks, “with that special surgical acumen which is logic in action”. His talents were such that his friends urged him to bring himself into greater evidence. Accordingly he began to study deformities and “energetically followed out a series of special researches into their general surgical pathology.” In 1864 the Examiners for the Jacksonian Essay Prize awarded an Honorarium to Agnis for his essay on “Club-foot, its Causes, Pathology and Treatment”. The many illustrations to the Essay were drawn by the author, but the paper has not been published. Agnis was a skilful artist, “an enthusiastic entomologist, and versed in almost every branch of natural science”. He died in London on June 28th, 1866, after a brief illness. He had previously suffered from the effects of a severe hunting accident.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000651
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First Title value, for Searching Sandrey, John Gordon (1903 - 1988)

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First Title value, for Searching Coaker, Francis William John (1871 - 1955)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377143377143
Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of a yeoman farmer of Kingsbridge, South Devon, Francis Coaker studied medicine at the London Hospital. After holding resident appointments there he settled in practice at Bromsgrove in 1897. There he combined a large general practice with the post of surgeon to the Bromsgrove Cottage Hospital, which he expanded and modernised. Coaker was Medical Officer of Health for Bromsgrove Rural District Council from 1902 to 1946, he was Medical Officer to the guardians for many years, surgeon to the Worcestershire Mental Hospital, and a governor and later chairman of King Edward VII Sanatorium, Knightwick, near Worcester. In 1917 he was elected a member of the Worcestershire County Council and took an active part in the work of its committees, becoming chairman of the health committee. Coaker played a large part in securing the adoption of the BMA salary scale for public health medical officers in Worcestershire in the mid-twenties before any national scales were in operation. He often acted as arbitrator in disputes. He was chairman of the Bromsgrove Division of the BMA 1921-22, and of the Worcester and Bromsgrove Division in 1935-36, and president of the Worcestershire and Herefordshire Branch in 1937-38. During the second world war he was acting assistant secretary of the Worcester and Bromsgrove Division. Coaker became the "father" of the medical profession in Bromsgrove; he lived at Sunnymead, New Road until his retirement to Hele House, Dulverton, Somerset, where he died on 14 January 1955 aged 83. His wife, Diana Augusta Coaker, died on 28 March 1960 at Cliffden, Teignmouth, Devon, aged 79.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004960
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First Title value, for Searching Brandis, George Hayes (1896 - 1969)

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First Title value, for Searching Wimberger, Wilfred Emeric (1907 - 1965)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Wimberger was born in England in 1907 and graduated at the University of Birmingham in 1930. After holding various house appointments, he was Medical Superintendent for twenty years, 1937-57, and senior surgeon to Hallam Hospital, West Bromwich. His services during this period of heavy air raids in 1940-41 was recognised with gratitude by the County Borough Council. After the war he was active in developing his hospital to take its full share of work and leadership under the new West Regional Hospital Board. Wimberger emigrated in 1957 to Kapuskasing, Ontario, a lumber town four hundred miles north-west of Toronto and nearly half way from Lake Huron to Hudson Bay. He was consulting surgeon to the Sensenbrenner Hospital there which he greatly developed, and under the Ontario Provincial Government Queen's Pathologist for the Cochrane district, he performed the necessary forensic autopsies, and collaborated closely with his friend the Provincial Coroner, Dr Bruce Feaver. He was a public-spirited man keen to serve his community and often performed surgical operations without charge for patients in the remote settlements of northern Ontario where his help was welcomed by Catholic French Canadians though he was an active Anglican churchman. 'Bill' Wimberger had many outside interests, loving his garden and his piano, supporting the Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford, Ontario, and enjoying the good things of life. He studied the history of medicine and for his holidays explored the remote West Indian islands, away from tourist centres. There he contracted the uncommon disease, periarteritis nodosum, from which he died in Hamilton General Hospital, Ontario on 23 April 1965, aged fifty-eight.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006271
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First Title value, for Searching Hulke, Sydney Backhouse (1871 - 1939)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376423376423
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 8 February 1871 at Cemarques, High Street, Deal, Kent, the eighth child and fourth son of Frederick Thomas Hulke, FRCS, and Charlotte Backhouse, his wife. He was educated at Dover College and at the Middlesex Hospital, where his uncle John Whitaker Hulke, FRCS, was surgeon. He acted as apothecary and house surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1895, and afterwards filled the offices of house surgeon and surgical registrar at the Middlesex Hospital. Called to take part in the family practice, he spent the whole of his professional life in Deal. He was medical officer and public vaccinator for the Walmer district of the Eastry Union and medical officer to the Post Office. He married (1) in 1901 Irene Beatrice Hawkins, daughter of Major-General E Lindsay Hawkins; she died on 7 July 1935, leaving him with two daughters, Beatrice Sydney and Muriel Sydney, who was admitted FRCS and became Mrs Brander; (2) in 1938 Marjorie Kemp-Hall, who survived him with a daughter. He retired from practice in July 1936, lived at 21 Platt's Lane, Hampstead, NW3, and died at 127 High Street, Hungerford on 10 June 1939. He was buried at Old St Mary's Church, Upper Walmer. Hulke belonged to a medical family with an unusually long history. They were driven from the Low Countries by the persecution of the Duke of Alva and settled in Kent. Sydney Backhouse Hulke was a member of the tenth generation to practise medicine, while his great-nephew, Frederick Hulke, MRCS 1943, represents the twelfth generation. In the last five generations there have been several members of the family holding the diploma of FRCS.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004240
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First Title value, for Searching Brebner, Innes Wares (1882 - 1977)

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First Title value, for Searching Dickson, William Muir (1891 - 1956)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377188377188
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Glasgow on 17 September 1891, he was educated at Lanark Grammar School and Edinburgh University where he graduated in 1914. After holding a resident appointment at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary he joined the RAMC and served in Mesopotamia, Persia and India; he was mentioned in dispatches for his services on the North-West Frontier. After the war he did postgraduate work at the London and University College Hospitals and in 1920 obtained the FRCS. After a period at the Royal Northern, he became registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. In 1924 Muir Dickson was elected surgeon to the Willesden General Hospital, at that time a cottage hospital. He realised the limitations of the services offered, and established consultative out-patient sessions in 1927. Shortly after this the other specialists established out-patient sessions too, taking an important step towards creating a general hospital. In 1934 Dickson was elected surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Tite Street, a post he held until his death. During the second world war Dickson rejoined the RAMC in 1941. After serving for a while in England he was posted to the Near East. He spent two years in Palestine and Cyprus, and was then transferred to Gibraltar in charge of a surgical division, where he accomplished magnificent work. He was demobilised in 1945 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and immediately resumed his civilian work. In 1955 he underwent the first of a series of abdominal operations. Though knowing that his illness was incurable, after each operation he returned to work as quickly as possible, but finally was obliged to enter Willesden General Hospital just after Christmas 1955; by the following September, when he was due to retire, he would have served 32 years on the consultant staff. He died on 13 February 1956, aged 64.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005005
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First Title value, for Searching Barry, Hugh Collis (1912 - 1994)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2015-10-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380272380272
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Hugh Barry was a senior orthopaedic surgeon at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was born in Orange in 1912 and educated at Sydney Grammar School. He studied medicine at the University of Sydney, won a blue at rugby, and was awarded the Rhodes scholarship for New South Wales, which took him to New College, Oxford. There he worked at the Dunn School of Pathology with his fellow Australian, Howard Florey, gaining a BSc. He went on to the London Hospital to specialise in surgery. During the second world war, Hugh served in a forward surgical unit at El Alamein and also in the Pacific, in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. After the war he returned to Sydney, to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where he became senior orthopaedic surgeon in 1964, holding this position until he retired in 1972, though continuing in private practice and medico-legal work. He was elected to the council of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1958, serving for 12 years. He was also a member of the Court of Examiners. He was President of the Australian Orthopaedic Association and Chairman in Sydney of the Fifth Combined Meeting of the Orthopaedic Associations of the English-speaking world in 1970. He was on the editorial board of the *Journal of bone and joint surgery* from 1972 to 1976. He wrote *Paget's disease of bone* (Edinburgh, E & S Livingstone, 1959) and *Orthopaedics in Australia: the history of the Australian Orthopaedic Association* (Sydney, Australian Orthopaedic Association, 1983). He died in Palm Beach on 17 September 1994 after a long illness, survived by his wife Mary, two sons, Robert and John, and a daughter, Jane.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008089
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First Title value, for Searching Langmore, John Charles (1814 - 1895)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374661374661
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in February, 1814, the second son of William Langmore, MD, who at one time practised in Finsbury Square, EC. He was educated at St Paul's School and received part of his professional training at the London Hospital, after which he travelled, chiefly in Italy, as medical attendant to a young man, and then studied at the Paris medical schools. In 1838 his father recalled him to take a general practice in Upper George Street, Portman Square. In 1852 he removed to 20 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park. In 1889 his son, John Wreford Langmore, MD, MRCS, who had joined him in partnership, died, and he retired to Shepherd's Bush Green. In 1865 he was President of the Harveian Society of London, and was first Hon Secretary of the Paddington Medical Book Society on its foundation in 1838, holding that post for fifty-one years (to 1889), when he was the sole survivor of the twelve original members. He was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London (Member of Council 1861-1863, Vice-President), and a member of the Pathological and Clinical Societies; a man of refined and cultured tastes, endowed both by nature and education for success in his profession, he earned the respect and affection of a wide circle. He retired practically two years before his death owing to ill health, and died at 47 Shepherd's Bush Green, on September 29th, 1895, being then a patriarch of the profession in London. His photograph is in the Fellow's Album. On July 2nd, 1862, Drs George Harley and T H Tanner presented to the Obstetrical Society their interesting "Report on a Twin(?) Abortion exhibited to the Society by Dr Langmore". This was reprinted in 1863 from the *Transactions of the Obstetrical Socie
Resource Identifier RCS: E002478
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First Title value, for Searching Sichel, Gerald Theodore Silvester (1867 - 1928)

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First Title value, for Searching Irving, Hamilton (1877 - 1932)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376430376430
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 15 February 1877 the second child and only son of John Irving, MB, CM Glasgow, who practised at Huddersfield, and of Fanny Watkinson, his wife, also of Huddersfield. He was born at 22 New North Road, and was educated at Huddersfield College and at Sedbergh School. He then entered Owen's College, and acted as house surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and in London as house surgeon and house physician at the Evelina Hospital for Children and senior house surgeon at St Peter's Hospital. From 1909 to 1930 he practised in London, being medical advisor (accident claims) to the Sun Life Insurance Company and medical officer to the London County Council education committee. During the war he was resident surgical officer at the Brook War Hospital, holding the rank of temporary major, RAMC, his commission being dated 1 September 1915. He was afterwards surgical specialist to the London Pension Appeal Board. He married Ruth Monica Browngold on 9 September 1911, who survived him with a son and two daughters. He retired in 1930 to 45 Bell Street, Henley-on-Thames, where he died on 27 February 1932 and was buried at Edgerton Cemetery, Huddersfield. The operation for removal of the prostate by the suprapubic route was being performed with increasing frequency whilst Irving was resident at St Peter's Hospital. Dissatisfied with the results of the after-treatment Irving invented a simple apparatus which came into immediate and general use. He described it in the *Lancet*, 1907, 2, 1765, showing that it was easy to apply, comfortable to use, and effective for its purpose of keeping the patient dry without hindering his movement in bed. In addition to his ingenuity as a mechanician, Irving was a keen musician, a good black-and-white artist, and a linguist.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004247
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First Title value, for Searching Addison, Norman Victor (1925 - 2003)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-09-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372450372450
Occupation General surgeon
Details Norman Addison was a consultant surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary. He was born in Leeds on 26 April 1925, the son of Herbert Victor Addison and Alice née Chappell. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School, where he won an exhibition and sixth form prizes in biology and chemistry. He went on to study medicine at Leeds University, where he also played rugby. After completing house posts, one of which was with P J Moir at Leeds General Infirmary, he did his National Service in the RAF as a Flight Leiutenant. He returned to demonstrate anatomy with A Durward while preparing for the Primary FRCS. Between 1955 and 1957 he trained at Leeds General Infirmary and was one of the first to be enrolled into a senior surgical registrar rotation. He was appointed consultant surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s Hospital in 1963, becoming the first postgraduate tutor, converting a former mill-owner’s mansion into a Postgraduate Medical Centre. After serving on the council of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland he became treasurer and then president in 1987, holding the annual general meeting at Harrogate. Norman was granted a Hunterian Professorship in 1982 and was a member of the Court of Examiners. In 1949 he married Joan King, the daughter of the professor of chemistry textiles at the University of Leeds. They had two sons, neither of whom followed a medical career. Norman Addison was a forceful personality who tended to push forward to take the lead, and many found him overwhelming, but he was an excellent and energetic organiser and his close friends found him an amiable companion with a sense of humour. He died on 8 July 2003.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000263
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First Title value, for Searching Cook, Edwin Harry Leonard (1916 - 1971)

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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, Richard Lloyd Brunt (1920 - 1984)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379770379770
Occupation General practitioner
Details Richard Roberts (Roy) was born in Holywell in 1920. After school in North Wales he studied at the Liverpool University Medical School graduating in 1942. He played an active part in the Medical Student Society and was an excellent speaker at meetings. He decided on a career in surgery and took the primary Fellowship while working in the department of anatomy at Liverpool. He held house appointments in the Royal Liverpool United Hospital and obtained his final Fellowship in 1948. After holding registrar appointments at the Royal Liverpool and at the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals he moved to London to the Wanstead Hospital. While working there he decided to give up his career in surgery. Doctor Roberts, as he would have preferred to be called, then entered general practice. He worked in the Woodford Green and Waltham areas. He continued to work in general practice for some 32 years when he had to retire owing to ill health as he had developed cardiac symptoms. His work as a general practitioner may have been prompted by his great interest in the BMA. He became Chairman of the Waltham Forest Division and also of the Redhill Division. He was also Chairman of the local medical committee and of the Redhill and Waltham Forest Family Practitioner Committee. He also held a hospital practitioner post in rheumatology at the Hackney Hospital. His work in general practice and with the BMA occupied all his time and he found no interest in outside matters. Being forced by ill health to retire in 1983 he returned to his well loved Wales and lived in Bangor. He enjoyed only one year of retirement, dying on 22 February 1984, from cardiac failure due to ischaemic heart disease. Richard was survived by his wife Constance and four daughters and nine grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007587
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, John Walker (1899 - 1983)

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First Title value, for Searching McCluskey, Brian Charles (1936 - 1992)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Brian McCluskey was born on 19 January 1936 in Christchurch, New Zealand, the son of Charles Henry McCluskey, a commercial traveller, and Patricia, née Parker. He was educated at Christchurch Boys' High School and the University of Otago Medical School, where he qualified in 1959. After holding junior appointments in Waikato and Auckland and also serving as a Captain in the New Zealand Territorial Army he came to England to take the FRCS, working at Hillingdon Hospital and St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth. He then returned to Australia where he was appointed senior lecturer in surgery at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne, and where subsequently he built up a large and successful private practice in general surgery. Brian McCluskey was a man of enormous energy with wide sporting interests, particularly in rugby and rowing in his university days, and later in sailing and skiing. He was an enthusiastic golfer and last played less than a week before his death. He took part in many ocean races, including the Sydney to Hobart race in 1988 where he finished second in his class and ninth overall. He also had a passion for business enterprises including blueberry farming, scallop fishing and second-hand cars, but none of these achieved the success of his surgical practice. He was married twice, firstly to Ann Hargreaves, a physiotherapist, in 1960, by whom he had two daughters, Sarah Jane and Deborah Anne, who both became chartered accountants, and a son, Richard, a pilot. When they divorced in 1991 he married Margot Rodda, a nurse. He died prematurely on 31 January 1992 at the age of 56.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008184
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First Title value, for Searching Price, David (1787 - 1870)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Broomhall, Benjamin Charles (1875 - 1961)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Godalming 16 March 1875 youngest son of Benjamin Broomhall of the China Inland Mission, an energetic opponent of the opium trade, he was educated at the City of London School intending to go into business, but instead entered the London Hospital, where he became a house surgeon. After holding resident posts at St Mark's and at the Mildmay Hospital, Bethnal Green, he went to China as a medical missionary in 1903. He practised at Tai-Yuan-Fu in Shansi where Dr Arnold Edward Lovitt MRCS had been murdered a few years before during the Boxer Rising. His valuable services were recognised by the Imperial and the Revolutionary governments. He was awarded the Order of the Double Dragon in the last year of the Empire (1910) and the Army and Navy medal by the new Republic (1915), and in 1916 the Order of Golden Grain by Yen Shi San, governor of the "model province" of Shansi. He returned to England during the first world war and served at Graylingwell Military Hospital, Chichester, and then practised at Garstang, Lancashire, where he was medical Officer to the Rural District Council. He went again to China in 1920 and worked at Sianfu in Shensi Province for eleven years. He came home in 1931 and practised till 1939 in Dulwich Village, London SE. He then retired to Redlynch near Salisbury, where he helped in medical activities during the war of 1939-45. Mrs Broomhall died on 29 April 1952, and he died at Little Mount, Redlynch on 2 January 1961 aged 85, survived by two sons and four daughters; one of his sons, Alfred James Broomhall MRCS, was a medical missionary in the Philippines.
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First Title value, for Searching Buckley, William (1903 - 1956)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Born at Oldham 7 October 1903, son of Llewellyn Buckley, yarn broker, and Sarah Henthorne his wife, he was educated at King Edward VII School, Lytham St Anne's, at St John's College, Cambridge and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was house surgeon to Sir Geoffrey Keynes and Harold Wilson at Bart's and then went into general practice at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, where he lived at Westbourne House, Newcastle Street, and served on the staff of the Victoria Hospital. He gave up general practice in 1944 when he was appointed to the surgical staff of Stoke Mandeville Hospital under Professor T Pomfret Kilner, and in 1945 joined George Mason's thoracic surgical unit at Shotley Bridge. He was appointed in 1946 assistant thoracic surgeon to the City Hospital, Nottingham and became consultant in charge of the unit in 1948. This thoracic unit had been started in 1939 by Laurence O'Shaugnessy FRCS, who was killed early in the war of 1939-45. Buckley developed it into a regional centre of thoracic and cardiac surgery. He was also associate surgeon to the Nottingham General Hospital and held other appointments at Grimsby, Worksop, and Lincoln, and at Newstead and Ransom sanatoria. He travelled in Europe and America to study the development of surgery of the heart. Buckley married on 6 June 1931 Nancy Stott of Lytham-St Anne's. He suffered a heart attack in 1955, and died suddenly from a second attack, while holding an out-patient clinic, on 14 November 1956 aged 53. He was survived by his mother, his wife, and their son. He was a skilled operator and a man of wise judgment, kindly and unassuming.
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First Title value, for Searching Goyder, Francis Willoughby (1877 - 1954)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born in Bradford in 1877, the eldest son of David, medical officer to the Bradford Royal Infirmary, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1899. He went onto St Mary's Hospital as a university scholar, qualifying in 1903. After holding several resident appointments he returned to Bradford in 1906 as assistant surgeon to the Royal Infirmary. He was awarded the Jacksonian Prize in 1912 for his essay *The embryology and treatment of cleft palate*, and he edited the surgical section of the *Medical Annual* in 1918. During the first world war, Goyder served in the RAMC, and on his return was appointed honorary surgeon to Bradford Royal Infirmary in 1918. He was a pioneer in orthopaedic surgery in the West Riding of Yorkshire. After retiring in 1938 he became, when war began in 1938, a group advisor and orthopaedic specialist in the Emergency Medical Service. This entailed much hard work and travelling over the whole of West Riding until his final retirement in 1950. He acted as one of the honorary secretaries of the Section of Diseases of Children at the BMA Annual Meeting in London in 1910 and in 1924 he served as vice-president of the Section of Orthopaedics at Bradford. He was interested in preventative medicine and the school health service. Goyder was a shy, unselfish, unassuming man. His remarkable memory retained a detailed knowledge of human anatomy to the end of his life. He died on 18 October 1954 at the age of 77, survived by his widow and one son, who was also educated at Cambridge and at St Mary's Hospital and who qualified in 1951.
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First Title value, for Searching Page, Iven Alastair (1914 - 1971)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner General surgeon
Details Iven Alastair Page was born at South Grafton, New South Wales, in 1914, being the third son of Sir Earle Page. He was educated at the Fort Street Boys' High School and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School, and then proceeded to the University of Sydney where he graduated in medicine in 1937. After holding junior posts in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital he enlisted in the RAMC in 1940, and served in Iceland, Europe, India, Burma and Thailand, gaining extensive experience in surgery and obtaining the FRCS England in 1943. After the war he returned for a short period to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, but in 1946 started in general practice in Grafton. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1958, and in 1964 he decided to give up general practice and to specialize as a consultant surgeon. His previous experience in general practice, and what he had learned during war service combined to make him an outstanding general surgeon, who gained the confidence of his patients by quietly listening to what they had to say, and by the wise avoidance of unnecessary surgery. He was also well qualified as an accident surgeon in the days before the specialty was well recognized. Page was a keen sportsman and a valued member of the local community, not only in his professional capacity as chairman of his hospital board and as an active member, and ultimately president of the local medical association, but also through his practical interest in the Grafton news media, and in broadcasting. His many and varied activities were brought to a premature end by an illness borne with quiet dignity, and he died at the age of 57 on 5 August 1971. His wife Elizabeth and their four sons survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Forster, Henry Vincent (1888 - 1968)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Henry Forster was born in December 1888 and received his early education at Ashaw College, Durham, and St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool. He studied medicine at Liverpool University and graduated with honours in 1912. Before this he had obtained his MSc degree for his work with Sherrington in the School of Physiology. During the first world war he joined the RAMC and served as Regimental Medical Officer to the 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment. In the battle of Passchendaele he was awarded the MC and later was posted to Italy and finally invalided home in 1917. After leaving the Army he returned to otolaryngology - a subject he had been interested in before the war and he was soon appointed to the ENT department of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Shortly afterwards, became lecturer in laryngology to the University of Liverpool, holding both these posts until his retirement from the United Liverpool Hospitals in 1953. For many years he also visited the Isle of Man as consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon and was adviser to the school medical authorities in Runcorn and Widnes. He obtained his Fellowship in 1948. Forster was past president of the Section of Otology of the Royal Society of Medicine and he also served as President of the British Association of Otolaryngology. He was keenly interested in the Territorial Army and served as Medical Officer to the 59th Medium Artillery Brigade TA until 1939. For relaxation he greatly enjoyed sailing and became an expert and enthusiastic yachtsman between the two world wars. He died in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary on 10 March 1968 at the age of 79; he was survived by his wife, a son who is a doctor and two married daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Aitken, Robert Young (1872 - 1950)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Dalry, Ayrshire on 25 March 1872, the fifth son and ninth youngest child of Andrew Blair Aitken and his wife Jane Young. He was educated at the Ayrshire Academy, Ayr, and at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1893. After holding resident appointments at Oldham Infirmary and the Wirral Children's Hospital, Birkenhead, he was appointed in 1894 senior house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Blackburn, Lancashire, and to this hospital he devoted the rest of his working life. He took the conjoint qualification and the Fellowship in 1901 after working at University College Hospital, London, and was appointed surgeon to the infirmary; he became senior surgeon in 1914, and consulting surgeon in 1932. He was elected president of the infirmary in 1943, and patron in 1948, when the Aitken ward was opened. His portrait was presented to him on his retirement from the active staff in 1932 and was unveiled by Lord Moynihan. During the war of 1914-18 Aitken served at the Calderstones Military Hospital. He was a pioneer, full of energy and enthusiasm, to increase the efficiency of his hospital. He had a large private practice and was an active magistrate at Blackburn for 26 years. From 1948 he was chairman of the Blackburn Insurance Committee Industrial and National Insurance Acts. He practised at Oakfeld, New Road, Blackburn till his retirement in 1941 to Bezza, Preston. Aitken married in 1905 Theodora Beatrice Armistead. He died 6 October 1950, aged 78, survived by his only son, J B Aitken of Blackburn. Publications:- Aneurysm of the abdominal aorta in a child. *Lancet*, 1898, 1, 1115. A case of pemphigus serpiginosus. *Lancet*, 1898, 2, 139. Gastric ulcer perforating twice in five months. *Brit med J*. 1904, 1, 665. Case of gastrostomy (Senn's method). *Brit med J*. 1908, 1, 1173.
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First Title value, for Searching Aickin, Casement Gordon (1881 - 1936)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1881, son of Casement Aickin, merchant, and Elizabeth Mitchell Garde his wife. Aickin came of a medical family on both sides, for his mother was the daughter of Thomas Garde, MD and his grandfather Thomas Leland Aickin was MD of Trinity College, Dublin and FRCSI. Casement Aickin was educated at the Auckland Boys' Grammar School, where he won a university junior scholarship which enabled him to enter Auckland University College. Here he gained the College premium for physics at the end of his first year, and matriculated at the University of Otago with a senior university scholarship. He became resident medical officer at the Auckland Hospital, holding office for four years, and then took a postgraduate course in England. On his return to New Zealand he was appointed in 1913 honorary surgeon to the Auckland Hospital, a post he resigned in 1927 when he was elected a consulting surgeon. During the European war of 1914-18 he received a commission as captain in the New Zealand Medical Corps, and commenced duty on 7 November 1916, serving overseas for two years and sixty-five days. He then returned to his surgical practice, and in 1933 was elected president of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association. He was a foundation Fellow of the Australasian, and Fellow of the American, College of Surgeons. He married Catherine Broun on 12 April 1909. She was daughter of Thomas Broun, lieutenant, 35th Royal Sussex Regiment and afterwards major, of Waikatos, NZ. She survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died at Auckland on 12 November 1936 and was buried in Avondale cemetery, Auckland. Aickin had a large surgical practice in Auckland and was held in high esteem by all with whom he was brought into contact. He is described as being kindly, ready to understand the difficulties of his colleagues, loyal and possessed of infinite tact.
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First Title value, for Searching Fairlie-Clarke, Allan Johnston (1877 - 1948)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 8 May 1877, the fourth son of William Fairlie Clarke, FRCS 1863, and Caroline Selina Walker his wife. He was educated at Bedford School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he was a natural science scholar. He took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1898, and received his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. After periods as casualty officer at the East London Children's Hospital and resident surgical officer at the General Hospital, Birmingham, he settled in practice at Horsham, where he was surgeon to the cottage hospital, and later moved to Dover. During the war of 1914-18 he was the only civilian surgeon at Dover, and for his services was made a permanent member of the consulting staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital. He moved in 1922 to Malvern, where he was appointed surgeon and later consulting medical officer to the hospital. He retired in 1936, but during the second world war acted as resident house surgeon at the Powick Emergency Hospital, near Worcester, 1940-41. Fairlie-Clarke married twice: (1) in 1907 Violet Lyell, and (2) in 1919 Gwendolen Balmer. He was survived by two sons, a third son having died before him, and two daughters of his first marriage, and one daughter of his second marriage. One son, George Allen Fairlie-Clarke, FRCS, is in practice at Newbury; a rare case of three members of one family in direct descent holding the Fellowship one after the other. Fairlie-Clarke died at The Oaks, Graham Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, 16 February 1948, after a very short illness, aged 70, and was buried Malvern Wells cemetery after a funeral service at Malvern Priory. Publications:- Treatment of crushed hands. *Practitioner*, 1905, 75, 816. Goitre operations under local anaesthesia. *Brit med J*. 1907, 1, 1534. Operative technique of a general practitioner. *Practitioner*, 1909, 82, 554. Blood films in everyday practice. *Practitioner*, 1929, 122, 315.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004036
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First Title value, for Searching Hunt, Frederick Cecil (1899 - 1992)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Fred Hunt was born at Ilkeston, Derbyshire, on 5 March 1899, the son of John Hunt, a schoolmaster, and his wife Clara, née Beardsley, who had seven children. He was educated at the Elementary School and the County Secondary School in Ilkeston, and entered the London Hospital Medical College in 1916, where he won several undergraduate prizes and then became demonstrator of zoology at East London College in 1918. He qualified MB BS in 1922 and after holding junior posts at the London he returned to the East Midlands, to the General and City Hospitals in Nottingham and Heanor Memorial Hospital, where he became successively casualty officer, house surgeon, surgical assistant and registrar in charge of radium. He obtained the FRCS Edinburgh in 1928 and became assistant honorary surgeon in 1933. In 1931 he married Agnes Rowland, a ward sister at the General Hospital, and they had a son who died in adolescence and three daughters, one of whom became a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, one a radiographer and the other a nurse. Hunt became full honorary surgeon in 1946 and, with the advent of the NHS in 1948, he was appointed consultant surgeon to all three hospitals. Hunt was a meticulous general surgeon, noted for his ability and common sense, who, with his experience with radium was largely responsible for the formation of the radiotherapy department. He gained the FRCS in 1949. Because of his ability his services were in high demand locally. He was secretary of the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society for many years and its President between 1952 and 1953, as well as an active member of the 1921 Travelling Surgical Club of Great Britain.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008018
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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Geoffrey Edward (1902 - 1973)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Geoffrey Edward Parker was born on 24 June 1902 and was educated at Windlesham House School, Hove, Marlborough College, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He came to St Thomas's Hospital for his clinical course and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the Cambridge MB in 1926. Two years later he took the FRCS. After holding junior posts at St Thomas's, the West London Hospital, and the National Temperance Hospital he ultimately became consultant surgeon to the French Hospital, the Italian Hospital and the Woolwich Group. He was specially interested in urology. During all this time his career closely resembled that of many a London surgeon, but it was in the latter part of the second world war that he distinguished himself to a unique degree. He served with the RAMC from 1942 in North Africa and Italy, but also acquired special experience in parachute jumping, unarmed combat and the use of small arms. Early in 1944 he was parachuted into France in the Jura mountains and worked as a surgeon with the Maquis, caring for the resistance fighters with supreme courage which was rewarded by the DSO in 1945, and also by the Croix de Guerre with Palm and Gold Star, and he was made Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur. Later he received honours also from Belgium and Italy. His experiences were described in his books *The black scalpel* 1968 *and Surgical cosmopolis* 1970. At Cambridge Parker was awarded a blue for boxing, and he also played squash and golf. In later life he did a good deal of writing and painting, his pictures having appeared in exhibitions in England, France and America. In 1930 he married Kathleen Hewlett Johnson and had two sons and a daughter. This marriage was dissolved and in 1967 he married Margaret Lois Wilsdon who survived him. Parker died on 5 December 1973 at the age of 71.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006009
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First Title value, for Searching Goldsmith, Sir Allen John Bridson (1909 - 1976)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-08
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Allen John Bridson Goldsmith was born on 27 November 1909, the son of an Edinburgh MD. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and the Middlesex Hospital. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1931 and took the MB BS with distinction in medicine and pathology. He held posts at the Middlesex Hospital and was appointed senior Broderip Scholar and awarded the Lyell Gold Medal. In 1933 he passed the FRCS examination, but as he was under twenty-five he had to wait a year before receiving the diploma. In 1935 he was appointed house surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Two years later he became surgeon and pathologist to the Central London Eye Hospital, holding the appointment until 1948 when he became surgeon at Moorfields. He also served the Middlesex as ophthalmic surgeon. Other hospitals at which he was ophthalmologist were Paddington Green Children's Hospital, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers. He was lecturer in ophthalmology at London University and examiner in ophthalmology to the Royal Colleges. A joint editor of *Recent advances in ophthalmology*, he also published papers in specialist and medical journals. He was honorary secretary and member of the Council of the Ophthalmic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine; honorary secretary, member of Council and Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom; Vice-President of the Medical Defence Union; and a member of the editorial committee of the *British journal of ophthalmology*. From 1952 to 1965 he was Surgeon Oculist to the Royal Household and then became Surgeon Oculist to the Queen, retiring from the appointment in 1974. He was created CVO in 1962 and KCVO in 1970. In 1936 he married Rosemary Porter, whose father also was an Edinburgh MD and they had one son and two daughters. He died on 13 December 1976.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006515
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First Title value, for Searching Symonds, Maurice Isidore (1920 - 1980)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-19 2017-05-05
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Maurice Isidore Symonds was born in Melbourne on 24 July 1920, the son of Dr H. Symonds, a general practitioner at Murrumbeena. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and graduated with honours in surgery and medicine at Melbourne University. He was a house surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital before serving in the RAAF from 1944 to 1945. Later he became first assistant to Sir Albert Coates at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and continued his further training at the thoracic unit at Harefield and the Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Denham. In 1951 he became first surgical assistant at Prince Henry's Hospital in Melbourne, but moved to Albury as a consultant surgeon. He was a very informed and active member of the medical staff, holding office as chairman of the medical staff of the Albury Base Hospital, and many positions on the executive with relevance to surgery within the hospital. He spent a great deal of time in consultation with architectural planners, and when the new theatre block was built, in 1973, he personally inspected theatre lights overseas, to ensure that the best lighting available at that time was purchased and installed correctly. He was the medical officer for the North Albury Football Club from 1952 to 1970, and many a Saturday evening and Sunday morning was spent repairing the ravages of Saturday afternoon's play. He was a foundation member of the Albury Lions Club, a member of the photographic club, Albury Golf Club, and the foundation medical officer for the Albury Car Club. Maurice and his wife Shirley shared common interests in photography, music and theatre. Friends were fortunate in benefiting from their skilled photography and professional presentation of excellent slides of holidays at home and overseas. He enjoyed his hobbies and was often to be found in his workshop improving the quality of sound from his stereo, working with his radio or developing films. He died on 21 August 1980 survived by his wife, Shirley.
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First Title value, for Searching Leedham-Green, John Charles (1902 - 1984)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-06-08 2018-05-24
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details John Charles Leedham-Green was born in Birmingham on 30 October 1902, eldest son of Charles Albert Leedham-Green FRCS (1867-1931), sometime Professor of Surgery at Birmingham University, and his wife, Ethel, née Lees. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read chemistry before taking up medicine. He went to the Middlesex Hospital for his clinical studies where he was awarded the Hartley Clinical Prize in 1930, qualifying in 1931. In the same year he won the Rose Hunt Travelling Scholarship from Oxford University which enabled him to visit surgical clinics in Berlin and Stockholm. Junior hospital appointments were in Birmingham and at the Middlesex Hospital where he was house surgeon to Victor Bonney and Sampson Handley and registrar to Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. During the war he served in the RAMC as a surgical specialist and was in charge of surgical divisions in hospitals in West Africa, France and India, holding the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. After returning to civilian life he decided to go into general practice in Southwold, Suffolk, doing part-time surgery at Lowestoft Hospital. He remained in general practice for the rest of his career. He was a founder member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and in his time was Chairman of the East Anglia Faculty Board and representative of the Faculty on the Council of the College. In 1970 he was elected FRCGP. He was President of the Rotary Club of Southwold and President of the Southwold Branch of the Royal British Legion. His hobby was correspondence chess. In 1939 he married Gertrude Mary Somerville Caldwell who was a Cambridge medical graduate. He died on 25 February 1984 aged 81 and was survived by his wife Mary, his son Charles who is a mathematics lecturer at Queen Mary College, London, and his daughter Elisabeth.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007418
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First Title value, for Searching Baird, James Aitken (1922 - 2003)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-02-29 2014-03-14
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details James Baird was a cardiothoracic surgeon in Wellington. He was born on 24 January 1922 in Hastings, New Zealand, the son of Hugh William Charles Baird, a director of a drapery company, and Jeanie Aiton Baird née Aitken. He was educated at Mohora School in Hastings and then Wellington College. He went on to study medicine at Otago University in Dunedin, qualifying in 1945. He was a house surgeon and a surgical registrar at Palmerston North Hospital, where he was introduced to thoracic surgery by David Mitchell. In 1949 Baird went to England, where he worked as a registrar at Essex County Hospital, Colchester. He then gained a registrar appointment at Brompton and Guy's hospitals, under Sir Russell (later Lord) Brock and O S Tubbs. He gained his FRCS in 1949. In November 1952 he returned to New Zealand, as the first full-time cardiothoracic surgeon at Wellington Hospital. He also contributed to the regional thoracic surgery service, holding regular clinics in Palmerston North, Wanganui, Napier and Gisborne. In 1960 he travelled to England and the USA to study new developments in thoracic and cardiac surgery, visiting the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Baird was an examiner in cardiothoracic surgery for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, chairman of the division of surgery of Wellington hospitals from 1974, and an executive member and then chairman of the Wellington Hospital medical staff committee. With colleagues, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Wellington Clinical School. He was the first president of the Thoracic Society of New Zealand. He retired in 1982 and moved to Hawke's Bay. He learnt Maori, and was interested in genealogy, history, photography and gardening. In 1968 he married Peggy Grant. They had three sons and a daughter. James Baird died in Hastings on 10 July 2003, aged 81. He was survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. One son predeceased him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002063
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First Title value, for Searching Crisp, William John Cowie (1914 - 1989)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details William Crisp was born in Edinburgh on 5 December 1914, being the eldest son of Thomas Crisp (MD Edin) who was a medical practitioner and his wife, Janet (née Cowie). In 1921 the family moved to Chorley, Lancs, where Thomas established himself in general practice. William went to Bolton School and then on to Epsom College. He had a wish to be a surgeon from his early childhood. He qualified MB BS London in 1937 and did house appointments at Preston Royal. After a short period as a general practitioner in Paignton he enlisted in the RAMC. He took the FRCS while working as a resident medical officer in England. In 1942 he was sent to India with a general field hospital. He was a surgical specialist holding the rank of Major. He was moved to a casualty clearing station in Bengal and from there to Burma where he was commanding officer of a mobile field surgical unit in the Arakan campaign. On return to civilian life he worked at University College Hospital under E K Martin and A J Gardham. He then moved to the Miller Hospital, Greenwich. He found difficulty in obtaining a consultant appointment so he decided to emigrate to New Zealand. In November 1952 he was appointed surgeon and superintendent to the Dargaville Hospital, Northern Wairoa. Here he worked from 1952 to 1980 when he retired from hospital work. He continued to do GP surgical work from his home. William was interested in sea fishing and was very skilled at tapestry work. He had been dedicated to his surgical work being of a retiring and shy disposition. In 1938 he married Enid Dorothy Thompson. They had three sons, Thomas David who took the BDS in Tasmania, John Cunningham BDS who worked in Leigh-on-Sea, and William George. William Crisp died on 8 December 1989, survived by his wife and three children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007223
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First Title value, for Searching Dalton, George Allen (1924 - 2016)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2015-12-04 2019-05-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details George Allen Dalton was an ENT surgeon in Birmingham. Born in Coventry on 15 June 1924, he was the son of George Thomas Dalton, a farmer, and his wife Elsie Emily née Hence. He attended Walsgrave Colliery School from 1929 to 1935, Bablake School in Coventry from 1935 to 1940 and King Edward VI School in Nuneaton from 1940 to 1942. He then spent seven years at the University of Birmingham Medical School where he qualified MB ChB in 1947. During house jobs at the Birmingham General Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth and the Children’s Hospital he was influenced by Arthur James Moffett and Norman Lloyd Crabtree. On national service from 1950 to 1952 as a captain in the RAMC, he was in charge of the ENT department at the Commonwealth Military Hospital in Japan. This was during the early years of the Korean War. When he returned he became a senior ENT registrar at the United Bristol Hospitals where he worked with Jack Angell James. In 1961 he was appointed a consultant in ENT at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth but took a year’s sabbatical to complete his research and visit other centres in the USA and Europe. On his return he took on a huge workload especially in the treatment of head and neck cancer. With Sir Geoffrey Slaney he had the reputation of holding the world series in surgery for postcricoid carcinoma and was instrumental in introducing various ground breaking surgical techniques. He was secretary of the Midland Institute of Otology from 1966 to 1972. He married Elizabeth Mary Wood (Mary) in 1952 and they had four sons. Favourite pastimes were foreign travel and sailing at his second home in the Scilly Islands. In 1984 he retired on health grounds and he died from ischaemic heart disease on 20 February 2016 aged 91. His son Bob (who also qualified in medicine) predeceased him in 2003 and he was survived by Mary, three sons (one of whom was a general practitioner) and nine grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Blomfield (or Bloomfield), Josiah (1824 - 1905)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-03-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Apprenticed in 1837 to Mr Protheroe Smith, 105 Hatton Garden; completed his professional training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He was for six months dresser to John Vincent Painter (qv), and for the same period Clinical Clerk to Dr George Leith Roupell. He obtained the prize for clinical surgery, was second in medicine, surgery, chemistry, and materia medica, and was awarded an honours certificate in midwifery. After passing at the Apothecaries’ Hall he began to practise at Peckham Rye, but being under the required age did not pass the Membership of the College for more than a year afterwards. He removed to Camden Place, Peckham, in 1847, and was soon appointed one of the District Medical Officers for Christchurch and part of St George’s, Camberwell, holding this post during ‘the reign of the cholera’. The parish gained some notoriety from the prevalence of this disease. Blomfield had more than one hundred cases of Asiatic cholera under his care, besides numerous others of severe diarrhoea. About seventy-two of the cholera patients died. He received from the Board of Guardians a very handsome letter and the sum of £70, in acknowledgement of his services to the poor during the pestilence. On Nov 9th, 1849, he was elected from about seventeen candidates to the office of Surgeon to the Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum, Old Kent Road, the largest institution of the kind in existence. He was for many years Parochial Medical Officer for North Peckham, and was also Medical Examiner for Government Insurance. He practised for a time at 19 Grove Terrace, Peckham, and then for many years in Rye Lane. He retained his posts as Medical Examiner and at the Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum to the end of his long life, and died at his residence, 20 Peckham Road, on January 6th, 1905.
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First Title value, for Searching Ewart, Robert John (1877 - 1923)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30
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Occupation Public health officer
Details Born in Liverpool in 1877, the son of Edmund Brown Ewart, BA, and was educated at Liverpool Institute and University, where he won high distinctions as a student, being Holt Tutorial Scholar, Junior Lyon Jones Scholar, 1894-1896, and Hon Fellow in Pathology at University College, Liverpool. After holding an appointment as Senior House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, he gained his public health experience at Ashton-under-Lyne, going on to Middlesbrough as Assistant Medical Officer of Health. He was appointed Medical Officer of Health to the Urban District of Barking, where he was also School Medical Officer and Superintendent of the Isolation Hospital. He showed himself a very active and diligent public health officer, interested both in the preventive and epidemiological side of his work, with a philosophical bias which produced such essays as "Time and the Second Generation" and "Parental Age and Offspring". Ewart lost no opportunity of dwelling upon the importance of the food of the people to the public health, and saw in disease a pathological reaction due to faulty metabolism. No subject was too difficult for him to tackle, and even with imperfect data his originality of mind was able to elaborate the problems before him. Ewart, who resided at The Cottage, Upney, Barking, died in June, 1923, following an operation at the West Ham Hospital. Publications: "Venesection: its Indications from a Physiological Standpoint." - *Manchester Med. Chron.*, 1905, ser. Iv, 67. "Action of Aortic Valves in Health and Disease." - *Lancet*, 1904, ii, 1492. "Some Features of Sewage Pollution of an Estuary." - *Public Health*, 1909, xxiii, 51. "Variations in the Chemical and Bacteriological Compositions of Water considered from a Statistical Point of View." - *Ibid.*, 1910-11, xxiv, 10. "Parental Age and Offspring." - *Eugenics Rev.*, 1910. *A Cause of the Fall of the Death-rate from Phthisis*, 1912. In the *Journal of Hygiene* Ewart also published a series of valuable papers dealing with the statistics of scarlet fever and diphtheria.
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First Title value, for Searching Stewart, James Cuming (1905 - 1970)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation Businessman General surgeon
Details James Cuming Stewart was born on 26 October 1905, the son of Sir Alexander Stewart who was born in Scotland and ultimately became an eminent Australian industrialist and company director. James was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Ormond College, graduating MB BS in 1930. After holding junior surgical appointments at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne he came over to England to study for the FRCS, and in 1935 became RSO at St Mark's Hospital, and in 1936 was admitted to the Fellowship. On returning to Australia he was appointed associate surgeon to the Alfred Hospital and obtained the FRACS in 1939. During the second world war he served with the Australian Army Medical Corps from 1940-46, being ADMS (Equipment) in the New Guinea Force in 1943-44. On demobilization he returned to the Alfred Hospital, as surgeon to outpatients from 1946-56, and as surgeon to inpatients from 1956 till he retired prematurely in 1962 because of the onset of angina which forced him to abandon surgical practice. He spent the rest of his life as director of several industrial companies, but he maintained his association with the Alfred Hospital as a member of the Board of Management. Jim Stewart was a big gentle man, methodical and fond of hard work. He had a happy disposition and he and his wife took a delight in entertaining surgical colleagues visiting Melbourne. His own colleagues and his patients loved and trusted him. He enjoyed golf and travel, and was particularly happy in his family life. In 1937 he had married Anne Killough and they had two sons the elder of whom was killed tragically in a road accident at the age of 21, and the younger one, Malcolm, is an artist. He died of heart failure during an attack of pneumonia on 3 November 1970, and was survived by his wife and younger son.
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First Title value, for Searching Bose, Tapan Kumar (1936 - 2013)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-11-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Tapan Kumar Bose was a consultant general surgeon who held posts in the UK and in India. He was born in Rangoon, Burma, on 18 October 1936, the son of Nani Gopal Bose, a lawyer, and Maya Rani Bose née Roy, a housewife and graduate of Rangoon University. He was educated at Calcutta Boys' School, St Xavier's College, Calcutta, where he passed an intermediate examination in science, and then attended medical school at Calcutta, qualifying in 1961. He was a house surgeon at Irwin Hospital, New Delhi. He then attended a postgraduate course in general surgery at Maulana Azad Medical College and Irwin Hospital for two years, holding a government of India scholarship. After completing his MS in 1964, he worked as a registrar in the fracture and orthopaedic department at Irwin Hospital. From 1966 to 1985 he worked in the UK as a registrar, locum senior registrar and locum consultant in, among other places, London, Kingston-upon-Thames, Salisbury, Bedford, Swindon, Cirencester and north Wales. He gained his FRCS in 1972. He returned to India in 1985 as a private consultant surgeon. He was a member of the Association of Surgeons of India and the Indian Medical Association. Outside medicine, he was interested in tennis, cricket and football (he supported Liverpool Football Club). He also enjoyed music, both Indian and Western, and carrying out repairs around the house. He travelled widely, in Europe, Canada, the United States and India. After his retirement in 2008, he devoted time to literary and cultural activities, including helping to celebrate the birthday of the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. In May 1979 he married Neera Haldar, a graduate in English literature from Agra University. They had a son, Biswajit, who became an electrical engineer. Tapan Kumar Bose died on 3 May 2013. He was 76. He is remembered by his family and colleagues as a man of principle, a conscientious and hardworking surgeon who tried to give his best.
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First Title value, for Searching Aitken, David McCrae (1876 - 1954)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born at Singapore in 1876 the son of the Rev William Aitken, he was educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh. After holding resident posts there and in Liverpool he was appointed to the Bolingbroke Hospital, Wandsworth Common. He took the Fellowship in 1908 and specialised in orthopaedics, his chief work being at St Vincent's, Pinner, which he developed from a cripples' home to a large open-air orthopaedic centre. Aitken was closely associated with Sir Robert Jones for nearly thirty years and worked with him at the Military Orthopaedic Hospital, Shepherd's Bush during the first world war. He described this war-time experience in *The Lancet* (1917, 1, 10-16) and in the *Transactions* (1917, 40, 27-37) of the Medical Society of London. Under Jones's influence he developed great skill as a manipulator and became keenly interested in after-care, in the tradition of Jones's uncle and teacher Hugh Owen Thomas, whose life Aitken admirably recorded in his book *Hugh Owen Thomas, his principles and practice* (1935). He was for many years a director of the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital at Oswestry and consulting orthopaedic surgeon to Faversham Hospital. He was a founder and afterwards President of the Orthopaedic section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Aitken collaborated with Robert Jones in writing the chapter on "Deformities" in Latham and English's *System of treatment* (1912), he wrote on "Scoliosis" for the *Robert Jones Birthday Volume* (1928), and delivered the H O Thomas memorial lecture at Liverpool in 1931 on "Rest and movement in the treatment of lesions of joints" (*Liverpool med-chir J* 39, part 2, pp 103-126). He was a frail man with a barking voice, and liable to fits of coughing. His recreation was yachting. He practised at 89 Harley Street, and died on 9 July 1954 at his country home The Old Vicarage, Mansergh, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, aged 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, Sir James Reid (1861 - 1941)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 24 January 1861 at Marseilles, son of W H Roberts, an officer in the Merchant Navy. He was educated at Dollar Academy, at Lausanne, at Middlesex Hospital, and at the Durham School of Medicine at Newcastle, where he graduated in 1885, having taken the Conjoint qualification the year before. He entered the Indian Medical Service as a surgeon on 31 March 1888, and saw active service at Chin Lushai on the North-East frontier in 1889-90, receiving the medal with clasp, on the North-West frontier at Hunza Nagar in 1891 and as principal medical officer at the capture of Nilt Fort in 1892, for which he was mentioned in despatches and received a second clasp to his frontier medal. He was then made agency surgeon at Gilgit, and spent the rest of his service with distinction in the political department. In 1900 he was residency surgeon at Gwalior and in 1901-12 residency surgeon at Indore, holding with it from 1906 the post of administrative medical officer for Central India. He retired from this post, in which he had much improved hospital standards in his area, in 1916, when he was made civil surgeon of Simla West. He had been vice-president of the section of tropical medicine at the London meeting of the British Medical Association in 1910. He was promoted major in the IMS, 31 March 1900, lieutenant-colonel on 31 March 1908, created CIE on 11 December 1911, and a Knight Bachelor on 3 June 1913, and on 31 December 1915 he was placed on the selected list for promotion. He saw active service again during the war in Mesopotamia, and retired on 9 July 1919. After retirement he lived for a time at St Fillans, Perthshire, but went back to India, serving first in the State Cabinet of Jaipur and from 1932 on the Council of State of Dewas, living at Sugar Mahal, Dewas, Central India. He received the Kaisar-i-Hind Order, first class, in 1936. He died at Srinagar on 30 May 1941, aged 80.
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First Title value, for Searching Hogarth, Robert George (1868 - 1953)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 15 May 1868 only son of George Hogarth of Eccles Toft, Berwickshire, he was educated at Felsted School and St Bartholomew's Hospital. In his boyhood in the Border country he excelled at field sports, and at school he won most of the athletic events, while at Bart's he became captain of cricket and football, and was also captain of the United Hospitals XI. He played football for the Casuals, the Corinthians, and the Caledonians, and for Wolverhampton while a house surgeon there, and was President of Nottingham Forest and surgeon to the Notts County football club, and President of the County cricket club. He won the amateur long jump championship of Great Britain in 1890. After holding resident posts at Bart's and Wolverhampton, Hogarth went to Nottingham General Hospital as resident medical officer in 1984, and ultimately became senior surgeon and President of the Hospital, and from 1943 a life governor. He was largely responsible for the creation of the Radio-Therapeutic Institute established at Nottingham by the British Empire Cancer Campaign; it was named after him the Hogarth Institute in 1948, and he left it £1000 and the option to purchase at probate value his house and its appurtenances. He was also surgeon to the Women's and Children's Hospitals at Nottingham, and to Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital, which he had helped to develop from its origins as a Cripples Home. He was President of the Nottinghamshire Medico-Chirurgical Society, and President of the British Medical Association in 1926. He was a Member of the Council of the College 1928-36. He married in 1897 Winifred Mabel Lynam; they had one son. Mrs Hogarth died on 12 March 1952, and he died at his house, 48 The Ropewalk, on 29 June 1953 aged 85. Their son died on active service in Italy as a Major in the Grenadier Guards on 19 July 1944. Publications: The medical practitioner and the public. Presidential address to BMA *Brit med J* 1926, 2, 145. *The Trent and I go wandering by*. Nottingham 1949.
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First Title value, for Searching Goodwin, Aubrey (1889 - 1964)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Aubrey Goodwin was born on 4 September 1889, son of Alfred Goodwin, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and was educated at University College and Hospital, London, qualifying in 1913 and winning the Honours Medal. After holding resident appointments he joined the RAMC in 1914 serving at Salonika and Malta, where he was staff officer to the DMS Malta Command with the rank of Major. He retired with the rank of Captain and the award of the OBE. On his return to civilian life, he spent some three years in postgraduate study in obstetrics and gynaecology in Dublin and Edinburgh, and was awarded the London University medal for his MD thesis in 1920. After returning to London he became obstetric registrar at the Westminster Hospital and gynaecological pathologist at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. Eventually he was appointed to the staffs of both hospitals and also to the Prince of Wales's Hospital, Tottenham, and served these hospitals for 30 years until his retirement in 1954. He was one of the contributors to the "Ten teachers" *Diseases of Women*, and *Midwifery*, and was also joint author with John Ellison and (Sir) Charles D Read of *Sex Ethics* (1934). Goodwin was an examiner for the Universities of Cambridge and London and to the Central Midwives Board. He combined expert knowledge of gynaecological pathology with fine clinical judgement, and his opinion was much sought. His operation for removal of the pelvic glands in continuity with the uterus, tubes and ovaries, in carcinoma of the cervix, was recorded on a film at Chelsea Hospital. Goodwin was a friendly humorous man of many interests, including fishing, shooting, and foreign travel. One of his life's ambitions was realised when he went to East Africa on a big game safari. On his retirement from his hospital in 1954, he moved to North Wales and withdrew from professional life and activities. He lived at Erw Fechan, Grange Road, Llangollen, Denbighshire, and died on 18 August 1964 at the age of 74. He was married three times, and had one daughter by his first marriage and three daughters and one son by his second.
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First Title value, for Searching Douglas, William Robert (1880 - 1965)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details William Douglas was born at Bury in 1880, and received a classical education at Bury Grammar School which he valued all his life. He entered Manchester University with a classical scholarship, but was already determined to read medicine. In 1903 he graduated BSc in botany and zoology, and qualified two years later. He spent one year demonstrating anatomy before he became house surgeon to Sir William Thorburn at the old Manchester Infirmary. For the next four years he became Sir William's private assistant, while holding a series of junior posts at the Royal Infirmary. In 1910 he obtained the Fellowship and was appointed surgeon to Ancoats Hospital. During 1914-16 he saw service with the RAMC in Egypt as surgeon at the Citadel in Cairo. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the Military Cross in 1915. In 1916 he was invalided home and was attached to the 2nd Western General Hospital in Manchester. He was appointed visiting surgeon to the Witherington Hospital in 1918 in addition to his work at Ancoats, and in 1922 he became assistant surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and full surgeon in 1936. During his active years Douglas had a busy practice, for in addition to his Manchester hospitals he visited and operated in his native Bury and Kendal. His retirement from the Royal Infirmary in 1945 gave him more time to devote to his work at the Christie Hospital, and in 1947 he gave a Moynihan lecture at the Royal College on the results of his many years' work on malignant disease of the head and neck, concentrating especially on his results from block dissection of glands of the neck, at which operation he was an acknowledged master. In 1948 he became regional adviser in surgery and greatly enjoyed the contacts he made with younger surgeons. Douglas was elected a Freeman of Bury in 1958. Apart from surgery his chief interest was music, and he was a constant supporter of the Halle Concert Society. William Douglas died at home on 23 February 1965 at the age of 84; he was survived by his widow and two sons, one of whom is a surgeon.
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First Title value, for Searching Gill-Carey, Chapple (1896 - 1981)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-08
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Chapple Gill-Carey was born in 1896 at Hawera, New Zealand, the son of a farmer from Lancashire, his maternal grandfather being a physician at Wanganui. After attending Wanganui Collegiate School, he went to Guy's Hospital in 1913 and passed the Conjoint Diploma in May 1918. He immediately joined the New Zealand Army Medical Corps in which he served until 1920. On demobilization he returned to Guy's where his house jobs included a year with William Mollison and T B Layton in the ENT department - an association which undoubtedly influenced his future career. In 1923 he gained the FRCS Edinburgh and was appointed to the consultant staff of the Central London Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, becoming Postgraduate Dean in 1936. Subsequently he joined the staff of St John and St Elizabeth Hospital and was later closely associated with the New Lodge Clinic at Windsor. In 1937 the Central London Throat Hospital and the Hospital for Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat amalgamated to form the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in Golden Square where Gill-Carey served throughout the second world war. When in 1945 the Institute of Laryngology was formed, Gill-Carey became the first Dean, holding the post until 1960. In 1948 he became a Fellow of the College and served on the Council as representative of the British Association of Otolaryngologists from 1957 to 1962. He was President of the Laryngology Section at the Royal Society of Medicine and President of the Association of Otolaryngologists. He retired from active surgery in 1961 but remained a member of the board of management of the Royal National Hospital until 1964, having served the hospital for twenty-seven years. Gill was mentally and physically impressive. He had been a keen rugby footballer and later became an outstanding golfer, frequently playing with his friend, Lord Nuffield, at Huntercombe. Carey and his wife, Margaret, were excellent company and he missed her very much when she died in 1974. When he himself became housebound, he retained his interest in medicine and world affairs and his keen sense of humour. He died on December 21, 1981, at the age of 73, survived by his son from his first marriage who is in practice in Cornwall.
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First Title value, for Searching Graham, Cecil Irving (1877 - 1957)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born in Western Australia on 11 April 1877, he was a student at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was afterwards assistant lecturer in anatomy. After holding resident posts at St Mary's and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, he was appointed surgical registrar at St Mary's and subsequently first assistant surgeon when the ear and throat departments were combined in 1908; he had previously been senior clinical assistant at the Throat Hospital, Golden Square. He became surgeon to his department at St Mary's in 1919, and consulting aural surgeon on retirement in 1937. He was also aurist and laryngologist at the King Edward VII memorial hospital, Ealing, and the North Hertfordshire and South Bedfordshire Hospital, Hitchin. He served as honorary secretary of the otology section at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association at London in 1910, and was for some years honorary secretary of the Section of Laryngology in the Royal Society of Medicine. He practised at 17 Upper Wimpole Street. Graham lived after retirement at 5 St Sampson Terrace, Golant, Par, Cornwall, where he enjoyed sailing and outdoor activities. He suffered for some years from arthritis, slipped when getting out of his boat in July 1957 and, eventually succumbing to his injuries, died on 8 August 1957 aged 80. Graham had been an athlete of fine physique. He was captain of St Mary's Rugby football XV which won the Inter-Hospitals Cup in 1900; St Mary's also won the United Hospitals sports, Graham himself making a record hammer-throw. He was President of St Mary's Rugby football and athletic clubs for many years. Publications: A case of cyst of the pituitary fossa. *Lancet* 1913, 1, 242 and 892. A case of pituitary tumour, with W Harris. *Lancet* 1913, 2 1251; possibly the first decompression of the sella turcica attempted in England. Two cases to illustrate operation for complete lachrymal obstruction. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1914, 34, 102. A series of cases showing the results of per-nasal dacryocystostomy. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1922, 42, 175.
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First Title value, for Searching McLaggan, Sir John Douglas (1893 - 1967)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Basden, Margaret Mary (1886 - 1974)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Margaret Mary Basden was born in Nottingham on 3 April 1886, she was the daughter of Hope, née Figgis, and Duncan Frederick Basden who was a chartered accountant. The family moved to Hampstead while she was still a young child and she attended King Alfred's School. There was a medical tradition in the family that an ancestor had attended George III and Margaret decided, early in life, to study medicine. While she was a medical student at the London School of Medicine for Women the College opened the Fellowship to women and she seized the opportunity and passed the primary examination. She then held a postgraduate post at the London Hospital where she was greatly influenced by the teaching of Sir Hugh Rigby and Dr Russell Andrews and gained her FRCS in 1919. After holding a resident accoucheur appointment at the London Hospital, she decided to take up obstetrics and gynaecology, and she eventually became consultant gynaecological surgeon to the Bethnal Green, and Mildmay Hospitals and obstetric surgeon to the Mother's Hospital, Clapton, and surgeon to the South London Hospital for Women and Children. After retirement she led an active professional life as long as she was able and in 1951 went to Uganda for a time to serve on the staff of the Mengo Hospital in Kampala. Margaret remained an imposing figure in her later years and, making no concessions to changing fashions she brought memories of times past with her dignified appearance and carriage. She was courteous, kindly and generous and one of her chief interests was reading aloud to the blind. She had a great sense of humour and a lively interest in her fellows which made her an excellent raconteur, telling her stories in a deep contralto with an inimitable chuckle. Though her health failed progressively over the last few years she did not allow physical difficulties to interfere with her social life and religious observances, she retained her style to the end. She died on 8 September 1974, aged 88 years and was survived by her two younger sisters.
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First Title value, for Searching Lush, William George Vawdrey (1834 - 1904)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-06
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on May 24th, 1834, and educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He enjoyed the distinction of possessing the highest medical and surgical qualifications obtainable in the United Kingdom. He practised at 12 Frederick Place, Weymouth, and was Hon Physician to the County Hospital, Dorchester, a post he retained for thirty-two years. He was also Consulting Physician to the Weymouth Royal Hospital, the Portland Dispensary, and the Dorset Friendly Society. Lush was devoted to his profession, and was a man of simple and unaffected piety, addicted to such good works as church restoration, to which he subscribed large sums. He early formed the Dorset and West Hants Branch of the British Medical Association, was its Hon Secretary, and for many years represented it on the Central Council. After holding the Secretaryship for thirty years, he was presented by the members of the branch with a handsome testimonial consisting of a service of silver plate and a clock with chimes. As a skilled surgeon Lush was much called in consultation, his colleagues valuing also his fine character and fidelity to professional etiquette. On December 7th, 1904, while attending a committee meeting at the Dorset County Hospital, Lush, who had just spoken, fell from his chair and died almost at once. He was survived by his widow. His funeral was the largest known in Weymouth for a period of some forty years. There were about fifty mourning coaches. The clergy especially honoured a layman who had been an active member of the Salisbury Diocesan Synod and an Hon. Secretary of the Dorset Branch of the Queen Victoria Clergy Fund. Vawdrey Lush was a remarkable example of what could be done by sheer industry and conscientiousness without much outstanding mental ability. For several years he was 'coached' by Henry Power (qv), and 'come rain, come shine', as the clock struck seven he rang the door bell. Tea was provided at nine, and it was often midnight, or later, before he left, the 'coach' by that time exhausted and the 'coach's' wife fractious. Publications:- Lush was a contributor to the *Lancet*, the *Brit Med Jour*, and the *Med Times and Gaz*, from 1871 to 1898.
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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, James Llewellin Digby (1912 - 1977)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Whitaker, Allen James (1905 - 1976)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-13
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Allen James Whitaker, the fifth son of Dr James Smith Whitaker who was formerly a family doctor in Great Yarmouth, was born in Hendon on 16 April 1905. His father, having been the first medical secretary of the British Medical Association, became senior medical officer at the Ministry of Health on its creation in 1919 and was knighted one year before his retirement in 1932. Allen was the seventh child in a family of eight and was educated at University College School before entering University College, London. He then went to University College Hospital where he qualified in 1930, holding resident appointments there and at Kingston General Hospital. He entered general practice in Guildford with his brother, Donald Faraday Whitaker, in 1932, and practised there for forty years. He was notable as a dedicated general practitioner and he also took a special interest in the orthopaedic department of the Royal Surrey County Hospital where he worked for thirty years. During the second world war he served as a Surgeon-Lieutenant RNVR and was mentioned in dispatches. On demobilisation he returned to his practice where, as senior partner, he planned and developed an outstanding purpose-built and independent surgery premises in Guildford. He was active in medical politics at the local level, was Chairman of the Guildford division of the BMA in 1957 and was particularly interested in postgraduate medical education. He was a member of the South West London and Surrey Local Medical Committees and was a founder member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, later serving on its council. He thereby became the co-opted GP member of the Royal College of Surgeons Council for five years, at the end of which period he was elected to the FRCS. He had married Dr Barbara G C Clarke in 1934, herself a general practitioner, and they had three daughters two of whom are in medical practice. When he died at his home on 22 February 1976 he was survived by his wife and daughters, Annette, Diana and Rosalind.
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First Title value, for Searching Maynard, Frederic Pinsent (1864 - 1921)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-01
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Preston, Lancashire, the son of Thomas Maynard; studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Universities of Durham, Paris, Würzburg, and Bonn. He was House Surgeon at the Newcastle Infirmary and Clinical Assistant at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital. Proceeding to Netley, he passed out third on the list, at the age of 23 in 1887, into the Indian Army, and won the Montefiore Prize in 1888. He was first attached to the Allahabad Station, then in succession was Medical Officer of the Baleuch-Afghan Boundary Commission, transferred to cholera duty at Kohat, placed in medical charge of the 27th Punjab Infantry at Bareilly, of the Gurkhas at Kaludanda, and of the 13th Brigade of Infantry at Dinapore. In 1905 he became Professor of Ophthalmic Surgery at the Medical College, Calcutta, and Ophthalmic Surgeon to its Hospital, and was Surgical Superintendent of the Mayo Hospital. He practised in Calcutta at 13 Harington Street, and retired from the Indian Medical Service in 1920. On returning to England he lived at Audlem, Cheshire, and practised as an ophthalmic surgeon in Crewe, holding the appointment of Oculist to the Cheshire County Council. As a proof of continued energy, shortly before his death he went to Barcelona to witness Professor Barraquer's revival of cataract suction under the name of phacoerisis by means of a cupping glass and vibratory suction. He died at Audlem of double septic pneumonia on September 30th, 1921, and was buried there. He was survived by his widow, a son, and a daughter. Publications:- Maynard was the author of two text-books of ophthalmology for Indian students: *A Manual of Ophthalmic Operations*, 1908. *Manual of Ophthalmic Practice*, the 2nd edition of the former, 1920. He also published a number of ophthalmological papers, including an "Analysis of 1000 Cataract Extractions." - *Indian Med Gaz*, 1903, xxxviii, 41. In India he edited the *Indian Medical Gazette* for 1898, vol xxxiii, and when in England was assistant editor of the *Ophthalmic Review* and of the *American Journal of Ophthalmology*.
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First Title value, for Searching Hickman, William (1837 - 1897)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College Hospital, where he was Liston Surgical Medallist in 1860 (with an essay on "Some Varieties and Effects of Cancerous Disease of Bone"), House Surgeon, House Physician, and Ophthalmic Surgical Assistant. After a long visit to the East he returned to London and set up in practice in Dorset Square; became Surgeon to the Western General Dispensary, Surgeon to Out-patients Samaritan Free Hospital, and in 1883 President of the Harveian Society. In his Presidential Address he set out a list of proposals which have an interest as exhibiting what was being advocated in some circles at that time: a fifth year to the medical curriculum; direct representation of general practitioners on the General Medical Council; a post-graduate course for general practitioners; younger members of the hospital staffs to teach the students, senior members to lecture and demonstrate to medical practitioners; an amalgamation of the two Royal Colleges into a Royal College of Medicine which should grant the degree of MD, to be retrospective and admit all those holding the qualifications of the two colleges, but without superseding the University of London. In the spring of 1892 Hickman succeeded Sir Oscar Clayton as Surgeon in Ordinary to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. In May, 1896, he underwent a serious operation from which he improved temporarily, but fell ill again before Christmas, and died at 122 Harley Street on March 27th, 1897. He had a country house, Camberlot Hall, Sussex, and he married in 1865 Emmeline, youngest daughter of Thomas Lea. His son, Dr H E Belcher Hickman, practised subsequently at Chesham. His portrait is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: "Address on the Aids and Hindrances to the General Physician or General Practitioner of Medicine-to the Harveian Society of London." - *Lancet*, 1888, i, 280. *Pleas for the Establishment of a Royal College of Medicine by an Amalgamation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons*, 1885. An early use of the rhinoscope is mentioned in his paper on "A Steel Ring Impacted for Thirteen and a Half Years in the Nasopharyngeal Fossa of a Child - Detection by the Rhinoscope and Removal." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1867, ii, 266.
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First Title value, for Searching Ball, Sir Charles Bent (1851 - 1916)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-11-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The younger son of Robert Ball, LLD, Director of the Dublin Museum of Science and Art, and brother of Sir Robert Stawell Ball, the Astronomer Royal, was born in Dublin on Feb 21st, 1851. After a brilliant career at Trinity College, Dublin, he practised for a short period in South Wales; but returned to Dublin, where he obtained a Poor Law appointment which he held till 1879, when he took the Fellowship of the Irish College of Surgeons, and devoted himself entirely to surgery. He was Surgeon to Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital, Consulting Surgeon to a large number of institutions, and a member of many important committees. In 1895 he was appointed University Anatomist in succession to Henry St John Brooks, and succeeded Sir George M Porter as Regius Professor of Surgery in the University of Dublin, holding both posts till the end of his life. In 1903 he received the honour of knighthood, and in 1911 he was created a Baronet of the United Kingdom. Ball was for many years the most prominent figure in Irish surgery, recognized as lavish in public work, a good all-round surgeon, but best known as a specialist in rectal diseases. His most important book – *The Rectum and Anus, their Diseases and Treatment* – was for many years considered the standard work in the English language. His other works are mentioned in the biographies. ‘Ball's operation’ for pruritus ani consisted in dividing the sensory nerves supplying the region. He married on July 22nd, 1874, Annie Julia, daughter of Daniel Kinahan, JP, of Roebuck Park, Dublin, by whom he had four daughters and three sons, of whom the eldest – C Arthur Kinahan Ball, FRCSI, Surgeon to Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital – succeeded to the title. Ball practised at 24 Merrion Square, and died after an illness of several months on March 17th, 1916. His portrait is in the Honorary Fellows’ Album. Publication: *The Rectum and Anus; their Diseases and Treatment*, 12mo, London, 1887 and 1894.
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First Title value, for Searching Ramsay, David John ( - 2006)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by JM
Publication Date 2023-11-28
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Occupation Orthodontist
Details David Ramsay, Orthodontic Consultant at Guy’s Hospital, died after a long illness on 21 September 2006. David qualified from the London Hospital Medical and Dental Institute in 1965/6. His first appointment was at the London Hospital as a dental house surgeon, spending time in many of the departments of dentistry to gain experience. Subsequently he worked in the community service and general dental practice. A year was spent as a rotating intern at the Eastman Dental Centre in Rochester, New York. He progressed through basic postgraduate training, holding a junior hospital post at Guy’s Hospital and achieving a Fellowship. He undertook orthodontic postgraduate training at the Eastman Dental Institute and then a Registrar post linked with Winchester. He then completed Senior Registrar training on a Guy's link with the South East Thames Region. David was appointed Consultant in Orthodontics at Guy’s, Greenwich District and Lewisham Hospitals in 1976. He was always a very practical clinical teacher and made a large contribution to the orthodontic education at Guy’s, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Many students qualifying from both Guy’s and UMDS will recall the Friday night reflections on the teaching of the day — the atmosphere was smoky and noisy but always friendly and congenial! At Greenwich, a very good regional service was provided for general dental practice, the community service and the training of junior staff; at Lewisham, as well as providing a regional service, David developed a special interest in early management of premature babies with the constriction of feeding plates. David retired from clinical work in January 1998, which unfortunately signalled the start of his long illness. As a student and after qualifying he played rugby for the London Hospital and later became a referee. He enjoyed travelling and gardening and was devoted to his family, to whom he gave total support in all their undertakings. He was a very intelligent man with a great sense of humour, and a regular churchgoer. A memorial service was held in his local church with large numbers present — evidence of his great popularity. David is survived by his wife Lynne and his children, Michelle and John, to whom we extend our thoughts and deepest sympathy.
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First Title value, for Searching Blagden, Richard (1789 - 1861)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-06-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Blagden appears to have been of the family of Sir Charles Blagden (1748-1820), MD, Secretary of the Royal Society, of whom Dr Johnson, speaking of his copiousness and precision of communication, said, “Blagden, Sir, is a delightful fellow”. He was a friend of Horace Walpole and had a large and fashionable practice. Richard Blagden practised at 26 Albermarle Street, Piccadilly, and on his retirement at some time before 1855 removed to Percy Street, Bath, where he died on March 31st, 1861. The *Medical Circular* speaks of him in the following qualified terms: “Mr Blagden is a gentleman who, without acquiring any literary or scientific distinction or holding any high professional appointment, has succeeded, by the exertion of an influence that may be rather surmised than known, in obtaining the honourable offices of Surgeon to the Duchess of Kent, and Surgeon-Extraordinary to the Queen. We have no doubt that Mr Blagden is as well qualified to grace these distinctions as many other gentlemen who appear to possess superior professional claims, for nothing is more delusive than the attempt to adjudge professional merit merely by the evidence of popu¬larity. The special appointment held by Mr Blagden is that of Surgeon-Accoucheur to Her Majesty, and since there are only two Fellows of the College of Surgeons who practise midwifery as a speciality, and physicians dare not perform operations, the appointment of Mr. Blagden became a necessity. We should scarcely, however, think that he would have been recommended to fill such an important post, if the advisers of the Court had not considered him to possess adequate qualifications, as the office involves a responsibility towards the Crown, the profession, and the public, which would make an injudicious selection perilous and unpardonable. On this supposition we regard Mr Blagden’s appointment as a ground of encouragement to others similarly situated, and an evidence that it is possible for merit to break down the artificial distinctions with which conventionalism has barred up the road to offices of professional eminence and emolument.” PUBLICATION:- Blagden’s sole contribution appears to have been: “A Case of a Fatal Hæmorrhage from the Extraction of a Tooth.” - *Med.-Chir. Trans.*, 1817, viii, 224.
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Henry Meredith (1899 - 1942)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Colooney, Co Sligo, Ireland on 15 October 1899, the elder son and second child of Frank Martin, a gentleman-farmer, and his wife, *née* Meredith. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1921 and qualifying in medicine in 1923. He took a prominent part in College athletics and was a good sprinter. After serving as resident medical officer at Gloucester Mental Hospital, he entered the Royal Naval Medical Service in December 1924, saw service afloat and abroad, and retired as surgeon lieutenant-commander in 1931. While at sea he successfully trained his ship's athletic team and helped them to win a Fleet regatta, though not himself an oar. Martin determined on leaving the Navy to equip himself as a surgical consultant, and after a period of postgraduate study took the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1932. He then served as senior casualty officer and house surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary, and for a year and a half as senior house surgeon and resident surgical officer at the Royal United Hospital at Bath. Six months' attendance at continental surgical clinics was followed by further postgraduate study at the Middlesex and St Bartholomew's Hospitals, and by holding other resident posts, including a period at All Saints Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases in London. In 1937 he set up as a consultant at Bath, and in 1938 was elected surgical registrar at the Royal United Hospital and general surgeon to the Bath Eye Infirmary. In 1938 he added to his academic qualifications the Dublin Mastership and in 1939 the English Fellowship. He was a member of the Bath Clinical Society. Martin married on 5 July 1939 Phyllis, daughter of John William Fordham, MRCS, of Leicester, who survived him but without children. Martin died at Circus Lodge, Bath, after a short illness, on 1 November 1942, aged 43. He was an accomplished operator, artistic and careful in his technique, and a wise consultant. He bore his last illness with great courage, taking a professional interest in its course.
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First Title value, for Searching Harries, David John (1884 - 1965)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details David Harries was born near Llanybyther, Carmarthenshire in 1884. After attending the County school at Llandyssul he obtained his medical education first in Cardiff and later at University College Hospital, London. After holding house appointments in London he returned to Wales and worked at the City Lodge Hospital in Cardiff. During this time he devoted a lot of his time in the study of physiology and soon became lecturer in that subject in the medical school. When the first world war broke out he joined the RAMC and was posted to the Welsh Hospital at Netley. While there he obtained his Fellowship and shortly after was transferred to India as surgeon to Deolali. Within two years his skill was acknowledged by his appointment as consulting surgeon for a large part of India. During his time in India he submitted a thesis on bone surgery for which he was awarded a DSc; in his spare time he designed the local golf course and became a scratch golfer. In 1919 he returned to England a sick man but soon recovered his normal strength and vigour and began his surgical career in Cardiff. In 1922 he was appointed to the honorary staff of Cardiff Royal Infirmary and soon became also attached to numerous smaller hospitals in the vicinity of that city. Harries continued these various appointments until his retirement in 1950 having given a very distinguished service both as a surgeon and a teacher. Harries' liking for physiology and research enhanced his value as a teacher and he also, during his active life, published many papers on abdominal surgery. His many hobbies included golf, reading and gardening and he was always up to date in every aspect of medicine and surgery. He took an active interest in the BMA and was Vice-President of the Section of Surgery at the annual meeting in Cardiff in 1953. Latterly his health became poor and his life more peaceful, he died quite suddenly at his home in Cardiff on 25 February 1965 at the age of 80. He left a widow who all their married life had been untiring in her devotion for his welfare, and one son who is a dental surgeon in Cardiff.
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First Title value, for Searching Letchworth, Thomas Wilfrid (1874 - 1954)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-02
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Brighton on 5 July 1874, he was educated privately, then at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Qualifying in 1898 he became house surgeon at Wolverhampton General Hospital and the Royal County Hospital, Winchester, and ophthalmic house surgeon to B J Vernon and W H H Jessop at St Bartholomew's Hospital. From 1902 to 1908 he was in general practice at Bournemouth, but after obtaining his Fellowship in 1909 he turned entirely to ophthalmic surgery, serving as house surgeon to E W Brewerton at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital at the age of thirty-six and later holding appointments at the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, and the Royal Eye Hospital where he was appointed surgeon in 1915. Other posts to which he was appointed included that of ophthalmic surgeon to the Tottenham Education Committee and the Western General Dispensary in 1912, the Hampstead General Hospital in 1913, and the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in 1914. At the Royal Eye Hospital he was an inspiring surgeon and teacher, kind and considerate to everyone, retaining his boyish approach in old age. He took his MD at the age of 73 in order to keep his son company when the latter took his MA. After retiring in 1934, he continued as an honorary clinical assistant until 1937. He lived at Surbiton from 1911 onwards, and in 1923-24 he was chairman of the Kingston-upon-Thames Division of the BMA. He had a patriarchal white beard and twinkling eyes behind gold-rimmed spectacles, was fluent in French, German and Latin, was a skilled mathematician, inventing the rotary prism, and in his leisure hours a skilful chess player representing the county of Surrey. In 1903 he married Ethel Kate, eldest daughter of Ederic Worth of Bournemouth, and she died on 14 December 1951. They had two sons, the elder of whom was in the winning Cambridge crews of 1927 and 1928. He himself died after an operation on 22 July 1954 aged 80.
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First Title value, for Searching Worcester, Reginald George (1903 - 1972)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 13 September 1903 at Omeo, Victoria, Australia, son of R J Worcester, he was educated at Melbourne High School, where he won two leaving scholarships and was a leading lacrosse player and the best rifle-shot, and at the University of Melbourne where he won his lacrosse blue and graduated, with first-class honours in gynaecology and obstetrics, in 1927. After holding resident posts at the Melbourne Hospital and the Women's Hospital he came to England in 1934, worked at St Charles's Hospital and the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, and gained the MRCOG in 1934 and the Surgical Fellowship in 1937. On his return to Melbourne he was appointed to the staff of the Women's Hospital, and was elected FRACS in 1938. His ten years' service in his hospital was interrupted by the second world war, throughout which he was actively engaged in the Australian Army Medical Services, in casualty clearing stations and in command of field ambulances in Borneo and Morotai, then as Assistant Director of Medical Services for the Northern Territory at Darwin, and finally as Colonel in command of 2/9 Army General Hospital; he was awarded the Efficiency Decoration for his war work. Unfortunately he fell victim to persistent amoebiasis and disabling allergies, in spite of which he maintained a busy and useful career for more than twenty years after his return to civil practice. He was gynaecologist to Prince Henry's Hospital 1946-63, and tutor in obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Melbourne for eleven years. He represented Victoria on the Australian Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists between 1948 and 1958 and was elected a Fellow of that College in 1949. His favourite recreation was golf. Worcester married, while in England in 1934, Jean, daughter of C Kerville, who survived him with a son and two daughters. He died on 1 March 1972, aged sixty-eight, after five years illness following a severe cerebral stroke, the ultimate result of his wartime disabilities.
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First Title value, for Searching Ravdin, Isidor Schwaner (1894 - 1972)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-02 2020-08-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Isidor Schwaner Ravdin was born in Evansville, Indiana, on 10 October 1894, his father and grandfather having been doctors. In 1916 he graduated in science at the University of Indiana, and in 1918 in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. After holding junior surgical posts in Philadelphia, in 1927 he came to Edinburgh and spent a year with Sir David Wilkie. He also worked in the physiological laboratory and so laid the foundation of his subsequent researches into physiological and biochemical problems applied to surgery. On his return in 1928 he was made Professor of Surgical Research, and in 1935 Harrison Professor of Surgery. He thus undertook a fantastic programme of clinical and laboratory work, his chief contribution being the introduction of intravenous feeding to overcome malnutrition in surgical patients. He also stimulated by his example and advice a large number of assistants who subsequently distinguished themselves as a result. In the second world war he served in the Eastern theatre and ultimately became the first Major-General in the Medical Corps Army Reserve: After the war he was appointed John Rhea Barton Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery in Philadelphia, retiring in 1959 because he wanted to make way for a younger man, and he became Vice-President for Medical Affairs. Ravdin was awarded many honours including the Presidency of the American Surgical Association in 1958 of the American Cancer Society in 1963, and of the American College of Surgeons in 1960, having been Chairman of its Board of Regents from 1954 to 60. In 1956 he was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1921 he married Betty Glenn who was also a physician, and she was a wonderful support to him in the rest of his strenuous career. Unfortunately in the end he suffered from a chronic illness which incapacitated him mentally and physically and his death on 27 August 1972 came as a merciful release.
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First Title value, for Searching Travers, William (1838 - 1906)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Bowes, Robert Kenneth (1904 - 1958)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 30 October 1904, the son of Joseph Edward Bowes MB, of Keswick, Cumberland, who survived him, Kenneth Bowes was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where his father was in practice. At the University of Liverpool he studied medicine and was awarded the Holt fellowship in physiology in 1928. He was gold medallist in obstetrics and gynaecology. In 1929 he obtained the MB ChB with first-class honours and the MB BS London, also with honours. After qualifying Bowes held resident appointments at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, and in 1931 was appointed surgical registrar at St Thomas's Hospital, London. He was admitted FRCS in 1931, and proceeded to MS London in 1932 and MD in 1935. He decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology, and after holding resident posts in that department at St Thomas's Hospital he finally became consultant surgeon there. He was also a demonstrator of anatomy and Louis Jenner research scholar. He was surgeon to the Grosvenor Hospital for Women and a consultant gynaecologist to the South-Western Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. Bowes was an external examiner for the University of Glasgow and also examined in obstetrics and gynaecology for the Conjoint Board and the University of London. In 1949 he was Arris and Gale lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons; his subject was the superficial veins in the female, and he illustrated his lecture with infrared photographs. In 1955 he was elected FRCOG. He married Phyllis, daughter of Ernest W Miller of Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1933, who survived him with one son. He lived at Guildford, with consulting rooms in Vincent Square, Westminster and he died on 1 February 1958 in St Thomas's Hospital, aged 53. Kenneth Bowes was a quiet, unassuming man, of encyclopaedic knowledge and prodigious memory, which served him well as editor of *Modern Trends in Obstetrics and Gynaecology*. Bowes had little interest in games or sport, and gardening was his chief relaxation. He was held in great affection by all who knew him.
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First Title value, for Searching Stowell, Thomas Edmund Alexander (1887 - 1970)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Radiologist
Details Thomas Edmund Alexander Stowell was born in 1887; he was educated at St Paul's School and St Thomas's Hospital where he was awarded the William Tite Scholarship for 1905-1906. As a postgraduate he studied at Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Zurich, Vienna and Harvard, holding clinical appointments at St Thomas's and the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool. At different times he was honorary surgeon at the Victoria Infirmary Northwich, senior honorary surgeon and radiologist at the Mid-Cheshire Orthopaedic Clinic, Northwich, and a surgeon in the EMS. Possibly his longest and most important appointment was that of chief medical officer to Imperial Chemical Industries, and therefore he was one of the pioneers on the subject of industrial health. A member of the court of examiners for the diploma in industrial health, he was Chairman of the Council of Industrial Medicine and of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Industrial Welfare Society. Senior Vice-President of the Congrès International de Sauvetage et de Premier Secours en Cas d'Accidents, he was for many years interested in accident prevention and first aid instruction and was a lecturer and examiner for the St John Ambulance Association and the British Red Cross Society. A devoted churchman he was a member of the House of Laity of the Church Assembly and was chairman of the Childrens Committee of the London Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare. His surgical activities were seriously curtailed by his developing Dupuytren's contracture, necessitating the amputation of three fingers. At one period he was a lecturer at the London School of Economics, a member of the British Social Hygiene Council, a Member of the Ministry of Pensions Committee on Compensation for Injuries Sustained by Members of HM Forces and many other bodies connected with industrial health, with first aid and safety, and with public morality. A great interest was the solving of historical medical mysteries and he became involved in controversial arguments as to the identity of Jack the Ripper following an article he wrote in *The Criminologist*. He was a keen and distinguished Freemason. In 1913 he married Lilian, elder daughter of W Wagner of Hayle, Cornwall by whom he had a son, who became a doctor, and a daughter who was killed accidentally in 1958. He died on 8 November 1970 in Southampton.
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First Title value, for Searching Bradfield, Sir Ernest William Charles (1880 - 1963)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 28 May 1880, son of W G Bradfield of Moseley. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and St Mary's Hospital, London, where he obtained an open scholarship in science in 1898. He joined the IMS on 31 August 1903 and first saw service on the North-West Frontier in 1908, being awarded a medal with clasp. In the 1914-18 war he was again on the Frontier and later in Mesopotamia and was mentioned in dispatches and promoted Major on 28 February 1915. On 28 February 1923 he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, and in 1924 was appointed Professor of Surgery at the Madras Medical College; during his term there he brought the hospital, the oldest in the country, up to the level of the most modern. In 1933 he served in the Upper Mohmand campaign and was again mentioned in dispatches. He was Honorary Surgeon to the King-Emperor 1935-39 and was Medical Director General of the IMS 1937-39. He was more interested in maintaining the efficiency of the service than in deferring to the movement towards Indianisation, and left India without the customary knighthood. He returned to England in 1939 to become President of the Medical Branch of the India Office and medical adviser to the Secretary of State, holding this position till 1946. Early in the second world war he was sent to India, as a member of the Souttar Commission, to investigate the lack of medical officers for service with the armies of the East owing to the non-co-operation of the Indian Congress Party. He was largely instrumental in the formation of the Indian Army Medical Corps, and was created KCIE in 1941 for his services. Throughout his life he was keenly interested in sport. At St Mary's he represented the Hospital at Rugby football and cricket. During his military service in India while attached to the 31st Lancers he played polo for the regiment, an unusual achievement for a doctor. In 1920 he married Margaret Anne, daughter of H A Barnard of Olton, by whom he had two daughters. He died on 26 October 1963 at Putney Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Cosin, Lionel Zelick (1910 - 1994)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon Geriatrician
Details Lionel Zelick Cosin, son of Benjamin Cosin, a tobacconist, and his wife Mary, née Magoon, was born in London on 8 November 1910. He was educated at Westminster City School and Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1933. His brother, the radiologist Dr C F Cosin, was senior to him at Guy's. His house posts were at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham, and the Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway, under the supervision of Arthur Dickson Wright, Hamilton Bailey and W B Gabriel. He passed the FRCS in 1936. On the outbreak of war he was appointed medical superintendent in the Emergency Medical Service at Orsett Hospital, Essex. It was a move which was to change his life. As well as the daily coach convoys bringing the blitz casualties from London he had also to look after some 300 chronic in-patients. On inspection he found that many were suffering from treatable illnesses and more were in need of active rehabilitation. With enthusiasm and reorganization and with emphasis on an acute approach he achieved a high home return rate, so that only one in five patients was required to be in hospital for over six months. In 1948 he moved to Langhorn Hospital, East London, where he pioneered a day care unit for the mentally ill. In 1950 he was invited to become the Director of Geriatrics, a new specialty, at the United Oxford Hospitals and lecturer to the University and Magdalen College. He established his unit at Cowley Road Hospital and, developing the systems from Orsett, he reduced the average hospital stay from 286 to 51 days. He invented the concept of the 'floating bed' to allow respite short stay for patients. His name rests securely on the development of the geriatric day hospital and he planned the building of a new, purpose-built unit in 1957. This was renamed after him on his retirement in 1972. Lionel Cosin was a prolific and lucid writer, publishing over eighty articles, mainly on geriatric topics. He gained international renown, holding visiting professorships and lecturing to some ninety universities throughout the world. He was also a generous supporter of many Jewish charities. He died on 21 March 1994, survived by his wife Pamela, née Keenlyside, whom he had married in 1941 and their two children, Benjamin and Philippa.
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First Title value, for Searching Lawford, Edward (1820 - 1899)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-20
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Occupation Physician
Details Born at Leighton Buzzard, where his father, William Robinson Lawford, was in practice. He received his professional training at Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury, and after three years became a student of medicine at University College, London. After qualifying he returned in 1844 to Leighton Buzzard, where for forty-four years he was an assiduous practitioner, and for many years Physician to the Infirmary. Loved and respected by all, he retired in 1888, retaining the position of Consulting Physician to the last-named institution. He was also a Certifying Factory Surgeon, and for some years visiting Justice to the Asylums in Bedfordshire, a member of the School Board and the Urban Council, Trustee of many charities, and Vicar's Churchwarden. For years, too, he held a Bible class for youths who, from age, had discontinued attendance at school. He was a great benefactor to the parish church, restored its porches, gave clerestory windows to the nave, and had presented to the parish a house in Beaudesert as a residence for one of the curates. He was interested during the last twenty years of his life in the archaeology of Leighton, and was elected FSA. In 1866 he was President of the South Midland Branch of the British Medical Association. At the time of his death, in addition to holding other posts, he was Hon Local Secretary to the Royal Medical Benevolent College and to the British Medical Benevolent Fund. Lawford was kind, courteous, and, in character estimable, won many friends, and was a prominent citizen of Leighton. His last illness, long and full of suffering, was borne with great fortitude. He died at his residence, Oriel House, Leighton, on October 2nd, 1899, and was buried in the family vault in the churchyard of All Saints' Church. Publications: Early in his career Lawford published several papers in the *Brit Med Jour*. *The Antiquities of Leighton Buzzard*. "Case of Oedema of Glottis, following Accidental Drinking of Sulphuric Acid, in which Tracheotomy was performed." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1859, 942. "Proper Use of Stramonium in Hay Asthma." - *Ibid*, 1860, 657. He was an inventor, and published a paper on his "Tracheal Director to Fix the Trachea and Direct the Knife during the Operation of Tracheotomy." - *Ibid*, 1859, 942 (end of the paper on "Oedema of Glottis" above).
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First Title value, for Searching Heaton, George (1861 - 1924)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The eldest son of George Heaton of Handsworth, connected with the Birmingham Mint and later of Milan, was educated at Clifton College (1873-1880), where he became Head Boy, and then at Magdalen College, Oxford, having obtained a Demyship in Science, from Oct 16th, 1880, to 1885. He obtained 1st Class Honours in the Natural Science School in 1883, but did not graduate BA until 1885. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in October, 1883, winning the Senior Entrance Scholarship and later the Brackenbury Scholarship and the Lawrence Scholarship and Gold Medal. After serving as House Surgeon under Alfred Willett, he returned to Birmingham in 1890 as Resident Surgical Officer at the General Hospital. Whilst holding that post he suffered the misfortune of an infected wound which in some degree lowered his general health and vitality. Elected Assistant Surgeon to the General Hospital in 1891, he acted as Demonstrator of Surgical Pathology and Assistant to the Professor of Surgery, and for eleven years was Lecturer on Operative Surgery. Becoming full Surgeon in 1894 at the age of 33, he served until 1909, when he became Consulting Surgeon. He also acted as Examiner in Surgery at the University of Oxford, and was Surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Counties Hospital for Sick Children, and Consulting Surgeon to the Corbett Hospital, Stourbridge, the Sutton Coldfield Hospital, the Birmingham General Dispensary, the Royal Institution for Deaf and Dumb Children, and the Birmingham Bluecoat School. In 1911 at the Birmingham Meeting of the British Medical Association he was Vice-President of the Section of Diseases of Children. He took a full share in Boards of Management, including the Medical Societies and the Birmingham Medical Benevolent Society. He was a keen golfer and devoted to sailing. He had practised at 47 Newhall Street and had a country house at Woodgate Four Oaks, Warwickshire. He seemed to be recovering from a prolonged attack of phlebitis, when he relapsed and died on August 12th, 1924. He was buried at Handsworth Parish Church. Publications:- Heaton's publications chiefly related to abdominal surgery "Surgical Interference with Diseases of the Stomach." - *Birmingham Med Review*, 1901, xlix, 257. "Operative Treatment of Enlarged Prostate." - *Ibid*, 1903, liii, 355. "Clinical Observations on Some Acute Abdominal Disorders." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1906, I, 142, etc. "Surgical Treatment of Colitis." - *Lancet*, 1909, I, 1678. "Abdominal Section Twice on the Same Patient for Volvulus." - *Ibid*, 1912, I, 430.
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First Title value, for Searching Dinsdale, Reginald Christopher Walter (1926 - 2016)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Chris Dinsdale
Publication Date 2023-07-06
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Reg Dinsdale was born in Leeds on 17 October 1926, son of dentist Reginald BT Dinsdale and of Beatrice May. He decided to follow in his father’s footsteps, gaining his BChD at Leeds University in 1949, where he met Fay, his future wife. After qualification with a distinction in operative dental surgery, he worked as a house officer at Leeds Infirmary before joining the Royal Navy. He later transferred to the Royal Naval Reserve where he gained the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant Commander, gaining the Volunteer Reserve Decoration towards the end of his service. In 1959, he was appointed Consultant and Honorary Lecturer in Sheffield, specialising in oral surgery, after holding training posts at Guys and Newcastle and where he remained until retirement in 1990. He was involved in teaching students from the outset and was known for his kindness and approachability. Many of his past students and colleagues remember his meticulous clinical skills and gentle chair-side manner. Reg was involved in postgraduate education and served as postgraduate dental dean for the Trent region from 1976-81. He played a major part in developing the national vocational training scheme. He also enjoyed research and innovation, publishing over 50 articles and papers, and writing two books. His book, published in 1985 by the *British Dental Journal* aimed at general practitioners, *Viral hepatitis, aids and dental treatment* was a popular reference book and to be found in most dental practices of the time. He felt very privileged to be awarded an honorary MD by the University of Sheffield in 1989 in recognition of his service to the dental profession. He was a lifelong member of the BDA, serving as South Yorkshire Branch President in 1983, and was elected fellow of the BDA in 1989. Reg retired in 1990, and he and Fay had more time to pursue a life-long interest in sailing, together with worldwide travel; however, he was devastated by Fay’s death in 1993. He later married Jill and they were able to enjoy a very happy retirement together until his final illness. Reg died on 9 February 2016 at the age of 89 and leaves Jill, his sons, Christopher, a retired dental surgeon, and Richard, a consultant anaesthetist, together with four grandchildren, three great grandchildren and an extended step family. His passing will be felt not only by his family but many former colleagues and friends who knew or worked with him, both in Sheffield and elsewhere.
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First Title value, for Searching Beck, Diana Jean Kinloch (1902 - 1956)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Born at Chester on 29 June 1902, the only daughter of James and Margaret Beck, she was educated at the Queen's School there and at the London School of Medicine for Women, where she won prizes and scholarships. After a few successful years as a general surgeon, she decided to specialise in neurosurgery and trained in Sir Hugh Cairns's exacting school at Oxford, holding the William Gibson research scholarship awarded by the Royal Society of Medicine in 1939. During the war of 1939-45 she practised and taught at Oxford, Enfield, and Bristol, and was appointed neurosurgeon at the Royal Free Hospital in 1943. She received a remarkable tribute to her abilities in being appointed in 1947 neurosurgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, the first appointment of a woman to the senior staff of a major teaching hospital in London. She quickly made her mark here as surgeon, teacher, and popular member of the community. She published valuable papers in *Brain*, *The British Journal of Surgery*, and elsewhere, her latest work being on the surgical treatment of intracerebral haemorrhage. She served for two years as president of the London Association of the Medical Women's Federation. She was the only woman neurosurgeon of consultant rank in western Europe or North America, and carried her exhausting work and responsibilities with consummate ability in spite of frail physique. She was a woman of naturally fastidious taste and open-hearted generosity. She died suddenly on 3 March 1956, when apparently well on the way to recovery after undergoing thymectomy. A memorial service was held in Middlesex Hospital Chapel on 22 March. She was survived by her two brothers. Publications: Oligodendrogliomatosis of the cerebrospinal pathway, with D S Russell. *Brain* 1942, 65, 352-372. Implantation of acrylic resin discs in rabbits' skulls, with D S Russell and others. *Brit J Surg* 1945, 33, 83-6. Experiments on thrombosis of the superior longitudinal sinus, with D S Russell. *J Neurosurg* 1946, 3, 337-347. Intracranial haemorrhage in closed head injuries. *Arch Middx Hosp* 1954, 4, 231-255. Sequelae of head injuries. *Trans Ass Indust Med Off* 1955, 5, 77-83.
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First Title value, for Searching Fowler, Charles Edward Percy (1866 - 1941)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 27 January 1866 at Milverton Court, near Taunton, Somerset, only son of Charles Edward Fowler, a landowner, and Margaret Goldsmith, his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and at the Bristol Medical School and St Mary's Hospital, London. Fowler was commissioned as surgeon-lieutenant on 29 July 1893, promoted surgeon-captain and captain, RAMC on 29 July 1896, and major on 30 January 1905. He was assistant professor of military hygiene at the Royal Army Medical College from 1903 to 1907, then medical officer of health at Gibraltar from 1907 to 1912. While holding this appointment he accompanied Sir Reginald Lister, the British Minister in Morocco, on a mission to the Sultan at Fez in 1909. After leaving Gibraltar he worked for a time with Sir Ronald Ross on the Malaria Commission in Mauritius, and at one time during the four years' war was engaged on malaria control in India. He was appointed instructor at the Army School of Sanitation on 17 February 1913, and retired on half-pay on 4 February 1914. He rejoined for active service on the outbreak of war in August 1914, was gazetted brevet lieutenant-colonel on 3 June 1917 and lieutenant-colonel on 26 December in the same year, and colonel, AMS on 21 March 1918. He was appointed a staff sanitary officer on 27 July 1915, and Assistant Director of Medical Services on 20 January 1919. He served as DADMS in the Aldershot Command from 1914 to September 1916, and as ADMS Sanitation with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force as well as in India. He was mentioned in despatches several times and was decorated OBE in 1917. Fowler married on 2 October 1894 Mary Dorothy Hopper Boulton who survived him with one son, Major A G H Fowler, MC, Coldstream Guards, and one daughter, who married Lt-Col R B Colvin, Grenadier Guards. He died after a long illness at Garth End, Wickham Bishops, Essex on 21 January 1941. Mrs Fowler died on 8 May 1942. Fowler had been a keen sportsman, and enjoyed tiger shooting when in India. Publications:- Outbreak of food poisoning after a Christmas dinner. *J Roy Army med Corps*, 1909, 13, 271. Mediterranean fever in Gibraltar in 1909. *Ibid*. 1910, 15, 54. Malarial fever in Gibraltar. *Ibid*. 1911, 16, 625. A short note on blood culture. *Ibid*. 1912, 18, 574.
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First Title value, for Searching Read, Sir Charles David (1902 - 1957)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist Pathologist
Details Born on 22 December 1902 at Dunedin, New Zealand the son of J J Read, he entered the medical school of Otago University in 1920, qualifying in 1924 with the medal in clinical medicine. After holding resident appointments at Dunedin Hospital, he came to England for postgraduate study in obstetrics and gynaecology, working for several years as registrar and tutor at the Chelsea Hospital for Women, Charing Cross Hospital and Westminster Hospital. For five years he was pathologist to the Chelsea Hospital for Women, being duly appointed surgeon to that hospital. He was also surgeon to Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and the Postgraduate Hospital, Hammersmith, becoming Director of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Postgraduate Medical School in 1950. He served as secretary and vice-president of the obstetrical division of the Royal Society of Medicine, and became President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1955. He travelled extensively and was an honorary member of the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynaecologists and Abdominal Surgeons, the American Gynaecological Society, the South African Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the Athens Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. A formidable figure, he stood six foot four inches in height. Early in his career in England he impressed Victor Bonney with his potentialities both as a surgeon and a personality. As a result he was encouraged to remain in London and become a consultant. A fine teacher and a skilful and delicate operator in spite of his large size he attracted postgraduates from all over the world. He never spared himself either in work or in relaxation, being a keen and experienced yachtsman. He, together with Terence Millin, operated and administered a very successful private clinic at 31 Queen's Gate, SW. In association with Douglas MacLeod he edited the 5th edition of Edward Lockyer's *Gynaecology* and was engaged with MacLeod on a revision of Bonney's *Textbook of Gynaecological Surgery*. He married twice, having two sons by each marriage, his second wife being Dr S Edna Wilson. While he was on holiday aboard his yacht he died aged 54 at the zenith of his career on 21 August 1957.
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First Title value, for Searching Hope, Charles William Menelaus (1880 - 1949)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-17
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born 20 June 1880 at 11 Eldon Square, Newcastle-on-Tyne, the youngest child, with a brother and a sister, of John Hope, MRCS 1865, and Jessie Anne Martin, his wife. John Hope died in February 1883, and the children were brought up by their grandfather. Charles Hope was educated at Clifton College and the Newcastle Medical School, graduating in the University of Durham in 1903. After holding resident posts at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, he came to London in 1908 as resident anaesthetist at St Mary's Hospital, and later became clinical assistant to G William Hill, MD, in the throat department. He was also registrar and assistant surgeon to the Throat Hospital, Golden Square. He transferred to King's College Hospital on appointment as assistant surgeon for diseases of the throat under Sir St Clair Thomson in 1914, and became surgeon for the throat and nose in 1922, and senior surgeon to the ear, nose, and throat departments on their amalgamation in 1932; he retired in 1941 as consulting surgeon. He was also consulting surgeon to the ear, nose, and throat departments of Finchley Memorial Hospital, and to the nose and throat department of the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark. He served at the St John's Ambulance Brigade Hospital in France with the British Expeditionary Force during the first world war 1914-18, with the honorary rank of major, RAMC. He was created OBE and Officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. In the second world war he served as full-time surgeon, 1939-41, at Horton Hospital, Epsom, under the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service. Hope practised at 13 Queen Anne Street, W; he retired, owing to ill-health, in 1941 to 5 The Avenue, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, where he died, aged 68, on 21 April 1949. A memorial service was held in King's College Hospital chapel. Hope never married. His recreations were gardening and carpentry, and he took a yearly holiday salmon-fishing in Scotland. "Charlie" Hope was a man of generous and kindly nature; as a surgeon, he was thorough, patient, and gentle. He was honorary secretary 1923-26, and president, from 1926 for many years, of the Students Club and Societies' Union at King's College Hospital. He left a third of the residue of his fortune to King's College Hospital, and two-thirds to its Medical School.
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First Title value, for Searching Lock, Norman Francis (1885 - 1972)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Wright, Garnett (1878 - 1945)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Whitehaven, Cumberland, on 23 August 1878, the third child and second son of Robert Wright, banker, of the Whitehaven Bank, and his wife, *née* Todd. He was educated at St Bee's Grammar School and Edinburgh University, where he graduated with honours. After holding resident posts at Weston-super-Mare, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Man-chester (Ancoats Hospital), and Leicester Royal Infirmary, he settled in practice at Manchester and was elected to the surgical staff of Ancoats. In 1910 however he was elected surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Salford, to which he transferred, and became senior surgeon there in 1918. In 1938 he retired from half his beds under the sixty-years-of-age rule; but on the outbreak of war a year later he again undertook a full share of work. He was also surgeon to the Royal Deaf Schools, Old Trafford, and consulting surgeon to Eccles and Patricroft Hospital. He served for a time as lecturer in surgical pathology and operative surgery at Man-chester University. Wright took an active part in professional societies, serving as president of the Manchester Pathological, Surgical, and Medical Societies; the last-named in 1936, when he gave his presidential address on thyroid operation. In 1929 he was vice-president of the section of surgery at the Manchester meeting of the British Medical Association. He acted as editor for a collective inquiry into gastro-jejunal ulceration made by the Association of Surgeons in 1935. Wright practised at 14 St John Street, Manchester, and lived at Thornfield, Broad Road, Sale. He had bought a house, to retire to, in his native Cumberland a month before his death. Wright married in 1912 Lucy J Thornton, who survived him with a son and two daughters. He died in Salford Royal Infirmary, after two days' illness, on 29 August 1945, aged 66. While surgeon to Ancoats Hospital, Wright had as a colleague Craven Moore, MD, who encouraged his interest in gastric pathology. Wright remained a general surgeon, but was chiefly interested in gastric and thyroid operations. He was a quiet, unobtrusive, but companionable man. His sound sense, judgment, and acuity made him a valued committee-man. He was a musician and a singer. Publications: Primary sarcoma of the vermiform appendix. *Brit med J* 1911, 2, 150. Secondary jejunal and gastro-jejunal ulceration. *Brit J Surg* 1919, 6, 390. Collective inquiry into gastro-jejunal ulceration, edited for the Association of Surgeons. *Brit J Surg* 1935, 22, 433. Thyroid operations, presidential address, Manchester Medical Society, 1936.
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First Title value, for Searching Billington, William (1876 - 1932)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Elton Hall, Sandbach, Cheshire on 16 June 1876, the eldest son of Charles Billington. He was educated at Sandbach Grammar School and at Wellington College, Salop (Wrekin school), where he became head of the school and acted for a time as secretary to Sir John Bayley, its master and founder. He began his medical studies with a scholarship at Mason College, Birmingham, where amongst other distinctions he won the Ingleby scholarship in gynaecology. He afterwards entered King's College, London, and in 1899 graduated at London University with first-class honours and the gold medal in obstetric medicine. Returning to Birmingham he served at the Queen's Hospital as house physician to Dr Arthur Foxwell and as house surgeon to Prof C Jordan Lloyd and became acting resident pathologist at the General Hospital. In 1902 he was elected surgeon to out-patients at the Queen's Hospital, where he was surgeon from 1913. He was appointed professor of surgery at the University of Birmingham in 1924, holding the chair jointly with Seymour Barling, FRCS. He joined the first southern general hospital at the beginning of the war in 1914, and was placed in charge of the centre for jaw and facial injuries. In 1913 he was largely instrumental in founding St Chad's Hospital, the first institution in this country to provide expert medical and surgical treatment with skilled nursing for patients who could not afford high fees and were yet unwilling to enter a hospital supported by voluntary contributions. He devoted much time and thought to hospital administration, was chairman of the medical committee of the Queen's Hospital, and worked hard in the cause of the hospital centre for Birmingham University. He was a past president of the Midland Medical Society. He married in 1906 Winifred Cooke of Edgbaston, who survived him with a daughter and three sons. He died on 7 February 1932 at 58 Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. Billington was cool and dexterous as a surgeon, neat as regards his technique and scrupulous in detail; as a colleague he was helpful in advising and guiding his juniors; as a lecturer he was clear and convincing; as a teacher able and painstaking. Publications:- *Moveable kidney; its etiology, pathology, diagnosis, symptoms and treatment*, London, 1910; 2nd ed 1929. Indications for nephropexy. *Brit med J*. 1909, 1, 1055. Surgical treatment of chronic ulcer of the body of the stomach. *Ibid*. 1922, 2, 34. Bone-grafting of the mandible with a report of seven cases, with H Round. *Brit J Surg*. 1926, 13, 497.
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First Title value, for Searching Luce, Sir Richard Harman (1867 - 1952)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Malmesbury, Wiltshire on 13 July 1867 the second son of Colonel J R Luce DL, JP and Mary Visger his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1889, and graduated in medicine in 1893. He received his clinical training at Guy's Hospital, qualifying through the Conjoint examination in 1893 and taking the Fellowship in 1894. After holding resident posts at Guy's and at York County Hospital, he started to practise as a consultant at Derby. He was appointed surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and to the Hospital for Sick Children, and became consulting surgeon to the Cottage hospitals at Ripley and Wirksworth. He was interested from the first in the Volunteer movement, and after the foundation of the Territorial force he served as Assistant Director of Medical Services for its North-Midland division from 1909 to 1913. In the war of 1914-18 he saw active service in the Middle East, and was created CB in the military division 1916 and CMG 1918. He was Director of Medical Services with the Egyptian expeditionary force 1918-19, with the rank of Major-General AMS, and was knighted KCMG for his war service in 1919. He was also awarded the Volunteer and Territorial decorations. After his return to Derby he took a prominent part in its public affairs, and represented the borough in Parliament as a conservative from 1924 to 1929. In the British Medical Association he was a member of the council, and chairman of the Hospital committee. He retired in 1930 to Romsey, Hampshire, where he became Mayor from 1935 to 1937, and was President of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 1939 and 1943-54. He wrote accounts of the abbeys at Malmesbury and Romsey, and was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Luce married in 1897 Mary Irene, daughter of Dr John Scott of Bournemouth. They lived latterly at Chirk Lodge, Romsey, where he died on 21 February 1952 aged 84. Lady Luce survived him with one son, Air-Commodore Charles J Luce, and three daughters. Their younger son died before his father, in India. The funeral took place in Romsey Abbey. Publications: A case of sub-cortical tumour of the brain removed by operation; recovery. *Lancet* 1904, 2, 1715. *Pages from the history of the Benedictine monestary at Malmesbury*. Devizes 1930. *Pages from the history of Romsey and its abbey*. 1948.
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First Title value, for Searching Pendered, John Hawkes (1888 - 1972)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Military surgeon
Details John Hawkes Pendered was born on 7 September 1888 at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Wellingborough School and Caius College, Cambridge where he gained first class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1909. He then proceeded to the London Hospital where he did well in all his examinations and won the Sutton Prize in pathology. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1912, got the Cambridge MB in 1913 and the FRCS in 1914. After holding a number of junior hospital posts at the London Hospital he joined the RAMC at the outbreak of the first world war and was soon sent to France where he served for the rest of the war, at first in a Field Ambulance and then as DADMS. In 1916 he was awarded the French Silver Medal of Honour, and in 1917 was mentioned in despatches and won the Military Cross. He remained in the Army till 1923, serving as a Major in Malta where he wrote a thesis on infective hepatitis for which he was awarded the MD degree. When he left the Army he went into general practice in Southampton. In 1939 he was called up for army service and was in France until Dunkirk. He was then sent to the Middle East as Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of the surgical division of various hospitals, in one of which, in 1943, King Farouk was admitted with a fractured pelvis. After caring for him Pendered was awarded the Order of the Nile, Third Class. In 1944 he was released from the RAMC and returned to Southampton where he continued to practise till 1967 when he retired at the age of 79. He was a dedicated doctor, respected for his diagnostic skill and warm sympathy. He was also a cultured person with a particular interest in European history and Shakespearean theatre. He had been a first class tennis player, and kept up his fishing and bridge playing to the end. In 1921 he married Margaret Singer, a nurse at King's College Hospital, and they had two sons and three daughters; one son became medically qualified at the London Hospital, and a daughter became a nurse at King's College Hospital. John Pendered died on 30 July 1972, a week after a fall in which he fractured his skull. His wife and family survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, John Henry Milnes (1902 - 1984)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details John Henry Milnes Walker was born on 16 March 1902 in Wakefield, the son of John William Walker and his wife Constance Elizabeth, née Holdsworth. His father and grandfather had both been surgeons on the staff of Clayton Hospital and his wife's father had been a physician there. He was educated at Oundle School where he won the Bucknill exhibition to University College London in 1920. He qualified from University College Hospital MB, BS in 1925. Whilst holding house appointments at Salford and Reading Hospitals he passed the primary FRCS and obtained the MRCP. He joined his cousin in general practice in Hale, Cheshire, and shortly after completed the FRCS. He was then appointed honorary surgeon to Altrincham Hospital, the first general practitioner surgeon on their staff to have held the FRCS. In his spare time he continued his surgical training by watching surgeons in Manchester and acting as assistant in the urological unit at Salford Royal Hospital. In 1942 he joined the RAMC and served in Nigeria, India and Malaya. He was OC Surgical Division 134 IBGH with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. On demobilisation he was appointed consultant surgeon to Crewe District Memorial Hospital in 1946. He did much to organise this new hospital and built up a reputation for training of his juniors and care of his patients. From 1964 to 1972 he was an examiner in surgery at Manchester University. In 1962 he was President of the Manchester Surgical Society. In 1931 he married Mary Moon and they had four daughters, Gillian, Phyllida, Primrose and Nicolette. Gillian, the eldest, studied medicine at University College Hospital but gave up her course to marry Geoffrey C Mansfield an anaesthetist and general practitioner in Paignton. The youngest daughter, Nicolette Coward was the first woman to sail the Atlantic solo from Dale, Pembroke to Newport, Rhode Island in 1971. He retired in 1967 to live in the house that he had designed at Bickerton, Cheshire. He devoted most of his time to the Council for the Preservation of Rural England and the Cheshire Conservation Trust. He had a wide range of other interests including gardening, painting and architecture and he made a special study of church spires, visiting them and making notes. His wife sadly died in 1975 and he moved to near Oxford before his final move to Dartmouth in 1982 to be near three of his four daughters. He died on 18 October 1984 survived by his daughters and his younger brother, Professor Robert Milnes Walker, FRCS 1928 (qv), who died the following year.
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First Title value, for Searching Helal, Basil (1927 - 2007)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-01-24
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Basil Helal was an orthopaedic surgeon at Enfield, as well as at the London and Royal National Orthopaedic hospitals. He was born in Cairo on 28 October 1927, the son of Ibrahim Helal, director general of the state railways, and Helena née Sommerville. He was educated at the English School in Cairo, where he won prizes for literature, science and mathematics, and then entered the London Hospital, where he swam for the hospital and the university. After house appointments at the London, he became orthopaedic registrar to the United Liverpool Hospitals and then at the London, where he came under the influence of Sir Reginald Watson-Jones and Sir Henry Osmond-Clarke. He completed his orthopaedic training as a senior registrar at St George’s Hospital and the Woking and Chertsey Group of Hospitals, before his appointment as consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Enfield Group of Hospitals in 1965. He remained at Enfield until 1988, in the meantime becoming an honorary consultant to the London Hospital and, towards the end of his career, consultant hand surgeon to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Basil Helal’s orthopaedic interests were wide, but he was particularly interested in the surgery of the hand and foot, and the surgical treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. He also had a long standing interest in sports injuries and was orthopaedic adviser to the British Olympic Association over five Olympics. He was a member of innumerable medical societies at home and abroad, and a regular attendee at their meetings, holding high office in many of them, including the presidency of the orthopaedic section of the Royal Society of Medicine, the British Society for the Surgery of the Hand, and the Hunterian Society. He published extensively and contributed to several orthopaedic text books, and in retirement wrote a biography of the German surgeon Richard von Volkmann. Basil was a good all-round sportsman with a charming personality which made him a popular life member of the Savage Club. He married Stella Feldman, a fellow junior doctor in 1952, with whom he had two daughters (Dina and Amanda) and a son (Adam). They divorced shortly before her death in 1977 and he married Susan Livett, a theatre sister, whom he had known for many years, with whom he had two sons (Matthew and Simon). He died at his retirement home in Dornoch, Scotland, on 17 July 2007, after several years of declining health.
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First Title value, for Searching McConnell, Adams Andrew (1884 - 1972)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Baker, Joel Wilson (1905 - 1999)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2013-06-06 2020-08-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Joel Wilson Baker was chair of the department of surgery at Virginia Mason Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, USA. He was born in Shenandoah, Virginia, in 1905 and studied medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, qualifying MD in 1928. He moved to Seattle in 1930 to join a group of fellow Virginians at the Mason Clinic, which had been founded James Tate Mason (the clinic was subsequently named the Virginia Mason Hospital and Medical Center). There he served an internship, and subsequently a preceptorship, with Mason, during which time he travelled to observe great surgeons such as William Mayo and Frank Lahey. He was subsequently appointed to the staff at Virginia Mason. In 1945 the University of Washington began developing a medical school, despite not having a designated teaching hospital. Baker strongly supported this development and invited physicians from the university to treat their patients at the Virginia Mason Hospital. He stayed at the hospital for 42 years, holding the position as chief of surgery for 34 years and serving as chair of the clinic between 1945 and 1964, finally retiring at the age of 65. He was generally acknowledged to be a fine clinician, an excellent surgical technician and a wise and effective administrator. During his time at Virginia Mason he made a number of surgical innovations, including a novel technique for non-surgical drainage of obstructed intestine. He published 136 papers, several chapters in textbooks, and made a number of instructional films under the sponsorship of the American College of Surgeons. He was particularly interested in the postgraduate training of surgeons and developed a general surgical residency programme at the Virginia Mason in the early 1940s. The programme is now the oldest such training programme in the northwest. In 1951 he founded, and was president of, the Washington chapter of the American College of Surgeons. He went on to serve the American College of Surgeons at a national level: from 1955 to 1965 he was on the board of regents and served as president from 1969 to 1970. From 1955 to 1960 he was elected as a director of the American Board of Surgery, and from 1971 to 1972 he was president of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association. He was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1971 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1974. Joel Wilson Baker died on 4 July 1999, aged 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, Sir Herbert Mackay (1851 - 1912)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-16
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Occupation Naval surgeon
Details The second son of John Ellis, of The Elms, Chudleigh, Devon. He was educated at St George's Hospital, and entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon in 1875. He served with the Battalion of Royal Marines (Artillery) throughout the Egyptian Campaign in 1882, being present at the engagements of Kassassin on August 28th and September 9th, and at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir. He was mentioned in despatches and received the Egyptian Medal with Clasp for Tel-el-Kebir, and the Khedive's Bronze Star, and for his active services was specially promoted to the rank of Staff Surgeon. He was promoted Fleet Surgeon in June, 1891, and was Principal Medical Officer of HMS *Victoria*, the flagship of Sir George Tryon, when that vessel was sunk off Tripoli after collision with HMS *Camperdown* on June 22nd, 1893, the Admiral, 21 other officers, and 350 men being drowned. Becoming Deputy Inspector-General in 1899, he served for three years in charge of Bermuda Hospital. He was promoted Inspector-General in February, 1904, was in charge of Haslar Hospital for a few months, and in September was made Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy, holding this position till May, 1908, when he voluntarily retired. His services, although notable, did not differ in a great degree from the ordinary run of service until he was made Medical Director-General in 1904. He succeeded to this post under circumstances of considerable difficulty. Reform was in the air and was urgently required in the medical department as well as elsewhere. Unfortunately the initiative in medical matters had to a considerable extent drifted from the medical department, and it was to regain this initiative that Sir Herbert directed his efforts. By his force of character and absolute straightforwardness he attained his object, and in this way, although no notable reforms were carried out in his time, he paved the way to their possibility in the future. From 1905-1910 he was Honorary Physician to King Edward VII, and to King George from his accession. Sir Herbert Mackay Ellis commanded attention by his fine physique and presence. In 1893 he married Mary Lily, eldest daughter of G B Ellicombe, of Rocklands, Chudleigh, Devon. He left no family. He died on September 30th, 1912, at his residence, Leavesden, Weybridge.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, William Stirk (1896 - 1978)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details William Stirk Adams was born at Acocks Green, Worcestershire, on 31 May 1896 and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. His father was a schoolmaster. He won an entrance scholarship to Birmingham University in 1915. He served as a Surgeon Probationer RNVR in 1916 to 1917; qualified MRCS LRCP in 1919 and served as Surgeon Lieutenant RN from 1919 to 1921. He took the MB ChB in 1921 and after house posts and resident surgical officer at the General Hospital, Birmingham, he was appointed assistant surgeon to the throat and ear department at that hospital in 1926. He was appointed honorary aural surgeon to the Children's Hospital, Birmingham, in 1931. He travelled extensively and studied at leading continental otolaryngological clinics. With the formation of the United Birmingham Hospitals he became honorary surgeon to the throat and ear department and continued to serve until his retirement in 1961. During the second world war, in the absence of junior colleagues in the Services, he carried an enormous clinical burden, holding honorary appointments at Ellen Badger Hospital, Shipston-on-Stour, the Royal Cripples' Hospital, Birmingham, the City of Birmingham Mental Hospitals, Sutton Coldfield Cottage Hospital and Tamworth General Hospital. He was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1944. He was a member of the Medical Research Council Committee on the Prevention of Deafness from 1944 to 1947 and carried out extensive and important research work on tubotympanic deafness in children. He wrote regularly on his specialty. Stirk Adams taught his students with a thoroughness and conscientiousness that earned their admiration and respect so that his opinion was greatly sought after by general practitioners and colleagues. He had the reputation of being a hard taskmaster and to his juniors it was immediately apparent that in his clinical work he was a perfectionist. He would tolerate nothing slipshod or second rate. His enthusiasm for postgraduate education led to the foundation in 1947 of the Midland Institute of Otology, of which he was the first President, and to the formation of the Nursing Association of that Institute. This greatly enhanced the recruitment of nurses to the specialty of otolaryngological nursing. A bachelor, behind a somewhat austere exterior he was a sensitive and shy man with deep religious convictions who fought strenuously for those things in which he believed. He enjoyed his leisure to the full being a keen sailor in his younger days and a knowledgeable gardener and keeper of bees. He died on 1 February 1978 at the age of 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Rose, Dame Hilda Nora (1891 - 1982)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-24
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 11 August 1891 to John Shufflebotham, a Birmingham grocer, Hilda was educated at King Edward's High School for Girls and at the University of Birmingham where, with the reluctant consent of her father, she studied medicine. She graduated BSc in 1914 and MB ChB two years later, and obtained a wealth of practical experience, especially in obstetrics, during the war when many of her senior colleagues were away in the forces. She also held postgraduate appointments at the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women and the London Hospital. It is said that her competence so impressed her seniors that one of them offered to resign in her place if she could obtain her FRCS and this she did without difficulty in 1920. Soon after her appointment as consultant to the Maternity and Women's Hospital in Birmingham she acquired an enormous practice especially among her colleagues' wives. When, in 1943 Professor Sir Beckwith Whitehouse died, she was appointed his successor, holding the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University for the next eleven years. She had taken the MRCOG in 1935 and was made FRCOG the next year. She became President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1949 - characteristically insisting that her predecessor, the royal gynaecologist Sir William Gilliatt remain in office long enough to admit the Queen (now the Queen Mother) to the Honorary Fellowship. She was created DBE in 1951 and Honorary LLD of her own university in 1958. She married a colleague, Bertram Lloyd, in 1930 and their supremely happy marriage ended in 1948 when he died after a long period of ill health through which Dame Hilda nursed him with loving care. In 1949 she married Baron Theodore Rose (qv) with whom she had graduated in 1916. They retired early together to live near Ross-on-Wye. Baron Rose died in 1978 and Dame Hilda moved nearer to Birmingham where she continued an active social life in the University and hospital, even superintending all the details of her 90th birthday party before dying on 18 July 1982, one of the most distinguished women doctors of her generation.
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First Title value, for Searching Berry, Lynton McHardie (1922 - 1979)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Lynton McHardie Berry was born on 19 August 1922 at Wellington, New Zealand; his father was Leonard James Berry, a business manager, and his mother was Gertrude Elaine Lawry, the daughter of a Minister of Religion. He was educated at Hataitai School, Rongatai College, and then entered Victoria University, Wellington, at the age of 16 1/2 years. His academic experience, so apparent to his classmates and teachers at the Otago Medical School, was reflected in the awards he won which included a senior scholarship in medicine in 1942, the Scott Medal for anatomy and the Christie Prize for applied anatomy. He qualified in 1945 and then held appointments as anatomy demonstrator in Dunedin, house surgeon and surgical registrar, Wellington Hospital Board. He married Ethel May Roberts of Dannevirke in 1948 and they had three sons. He travelled to England for further training and held posts as senior surgical registrar at St Mary's Hospital, Plaistow, 1950-1951 and orthopaedic registrar at Gravesend and Rochester Hospital in 1952. He obtained the FRCS in 1951 and later the FRACS. On returning to New Zealand Lynton Berry was appointed superintendent and surgeon to the Hawera Hospital Board, holding this post from 1952 to 1963. He gave distinguished service during this period which included a surgical service to the people of South Taranaki, long remembered. In 1963 he was appointed medical superintendent-in-chief to the North Canterbury Board where major developments occurred including the transfer of psychiatric hospitals to the control of hospital boards, setting up a clinical school of medicine in Christchurch and extending hospital board services into the community. To this position, largely administrative, Lynton Berry brought a first class brain, prodigious capacity for memory and an exemplary code of conduct. He showed an innate kindness and humane approach to everyone he encountered. He never allowed any disagreements over work to interfere with personal relationships. His interests were wide and included hockey and bowls and at various times he was a New Zealand hockey umpire, President of the New Zealand Hockey Association and President of the Elmwood Bowling Club in Christchurch. A major pastime was playing contract bridge and he had a long association with Rotary. Office-bearing was also a feature of his membership of the New Zealand Medical Superintendents' Association, serving on various committees and as President for a term. He had a lifelong interest and talent for music. He died on 15 April 1979 aged 57 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Roughton, Edmund Wilkinson (1863 - 1913)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-20
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Occupation Dental surgeon General surgeon
Details Son of a naval officer; studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he had a brilliant career, and gained many honours at the London University. He was successively House Surgeon, Ophthalmic House Surgeon, Resident Midwifery Assistant, and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy from 1886-1890, at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1890 he was appointed, at St Mary's Hospital, Demonstrator of Anatomy and later Warden of the College, holding the posts for seven years. In the meantime he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, Lecturer on Surgery at the London School of Medicine for Women, and Surgeon in Charge of the Throat and Ear Department. A tall, handsome man, he was apt to assume a rather brusque, superior manner, and his temperament did not allow him to subordinate his views to those of his seniors. Hence he lost their support, and when a vacancy occurred for an Assistant Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital he was not elected. As regards diagnosis and skill as an operator he well maintained his early promise without devoting himself to original research. Whilst a House Surgeon he had added to Cline's side splint a foot-piece to prevent extension of the foot when a Pott's fracture was treated on the side, and this splint was named after him. He was Visiting Surgeon to the National Dental Hospital, and published some good communications on oral sepsis and cancer of the mouth, as well as a *Text-book of Oral Surgery* (8vo, London, 1898) for the use of dental students. In the Special Throat and Ear Department he operated skilfully on the mastoid antrum and nasal septum. He was Examiner in Elementary Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1895. Nearly a year before his death he found that he was suffering from inoperable intestinal cancer. He retired from 38 Queen Anne Street to Lauderdale Mansions, Marylebone, but continued his hospital work as long as possible, courageously and uncomplainingly facing the end, which occurred on June 10th, 1913. He married but left no children. His portrait accompanies the obituary notice in the *Lancet* (1913, i, 1685, 1775) by his colleague, Dr Walter Carr, and a biographical notice by A S W appeared in the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Journal* (1912-13, xx, 182).
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First Title value, for Searching Levick, Harry Driffield (1866 - 1958)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 13 November 1866, he was educated at St Thomas's Hospital. After holding resident posts at the Whitechapel Infirmary, the General Lying-in Hospital, Lambeth, the Seamen's Hospital, Ramsgate, and the Royal Free Hospital, and going for a time as a ship's surgeon, he settled when he was about thirty in general practice at Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and was appointed surgeon to the North Ormesby Hospital. He soon began to specialise as a surgical consultant, developing his own nursing home, and became consulting surgeon to Guisborough General Hospital and the Adela Shaw Orthopaedic Hospital, Kirby Moorside. Levick was ambidexterous and a fast and brilliant operator. He was also a man of abounding vitality and became the leading surgeon in that countryside and a prominent citizen of Middlesbrough. Continuing his active life to an advanced age he acquired and was able to use a vast experience of surgery. He was the first Fellow of the College to settle in Middlesbrough and a pioneer of scientific surgery there. During the war of 1914-18 he served in France as a surgical specialist at an advanced casualty clearing station, and said that he there gained valuable experience from the satisfactory results of immediate surgical treatment of injuries. He had been chairman of the Cleveland division of the British Medical Association in 1915, and on his return to civil practice in 1918 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace. He was a town councillor for twenty-three years, and was Mayor in 1931 the centenary year of the Corporation. He was a commissioner for taxes, medical referee for workmen's compensation, and assessor to the County Court Judge. He was also President of the local branch of the British Legion and Past Master of the lodge of Freemasons. He promoted the Boy Scout movement, and was active in schemes for improving public health. He advocated smoke abatement by restricting open fires in private houses, and planned the housing of the tuberculous in open estates. At the end of his life he gave his house and grounds to the Corporation with an endowment for erecting and maintaining bungalows for the old. As a young man he played tennis and later golf, and enjoyed shooting and fishing. He died at his house, Willerby, 90 Cambridge Road, Middlesbrough on 23 July 1958 aged 91, survived by his wife; it was the eve of their diamond wedding-day (24 July 1898).
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First Title value, for Searching Foster, Phillip Stanley (1885 - 1965)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Phillip Foster was born in April 1885 and first lived in Timaru. He was educated in Hawera and later went to the Otago Boys' School. His medical education took place at Otago University where he qualified in 1909. Foster began his medical career at Christchurch Hospital, an association which was to continue in various capacities until his retirement in 1959. After holding resident costs he went to England for postgraduate study, obtaining his English Fellowship in 1912. In 1914 he returned to Christchurch and was at once appointed honorary surgeon to Christchurch Hospital, a position he held until 1939 when the name was changed to that of visiting surgeon. During the first world war he served on the hospital ship *Mahene* but returned immediately to Christchurch in 1918. In 1934 he became the first Director of Surgical Services and continued in that capacity until his retirement. In addition to his other qualifications, Foster was one of the Foundation Fellows of the College of Surgeons of Australasia, as it was called before being granted a Royal Charter. He was also for many years a member of the New Zealand Committee of that College as well as being for a term a member of the Court of Examiners. In national affairs he was a member and later Chairman of the Medical Council of New Zealand, and in 1938 he was President of the New Zealand branch of the BMA on the occasion of their annual meeting in Christchurch. Foster was a foundation member of the Christchurch Rotary Club and held the office of President and later District Governor of that association. In 1953 his work in New Zealand was recognised by being made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George and he received his award on the occasion of the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to New Zealand in 1954. Apart from his profession Foster was a keen cricketer and played for the West Christchurch Cricket Club for 20 years. He was an enthusiastic golfer and his interest is perpetuated in the Foster Cup at the Shirley Golf Club. During many weekends he also held mixed tennis parties at his home which were greatly appreciated by all his guests. Foster travelled widely and was one of the pioneers of neurosurgery in New Zealand until the establishment of the neurosurgical unit at Dunedin. Foster died on 19 April 1965 after a long illness, and was survived by his wife and three daughters, two of whom were married.
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First Title value, for Searching Bell, Thomas (1792 - 1880)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-06
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Occupation Dental surgeon Zoologist
Details Born at Poole, Dorsetshire, on October 11th, 1792, the only son of Thomas Bell, a surgeon. He entered Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals in 1813 and was appointed Dental Surgeon to Guy's Hospital in 1817, holding the post and lecturing on Dental Anatomy until 1861. In 1836 he was appointed Professor of Zoology at King's College, having already lectured on the subject of comparative anatomy at Guy's Hospital. He was elected FRS in 1828 and was one of the Secretaries from 1848-1853. He was for eleven years a Vice-President of the Zoological Society, where he had been one of the originators of the scientific meetings. He was President of the Linnean Society from 1853-1861, and under his guidance the society advanced greatly, and in spite of strong Government opposition became housed in Burlington House. He was also President of the Ray Society from its foundation in 1843 until 1859. He died at Selborne in Hampshire at The Wakes, which he had bought from Gilbert White's grandniece, on March 13th, 1880. Bell was a pioneer in raising dentistry to the rank of a profession - work which was continued by Salter and by the Tomes - father and son. His work, *On the Anatomy and Diseases of the Teeth*, published 8vo, London, 1829 (2nd ed, 1835), was largely a compilation from Hunter, Blake, and Fox. He was a very good administrator, and a man of such attractive manners as to gain the confidence of young and old in every class of life. He published a classic edition of White's *Natural History of Selborne* in 1877, with a pleasing memoir of Gilbert White. In his house at Selborne he made a collection of relics and memorials of White, which he was always willing to show to admirers of the naturalist. A fine mezzotint portrait of Bell by Nobel after the painting by Taples is in the College Collection. Publications: *History of British Quadrupeds, including the Cetacea*, 8vo, London, 1837; 2nd ed (with R F TOMES and E R ALSTON), 1874. *History of British Reptiles*, 8vo, London, 1839. *History of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea*, 8vo, London, 1853. *Monograph of Testudinata*, 8 parts, fol, London, 1833-42. *Monograph on Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea*, 4to, London (Palaeontographical Society), 1857-62. "On Chelonia of the London Clay" in *Fossil Reptilia of London Clay* (with R Owen), 4to, London (Palaeontographical Society), i, 1849-58. *Catalogue of Crustacea in the British Museum* i, *Leucosiadoe*, 12mo, London, 1855.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Sidney Maynard (1875 - 1928)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on September 20th, 1875, the son of a civil engineer holding an Admiralty appointment at Chatham. He was educated at Epsom College, where he gained the entrance scholarship in Science to St Mary's Hospital in 1893, and served as House Surgeon to Edmund Owen (qv) in 1898. He served in the South African War as Civil Surgeon with the 3rd Battalion Welsh Regiment, gaining the Queen's Medal with two Clasps, and on his return to London he was elected House Surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea, in 1901, was Assistant Surgeon in 1907-1914, but was never full Surgeon. At St Mary's Hospital he was appointed Surgical Registrar in 1904, Demonstrator of Anatomy in 1905, Surgeon to Out-patients with charge of the Orthopedic Department in 1906, and full Surgeon on the resignation of J Ernest Lane (qv) in 1922. Maynard Smith was also Surgeon to the London Fever Hospital, to Epsom College, to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Ealing, and to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institute for Girls, and was for many years Hon Secretary to the Old Epsomian Society. During the European War he was appointed Surgeon-in-Chief to the St John Ambulance Brigade in 1914, and proceeded to France early in 1915 with the Hon rank of Major. He quickly made a reputation both as an administrator and as a surgeon, was appointed Consulting Surgeon to the Fifth Army in 1916, and was chiefly responsible for the treatment of the wounded during the great battles for Passchendaele in 1917. He was subsequently appointed Consulting Surgeon to the Second Army. For his services to the French Army during the fighting round Kemmel he was awarded the Croix de Guerre. For his war services he was three times mentioned in dispatches, was decorated CB, and was created a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Returning to London at the end of the War, he continued to practise privately and carry out his hospital duties until his death on March 18th, 1928. Maynard Smith was distinguished by his shrewd judgement and the thoroughness of all his work. Neat and precise in every detail, he was an excellent surgeon and a good teacher. As a man he was modest and unassuming, courteous in manner, a good after-dinner speaker, and a most pleasant companion. Throughout life he was tuberculous, and severe attacks from time to time interrupted his work, but did nothing to spoil his character. He held office in the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons as a Past Grand Deacon. He married in 1917 Isabel Mary, daughter of F I Pitman, and by her had a daughter Isabel Valentine Maynard and a son John Maynard.
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First Title value, for Searching Barnie-Adshead, William Ewart (1901 - 1951)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 10 April 1901, fifth child and fourth son of Alderman Thomas Willets Adshead, manufacturer, who was twice mayor of Dudley, and his wife Adeline Hand. He assumed the extra surname Barnie by deed poll. He was educated at Dudley Grammar School and Birmingham University, where he graduated in science in 1920, and took the Conjoint qualification in 1923; At the university he excelled at all ball games, and took the lead in reviving social and athletic activities which had lapsed during the first world war. He was president of the University Medical Students' Society, and captain of cricket, association football, and lawn tennis. Subsequently he played cricket for Worcestershire and football for Aston Villa, the Corinthians, and England. With increasing age and business he took up golf and became an excellent player. After holding resident posts at the Queen's, the General, and the Women's Hospitals at Birmingham, he made postgraduate studies at the London Hospital, and took both the Edinburgh and English surgical Fellowships in 1926. Barnie-Adshead intended to specialize as a gynaecological surgeon, and in 1926 was appointed assistant at the Queen's Hospital and in 1929 at the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women, becoming surgeon to the latter in 1934 in succession to S Lewis Graham, FRCS. He was a foundation member of the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1929, a Fellow in 1938 and served on the council from 1950 till his death early in 1951. At the Queen's Hospital he was obstetric surgeon, and became gynaecological surgeon when the Queen's and General Hospitals were united in 1938 as the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. At Birmingham University he was assistant to the professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, Dr Hilda Lloyd, PRCOG, and he examined for the Central Midwives Board. He was president of the Midland Obstetrical Society in 1938-39, and revived it after the war of 1939-45. He was joint honorary secretary of the British Medical Association's Birmingham branch in 1930-31, and served for some years on the medical students and newly qualified practitioners sub-committee of the Association's organization committee. Barnie-Adshead married in 1926 Eileen Cathrine Trimble, MB ChB Birmingham, who survived him with two sons. He practised at 89 Cornwall Street, Birmingham, and lived at 20 Church Road, Edgbaston. He died in the General Hospital, Birmingham, on 26 January 1951, aged 49. Barnie-Adshead was a very popular and charming man, of debonair manners with a slight lisp. His comparatively early death cut short a career of much achievement and promise of even more.
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First Title value, for Searching Woolfenden, Herbert Francis (1880 - 1940)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on 5 April 1880 at Memphis, Tennessee, USA, the second of the three sons of Robert Woolfenden, cotton merchant, and Sarah Smith, his wife. He was educated at Bickerton House School, Birkdale, and then entered the Liverpool Medical School, where he had a brilliant career as an undergraduate, became senior demonstrator of anatomy in 1908, when A M Paterson was the professor, and was Thelwall Thomas pathology Fellow of the University after taking postgraduate courses in London, Paris, and Berlin. He was house surgeon to F T Paul in 1904, was appointed assistant surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1911, and surgeon in 1925, holding office until his resignation four days before his death. In this position he was instrumental in establishing an orthopaedic department. He held office in Liverpool University as lecturer on clinical surgery. Woolfenden was one of the first assistant surgeons at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary to volunteer for active service in the war. He received a commission as temporary major, RAMC, on 9 May 1917 and was promoted acting lieutenant-colonel on 29 May 1918, when he was surgeon specialist to the 11th General Hospital, where he did excellent work during the Somme offensive. Professor Harvey Cushing wrote of his work: "10 pm, June 4th, 1917. No 1 l (General Hospital) Undermanned; often only eight medical officers and these frequently shifted; Campbell and Woolfenden have faced the music for the past few months, having 8,000 patients pass through their hands since the Somme offensive: most of them serious cases, night work, secondary haemorrhages, major infections, and yet they have found time to do some careful work with Carrel-Dakin treatment. No wonder they have broken down and are to leave for Blighty this morning at 3 am." Woolfenden returned to Liverpool after demobilization and worked on trigeminal and glosso-pharyngeal neuralgias, exophthalmic goitre, and gastro-enterology. He married on 17 September 1919 Beryl Hughes, daughter of Percy Hughes, solicitor, of Birkenhead. She died 25 June 1927, leaving him with two sons and a daughter. He died in Liverpool on 10 April 1940. Woolfenden was a first-class surgeon, a keen diagnostician, and a bold operator. Modest to a degree and of a most retiring disposition, he was extremely diffident about publication and wrote little. He was a great reader and a very good golfer. Publications: Two cases in which the lateral ventricle was opened in the course of operations for the removal of a bullet and indriven bone. *Lancet*, 1916, 1, 1037. Gunshot wounds of the knee joint, with J Campbell. *Ibid* 1917, 2, 185-194. Right-sided visceroptosis. *Liverpool med-chir J* 1930, 38, 221.
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First Title value, for Searching Turton, James (1856 - 1924)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Charing Cross Hospital, where he obtained the Golding Scholarship in 1877 and the Llewellyn Scholarship in 1878, as well as the Treasurer's Gold Medal, and where he held the posts of House Surgeon, Resident Obstetric Assistant, and Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy. He was also Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. He came to Brighton in the early seventies as apothecary to Dr Richard Rugg, whose daughter he married. He succeeded his father-in-law in practice in 1884, and took an active part in the medical work of the town, being at one time President of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society and holding several offices in the local branch of the British Medical Association. He was elected a member of the Corporation in 1886 and held office with success for ten years. He was also a member of the Steyning Board of Guardians, and was well known in politics and Freemasonry. In 1866 he joined the Volunteer movement as Acting Surgeon, and rose to the rank of Surgeon Major, retiring in 1912 with the honorary rank of Colonel and the Volunteer Decoration. In May, 1888, he joined the Army Medical Reserve as Surgeon Captain, and in 1894 did important pioneer work in raising the Sussex and Kent Volunteer Infantry Brigade Bearer Company. This was the first Bearer Company raised among the Volunteers, and he kept it in a high state of efficiency during the ten years of his command. In 1904 he became Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sussex and Kent Volunteer Infantry Brigade. At the outbreak of the Boer War his duties included the examination of the Sussex Militia and those who volunteered for service. In 1908 he received the important appointment of Administrative Medical Officer for the Home Counties Division, and was promoted to the substantive rank of Colonel. During the Great War (1914-1918) he held various local posts, and especially that of Officer Commanding the Pavilion Military Hospital for Limbless Soldiers, and that of Senior Medical Officer of the Brighton Area. After some years of failing health, Turton died at Brighton on January 11th, 1924. By his marriage with Miss Rugg, he had issue one daughter and two sons, the elder of whom, James Richard Henry Turton, FRCS, practised at Hove. The younger met his death accidentally while serving with the Sussex Regiment in the War Turton practised at Hatherley, Preston Park, Brighton. Publications: "On Some Points in Relation to Septic and Infectious Diseases." - *Trans Sanitary Inst*, 1889-90, xi, 79. "Modified Listerism." - *Lancet*, 1882, i, 545. "Case of Scurvy complicating Heart Disease and Syphilis." - *Ibid*, 1883, i, 1069. "Stuvivance after Gunshot and other Wounds of the Heart." - *Ibid*, 1837, i, 851.
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First Title value, for Searching Holman, Charles Colgate (1884 - 1954)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26 2018-02-09
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born at East Hoathly, Sussex on 18 September 1884, where his father and grandfather had practised, he was educated at Eastbourne College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. There he took second class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1905, and following the family tradition did his clinical training at Guy's, qualifying in 1908. After holding resident appointments at Guy's and at hospitals in the provinces, he took the FRCS in 1912 and the same year began his long association with the Northampton General Hospital. During the first world war Holman served in the RAMC and was in Mesopotamia for a year. On his return to Northampton he became assistant surgeon in 1919 and surgeon in 1925. He was senior surgeon from 1926 until his retirement in 1952, when the title of emeritus surgeon was conferred on him. In 1939 he formed the first fracture unit at Northampton General Hospital and from then until 1946 he dealt with all fractures coming to the hospital in addition to his general work. He was the first surgeon to the Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital, Northampton in 1925, surgeon to the Children's Orthopaedic Clinic there and consulting surgeon to Kettering General Hospital 1943-52. Holman lived for his work, and was rarely away from the hospital for more than ten days in a year. The first man in Northampton to specialise solely in surgery, in his early days he practised as gynaecologist, obstetrician and orthopaedist as well as general surgeon. Charles Holman throve on difficulties. He had an original mind and devised several new techniques, such as an abdominal approach to femoral hernia and a method of supra-pubic puncture. He also designed special instruments for the insertion of Smith-Petersen pins. For many years he served on the board of management and the house committee of the Northampton General Hospital and was chairman of the medical staff committee. He was president of the Northampton Medical Society, and president in 1933 and 1947 of the Northampton branch of the British Medical Association. He kept meticulous records, read widely, and frequently contributed incisive letters to *The Lancet*. For recreation Holman played bridge and tennis which he continued into his sixties despite a limp caused by poliomyelitis contracted at the age of twenty-one. He was twice married: his first wife V E Fowell died in 1921 leaving two sons, the elder being John Colgate Holman MD, MRCS, MRCOG. In 1923 Holman married Violet Lewis. Two years after retiring, Charles Holman was found dead at his home, Fourview, Woodway, Dodford, near Daventry, on 17 June 1954, aged 69. Publications: Nature and treatment of acute osteomyelitis. *Lancet* 1934. Gastro-jejuno-colic fistula. *Lancet* 1951. Urinary tuberculosis with extensive calcification of bladder. *Brit J Surg* 1952.
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First Title value, for Searching Oldfield, Michael Whitaker Carlton (1907 - 1963)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation General surgeon Maxillofacial surgeon
Details Born in Leeds on 18 September 1907 son of Charlton Oldfield, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Leeds 1919-32, he was educated at Harrow, Oxford and, for his clinical studies, Leeds. Qualifying in 1931, he held house appointments at the General Infirmary, Leeds and, ascending the surgical ladder, the posts of resident casualty officer, resident surgical officer, and finally surgical tutor. In 1938 he was appointed to the consultant staff as assistant surgeon. For ten years, as an experienced horseman, he had been an officer in the Yorkshire Hussars, and on the outbreak of war in 1939 was mobilised as such, but almost immediately had to transfer to the RAMC. He was posted to the Middle East in 1941, holding the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and being officer in charge of a Field Surgical Unit serving for six months in Palestine during the Syrian campaign. After this, having been specially trained by Gillies, he had charge of No 2 Faciomaxillary Unit in the Western Desert, where he carried out very valuable work, but in 1944 as a general surgeon he returned to a surgical division for the remainder of the war. On returning to Leeds, in addition to his appointment as surgeon to the General Infirmary, he had a maxillo-facial unit at St James's Hospital and was also consulting surgeon to Dewsbury and District General Infirmary, to the Royal Infirmary, Halifax, and to Batley Hospital; in addition he attended Mirfield Memorial Hospital. At the College he was Arris and Gale Lecturer in 1940, considering the problems of hare-lip and cleft palate, and in 1949 Hunterian Professor dealing with the same subjects. He was for a time external examiner for the University of Cairo, and he was a founder member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, a Fellow of the British Association of Surgeons, Vice- President of the Surgical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, a very active member of the Surgical Travellers Club and of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chirurgical Society. A regular member of the Bramham Moor Hunt, he rode in point-to-point meetings, and had a small farm. He was a good cricketer and enjoyed shooting and fishing. In 1938 he married Rosamund Adela, daughter of Lt-Colonel and Mrs Harris St John, who survived him with their four children. He died suddenly at his home on the evening of 11 July 1963. Publications: Cleft palate and the mechanism of speech. (Arris and Gale lecture, RCS 1940). *Brit J Surg* 1941, 29, 197. Reparative surgery in the Middle East, with a review of 1200 cases. *Brit J Surg* 1944, 32, 237.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, John Arthur Lloyd (1919 - 1979)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 2 December 1919 at Rhos, a village near Wrexham, North Wales, John Lloyd Davies was the son of a general practitioner surgeon at Wrexham Hospital, and grandson of a general practitioner. Educated at Epsom College, he obtained a scholarship to St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1937, where he qualified in 1942. Following house-surgical posts at Bart's he went into the Army and was posted to field hospitals in India and Burma, ending his Army service with the rank of Major and as Officer Commanding 24 India Convalescent Depot, Lebong, near Darjeeling. After his return to England at the end of the war he spent nine months working in his grandfather's single-handed practice in Wales before further surgical training at Bart's, becoming FRCS in 1948. Following posts as surgical registrar at Chase Farm Hospital and as senior registrar at Watford, he spent four years as senior registrar and tutor in clinical surgery to the West London Hospital, during which time he was also a clinical assistant at St Mark's Hospital, holding the Dan Mason Research Scholarship in 1954. The following year he became senior registrar at Guy's Hospital and clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital. In December 1958 John Lloyd Davies was appointed consultant surgeon to the Salisbury General Hospital, where his broad training and wide experience were the envy of his younger colleagues. With a highly analytical mind and great clinical integrity, he had very high standards in everything he did, and expected the same high standards from others. After going to Salisbury he developed his interest in urology, and also undertook major vascular surgery. Later he did a lot of thyroid and parathyroid surgery and devised an instrument for detecting the recurrent laryngeal nerve. He was a great doctor, beloved by his patients and colleagues, and an excellent teacher. He also played an important part in the administration of the hospital, serving on many committees in Salisbury District and also in the Wessex Region. Because of his qualities and wide experience his advice was asked on many matters, and he always gave wise and disinterested help. For several years he was consultant to the director of the Chemical Defence Establishment at Porton Down. Elected to the Fellowship of the Association of Surgeons in 1972, he was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the British Medical Association. His leisure interests were gardening and fishing. His tragic death in a road accident on 9 January 1979 at the age of 59 was a severe blow not only to his family, but also to his colleagues and friends. He was survived by his second wife, Frances Huxley (Jinny), whom he married in 1959, and by three daughters and a son, Steven, now a medical student at Guy's Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Atkins, Sir John (1875 - 1963)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 19 December 1875, the youngest son of William Atkins of Norwich, he received his medical education at Guy's Hospital. After holding appointments as house physician and assistant house surgeon, he went to the South African war on the staff of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital and, on his return to civilian life, proceeded to the FRCS. Between the wars he practised in London. As a young doctor he realised the need to educate women in the domestic sciences in order to combat the suffering caused by malnutrition and bad hygiene. Happening to hear of the Home Science Department of King's College for Women, which had opened in Kensington Square in 1908, he obtained the co-operation of the ladies' committee in launching an appeal in 1911, for which he acted as secretary. In a very short time £100,000 was raised and in 1912 a site acquired on Campden Hill, on which the building of the Household and Social Science Department of King's College was begun in 1913. Atkins brought the scheme to the notice of Queen Mary and obtained her permission for the residential wing, which was opened in 1915, to be named after her. During the 1914-18 war Atkins served in France as the personal medical officer of Sir John French, later Earl of Ypres, Commander in Chief, with the rank of Colonel in the Army Medical Service. Later he was appointed Assistant Director General of Army Medical Services and Deputy Director of Medical Services in Great Britain. He was mentioned in dispatches four times, and was created CMG in 1916 and KCMG in 1919. In 1916 he wrote on chemical warfare and defence against gas attacks and on gas-proof dug-outs. He was a member of the experiments committee with the British Army in the Field, the anti-gas committee and the Central Medical war committee. On his return after the war he raised further funds for the building of the College on Campden Hill, which was completed in 1932, having become an independent school of the University of London in 1928. He served the College devotedly in many capacities: as honorary secretary of the Trust Fund from its inception in 1911 until the end of its statutory existence in 1953, as a member of Council from 1917 up to his death, and chairman from 1932 to 1958, and as chairman of the finance committee. In 1920 the degree of BSc (Household and Social Science) was instituted, and in 1953 a new charter was given with the name of Queen Elizabeth College by gracious permission of the Queen Mother. Sir John Atkins married in 1904 Elizabeth May, daughter of James Davies Smith, who died on 22 May 1962. Their only son is Professor Sir Hedley John Barnard Atkins KBE, PRCS. Sir John died at 95 Oakwood Court, London on 20 April 1963. Publication: *Origin and development of Queen Elizabeth College, University of London*. 1956.
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First Title value, for Searching Swinburne, Truman George (1907 - 1967)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details George Swinburne was born on 3 February 1907, second of the three children of G A Swinburne, at Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia, and was educated at Melbourne High School and University, where he graduated in medicine in 1930 from Ormond College, winning several scholarships. Swinburne was a keen athlete, rifle-shot and games player, representing his college at lacrosse and the University at football. After holding house appointments at the Royal Melbourne Hospital he came to London during 1934-35, took the diploma in laryngology and otology, proceeded to the Fellowship, and was a house surgeon at the Central London Throat Hospital. G C Scantlebury's influence at Melbourne had led him to take up this specialty. During 1935-36 he worked at Birmingham, but after his marriage with Enid Stobie in London on 15 February 1936 he returned to Melbourne, where he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1937, and was building a successful practice when war broke in September 1939. He served in the Australian Imperial Force through the second world war in the Middle East, New Guinea and Borneo, at first with the 2/12 Field Ambulance. He was mentioned in despatches, and awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1946. He was appointed Colonel, Consultant in Otolaryngology to the Australian Army in 1958. Swinburne soon regained his large specialist practice in Melbourne, was appointed ear, nose, and throat surgeon at the Royal Women's Hospital in 1948 and surgeon in charge of the ENT Department at the Royal Melbourne in 1954. He examined in his specialty for the University and the Royal Australasian College. He was very active in professional affairs, serving the British Medical Association on the Council of its Victoria branch, of which he was President in 1956, and on the Australian Federal Council before and after 1962 when the Australian Medical Association became independent of the parent body; in 1965 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the new association; he was also a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. From city, state, and Commonwealth public service Swinburne advanced in 1965 to undertake international duties, when he was elected Australia's representative in the Council of the World Health Association, where he promoted the provision by Australia of medical education and rural services in the countries in the north: Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. He had long been an enthusiastic encourager of younger men, and extended this generosity to many Asian medical students and young graduates. Swinburne had absolute integrity of character while his sound commonsense was supported by uncommon energy. He lived at 158 Mount Albert Road, Canterbury, Victoria, but died in New York, USA, on 7 May 1967, aged sixty, soon after attending meetings of the World Medical Association there. His wife, who was with him in New York, survived him with their two sons and two daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006184
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First Title value, for Searching Garner, Robert (1808 - 1890)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-02-01
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on March 4th, 1808, at Longton, Staffordshire. His family had been long established in the Potteries, and the name of Robert Garner appears in local records as far back as the days of James I. Garners were at different times well-known potters, some being connected with the house of Wedgwood, as well as other famous firms. Robert Garner showed early scientific leanings, and, choosing the medical profession, entered London University, now University College, where he did not graduate. He became a student of Middlesex Hospital and was a favourite with Sir Charles Bell. He completed his professional studies in Paris, where he was a witness of the Revolution of Three Days (1830), and helped to tend the wounded at the hospital of La Charité. Returning to London, he practised there for a short time, and then settled in Stoke-upon-Trent, where he soon did well. He was elected Surgeon to the North Staffs Infirmary in 1834, and, after holding the appointment for many years, retired as Consulting Surgeon. He was highly valued by his colleagues at this institution, and by the public for his attainments, integrity, and kindness. He was the first President of the Staffordshire Branch of the British Medical Association. He was a keen naturalist, and founder of the local museum. His collections of botanical, zoological, and geological specimens were extensive, and he took an active part in founding the North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club. His writings in various forms total nearly one hundred, and he worked on to within the last few months of his life. He was attacked by hemiplegia in the year 1878, when he had retired from practice, but though his right side was paralysed his mind remained perfectly clear. He set himself to learn to write with his left hand, and succeeded, communicating papers thus laboriously indited to societies and periodicals. He died at his residence, The Quarry, Hartshill, Stoke-upon-Trent, on August 16th, 1890. Publications: Among Garner's numerous publications mention should be made of the following:- *The Natural History of the County of Stafford: comprising its Geology, Zoology, Botany, Topography, Manufactures, etc.*, 8vo, plates, London, 1844. This was regarded as a standard work. *Holiday Excursions of a Naturalist*. *Eutherapeia: or, an Examination of the Principles of Medical Science, with Researches in the Nervous System*, 8vo, London, 1855. *Figures Illustrating the Structure of various Invertebrate Animals (Mollusks and Articulata)*, 4to, 6 plates, London, 1860. "Life: Vitalists and Physicists, Teleology," 8vo, London, 1877; reprinted from *Brit. and For. Med.-Chir. Rev.*, 1877. "The Brain and Nervous System." - *Jour. Anat. And Physiol.*, 1881, xv, 536. "On the Conario-hypophysial Tract (Cerebral Tract of Prof. Owen)." - *Ann. And Mag. Nat. Hist.*, 1882, 5th ser., x, 280. Papers upon comparative anatomy in the *Transactions* of the Linnean and Zoological Societies.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Evan William Meurig (1907 - 1985)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-14
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Evan William Mcurig Williams, the son of William John Williams, a coalminer, and of Alice Williams (née Davies), was born at Mountain Ash on 14 December 1907. He was educated at the primary and grammar schools in Mountain Ash and at the Welsh National School of Medicine where he was Alfred Sheen Prizeman in anatomy and physiology, 1927. He then moved on to Guy's Hospital where he won the treasurer's gold medal for surgery in 1931. After qualifying he was genitourinary and orthopaedic houseman at Guy's and then in general practice and medical officer to Harrow Hospital from 1936 to 1942. He joined the Royal Air Force Medical Service in 1943 as an orthopaedic specialist and attained the rank of Squadron Leader. On demobilisation he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital, Rhydlafar, Cardiff, where he pioneered, and was in charge of, the spinal injuries unit. He was also consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the East Glamorgan and Merthyr Hospitals. In 1959 he was awarded his MCh for a thesis on spinal injuries and in 1970 was elected FRCS. He became a noted authority on spinal injuries and introduced the Meurig Williams fixation plate for the treatment of spinal fractures. In his earlier training he acknowledged his indebtedness to WH Trethowan, C Lambrinudi, Ralph Thompson, Sir Reginald Watson-Jones, Sir Henry Osmond-Clarke and AO Parker. Meurig was associated for over 50 years with the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem, becoming a Knight of the Order and, at the time of his death, holding the post of Bailiff of St David's, third in the Welsh hierarchy of the Priory for Wales Order of St John of which he was vice-chancellor. The day before he died he had unveiled a plaque at a church in North Wales to commemorate its association with the Order of St John. In 1961 he became a freeman of Mountain Ash Urban District Council and was awarded the OBE in 1978. A fluent Welsh speaker and scholar, Meurig was a white bard member of the Eistedfodd Gorsedd and a life member of the Honourable Society of Cymrodorion. He published many articles on the subject of spinal injuries and also produced a film about their treatment. Not surprisingly, he was much sought after as a speaker on this subject at home and abroad. He also translated a St John first aid manual into Welsh. Always tireless in his work, he was a kindly, sympathetic man who worked long hours during the Aberfan disaster. He was married in 1936 to Miss Davies by whom he had two daughters, Elizabeth and Glenys. After her death he married Peg Grubb in 1960 and they had one son, Rhodri. At the time of his sudden death, aged 77 years, on 21 October 1985, he was survived by his second wife, the children of both marriages and three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Bakran, Ali (1949 - 2010)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-02-03 2013-08-29
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Occupation Transplant surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Ali Bakran was a consultant and vascular surgeon at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital when he drowned while on holiday in the Maldives. He was born in Hyderabad on 15 January 1949 but his family moved to the UK and settled in Salford when he was a small boy. He attended primary school in Salford and then went to Manchester Grammar School. He studied for his BSc in anatomy at Bristol University and qualified MB ChB at Leeds University in 1973. He held surgical posts at Hull and Leeds and joined the higher surgical rotation in Manchester in 1980, moving to Liverpool nine years later as a consultant. He developed a close relationship with the biomedical engineering department at the university and was involved with research projects on vascular access. Another major interest was the study of opportunistic viral infections in transplant patients. In all, he contributed 86 research papers to the literature on a range of clinical and laboratory based topics. In the mid 1990s he helped set up the European Vascular Access Society (EVAS) and was treasurer of the British Transplant Society. He was the founder president of the VASBI (Vascular Access Society of Great Britain and Ireland) which he established in 2009 because of the need to have a multidisciplinary organisation committed to the promotion of vascular access for haemodialysis. The membership was to include vascular surgeons, transplant surgeons, nephrologists, radiologists, dialysis nurses, sonographers and vascular scientists; the inaugural meeting was, tragically, the month after he died. VASBI are now holding annual meetings and training sessions; their current president, Steve Powell, is an interventional radiologist who had been Bakran's partner in developing the excellent outcomes achieved by Liverpool's vascular access service. A member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh he became an ambassador for the College in Africa, visiting various countries to promote co-ordination in surgical training. He was a passionate supporter of Manchester United and enjoyed playing tennis, listening to classical music and eating Indian cuisine. He was remembered for his enthusiastic participation in the annual Snowden hike to promote organ donation. Having fought to overcome his own impoverished background he was keen to improve access to medical education for those from similar backgrounds and set up the charity Aequitas which he was hoping to make his second career after retirement. He was on a two week holiday in the Maldives with his wife and daughter when he drowned while snorkelling. He died on 27 August 2010 aged 61, survived by his wife, Diane, son Adam and daughter Miriam, mourned by his colleagues and by his patients to whose care he had been devoted. His registrar remarked "In transplant surgery we follow the patients throughout life…..he would bulldoze his way for [them]".
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First Title value, for Searching Sawyer, George Clayfield (1909 - 1987)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details George Clayfield Sawyer was born on 14 August 1909 in Portsmouth where his father was a sports journalist, later becoming Clerk to the local Medical Committee before the introduction of the NHS. He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Guy's Hospital. Deciding on a career in surgery he held appointments in Southampton and Southend and at the West London, Bolingbroke, and Charing Cross Hospitals when he was influenced by Zachary Cope, Geoffrey Keynes, Norman Lake and David Trevor. At the outbreak of war he joined the RAF as a surgical specialist and was soon posted to India where he spent most of the time in Karachi. It was there that he developed his lifelong love of sailing. He retired with the rank of Wing Commander and on returning to England was appointed to the consultant staff of Leicester Royal Infirmary, serving also Leicester General Hospital, the Hinckley Hospital and the Rutland Memorial Hospital, Oakham. He had a wide range of surgical interests, particularly the lower bowel and the pancreas. He was a wise doctor who is remembered by his colleagues and patients for his kindness and his phenomenal memory. He always knew the names of all the nurses who worked with him. His clinical notes were often amusing and aimed at jogging his memory (such as "keeps cats" or "runs a corner shop") so that he could start a relevant conversation to put the patient at ease. He invariably saw the relatives to impart bad news and would sit with them when bereaved. George was a successful President of the Leicester Medical Society and he established the East Midlands Ileostomy Association, becoming its first President. He was a Fellow of the Association of Medicine, holding office in the Section of Proctology. From 1969 to 1975 he was a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He retired from his consultant posts in 1974 and was honoured by being created an emeritus surgeon. He had many interests apart from surgery, but foremost he was a sailor, first on Pitsford reservoir but later he shared an ocean going yacht sailing in the Mediterranean, off the Brittany coast and in Irish waters. In his retirement to Fareham his boat was moored within yards of his front door until arthritis caused him to become shore bound. He was a keen medical and local historian. He had a natural curiosity about the world around him and he was a fund of interesting information. He is survived by his wife, Phyllis, whom he married before the second world war, and two daughters, one a lecturer in nursing sciences at Reading University, the other a midwife, and a son who is a family doctor in Portsmouth. One granddaughter is a nurse who trained at Leicester Royal Infirmary. George was active until his sudden death on 20 April 1987.
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First Title value, for Searching Johnson, Roger Hughes (1939 - 2017)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Leena Chagla
Publication Date 2017-11-02 2018-05-24
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Occupation General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Roger Hughes Johnson was a consultant general surgeon at Whiston and St Helens hospitals, Merseyside. He was born in Southend-on-Sea on 24 July 1939. His father, William Joseph ('Bill') Johnson, was a firefighter and his mother, Irene Johnson (neé Hughes), taught home economics. His grandfather was a cockle fisherman. He grew up in Essex, where he attended Westcliff High School for Boys. He studied medicine at the Middlesex Hospital in London, qualifying in 1963. He began to pursue a surgical career, holding a number of training posts at various hospitals in the South East of England. At registrar level, partly because of the prevailing difficulty of obtaining the next promotion, but also because of a wanderlust for travel and adventure, he went to Africa. In 1969, he was appointed, under the auspices of the British Overseas Development Agency, as a general surgeon to the Princess Marina Government Hospital in Botswana. He was the only government surgeon, although there were missionary surgeons in the hospital. This proved not only a challenge, but also a steep learning curve! Roger returned to the UK in 1974 but, like others in a similar position at the time, he struggled to get back into the UK system. After a number of locums, he took up a research post with Averil Mansfield, then a vascular surgeon in Liverpool. He needed an academic component on his CV. He worked on the development of a new method for the detection of the plasminogen activator content of vein walls. He was appointed as a consultant general surgeon with a vascular interest, to Whiston and St Helens hospitals, Merseyside, in 1977. He provided a very welcome addition to the existing team of three general surgeons. He worked tirelessly and conscientiously with his colleagues to provide a caring and expanding surgical service, developing a hitherto lacking vascular dimension to the service. He was committed to playing his part in persuading the university to send surgical students to the hospital. His contribution in this field was highly valued. In his later years, he was the lead surgeon in the establishment of a dedicated breast unit in the hospitals, the Johnson room being a lasting memorial to the part he played. Roger loved singing. He was a bass baritone in the Ormskirk Music Society and Wigan Choral Society. His love of history led to a history degree as a mature student. Hockey - playing, umpiring and coaching - was another passion of his, as were watersports. He met Helen, a mathematician, when they were both students in London. They married in 1964. Roger struggled latterly with Parkinson's disease for a number of years, but sadly died from complications following open heart surgery on 7 August 2017. He was 78. He was survived by his wife, Helen, his son, Richard, and his daughter, Peta.
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First Title value, for Searching Gould, Maurice Stephen Elliot (1923 - 2014)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Chris Stephens
Publication Date 2023-07-06
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Occupation Orthodontist
Details Stephen Gould was a consultant orthodontist at the Eastman Dental Hospital, London. He was born in Southampton, the son of Arthur Gould, a printer and alderman, and Alice Gould née Elliott. The family later moved to Wolverhampton and Stephen attended the local grammar school. After school, in 1941, he volunteered for the Army and served in India and Burma, joining the headquarters of the Allied Land Forces South East Asia in 1944. Four years later he was discharged with tuberculosis, which led to the loss of his left kidney. He moved to London and, after a period of convalescence, started studying dentistry at Guy’s Hospital Dental School in 1949. Despite having to take a year out to undergo a partial removal of his remaining kidney, he qualified in 1955. He then spent a short period in general dental practice, while also holding a part time post as a demonstrator in periodontology at Guy’s. He then joined one of the first postgraduate orthodontic courses at the Royal Dental Hospital, London and gained his diploma in orthodontics in 1956. Deciding on a hospital career, he gained his FDS in 1960 and joined the Eastman Dental Hospital as a senior registrar, being promoted to an orthodontic consultant there in 1963. He also developed an interest in temporomandibular joint dysfunction and established a specialist treatment clinic. He was a member of the board of governors of the Eastman and, in the 1970s, played a crucial role, with the dean, Ivor Kramer, in securing the future of the hospital. Stephen served on the Eastman’s rebuilding committee from 1980 to 1985. He served as honorary secretary of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics (BSSO) for six years until 1974, during which time he helped organise the Third International Orthodontic Congress, held in August 1973 in London’s Festival Hall. He was chairman of the consultant orthodontists group from 1979 to 1981 and chairman of BSSO from 1984 to 1987. In 1975 he submitted his paper to the BSSO council advocating unification of the then five British orthodontic societies, which marked the beginning of the unification movement. Initial steps included the setting up of the first working party on orthodontic standards and the robust response made jointly by the five orthodontic societies to the Schanshieff enquiry into unnecessary dental treatment, which in 1986 had unexpectedly concentrated on orthodontic treatment. The first meeting of the unified British Orthodontic Society (BOS) took place in 1994, and Stephen became its president the following year. In his retirement Stephen continued to keep abreast of the society’s affairs. He was a regular attender of the BOS past presidents’ dinners and made a major contribution to *A history of the British orthodontic societies 1907-1994* (London, British Orthodontic Society, 2002).
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First Title value, for Searching McWhinnie, Andrew Melville (1807 - 1866)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-11
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born in London and was educated chiefly at Verdun, where he gained a mastery of French and an affection for French people and their institutions. He was apprenticed to Edward Stanley (qv), Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in 1825. Having become MRCS in 1830, he attended wounded at the Hôtel-Dieu during the three days' Revolution in 1830, and came under the favourable notice of Larrey, Dupuytren, and others. In the following year, 1831, he accompanied Stanley to Paris, and interpreted Stanley's observations. Under Biett at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, McWhinnie first acquired his knowledge of skin diseases which afterwards served him when with James Startin he developed the Skin Hospital at Blackfriars. After returning to London he became Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital in succession to Frederick Skey; in 1834 he was appointed Assistant Prosector to Thomas Wormald; in 1839 he succeeded Dr Arthur Farre as Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy and Medical Jurisprudence, holding office until September 11th, 1860; in 1841 he became Assistant Surgeon at the Blackfriars Skin Hospital. But it was only after previous failures (*see* PAGET, SIR JAMES) that he was elected Assistant Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital on May 14th, 1854, when he received 154 votes, and his opponent, Holmes Coote (qv), 65. He lived at Blackfriars, near the hospital, so that many operations at night fell to him. His health began to fail and he resigned on June 27th, 1860, to die after an exhausting illness at 5 The Crescent, Blackfriars, on February 27th, 1866. He added a number of anatomical preparations to the Museum of the Hospital. A peculiarity of manner is said to have interfered with his success as a lecturer. He was a staunch friend, much beloved, with a high sense of honour. Publications: Translation of Cloquet's *Anatomical Description of the Parts Concerned in Inguinal and Femoral Hernia*, 8vo, London, 1835. *Illustrations of the Effects of Poisons* (with Dr GEORGE LEITH ROUPELL), fol, London, 1833, illustrated by McWhinnie. *A Series of Anatomical Sketches and Diagrams* (with THOMAS WORMALD), 4to, with 5 plates, 1838, and 1843, with 28 plates, which for simplicity and accuracy can hardly be surpassed. "On the Varieties in thc Muscular System of the Human Body," 8vo; reprinted from *London Med Gaz*, 1846, xxxvii, 184. "Account of the History of Dissection of a Case of Malformation of the Urinary Bladder." - *Lond Med Gaz*, 1850, xlv, 360. It was republished by Dr Charles A Pope, Boston, USA with his case of congenital inversion of the bladder. *Introductory Address at the opening of the Medical Session at St. Bartholomew's on 1st October*, 1856.
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First Title value, for Searching Barrington, Frederick James Fitzmaurice (1885 - 1956)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist
Details Educated at University College Hospital Medical School, where he won a university scholarship in physiology when he qualified in 1907 and the Atkinson Morley surgical scholarship in 1908. After holding resident posts at University College Hospital and St Peter's Hospital for Stone he was elected to the staff of both hospitals and was ultimately surgeon to St Peter's and consulting surgeon for genito-urinary diseases at University College Hospital. He pursued his surgical work with distinction and gave particular care to his students and hospital patients, but cared little for private practice. He was at heart a scientist and field-naturalist. While still a student he frequented the pathology department of the Zoological Gardens; later at St Peter's he carried through a valuable research on the nervous mechanism of micturition. He was uncommonly well-read in the literature of anatomy and physiology, and was a regular visitor to the College library in search of out of the way German books and articles by the older writers in these fields. He also had a wide and deep knowledge of botany, zoology, and comparative anatomy. Barrington was a member of the Physiological Society and of the Société internationale d'Urologie. At society meetings he could demolish an ill-founded hypothesis, but he was generous of his own knowledge and ready to admit ignorance and to explore the background of any subject which he thought he ought to study. All who got past his shy, harsh manner held him in affection and admiration. He often spent an evening in animated conversation at the Athenaeum, and equally enjoyed a day's shooting or sailing for the opportunity of observing wild-life. His informed enthusiasm on these occasions was an inspiration to his companions. His tall figure and brisk movements were long familiar in the parts of London where he lived and worked, for he set no store by appearances, never wore a hat or great-coat, and always walked; he was a well-known figure at the Athenaeum. During the second world war he organised a large genito-urinary service at the Emergency Medical Service hospital at Colindale. He had previously lived at 10 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, and after the war settled at 14A Upper Wimpole Street. He died suddenly on 23 March 1956. A memorial service was held at St Pancras Church on 19 April 1956. He left £1000 each to the Severn Wildfowl Trust, the Ray Society, the British Ornithologists Union, and the libraries of the Athenaeum Club, the Linnean Society and the Zoological Society. Publications: The nervous mechanism of micturition. *Quart J exper Physiol* 1914, 8, 33. The relation of the hind-brain to micturition. *Brain* 1921, 44, 23.
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, Valentine Herbert (1901 - 1953)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born in India on 24 February 1901, son of Major-General Philip Mackay Ellis OBE, AMS, he was educated at Wellington College and Clare College, Cambridge, where he took second class honours in Parts I and II of the Natural Sciences Tripos 1922 and 1923. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital, qualifying in 1925. After holding house appointments at St George's and elsewhere, Ellis decided to specialise in orthopaedics and went as surgical registrar to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. In 1932 Ellis was appointed to the new post of orthopaedic surgeon at St Mary's Hospital at the age of 30. There he built up a first-class orthopaedic and fracture department. Later he was appointed to the staff of Paddington Green Children's Hospital, the Lord Mayor Treloar Orthopaedic Hospital at Alton, and the Heatherwood Orthopaedic Hospital at Ascot. During the second world war he headed a surgical team at Harefield, until at the invasion of France in 1944 he was given charge of the orthopaedic unit at the EMS Hospital at Park Prewett, where thousands of casualties flown direct from the battlefields passed through his hands. Ellis was a man of abundant energy, mental and physical. His most outstanding qualities were wisdom, honesty, common sense and a capacity for disinterested service. He served on the governing bodies of both of his teaching hospitals, was treasurer of the British Orthopaedic Association, and had been President of the Section of Orthopaedics of the Royal Society of Medicine. At St Mary's he was Chairman of the Medical Committee and a member of the Academic Board. At the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital he was Chairman of the Staff Committee and of the Academic Board of the Institute of Orthopaedics. He was Recorder of the William Little Club. Ellis married in 1937 Angela Peart Robinson, and they had a son and daughter. Ellis lived in Paddington near St Mary's. His recreations were his garden, in which he cultivated fifteen varieties oflily, and the making of tapestries. Valentine Ellis was a big man, tall, broad and erect with deep blue, penetrating eyes. In his youth he had been a keen sportsman but later he relinquished all sport except skiing which he and his wife enjoyed every year. He had a strong sense of humour and talked easily on most subjects. For some months before his death he had known that he was unfit, but it was characteristic of the man that he kept on working as hard as ever. On the morning of 15 September 1953 he finished his fracture clinic at St Mary's and then collapsed and died at the age of 52. Publications : *Recent advances in orthopaedic surgery*, with B H Burns. London 1937. Battle casualties treated by penicillin, with A Innes. *Lancet* 1945, 1, 524.
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First Title value, for Searching Ollier, Louis Xavier Édouard Léopold (1830 - 1900)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Vans in Ardèche, and studied natural science at the University of Montpellier, being appointed in 1849 Assistant in Botany in the Faculty of Medicine. In 1851 he was Interne of the Hôtel-Dieu at Lyons, took his doctor's degree at Montpellier in 1856, and in 1860, when just thirty years of age, became Surgeon to the Hotel-Dieu of Lyons. Here he established a world-wide reputation, his name being best known to his professional brethren by his work on the regeneration of bone from the periosteum after resection. When France was invaded by the German Armies in 1870, Ollier gave himself wholly to the care of wounded soldiers, and was the head of the Lyons Ambulance. In this capacity he performed numerous resections, and it should be noted that while cases of amputation were generally fatal, his resection operations were almost uniformly successful; and this was before antisepsis had been introduced into war surgery. It is worthy of remark that he was most careful not to lose sight of patients on whom he had operated, holding that the verification and criticism of old results led to the true consecration of operative methods which are intended to be used for purposes of conservative surgery. He was a member of the leading medical societies of Europe, and was elected Hon FRCS at the Royal College of Surgeons on July 25th, 1900. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1867, promoted to Officer for his services in the Franco-German War, and invested with the insignia of Commander by President Carnot on June 24th, 1894. The same evening Ollier was called in to the wounded President to undertake what little surgery could do for his relief. Professor Léopold Ollier died suddenly at Lyons on November 25, 1900. He left four children, one of his daughters being the wife of the distinguished explorer, Gabriel Bonvalot. A striking portrait of Ollier is in the Hon Fellows' Album. It is typical of the old dignified generation of French scientific men, and is accompanied by an interesting autograph letter addressed to Sir William MacCormac, who had asked him for his portrait about a month before 0llier's death. A monument was erected in Lyons to the memory of Ollier not long after his death. Publications: The bibliography of Leopold Ollier is very long (*see Index Catalogue of Surgeon General's Library*, ser 1907, 158). He has left a full account of his works in two pamphlets (both in the Library): "Notice sur les Titres et Travaux de Physiologie Expérimentale de M Ollier", and "Notice sur les Travaux Chirurgicaux de M Ollier", 4tos, dated respectively 1894 and 1895, Paris. The account of the surgical works is illustrated, and inscribed in manuscript to Sir William MacCormac, Bart, President.
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First Title value, for Searching Cameron, Irving Howard (1855 - 1933)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Toronto on 17 July 1855, the eldest surviving son of Sir Matthew Crooks Cameron (of the Lochiel Camerons), Chief Justice of Common Pleas, Ontario, and his wife Charlotte Ross Wedd of Maidstone, Kent. He was educated at Upper Canada College and at the University of Toronto, where he studied law for a short time before devoting his attention to medicine. He practised both as surgeon and as general practitioner, but preferred not to be called doctor, as was then usual in the Dominion, since he wished to follow the English custom which entitles a surgeon "Mr". Endowed with great administrative ability he took a leading part in founding the medical faculty of Toronto University out of the old Toronto Medical School in 1887. He was then nominated the first professor of the principles of surgery and surgical pathology. In August 1892 he succeeded Dr W T Aikin as professor of surgery and clinical surgery in the university, holding office until 1920, when he retired and was appointed emeritus professor. During this period he acted as surgeon to the Toronto General Hospital and to the Hospital for Sick Children. During the European war he received a commission, dated 25 July 1915, as lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He came to England and acted as surgeon to the Red Cross Hospital at Cliveden and to the Ontario Hospital at Orpington, Kent. On his return home he was appointed consultant for Canada, a post involving much travelling to visit disabled soldiers. He was the founder and editor of the Canadian Journal of Medical Science and was chairman of the editorial committee of the University of Toronto Monthly Journal. He was also a founder of the Alumni association of the University of Toronto and acted as its president. He married twice: (1) in 1876 Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dr W W Wright; (2) Jessie Elizabeth Holland, widow of John Ross Robertson, journalist and philanthropist, who survived him. He was the father of one son and one daughter, children of the first marriage. He died at Toronto on 15 December 1933. Cameron was a brilliant clinical lecturer, a surgeon who introduced Listerian principles at the Toronto General Hospital, but conservative and somewhat averse to operating, and a cultivated gentleman skilled in the classics. Professor Grey Turner records that Cameron lectured in a very weak voice, that he was one of the last to wear an "imperial" beard, and that he was devoted to his ancestry, and as long he was able he came to Scotland every year to pay his respects to his chieftain, Cameron of Lochiel.
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First Title value, for Searching Raper, Frederick Peter (1913 - 1966)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in 1913 at Grassington, Yorkshire, he was the elder son of Professor H S Raper DSc, FRS, Professor of Physiology in Leeds from 1917 to 1923 and in Manchester from 1923 to 1946, when he became Dean of the Faculty until his death in 1951. Raper was educated at Giggleswick School and the medical school of Leeds, which he entered in 1931. After qualification he held appointments as house surgeon and receiving room officer culminating in his appointment in 1941, after being admitted a Fellow, as resident surgical officer in the General Infirmary, holding this position until 1944. He then entered the RAMC serving until 1947 as a surgical specialist in India. Returning to Leeds in 1947 he was appointed surgical tutor to the University and in 1950 was awarded a travelling scholarship by the United Leeds Hospitals, tenable at Ann Arbor, Michigan for further training in urological surgery. Returning to Leeds in 1951 to the post of senior registrar in the United Hospitals and St James's Hospital, in 1952 he was appointed consultant urological surgeon. In April 1964 he became senior consultant and senior clinical lecturer on the retirement of Professor L N Pyrah. He held many appointments in addition to those in the hospital and university. A member of the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons from 1959 to 1962 and secretary of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1956 to 1957, becoming Vice-President from 1957 to 1961, he was secretary of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chirurgical Society from 1957 to 1961. He was also President of the Leeds Medical Sciences Club from 1964 to 1965. As a surgeon Raper was an expert craftsman, gentle and dexterous, and was at the same time an able diagnostician. Although he had had a very thorough grounding in general surgery, when it was decided in 1948 to form a department of urology in Leeds, he expressed a desire to become attached to it and to abandon general surgery. His year's experience at Ann Arbor convinced him of the correctness of his decision. Latterly he had become deeply involved with F M Parsons in the problems of renal transplantation, particularly the feasibility of using cadaver kidneys. As a member of the planning committee of the new teaching hospital in Leeds, he had devoted many hours to the consideration of the problem associated with the integration of a new medical school adjacent to both hospital and university. He was a popular teacher with both under and postgraduate students: possessing considerable powers of exposition aided by a dry sense of humour. Outside his profession he had many interests. A painter in water colours from early days, and a lover of music, he was an enthusiastic walker in the Yorkshire Dales from his cottage at Malham. Raper died suddenly in the General Infirmary on 31 January 1966 at the early age of 52, leaving a widow and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Mundy, Herbert (1871 - 1932)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Kennington, Oxfordshire on 16 July 1871, the son of Job Mundy, a farmer, and his wife, Elizabeth Catherine Stone. He was their third child and third son. Educated at Faversham School, he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in October 1892. Here he gained the senior anatomy or Foster prize for the best dissection of his year in 1894, and was appointed prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1898 he won the Brackenbury surgical scholarship, and was nominated by H T Butlin and C B Lockwood to act as their house surgeon. At the end of his year of office in October 1899 he was elected assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School, becoming demonstrator and holding the post until 1902, when he showed signs of commencing phthisis. He therefore took the additional qualification of DPH, went to South Africa, and entered into partnership in 1903 with Walter Eardley Burnand at Durban. Burnand had been a fellow student, a Cambridge man, who had settled in Natal after serving as a civil surgeon with the South African Field Force in 1901-02; he was a nephew of Sir Francis Burnand, editor of Punch. At Durban Mundy soon built up a large general practice, learning Tamil and Hindustani the better to understand his Indian patients. During the war of 1914-18 he served in East Africa. He married on 26 April 1911 Olive Liddell Stevens, who had been trained as a nurse at the Addington Hospital. She survived him with six children, three of his sons becoming students at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Mrs Mundy died in London on 8 June 1938. He died on 26 May 1932 from an acute attack of malaria, contracted when his car broke down and he was obliged to spend a night on the veldt whilst returning from a visit to his farm in Zululand. He was buried in Stamford Hill cemetery Durban, the funeral being attended by more than a thousand persons. Mundy secured for himself the esteem and respect of his neighbours to an unusual extent. In early life he showed such great promise that he might have been a candidate for election to the surgical staff at St Bartholomew's Hospital, had his health not broken down under the strain of anatomical teaching. He had a vein of humour and shone as a witness in medico-legal cases during his practice at Durban. It is told of him that on one occasion, when an examining counsel was pulled up by the presiding judge for exceeding the limits of courtesy, Mundy said with a bland smile "Thank you, My Lord, but I don't mind, if the court doesn't; I can be just as rude as Mr X is, if I wish to be". His relaxation was big game shooting.
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First Title value, for Searching Boyd, Sidney Arthur (1880 - 1966)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Sidney Arthur Boyd was born at Bedford on 20 July 1880, son of Albert Thomas and Marianne Boyd. He was educated at Bedford School and received his medical training at the London Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital, qualifying in 1902. In 1904 he obtained his MB BS degree with honours in medicine, surgery, pathology and forensic medicine and was awarded the gold medal. After several resident posts at Charing Cross Hospital he took his Fellowship in 1905 and the MS in 1907. In 1912 he was appointed to the staff of the Hampstead Central Hospital and later became attached to the Victoria Hospital, Leatherhead, the Alexandra Orphanage, the LCC Hospital at New End, Hampstead, and the Mildmay Mission Hospital. During the first world war he was gazetted a temporary Major in the RAMC, serving in the Mediterranean and Egypt, and was twice mentioned in dispatches. After the war he also held the post of lecturer in applied anatomy to King's College, London, 1919-25. Owing to a rule at the Hampstead General Hospital, Boyd had to retire in 1937 after holding the post of consultant for 25 years. When the second world war came his Hospital invited him to return, and he worked there until the end of 1945. His work during the war was invaluable in helping to keep the hospital running efficiently during the emergency. Boyd lived in Hampstead all his life and took an active part in public affairs, being a member of the Hampstead Borough Council for forty years. He was Mayor of the Borough 1938-45, and in recognition of his leadership of the Council during the war years was made a Freeman of the Borough in 1946. He was also a JP for the County of London. Boyd was a man of strong Christian faith, and his association with the Mildmay Mission Hospital was especially dear to him. An active member of the British Medical Association, he was honorary secretary of the Hampstead division in 1914 and again in 1949. He was elected a Fellow of the BMA in 1960. Sidney Boyd was a brilliant abdominal surgeon; his particular forte was in the treatment of a bad appendix abscess, and in those pre-antibiotic days his mortality was very low. He was always a strong supporter of the use of the Battle incision for the treatment of appendicitis, and the complications of that incision were unknown in his hands. He married in 1910 Viola Evangeline, daughter of Henry Fox, and they had one son and three daughters. Boyd died at his home on 2 November 1966, at the age of 86; his wife survived him and died on 12 February 1968. Publications: Foreign bodies in the vermiform appendix. *Brit med J* 1912, 1, 828. Non-parasitic cysts of the liver. Lancet, 1913, 1, 951.
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First Title value, for Searching Forrester-Wood, William Rodney (1902 - 1960)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-03
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Born on 25 June 1902, son of John Forrester Wood FRCS of Southport, he wished to make the army his career but the loss of sight in one eye at the age of 12 prevented this. Educated at Cheltenham College he was apprenticed at 16 to a firm of engineers, but owing to the world depression his father advised him to change his career. Consequently he studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, taking his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualifying in 1929. After holding resident posts at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, the East Ham Memorial Hospital, and the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, Forrester-Wood was appointed senior assistant resident medical officer at the Brighton Infirmary and remained there all his life. In 1936 he was elected to the senior staff of the Royal Sussex County Hospital and he was also consulting surgeon to the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital, the Hayward's Heath Hospital, the Heritage Craft Schools, the St Francis Hospital and Hurstwood Park Hospital. When the National Health Service took over Cuckfield Hospital, built for the Canadian Forces in the Second World War, he was appointed surgeon there in 1948. Forrester-Wood's special interest was paediatric surgery, but he took up thoracic surgery and regularly performed major operations in that field, with the exception of valvulotomy which he refused to do. He was secretary of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-chirurgical Society, and served for a long time on the executive committee of the local BMA Division; at the Annual Meeting in 1956 he was vice-president of the Section of Surgery. After the National Health Service came into operation in 1948 Forrester-Wood was appointed a member of the hospital management committee of the Brighton and Lewes group and was chairman of its medical and medical staff committees for some years. Forrester-Wood was an ideal chairman, but these extensive duties proved too much and in 1958 he suffered a myocardial infarction. Recovering from this he returned to his committees, though not as chairman. A fall whilst riding resulted in a detached retina of his remaining eye and total blindness was threatened. He recovered, however, and continued working and enjoying as far as possible his pleasures of fishing, shooting and gardening. A distinguished Freemason, he held provincial rank in the Craft and Royal Arch. Forrester-Wood died in his sleep at his home, Withdean House, Brighton on 6 April 1960, aged 57, survived by his wife and their son. Publications: Epiphrenic diverticulum of oesophagus. *Brit J Surg* 1948. Giant hypertrophic gastritis. *Brit J Surg* 1950.
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First Title value, for Searching Brownlee, Joseph John (1901 - 1972)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Joseph Brownlee was of Irish descent; his father, J J Brownlee, who died in 1928, came from Northern Ireland and was one of the earliest doctors in Christchurch; his mother's maiden name was McKee. Brownlee received his early education at Waitaki Boys High School; he kept a great interest in his old school and became Dominion President of the Old Boys Association. He qualified from Otago Medical School in 1926; while there he developed considerable prowess at running and hurdling, and at one stage the Otago record for the 100 yards was held jointly by Brownlee and Arthur Porritt. In 1927 he became a house surgeon at Auckland Hospital and then came to England where he stayed for seven years holding various surgical appointments and obtaining his Fellowship in 1934. In 1935 he returned to Christchurch and was appointed assistant surgeon to the genito-urinary department of Christchurch Hospital. In 1940, early in the second world war, he came to England as one of several surgeons from Commonwealth countries to be trained in plastic surgery by Sir Harold Gillies; he returned to New Zealand through the Middle East, where he spent several months observing the requirements of a plastic unit dealing with war casualties. Then at Burwood Hospital, Christchurch he set up the first plastic unit in New Zealand. Brownlee was senior surgeon at this plastic unit 1942-1955. From 1955 to 1966, when he retired from practice, he carried on his plastic work at various private hospitals and in addition visited Invercargill and Dunedin in a consultant capacity. In 1946 he was elected to the North Canterbury Hospital Board and served on it until 1957. He was also chairman of the building committee of the Princess Margaret Hospital. An important part of Brownlee's life was his annual holiday camp on the shores of Lake Hawea; the fishing there was excellent and he became an expert fly-fisherman; each camp lasted for several weeks and about twenty people were generally present. At these camps he fed, sheltered and entertained not only his friends but many widows, orphans and underprivileged people at his own generous expense. Brownlee was a keen Mason, who thought deeply about religion and politics. In 1966 Brownlee retired from medicine because of failing health and for the last few years of his life he was confined to a chair. He died at his home on 1 November 1972 in his 71st year. His wife, son and daughter survived him. His son J J Brownlee qualified in medicine but gave up practice for farming; his daughter married M T Milliken and practised surgery at Christchurch.
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First Title value, for Searching Cantlie, Sir Neil (1892 - 1975)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-21
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Neil Cantlie was born on 11 December 1892 in Hong Kong, the youngest son of the late Sir James Cantlie, FRCS, and educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and Aberdeen University, where he graduated in medicine with honours in 1914. He was a member of the university OTC and after qualifying joined the RAMC as a Lieutenant on 31 July 1914. He served with the BEF in France and Flanders until 1919, taking part in the first Battle of Ypres, where he was slightly wounded, and in other battles in Flanders. In January 1918 he was awarded the MC and in the following November was mentioned in dispatches. He took the FRCS in 1920 and shortly afterwards was seconded to the Egyptian Army, serving with it for five years. He saw action in the northern province of the Sudan and in 1924 was involved in the rebellion at Khartoum which followed the murder of the Sirdar in Cairo. On reverting to Home Establishment he attended the Royal Army Medical College course at Millbank, obtaining distinction in medicine and surgery and passing out first in order of merit. He then qualified with distinction in operative surgery and was classified as a specialist in 1926, holding surgical appointments in military hospitals in England and India from 1931 to 1937. During this period he was stationed at Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, during active operations. He was awarded the Indian General Service Medal and clasp, North-West Frontier, 1936-7. On the outbreak of the second world war he was in charge of the surgical division of the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot. He then commanded a casualty clearing station and a general hospital. As ADMS, 46 Division, he took part in the landings in North Africa, the capture of Tunisia, and the advance into Italy. His next appointment was 5th Corps in the rank of Brigadier from 1942 to 1944. From Italy he was posted to India as DDMS Eastern Command in the rank of Major-General from 1944 to 1946, during which period he was appointed honorary physician to the King. On his return to England he was DDMS Southern Command from 1946 until he became Director-General Army Medical Services with the rank of Lieutenant-General. He was appointed honorary surgeon to the King Edward VII Convalescent Home, Osborne, Isle of Wight, an appointment he held until 1958. He was appointed KBE in 1949 and KCB in 1952. To Neil Cantlie, who had spent his whole active life in the Army, the Corps always had pride of place. His last memorial to it was his much acclaimed *History of the Army Medical Department*, published in 1974. While Director-General he steered the Corps through difficult, changing times and brought a quiet and steadying influence. He was a kind and sympathetic man who was always easily approachable by all ranks and prepared to listen, but who hated irrelevances. The RAMC owes Neil Cantlie much as surgeon, administrator, and leader. He died on 16 May 1975, survived by his wife, Mollie who died on March 17, 1986 and his son Colin.
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First Title value, for Searching Donaldson, Malcolm (1884 - 1973)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Malcolm Donaldson was born on 27 April 1884 and was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a 3rd Class in the Natural Science Tripos in 1905. The most notable feature, however, of his university career was his keen interest in rowing, and in 1906 he won the University Sculls, and was in the eight competing with Oxford and Harvard. He came up to St Bartholomew's for his clinical course and passed the Conjoint examination in 1909 and took the Cambridge MB BCh degree in 1912. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1914, and of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1929. During the first world war he served in the RAMC as a surgical specialist, and shortly afterwards, in 1921, he was appointed assistant physician accoucheur to St Bartholomew's Hospital, having shown a special interest in obstetrics and gynaecology since holding the post of intern midwifery assistant in 1911. He was able to combine his work at Bart's with gynaecological posts at Mount Vernon and the Royal Northern Hospitals, and at the cottage hospitals at Brentford and Potters Bar. Quite early in his career he proceeded to devote his attention to radiotherapy, both with radium and X-rays, for uterine cancer, and was a pioneer in the treatment of cancer of the cervix by the insertion of radium needles by an intra-abdominal route. He was fortunate in having the collaboration of forward-looking radiotherapists at Mount Vernon Hospital as well as at Bart's, and was thus able to publish a book on radiotherapy in the diseases of women in 1933. He was Vice-Chairman of the National Radium Commission, and a member of the Radiology Committee of the Medical Research Council, and for several years he was the Director of the Cancer Research Department at St Bartholomew's. Donaldson's support of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was manifested by his membership of the Council for many years, and he showed his interest in the academic aspects of his specialty by acting as an Examiner for the College and for the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and London, and for the Central Midwives Board. But his chief and abiding objective in teaching was to educate the laity in the problems of cancer, with special reference to the importance of early diagnosis. He argued that the more the public knew about cancer the less would be the fear of it, and patients would therefore be more willing to consult their doctors in good time, so that the results of treatment could be improved. He was indefatigable in travelling round the country addressing Women's Institutes and similar bodies, and when he retired to Oxford he became Honorary Director of the Cancer Information Association. Donaldson was twice married. By his first wife he had two sons, the elder being Sir John Donaldson, President of the National Industrial Relations Court. His second wife died in 1970, and when he died himself aged 88 on 16 March 1973 his end came as a welcome relief after a terminal period of illness and loneliness.
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First Title value, for Searching Ormerod, Frank Cunliffe (1894 - 1967)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Frank Cunliffe Ormerod was born in Lancashire on 23 August 1894, and was educated at Manchester Grammar School and the University of Manchester where he had a distinguished career, winning the Dreschfeld and Dauntesey Scholarships, and graduated in medicine in 1916. He also passed the final Conjoint Examination, and after holding house appointments at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and at the Birmingham and Midland Ear Nose and Throat Hospital he joined the RAMC. He served first in Mesopotamia, and in 1919 was in Afghanistan as Medical Officer to the 1/4 Gurka Rifles. On demobilization he completed his interrupted medical course by taking the MD in 1920, and also passing the FRCS Edinburgh in 1921. He then came to London and commenced to specialize in otolaryngology, being appointed to the staff of the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden Square, and also the Brompton and the Westminster Hospitals. Although he later distinguished himself in the postgraduate field, his contribution to undergraduate teaching at Westminster was very greatly appreciated, for his forthright manner and his integrity impressed his students, who profited from his teaching not only in the scientific and clinical aspects of his specialty but also in his regard for the ethical standards of medical practice. He took a lively interest in their social and sporting activities and was president of the students' union and of the rugby football club. Ormerod passed the Final FRCS England in 1926, and in spite of the demands of a large private practice he developed a deep interest in the academic side of his specialty. His reputation was recognized by his colleagues by his Presidency of the Section of Otology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1942-43, and he was one of the founders of the British Association of Otolaryngologists. He was scientific secretary of the Fourth International Congress of Otolaryngology held in London a few months before his appointment in 1949 as Professor of Laryngology and Otology in the University of London at the newly established Institute of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation based on the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. His whole career had prepared him admirably for the duties and responsibilities of this chair, and having willingly abandoned private practice he was able to devote all his time and energy to the creation of a teaching and research unit which, in spite of early difficulties, was an established success by the time of his retirement in 1959. Even after he retired from clinical work he continued at the Institute as director of research, and his final efforts on its behalf were directed to the collection of instruments and biographical records to illustrate the development of the specialty of otolaryngology. Although his academic activities were associated with university institutions, he was a member of the Court of Examiners of the College. And in every aspect of his life his kindly interest and consideration for colleagues, students and patients must be an outstanding feature to be gratefully remembered in any record of his life and work. He died at his home in London, after a short illness, on 25 January 1967, and his devoted wife survived him until 11 August 1975. Their two sons survived them.
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First Title value, for Searching Orr, Ian Morison (1901 - 1966)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Glasgow in 1901, he was educated at Glasgow Academy and at Glasgow University. After qualification he held house appointments in Liverpool and then went out to Neyoor, S India to join T H Somervell FRCS, the 1926 Everest climber, at his mission hospital. While there Orr dealt with a large number of patients suffering from peptic ulceration and also those with carcinoma of the mouth. This experience enabled him to develop a meticulous surgical technique and an interest in surgical research. He returned to England in 1938 and joined a practice in Hindhead as a surgeon; in 1940 he wrote a thesis on peptic ulceration for which he was awarded the degree of ChM by Glasgow University. In 1941 he entered the RAMC being posted to India and in 1943 he was awarded the OBE (Military) for his work for famine relief. Returning after the war to Hindhead he was appointed surgeon to the Haslemere and District Hospital. His work on peptic ulceration in India had been noted by Grey Turner, whose successor, Ian Aird, appointed Orr a lecturer at the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith to carry out an investigation into the effects of vagotomy in duodenal surgery. In 1948 he was appointed surgeon to the Preston Royal Infirmary where he remained for 17 years until he died. While holding this appointment he had a personal series of over 2000 operations for peptic ulceration which served as a basis for papers he published and lectures he gave to establish the indications for the various forms of surgery applicable to this condition and he organised a most efficient system of follow-up both short and long term. Ian Orr was an extremely capable surgeon and a perfectionist, treating all his patients with the same kindly care and attention irrespective of their status in the community, which was natural for a man of strong religious conviction. Throughout his life he was sustained by a genuine and unobtrusive Christian faith. He had a deep humility and integrity which coupled with his ability was a comfort to his colleagues, his patients and his friends. At the annual meeting of the BMA in 1954 he was honorary secretary of the Section of Surgery and in 1959 its Vice-President. In 1963-64 he was chairman of the Preston Division of the BMA and in 1964 he was an Arris and Gale Lecturer at the College. In his hospital he devoted special attention to the teaching and welfare of his junior staff. By his personality and surgical ability he raised the prestige of his provincial hospital group immeasurably. He enjoyed an open air life in particular riding and hunting with the Pendle Forest and Craven Harriers. He died on 17 January 1966 at his home 32 Ribblesdale Place, Preston survived by his wife and three sons one of whom is N W M Orr FRCS. Publications: Vagal resection in treatment of peptic ulcer. *Lancet* 1947, 2, 84-88. Selective surgery for peptic ulcer. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1954, 98, 425-432.
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First Title value, for Searching Colt, George Herbert (1878 - 1957)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Hampstead in 1878, the third son of Frederick Hoare Colt, a barrister and bencher of the Inner Temple, George Herbert Colt was educated at Tonbridge School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he became a scholar. He obtained a first-class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1900, and completed his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1904. He had an original and fertile brain and was frequently inventing work-saving methods and appliances both in his professional life and for his many hobbies. In the *Lancet* of 19 September 1903 Sir D'Arcy Power reported "A case of aneurysm of the abdominal aorta treated by the introduction of silver wire, with a description of instruments invented and constructed by Mr G H Colt to facilitate the introduction of wire into aneurysms". This was a year before Colt qualified. He held appointments as house surgeon and junior and senior resident anaesthetist at St Bartholomew's, obtained the FRCS in 1908 and became senior house surgeon at the Derby Royal Infirmary. Two years later Colt was appointed assistant surgeon at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, where he remained until 1934. In 1914 he was honorary secretary of the Section of Surgery at the BMA Annual Meeting in Aberdeen. On the outbreak of the first world war in 1914, Colt was mobilised with his chief, Sir John Marnoch at the 1st Scottish General Hospital, and in 1916 went to Salonika in charge of the surgical division of the 43rd General Hospital. From November 1918 to September 1919 he was officer in command of the surgical division of the 82nd General Hospital at Constantinople. After the war Colt returned to Aberdeen and in 1923 was appointed full surgeon at the Royal Infirmary. He was also assistant to the professor of surgery, Sir John Marnoch, in the University and lecturer in clinical surgery. In 1934 he returned to London and set up in practice at 10 Harley Street. Later he became consultant in surgery to the Gravesend and North Kent Hospital. Colt was a good mechanic and always kept a workshop. Besides his apparatus for the treatment of aneurysm of the aorta, he invented a needle for the tension stitch, a distraction apparatus for fixing and holding the fractured ends of bones ready for plating, and an interchangeable "pistol grip" for a bone-drill. Colt had a quiet manner which concealed his courage and tenacity of purpose. For twenty years he studied necropsies on aneurysm and collected some 707 cases. Colt was twice married: his first wife Henrietta, daughter of Thomas Dick and a former Sister at Bart's, died on 1 October 1950; they had one daughter. His second wife, Constance Elizabeth White, died on 26 July 1957 and he died at his home West Meade, Lockner Holt, Chilworth, near Guildford, three months later on 26 October 1957, aged 79. He was warmly attached to the College, regularly attended the public lectures here, and presented a number of engraved portraits of medical men to the Library. Publications: Tuberculous disease of the abdominal lymphatic glands, with G N Clark. *Lancet* 1937, 1, 125. Some surgical aspects of tuberculous disease of the abdominal lymphatic glands, with G N Clark. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1937, 65, 771.
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First Title value, for Searching Doyne, Philip Geoffrey (1886 - 1959)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Philip Geoffrey Doyne was born in 1886 of a distinguished southern Irish family. He was the elder son of Robert Doyne FRCS, a prominent ophthalmic surgeon who founded the Oxford Eye Hospital and played a leading part in the establishment of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, and a first cousin of P E H Adam FRCS, whose mother was a Miss Doyne and who succeeded Robert Doyne as reader in ophthalmology at Oxford. Doyne was educated at Winchester, Trinity College, Oxford and St Thomas's Hospital where he graduated in 1913. After holding house appointments at St Thomas's he joined the RAMC during the first world war and served in Mesopotamia, becoming the Army Eye Specialist in Baghdad. After the war Doyne returned to St Thomas's in 1919 as ophthalmic registrar, and in 1920 was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the East London Hospital for Children. He always retained his interest in children's eyes and in 1922 was made ophthalmic surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and in 1932 became consultant surgeon there. In 1921 he held the Lang Research Scholarship at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields). The following year he became assistant surgeon there and surgeon in 1928. In 1924 he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon with charge of out-patients at St Thomas's Hospital. Doyne served for a time as sub-dean of the St Thomas's medical school, and from 1935 to 1946 was head of the ophthalmic department there. During the second world war Doyne moved into simple rooms near the hospital to enable him to carry out his work for the EMS with maximum efficiency. He served on the Ophthalmic Group Committee of the BMA from 1938 to 1945, and at the 1933 meeting in Dublin was a vice-president of his Section. The peak of his career was in 1943 when he was elected Master of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, of which his father had been founder and first Master. On retirement Doyne went to live at the family home at Bix Hill, Assendon, Henley-on-Thames. Doyne was of a retiring nature, and made few contributions to the literature of his specialty. At Oxford Doyne rowed for his college, and at his home at Henley was able to keep up this sport, but was better known as a fencer. Twice amateur foils champion of Great Britain (1912 and 1920) he was one of the British Olympic team before the war. To the age of 60 he fenced regularly at the London Fencing Club. He married Ida, daughter of Harcourt Griffin of Bude, in 1915 and their only child married John Emrys Lloyd, a successor of Doyne's as a British amateur champion and Olympic fencer, and a partner in Farrers, solicitors, of Lincoln's Inn Fields. Doyne's health deteriorated shortly after his retirement, and after a long illness he died at his home on 22 January 1959 aged 72. Mrs Doyne presented the College with his copy of Richard Wiseman's *Several chirurgical treatises* 1676, a valuable first edition, in his memory.
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First Title value, for Searching Doouss, Trevor Watson (1932 - 1975)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-26
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born on 15 October 1932 in Auckland, Doouss attended the Mount Albert Grammar School, Auckland University College and the University of Otago where he graduated MB ChB in 1956, and where in his final year he was awarded the Sir Carrick Robertson Surgical Prize. He was junior and senior house surgeon with the Auckland Hospital Board and a foundation member of the House Surgeons' Association. In 1959 he went as a general practitioner to the Chatham Islands and then returned to Auckland for two years as surgical registrar. In 1962 he went to the United Kingdom and while in England became a Fellow of both the English and Edinburgh Colleges of Surgeons within the same year, 1963. He was chief assistant to the department of surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1966 and from 1968 to 1970 was senior registrar and surgical tutor at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. Throughout his eight years in the United Kingdom he made a name for himself in surgical research and in 1967 he was awarded a research fellowship by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. While holding this fellowship he made a study in vivo of steroidogenesis by the human adrenal gland and ovary. In order to carry out this work he mastered the intricacies of steroid biochemistry so that he was able to discuss and plan experiments as an equal with the best steroid biochemists in London - no mean feat for a surgeon. He presented this work as a thesis to the University of Otago and was awarded the degree of ChM in 1969. He returned to Auckland in 1970 as senior lecturer in the new department of surgery and in 1973 was promoted to Associate Professor in recognition of his clinical, teaching and research contributions to the department of surgery. Trevor Doouss was an excellent example of that rare breed of person known as an academic surgeon. He was a skilled and imaginative clinical surgeon with a real flair for research. His special interest was in surgery of cancer of the breast, and his opinion and advice on the handling of patients with disseminated breast cancer was much sought after, and these cases were put under his care. That the quality of his research was fully recognized can be seen from the number of his papers in international journals in the field and from his being invited to participate in conferences in Singapore, Malaysia and India. He was an excellent and enthusiastic teacher, a good bedside instructor and most insistent on the correct interpretation of clinical signs in surgery. He was a clear and imaginative lecturer, using modern audio-visual methods, and with a flair for the theatrical to stimulate his student audience. He had a genuine interest in the students he taught and in their activities, both curricular and extra-curricular. One of his favourite recreations was fishing in both sea and lakes, and he learnt to fly after his return to New Zealand. He died on 21 June 1975 and was survived by his wife Dr Jennifer Wilson and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Oldham, Charles James (1845 - 1907)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-05
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Came of the family to which belonged Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, who founded Manchester Grammar School in 1515, and Netley Abbey, besides being co-founder of Brasenose College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The son of James Oldham (qv), he received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, where he was House Physician, House Surgeon, and Resident Accoucheur, and at the Sussex County Hospital. He was at one time Resident Medical Officer at the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children, London, Clinical Assistant at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, and Assistant Surgeon at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital. He went to 53 Norfolk Square, Hove, in 1870, and lived later at 1 Brunswick Place in partnership with his father, James Oldham (qv). Here his skill as an oculist brought him a large practice. He was Senior Surgeon to the Sussex and Brighton Hospital for Diseases of the Eye, Surgeon to the Brighton and Hove Dispensary, and at one time President of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society. At the time of his death he was Treasurer to the last-named Society and Consulting Surgeon to the Brighton Blind Asylum, besides holding his Surgeoncy at the Eye Hospital and his post at the Dispensary. From 1897-1899 he served on the Council of the Ophthalmological Society, and at the time of his death was Vice-President. In 1886 he was President of the Ophthalmological Section of the British Medical Association. He was well known in the profession, and in private life devoted himself to music and to the collection of rare instruments. Among the latter were three valuable 'Stradivarius' violins, a viola and a violoncello by the same famous maker. For the last-named he paid a price which ran into four figures, and one violin and the viola formed part of the set of instruments which Stradivarius is said to have made for the King of Spain of the time. Another of the violins once belonged to Rode, a great violinist of his day. Oldham was a Director of the Royal Academy of Music, and was the very active President of the Brighton Sacred Harmonic Society. His death occurred at his residence, 38 Brunswick Square, Brighton, on January 24th, 1907. As being of Founder's kin he left £3000 to Manchester Grammar School, "to be applied for the advancement of learning as the authorities may think fit", besides the residue of his estate, which it was thought might range between £7000 and £10,000. Another clause in the will ran that he "peremptorily requested and desired that no person be appointed as an additional trustee or executor of his will who shall be either a solicitor, a Jew, or a German although he may be a British subject, but that he desired rather that a competent business man in a responsible position, such as a bank manager, shall be appointed." Publication: At the International Ophthalmological Congress, held in London in 1872, Oldham read a paper on "An Improved Refracting Ophthalmoscope." - *Rep Int Ophthalmol Congress*, 1873, iv, 119.
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First Title value, for Searching Targett, James Henry (1862 - 1913)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-28
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in Wiltshire, the son of a farmer. He received his education partly at the Grammar School at Warminster, and then, being in weak health, from a tutor at Salisbury. He entered Guy's Hospital as a student in October, 1878, having already matriculated at London University. In 1883 he gained two prizes in the Medical School at Guy's Hospital, was then House Physician and House Surgeon, and was appointed Surgical Registrar for two years, 1885-1887. In 1887 he was appointed Assistant Curator of the Museum at Guy's Hospital, and in 1888 Pathological Assistant at the Royal College of Surgeons, succeeding Frederick Samuel Eve (qv) as Pathological Curator in 1890. He held this post till 1897, when S G Shattock (qv) succeeded him. He was elected Demonstrator of Anatomy and Biology at Guy's Hospital before 1897, and served in that department for six years. He was also Assistant Surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children. He taught Practical Surgery and Morbid Histology at Guy's Hospital from 1895-1897, when he was appointed Obstetric Registrar and Tutor and, in 1898, Assistant Obstetric Physician, holding this post for five years, and combining it with that of Surgeon to Out-patients at the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women. On the retirement of Dr A L Galabin he became full Gynaecological Surgeon at Guy's Hospital in 1903, sharing his duties with Dr Horrocks. At the time of his death he was Obstetric Surgeon, the name of his office having been changed, as well as Joint Lecturer on Obstetrics. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was Assistant in the Museum, 1888-1890, and Pathological Curator from 1890-1913, Erasmus Wilson Lecturer in 1893, 1894, and 1895, his subjects being "Pathology of Tumours connected with the Bladder", "On Some Interesting Additions to the Pathological Department of the Museum", and "Recent Additions to the Museum". He edited seven Appendices to the Catalogue of the Museum, Pathological Specimens, Appendix V to Appendix XI, 1891-1897. He was elected a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society in 1891 and contributed some twenty-five papers to its *Transactions*, and here his wide pathological knowledge served him well. From its foundation to within three or four years of his death Targett examined morbid growths for the Clinical Research Association. He was an Examiner in Midwifery at the Conjoint Board from 1901-1906, and from 1908 to the time of his last illness. From 1900-1902 he served on the Board of Examiners for Midwives. He died at his residence, 19 Upper Wimpole Street, from ulcerative endocarditis, on May 26th, 1913, being survived by Mrs Targett. A fine portrait of him is in the *Guy's Hospital Gazette* (1918, xxvii, 490). He had only one child, a son, who died of appendicitis in 1911. Publications: A very full bibliography of Targett's publications, some ninety-five in number, by Mr William Wale, Librarian of Guy's Hospital, accompanies his biography in the *Guy's Hospital Gazette* (1913, xxvii, 243). It has been printed separately with portrait, and was the first complete bibliography of a Fellow to be published up to 1920. A copy is in the College Library.
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First Title value, for Searching McNeill, Donald Cragg (1935 - 2005)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2013-10-04
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Donald Cragg McNeill was a consultant plastic surgeon in Salisbury. He was born in 1935 and was educated at the Southern Grammar School, Portsmouth. He won a scholarship to study medicine and trained at St Mary's, qualifying in 1958. Most of his surgical training took place in the Wessex region, where he gained wide experience in all aspects of general surgery, orthopaedics, gynaecology and plastic surgery. In 1960 he extended his National Service with a five-year commission in the RAF. His initial posting was to Halton as a trainee in general surgery, orthopaedics and gynaecology. He was then posted to the island of Gan in the Indian Ocean, where he was the only surgeon for 2,000 miles. He returned to the RAF hospital at Ely, and then had a further posting abroad to the Christmas Islands. In 1965 he left the RAF holding the rank of squadron leader. He continued his general surgical training in Winchester, then began his plastic surgery training at Odstock 1967 with John Barron. He passed his Edinburgh fellowship in 1968. He rose from senior house officer to senior registrar, and then moved to the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, working with James Calnan in the department of experimental surgery. In 1973 he was appointed as a consultant in plastic surgery to Odstock Hospital in Salisbury and as a senior lecturer to Southampton Medical School. He enjoyed integrating with other services, and was one of the first oncoplastic breast surgeons. He also developed an interest in the use of lasers in surgery, on which he became an international authority. In addition to this commitments in Wessex, he built up a practice in Jersey over 25 years. He enjoyed and was passionate about teaching, in the UK and also in India, where he helped train young surgeons in plastic surgery. In the late seventies and eighties he led a group of consultants who wished to establish a private hospital in Salisbury. They formed the Salisbury Independent Hospital Trust, with Donald as the chairman. Fundraising and sponsorship enabled a property to be purchased and, after renovations, this became New Hall Hospital, which has continued to thrive. Problems with silicone breast implants in the early nineties led the Department of Health to set up the National Breast Implant Registry at Odstock, with Donald as director. After his death the registry was discontinued: had it continued the failure of PIP implants, which eventually came to light in 2012, may have been recognised earlier. In 1995 Donald was elected president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. His commitment to teaching and his leadership in plastic surgery was recognised by his election as a fellow *ad eundem* of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1998. He was married and had three children, Andrew, Jane and John (who predeceased him). Donald died on 16 October 2005 at the age of 70 after a long fight with head and neck cancer, a disease which, ironically, he had spent many years treating. The Donald McNeill oncoplastic travelling scholarship was set up by the Association of Breast Surgery in his memory.
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First Title value, for Searching Paul, Milroy Aserappa (1900 - 1988)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Milroy Aserappa Paul, the eldest son of Samuel Chellar Paul, one time senior surgeon to the Colombo General Hospital, and of Dora Eleanor Paul (née Aserappa) was born in Colombo on 20 January 1900. His mother was the daughter of Dr Simon de Melho Aserappa, MD Edinburgh. Milroy was educated at Ladies College, the Government Training College, and at Royal College, Colombo, where he won prizes in science and mathematics as well as the Rayapakse Prize. After one year at Colombo Medical College he came to King's College, London, where he won the Self Medal, and to King's College Hospital where he was awarded prizes in surgery, orthopaedic surgery, hygiene, psychological medicine and forensic medicine. He qualified in 1924, and after resident appointments was casualty officer in 1926 and then surgical registrar at King's College Hopsital in 1927 after completing the fellowship and mastership examinations. He was a great admirer of Sir Cecil Wakeley and later named his first child, Wakeley Wisekumer Paul, after him. On returning to Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was then called, he became surgeon to Jaffna Hospital 1930-1933, and then, in 1934, surgeon to Ceylon General Hospital. From 1936-1965 he was the founder Professor of Surgery, first at the Colombo Medical College and the Childrens Hospital. During the second world war, with the rank of major (temporary Lieutenant Colonel) in the Ceylon Medical Corps, he became officer in charge of the surgical division at 55 British Military Hospital, Colombo, and also surgical consultant to the Royal Air Force, holding the last appointment until the RAF left Ceylon in 1960. Milroy Paul, although having the advantage of distinguished medical forbears on both sides of his family, was a man who, by sheer hard work and brilliance, achieved great distinction in his own country and became widely known outside Sri Lanka. He was a man of great presence and striking appearance. He retained close contact with the Royal College of Surgeons and was three times appointed as a Hunterian Professor in 1950, 1953 and 1955. He was also diligent in keeping the College informed of the progress of its fellows in Sri Lanka and India, contributing valuable information to the *Lives of the Fellows*. His publications covered various congenital abnormalities, pancreatic cysts, amoebic abscess of the liver and tropical elephantiasis. He was a founder member of the Ceylon Association for the Advancement of Science in 1944, and its President in 1954. He was also a founder member and first President of the Association of Surgeons of Ceylon 1963-64. He was first married in 1927 to Winifred Hanah Penmany Canagasary, by whom he had one son. After the death of his first wife in 1944 he married Irma Maheswari Philips in the following year. They had three sons, one of whom became a dental surgeon, and a daughter who qualified in medicine. Paul was a keen tennis player and swimmer, and he was a frequent visitor to the UK, the last occasion being in 1986. When he died on 8 October 1988, in his 89th year, he was survived by his second wife and the children of both marriages.
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, John Noel Gleave (1934 - 2022)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

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 Blaikley, John Barnard (1906 - 1975)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

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 Taylor, John Gibson (1918 - 2005)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-11-30
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details John Gibson Taylor, known as ‘Ian’, was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He was born on 8 June 1918, three months before the end of the First World War, the only child of Scottish parents Kate and William Taylor. Ian’s father was an engineer employed at the Royal Aeronautical Establishment, Hampshire. Brought up in Fleet, Ian went to the local grammar school. Deciding on a medical career, he entered St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. Much of his time was spent at Amersham, where the medical school was evacuated during the Second World War. After a year on the house, during which time he was house physician to Sir George Pickering, he joined the RNVR. His first posting was to the destroyer HMS Zetland, which hunted U-boats. After a year he served on HMS Vindex, an escort carrier. Through many hard winters over the next four years on the treacherous North Sea, the ship escorted convoys to Russia. He was discharged as a surgeon lieutenant commander in June 1946. On demobilisation he returned to St Mary’s as a registrar to V H Ellis, the orthopaedic surgeon, who was soon joined by John Crawford Adams, with whom Ian retained a lifelong friendship. After passing the FRCS Ian became first assistant to the accident service at the John Radcliffe Hospital, being greatly influenced by Edgar Somerville, Robert Taylor and Joe Pennybacker, who taught Ian spinal surgery. In 1954 he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Norwich, joining Ken McKee and Richard Howard. The unit served not only Norwich but was also responsible for most of the orthopaedic and trauma services in Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Ian embraced the introduction of new methods of joint replacement, holding clinics with Neil Cardoe and Gilson Wenley for rheumatoid and other arthritic problems, at first in an old workhouse, St Michael’s Hospital in Aylsham. Later a stable block was converted into an operating theatre – much of the money raised by voluntary donations from the Norfolk community. In this unlikely setting Ian performed knee and metacarpo-phalangeal joint replacements. Much sought-after as a teacher, he was involved with the rotation between Bart’s, Norwich and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and encouraged many of his trainees to publish their first papers. In 1965 Sir Herbert Seddon asked him to help out in Nigera, where he spent several months. In 1956 he met Fodhla Burnell, an anaesthetist. They were married a year later in Norwich Cathedral. They had many shared interests – sailing in the North Sea was one, a cottage in the Perthshire hills another. He was an accomplished skier, using this method of transport to get him to hospital during the hard winter of 1979. He was a keen member of the Percivall Pott Club and regularly attended meetings of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA). One of his last major trips abroad was to Murmansk in 2001. This commemorated the arrival of the first Russian convoy sent from the UK during the Second World War. Ian and others who had survived were welcomed by the Russians and given a medal of honour for the enormous risks taken 60 years previously. Over his last few years he developed progressive muscle disease, and died on 24 August 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Heath, George Yeoman (1820 - 1892)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Westoe, near South Shields, his father being a well-known shipowner, his mother related to Dr Winterbottom, Physician to the College of Sierra Leone and author of *Diseases of the Natives of Africa*; was first apprenticed to his brother Henry, who had a large and varied practice and was Surgeon to numerous collieries. After serving his time Heath studied at Newcastle-upon-Tyne during the session 1839-1840, and then entered University College Hospital, London, where he was Dresser under Liston and gained the Gold Medal for surgery; later he went to Paris. He then settled in practice at Newcastle and became Surgeon to the Eastern Dispensary. He joined the staff of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne School of Medicine and Surgery in 1845, lectured on surgery and surgical anatomy, and was one of the Committee appointed to wind up the affairs of the school when it was dissolved in the summer of 1851. On the day following the dissolution Heath was present at a meeting for its reorganization. The scheme was successful, and Heath, jointly with his brother Henry Heath, was chosen to lecture on the principles and practice of surgery in the newly established College of Medicine. In 1857 this college was amalgamated with the College of Science and in due course formed the medical faculty of the University of Durham in 1870, when Heath became the University Professor of Surgery. In 1854 he was elected Surgeon to the Newcastle Infirmary, holding that post till 1880, when he became Consulting Surgeon. In June, 1859, he was given the honorary degree of MD Durham. The range of practice at the infirmary was a varied one. Heath distinguished himself as a lithotomist, having performed 104 lateral lithotomies before taking up lithotrity. He was also for a long period Surgeon to the Eye Infirmary. In his Address on Surgery at the Newcastle Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1870 he set out with much wealth of illustration the three characteristics of what he called "Modern Operative Surgery: its Audacity, its Conservatism, and its Success". This was from one of the best of Liston's pupils with a wide reputation as a surgeon, just as Lister's revolution was starting. Heath was elected President of the Medical College on the death of Dr E Charlton, and held that post until his death. He was also elected Representative of the Durham University Medical School, to which the Newcastle School had become affiliated in 1847, upon the General Medical Council. He served from December, 1887, until his death, when he was succeeded by Sir George Hare Philipson, MD. He suffered from arthritis which impeded his walking, and at last from an abscess of the gall-bladder, as was proved at the post-mortem examination by Dr C J Gibb. He died at Cocken Hall, near Durham, on March 4th, 1892, and his funeral was largely attended by colleagues and students from the College and Infirmary. The Northumberland and Durham Medical Society passed a vote of condolence. The Heath Professorship of Comparative Pathology and Bacteriology was established in his memory.
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First Title value, for Searching Blakeway, Harry (1884 - 1919)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-03-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Second son of James Blakeway, MRCVS, of Stourbridge, Worcestershire. Educated at Stourbridge; entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1903, where he won the Harvey Prize for Practical Physiology, the Brackenbury Scholarship in Surgery, the Willett Medal in Operative Surgery, the Walsham Prize for Surgical Pathology, and the Matthews Duncan Medal in Obstetrics. He was appointed House Surgeon at the Great Northern Central Hospital in 1908, and became House Surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital to C B Lockwood (qv) in October of the same year. He was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1910, a position he held for several years. He proved himself a good teacher, and produced some original work on the anatomy of the palate which was put to practical use in the treatment of hare-lip and cleft palate when he became Surgeon to Out-patients at the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea. In 1915 he lectured, as Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, on “The Operative Treatment of Cleft Palate”. He was appointed Surgical Registrar at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1913, and at this time he was holding the office of Surgeon to the City of London Truss Society. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he was specially retained, much against his will, as one of the younger surgeons necessary to treat the civil population at the hospitals in London. In this position he acted, in addition to his ordinary work, as Demonstrator of Morbid Anatomy, Temporary Assistant Surgeon, and Resident Assistant Surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, whilst he continued to take classes and give demonstrations in the Medical School and to attend professionally those of his colleagues and their families who required surgical assistance. All these duties he performed gladly. They overtaxed his strength, and he died in the Etherington-Smith Ward of the hospital on February 15th, 1919, from pneumonia during an epidemic of influenza. He married Margery Campbell, daughter of Frank Griffith, of Woking, and left a son and two daughters. He practised at 145 Harley Street and lived at 1 Weymouth Street, W1. A portrait illustrates the obituary notice in the *St Bartholomew’s Hospital Journal*. Blakeway’s death was deeply regretted, for he would have maintained the surgical reputation of the hospital both as teacher and as operator. He was an admirable practical anatomist, and his dissections of the pharynx and the palate are preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. As a man he was most unassuming, of a somewhat frail appearance, courteous in address, a loyal friend, a lover of books and music, a rider to hounds by heredity, and in all things trustworthy. Publications:- Blakeway wrote an article of first-rate importance, illustrated with drawings, on the anatomy and physiology of the parts concerned in cleft palate in *Jour. Anat. and Physiol.*, 1914, xlviii, 409-16. “Congenital Absence of the Gall-bladder associated with Imperfect Development of the Pancreas and Imperforate Anus.” – *Lancet*, 1912, ii, 365. *Operative Treatment of Cleft Palate*, 1912. “Teratoma of Unusual Size affecting the Testicle of a Horse.” – *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1913, i, 704. “Treatment of Hare-lip and Cleft Palate.” – *Practitioner*, 1914, xcii, 219.
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First Title value, for Searching Bremner, John Cameron (1930 - 1973)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Bremner was born in Queensland, Australia on 8 November 1930 and educated at Melbourne University, Victoria; later he moved to Perth, Western Australia, where he was making a distinguished career in plastic surgery when he fell ill and died at the age of forty-two. At the University he won the Syme Prize in Anatomy with an Exhibition in 1950, the Ryan Prize in Surgery in 1953, and qualified that year; in 1956 he passed Part 1 of the MS examination. After holding resident posts at the Royal Melbourne Hospital he was appointed in 1956 associate-assistant surgeon to E E Dunlop and became associate-assistant to B K Rank, plastic and facio-maxillary surgeon to the Hospital; he was also part-time surgeon to the Casualty Clinic and assistant to A R Wakefield, reparative surgeon to the Peter MacCallum Clinic, Melbourne Cancer Institute. In the same period he was a demonstrator, first of pathology and then of surgery, in the University and from 1957 clinical supervisor of students at the Hospital. He won a Fulbright Fellowship for advanced study at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1959. On his way to America he visited London, took the Fellowship, and attended the Second International Congress of Plastic Surgery. At Pittsburgh he held the post of teaching fellow and preceptor in plastic surgery, and undertook research on tendon healing. He also attended the meetings of the Canadian and American Societies of Plastic Surgeons, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the latter; he became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1961. He returned to Australia in 1960 on appointment to the staff of the plastic and maxillo-facial unit at the Royal Perth Hospital, and was promoted to be surgeon to the unit in 1964. He was also plastic surgeon to the Fremantle Hospital, and consultant plastic surgeon to the Royal Australian Navy, in which he had held the rank of Surgeon-Lieutenant, RAN Reserve, since 1955. He was lecturer in surgery at the University of Western Australia, and a member of the West Australia State Medical Planning Committee; he built up a prosperous private practice, and was active in the West Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons. Bremner was a cultivated and generous man; he gave a munificent donation in 1973 to buy works of art for the adornment of the Medical School at the University of Western Australia in the hope that future students would enjoy looking at the pictures and broaden their interests. His recreations were tennis, golf and sailing; he was interested in farming and a partner in two grazing and beef-cattle properties outside Perth. He was also a keen Freemason, and was Master-elect of the St George Lodge, Perth at the time of his death. Bremner was seriously ill in 1972, received leave from his duties, and died at Portsea, Victoria on 8 June 1973 aged forty-two; he was unmarried. Publications: Correlation of tongue changes and nutrition. *Roy Melb Hosp Clin Rep* 1952, 22, 46. Splenic vein thrombosis in patient with myeloproliferative syndrome. *Roy Melb Hosp Clin Rep* 1954, 24, 117.
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First Title value, for Searching Flint, Ethelbert Rest (1880 - 1956)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 1 November 1880 at Scarborough, son of Frederic Flint and May Lance his wife, he was educated at Scarborough and at the Leeds School of Medicine, qualifying in 1905. After holding a house appointment at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, he became house surgeon at the General Infirmary at Leeds. From 1907 to 1911 he was in general practice, and then became resident casualty officer at the General Infirmary and in 1912 resident surgical officer. During the 1914-18 war he was commissioned in the RAMC, but all his work was done in the Infirmary as most of the senior surgeons were away on war service. Flint carried a tremendous burden of work and performed over six thousand operations in two years on civilians and wounded soldiers. He never left the hospital for weeks; his capacity for work coupled with a gentle, kindly nature endeared him to all, and he was thereafter referred to as "Father" Flint. In 1920 Flint was made surgical registrar and tutor, and in 1922 he was promoted to assistant surgeon to the Infirmary and became private assistant to Sir Berkeley Moynihan. In 1932 he became surgeon-in-charge of out-patients, and the following year, on the retirement of Professor J F Dobson, he was promoted full surgeon. In addition to his clinical work at the Infirmary, Flint was consultant surgeon to several other hospitals in the region. From 1934 to 1936 Flint held the chair of clinical surgery in the University of Leeds, and in 1936 was appointed professor of surgery. In spite of his heavy commitments in the clinical and academic fields, he investigated the aetiology of biliary-tract infections and liver function in cholecystitis and cholelithiasis. He also studied the abnormalities of the right hepatic, cystic and gastro-duodenal arteries and of the bile ducts. In his Arris and Gale lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1923 and again in 1930 he spoke about these investigations. In 1933 he was a Hunterian professor, and lectured on pre-operative procedure. When he reached retiring age in 1940 he was appointed emeritus professor of surgery and honorary consulting surgeon to the Infirmary, but he continued active work there until the end of the second world war. He was a member of the Moynihan Club and president of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-chirurgical Society. In 1918 Flint married Alicia Bay Farrer and they had three sons. Flint was a distinguished athlete, who represented his county and the North of England at hockey for many years. Later he turned to golf, won the Moynihan golf cup in 1914 and in 1919, and continued to play until he was over 70. His later years were clouded by ill health and he died on 5 January 1956 at the age of 75. Publications: Abnormalities of the right hepatic cystic and gastro-duodenal arteries and of the bile ducts. *Brit J Surg* 1923. Association of hepatitis and cholecystitis in the human subject. *Brit med J* 1930. Some observations of pre-operative procedure. (Hunterian Lecture). *Lancet* 1933.
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First Title value, for Searching Edmunds, Arthur (1874 - 1945)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London on 17 April 1874, the fourth child and third son of Joseph Edmunds, manufacturing dry-salter, and his wife Ann Stroud Swift. His parents were poor and on leaving school he worked for his father's business. His schoolmaster encouraged him to continue his education at night classes and he succeeded in entering King's College, London, where he won the University exhibition in zoology and scholarship in physiology, and graduated BSc. He then entered King's College Hospital medical school in 1896, and maintained himself by coaching and by winning the Sambrooke exhibition and other scholarships and prizes. At the intermediate MB examination he was placed first in materia medica and awarded a gold medal in physiology, and at the final MB, BS took honours in obstetrics and was awarded the University scholarship and gold medal in surgery. At King's College he served as demonstrator of physiology, and was elected a Fellow in 1931. At the Hospital he became Sambrooke surgical registrar 1906-10, senior surgical registrar and tutor 1910-12, assistant surgeon 1912, surgeon 1919, and consulting surgeon 1934. He was also surgeon to out-patients at the Paddington Green Children's Hospital, and surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a Hunterian professor in 1926 and 1933. After qualifying he lived in chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields with Archibald Reid (1871-1924), MRCS, and then became private assistant to William Watson Cheyne, after having been his house surgeon. Edmunds acquired consummate skill and speed in cutting and staining pathological specimens for Cheyne. From him he adopted the strictest Listerian antiseptic practice, for Cheyne had been Lister's assistant. Edmunds always used a strong cleansing mixture before operation, distrusting the attempts of later surgeons to obtain absolute asepsis. He liked simple instruments, did without needle-holders, and used sharp hooks instead of forceps for holding the tissues. He made his own instruments in a workshop at the top of his house, 57 Queen Anne Street. Edmunds devised a successful operation for hypospadias and several delicate plastic operations. During the war of 1914-18 he was a consulting surgeon to the Royal Navy with the rank of surgeon rear-admiral, and was created CB 1918. In the war of 1939-45 he came voluntarily out of retirement at the age of 66 to return to surgery at Cuckfield Hospital, Sussex, under the Emergency Medical Service. Edmunds married in 1911 Maud Dampier, daughter of M Stratford of Gloucester, who survived him but without children. After retiring he lived at Bramley Cottage, Charing, Kent, where he grew orchids and roses, and painted. He died in King's College Hospital on 29 November 1945, aged 71, and was cremated at Charing after a funeral service at King's College. Edmunds was a bearded man, of outspoken sincerity and honesty.. He did not care for sports and abhorred blood-sports. Publications:- *Glandular enlargement and other diseases of the lymphatic system*. London, 1908. W W Cheyne and F F Burghard, *Manual of surgical treatment*, 2nd edition, 1912-13, revised by Arthur Edmunds and T P Legg, 5 vols. An operation for hypospadias. *Lancet*, 1913, 1, 447. Pseudohermaphroditism and hypospadias. (Hunterian lecture, RCS.) *Lancet*, 1926, 1, 323. Unsuccessful appendicectomy (Hunterian lecture, RCS). *Lancet*, 1933, 2, 393.
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First Title value, for Searching Turner, Philip (1873 - 1955)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Kensington on 27 December 1873 one of the three sons of Arthur James Turner, he was educated at King's and University Colleges, London, graduating in science in 1894, and qualified from Guy's Hospital in 1897. He won honours in forensic medicine at the MB examination in 1899 and took the MS and the Fellowship in 1901. At Guy's he won the Treasurer's gold medal in clinical surgery, was medical registrar 1902-03, and demonstrator of anatomy, lecturer in surgery and instructor in operative surgery 1903-08. After holding a clinical assistantship at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, he was appointed assistant surgeon at Guy's under Sir Alfred Fripp in 1908 and became surgeon in 1925. He was elected a consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1933. Turner's dry and reserved personality was the antithesis of Fripp's sociable and enthusiastic character. But they made an excellent team and shared a distaste for heroic or showy surgery. Turner deliberately avoided the more difficult fields of surgery, but made himself a master of the ordinary work of a general surgeon. His opinion was highly valued by his specialist colleagues, and his worth was recognised by his election as President of the clinical and paediatric sections, as well as the surgical section, of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was essentially a craftsman and anatomist, and in his work on inguinal hernia and the descent of the testicle he showed himself capable of thorough and detailed research. He devised and described the best method of trans-scrotal fixation of the undescended testis, which became established practice as "Turner's operation". His textbook of operative surgery, written jointly with R P Rowlands, was very successful. Turner was assistant surgeon at the Belgrave Hospital for Children 1904-08 and subsequently surgeon to the Eltham and Hornsey Hospitals and the Surrey dispensary. In the war of 1939-45 he returned from retirement to take charge of the Joyce Green Hospital at Dartford, Kent, one of the Emergency Medical Service hospitals in the sector managed by Guy's. Here his personality at last developed itself fully and he seemed able to deploy all his abilities as teacher, anatomist, surgeon, and administrator. He became the moving spirit of the hospital and continued at work till 1950. In these years he made a wider circle of friends than he had ever cared to cultivate before. His collection of books, including literary first editions, was sold at Hodgson's auction rooms on 13 December 1950. Turner married in 1908 Helen B Lambert, formerly a sister at Guy's. Mrs Turner was matron of the Red Cross workrooms at the Royal Academy during the war of 1914-18; she died in 1932. Turner examined in surgery for the Admiralty and the Society of Apothecaries. He was a frequent contributor to the professional journals. He died in St Mary Abbott's Hospital, Kensington, to which he had been consulting surgeon 1922-39, on 16 February 1955 aged 81. A memorial service was held at Guy's Hospital Chapel on 1 March. Publications. *The pocket osteology*. London, Bailliere, 1908. *Aids to osteology*, with N L Eckhoff. 1908. *Inguinal hernia, the imperfectly descended testicle and variocele*. London, Churchill 1919. *The Operations of Surgery*, by W H Jacobson, editions 6-8 by R P Rowlands and P Turner. London, Churchill 1915-36. An eventful locum. *Guy's Hosp Gaz*. 1954, 88, 516.
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First Title value, for Searching Burns, Bryan Hartop (1896 - 1985)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

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 Gallie, William Edward (1882 - 1959)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-04 2020-08-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 1882 at Barrie, Ontario, of pioneer Scottish parents, he was educated at Barrie Grammar School where he did well at work and games. In 1899 he entered the medical faculty of the University of Toronto, from which he graduated with honours in 1903, the youngest member of his class. He played hockey for the University and later coached the team for five years. After house appointments in the Toronto General Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, he went to New York to work under Royal Whitman at the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled, to which he was appointed honorary surgeon-in-chief thirty years later. He then came to England. On his return to Canada in 1906 he was appointed surgeon to the Toronto General Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children. When the two hospitals separated in 1919 he remained at the Hospital for Sick Children; when his chief Clarence Starr was appointed Professor of Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine, he became surgeon-in-chief at the age of 39. In 1929 he succeeded Starr as Professor of Surgery and surgeon-in-chief at the Toronto General Hospital, was Dean of the Faculty 1936-46, and retired as Emeritus Professor. He was elected President of the American College of Surgeons in 1941, holding office for six years. He was president of the American Orthopaedic Association, a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada, and was admitted an Honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh College in company with HRH the Duke of Edinburgh. At the College he was a Hunterian Professor in 1924, the first Canadian appointed, and Moynihan lecturer and honorary medallist in 1947. He published a paper with D E Robinson on the repair of bone in 1919 and in 1921 one on fascial grafting, with LeMesurier, which led to general adoption of the Gallie operation for hernia. "Ed" Gallie was a big man both physically and intellectually, who deeply influenced the development of surgery in Canada. He considered that the Royal College of Surgeons and the American College neglected postgraduate training; when he became Professor of Surgery he inaugurated a co-ordinated training programme for young surgeons in Canada, establishing higher surgical training in Canada on a firm basis. His work is commemorated in the Gallie Club, founded by his old students and "devoted galley slaves". He was a visionary with the ability and drive to implement his vision and to become and remain a benevolent dictator with a great sense of humour and an innate kindliness. He collected round himself men of ability such as Gordon Murray working on heparin, Norman Shenstone a pioneer thoracic surgeon, Roscoe Graham, Eddie Robertson and Harold Wookey, thus making Toronto one of the finest surgical centres. When too old for hockey, he became an ardent golfer and later an equally ardent fisherman. The Gallie Club entertained him at the College on his seventy-fifth birthday, 11 June 1957. He married Janet Louise Hardy by whom he had a daughter and two sons, both in the medical profession. He died on 25 September 1959 in the Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto and among the great gathering at his funeral were fifty-two members of the Gallie Club.
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First Title value, for Searching Lucas, Richard Clement (1846 - 1915)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on April 16th, 1846, the son of William Lucas, of Midhurst, Sussex. He was educated at Queenwood College, Stockbridge, Hampshire, and in 1868 entered as a student at Guy's Hospital, which he served with high distinction for well-nigh half a century. In 1872 he became Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy and in 1874 Senior Demonstrator, was elected Assistant Surgeon to the hospital in 1875, and was appointed Demonstrator of Practical Surgery in 1877. In 1888 he became full Surgeon, and retired as Consulting Surgeon in 1906. He was Lecturer on Anatomy from 1888-1900, and later became Lecturer on Surgery, holding the latter post from 1900-1906. From 1880 renal surgery was stirring in surgeons' minds; and apart from the therapeutic difficulties that surrounded it, the then ungauged anatomical ones that presented themselves had a charm for Lucas. For some time he paid special attention to the surgery of the kidney, and early achieved the success, of which he was proud to his latest days, of removing a kidney for the first time, with good result, in Guy's. Lucas had been educated in the older traditions of Guy's and had been dresser to Edward Cock (qv). No doubt owing to his having dressed for Cock, he was - with F Durham (qv) - the great exponent at Guy's of Cock's perineal puncture for impermeable urethral stricture with retention; and it would be difficult to say which of these operators was the more adept in its performance. Mr Golding-Bird says he never knew Lucas to fail in the first attempt to reach the membranous urethra; and though the operation is now supplanted by the suprapubic, it was the means of saving much suffering and many a life when performed by such a master. Lucas must certainly be classed as one of the highly skilled surgeons of Guy's in his day. He was a staunch supporter of the Hunterian Society, and served as its President in 1888-1890. Fond of the open air, as became one born to the country life, Lucas shot and rode to hounds, always setting apart in the hunting season one day weekly for a run with Lord Leconsfield's pack. He was the active President of the students' sports club at Guy's, and up to the time of his last illness was the embodiment of energy. Lucas married late in life, but his wife, a daughter of Surgeon General Saville Marriott Pelly, CB (qv), predeceased him. There were two sons of the marriage, who survived him. He died at his country house, Oaklands, Midhurst, on June 30th, 1915. There is a portrait of him in the *Guy's Hospital Gazette* (1897, xi, 447). Lucas took an active part in the affairs of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was an Examiner in Anatomy for the Conjoint Board (Second Examination) from 1892, as well as for the University of London; was a Member of Council from 1901-1914, and served as Vice-President from 1909-1911. In 1911 he was Bradshaw Lecturer. Publications: *Surgical Diseases of the Kidneys and the Operations for their Relief*, 1888. *The Bradshaw Lecture on Some Points in Heredity* (1911), 8vo, illustrated, London, 1912. An account of this interesting lecture is published in the *Lancet*, 1911, ii, 1755. He also contributed many papers to *Guy's Hosp Rep*.
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First Title value, for Searching Lu, Earl Ming-The (1925 - 2005)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-05-13 2019-07-01
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Earl Ming-Teh Lu was a consultant surgeon for over 40 years at the Mount Alvernia, Mount Elizabeth and Gleneagles Hospitals in Singapore. A talented artist, he was considered one of Singapore’s most prominent art patrons and philanthropists. Born in Hong Kong on 15 September 1925, he was the fourth child and only son of Shou Cheng Lu, a bank manager, and his wife Tong Kit Heng. He led a peripatetic childhood living in Hong Kong, Malaysia, China (Shanghai) and Singapore where he attended St Andrew’s School from 1938 to 1942. In the aftermath of the second world war the family fled Singapore by boat two weeks before it fell to the Japanese. They arrived in India and there he sat his O-levels before travelling on to Australia. He graduated MB BS at Sydney University in 1951 and was a houseman at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. From 1952 to 1955 he trained in chest surgery at the North Shore Hospital under Ian Monk. He completed his training in general surgery with Ghim Seng Yeoh when he returned to Singapore in 1958. After passing the college fellowship and that of the Edinburgh college in 1960, he commenced practice the following year as a consultant surgeon at the Mount Alvernia, Mount Elizabeth and Gleneagles Hospitals. In 1963 he also entered private practice in partnership with Professor Yeoh. A volunteer army surgeon in a field hospital in Singapore from 1974, he left the service with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1993. In April 2001 he retired after forty years as a consultant and part time surgical tutor, having remarked to his son in his later years that he enjoyed surgery so much that he would gladly pay to have the privilege to operate. Lu’s other great love (and skill) was painting and his rose paintings can be found hanging on the walls of several hospitals and famous medical institutions. From his father and grandfather he had inherited a knowledge and love for Chinese brush painting and porcelain and he began collecting even as an impoverished medical student. He was later to say “All collectors are mad. And I’ve collected with overdraft all my life.” Most of his collections he generously donated to various museums, notably a valuable 200 piece collection of Southeast Asian pottery dating from the 9th-15th centuries which he gave to the Singapore Art Museum in the 1990’s. As an art lover he regarded himself merely as holding valuable works in trust and was once heard to say “The piece is over a thousand years old. We are only it’s custodians for a brief period of time.” Founding chairman of the museum from 1994 to 2000, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1989 and received the Public Star Award from the President in 1995. While a medical student in Sydney he met his wife, Norma Phyllis Yin, who was a Chinese Australian. They had four sons, Mark, Paul, Peter and Stephen. An avid reader, especially of poetry and philosophy, he also enjoyed good food (especially Chinese delicacies) and was a strong admirer of Hinduism. Norma predeceased him in 2004 and he fell ill and died in Pisa on a painting trip to Italy, just thirteen days short of his eightieth birthday. He was survived by his sons and grandchildren, Shawn, Anne Marie, James, Ellen and Timothy.
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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Ian MacGilchrist (1914 - 2002)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Ian Jackson was a leading London obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was born on 11 November 1914 in Shanghai, where his father was a doctor. He was sent to England at a young age to commence his education. In due course he moved on to Marlborough, from which he won a scholarship to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In the following three years, in addition to enjoying himself rowing for his college, he gained a double first in his natural science tripos, and won the Price open scholarship to the London Hospital Medical College. He passed the primary FRCS in 1939, and a year later passed the FRCS. He spent the years 1940 to 1943 on the house at the London, including periods as first assistant in the surgical and obstetric departments. He was involved in the management of many air-raid casualties admitted to the hospital, and in later years he would say that it was then that he learned surgery. But evidently he still had time for study, since he passed the examination for the MRCOG. In 1943, he was commissioned as a Surgical Specialist in the RAMC, joining the 724 Parachute Field Ambulance, and was part of the mobile surgical unit that was dropped into Normandy on D-day with the 3rd Parachute Regiment - the Red Devils. He served with this unit throughout all the fighting across France and Belgium. A few days before the airborne landing at Arnhem he injured his leg in an accident, so was unable to take part in that famous action - the officer who replaced him was killed. At the conclusion of the war, he went out to the Far East and took part in the relief of Hong Kong and of the notorious Changi Jail. Throughout his life he always cherished his link with the Red Devils. He returned to England in 1947 and the following year was appointed as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the staff of the Middlesex Hospital and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. With his outstanding abilities, his charm and unfailing courtesy, he rapidly established himself as one of the leading obstetricians and gynaecologists in London, with an extensive private practice, and appointments to the staff of King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, the Royal Masonic Hospital and King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst. He was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the RAF (from 1964 to 1983) and greatly enjoyed the helicopter flights this post entailed. A brilliant operative surgeon who wasted no time over his operations, his registrar posts were keenly sought after, and many gynaecologists learnt their operative skills from him. He was keenly involved in the work of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, serving on its Council from 1951 to 1970, holding the posts of honorary secretary, chairman of the examinations committee and honorary treasurer. He examined not only for the College, but also for the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London. He was Master of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, librarian of the Royal Society of Medicine and President of the Chelsea Clinical Society. His first marriage was dissolved in 1967 and three years later he married his second wife, Deirdre, with whom he shared many happy years. A man of many talents, with (according to his son) a love of gizmos, gadgets and the most sophisticated cameras, for several years in his retirement he and Deirdre spent the winters on the Gold Coast. His activities in the latter years of his life were limited after a serious fall at his home. He died on 24 June 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Layton, Thomas Bramley (1882 - 1964)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

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 Davies, Gareth (1945 - 2007)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2012-02-10 2017-10-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Gareth Davies was a consultant surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, Margate. As his name suggests, his background was Welsh, an ancestry of which he was inordinately proud, and he grew up within the close London Welsh community. He received his secondary education at Dulwich College, where he read classics, regarded by many at that time, and since, as an ideal education prior to reading medicine. He commenced his medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, and during his time there undertook an intercalated BSc, which sparked his interest in surgery and research. His subsequent undergraduate career was marked by winning the Jackson Burrows prize in orthopaedics, and becoming the runner-up in both the Willett medal in operative surgery and the Brackenbury scholarship in surgery. He qualified MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1972, and undertook his surgical house officer post on the professorial unit at Bart's. He then held a lecturer post in the department of anatomy between 1974 and 1976, confirming that surgery had become his chosen career, a decision that was proved correct when he gained the Hallett prize for his performance in the primary FRCS. He then returned to clinical training, holding registrar appointments at the Hammersmith, Harold Wood, North Middlesex and St Bartholomew's hospitals. He gained the FRCS in 1978, and soon afterwards was awarded, jointly with others, the Moynihan prize of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Between 1979 and 1982, he held a British Digestive Foundation Smith, Kline and French research fellowship in gastroenterology at St George's Hospital under the supervision of John Hermon-Taylor. He undertook research into the growth of human colonic and pancreatic tumours as xenografts in nude rats, which subsequently led to him being awarded the MS in 1983 ('Growth of human digestive-tumour xenografts in athymic nude rats', *Br J Cancer*. 1981 January; 43[1]: 53-8). He returned to clinical surgery as a senior registrar on the St Bartholomew's rotation in April 1982, completing his training programme in March 1988. During his training he particularly enjoyed working with John Griffiths, a Welsh speaking consultant surgeon. It is said they both enjoyed irritating their clinical colleagues on ward rounds by discussing the progress of Welsh patients in their native language. In 1989 Gareth was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at Thanet District General Hospital, now the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital. In the same year, he was appointed to the Court of Examiners of the College. During his time at the hospital he developed specialist colo-rectal and endocrine services, and opened the first dedicated day surgery unit in East Kent, of which he was appointed director. He was particularly interested in minimal access surgery and, following a visit to America to refine his knowledge of laser technology, he pioneered the use of the Holmium YAG laser in his hospital. Tragically, in June 1998, Gareth suffered a stroke, which forced his retirement on the grounds of ill health the following year. Despite this, he and his wife were able to enjoy overseas travel and the beaches of Kent, as well as spending time with family and friends. Gareth was married firstly to Gay, also a doctor, with whom he had two sons, Michael and Nicholas, and, secondly, to Susie, with whom he shared two step-children, Lisa and James. Gareth was regarded as having, in abundance, all the attributes of a good surgeon, namely technical competence, kindness, compassion and a congenial nature. All of this was combined with an infectious sense of humour. These attributes led to him being regarded with great affection by all who knew him. He died on 14 November 2007 at the age of 64.
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First Title value, for Searching Bruce, Harold Wilson (1876 - 1965)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation Hospital administrator Medical Officer
Details Harold Wilson Bruce was born in 1876 and trained at Guy's Hospital, where he qualified MB BS in 1897. He proceeded MD in 1899 and passed the FRCS in 1901. After holding a house appointment at Guy's he served in the Boer War and then went to India to join the team fighting plague in Bombay. On his return to England in 1903 he entered the service of the Southwark Board of Guardians as second assistant medical officer at their infirmary, which has since been renamed Dulwich Hospital. He became medical superintendent in 1905 and remained there for 25 years. In 1930 he was invited by Sir Frederick Menzies to join the head-quarters staff of the London County Council, to which the London Poor Law hospitals had been transferred a few months earlier. The hospitals which had been taken over from the boards of guardians were formed into a general hospital division under Dr W Brander and those from the Metropolitan Asylums Board (except the mental hospitals) into a special hospitals division under Dr J A H. Brincker. Bruce was Brander's deputy and with Dr R C Harkness - all three with long experience of hospital administration - they formed a most efficient team. Bruce was especially concerned with hospital extensions and improvements; he surveyed every hospital in his division and became expert in the reading of plans, a rare quality in a doctor. In 1937, when Brander retired, Bruce succeeded him as head of the general hospitals division. It was not long before he became deeply involved in the preparation of the hospitals for the war which started a couple of years later. He retired in April 1941 after having borne imperturbably the immense strain of coping with the problems caused by the heavy bombing of London since the autumn of 1940. During this time many of the hospitals in his division were seriously damaged and more or less put out of action. His great skill in the planning of hospitals was recognized nationally in 1934 when he was appointed by the Minister of Health to serve on a departmental committee on the cost of hospitals and other public buildings. His vast store of knowledge included every detail of how a municipal hospital worked. He was a tireless worker and expected the same standard of service from all his staff, medical and lay. He recognized the important part that lay staff can play in hospital administration, but insisted that there must be a "captain of the ship" with medical qualifications and clinical experience. He was tall, spare, and always well groomed, with an air of distinction. His opinions were sound and he expressed them forcibly, often demolishing those who argued with him by a few acid comments. After the death of his wife he went to live in a hotel in Bickley. He was one of the last survivors of the small group, not being replaced, who after years of skilled clinical work in the large London municipal hospitals turned out most successful administrators. They were a loss to clinical medicine, but their background was invaluable to their subsequent work and influence. He served in the first world war as a senior officer in field ambulance work. His great experience, he was much older than the rest of his team, and his general affability made him an asset to any unit. He had been an athlete in his younger days, and had run in very good company. While serving in France, he made a successful cross-country run when over 50. Bruce died in hospital on 16 June 1965 aged 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Gould, Eric Lush Pearce (1886 - 1940)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 23 January 1886 at 10 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square W1, the second son of Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, KCVO, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, and his second wife, a daughter of Mr Justice Lush and grand-daughter of Lord Justice Sir Robert Lush (1807-81), of whom there is an account in the Dictionary of National Biography. He was educated at Charterhouse School and won a science scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford, graduated in arts with a first class in school of natural science, gained the Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in 1913 and visited Berlin, Canada, and the United States. In 1914-17 he served as a temporary surgeon in the Royal Navy, was appointed a consulting surgeon, and in 1939 received a commission as temporary Surgeon Rear-Admiral, RN, when he served at the Roy Naval Hospital, Plymouth. At the Middlesex Hospital he filled the posts of house surgeon, house physician, surgical registrar, and casualty surgical officer. In 1920 he was elected assistant surgeon, became surgeon and lecturer on surgery, and during 1925-29 was dean of the Medical School. During his term of office as dean the Hospital was rebuilt, the Institute of Biochemistry was equipped, and the restaurant for students established. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was on the Court of Examiners from 1936 and a member of the Council from 1932, holding both positions at the time of his death. His legal inheritance, derived from his mother's side, enabled him to make an admirable chairman of the Medical Defence Union from 1933, a position requiring tact and ability to deal with the numerous difficult cases which came under review. He married in 1916 Audrey Mitchell, daughter of Mr Justice Lawrence Jackson, KC, of the Federated Malay States; she outlived him, but there were no children. He died on 1 August 1940 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth from the sequelae of a perforated duodenal ulcer. Eric Pearce Gould had many of the traits characteristic of his father, modified by a better education and wide travel, and softened perhaps by his lifelong martyrdom to asthma. A total abstainer from alcohol and deeply religious, he did much good social service and was more especially interested in prisoners and their after-care. Like his father he was a fluent and gifted speaker; the prepared discourse was delivered in flawless style, but he was also quick in debate and clever at repartee. The after dinner speech was always erudite, often brilliant, and always free from any story verging on the indelicate. These gifts made him a first-rate lecturer and attracted students to his classes and lectures at Hospital. His characteristic pose is well represented by W R Barrington in the sketch reproduced in the *Middlesex Hospital Journal*, 3, 38, 114. His literary output was marked by merit rather than abundance. As a surgeon he was especially interested in the cure of hernia by transplantation of the fascial aponeurosis, and in the operative treatment of congenital hypertrophic stenosis of the pylorus. Publications:- *Surgical pathology*, Students' synopsis series. London, 1922. Three mesenteric tumours. *Brit J Surg* 1915, 3, 42. Bone changes in von Recklinghausen's disease. *Quart J Med* 1918, 11, 221. A case of B. Welchii cholecystitis, with L E H Whitby. *Brit J Surg* 1927, 14, 646. Recurrence of carcinoma of the stomach eighteen years after partial gastrectomy. *Ibid* 1927, 15, 325. Primary thrombosis of the axillary vein; a study of eight cases, with D H Patey. *Ibid* 1928, 16, 208. Primary subtotal thyroidectomy for Graves' disease in a child four years of age, with J D Robertson. *Ibid* 1938, 25, 700. Editor of Sir A. Pearce Gould's *Elements of surgical diagnosis*, 4th to 7th editions, 1914-28. Honorary editor of the *Transactions of the Medical Society of London*, 53-62, 1930-39.
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First Title value, for Searching Lowdon, Andrew Gilchrist Ross (1911 - 1965)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Andrew Lowdon was born on 12 April 1911 at Greenock, the son of Rev. C. Ross Lowdon and Alison Gilchrist his wife. He commenced his education at the Greenock Academy, but completed his school days at the Royal High School in Edinburgh where he remained to do his medical course at the University. He had a distinguished undergraduate career, winning the Ettles Scholarship and the Leslie Gold Medal, and after qualifying in 1936 and holding house appointments at the Royal Infirmary and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, he obtained the FRCS Ed in 1939. It was during this period that he came under the influence of David Wilkie and James Graham, to whom he often referred later with gratitude. When war broke out he was already in the Territorial RAMC and was therefore called up at once and spent the next two years as a surgical specialist in Palestine. He subsequently served with the Eighth Army from Alamein to Tunisia, and then in the Sicilian campaign. In 1944 he returned to Britain, and as Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of a surgical division in No 6 General Hospital he was involved in the final phase of the war in NE Europe. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and was appointed OBE in 1944. After demobilization in 1945 he returned to Edinburgh and was invited by Professor Learmonth to join his unit and spent the following nine years as lecturer and then senior lecturer in the University department of surgery. This was a very important period for him, because it not only gave him the experience of academic work which influenced the rest of his life, but it also seems certain that Learmonth's method of organizing regular meetings at which representatives of all the specialist units in his department of surgery were able to discuss matters of common interest laid the foundation for Lowdon's interdepartmental teaching programme when he went to Newcastle. This he did in 1954 when he was appointed Professor of Surgery in the University of Durham, the Chair subsequently being transferred to the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. As surgeon to the Royal Victoria Infirmary he was distinguished especially for his contributions to the surgery of the alimentary tract; but the reforms in the medical school which he pioneered in collaboration with his medical colleague Professor George Smart were so outstanding that they aroused interest throughout the British medical schools, and exerted an influence which spread far beyond Newcastle. It was therefore not surprising that when the deanship of the School became vacant in 1960 Lowdon was appointed to it, and in this appointment he was so successful that in 1965 he was made Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University, and also a member of the Royal Commission on Medical Education. Andrew Lowdon's wisdom, enthusiasm and concern for the welfare of his fellows made him a natural leader, and students loved him. In 1936 he was Senior President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and in 1956 President of the University of Durham Medical Society. He was honorary President of the British Medical Students' Association in 1960, and that same year he was honoured by the University of Sydney by election as Norman Paul Visiting Professor. The Royal College of Surgeons of England elected him to the Fellowship ad eundem in 1959. The mere recital of all these activities is sufficient to indicate how he must have taxed his reserves of energy, and it was presumably overstrain which accounted for his sudden death at the age of 54, which occurred on 2 September 1965 while he was out walking on the moors. In 1948 he married Glenys Mairi Macdonald Donaldson, who was also medically qualified. She and their four children survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Menon, Konthath Achutha (1923 - 2010)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Lila Menon
Publication Date 2016-01-21 2016-02-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Datuk Konthath Achutha Menon was an eminent surgeon in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was born on 23 April 1923 in Rangoon, Burma, the son of Kunhiraman Nair Menon, a civil servant, and Paimavathy Ammal Menon. He was educated at St Antony's English High School in Rangoon, where he was a merit scholarship winner and gained distinctions in the school leaving examination. He then joined Judson College, University of Rangoon, and, in 1942, was awarded a scholarship to study medicine in Madras. He managed to escape the Japanese, who had begun their invasion of Burma in late 1941, by driving an ambulance out of Rangoon, through territory held by the Karen peoples, to north Burma. From there he cycled through Assam to Calcutta and then caught a train to Madras - he was 19. In Madras he joined the Stanley Medical College and passed his MB BS in 1946. He then worked for the Burma Oil Company. He returned to Madras in 1950 to study for his master's degree in surgery. As fate would have it, soon after he arrived he met 23-year-old Lila Menon, who had just passed her MB BS. After a whirlwind courtship they were married in August. He passed his MS degree in 1952. By this time the Communists had taken over in Burma, now renamed Myanmar. Menon and his wife went to Malaysia, where he was posted as a clinical specialist surgeon in Muar. It was at the height of the Emergency in Malaysia, when Communists were attempting to take over, and the young couple had four difficult but exciting years as he was on call to a number of district hospitals. In 1956 the Malaysian government awarded him a scholarship to go to London to take the FRCS. Six weeks after he landed in the UK, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh was holding examinations for the FRCS. He decided to take a shot at it, went to Edinburgh and passed. After this he went to Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals for 10 months, then passed the fellowship examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1958 he returned to Malaysia, where he was one of just three Asian surgeons who had secured the FRCS. From 1958 to 1967 he was a consultant surgeon in the region of Perak, working in the city of Ipoh. He was then posted to Kuala Lumpur and worked in the General Hospital, a post he held until his retirement in 1978. He continued working in the private sector at the Pantai Medical Centre until 2006. He was on the board of examiners for the English, Scottish and Australasian fellowship exams and regularly taught students from the University of Malaysia. He was a founding member of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia. He was awarded honorary fellowships by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons, and four datukships were conferred upon him in recognition of his services, four federal and three state (a datuk is a traditional Malay honorific title). Outside medicine, he was appointed to the board of directors of Bank Negara. He was a freemason and served as master of two lodges. He was vice president of the Geetha Ashram and lectured on the Bhagavad Gita for 30 years. Above all, he was a good man, with a deep and abiding faith. Whenever a patient thanked him, his answer was the same: 'God saved your life: my hands were only the instrument!' He and his wife Lila had a perfect marriage for 59 years. He had a cardiac bypass in 1984, carried out by the renowned surgeon Victor Chang. Menon died on 24 June 2010 in Kuala Lumpur. He was 87. He had fractured a hip after a fall and, despite having a pin and plate put in, he died after being confined to bed for 11 weeks. He had a fulfilling life, professionally, personally and spiritually.
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First Title value, for Searching Fitzwilliams, Duncan Campbell Lloyd (1878 - 1954)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

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Publication Date 2014-06-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 31 December 1878 one of the eight sons of Charles H L Fitzwilliams JP, of Newcastle Emlyn, Cardiganshire. His boyhood was spent in the country, hunting, shooting and fishing, observing nature and his own relative insignificance, though in physique he was a giant; these years laid the foundation for the philosophy he held throughout his life. In his late teens he and a younger brother were sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, and there he excelled both in study and in sport. He became amateur heavyweight champion boxer of Scotland and defended his title later; he also rowed for the University. While still an Edinburgh student Fitzwilliams went to the Boer War as a dresser in Professor John Chiene's hospital unit with the South African field force and was awarded the Queen's medal with four clasps. On his return he graduated in 1902, gained the Leckie-Mactier Fellowship and the Goodsir Memorial Fellowship, and was elected president of the Royal Medical Society. Whilst holding house appointments in Edinburgh in 1904, the MD with gold medal in 1905, the FRCS in 1906 and the ChM with high commendation in 1907. Fitzwilliams came to London and after holding the posts of house surgeon and casualty officer at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond street, was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at King's college and clinical assistant to the surgical out-departments of the West London Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children. In 1909 he was appointed assistant-surgeon to St Mary's Hospital; he was to work there for forty-five years. During the 1914-18 war Fitzwilliams was attached to the 1st City of London Field Ambulance and attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He served in Malta and Rumania, and in 1918 was consulting surgeon to the North Russian Expeditionary Force and was twice mentioned in dispatches. He was awarded several Russian and Rumanian honours, and was created a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and CMG in 1919. After the war he was appointed to the surgical staff of Paddington Green Children's Hospital and later became surgeon to the Mount Vernon Hospital and Radium Institute for Cancer. He was also attached, at one time or another, to the Margaret Street Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, and the Dorking, Hanwell, Hayes, and Barnet Cottage Hospitals. A keen Freemason, he attained high rank in Grand Lodge and for many years served on the surgical staff of the Royal Masonic Hospital. His surgical interest was chiefly the operative and radium treatment of cancer, and he wrote several textbooks on the subject. Fitzwilliams was Master of the Society of Apothecaries 1949-50, and he also served as President of the Harveian Society and of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society. He was much interested in the history of medicine, on which he wrote several articles. Fitzwilliams was six foot four inches in height and broad in proportion, with a commanding presence. He was known to be a very generous man, not only to his friends, but to the poor and the distressed. He was popular with his students, and his summer parties at his house on Monkey Island, in the Thames near Bray, were much appreciated. Fitzwilliams married Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Oliver Dwight Filley of St Louise, USA, and they had two sons and three daughters. His first wife died in 1919, and in 1920 he married Francesca Christine Wagner MBE, daughter of Ferdinand Wagner of Riga. On retirement Fitzwilliams went to live at La Mesange, Mont Cochon, Jersey, returning to London from time to time. He died at St Mary's Hospital on 18 November 1954 aged 75. Publications: *The breast*. Heinemann 1925. 440 pages. *The Tongue and its diseases*. Oxford Press 1927, 505 pages. *Radium and cancer, curietherapy*. Lewis 1930. 172 pages. *Cancer of the breast*. Heinemann 1947. 199 pages.
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First Title value, for Searching Graham, Evarts Ambrose (1883 - 1957)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Chicago on 19 March 1883 son of Dr David W Graham (1843-1925), surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital, and Ida Barnet Graham his wife, he was educated at Princeton and took his clinical training at Chicago, qualifying from Rush College in 1907. After holding resident posts at the Presbyterian Hospital he was assistant (1909-11) and lecturer in surgery (1911-16) at Rush College but at the same time was pursuing his own graduate education. He spent two years in the study of advanced chemistry, and from 1911 to 1914 was associated with Rollin T Woodyatt at the Sprague Institute of Clinical Research. His interests at this period were mainly pathological and he took an active share in the meetings of the Chicago Pathological Society, publishing articles also in the *Journal of experimental Medicine* and the *Journal of infectious Diseases*. When America entered the war in 1917 he was employed on an "empyema commission", working at Baltimore, and his report was influential. He was then sent to France as a surgical specialist. He had already married Helen Tredway Graham, but when the war ended was somewhat at a loss, intending to practise surgery but having spent all the previous years in research. He was invited in 1919 to fill the new Bixby Professorship of Surgery in the Washington University School of Medicine at St Louis. Here he made his life's work. He was able from small beginnings to build up a great teaching school of surgery, and was given a free hand to develop the Barnes Hospital and his teaching duties in the way he thought best. He was also surgeon at the St Louis Children's Hospital. He held the chair until 1951 when he retired with the title Professor Emeritus. In these thirty-two years Graham established his reputation as probably the greatest teaching surgeon in the world, and had the pleasure of seeing his pupils established in leading professorships in America and abroad. He served as President of the leading national surgical societies such as the American College of Surgeons, American Surgical Association, American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, American Board of Surgery (1937-51) and the International College of Surgeons (1953). His earliest work was on blastomycosis; after the war he continued his studies in empyema and was working also on biliary surgery. Later he made his mark as a thoracic surgeon in connection with treatment of cancer of the lung. He was the first surgeon to perform a successful total pneumonectomy, when in 1933 he removed an entire lung for a squamous carcinoma involving the bronchus of the upper left lobe. The patient was able to return to a busy practise as a gynaecologist and outlived Graham. In 1939 an annual lecture was founded and named in his honour at St Louis. Graham was awarded the Lister medal in 1942, but delivered the oration only in 1947. He was elected an honorary Fellow of the College, at the centenary of the institution of the Fellowship in 1943. He edited the *Yearbook of Surgery* 1926-39 and was on the editorial boards of *Archives of Surgery* 1920-43 and the *Journal of thoracic Surgery* from its inception in 1931. He served as temporary Professor of Surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1939 and was elected a perpetual student. After his retirement, the issue for July 1952 of *Annals of Surgery* (vol 136, no 1) was dedicated to him. It contains a valuable survey of his early career by E D Churchill and a contribution from Graham himself. He died in St Louis on 4 March 1957 just before his seventy-fourth birthday, survived by his wife and children. Graham was a large, heavily built man of determination and pertinacity. He was a most inspiring teacher, gaining a retaining admiration and affection, and setting an example of unwearied patience and resource. He was a pattern of the virtues of his Scottish Presbyterian ancestry.
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First Title value, for Searching Flemming, Cecil Wood (1902 - 1981)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Cecil Wood Flemming, the son of Percy Flemming, ophthalmic surgeon at University College Hospital and Dr Elizabeth Flemming, physician to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, was born on 20 August 1902 at Ewhurst, Surrey. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Oxford, moving to University College Hospital in 1924. He qualified both MRCS LRCP and BM BCh Oxford in 1926. After holding a surgical appointment at University College Hospital he took the FRCS in 1928 and obtained his MCh Oxford in 1929. In the same year he was appointed surgical registrar at University College Hospital, then the only such post, and in 1933 he was appointed assistant surgeon as junior to Gwynne Williams under whom he began to specialise in orthopaedic surgery. He visited the Bohler Clinic in Vienna for a while. On his return he was also appointed to the staff of the Metropolitan and Harrow Hospital, and in 1940 he was made full surgeon at University College Hospital. He made a considerable impact on major lung surgery, then in its infancy. He also gave much time to the management of surgical tuberculosis in children, but perhaps his most memorable contribution to the hospital and medical school was as a clinical teacher. Having joined the RAFVR in 1936 he was posted to a mobile unit in France in 1939. In 1940 he went to Cairo as Commanding Officer of the RAF hospital and after service in North Africa and Italy he was appointed consultant surgeon to the RAF in the Middle East with the rank of Air Commodore, being largely responsible for establishing the rehabilitation services for the RAF in that area. He was awarded an OBE in 1944. He returned to the University College Hospital in 1946 and, with the advent of the National Health Service, he began to assume an important role in the management of the hospital. He planned the reorganisation of St Pancras Hospital as part of UCH, and the initiation of a large geriatric unit by Lord Amulree stimulated his interest in the orthopaedic problems of the aged. In 1950 he became chairman of the medical committee and a member of the board of governors. He resigned from his other hospitals and devoted all his time to UCH, playing an important part in the planning of a new outpatient and accident department which was finally opened in 1969. As a tribute it was named Cecil Flemming House. He gradually introduced surgical specialisation into his hospital, first setting up an accident and orthopaedic service which, under his direction became one of the most successful training centres for aspiring orthopaedic surgeons. In 1960 he was appointed dean of the medical school and as such he guided the affairs of the school at a difficult time. He continued his busy orthopaedic practice in addition to his teaching and administrative duties until his unexpected illness in the early 1960s. His brilliant teaching career came to a premature end much to the sadness of his colleagues and his students. He was a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1952 to 1958. Despite progressive ill-health, he managed to enjoy his retirement with characteristic cheerfulness and determination. He studied his disabilities with interest and objectivity and would, from time to time, report ways in which he had found it possible to avoid their worst consequences. He established a fund to assist students with bursaries for their elective periods. A number of UCH students would escort him for walks in Regent's Park near his last home. With tea and toast and a mini-tutorial afterwards, his otherwise chairborne life was happily relieved. In 1931 he married Elizabeth Haden, herself a UCH doctor, and they had two sons and a daughter. He died on 18 September 1981, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Fish, Sir Eric Wilfred (1894 - 1974)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation Dental surgeon
Details Eric Wilfred Fish was born on 30 January 1894, the son of a Methodist Minister. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and his first qualification was in dentistry at Manchester. This was followed by the MB ChB in 1916 and service in the RAMC during the latter two years of the Great War. After an interval in dental practice he took the MD of Manchester University and while in practice at Sevenoaks gained the DSc (London) in 1932 on the strength of research work he had pursued during the previous ten years and which subsequently continued throughout three decades. The histopathology of enamel, dentine, and the dental pulp, the surgical pathology of the mouth and in particular infection in bone, full denture prosthesis, and the aetiology and treatment of periodontal disease were areas of his chief contributions. To all of these he brought experimental innovation, histological techniques of great skill and most of all a penetrating insight which clarified many of the problems of his time and have passed almost intact into basic understanding and practice today. For Wilfred Fish, by the generosity of a benefactor, the John Hampton Hale Laboratory was established at the Royal Dental Hospital and his work continued in the Meyerstein Research Laboratory at St Mary's Hospital, where in a neighbouring laboratory he came into fruitful contact with Alexander Fleming. At both hospitals he held consultant appointments over many years, taking his share of clinical work, teaching and administration whilst engaged in busy dental practice in the West End of London. But for more than thirty years it was his research work which claimed most of his effort and concentration of thought and provided the subjects for the continuous output of published work which gained for him an international reputation and numerous academic honours. The implications of 'dead tracts' in dentine, of the stabilization of full dentures, of the formation and treatment of periodontal pockets, to mention only a few of his favourite topics, were of immediate practical importance and he applied them daily in his treatment of patients. After serving some time on the Dental Board of the United Kingdom he was elected Chairman in 1944, and was appointed CBE in 1947. When the board became the General Dental Council in 1956 he assumed its presidency which he held until 1964, thus completing twenty years at the head of the statutory body charged with dental education and maintaining the highest professional standards. Of all his activities the one which gave him the keenest satisfaction was his association with the Nuffield Foundation Fellowship scheme, for here he could use his encyclopaedic knowledge and shrewd foresight to encourage younger workers in various research fields. In the field of international dentistry he was active within the International Dental Federation, holding office as President of its Scientific Commission from 1931 to 1936 and he was President of the International Dental Congress held in London in 1952. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England he held all the prizes and lectureships open to him. He became a Fellow of the newly-established Faculty of Dental Surgery and Dean of the Faculty in 1958, was later elected to the Fellowship of the College and played an invaluable part in the creation of the Department of Dental Science, of which he became the first director, the last major appointment of his professional life. It seemed entirely fitting that the conferment of knighthood in 1954 should mark his contribution to the profession. When he retired to a quiet life in Sussex it seemed to many that a gap was left which none could fill. He married Hilda Russell in 1916 and had one son and a daughter. This marriage ended in divorce and in 1950 he married Myfanwy Hazel Bruce Hodge. He died on 20 July 1974 aged 80 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Oliver, Matthew William Baillie (1882 - 1926)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-12
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on September 29th, 1882, the son of the Rev Robert Oliver, of Strathwell, Whitwell, Isle of Wight, by his wife Agnes Hunter-Baillie, the great-grandniece of John Hunter. He represented the family of John and William Hunter, through whose sister Dorothea he descended. Matthew Baillie, famous in his day as an anatomist and as the leading London physician, was his great-grandfather. Oliver entered Cheltenham College in January, 1896, and proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in the Natural Science Tripos in 1903. He then entered as a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where, after qualifying, he served as Ophthalmic House Surgeon (1906) and as Chief Assistant in the Ophthalmic Department. For two years he held resident house appointments at St George's Hospital, to which John Hunter and Matthew Baillie had been attached, and where he was Senior House Surgeon. At this time he used his spare afternoons to serve as a Clinical Assistant at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. Later he became Chief Assistant in the Moorfields Eye Hospital and, as above stated, at his own old hospital. He was appointed in 1914 Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Miller Hospital, Greenwich. During the Great War he went through nearly the whole of the arduous campaign. He was Surgical Specialist to No 15 Casualty Clearing Station, holding the temporary rank of Major RAMC and, winning the approval of the highest authorities, was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the OBE. On his return to England in 1919 he did much useful plastic work at the Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries at Sidcup. The region of the orbit and eyelids was allotted to him, and this was one of the few subjects on which he wrote, for a knowledge of general surgery, combined with ophthalmology, was invaluable, and he took advantage of the opportunities thus afforded him. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital; Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital; Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Willesden Union District Council; Chief Assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital; Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Queen Mary's Auxiliary Hospital at Roehampton, and to the Italian Hospital. Much of his work was done at the Central London. At the Portsmouth Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1923 he was Hon Secretary of the Ophthalmological Section. This bare record will reveal Oliver's energy and capacity for work; it was the same for games. At St Bartholomew's he was one of the keenest and hardest-working forwards in the Rugby Football XV. He played violent games of squash-rackets with more energy than skill, and then, after swimming a length or two of the bath, he would hurry off to some other engagement. Although just past his forty-fourth year, he continued to play golf, tennis, and squash-rackets, and to swim with enthusiasm. Oliver was singularly kindly, cheerful, and uncomplaining. He was known to all his friends without exception as 'Bubbles'. Whatever the origin of this was, it seems to indicate that happy, friendly, fearless soul, always bubbling with energy and life. On February 6th, 1926, he was playing golf and apparently in good health. He had, however, contracted a chill, and died of pneumonia at his sister's house in the country on February 10th. He had confessed to having strained his heart during his over-strenuous athletic career. He died unmarried and had practised at 128, Harley Street. He was a member of many clubs, including the Fountain. Publications: "Rupture of Choroid due to Concussion by Bullet." - *Trans Ophthalmol Soc*, 1914, xxxiv, 193. "Method of Making New Lower Eyelid."-*Proc Roy Soc Med* (Ophthalmol Sect), 1921-2, xv, 14. "Restoration of Upper Lid in Case of Gunshot Wound." - *Ibid*, 23. "Plastic Operation for Contracted Sockets." - *Ibid*, 1922-3, xvi, 15. "Plastic Operations in Region of Bye." - *Ibid*, 1925-6, xix, 29. "Plastic Operation on Eyelids" (Thesis) - 1922.
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First Title value, for Searching Murphy, Sir Shirley Forster (1848 - 1923)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

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Publication Date 2012-08-29
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Occupation Physician Public health officer
Details Born on May 21st, 1848, in London. He was educated at University College and studied at Guy's Hospital. After holding a hospital appointment in Manchester and being threatened with tuberculosis, he acted for two years as Surgeon on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's ships. On his return he was appointed Assistant Medical Officer at the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospital at Homerton, London. The hospital was then full of small-pox and typhoid, and these infectious cases and his experience there gained him in 1875 the post of Resident Medical Officer at the London Fever Hospital, when Broadbent and Cayley were Visiting Physicians, following Murchison and Sir William Jenner. He next succeeded Sir Thomas Stevenson as Medical Officer of Health for St Pancras at a time when typhoid fever raged in insanitary surroundings. Murphy found the Parish Vestries opponents of sanitary reform on the score of expense. Hence in 1884 Murphy resigned his appointment at St Pancras and, with one or two minor appointments, set up as a Public Health Consultant. He acted as Secretary of the Epidemiological Society, and as Secretary of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, and in this position originated discussions on milk infection, small-pox transmission, evidence for vaccination, periodicity of disease, epidemic diarrhoea of children, and the preparation of vaccine at the animal vaccine establishment in Lamb's Conduit Street. On the formation of the London County Council, Murphy was elected the first Medical Officer in 1887. The post required of its occupant the general surveillance of the public health work of other bodies, of the new Borough Councils, the work of co-ordination, consultation, standardization, or action, as complainant, referee, or as Court of Appeal. He instituted an efficient inspection of common lodgings, seamen's quarters, offensive businesses and trades, cowsheds, and insanitary areas. His reports covered a very wide ground. As evidence of the success of his administration during his twenty-two years' tenure of office, the death-rate in London from all causes declined from 20.1 to 14.6, the infant mortality from 152 to 113 per 1,000 births, and the deaths from the principal epidemic diseases from 5.57 to 2.98. Murphy's work was recognized by the Society of the Medical Officers of Health, which twice elected him President, the second time in 1905. In 1908 the Royal College of Physicians conferred on him the Bissett Hawkins Medal, and in 1921 the Epidemiological Society, of which he had been President in 1894-1895, awarded him the Jenner Medal. He retired from office in 1911, but on the outbreak of the War in 1914, as Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC (T), he was attached as specialist Sanitary Officer to the London Command, serving under successive Directors of Medical Services. He organized billeting, transport and arrival of troops, hygiene of quarters, and made provision for night shelters, and also dealt with problems relating to cerebrospinal fever and other epidemics. Soon after the War he began to suffer from attacks of neuralgia, but continued at work until a few days before his death, at 9 Bentinck Terrace, Regent's Park, London, NW, on April 27th, 1923. He married in 1880 Miss Ellen Theodore King, daughter of Henry S King, JP, and sister of Sir Henry Seymour King, KCIE. Lady Murphy, who had been his constant collaborator, survived him, with two daughters. His portrait accompanies the bibliography in the *Lancet* (1923, i, 927). In the *British Medical Journal* (1923, i, 790) Sir W W Hamer gave a full biography with valuable information as to his Reports. The *Index Catalogue of the Surgeon General's Library*, Series II, includes a long bibliography.
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First Title value, for Searching Holgate, John Edward (1921 - 1984)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-22 2017-05-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John Edward Holgate was born in Vizagapatam, India, on 21 October 1921, the son of Maurice James Holgate, who was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Medical Service. His mother was Miss Florence Polyxenie Marsden. John was sent to Epsom College and then to St Bartholomew's Hospital graduating MB BS London 1945. Following hospital appointments in Leeds at St James' Hospital and at the Hereford General Hospital he decided to work in the colonial medical service. He went to eastern Nigeria, where he worked from 1951 to 1960 (1). He then transferred to the Manor House Hospital at Guyana for a brief period (1963-64) and finally to Grenada in the West Indies. Here he stayed for the rest of his colonial service (1965-83) when he retired to Wiltshire. There he was able to follow his hobby of fly-fishing. He was also a keen sailor. John was particularly interested in the problems created by Siamese twins and he wrote on this subject in the *British journal of surgery* (1953). In 1949, while in New Zealand, he married Hilda Green who was a State Registered Nurse. They had three children, Nigel John, Hilary Susan, and Alyson Anne Polyxenie. John Holgate died on 5 February 1984 being survived by his wife and three children. [(1) Originally noted as holding a rank of colonel in the colonial medical service. Daughter confirmed that he held no rank in this organisation.] See below for an amended version of the published obituary: John Edward Holgate was a general surgeon in the Colonial Medical Service. He was born in Vizagapatam, India on 21 October 1921, the son of Maurice James Holgate, a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Medical Service, and Florence Polyxenie Marsden. John was educated at St Dunstan's in Worthing and Epsom College, before attending St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified in 1945. Following hospital appointments in Leeds at St James's Hospital - where he met his wife-to-be Hilda Green, a State Registered Nurse (known as 'Dilly') - he went on to Hereford General Hospital. He then had a short spell in New Zealand, where he and Dilly married. John decided that, like his father, he wanted to work in the Colonial Medical Service and in May 1951 went to West Africa, first to the British Cameroons, and then on to Enugu in what is now Nigeria (where his first two children were born) and Port Harcourt. It was while he was in Port Harcourt in July 1954 that he carried out a separation of conjoined twins, assisted by a Nigerian doctor, B J Ikpeme. The twins were joined at the lower part of the chest and were known to be alive in their mid-twenties. Whilst this operation had been carried out several times in London and other European cities, the conditions and equipment of the General Hospital, Port Harcourt were not as modern as those in Europe, so there would have been more difficulties to overcome. The mother and babies arrived by canoe from a fishing village nine miles away. John left Nigeria at the time of independence in 1960, went on to Grenada in the Caribbean for a short time, and then to New Amsterdam in Guyana in 1961. His third child was born there. In 1963, he returned to the UK. After a brief spell at the Manor House Hospital, Golders Green, London, he was asked to return to Grenada in 1966, where he stayed for the remainder of his career. Here he was able to enjoy his hobbies of sailing and fishing. He retired to the UK in May 1983, but ill health meant he was not able to enjoy a long retirement and he died on 5 February 1984 in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He was survived by his wife Dilly and children - Nigel John, Hilary Susan and Alyson Anne Polyxenie. The Holgate family
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First Title value, for Searching Jayes, Percy Harris (1915 - 1997)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Percy Jayes, an internationally known and respected plastic surgeon, was born on 26 June 1915, the first son of Thomas Harris Jayes, a butcher and farmer. His mother, Jessie May, was a daughter of a master mariner. He had one younger brother. Educated at Quernmore School, Bromley, and Merchant Taylors' School, he trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1938, where he held house posts in general surgery, orthopaedics and plastic surgery. His adoption of plastic surgery as a career came about because of his appointment as resident medical officer to Archibald McIndoe at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. McIndoe had been instructed to take control of this 'cottage' hospital and establish a centre for plastic surgery and jaw injuries. Huts added to the existing building included living accommodation for the resident officer, and are affectionately known as 'Percy Lodge' to this day. Archie McIndoe relied heavily on his able and stalwart assistant. Percy Jayes remained at East Grinstead during the war years, assisting McIndoe with the influx of severely burned airmen (later the well-known 'Guinea Pig Club'). By this stage he was acting as a consultant, without his FRCS, and became surgeon in charge of the UNRA plastic surgery unit in Belgrade towards the end of the war. It was here he met his first wife Kathleen Harrington, a sister at the hospital, and married her in 1946. He faced one problem with the coming of the NHS in 1948: despite his undoubted skills, with no higher surgical degrees in surgery he would be ineligible to retain his 'consultant' status. Percy passed both the primary and final Fellowship within a short space of time at the age of 34 years, and was formally confirmed as NHS consultant in 1949. Further appointments followed as consultant to St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1952 and civilian consultant to the RAF from 1960 to 1985. He joined the staff of King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, Beaumont Street, in 1966. Percy Jayes was a founder member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1947, serving on the Council for two periods, from 1954 to 1957, and from 1964 to 1966, holding the office of President in 1960. Travelling widely throughout the world to meetings, he became one of Britain's best known plastic surgeons internationally. Although he seldom spoke at clinical meetings, he published many articles, including the second McIndoe Memorial Lecture given in 1965 at the Royal College entitled *The establishment of the specialty of plastic surgery and its contribution to other specialties*. Another series of articles involved the planning, design and provision for skin cover in the conjoined craniophagus twins, whose separation was carried out at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1967. He was particularly expert in the design and management of cross-leg flaps. Trainees absorbed his knowledge and meticulous surgical expertise by observation and example, rather than by verbal teaching. All through his career his ability to work long hours and his reputation for taking no risks with tissue viability were legendary. After retirement from his NHS appointments in 1973, he continued in private practice until 1985, but he never lost touch with his many friends and ex-trainees from around the world. Lavish entertainment of friends and colleagues from home and abroad was enjoyed at his large property, Barton St Mary, a Lutyens house with extensive landscaped grounds on the outskirts of East Grinstead. He maintained the lawns himself, on one occasion inadvertently amputating some toes while driving a large mower. Gardening remained one of his hobbies, as did his love of antiques. He also acquired a house situated on a hillside overlooking the bay at Ocho Rios in Jamaica, where he was able to relax. Following the untimely death of his first wife, by whom he had two sons and a daughter, he married Aileen McLaughlin, a hospital secretary in 1964. They had a son and daughter. He died on 17 January 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Holthouse, Carsten (1810 - 1901)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-18
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Born at Edmonton on October 14th, 1810. He was the eldest son of Carsten Holthouse, and at the age of 14 was apprenticed to Le Gay Brewerton, at Bawtry, Yorkshire. He was released from his articles before the customary period had elapsed, and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was Dresser to (Sir) William Lawrence, and Clinical Clerk to Dr Latham. After qualifying he studied in Paris, and then started practice in 1836 at his father's house in Keppel Street. He assisted in the Out-patient Department of St Bartholomew's and was attracted to eye and ear affections. But in 1843, being appointed Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology at the Aldersgate School of Medicine in succession to Frederick Skey (qv), who had been appointed Lecturer on Anatomy at St Bartholomew's, he subordinated surgery to anatomy for some years. In 1849 began his connection with Westminster Hospital: the Medical School had come to a crisis, and in June, 1849, a new staff of lecturers was collected - Drs Radcliffe and Basham, Messrs Charles Brooke and Holthouse, the last as Lecturer on Anatomy. Owing to the inadequacy of the museum, particularly in anatomical preparations, the Royal College of Surgeons suspended its recognition of the school until Holthouse had, with great energy, reorganized the museum. The difficulty of the school centred on the claims of the senior staff of the hospital to the pupilage fees, irrespective of the increased need for expenditure. The medical student was held as primarily a pupil of one or other member of the senior physicians and surgeons. After five years Holthouse refused to continue to lecture without payment, the scanty fraction of the pupils' fees having been exhausted by the expenses. The result was that Holthouse was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Westminster Hospital on March 12th, 1853, and Surgeon on January 17th, 1857. At the same time he was allowed to put the school on a surer footing, the physicians resigning much of their primary claim to the pupilage fees, the surgeons holding on for another thirty years to what they called their rights. For some months during the Crimean War Holthouse served on the staff of the Civil Hospital at Smyrna, among his colleagues being Sir Spencer Wells and J Whitaker Hulke (qv). On his return he settled at 2 Storey's Gate, Westminster, and remained there for many years. He developed a practice in ophthalmology, and in 1857 took part in founding the Surrey Ophthalmic and Eye Dispensary, which afterwards became the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark. He paid special attention to squint, was conservative as regards the tenotomy so much in vogue, aiming to improve by use the vision in the deviating eye; the systematic use of spectacles for the common convergent squint had not become general. Thus as a surgeon Holthouse ranged too widely; at the same time he had great confidence in his own powers of diagnosis and treatment, which gave less than sufficient heed to the knowledge of others. These characteristics were naturally a serious bar to success. In 1875, at the age of 65, he became Consulting Surgeon to Westminster Hospital, and then took up a fresh practice - that of the treatment of habitual drunkards in a home - which resulted in anxiety and financial loss, but perhaps served experimentally to forward development on that question. Holthouse enjoyed vigorous health until about two years before his death. He underwent an operation for cataract, upon which followed an apoplectic seizure with temporary recovery, then further attacks rendered him helpless for months before his death on July 18th, 1901, within three months of completing his ninety-first year. He had been the Senior Fellow of the College after the death of Sir Rutherford Alcock, Chairman of Westminster Hospital, in 1897, and was the last but one of the 300 original Fellows, Spencer Smith (qv) dying a few months later on November 29th, 1901.
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First Title value, for Searching Cowell, Sir Ernest Marshall (1886 - 1971)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Ernest Cowell was born on 24 February 1886, son of Jasper Cowell of Steyning, Sussex, and was educated at Steyning Grammar School and University College Hospital Medical School where he graduated in 1907, taking the Conjoint Diploma the same year, and went on to take his MD degree in 1909 and the Fellowship in 1911. After holding resident posts at University College Hospital he was appointed assistant surgeon in 1922 at the Croydon General Hospital with which he remained throughout his career, becoming surgeon and ultimately consulting surgeon, but his work was interrupted by distinguished military service in both world wars. He joined the RAMC in 1914 and served throughout the war in France, becoming Lieutenant-Colonel in command of No 1 Casualty Clearing Station, and Commandant of the 1st Army's RAMC School of Instruction. He was twice mentioned in despatches, and was awarded the DSO in 1918. He then returned to civilian practice at Croydon, was elected as Fellow of University College London in 1918, and was County Director and Controller (Surrey) for the British Red Cross Society. From 1938 he was also surgeon to the Mayday Hospital. He remained on the reserve for the Army and was assistant Director of Medical Services 1934-40 of the 44th (Home Counties) Division of the Territorial Army, winning the Territorial Decoration. When war broke out again in 1939 he was recalled to active service, became Deputy Director of Medical Services, 3rd Corps, British Expeditionary Force in France 1940 and to 2nd Corps in England 1940-42. He was then promoted Major-General and Director of Medical Services of the Allied Armies which invaded North Africa in September 1942. He was also chief surgeon under General Eisenhower's command and organised the Air Ambulance Service in North Africa, Sicily and Italy; he was thus director of a vast service of British, American, French, Italian and other allied medical officers and their supporting staff. He was created CBE in 1939, CB in 1940 and was knighted KBE in 1944, and was several times mentioned in despatches. During 1945-46 he was principal medical officer in the Central Commission for Germany and, later, director of health in the United Nations (UNRRA) mission to Greece. For nearly twenty years after the war he continued his civilian practice at Croydon, retiring only in 1965 at the age of seventy-nine. He was appointed an honorary surgeon to the King in 1944, became a Freeman of Croydon in 1945, and a Freeman of the City of London in 1953 in the Company of Coopers. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant for Surrey. He was chairman of the Croydon Division of the British Medical Association 1926-27 and of the Surrey Branch 1936-38 and was active in the central committees and Representative Body of the Association. At the College he was Arris and Gale Lecturer in 1919, and a Hunterian Professor in 1927, and kept up his association with the College, its Museum and Library till near the end of his long life. Cowell married in 1912 Dorothie, daughter of Arthur Miller ISO, who died in 1962 leaving three children. He married secondly in 1966 and removed to Guernsey where he died on 26 February 1971, two days after his eighty-fifth birthday, survived by his wife Mary and by his son and daughter, his second daughter having died before him. Publications: *Hernia*, 1927. *Pocket-book of First Aid in Accidents and Chemical Warfare*, 1937. *Field Service Notes for Medical Officers*, 1939. *Medical Organisation in Air Raids*, with P H Mitchiner 1939, 2nd edition 1944.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Roger Abbey (1916 - 2016)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Paddy Matthews
Publication Date 2017-03-16 2017-03-23
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Roger Abbey Smith was a consultant surgeon at Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry. He was born in Birkenhead. At the age of 11 he was deeply affected by the early death of his mother from psittacosis pneumonia caught from the family parrot, despite being attended by Henry Cohen, arguably the most celebrated physician of the 20th century. His father never remarried and, having three brothers, Roger was brought up in an entirely male household. He attended Birkenhead School, and went on to study medicine at Liverpool School of Medicine, winning the A C Rich prize in medicine and the gold medal for obstetrics and gynaecology. His mother's death set him on course for a medical career, with a focus on pulmonary disease. He qualified in 1940 and, after becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1943, enlisted in the RAMC. He saw active service first on D-day aboard the hospital ship *Batavia* and then in Burma. He was subsequently posted to the Augusta Victoria Hospital - a 1,200 bed hospital - in Jerusalem, which had been requisitioned as the 16th British General Hospital. This was where his interest in thoracic surgery began under George Qvist, later consultant surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, and Lloyd Rusby, later chest physician at the London Hospital. After demobilisation and a spell at St Wulstan's Hospital, Malvern, a large TB sanatorium, he left for a year in Sri Lanka under the Colombo Plan, sailing there and back with his wife Teddie and three children. On his return in 1953, he was appointed as a consultant thoracic surgeon to the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board, based at the King Edward VII Memorial Sanatorium at Hertford Hill, near Warwick. In the late 1960's, the chest unit moved to the new Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry, where Roger remained for the rest of his professional career, holding satellite clinics in Worcester (with Stan Kalinowski) and at Burton upon Trent. Over time his principal clinical interests were TB, oesophageal and lung cancer surgery. Roger was the editor of *Thorax* from 1970 to 1976, and co-editor with R E Smith of *Surgery of the oesophagus: the Coventry Conference: proceedings of a conference held at the Postgraduate Medical Centre, Coventry, on 14th and 15th July, 1971* (London, Butterworths) in 1972. With J Leigh Collis and D B Clarke, he co-edited the 4th edition of *d'Abreu's practice of cardiothoracic surgery* (London, Edward Arnold) in 1976. During his career, he wrote over 25 articles in eight different journals, and contributed to five international textbooks. In 1974, he was elected president of the Thoracic Society, and in 1976 president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery. From 1975 to 1979 he was an adviser in cardiothoracic surgery to the Department of Health under the chief medical officer, Sir Henry Yellowlees. Roger travelled, operated and lectured abroad, mainly in Spain, the Benelux countries and America, including the Mayo Clinic, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was an honorary member of many international thoracic associations. Roger took a keen interest in the careers of his junior staff, but, I am told, terrified the theatre staff, demanding nothing but the very highest standards. He retired in 1979 to rural Herefordshire. He was an enthusiastic gardener, a keen ornithologist - particularly knowledgeable on birds of prey - and enjoyed salmon fishing and shooting. He holidayed every year with his family in the hills above Harlech in north Wales, the childhood home of his mother. He died peacefully on 24 July 2016, having lived in his own home until the last fortnight of his life, three weeks short of his 100th birthday. He was survived by Teddie, his wife of 73 years, his four children, 12 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Oldham, James Bagot (1899 - 1977)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-18
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details James Bagot Oldham was born in Belfast on 7 November 1899, the first child of Samuel Charles Oldham, a ship repair director and of his wife Kathleen, née O'Flaherty. Most of his father's family were in the medical profession. He was cousin to Sir Hugh Rigby FRCS, Sergeant-Surgeon to HM George V. He was educated at Birkenhead School and Liverpool University, where he graduated MB, ChB in 1921. After his hospital residence he returned to the university as Gee Fellow in anatomy 1922-23. In 1925 he took his Conjoint Diploma immediately followed by the FRCS, and took a post as resident and registrar at the David Lewis Northern Hospital. While working there he was awarded the Lady Jones Fellowship in orthopaedic surgery, which he held from 1926 to 1928 and went on to be appointed honorary assistant surgeon to that hospital, and also honorary surgeon to the Birkenhead General Hospital and consulting surgeon to the Liverpool Teaching Hospital, positions which he held until retirement in 1964. He worked with G C E Simpson FRCS and Professor T P McMurray, whose teaching and example he found a great influence. In 1939 he became senior honorary surgeon with charge of a teaching unit at the Northern Hospital, a member of the faculty of medicine and, in 1941, lecturer in clinical surgery to Liverpool University. He joined the RNVR in 1924, and was a Surgeon-Commander when war broke out. He served throughout the war in naval hospitals in England and at Scapa Flow. In 1942 he was awarded the VRD and promoted to Surgeon-Captain. In 1944 he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Navy, a position which he held for twenty years. In spite of his naval commitments he still found time for teaching and research. He was a member of the Court of Examiners from 1943 to 1949 and Hunterian Professor in 1944. On return to civil life in 1945 he resumed his hospital appointments. After the introduction of the NHS he served as a member of the board of governors of the United Liverpool Hospitals and on the advisory committee of the Regional Hospital Board. He was a member of Council of the College from 1947 to 1955 during which time he was again Hunterian Professor in 1950. He was awarded a bar to the VRD in 1949 and was made Honorary Surgeon to HM the Queen in 1952. He became a member of the Liverpool Medical Institution in 1925, and devoted himself to its service for over 40 years, holding almost every office in succession up to the presidency in 1953. In 1963 he was President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland on the occasion of their meeting in Liverpool. In 1964 he was awarded the CBE. J B Oldham was a perfectionist who could be outspoken. Those who did not know him could be put off by his manner, but his surgical and nursing staff were loyally devoted. He was an excellent clinical teacher, particularly interested in helping ex-service men to obtain their higher examinations. Administratively he was deeply involved in the planning of the new Royal Liverpool Hospital. He had little time for leisure during his professional career, though in retirement he devoted himself to his love of gardening and in spite of progressive arthritis almost single-handed landscaped and transformed an open field at his home in North Wales into an impressive garden, much admired by his many visiting friends. As a young man he had been a notable rugby player, representing Cheshire on no fewer than 35 occasions. In retirement, when not gardening, his interests were literary, musical and in the history of medicine. He had published various papers on vascular surgery and the surgery of the autonomic system. In 1931, he married Kathleen Longton Hicks, FFARCS, consultant anaesthetist to Liverpool Teaching and Regional Hospitals. They had no children. He died suddenly on 1 March 1977, aged 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Riddell, Athol George (1917 - 1974)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Athol George Riddell was born in Whitstable on 31 January 1917. He was educated at Folkestone and University College, London, where he gained the Gold Medal in physiology, graduating from University College Hospital Medical School in 1939. After holding a resident surgical post on the Professorial Unit there he entered the RAF Medical Service, where he remained until 1946 in the rank of Squadron-Leader. For his work on malaria in India during this period he was appointed MBE. Returning to University College Hospital after the war, he became successively surgical registrar, John Marshall Fellow in surgical pathology and resident assistant surgeon in the years 1946-62. He obtained the FRCS in 1948. In 1952 he was awarded a Bilton-Pollard Travelling Fellowship and spent two years at the Massachusetts General Hospital as a research fellow and fellow in clinical surgery. There he came under the influence of two men who determined the future course of his life. These were E D Churchill, whose example inspired him to seek a career in academic surgery, and William McDermot, who gave him an abiding interest in the problems of the surgery of the liver. He was awarded the MS London for his thesis on liver disease on the work he did there. From 1955 to 1964 he worked in the department of surgery of the University of Manchester, first as lecturer and later as reader. In 1964 he was appointed to the Chair of Surgery at Bristol. Here he continued his work on liver surgery and laid the foundations for a programme of experimental liver transplantation and preservation and storage of the liver. At this time he became interested in the immunological aspects of malignant disease and especially in the preservation of human spleen cells and their application in the treatment of cancer. Undoubtedly his greatest achievement at Bristol was the complete reorganization of the undergraduate curriculum. The development of an integrated programme of teaching which surmounted all the usually accepted departmental barriers was largely due to his enthusiasm and leadership, and he threw all his energies into the project. Though he worked long hours on clinical and administrative duties he gave much of his spare time to the welfare of his staff and spared no effort to ensure that his trainees received appropriate and personal guidance. A member of the South-Western Regional Hospital Board, he was appointed to the new regional health authority and also served on the Department of Health's advisory panel on transplantation. He was an examiner in surgery to the Universities of Manchester, Bristol, and Leeds, and for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The breadth of his surgical interests was shown by his membership of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Association of Surgeons, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, among many other affiliations. Athol Riddell was a powerful personality and his greatest characteristics were his intellectual honesty and personal integrity. He was basically a shy person and only those who got to know him well could really appreciate his appealing qualities as a friend. An evening spent in his company was a stimulating and amusing affair of intellectual cut-and-thrust which would have gone down well at a high table. He was a golfer of considerable prowess. From his father he had acquired a wide interest in natural history. In earlier years his interests had centred on lepidoptera, and he amassed a comprehensive collection of moths. Later he became a member of the Alpine Garden Society and applied the same devotion and enthusiasm which characterized his professional work to the nurturing of these rare and temperamental jewels. He had created a beautiful alpine garden at his home in Clevedon, and he died when its beauty was at its height. He married Valeria Wiltshire in 1946 and they had two sons. He died suddenly on 11 May 1974, aged 57.
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First Title value, for Searching Aubrey, David Alan (1938 - 2024)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Euriona Aubrey Paul Williams
Publication Date 2025-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details David Alan Aubrey was a consultant general surgeon at Llandough Hospital, Penarth and the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. He was born in Cwmrhydyceirw, Swansea on 5 April 1938, the only child of William Ernest Aubrey, a headmaster, and Mary Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Aubrey née Davies. He was educated at Bishop Gore Grammar School from 1949 to 1956 and was accepted to study medicine at King’s College. He used to take pleasure in informing family and friends that, as a result of his demanding extracurricular activities, which included late nights playing poker and going to the opera, at the end of his first term he needed to have a friendly discussion with the dean about the suitability of medicine as a career as he had obtained only 8% in the anatomy examination. He was determined to succeed and qualified from King’s College in London in 1961. After house jobs at King’s, he held posts as a surgical senior house officer and registrar at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, where he worked for and was significantly influenced by Eric Sturdy, a general surgeon a few years older who was very interested in training surgeons in Wales. He worked as a registrar and senior registrar at the United Cardiff Hospitals and the Royal Gwent Hospital. During higher training he worked as a research assistant to Patrick Forrest when he researched into gastric acid secretion, then considered to play a crucial role in upper GI ulceration. He was awarded an MS (London) in 1969 for his thesis on this work entitled ‘The effects of histamine acid phosphate and pentagastrin on human gastric secretion’. Following this, whilst holding a Buswell fellowship, he spent a year researching into secretion in canine gastric pouches at the University of New York. This work was done under the supervision of Worthington C Schenk, professor of surgery at the University of New York at Buffalo, and he was awarded an MD (London) for his thesis on this work on the ‘Secretory responses of canine gastric pouches following the administration of acetic acid, alcohol, bile, a steroid hormone and an antihistamine’. He used to joke that his remarkable work output at Buffalo was due to the exceptionally cold weather that forced him to stay indoors, and the high calorie input of Italian American pepperoni pizza, which he was introduced to by his lab technician, Dominic Amato. During his career he published over 40 scientific papers. Shortly after returning to Wales from Buffalo, he was appointed as a consultant in general surgery at Llandough Hospital, Penarth and the University Hospital of Wales. At Llandough he soon established a large and varied general surgical NHS practice that owed much to his detailed knowledge of anatomy and pathology, experience, dexterity, speed and expert surgical technique. Many young surgeons sought to work for him as he developed a great reputation for teaching, supervising, mentoring and subsequently placing his trainees in good posts. He was one of the last generation of general surgeons, and relinquished endocrine, urological and vascular surgery practice to younger colleagues as these subspecialties developed and new consultant subspecialty appointments were made. Consultant surgical colleagues would often ask for his opinion, and sometimes his assistance, with difficult surgical cases. He became the surgeons’ and physicians’ surgeon and was an active member of the Welsh Surgical Society. His exceptionally good NHS service provision resulted in a large number of referrals to his private practice, which he carried out at St Winifred’s Hospital and later at the Cardiff BUPA Hospital. In 1970, he married Eunice Elizabeth Margaret Williams, a psychiatrist, who predeceased him in 2020. They had two daughters, Euriona and Eurwen. In retirement, Alan wrote a series of historical novels set in third century Sicily, the *Crucible of empire* series. He also enjoyed some travelling with Eunice and spending time with their four grandchildren. He died on 6 December 2024 at the age of 86.
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First Title value, for Searching Pinch, Albert Edwin Hayward (1868 - 1948)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Born 28 February 1868, the eldest son of Felix Pinch, civil servant on the Irish establishment, and his wife, *née* Hayward. He was educated at King Edward's School, Bath and at Bristol University College Medical School. After clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital he was admitted MRCS in 1894, and was elected to the Fellowship two years later. From 1894 to 1896 he was medical tutor and assistant lecturer in physiology at University College, Bristol. He was commissioned as surgeon-lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 29 July 1896, becoming captain in 1899. Pinch did brilliantly both at Bristol and the Army Medical School, Netley. He gained the first entrance scholarship, the Suple scholarship, and the Clarke scholarship in medicine, surgery, and obstetrics at the Bristol Medical School: the Fayrer prize in pathology the De Chaumont prize in hygiene, the Montefiore prize in surgery, and the Herbert scholarship at Netley. He served in the Bengal Presidency as one of the last officers commissioned on the special Bengal list, but contracted plague, and was invalided home with no hope of recovery. In fact he lived for nearly fifty years. He recovered sufficiently to become resident medical superintendent of the Medical Graduates' College and Policlinic at 22 Chenies Street, London, holding the post from 1899 to 1909 during which time he was also pathologist to the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Disease of the Hip, Queen Square, Bloomsbury. In 1908, after the King had been successfully treated by radium in Paris, Lord Iveagh and Sir Ernest Cassel presented a stock of radium for medical use in London. Sir Frederick Treves was appointed president of the Radium Institute in Riding House Street, Portland Place, established to administer this gift, and Pinch was chosen by him as resident medical superintendent and general director in March 1909. Pinch was sent on a tour of French, German, and Austrian radium institutes and clinics before taking up the post which he held till 1930. The Radium Institute was established for the treatment of patients by radium and to carry researches into the therapeutic and physical properties of radium and compounds. For this position Captain Pinch was admirably suited; urbane, tactful, and absolutely honest, he put the institute on a sound basis, which was satisfactory alike to the medical profession and to science. No patient was received until after arrangements had been made with the institute by the patient's medical attendant, while the results obtained were published annually. In these *Reports* Pinch included the cases where no benefit had been received as well as those which had been treated successfully, and pointed out the forms of disease which were most likely to be helped. The work of the Radium Institute was taken over by National Radium Commission in 1930, and Pinch was retired with the honorary status of consultant. Pinch gave up his work on radium, in which he had been deeply interested and retired to Westward Ho, North Devon, where he was able to enjoy his favourite recreation of golf. He usually spent a month every year salmon-fishing in Scotland. Through the long years of retirement he was frequently in ill-health as a result of his earlier illness and the effects his work with radium. He had a severe cerebral stroke in 1946, and died of cerebral haemorrhage in Bideford Hospital on 14 October 1948, aged 80. Hayward Pinch married in August 1896 Helen Nora Poole, who survived him, but without children. He left the remainder of his fortune, after his wife's life interest, to help necessitous students at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Bristol University Medical Faculty. Mrs Hayward Pinch died on 6 January 1953. Publications: *The Radium Institute, London; a clinical index of radium therapy*. London, 1925. *Manual of technique in radium therapy*. London, 1926. 40 plates. *Superficial radium therapy*. London, 1927. 50 plates. Radium therapy, in R Hutchison and H S Collier's *Index of treatment*, 1911, etc. Die Radiumtherapie der bösartigen Hautkrankheiten, in *Handbuch der gesamte Strahlenheilkunde*, 2nd edition, Munich, vol 2, part 2.
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First Title value, for Searching Spicer, William Thomas Holmes (1860 - 1935)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 15 August 1860 at Saffron Walden, Essex, the second child and only son of William Spicer and Anne Holmes, his wife. His father owned a considerable amount of land as well as the Rose and Crown Hotel in Saffron Walden; his mother came of a family of brewers in Yorkshire. Holmes Spicer was educated at Saffron Walden School and at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. He went to Cambridge, matriculated and, after living for some time as a non-collegiate student, entered Gonville and Caius College in March 1879. He graduated with third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos 1880, and then went to St Bartholomew's Hospital. Here he won the Bentley prize and the Brackenbury surgical scholarship, and became president of the Abernethian Society. He served a year of office as house surgeon to Alfred Willett, and was for six months ophthalmic house surgeon to Henry Power and to Bowater J Vernon. For a short time he was in general practice, first in Pimlico and later in Bedford Square, but soon determined to devote himself to the study of diseases of the eye and became a clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. In 1890 he was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea, a post he held until 1899. During this period he did much good work in connexion with the disease then known as "scurvy rickets" or "Barlow's disease", which was common amongst the improperly fed children attending his clinic. In 1896 he was elected dean of the newly organized School at the Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital. He carried out the duties admirably, and was made surgeon to the hospital in 1898 on the resignation of Edward Nettleship, holding office until 1920. At St Bartholomew's Hospital he became ophthalmic surgeon in 1901 upon the death of Bowater J Vernon, and held the post until 1925, when he retired on reaching the age of sixty-five. He was complimented by being made consulting ophthalmic surgeon and a governor of the Hospital, and was for several years a member of the house and visiting committees. He was an active member of the Ophthalmic Society of the United Kingdom and of the ophthalmological section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and of this latter he was president for the years 1918-20. In 1923 he was awarded the Gifford prize for his work on parenchymatous keratitis. He married twice: (1) Florence, daughter of the Rev Enoch Mellor; she died during a pleasure trip in Spain; (2) Helen, daughter of James H Dunham of New York, who survived him and died on 27 March 1937. There were no children by either marriage. He died on 8 August 1935 at Elmley House, Wimbledon Common, and his ashes were buried in the old Parish Church at Wimbledon. Spicer was a good organizer, an excellent teacher, and an admirable operator, for he had great delicacy of touch. Tall and heavy in build, he spoke quietly and with some apparent reluctance, so that he shone more in the teaching of small classes than in the lecture room. He had a pretty wit, which was never sarcastic but was given with a quiet smile peculiarly his own. He did not court popularity, not was he eager to cultivate practice. His real interest in life seemed to lie in water-colour sketching, in which he was really proficient and was especially happy in depicting the colouring and moods of the sea and rocks. Publications: Parenchymatous keratitis; interstitial keratitis; uveitis anterior. The Gifford Edmonds prize in ophthalmology. *Brit J Ophthal* 1924, Monograph supplement No 1. The essay is illustrated with Spicer's own drawings. Nettleship's *Diseases of the eye*, 6th edition, revised by W T H Spicer. London, 1897.
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First Title value, for Searching Morley, John (1885 - 1974)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John Morley was the last of a line of distinguished part-time Professors of Surgery in Manchester. Born on 10 October 1885, the son of the Reverend J S Morley, MA, schoolmaster and clergyman, he was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and Manchester University, where he graduated MB ChB with first class honours in 1908. He was house surgeon to Professor G A Wright and A H Burgess and demonstrator in anatomy to Professor Grafton Elliot Smith, with Geoffrey Jefferson and Harry Platt. He was appointed surgical registrar to Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1911, the year in which he became ChM and FRCS. In 1912, aged 26, he was elected assistant surgeon to Ancoats Hospital, where his surgical colleagues were W R Douglas and Harry Platt. He joined a Territorial Field Ambulance in 1914 'spending three weeks in a field near Bolton' before embarking for Egypt and Gallipoli. There he established a field surgical unit that dealt with large numbers of casualties, often under fire. He was invalided home at the end of 1915 with severe jaundice and dysentery and he spent the rest of the war doing his military duties, civilian hospital work, and private practice at the same time. For his distinguished service at Gallipoli, he was awarded the Croix de Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. Morley was elected assistant surgeon to Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1921. He was a master surgical craftsman, a man of sound judgement and a conscientious teacher and he built up a very large practice. His combination of unflagging industry and technical excellence greatly influenced his students and assistants and many were proud to recall that they were trained by him. He was best known for gastric, thyroid, parathyroid, biliary and pancreatic surgery and for his thorough investigation of the mechanisms of abdominal pain. His observations were made at the bedside and in the operation theatre and radiological studies by E W Twining were added. The results were discussed in his book *Abdominal Pain* published in 1931. He succeeded his former chief, A H Burgess, to the Chair of Clinical Surgery, in 1936. His teachings were lucid and practical and his mordant humour was often directed at idle students. He was President of the Manchester Medico-Legal Society and the Manchester Pathological Society, twice President of the Manchester Medical Society, external adviser in surgery to the University of London, and external examiner to the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Durham. He served on the Court of Examiners 1941-43. The late Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks consulted Denis Poole-Wilson, FRCS in 1947 because of attacks of pain, apparently of renal origin, resulting from gunshot wounds in Bizerta in 1943. The General had already undergone six major abdominal operations. Poole-Wilson correctly traced his problem to his biliary tract and Morley and Poole-Wilson performed a seventh operation in December 1947. 'I was operated on by that fine surgeon and very charming man, Professor Morley. When I came round from the anaesthetic he was holding up a curious looking object which he assured me was a piece of my shirt that had been lurking in my bile duct ever since I was wounded at Bizerta.' When John Morley retired, Geoffrey Jefferson wrote, 'no one in his generation was more widely sought as a consultant or was better trusted as a surgeon.' He retired to the Eden Valley in Cumbria, exercising his skills as a shot and fisherman. His first wife, by whom he had three sons and a daughter, died in 1928. In 1930 he married Dr Margaret Greg, who survives him. His youngest son, a Pilot Officer in the RAF, was killed in action in 1943, aged 20. His elder sons are both surgeons and his daughter, a physiologist, married a physician. Honest John, as he was known, died in 1974 in his 89th year. His example of probity and professional excellence is unlikely to be surpassed.
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First Title value, for Searching Pitts, Bernard (1848 - 1914)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Sowerby, Yorkshire, on June 29th, 1848, the son of the Rev T Pitts, Vicar of St George's, Sowerby, and younger brother of the Rev Thomas Pitts, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Rector of Loughborough and Honorary Canon of Peterborough. Pitts went to school at Hipperholme Grammar School, near Halifax, and then entered Jesus College, Cambridge, in October, 1868. After reading mathematics for a year, he took a pass degree preparatory to medicine. During the year 1872 he worked at medicine in Edinburgh under Lister, and then again at Cambridge. He entered St Thomas's Hospital in 1873, was Clinical Clerk to Dr John Syer Bristowe, and Dresser to Sydney Jones (qv). After qualifying in 1875 he was Resident Clinical Assistant at Bethlehem Hospital. Of sturdy build and great physical strength, he was by nature whilst young an athlete, playing cricket and football for his College at Cambridge, continuing cricket and adding racquets and golf until incapacitated by illness. Early in 1876 he became House Surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital. The turning-point in his career came when at forty-eight hours' notice in the following August he went under the Red Cross Society to the Turko-Serbian War, serving for two and a half months under bad conditions, with rice and black bread for food, the surgical work being overwhelming. Chloroform and morphia had not been made use of until the Red Cross unit arrived. The St Thomas's men were Armaud Leslie, killed later by the Dervishes near Suakin; Haydon White, of Nottingham; and R Parker, afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC, as dresser. Pitts returned to St Thomas's Hospital in November, 1876, as Resident Accoucheur, and in October, 1877, he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy. In 1878 he went out to the Cape on a Union Castle liner, and on his return was made Resident Assistant Surgeon. After holding the post for four years, in 1882 he was elected an Extra Assistant Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital and also Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. In 1892 he became Surgeon to both hospitals. At St Thomas's Hospital he was Lecturer on Practical Surgery, and then on Surgery. He was Examiner in Surgery at Cambridge, Durham, the Society of Apothecaries, and a Member of the Court of Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1899-1909. At the College he was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology in 1893, his subject being "The Surgical Affections of the Air Passages in Childhood". A paper on "Cases of Abdominal Surgery" in *St Thomas's Hospital Reports* (1882, xi, 75) indicates that he was early in the field when that subject was developing. At the debate at the Clinical Society in 1885, when Sir Henry Thomson still advocated the perineal route for removal of villous tumours of the bladder, Pitts advocated the suprapubic operation. A year later Thomson published a small book on the suprapubic operations without mentioning Pitts. In 1901 he opened the Discussion on the Operation of Laparotomy for Intussusception at the Cheltenham Meeting of the British Medical Association. In 1904 a severe illness incapacitated him for six months. Not long before his death he wrote to a friend: "How hard it is to get credit unless you are constantly writing and almost advertising. I have always had a dread of this, but ought to have written more." He delivered his last lectures at St Thomas's Hospital on June 25th, 1908, on "Some Recollections of Surgery and its Teaching" (*St Thomas's Hosp Gaz*, 1908, xviii, 142). He resigned on reaching the age limit of 60, and he also resigned from the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, in 1912, becoming Consulting Surgeon at both hospitals. Pitts took great interest in the welfare of nurses, and almost from the first was a Member of the Council of the Nurses' Co-operation, which in 1915 numbered 500 members. He had practised at 109 Harley Street. He died after a long and painful illness in the Nursing Home, 4 Upper Wimpole Street, on December 13th, 1914.
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First Title value, for Searching Warner, Francis (1847 - 1926)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-23
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on July 10th, 1847, the son of James Neatby Warner; was educated at home until at the age of 20 in 1867 he won a junior scholarship at King's College, London. At the first MB University of London Examination he gained 1st class honours in chemistry and materia medica, in the second MB 1st class honours in midwifery. In 1870, after qualifying, he was House Physician at King's College Hospital. Upon this followed his appointment as Medical Registrar at the London Hospital; in due course he was elected Assistant Physician, then Physician, and after nearly forty years at the London Hospital he became Consulting Physician to the Hospital in 1913. It was, however, his election as Assistant Physician to the East London Children's Hospital, Shadwell, which determined Warner's researches into the development and mental physiology of the child, and into the physical and mental condition of school-children in London. A guiding principle in his research was that the state and functions of the child's brain could be interpreted by the muscular movements to which they gave rise. He observed the child whilst at rest, and while performing certain simple movements, looking at an object, holding the hands straight in front of the body with the palms down. Muscular overaction or underaction of various kinds was indicative of nervous instability; slack or convulsive positions of the hand, knitting of the eyebrows, indicated nervous strain, or such a physical defect as hypermetropia. He published from *Brain* (1880-1881) his *Visible Muscular Conditions as Expressive of the State of the Brain and Nerve Centres* (8vo, illustrated, London, 1881). In 1888 he read to the Royal Society a paper on the significance of the spontaneous movements of newborn infants, and of older babies, mental action showing itself through muscular movements - such observations led up to diagnosis and treatment of mental deficiency and disorders. Muscular movements in response to mental action were recorded by means of Marey's tambours. He had in the previous year, February, 1887, delivered three Hunterian Lectures on "The Anatomy of Movement: A Treatise on the Action of Nerve Centres and Modes of Growth" at the Royal College of Surgeons. Assisted by the British Medical Association, he made long and laborious inquiries into the mental condition of 100,000 school-children, the effect of environment on mental processes, hereditary capabilities and limitations. In classifying children he enumerated sixty-three signs of defects in bodily development. In 1889 he was a witness before the Royal Commission on the Condition of Blind, Deaf, Dumb, and Defective Children which led to the provision of special schools by the London School Board. In 1896 he was the active member of the Departmental Committee of the Local Government Board on the Feeble-Minded and on the Committee of the Home Office on Reformatory Schools; in 1898 on the Departmental Committee of the Education Department on Defective and Epileptic Children, in 1903 on the Royal Commission of Physical Training in Scotland. At the London Hospital his principal teaching was as Lecturer on the Neuroses and Psychoses of Children, and he continued to lecture up to 1914. During the War (1914-1918) he lived in the London Hospital and worked every day as a Physician for three and a half years. In 1921 he was granted a Civil List Pension in recognition of his national services. He had during his active career a busy consulting practice with children, and after becoming FRCP was Examiner in Medicine for the Royal College of Physicians and for several of the Universities. He had a country house at Whitbourne, Warlingham, Kent, and died on October 26th, 1926. He married in 1880 Louisa Loder, daughter of William Howard, of Hampstead, who survived him with a daughter, and a son in the medical profession.
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First Title value, for Searching Knaggs, Robert Lawford (1858 - 1945)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Huddersfield, Yorkshire on 27 December 1858, the second son of Samuel Knaggs (1829-1911), MRCS, for whom see *Lancet*, 1911, 1, 1241, and his wife Frances Isabel Battye. He was educated at Huddersfield Grammar School, Rossall School, and Caius College, Cambridge. He took his medical training at Guy's Hospital, where he served as house physician and resident obstetric physician. He passed the Conjoint Board in 1883, took the Fellowship the next summer and graduated in medicine at Cambridge the following year 1885, proceeding later to both the MD and the MCh. Knaggs settled in practice at Leeds, where he became in due course consulting surgeon to the General Infirmary. He excellently upheld the great tradition of Leeds surgery, but being modest and retiring he was overshadowed by the ambitious brilliance of his senior colleague A W Mayo Robson and his junior colleague Berkeley Moynihan. From 1910 till 1919 Knaggs was professor of surgery at Leeds University. During the first world war he combined his civilian duties at the Leeds General Infirmary with those of surgeon to the 2nd Northern General Hospital, holding the rank of major, RAMC(T), gazetted 14 October 1908. After his retirement Knaggs lived in London and devoted his energies to pathological research. He had served on the Court of Examiners of the College 1911-21 and was a Hunterian professor 1923-25. He published a valuable monograph on *Inflammatory and toxic diseases of bone*, 1926, which admirably combined the fruits of his clinical experience and pathologic research. He then worked 1927-30, as an honorary assistant to C F Beadles and T W P Lawrence in the Hunterian Museum, arranging and cataloguing the Strangeways arthritis collection (see *RCS Annual report on the Museum* 1928, 1929, and especially 1930, pages 4-7). The College recognized his work by the presentation of the Honorary medal 1930, which was handed to him by his former Leeds colleague, Moynihan. Lawford Knaggs married twice: (1) in 1926 Adrienne Ernestine Blanche, daughter of A Blouet-Dargonne of Paris and widow of Morton William Smith (1851-1925) of Newquay, Cornwall, Recorder of Rochester from 1897; Mrs Knaggs died on 14 December 1931 at Newquay; (2) in 1933 Anne, daughter of John Simpson of Hunmanby, Yorkshire, who survived him. There were no children of either marriage. Knaggs lived latterly at Glenburnie, 20 Forde Park, Newton Abbot, Devon, where he died on 16 April 1945, aged 86. Knaggs was a tall man, upright in carriage as in character. Though cautious and deliberate in operating, his surgical standards were very high and his width of knowledge exceptional. He was always a general surgeon, even occasionally treating ophthalmic patients, but was chiefly interested in abdominal and orthopaedic surgery. Publications:- Compound depressed fracture of the skull, cerebral abscess, hernia cerebri, recovery; with a consideration of hernia cerebri based on 109 cases. *Med Chir Trans* 1897, 80, 249-302. Volvulus in association with hernia. *Ann Surg* 1900, 31, 405. Diaphragmatic hernia of stomach, torsion of small omentum, and volvulus of stomach. *Lancet*, 1904, 2, 358. Punctured fractures of base of skull. *Ibid*. 1907, 1, 1477. On implantation of the ureters into the rectum by the sacral route; illustrated by a case of inveterate vesico-vaginal fistula. *Brit med J*. 1910, 1, 1224. Contribution to the study of ossification in sarcomata of bone, with O C Gruner. *Brit J Surg.* 1914-15, 2, 366. Osteitis fibrosa. *Ibid*. 1922-23, 10, 487. Leontiasis osteosa. *Ibid*. 1923-24, 11, 347. Osteogenesis imperfecta. *Ibid*. 1923-24, 11, 737. On osteitis deformans (Paget's disease) and its relation to osteitis fibrosa and osteomalacia. *Ibid*. 1925-26, 13, 206. The inflammatory and toxic diseases of bone. Bristol, Wright, 1926. 416 pages. Achondroplasia. *Brit J Surg*. 1927-28, 15, 10. Cretinism. *Ibid*. 1928-29, 16, 370. A report on the Strangeways collection of rheumatoid joints in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. *Ibid*. 1932-33, 20, 113; 309; 425. Acromegaly. *Ibid*. 1935-36, 23, 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Sharif, Mohamed (1912 - 2014)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-02-24 2016-04-15
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Mohammed Sharif was a military doctor in the Pakistan, a World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Africa and ultimately director of UNRWA (the United National Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East) operations on the West Bank. He was born on 7 January 1912 in Nabha, India, the son of Hakim Fateh Mohammed Khan, a physician, and Fatima Begum, a housewife. He studied medicine at Bombay University and qualified MB BS in 1936. He held junior posts in surgery and urology at the Grant Medical College and the Sir J J Hospital, Bombay. He was then medical officer in charge of a Bombay Municipality Dispensary (from October 1936 to March 1939). In 1938 he was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service, initially with the rank of lieutenant. A year later, he was awarded a Sir Currimbhoy Ebrahim scholarship by Bombay University for postgraduate study abroad. He arrived in the UK in April 1939, joined St Bartholomew's Hospital and began to study for the primary examination of the FRCS, due to be held in November, however, in September 1939, at the start of the Second World War, he was recalled by the Indian government for active duty. After an eventful journey back to the subcontinent, when the convoy he was travelling in was fired at by a German U-boat, he joined the Fourth Indian Division. He served in Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan, Palestine, Iraq and Cyprus, and ended the war as a major and a specialist in advanced military surgery. He returned to India in January 1945, where he was officer in charge of the surgical division at the Combined Military Hospital in Sialkot, Punjab, a post he held for two years. From February 1947 to the end of December 1948, he was commanding officer at the Combined Military Hospital, Bannu, in the North-West Frontier Province, on the boarder near Afghanistan. On 14 August 1947, Pakistan came into being and Sharif acquired Pakistani nationality. The new government granted him permission to return to the UK to resume his interrupted postgraduate studies. After time spent at the Royal College of Surgeons, Guy's, St Thomas', St Peter's and St Paul's hospitals and the Institute of Urology he gained the FRCS in 1951 and also a diploma in urology. In September 1951 he returned to Pakistan and resumed his Army medical career. He was first stationed in Baluchistan, where he was the commanding officer and a surgical specialist until March 1954. He subsequently became assistant director of medical services at the Pakistan Army division at Lahore, deputy director of medical services for the Army Medical Corps and finally director of medical services for the Pakistan Air Force. While holding this latter post, he was sent to the School of Aviation Medicine in San Antonio, Texas, USA, where he gained a diploma in aviation medicine. In May 1959 he was transferred from the military into the Pakistan Civil Service, becoming director general of health and joint secretary of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Welfare, with the task of developing the country's health services. In 1963 he joined WHO, initially as a representative in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, where he helped establish a new medical school at Dar es Salaam. From 1964 to 1975 he was director of health and WHO representative at UNRWA headquarters, Beirut, Lebanon, concerned with the health needs of the 1.5 Palestinian Arab refugees across the Middle East. From 1975 to 1977, he was director of UNRWA operations on the West Bank, carrying the responsibility for UNRWA's relief, health and education services for some 200,000 Palestinians living in the territory of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza. He officially retired in January 1977, but was subsequently appointed as a consultant to the WHO European regional office in Copenhagen, Denmark. During the same period, he taught public health administration and management at the American University of Beirut's school of public health. He received many awards, including the 1939-49 Star, the Africa Star, the Defence medal and the War medal for his service in the Second World War, the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation medal (in 1949), the Pakistan Independence Medal (in 1947), the Republic of Pakistan Medal (in 1956) and the Sitara-i-Qaid-e-Azam, Pakistan's civil honour (in 1961). He was married to Rukshar and they had two sons (Altan and Sharouh) and three daughters (Ediz, Temriz and Gulseren). He died on 18 January 2014, shortly after his 102nd birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching MacNalty, Sir Arthur Salisbury (1880 - 1969)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-12
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Occupation Medical Officer Physician
Details Born at Glenridding Westmoreland on 20 October 1880 he was the eldest son of Francis Charles MacNalty MD, MCh, sometime senior assistant physician to the Metropolitan Hospital, London, and Hester Emma Frances, nee Gardner, who was the grand-daughter of Sir John Piozzi Salisbury. MacNalty's boyhood was spent in the Lake District and Winchester where his father worked after leaving London. He was educated at Hartley College, Southampton, and later became a member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He completed his medical education at University College Hospital, London. After holding resident posts at his hospital he became resident medical officer to the Brompton Hospital, then medical registrar to the London Hospital (1911-1913). While at University College Hospital he worked with Sir Victor Horsley on the cerebellum and a paper on this research appeared in Brain in 1909. He also investigated heart block with Thomas Lewis; their joint paper in the *Journal of physiology* (1908) recorded for the first time the use of the electrocardiograph for the diagnosis of heart disease. In 1913 MacNalty's career was diverted to preventive medicine when Sir John Burns, MP offered him the medical inspectorship at the Local Government Board. In this appointment he was employed in measures to combat tuberculosis. During the first world war he was seconded to the War Office and worked with R S Reece and Sir Shirley Murphy on the outbreaks of cerebro-spinal fever amongst troops and civilians, and they also confirmed Wickman's findings on contact infection in poliomyelitis. From 1919-32 MacNalty was deputy senior medical officer of the Ministry of Health and secretary of the Tuberculosis Committee of the Medical Research Council during which time he published several papers on tuberculosis/poliomyelitis and encephalitis lethargica. From 1932-34 he was senior medical officer for tuberculosis and deputy chief medical officer to the Ministry of Health under Sir George Newman, becoming chief medical officer in 1935. From 1935 until the outbreak of the second world war he was one of a medical advisory committee to the Ministry of Health which among its members included Lord Dawson of Penn, Lord Moynihan, Lord Horder and representatives from the British Medical Association. At MacNalty's recommendation the Ministry set up a departmental committee to review amongst other things the conditions of service of the nursing profession and the medical aspects of the Midwives Act of 1936. He also persuaded the Ministry to make the purchase of anti-diphtheria vaccine free to the local authorities and thus practically eliminated diphtheria as a killing disease of children. In 1939 MacNalty was sent by the Minister of Health on a mission to Canada and the USA to inform the authorities there of our medical preparations in case of war and on his return he served as chairman of special committees to deal with various aspects of the Emergency Medical Service. In 1941 at the age of 60 he retired and was immediately appointed editor in chief of the official medical history of the second world war under the chairmanship of Mr R A, later Lord, Butler. He served on the Council of the Royal College of Physicians (1937-39) and also continued as Crown nominee on the General Medical Council until 1943. He was appointed honorary physician to the King from 1937-46. He became Milroy Lecturer to the College of Physicians (1925); Vicary Lecturer to the Royal College of Surgeons (1945) and Holme Lecturer at University College Hospital (1955). He also examined in public health for the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham and London. Amongst his other honours he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1949), a Freeman of the City of London and an Honorary Freeman of the Society of Apothecaries and of the Barbers Company. In 1963 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He also served as President of the Epidemiology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine being elected an Honorary Fellow in 1959. MacNalty was a small man with a modest demeanour with brilliant eyes and a charming voice. He possessed a profound and varied knowledge of science, history and literature and his vision and administrative ability achieved real advances for the nation's health. He married in 1913 Miss Dorothea de Wesslow and they had two daughters. His wife died in March 1968, and Sir Arthur died on 17 April 1969 at Bocketts, Downs Road, Epsom; one of his daughters survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Fenton, Peter John (1935 - 2011)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by David L Boase
Publication Date 2012-02-03 2013-02-14
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Peter Fenton, known to his colleagues as 'PF', was a consultant ophthalmologist in Portsmouth. He was born in Cranleigh, Surrey, the son of Edward Norman Fenton, a wing commander in the RAF, and Joan Wilfrida Fenton née Brown. He was educated at Radley, and then went on to read medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, entering as a pre-clinical student. On qualifying, in 1959, he was appointed as a house surgeon to the eye department at St Thomas', under the supervision of Harold Ridley and John Winstanley. This early exposure convinced him that ophthalmology was to be his career. With Harold Ridley's support, PF was appointed to Moorfields Eye Hospital, which at that time was considered the gold standard for training in ophthalmology. While there he was greatly influenced by Lorimer Fison, the consultant in charge of the retinal detachment unit. On completion of his residency training, PF was appointed as a senior registrar. This was a joint post between Moorfields and St Thomas'. He became Lorimer Fison's chief assistant on the retinal detachment unit. By this time he was an accomplished retinal detachment surgeon whose expertise was widely acknowledged by his peers. At St Thomas' he was once again with Harold Ridley and John Winstanley, and the emphasis was on general ophthalmology with teaching responsibilities. Both Harold Ridley and Lorimer Fison urged PF to stay in London. A teaching hospital post with a Harley Street practice beckoned, but he felt the call of the country. In 1971 he was appointed to the eye department at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. This was an ideal post for PF; a four-consultant unit with training responsibilities, it provided the professional challenges of a major district general hospital, while at the same time being close to London. A big plus was that he and his family were able to live in the country yet close to the hospital. He had the perfect daily commute to work. A dextrous surgeon and shrewd clinician, PF practiced medicine to a very high ethical standard. His knowledge and experience were greatly valued by his colleagues and of course by innumerable patients who benefited from his skill and dedication to their care. His career spanned a period of enormous technological advancement in ophthalmic practice. He rose to the challenge and kept abreast with these developments. More importantly, he encouraged and facilitated change, allowing his junior colleagues free reign to modernise the eye services in Portsmouth. PF was an excellent trainer. His style of hands-off supervision allowed the trainees to grow in confidence and experience, with the knowledge that he would be there when required. Inexperienced senior house officers soon became competent surgeons under his tutelage. He used his out-patient clinics to teach the trainees, as well as visiting optometrists and medical students. Surprisingly for someone with a surgeon's temperament, PF developed an interest in psychosomatic eye diseases. He established a special clinic with a visiting consultant psychiatrist, Alexis Brook, who had a background in psychoanalysis and was funded by the Inman Trust. W S Inman had been a consultant ophthalmologist in Portsmouth many years before and had made his name in the field of psychosomatic eye diseases. PF enjoyed the cut and thrust of medical politics, serving as president of the Portsmouth division of the BMA from 1982 to 1983. He was also very active in hospital politics. His time as chairman of the medical executive committee coincided with the introduction of the Thatcher health reforms, which brought the purchaser-provider divide, fund holding and the drive for trust status by hospitals. This was time of huge change and tension. PF skilfully steered Portsmouth hospitals through these choppy waters. He retired in 1995. Country pursuits provided an antidote to the stresses of consultant practice. PF was a keen gardener, specialising in vegetables and sweet peas. He also kept bees. A stalwart supporter of the local hunt, he was rewarded for his pains by a blowout fracture of his orbit when coshed by a hunt saboteur. The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers played a very important part in his life. He became a freeman in 1958 and served as master from 1997 to 1998. He relished the traditions, pomp and ceremony provided by the livery companies. Above all PF will be remembered for his kindness, generosity and good humour. He was survived by his wife Amanda (née Simonds), whom he married in 1963, his son, Nicholas, and daughter, Vanessa. PF died after a short illness on 9 December 2011, aged 76.
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First Title value, for Searching Nelson, Henry Philbrick (1902 - 1936)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-04
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Born at Hawkes Bay, New Zealand on 28 August 1902, the second of the three sons of George Nelson, civil engineer, and Mabel Price, his wife. He was educated at Fount Row, Surrey, at Harrow from Easter 1916 to Midsummer 1918, and at Caius College, Cambridge, from Michaelmas term 1920. He graduated in 1923 after being placed in the second class of Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos. He then entered the medical school of St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in due course was appointed house surgeon to William McAdam Eccles. He was appointed Luther Holden research scholar at the end of his year of office, and became surgical registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Deciding to devote himself to thoracic surgery he served as demonstrator of anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital and worked assiduously at the anatomy of the tracheo-bronchial lymphatic glands. He also studied the later stages of wounds of the chest at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. As surgical scholar of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain he served for a year as instructor of surgery in the thoracic surgical unit under Dr John Alexander at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and visited Canada. On his return to England he was appointed chief clinical assistant to J E H Roberts at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and assistant at the Brompton Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. In 1932 he was the Ernest Hart memorial scholar of the British Medical Association, and whilst holding the scholarship did valuable work on postural drainage in bronchiectasis and lung abscess. In 1933 he was elected assistant surgeon to the Brompton Hospital, and as thoracic surgeon to the London County Council was placed in charge of a special clinic at St Andrew's Hospital, Bow. In 1935 he became surgeon to the Papworth Village settlement for the tuberculous at Cambridge and to the Metropolitan Hospital in London. In April 1936 he was elected assistant surgeon to the London Hospital. He was also thoracic surgeon to the Brighton borough council and to the Middlesex county council. In none of these positions did he ever spare himself but always worked to the uttermost of his strength, with the result that he had no resisting power and fell a victim to a virulent streptococcal infection from a slight operation wound. He died in St Bartholomew's Hospital on 24 June 1936, aged 33. He married Kathleen, daughter of Alan Sullivan of Sheerland House, Pluckley, Kent, on 22 January 1927. She survived him with two daughters. Nelson's early death was a great loss to the surgery of the chest, which he had already advanced very considerably. He was a man of original mind, a great organizer, and a brilliant operator. As an individual he was direct of purpose, enthusiastic, of transparent honesty, modest, and extremely friendly. Publications: Bilharziasis, limited symptomatically to the urinary tract. *Newcastle med J* 1928, 9, 52. Case of impending ischaemic contracture. *Lancet*, 1930, 2, 795. Irradiation of tracheobronchial lymphatic glands in treatment of carcinoma of lung. *Ibid* 1930, 2, 1118. Experimental Coil infection in urinary tract of rabbits. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1930, 53, 266. Accessory lobe of azygos vein, with G Simon. *Brit med J* 1931, 1, 9. Tracheo-bronchial lymphatic glands. *J Anat* 1932, 66, 228. Causation and prevention of chronic empyemas. *St Bart's Hosp J* 1932, 39, 170. Rib retractor for major thoracotomies. *Lancet*, 1932, 2, 1003. Subclavian aneurysm following fracture of clavicle. *St Bart's Hosp Rep* 1932, 65, 219. Chronic empyemata. *Post-grad med J* 1933, 10, 462. Pulmonary lobectomy, technique and report of ten cases, with J E H Roberts. *Brit J Surg* 1933, 21, 277. Collapse therapy in bronchiectasis; a warning. *Brit med J* 1934, 1, 58. Postural drainage of lungs. *Ibid* 1934, 2, 251. Intrathoracic neoplasms. *Post-grad med J* 1935, 11, 25. A case of delayed metastatic sarcoma of the pleura, illustrating the diagnostic value of artificial pneumothorax, with W Bromme and T Findley. *Amer J Cancer*, 1935, 24, 334. John Melly; address at the memorial service St Bartholomew's-the-Less. *St Bart's Hosp J* 1936, 43, 161.
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First Title value, for Searching Ley, Gordon (1885 - 1922)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-27
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Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details Born in Exeter on June 19th, 1885, the son of Richard Ley, of Exmouth. He was educated at Malvern and at the London Hospital, where he won the Obstetric Scholarship and Prize in 1907 and was Pathological Assistant. In 1910 he became House Surgeon at the Gloucester Royal Infirmary, proceeding thence to Queen Charlotte's Hospital, where he was successively Junior and Senior Resident Medical Officer during a period of eight months. This appointment determined his choice of a career. He became an enthusiastic obstetrician, and soon displayed much ability. In 1913 he was appointed Pathologist to the Chelsea Hospital for Women, holding this post till 1921, and in March, 1914, he became Obstetric Registrar and Tutor to Charing Cross Hospital. This appointment he held to within a short period of his death. Gordon Ley suffered from congenital valvular disease of the heart, and his physique was so low that he was totally rejected for military service during the Great War. Few men, however, worked harder than he did at home. Throughout the War he acted as voluntary Resident Medical Officer to the City of London Maternity Hospital, doing almost the entire work of this hospital from the beginning of 1917 onwards in the absence on military duty of his colleague. He also volunteered at the London Hospital, where two of the gynaecologists had been called away by war duty. Here he had charge of beds, did the work of the Obstetric Registrar and Tutor during the greater part of the War, and acted also as Pathological Assistant. At the same time he took charge of the Jewish Maternity Home in Underwood Street as Consulting Obstetrician, was on the rota of the Lady Howard de Walden Maternity Home for Officers' Wives, and lectured from 1914-1918 twice a week at the Midwives' Institute, continuing these lectures to the time of his death. He was appointed Gynaecologist to the Hampstead General Hospital in 1918, and in 1919 Assistant Obstetric Surgeon to the City of London Maternity Hospital. These two appointments he held at the time of his death. In addition to this record of hospital work, Gordon Ley found time for original research, and he left a short series of admirable papers on clinical and pathological problems connected with obstetrics. His first considerable effort was the collation of 100 cases of full-term extra-uterine pregnancy from the literature, with two original cases upon which he had operated himself. Two years later he published an able communication on accidental haemorrhage, advancing cogent reasons for regarding this condition as toxaemic, and from the results of microscopic examination of the uteri removed for this condition he was able to offer an explanation of the mechanism of production of the bleeding. He also devoted much attention to the subject of carcinoma of the ovary. In 1919 he had communicated his preliminary results to the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine, and in continuance of his work had undertaken to open a discussion on "Primary Carcinoma of the Ovary" at the Glasgow Meeting of the British Medical Association, when his tragic death occurred. On the morning of June 3rd, 1922, he was travelling on professional business to Paris in a French aeroplane. After passing the coast-line, and when two or three miles off Folkestone, the machine suddenly dived into the sea from a height of 1500 feet. The pilot and both passengers lost their lives. Dr G H Varley, of Cadogan Place, W, who was on board the Boulogne packet, was at once rowed to the wrecked aeroplane, and then recognized the body of his dead colleague. After an inquest held at Folkestone on June 6th, where the brother of Gordon Ley, Dr R L Ley, of Great Yarmouth, identified the deceased, the funeral took place in Folkestone churchyard on the same afternoon. Publications: "Decidual Reaction in a Subperitoneal Fibromyoma of Uterus." - *Proc Roy Soc Med* (Sect Obst and Gynaecol), 1916-17, x, 137. "Fibromyo-lipoma of Corpus Uteri." - *Ibid*, 1913-14, vii, 150. "Two Cases of Full-time Extra-uterine Pregnancy with a Tabulated Abstract of 100 Cases from the Literature." - *Ibid*, 1918-19, xii, 140. "Primary and Secondary Carcinoma of Ovary." - *Ibid*, 1919-20, xiii, 95. "Utero-placental (Accidental) Haemorrhage." - *Jour Obst and Gynaecol*, 1921, xxviii, 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Gough, Alfred (1883 - 1973)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-04 2015-02-06
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist and obstetrician
Details The following was published in volume 5 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Gough was born in 1883 and educated at Leeds Medical School, which had at the time a staff of outstanding teachers. He graduated in the University of Leeds in 1905, taking the Conjoint Diploma the same year, and served as house physician and surgical registrar at Leeds General Infirmary, and later as surgical tutor and lecturer on surgery in the Medical School. He made his career as a gynaecological surgeon in Leeds and became consulting surgeon to the Public Dispensary and the Hospital for Women. He was a founding Fellow of the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In retirement he Settled at The Hermitage, Jarvisbrook, near Crowborough in Sussex, but later moved to Aberdeen House, Uppingham, Rutland, where he died on 20 January 1973 aged nearly ninety, and was survived by his wife. The following was published in volume 6 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Alfred Gough was born in Leeds on 22 December 1883, the son of a plumber. He made his way through elementary and secondary school to the University by sheer hard work gaining scholarships in the days when these were very scarce and the competition very great. He obtained the gold medal in his final year at the Leeds Medical School but little is known of his early activities, apart from records of his house physician, surgical registrar and tutor appointments at Leeds General Hospital. He received his surgical training in the days when it was unusual, if indeed it ever happened, for the surgical team to change into theatre clothes, and right up to his retirement, Alfred Gough never did more in this respect than remove his jacket and waistcoat and don a long white coat over his street trousers! Gough served in the first world war and was attached to the No 7 General Hospital at St Omer in France with the rank of Captain in the RAMC. He returned to Leeds and was appointed to the staff of the Hospital for Women in 1919. Many anecdotes are told of this time. It is said that when testing the patency of Fallopian tubes, he had a nurse standing on a high stool and holding a saline-filled glass funnel as high above her head as possible. The funnel was attached by means of rubber and glass tubing, the lower end connected to the standard apparatus whose end went into the cervical canal. If the saline solution flowed freely and there was no leak back at the cervix, it was assumed the tubes were patent. Mr Gough always took this test very seriously, but for the rest of the team it was regarded as pure pantomime, for no nurse ever succeeded in holding the funnel up aloft sufficiently steady not to slop its contents on to the people below! Alfred Gough did not confine himself to gynaecological surgery, but would tackle just about any abdominal operation current in his day, besides numerous mastectomies. He did all the operations himself (his house surgeon was usually today's equivalent of a pre-registration houseman and by keeping the patients in hospital a long time (even D's and C's stayed a full fortnight!) he managed to keep his thirty-bedded ward full. When the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was created, he was one of the founder Fellows. His honorary appointment at the Hospital for Women should have terminated in 1943 when he reached the age of 60, but he was persuaded to continue until the end of the war. This he interpreted literally by resigning on VE Day - a typical gesture. About this time, he developed a chronic empyema which undermined his health for many years but did not prevent him from country and fell walking, a pleasure he enjoyed until shortly before his death. He retired from practice in 1951 and went to live in Crowborough, Sussex, and later moved to Uppingham, Rutland, where he died on 21 January 1973. He was survived by his wife Dorothy, two daughters and two doctor sons, one of whom, H Martin Gough, is a consultant gynaecologist in Victoria, British Columbia.
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First Title value, for Searching Dunn, Louis Albert (1858 - 1918)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The youngest son of J Roberts Dunn, JP, DL, Stone House, Warbleton, Sussex. At Guy's Hospital he gained the Ormerod Scholarship and qualified in 1882, passed with honours the MB BS in 1884, also the FRCS, and in 1888 the MS, gaining the Gold Medal, acting meanwhile in hospital resident appointments. It was the time of the Zulu War, of Rorke's Drift and Isandula; the British Agent, John Dunn, was in everyone's mouth as the trusted British Representative. His fellow-students recognized thus early Dunn's character and transferred to him the name of 'John', and as John Dunn he came to be styled throughout the hospital. He held in succession the posts of Demonstrator of Anatomy, Surgical Registrar, Warden of the College, Assistant Surgeon, Joint Lecturer on Surgery, and Surgeon to the hospital. It is as Warden of the College and all that relates to it that Dunn is especially remembered. A Rugger leader and yet the hardest worker, he saw the good points of everybody; in a quiet and friendly manner he influenced the wayward, criticized eccentricities, put a stop to tiffs and quarrels. Among numerous stories is this one: Dunn was looking out of the College window when he saw three students emerging from the College in quick succession in the direction of a public house where was a billiard saloon. He caught a fourth student as he was going out and invited him in to tea, pressing on him many cups with whimsical persistence as an insurance against alcohol thirst. On the first day of holding a class he learnt names without fail, and within a week or two knew all about the individual's achievements at school and in sport. The football team and all its matches and successes were subjects of constant talks. On the Court of Examiners he showed an intimate knowledge of every Guy's candidate; success of each was a matter of rejoicing, and if the candidate's marks scarcely reached the border line, Dunn had always on the tip of his tongue some pertinent suggestion. On the other hand, Guy's student or not, the idle and careless received no sympathy. As a surgeon Dunn was a very accurate clinical observer with a great memory for cases, frequently recalled when a difficulty in diagnosis was under discussion. He was a careful and assured operator, who kept continually in mind the duty of a teaching surgeon to exhibit to his students what was safe and trustworthy, and to impress upon them that brilliant feats of surgery by individuals were not to be taken as normal procedures. Dunn was for a long while Surgeon to the East London Hospital for Children, and, associated with this interest in the surgery of children, he was Consulting Surgeon to St Mary's Children's Hospital, Plaistow; to the Royal Asylum of St Anne's Society, Red Hill; to the Children's Nursing Home, Barnet; St Alban's Hospital; Emsworth Cottage Hospital; and Tower Hamlets Dispensary. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a Member of Council (1913-1918) and of the Court of Examiners (1907-1917), having been previously an Examiner in Anatomy. He was also Examiner in Surgery to the Universities of Cambridge and Leeds, and to the Royal Naval Medical Service. He and his two elder brothers remained unmarried, and his special joy was to rejoin them at their home and birthplace, and to enjoy shooting in the surrounding woods. In later years he practised in Park Crescent, Portland Place, and a sister resided with him. To his great distress, as she was going on well after an operation for appendicitis, fatal pulmonary embolism supervened. This loss told severely on his health. Kidney trouble obliged him to submit to operation; the diseased kidney proved to be irremovable, and only continuous drainage could be instituted. Dunn continued active as a surgeon and examiner in spite of inconvenience which would have stopped anyone less brave. He had hoped for a prolongation of life, and had moved to a house on the Buckinghamshire Hills, but the disease made progress, and he died in Bright's Ward, Guy's Hospital, on June 8th, 1918. A portrait accompanies the notice in the *Guy's Hospital Gazette* Obituary.
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First Title value, for Searching Farrar, David James (1942 - 2015)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Neville Harrison
Publication Date 2015-04-17 2017-01-26
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details David Farrar was appointed as a consultant urological surgeon at Selly Oak Hospital in 1978 and, in 1993, with hospital mergers, moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where he remained until his retirement in 2003. He was born on 3 July 1942 in Rawdon, Yorkshire, the only son of James Farrar, a public health inspector, and Jessie Farrar, a shop assistant. David went to Leeds Grammar School, where he was a keen sportsman, doing well in rugby and boxing, and showed leadership qualities in the school's Combined Cadet Force. He also shone academically and gained a county council award to study medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1966. Aspiring to a surgical career, David was a prosector in the anatomy department at St Thomas' and, having passed the FRCS in 1971, was drawn to urology after obtaining a research fellowship at the Middlesex Hospital under radiologist Graham Whiteside, who, with Richard Turner-Warwick, was pioneering the new investigative technique of urodynamics combined with bladder imaging. This post led to a career-long interest in bladder dysfunction and female urology, and the award of an MS degree in 1979. Meanwhile David had secured a competitive senior registrar post on the Portsmouth-Norwich rotation under John Vinnicombe, Forbes Abercrombie, Alan Green and Mike Handley Ashken. Whilst a medical student, David met Pom (Pamela Allberry) a St Thomas' nurse, who also had a Yorkshire family background, and they married in 1969. David's interest in urodynamics continued and he became an active member of the International Continence Society, which was formed in 1971 and continues to flourish as a multidisciplinary organisation, embracing research and practice in the management of all aspects of bladder dysfunction. Continuing this special interest, David was a founder member of the British Association of Continence Care in 1990, a pioneer of the multidisciplinary pelvic floor group at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in 1999 and of the British Association of Urological Surgeons' section on female and reconstructive urology when it was established in 2001. David was a Royal College of Surgeons' surgical tutor at Selly Oak (from 1984 to 1989) and an examiner in surgery at the RCS. However, there were two areas of postgraduate education that were of special importance to David: the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) and the Burberry Club. The RSM urology section held monthly educational meetings in London, which he attended regularly, travelling from Birmingham. He became a member of the council of the section and progressed to treasurer and then president in 2001. The urology section was a pioneer in holding a winter meeting overseas, usually at a ski resort and linking up with a local urology department, and when president David and his wife hosted a very successful meeting in Arosa, Switzerland. These meetings with their informal and relaxed atmosphere were far more significant as opportunities for continuing medical education than those who had not experienced them would believe, and many lasting friendships were formed. The Burberry Travel Club was started in 1981 by a small group of contemporary urologists (Neville Harrison, Patrick Doyle, Chris Gashes, Hugh Whitfield and David Farrar) who met annually to discuss their difficult urological cases and professional issues, and for their wives to share their pressures and family concerns. The group continued to meet for 34 years until David's death (Patrick Doyle had sadly died whilst at a Burberry meeting in 1998) brought the annual club to an inevitable end. David was very efficient and well organised, keeping careful notes and lists of financial and career details. His qualities as a wise and reliable committee member were recognised when reconfiguring the urological services in the Midlands and, after the merger of Selly Oak with Queen Elizabeth hospitals, when he chaired the combined surgical division. David was widely recognised by patients and colleagues as a dedicated, skilful and compassionate clinician. His affability was always apparent, but his wry sense of humour could elude some. However, given the right opportunity, he could entertain with a store of Yorkshire jokes and sport-related stories. David's love of all sport was lifelong, with rugby, golf and cricket being paramount. He lived conveniently close to the golf club in Solihull, which played a major part in his family and social life. Few people knew about David's bowel malignancy before he died unexpectedly on 16 March 2015 following surgery. He was 72. He was survived by his wife Pom (Pamela), daughter, Charlotte, and son, Nic.
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First Title value, for Searching Armitage, George (1896 - 1979)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details George Armitage was born at Rothwell, near Leeds, on 20 April 1896 the son of George Armitage, a company director and chairman of the family brickworks. His mother was Annie Elizabeth Flocton, the daughter of a prison governor. He was educated at the village school at Ackworth and entered Leeds Medical School in 1912, but his medical education was interrupted by his distinguished service in the first world war with the Royal Artillery, attaining the rank of Colonel when he commanded 269 Field Regiment RA. He was engaged in the battle of the Somme in 1916 and was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous bravery in the field. The following year he took part in the battle of Passchendaele and was awarded a bar to his MC. In 1918 he returned to medical school and qualified from Leeds in 1921 with first class honours and was awarded the William Hey Gold Medal as the most outstanding student of the year. From 1921 to 1923 he was demonstrator in anatomy and then became house surgeon to Sir Berkeley Moynihan. In 1925 he was appointed resident surgical officer at the General Infirmary at Leeds and achieved the FRCS. He became university surgical tutor in 1927 and two years later he was awarded a Rockefeller travelling fellowship to Harvard University and worked for a year under Professor Harvey Cushing at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Following this excellent experience and training George Armitage was appointed honorary consultant surgeon at the General Infirmary at Leeds in 1933, having already carried out the first brain surgery at Leeds and was instrumental in the appointment of a full-time neurosurgeon, William Henderson, a fellow student with Harvey Cushing. In 1934 additional appointments included consultant surgeon at Clayton Hospital, Wakefield and consultant to the Ministry of Pensions at Chapel Allerton. In 1939 he was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons and in 1940 he became full surgeon to the General Infirmary. George, as he was affectionately known to generations of medical students, soon established a fine reputation as a great surgical teacher and technician and was among the first to recognise the importance of transurethral surgery and the first Leeds surgeon to apply this technique. He excelled in thyroid surgery, but he was also a general surgeon of outstanding technical ability. No wonder, therefore, that he established an enormous hospital and private practice. He always felt real concern for all his patients and deep sympathy for the relatives of those who were dangerously ill or dying. He could recall with ease the details of the family life of a patient who returned to him with recurrent illness and he knew where his patients lived and worked. As a member of the Moynihan Travelling Club he toured widely through Europe and the United States and there were few leading surgeons whom he did not know personally. In 1956 Sir Harry Platt invited him to represent the Royal College of Surgeons as an official delegate to the USSR which he regarded as one of the highlights of his surgical career. George Armitage had many interests and was a countryman at heart. In 1938 he acquired a herd of British Friesian cattle. He was President of the Yorkshire British Friesian Breeders Club in 1962-63 and was Vice-President of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society. A great golfer, despite his limp, he won the Medical Golfing Society of Great Britain and Ireland Trophy in 1952 and the Armitage Cup is played for annually on his favourite golf course at Alwoodley, Leeds. For many years after the first world war he remained in the Territorial Army and was awarded the Territorial Decoration for his long service. On retiring from the National Health Service he put his tremendous energies into the family business and became chairman of Armitage Bricks, holding this post until 1976. George Armitage is remembered with real affection for the warmth he brought to his personal relationships with his friends, colleagues, patients and staff. He married Mildred Jane Hare in 1929 and they had two daughters and a son. He died on 30 May 1979 while on holiday in the USA.
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First Title value, for Searching Flower, Sir William Henry (1831 - 1899)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-12-21
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Occupation Museum director
Details The second son of Edward Fordham Flower and Celina, the eldest daughter of John Greaves, of Leamington. He was born at Stratford-on-Avon on November 30th, 1831. His father was founder of the brewing business known as Flower & Sons, which continued to be carried on at Stratford-on-Avon. The elder brother was the founder of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, and his younger brother was Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trustees. William Henry Flower was educated at University College, and graduated MB at the University of London in 1851 after studying at the Middlesex Hospital. At University College he won the Sharpey Gold Medal in Physiology and the Grant Silver Medal in Zoology. He volunteered during the Crimean War in 1854, saw active service in the field, and held a hospital appointment at Scutari. On his return home he was elected Assistant Surgeon, Lecturer on Anatomy, and Curator of the Museum at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1861 he became Conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in succession to John Thomas Quekett, holding the post until he was succeeded by Charles Stewart in 1884. He served the office of Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology at the College from 1870-1873, the previous occupant of the chair being T H Huxley (qv); and a second time from 1876-1884, replacing William Kitchen Parker. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1864, served as a Member of the Council, was a Vice-President and was awarded a Royal Medal in 1882. When Sir Richard Owen (qv) retired from the Directorship of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, Flower was appointed in his place in 1884, and held the post until 1898, when he resigned on account of ill health, and was succeeded by E Ray Lankester, FRS. He was elected to the Council of the Zoological Society in 1862 and served continuously until 1869; he became Vice-President in 1870 and acted as President for twenty years from Feb. 5th, 1879. He was also President of the Anthropological Institute from 1883-1885 and was more than once President of the Anthropological Section of the British Association. He was President of the British Association at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Meeting in 1889. Flower was decorated CB in 1887 and was promoted KCB in 1892; he was a corresponding member of the Institute of France, and received the Prussian order 'Pour la Mérite'. He was also an Hon LLD of Dublin and Edinburgh and a DCL of Durham. He married in 1858 Georgiana Rosetta, daughter of Admiral William Henry Smyth (1788-1865), one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society, and by her he had three sons and three daughters. He died after some months of ill health at Stanhope Gardens on July 1st, 1899, was cremated at Woking, and was buried at Stone, Buckinghamshire. A portrait by the Chevalier Schmidt, of Berlin, was given to Lady Flower, and there is a bust in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. A small engraving representing Flower in middle life hangs in the Conservator's room at the College of Surgeons. An enlarged photograph by Messrs. Elliott and Fry was presented to the College in 1918. Urbane, easy of access, a good administrator, and an inheritor of his father's capacity for business, Flower was excellent as the Director of a large museum, whilst his scientific ability was of the greatest service to the two great institutions he was called upon to serve - the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, and the Natural History Collection which was housed in the noble building at South Kensington. As guardian of a national collection he was successful in the difficult task of making it interesting to the general public without destroying its utility for scientific students, and he was thus justly pronounced to be "an originator and inventor in museum work". He was a morphologist and a comparative anatomist, as is shown by his *Osteology of Mammalia* published in 1870, by his work on the Monotremata and Marsupialia, and by his important contributions to the anatomy of the Cetacea, the outcome of which is to be seen in the 'whale room' in the College of Surgeons.
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First Title value, for Searching Wigg, Henry Carter junior (1845 - 1890)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-06
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born in Norfolk, the son of Henry Carter Wigg, senr; was taken out to Geelong, Australia, in January, 1853. He returned in 1859 to King's Lynn, was a pupil at Mr Lupton's school, and was so interested in chemistry as to perform the illustrative experiments after his master's lecture, becoming so absorbed as to be undisturbed by the plaudits of the audience. He went on to University College, London, studied chemistry under Williamson, botany under Oliver, and won a prize given by Berkeley Hill for a clinical "Essay on Four Out-patients". He passed to Edinburgh University and graduated with the Inaugural Dissertation, "Physiological Action of Nitrobenzole", on Aug 1st, 1866, Sir David Brewster conferring the degree. Returning to University College, he obtained the first Certificate of Honour and Gold Medal in Medical Jurisprudence in 1865, and the Filter Exhibition of £30 for proficiency in Pathological Anatomy in 1866, also the first Certificate of Honour and the Gold Medal in the same subject in December, 1866. In 1869 Wigg took the MRCS and FRCS, apropos of which his father quoted Erichsen's Eulogy on the College of Surgeons: "The medical profession can boast of no greater institution of a purely educational and scientific character than the Royal College of Surgeons of England, whether as regards the scientific value of its magnificent museum, the extent of its library, the importance of its endowed lectureships, the vastness of its acquired wealth or the yearly increasing number for its diploma. It is beyond rivalry in Great Britain and it is without an equal in the world." He learnt at Edinburgh the method of acupressure advocated by Sir James Simpson, and from holding a locum tenens at Hecklington, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, and other places, he gained experience of English country practice. He was fond of music, and began to write poetry. In January, 1879, he sailed on board the *Planet* emigrant ship as Surgeon, with the care of 195 emigrants, and reached Brisbane after ninety-five days, where he presented a Report to the Secretary of the Queensland Government containing a list of drugs desirable for emigrant ships. Wigg then started practice in Carlton, Melbourne, attended the Lying-in Hospital and Benevolent Asylum, and in April, 1871, was elected Physician to the Alfred Hospital. He resigned this post in the following November for that of Physician to the Hospital for Sick Children. He was active in getting this hospital transferred in 1893 to a more suitable building belonging to Sir Redmond Barry in Pelham Street, and in 1876 succeeded in persuading the Hospital Committee to allow the University students to attend his clinic there. His practice rapidly increased, and in addition to his ordinary work he added to it by giving lectures on first-aid to the railwaymen. His health having failed in 1882, he resigned his appointments and travelled to Europe via Ceylon, became interested in architecture, and returned to Australia at the end of 1883. In 1878 he gave evidence in favour of the Contagious (Venereal) Diseases Legislation from experience derived from attendance at the Sick Children's Hospital and the grave effects of inherited syphilis. In 1888 the plague of rabbits gave rise to the offer by the New South Wales Government of a prize of £25,000, and Pasteur dispatched two assistants for the purpose of experimenting on the dissemination of fowl cholera. Wigg opposed the experiment, and was instrumental in getting the Royal Society of Victoria to advise the Government to refuse permission as involving danger to human life; moreover, the experiments carried out on Rodd Island, Sydney, were negative in results. Among about 1400 other schemes a rabbit-proof fencing was devised, but the rabbits burrowed underneath it. In 1889 Wigg went on a visit to a friend in Queensland, and was interested in a Benevolent Asylum at Dunwich Stradbroke Island, where 520 inmates built and lived in bark cottages, and grew bananas and oranges in gardens. He returned apparently in good health, but after rowing and taking a ten-mile walk he ruptured a blood-vessel, and died on Feb 7th, 1890. *In Memoriam* was published by his father, Henry Carter Wigg, senr, in 1890. It contains a photograph.
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First Title value, for Searching Toynbee, Joseph (1815 - 1866)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Philanthropist
Details The second son of George Toynbee, a large tenant farmer and landowner in Lincolnshire, was born at Heckington in that county on December 30th, 1815. He was educated at King's Lynn Grammar School, and was apprenticed at the age of 17 to William Wade, of the Westminster General Dispensary in Gerrard Street, Soho. He studied anatomy at the Little Windmill Street School under George Derby Dermott and became an expert dissector. He attended the practice of St George's and University College Hospitals, and showed his interest in diseases of the ear as early as 1836, when he wrote letters to the *Lancet* under the initials 'J T'. In 1838 he assisted Richard Owen (qv), who was then Conservator of the Hunterian Museum, and was soon afterwards elected one of the Surgeons to the St James's and St George's Dispensary, where he established a useful Samaritan Fund. He also promoted the building of a model lodging-house near Broad Street, Golden Square. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1842 for his researches demonstrating that articular cartilage, the cornea, the crystalline lens, the vitreous humour, and the epidermal appendages contained no blood-vessels. Toynbee lived in Argyll Place, Regent Street, so long as he was Surgeon to the Dispensary, and there began to specialize in aural surgery, but soon becoming successful moved to 18 Savile Row. When St Mary's Hospital was established in 1852 he was nominated the first Aural Surgeon and Lecturer on Diseases of the Ear, holding the appointments until 1864. He married in August, 1846, Harriet, daughter of Nathaniel Holmes, and by her had nine children, of whom the second son, Arnold (1852-1883), was the well-known social philosopher and economist, a founder of the first University Settlement - Toynbee Hall. Joseph Toynbee died from an overdose of chloroform on July 7th, 1866, and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Wimbledon. At the time of his death he was Aural Surgeon to the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots, Consulting Aural Surgeon to the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, President of the Quekett Microscopical Society, and Treasurer of the Medical Benevolent Fund, an office he had filled since 1867. Toynbee raised aural surgery from a neglected condition and made it a legitimate branch of medicine. The Toynbee Collection illustrating various diseases of the ear is exhibited in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln's Inn Fields. It is the result of minute dissections extending over twenty years, during which time he is said to have made preparations from more than two thousand human ears. Many of the specimens came from the patients in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum whose ears he had examined during life. One of his most valuable contributions to the treatment of deafness was his invention of an artificial tympanic membrane. He first demonstrated the existence of many bony and other tumours of the ear, of the ossicles, and of the tympanum, and demonstrated that the Eustachian tube is always closed except during the act of swallowing. As a philanthropist the English public owes much to Toynbee. He advocated the improvement of workmen's dwellings and surroundings at a time when the duties of a Government in regard to public health were hardly beginning to be appreciated. His benevolent efforts centred in Wimbledon, where he occupied a country house from 1854. Here he was indefatigable in forming and maintaining a village club and a local museum. He published in 1863 *Hints on the Formation of Local Museums*, and his enthusiastic advocacy was of great value in furthering the establishment of similar clubs and museums in other parts of the kingdom. He also took a deep interest in the condition of the deaf and dumb, and devised plans by which they were taught to speak. The Otological Society subscribed a sum of money to name the Committee Room at the Royal Society of Medicine which is called the 'Joseph Toynbee Room'. Publications: *The Diseases of the Ear; their Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1860. A new edition with a supplement by JAMES HINTON, 1868. Translated into German, Würzburg, 1863. This was Toynbee's chief work, and placed aural surgery on a firm basis. It is still interesting on account of the details of cases and methods of treatment. *On the Use of Artificial Membrane Tympani in Cases of Deafness*, 8vo, London, 1853; 6th ed, 1857. *A Descriptive Catalogue of Preparations illustrative of the Diseases of the Ear in the Museum of Joseph Toynbee*, 8vo, London, 1857.
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First Title value, for Searching Cade, Sir Stanford (1895 - 1973)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-25
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Occupation General surgeon Radiation oncologist
Details Stanford Cade was born on 22 March 1895 in St Petersburg. His father was Polish, named Samuel Kadinsky, and Stanford changed his name to Cade by deed poll in 1924. He was sent to school in Antwerp where he matriculated in 1913 and then went to Brussels to commence the study of medicine. In 1914 he joined the Belgian Army and served in the defence of Antwerp. He was later evacuated to Britain, but his knowledge of English was insufficient to enable him to serve in the British Army and so he continued his medical studies at King's College, London, and entered Westminster Hospital Medical School for his clinical work. Such a chequered education might have proved a handicap to many a student, but for Cade it was but the prelude to a phenomenal career. He qualified with the Conjoint Board Diploma in 1917, and after holding a series of resident appointments at Westminster he obtained the FRCS in 1923. At that time he was greatly influenced by Walter Spencer, Arthur Evans, and Ernest Rock Carling, and even at that early stage in his surgical career he began to take an interest in the treatment of malignant disease with radium, and later with other forms of radiation, an interest which was ultimately to make his name famous the world over. His experience in this specialty provided the material for books and many lectures. At the Royal College of Surgeons he gave Hunterian Lectures in 1925, 1933 and 1954; an Arris and Gale Lecture in 1926; the Bradshaw Lecture in 1960; and the Hunterian Oration in 1963. He gave the Skinner Lecture to the Faculty of Radiologists in 1948, and was awarded several prizes and other honours, including Fellowships of the Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Ireland and America, for his outstanding contributions to cancer treatment. During his most active years his energies were almost equally divided between the Westminster Hospital, which he served as a consultant surgeon from 1924 till his retirement in 1960; the various bodies concerned with radiotherapy including the Radium Institute and Mount Vernon Hospital; and the Royal College of Surgeons. Besides the lectureship already mentioned, he served the College as an examiner, and as a member of the Council from 1949 till 1965, and then as a most effective director of surgical studies, for he was one of the first to appreciate the contribution made by the District General Hospitals to the postgraduate training of young surgeons. His devotion to the College was rightly acknowledged by the award of the honorary gold medal. At the outbreak of war in 1939 Cade was called up for active service as a Squadron Leader in the RAF and his outstanding surgical ability gained him promotion to the rank of Air Commodore in 1942, and Air Vice Marshal in 1945. His contribution to the efficiency of the Air Force Medical Service was recognized by the award of the CB in 1944 and the KBE in 1946. But his deep interest in the Service did not cease with the end of the war, for he continued his attachment as a civil consultant in surgery till 1965, and then retired with the rank of Honorary Air Commodore. In 1953 he instituted the Lady Cade Medal, in memory of his wife, as an annual award to the medical officer in the RAF who has made a notable advance in medical science in the service; and the joint professorship between the service and the Royal College of Surgeons is named after him. Stanford Cade was an indefatigable worker, a lucid teacher, skilful not only as an operator but also as a diagnostician, a wise counsellor, and above all a man who generated real affection among his colleagues and friends. His excitable nature sometimes gave rise to outbursts which were misinterpreted as irascible, for he could not tolerate stupidity in opinion and especially in action. As an examiner he was just, and quite helpful to candidates, though he never hesitated to tell them if they were being foolish. His human qualities were a great asset to the Council of the College. In 1920 he married Margaret Hester, the daughter of William Agate of Paisley, and her tragic death in 1951 was a terrible blow to him. They had three daughters, of whom Irene became attracted to her father's specialty, and was appointed consultant radiotherapist to St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth. Like her father she gained the Fellowship of the College in 1952. It was therefore natural for Stanford to settle in Southsea after his retirement, and he died there of bronchopneumonia on 19 September 1973.
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First Title value, for Searching Lockhart-Mummery, John Percy (1875 - 1957)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25 2014-07-18
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Occupation Proctologist Coloproctologist
Details He was born at Hampstead on 14 February 1875, son of John Howard Mummery FRCS (1847-1926) and Mary Lily, his first wife, daughter of W Lockhart of Shanghai. John Howard Mummery (for a memoir of whom see *Plarr's Lives* 2, 81 and *British dental Journal* 1926, 47, 1023-7) was a prominent dental surgeon in London and had been President of the Odontological Society; he was elected a Fellow of the College in 1923 as a Member of 20 years' standing. His father, John R Mummery, had also been a dentist, but made his mark as an anthropologist. J P L Mummery's younger brother Stanley Parkes Mummery (1878-1945) MRCS also distinguished himself as a dental surgeon. John Percy Lockhart Mummery (in later life he hyphenated the double surname) was educated at the Leys School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the first part of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1897. He was appointed an assistant demonstrator of anatomy at Cambridge. Mummery took his clinical training at St George's Hospital, qualifying in 1899 and proceeding to the Fellowship in 1900 after holding resident posts at St George's, and winning the Thompson gold medal there. He also worked at the North Eastern (now Queen Elizabeth) Hospital for Children at Hackney and at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, but he really found his métier when he was appointed to the staff of St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum in 1903. He became senior surgeon on the retirement of Swinford Edwards in 1913 and was made emeritus surgeon when he himself retired in 1935; in 1940 he was appointed consulting surgeon and a vice-president. Lockhart-Mummery not only made a great career for himself, becoming probably the best-known proctologist in London, but he raised St Mark's from being a small institution into the front rank of special hospitals. His work is recorded in the *Collected Papers* published to celebrate the centenary of St Mark's in 1935. Lockhart-Mummery was a Hunterian professor at the College in 1904, lecturing on the physiology and treatment of surgical shock and collapse. The small book which he based on this lecture, *The after-treatment of operations* (1903), was extremely successful, running to four editions and being translated into several languages including Arabic. He won the Jacksonian Prize for 1908 with his essay on diseases of the colon, which he published and subsequently enlarged as *Diseases of the Rectum and Colon* 1923, second edition 1934. He was the first secretary and moving spirit of the British Proctological Society in 1913, and saw it become a section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1939, and became its President. He was also President of the section of proctology at the British Medical Association's annual meeting at Newcastle in 1921, and of the section of children's diseases in the Royal Society of Medicine. Lockhart-Mummery was one of the founders of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, first chairman of its executive committee, and active in its work till the end of his life. He was prominent in promoting the London International Cancer Conference of 1928, was much interested in heredity in cancer and a pioneer of the study of familial polyposis (1925). He published a semi-popular book on the *Origin of Cancer* in 1932, and two collections of fictional essays, *After us* 1936 and *Nothing new under the sun* 1947, the first of which contained an imaginary account of England in AD 2456. He devised an electric sigmoidoscope as early as 1904, while his operation for perineal excision of the rectum (1925) became classical. Lockhart-Mummery was a man of many interests, fond of fishing and a regular player of golf in spite of the handicap of losing a leg while a young man, and, in his old age, of bowls. He was also a keen dog racer, winning the Dog Derby with one of his greyhounds. He married twice: (1) in 1915 Cynthia daughter of R A Gibbons; of the two sons of this marriage, one Hugh Evelyn Lockhart-Mummery FRCS succeeded him at St Mark's Hospital; (2) in 1932 Georgette, daughter of H Polak of Paris. He had practised at 149 Harley Street, but after retirement lived at Hove, where he died on 24 April 1957, aged 82. A Bibliography of his writings is included in the *Collected Papers of St Mark's Hospital* 1935, pages 417-423.
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First Title value, for Searching Perry, Alan Cecil (1892 - 1971)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Alan Cecil Perry was born on 26 November 1892 at Ware in Hertfordshire, the son of Major H Perry, and received his medical education at the London Hospital. He entered the Medical College in March 1909 having obtained the Price Entrance Scholarship in science. He had a brilliant career as a student gaining many distinctions. He was awarded the Letheby Prize in organic chemistry in his first year as a student. In 1912 he won the Begley Studentship in anatomy of the Royal College of Surgeons. At the second MB examination he was awarded honours in anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, and in organic chemistry, and directly after this examination he passed the Primary Examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. During his clinical studies he gained the Medical Prize and the Andrew Clark Prize in clinical medicine and pathology. Alan Perry was in camp with the Officers Training Corps at the outbreak of the first world war, and was released for a short period to enable him to take the final qualifications of the Conjoint Examining Board in October of that year. After qualifying he was immediately sent out to France as a regimental medical officer attached to the Sherwood Foresters. He saw active service at Ypres and was gassed soon after this new method of warfare was introduced by the Germany Army. After this unfortunate incident he returned to France as a regimental medical officer until 1916. During one of the enemy attacks he was in a dug-out which received a direct hit, and was the only person to be brought out alive. He received severe injuries to his knee. While recovering from his wounds he acted as emergency officer at the London Hospital. He remained in the RAMC until the end of the war. During his years as a student Alan Perry was dresser to some of the most distinguished surgeons of the day, being attached to the firms of Sir Frederick Eve and Richard Warren and Jonathan Hutchinson, junior, and Hugh Lett. After the war he became house physician to Lord Dawson and Dr Leyton and house surgeon to Sir Hugh Rigby and Robert Milne. In 1922 he took the final MB BS examination with honours receiving distinctions in medicine and surgery and being awarded the University Gold Medal. In May 1920 he passed the Final FRCS, and took the degree of Master of Surgery in December 1923. In June 1920 he was appointed a surgical registrar and in December 1921 he became assistant to the surgical unit under Professor Souttar. In September 1923 he was appointed surgical first assistant and registrar to the firm of Russell Howard and George Neligan. In March 1926 on the retirement of James Sherren from the staff he was appointed assistant surgeon to the London Hospital. During his years as a first assistant he came to be very closely associated with that brilliant surgical teacher Russell Howard who had a profound influence on his outlook as a surgeon. In 1933 he was joint author with Russell Howard of the textbook entitled *The practice of surgery* which embodied the teaching of surgery at the London Hospital. In addition he was joint author with Russell Howard of the *House Surgeon's Vade Mecum*, and was associated with Miss Dorothy Hervey in writing a text book on general nursing for student nurses. In 1954 he was appointed Schorstein Memorial Lecturer, and took as his subject *Some surgical aspects of anaemia*. Perry examined in surgery for the University of London and the Society of Apothecaries of which body he was a Liveryman. He also served as a Member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons. Alan Perry will always be remembered as a surgeon who possessed great skill and dexterity. His surgical knowledge was profound and his judgement was excellent. He took a keen interest in the Students Union and was president of a number of individual students clubs. His own particular hobby was golf. It gave him great joy when his youngest brother, Dr Kenneth Perry, was appointed to the consultant staff of the London Hospital while he was still an active member of the staff himself. He was a very distinguished Freemason holding the high rank of Grand Officer. In 1922 he married May Alice, the daughter of Captain C H Palmer RN. There were no children of the marriage. Mrs Perry had previously been a ward sister at the London Hospital. Perry died on 1 April 1971.
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First Title value, for Searching Crouch, Muriel (1914 - 2010)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2010-09-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Muriel Crouch was a consultant surgeon at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, the South London Hospital for Women and Children and Mount Vernon Hospital. She was one of the early female surgeons whose faith as a committed Christian pervaded all that she did. Born in 1914 into a Christian household in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, her father, Ivor Crouch, was a company director and a leading figure in setting up Christian Fellowships in universities. Others involved in this evangelical movement were the anatomist Jack Aitken of University College London, J W Laing, the building ‘giant’, and Martyn Lloyd-Jones, the medically qualified minister of Westminster Chapel and the former chief assistant to Lord Horder. Her father was also secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Ivor Crouch also used his influence in business circles to bring Jews from Germany before the Holocaust. Her great uncle, George Crouch, went to Australia in 1853 as part of the Victoria gold rush. Muriel was an undergraduate at the Royal Free Hospital, qualifying in the early part the Second World War. During her surgical training she worked at the Royal Free and Oster House emergency hospitals, and then as a senior registrar at the Royal Free and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospitals. She worked with Cecil Joll at the Royal Free Hospital, an international expert on thyroid surgery. Joll was of a slightly unpredictable temperament and was partial to female assistants; Muriel Crouch had a beneficial influence on him and he had great respect for her. She and others encouraged him to accept a more prominent role in the teaching of undergraduates. She enjoyed her work as a part-time demonstrator in the anatomy department at the Royal Free Hospital working under Ruth Bowden. It gave her added contact with students in the dissecting room and during tutorials. Her knowledge of the relevant clinical anatomy was appreciated by them. Always supportive of those in training, she was noted for giving generously of her time. She also gave a tenth of her income to support good causes and helped individuals whose circumstances she knew were difficult. She was very supportive of those doctors who wished to work abroad as missionaries. She was a founder member of Tyndale House, Cambridge, a residential Christian community dedicated to Bible study, research and the holding of conferences. It is ideally located within the university complex to aid undergraduate and postgraduate study, in addition to holding regular services of worship. She was also appointed to the London auxiliary committee of the Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India, now known as the Friends of Ludhiana. Muriel was a fluent lecturer on matters that impinged on medicine and the Christian faith. In a lecture given in 1961, she argued “Specialisation is here to stay, not only in medicine but throughout the whole of our national life”. She emphasised the need to treat patients as individuals as she explored the expansion in knowledge, the increased difficulties in teaching, the influence of finance, increased litigation, and specialisation, with patients drifting from department to department. She ended on a positive note, advocating that patients be treated ‘as a whole’. She wrote on many other topics, including *Imparting ethics to medical students* (London, Christian Medical Fellowship). She expanded her influence as an invited speaker at many of the Bank of England’s Christian retreats. Muriel was a vice president of the Inter-Varsity Fellowship (now the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship or UCCF) and also served on the Nurses Christian Fellowship International executive council. For the latter body she went to Stavanger, Norway, in 1967 to give a series of five addresses under the heading ‘The spirit of service’. She was writing very thoughtful articles well into her eighties. In one, she explored the ethics of telling the truth to patients and whether lying was ever a valid option. In her final two years in a residential home in Hunstanton, Norfolk, she became a firm favourite with other residents and carers, and used her medical knowledge to tell her GP what was happening as the end approached. She looked forward to her future ‘afterlife’, free of the restrictions of her failing body. She died in her home on 12 January 2010 at the age of 95. A service of thanksgiving for her very full life which had touched so many was held at the Union Church, Hunstanton, on 19 March 2010, at which Marjorie Foyle and Peter May gave tributes. One of the many from varied backgrounds attending was Felix Kotoney-Ahulu from West Africa, a world expert on sickle cell anaemia, and a great friend and admirer of Muriel.
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First Title value, for Searching Dooley, Denis (1913 - 2010)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by R M Kirk
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2013-02-14
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Occupation Anatomist Public health officer
Details Denis Dooley was Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy from 1965 to 1980. He was born on 10 December 1913. He was educated at St Ignatius' College, Stamford Hill, London, and then went on to study mathematics and Latin, gaining a BA degree from London University in 1936. He then returned to his old school as a teacher. In 1938, he developed peritonitis from a burst appendix and was an inpatient at St George's Hospital for three months, after which he decided on a medical career - financed as a wartime fire-watcher. He trained in medicine at St Mary's Hospital, London. He was determined to gain a house post working for the prominent surgeon Arthur Dickson Wright, who he knew appointed only the most outstanding graduates. Denis had no illusions about his place on the list, but noted that Dickson Wright's house surgeons were worked so hard that they almost invariably failed to last the full six-month appointment. Denis decided to wait. Sure enough, the next successful candidate lasted only a few weeks, and Denis stepped into the breach. Sadly, he lasted for an even shorter period, before taking to his bed in the residency. The next morning, the door of his room opened sufficiently to reveal Dickson Wright's nose. He asked: 'Dooley, how soon before you are back at work?' Denis groaned: 'Sir, the way I feel now, I shall never work again.' The nose was withdrawn, the door closed, and the appointment terminated. In 1946 Denis became a house surgeon to Sir Zachary Cope and, a year later, became a research registrar to Sir Alexander Fleming, administering the recently available penicillin to treat a patient suffering from bacterial endocarditis. From 1948 to 1952, he was a resident medical officer at Charing Cross Hospital. He was generous in helping out during busy periods. One day, when the casualty department was busy, he undertook to see the male revisits. Soon the queue had disappeared, but the treatment area was bulging with patients. An anxious nurse emerged, holding a stack of casualty cards. On each was written 'RUS.DD'. When Denis was asked the meaning, he admonished the junior doctors for their lack of Latin, replying: 'Quite simple; *Rep. ut supra* (repeat as above) Denis Dooley'. His role at Charing Cross included the health care of medical students, resident doctors and nurses. At that time most of the newly qualified doctors were ex-servicemen, and they were expected to adhere to pre-war rules, including being banned from living a married life. Denis tried to protect them from the oppressive restrictions, but only with partial success. His support for the juniors brought him into conflict with the governing body and he was warned not to apply to have his appointment renewed. From 1952 to 1954 he was a general practitioner in Barnes and Wimbledon. He then served as a medical officer for the Ministry of Health, becoming a senior medical officer in 1973. By chance, one of his duties was to inspect the London teaching hospitals. He arrived to inspect the governance of Charing Cross Hospital, and he could not help but feel contempt for the unctuous greetings he received from the same people who had in effect sacked him for attempting to protect the resident doctors from authoritarian restrictions. From 1965 to 1980 Denis served as Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy. One of his duties was to regulate the use of bodies for dissection in the study of anatomy. Out of this appointment came a series of reports and lectures, including the Arris and Gale lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1972 (published as 'A dissection of anatomy' *Ann R Coll Surg Engl* 1973 July; 53[1]:13-26), a Royal Institution lecture in 1974 ('The rediscovery of anatomy'), and the Medical Society of London annual oration in 1977 ('On the anomaly of anatomy' *Transactions of the Medical Society of London* 92-93;192-208). In 1972, in recognition of his work, he was made a life member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and in 1979 he was awarded an OBE. He was a devote Roman Catholic. In 1946 he carried a cross 500 miles to Vézelay Abbey in Burgundy, France, as part of a group marching for peace. Friends remember him for his generosity and for his rejection of personal possessions. He was a master of the portentous-seeming entrance, soon to be punctured by a humorous and sly, witty follow-up - the ultimate 'character'. Outside medicine, he enjoyed golf, bridge and scrabble. He met his wife Eileen at St Mary's Hospital. They had a son, Michael, and a daughter, Johanna. Denis Dooley died on 19 May 2010 at the age of 96. His last words were the Lord's Prayer, recited in Latin.
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First Title value, for Searching Silcock, Arthur Quarry (1855 - 1904)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-31
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Chippenham, Wilts. His father, an engineer, died while his son was very young, and his mother, after residing for a short time in Bath, went to London with her only child, who was devoted to her throughout his life. After being privately educated, Silcock entered the Medical Department of University College in 1873. Here he was greatly influenced by Jenner and his career was one of success. He held all the junior posts, having been House Physician, House Surgeon, and Surgical Registrar. Later he was appointed Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy and Demonstrator of Practical Surgery. In 1883 or 1884, foreseeing that promotion on the staff would be long in coming, he accepted the appointment of Pathologist at St Mary's Hospital and became Lecturer on Pathology in 1884, holding that post till 1897, when he undertook the instruction in operative surgery. In 1886 he had been elected Surgeon in Charge of Out-patients, and in May, 1902, succeeded Edmund Owen (qv) as one of the full Surgeons on the staff. In 1900 he was appointed joint Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Surgery, and held this post till his death. He had early begun to devote himself to ophthalmology, and worked regularly as Clinical Assistant at Moorfields, where he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the same week in 1886 in which he was promoted to the staff of St Mary's. He became full Surgeon at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital on the resignation of J F Streatfield. He was the only Surgeon on the staff at Moorfields who was also Surgeon at a General Hospital and Medical School, and his wide knowledge of general medicine and surgery contributed to his success in ophthalmic work. He was a skilful operator and spared no pains in the investigation of any obscure case of eye disease. His opinion and advice were widely sought and appreciated. He was one of the original members of the Ophthalmological Society, was for a time its Hon Secretary, and made valuable contributions to its *Transactions*. At St Mary's Hospital his marked personality, industry, and sound surgical knowledge made him one of the strongest members of the staff. He was full of energy, and so alert that, superficially, his manner might suggest restlessness or even brusqueness. Whether in general surgery or in ophthalmic surgery, or as a teacher, his accurate knowledge of pathology, to which in his early years he had devoted much time, enabled him to justify a diagnosis or to explain a physical sign when his accuracy had appeared to depend upon empiricism. This knowledge of pathology gave an impressive solidity to his judgement, so that his opinion carried with it a conviction that no mere surface view of the problem would satisfy him, but that he must penetrate to the real meaning of things. The conviction was a sound one, and this thoroughness made Silcock very valuable in consultation both to the patient and the practitioner, and accounted for the high position that he always held in the opinion of his house surgeons. In private life Silcock was a man of much charm; a 'hungry reader', and an excellent pianist. He lived quietly and studiously with his family, spending his holidays with them in remote seaside villages. At the time of his death he held, in addition to his other appointments, those of Hon Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Royal Normal College for the Blind, to the Cripples' Home, and to the Indigent Blind Visiting Society. He was also Consulting Surgeon to the Bromley Cottage Hospital. He had at one time been Clinical Assistant at the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street. In 1904 he was elected a Member of the Court of Examiners in Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He died after an operation for appendicitis at his residence, 52 Harley Street, on December 19th, 1904, and his body was cremated. He was survived by his widow and two young sons. Mrs Silcock, whom he had married in 1889, was Emmeline, daughter of Mr Henry Vernon Chichester. Publications:- "Injuries of the Eye." in Druitt's *Vade Mecum*, 12th ed, 1887. "Parasiticism by Psorospermiae."- *Trans Pathol Soc Lond*, 1890, xli, 320. "Case of Acromegaly."- *Trans Clin Soc*, 1890, xxiii, 256. "Successful Reduction of Volvulus of the Sigmoid Flexure" (with F L BENHAM).- *Ibid*, 1895, xxviii, 180. "Perforating Gastric Ulcer."- *Ibid*, 213. "Case of Ileoaecal Intussusception - Excision - Recovery" (with D B LEES). - *Ibid*, 1898, xxxi, 222. "Hyperostosis of Frontal Bones and Walls of Orbit." - *Ibid*, 1890, xxiii, 266. "Radical Cure of Hernia."- *Clinical Jour*, 1893, ii, 42. "Herpes Ophthalmicus," *Ibid*, 1894, iv, 245. "Empyema of Frontal Sinuses." - *Ibid*, 358. "Distension by Mucus and Empyema of Frontal Sinus."- *Practitioner*, 1897, 244.
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First Title value, for Searching Colebrook, Leonard (1883 - 1967)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-30
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Occupation Bacteriologist
Details Leonard Colebrook was born on 2 March 1883, son of May Colebrook and his wife Mary Gower, and was educated at three schools: Guildford Grammar School, The High School at Eastbourne, and Christ's College at Blackheath. He was admitted as a student to St Mary's Hospital Medical School during the South African war in 1900 and qualified as a doctor in 1906. He was attracted to that remarkable intellect, Sir Almroth Wright, and he was one of the group of brilliant disciples of this great man which included Sir Alexander Fleming, Major Douglas, John Freeman, John Matthews ("honest John"), R M Fry, Ronald Hare, A B Porteous "Proteus", and many others who became famous in their time. He was greatly attached to Almroth Wright, went with him to Boulogne in the first world war and worked with him in the old casino there. He advocated for war-wounds of that war, not to use antiseptics, but to use the inborn powers of nature to overcome the septic wounds by means of the patient's own resistance, using only hypertonics such as hypertonic saline or magnesium sulphate to draw the patient's own bactericidal serum into the wound, holding that antiseptics did more harm to the patient and his tissues than they did to the germs causing the sepsis. This was sound advice at the time, awaiting the discovery of an antiseptic which would kill the germs without harming the host. This was discovered by Domagk in Germany in 1932, twelve years after Colebrook had returned to St Mary's with Almroth Wright. His great work with Sir Almroth secured his appointment to Queen Charlotte's Hospital in 1930, and during this time he used 'Prontosil' and later its key substance sulphonamide in the treatment of puerperal sepsis and his work brought this disease to an end. It was a triumph of therapeusis ranking with Lister's in 1867, and he can be regarded as having achieved one of the greatest advances in therapeutics which has probably saved a million lives since it was discovered. When the second world war came in 1939 he again entered the Army as a Colonel at the age of 56, became bacteriologist to the Army in France and introduced the dusting of wounds with sterile sulphonamide powder, which caused sepsis almost to vanish. This was his second great contribution to medicine and surgery. His third great contribution came after his return from France in 1940, when he joined a team at the Medical Research Council and worked on the septic element in burns and scalds, and helped to produce their well known Special Report No 240 in 1945. Following this he organised the burns unit at the Accident Hospital at Birmingham. Possibly the tedious course of his burns patients' cure led Colebrook to his great campaign for the prevention of burns by measures such as screening fires and non-inflammable clothing. As a student he was a diffident and little known person. He was tremendously keen on games, but he would always be seen sitting shyly by himself and little known to other players because he was almost always 'twelfth man'. So he remained, quiet and self-effacing all through his life, during which he never lost his devotion to his great master Sir Almroth Wright whose biography he published in 1954, an admiring and loving book about a most remarkable man. Honours in many came to him in due course: Honorary FRCOG in 1944, FRS in 1945, FRCS and Honorary DSc of Birmingham University in 1950. The Blair Bell Medal was presented to him in 1955, and in 1962 the Royal Society of Medicine gave him their Jenner Medal. Colebrook was twice married, first in 1914 to Dorothy Scarlett Campbell, and secondly in 1946 to Vera Scovell. There were no children of either marriage. He never changed from the shy student of the 1900s, and his husky endearing voice and furtive smile was long remembered by all who knew this remarkable man, always self-effacing but a real and lovable genius. As the years pass his medical stature will grow when men remember his conquest of the poignant disease puerperal sepsis, his overcoming of sepsis in wounds by sulphonamide dusting, and his great efforts to reduce the horror and the incidence of burns. To his intimate friends he was always known as "Coli" just as his great friend and colleague Porteous was known as "Proteus". Others may remember him as "Elsie" (from his initials LC), with which name he would sign presentation copies of his great life of his dear friend and master Almroth Wright. He died on 29 September 1967 aged 84. Publications: Prontosil in puerperal infection. *Lancet*, 1936,1, 1289, 1300, 1441. *The prevention of puerperal sepsis*. 1936. *A new approach to the treatment of burns and scalds*. 1950.
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First Title value, for Searching Ballard, Clifford Frederick (1910 - 1997)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Chris Stephens
Publication Date 2025-03-06
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Occupation Orthodontist Dental surgeon
Details There can be no doubt that Clifford Ballard was the most important figure in British orthodontics during the 20th century and a significant influence in orthodontic thought throughout the world during the post war period. In his upbringing he had the advantage of being the eldest son of Frederick Ballard. The latter, although holding no dental qualification, was by 1948 regarded as ‘the voice of British dentistry’ by Aneurin Bevan, minister of health in the post-war Labour Government and chief architect of the UK National Health Service. It was because of Frederick Ballard’s influence that dentistry was included in the NHS. Clifford Ballard was born on 26 June 1910 in Willesden, Middlesex. His mother was Eliza Susannah Ballard née Wilkinson. He attended Kilburn Grammar School and entered the Royal Dental Hospital School of Dental Surgery in 1930. This was the same year the remarkable Corisande Smyth was appointed there as its first demonstrator in orthodontics and which led to the introduction of its first course of undergraduate lectures in the subject the following year. After gaining his LDS in 1934, Clifford joined his father’s practice before attending Charing Cross Hospital to achieve medical qualifications. In 1940, he returned to the Royal to become a full-time member of its teaching staff and where he spent the next 12 years teaching undergraduates and formulating his ideas on orthodontics. During the Second World War, as well as having medical responsibility for a number of aircraft factories, he became orthodontist to Middlesex County Council. It was during this time that he started working as a clinical assistant at the upper respiratory clinic of the Victoria Hospital for Children, which would be merged with St George’s Hospital in 1948. Here he worked with the ENT surgeon Eric Gwynne-Evans, and it was Ballard’s experiences in the management of children with respiratory problems which focused his attention on the activities of the orofacial musculature and their importance in determining the form of the dental arches. In 1936 Ballard’s father, later to be awarded an OBE for services to dentistry, had been elected as one of two members who served on the dental board of the General Medical Council to represent dentists registered under the terms of the 1921 Dentists Act. By 1947 Frederick was chairman of the dental board’s postgraduate education committee as well as a member of the boards of both University College Hospital and the Eastman Dental Hospital. It was therefore not surprising that, in 1948, Clifford Ballard was appointed head of the orthodontic department of the newly created Institute of Dental Surgery at the Eastman, where he remained until his retirement in 1972. He immediately established the first UK postgraduate course in orthodontics. In the same year he published his seminal paper ‘Some bases for aetiology and diagnosis in orthodontics’ (*Dental Record* 68: 133-145 [June] 1948), the first of a series which over the next 10 years would place orthodontic treatment on a sound scientific basis. Thereafter a World Health Organization travelling fellowship led to him lecturing extensively throughout the world including Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. In the mid-1950s, with several of his former postgraduates established in NHS consultant orthodontist posts, he and John Hovell of the Royal Dental Hospital instituted an annual postgraduate meeting at the Eastman, which led in 1962 to the founding of the Consultant Orthodontist Group (COG). Originally intended to bring colleagues up to date with the latest orthodontic research and techniques, the COG soon provided an important influence on consultant training via the specialist advisory committee of the Joint Committee for Higher Training in Dentistry when this was established in 1969. Ballard was a civil consultant to the Royal Air Force for many years. He served as editor of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics’ *Transactions* for seven years before becoming its president in 1957. Amongst many honours, he received both the fellowship of the Faculty of Dental Surgery and the diploma in orthodontics at the Royal College of Surgeons of England without examination when they were established. He gave the 1967 Northcroft Memorial lecture of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics and received the Royal College of Surgeons of England’s Colyer gold medal. Despite his somewhat stern exterior, Clifford Ballard had a keen sense of humour, was a kindly and caring man, hospitable, loyal and tolerant towards his staff and students. Married to Muriel Mable (née Burling) with a son and daughter, he and his wife retired to Salisbury in 1972, and it was only with great reluctance that Ballard was persuaded to return to London in 1990 to be the first recipient of the medal of the Consultant Orthodontist Group, which bears his name. Ballard died on 16 July 1997. He was 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Liston, Robert (1794 - 1847)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-10-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on Oct 28th, 1794, in the Manse of Ecclesmachan, Linlithgowshire, the eldest child of Henry Liston (1771-1836) by his wife Margaret, daughter of David Ireland, Town Clerk of Culross. Henry Liston was the inventor of the ‘Euharmonic’ organ designed to give the diatonic scales in perfect order, and had a natural bias for mechanics; his younger son, David, became Professor of Oriental Languages at Edinburgh. Robert Liston spent a short time at a school in Abercorn, but was chiefly educated by his father. He entered the University of Edinburgh in 1808 and gained a prize for Latin prose composition in his second session: in 1810 he became assistant to Dr John Barclay (1758-1826), the Extra-academic Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology, and continued as his prosector and assistant until 1815. In 1814 he became ‘Surgeon's Clerk’ or House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, first to George Bell, afterwards to Dr Gillespie, holding office for two years. He came to London in 1816, putting himself under Sir William Blizard and Thomas Blizard at the London Hospital, and attending the lectures of John Abernethy at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He then returned to Edinburgh and taught anatomy in conjunction with James Syme. In 1818 he was admitted a Fellow of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons on his thesis – “Strictures of the Urethra and Some of their Consequences”. He worked in Edinburgh from 1818-1828, gaining a great reputation as a teacher of anatomy and as an operating surgeon. During some years of this period he was constantly engaged in quarrels on professional subjects with the authorities of the Royal Infirmary, which culminated in 1822 in his expulsion from the institution. He was, however, appointed one of the Surgeons in 1827, apparently by the exercise of private influence, and in 1828 he was made the Operating Surgeon. He failed in his application for the Professorship of Clinical Surgery in 1833, when James Syme (qv), his younger rival and former colleague, was preferred before him. In 1834 Liston accepted an invitation to become Surgeon to the newly founded hospital attached to the University of London (now University College). He accordingly left Edinburgh and settled in London, where in 1835 he was elected Lecturer on Clinical Surgery in the University of London. On the death of Sir Anthony Carlisle in 1840 Liston became a Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, and in 1846 he was chosen a Member of the Court of Examiners. He was also Consulting Surgeon to the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. He died on Dec 7th, 1847, of aneurysm of the arch of the aorta, at his house, 5 Clifford Street – subsequently occupied by Sir William Bowman (qv). Liston was not a scientific surgeon, neither was he a good speaker nor a clear writer. His claim to remembrance is based upon the marvellous dexterity with which he used the surgeon's knife, upon his profound knowledge of anatomy, and upon the boldness which enabled him to operate successfully on cases from which other surgeons shrank. Living at a time immediately antecedent to the introduction of anaesthetics, he appears to have attained to a dexterity in the use of cutting instruments which had probably never been equalled and which is unlikely to be surpassed. When chloroform was unknown it was of the utmost importance that surgical operations should be performed as rapidly as possible. Of Liston it is told that when he amputated, the gleam of his knife was followed so instantaneously by the sound of the bone being sawn as to make the two actions appear almost simultaneous, and yet he perfected the method of amputating by flaps. At the same time his physical strength was so great – and he stood over six feet in height – that he could amputate through the thigh with only the single assistant who held the limb. He excelled, too, in cutting for stone, but his name is best known by ‘Liston's straight splint’, which has now been replaced by better methods of treating fractured thighs. The first successful operation under ether by a surgeon in a London hospital was performed by him at University College on Dec 21st, 1846. Liston, like many contemporary surgeons, was rough and outspoken to rudeness, but he had many sterling qualities and was devoted to outdoor sports, especially to yachting. A bust by Thomas Campbell (1790-1858) was presented to the Royal College of Surgeons of England on Dec 23rd, 1851, by a ‘Committee of Gentlemen’. An oil painting by A Bagg was engraved by W O Geller and published on Jan 25th, 1847. Publications:- *The Elements of Surgery*, in three parts, Edinburgh and London, 1831 and 1832; 2nd ed. in one volume, 1840. *Practical Surgery*, London, 1837; 2nd ed., 1838; 3rd ed., 1840; 4th ed., 1846.
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First Title value, for Searching Spencer, Walter George (1858 - 1940)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 27 September 1858 at Little Chalfield, Wilts, the eldest son and first child of Walter Spencer, farmer, and his wife Mary Hulbert, of Lenton, Wilts. Educated at Weymouth College, he entered the medical school of St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1881 and soon made his name. He won the junior scholarship in 1882, the senior scholarship in 1884, served as house surgeon to Alfred Willett in 1885, and was awarded the Lawrence scholarship and gold medal, which enabled him to undertake research work under Sir Victor Horsley at the Brown Institute. The results were published in the *Philosophical Transactions* in 1891: "On the changes produced in the circulation and respiration by increase of the intracranial pressure or tension", and in 1894: "On the results of Faradaic excitation of the cerebrum in the monkey, dog, cat, and rabbit". He also spent short periods of postgraduate study in Berlin and Halle. At the Westminster Hospital, then in Broad Sanctuary opposite to Westminster Abbey, he was elected assistant surgeon on 19 July 1887, surgeon on 20 July 1897, and consulting surgeon on 27 November 1923. In the Medical School attached to the hospital he was appointed lecturer on physiology in 1893 and lecturer on clinical surgery in 1897. He was a member of the house committee from 1895 until his death nearly half a century later. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was awarded the Jacksonian prize in 1889 for his essay on "The pathology, diagnosis, and surgical treatment of intracranial abscess and tumour." He was a member of the Court of Examiners 1908-18 and of the Council 1915-26, serving as vice-president for two successive years, 1924-26. He was Arris and Gale lecturer in 1895, when he chose as his subject "The pathology of the lymphadenoid structure", Erasmus Wilson lecturer in 1896-97, Vicary lecturer in 1922, and Bradshaw lecturer in 1923. The Vicary lecture he devoted to "Vesalius, his delineation of the framework of the human body in the Fabrica and the Epitome". In 1920 he gave three lectures as Hunterian professor on animal experiments and surgery. It was noticed that he usually shut his eyes when he stood up to speak. During the war he held a commission as major, RAMC(T), was surgeon to the 4th London General Hospital, and was decorated OBE. He was elected a member of the Senate of the University of London, and worked there hand and glove with his friend Sir Ernest Graham Little, MP, with whom it was his custom to take a long country walk every Sunday. He married Elizabeth Chorlton on 21 February 1891. She survived him with one son. A daughter died in March 1923, whilst holding a resident appointment at the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea. He died at 41 Harley House, NW1, on 29 October 1940. Mrs Spencer died on 29 December 1944, aged 91. Spencer had many interests outside surgery. He was especially interested in the organization of libraries. He worked at the London Library under Sir Charles Hagberg Wright; at the British Medical Association's library, when the Association moved from the Strand to new premises in Tavistock Square; served as honorary librarian of the Royal Society of Medicine; and was very useful during his term of office as chairman of the library committee of the Royal College of Surgeons. To the end of his life he kept himself *au courant* with the work going on in the world of surgery at home and abroad. Having undertaken to translate Celsus for the Loeb Library series, he produced three volumes in which he was able to use his knowledge of surgery to explain many debatable points which had puzzled previous editors. He also did excellent service as a joint editor (1930) of Plarr's *Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons*. He left unfinished a fuller *History of the Westminster Hospital* than the "outline" which he published, and at the time of his death he had collected notes for a translation of Galen's surgical writings. Using a rich Wiltshire dialect he enjoyed discussion, and his feelings were never hurt if he were left in a minority of one. Publications: Pathology of the lymphadenoid structures, Erasmus Wilson lectures. *Lancet*, 1897, 1, 648, etc. *Outlines of practical surgery*. London, 1898. *Animal experiments and surgery*, Hunterian lectures. London, 1920. *Westminster Hospital, an outline of its history*. London, 1934. Celsus *De medicina*, edited and translated. Loeb Classical Library, 3 vols, 1935-38. Butlin's *Diseases of the tongue*, 2nd edition by Butlin and Spencer, 1900; 3rd edition by Stanford Cade and Spencer, 1931. Walsham's *Surgery*, 8th edition, 1903, and 9th edition, 1906. *The practice of surgery*, with G E Gask. London, 1910.
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First Title value, for Searching Bryce, Alexander Graham (1890 - 1968)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Graham Bryce was born in Southport, Lancashire, the son of Elizabeth Dodds and Alexander Graham Bryce who was the managing director of a calico printing firm. He went to school at the Southport Modern School for Boys until the age of 11 when he proceeded to complete his secondary education at the Bickerton House School until he was 16. When he was 16 he matriculated and went very early to the Manchester University Medical School so that he graduated at what was a very tender age, at 21. He proceeded to the Degree of MD in 1913, and to the Diploma of Public Health in 1915. He gained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1923. At the University of Manchester, he was a diligent and successful student, obtaining distinctions and exhibitions in anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and medicine, and a host of prizes and medals. As house physician to Dr E M Brookbank, a cardiologist of high national repute, he was early acquainted with diseases of the heart. This served him well later in life when he entered the practice of thoracic surgery. His subsequent years of postgraduate study indicated that he practised what he subsequently preached, namely that hard experience in general medicine and surgery is an essential basis for later devotion to a specialty; as a house officer in medicine, he studied the problem of cancer of the stomach, to form the basis of his thesis for a doctorate which he obtained in 1913. Further postgraduate experience was gained as a resident medical officer at the Manchester Children's Hospital, and in 1914 as senior resident in the Manchester Tuberculosis Hospital. Like so many surgeons of his generation he served in the RAMC in artillery, infantry, and cavalry medical units, from 1915 to 1919. During this period he decided to enter the practice of surgery and held surgical house appointments from 1919 to 1921 at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. He journeyed south to work as senior house surgeon at the Royal Dock Hospital for Seamen and subsequently at St George's Hospital. In 1923, having obtained his English Fellowship, he returned to Manchester as senior surgical registrar at the Royal Infirmary, where subsequently he was appointed resident surgical officer, holding the post for two years. At that time a galaxy of surgical stars, known throughout the world, held appointments on the staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and fierce competition for places existed. His potential was recognized by his election as surgical tutor until 1927 when he moved to the Manchester Victoria Memorial Jewish Hospital as a consultant surgeon. An additional appointment as honorary assistant surgeon at Salford Royal Hospital placed him in the company of men as distinguished as Geoffrey Jefferson and J B Macalpine. Although in private practice, he found time and energy to commence a study of thoracic surgery and obtained appointments in sanatoria in the Manchester area. He published several papers on general surgery in 1913-1932 and in 1934, together with James E H Roberts, Sir Clement Price Thomas and a spontaneous pneumothorax and pulmonary lobectomy. In those early days of thoracic surgery, like many men of that era entering this specialty, he visited surgical centres in Great Britain and overseas; he studied in Berlin, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, and during these tours he made abiding friendships amongst thoracic surgeons. In 1934 he achieved a cherished ambition when appointed to the honorary staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmary. His quiet, gentle and self-deprecatory manner did not decieve his many friends, as underneath a gentle exterior was a dogged determination to pursue the craft and science of surgery successfully. He established thoracic surgery in his district; at a meeting of the Association of Surgeons in Manchester in 1934, together with the late J E H Roberts, Sir Clement Price Thomas and a few others, he formed a small club over a drink in the Midland Hotel. He was the first secretary of this club which rapidly became known as the Society of Thoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. For many years he held this post and the large and flourishing present day Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons owes much to him. Young men of the generation just behind his, know how much they are in debt to him. To them in particular he showed a real sympathy and encouragement which is not easily forgotten. Graham Bryce was happy in his family life. His wife Isabel Bryce was the daughter of the distinguished Professor James Lorrain Smith, FRS and she herself achieved success and fame, particularly in the field of sociology, with particular reference to medicine. At the time of his death, she was chairman of the Oxford Regional Hospital Board. For her work in the field of hospital administration she was awarded the DBE in 1968. To many thoracic surgeons her friendliness and human sympathy are widely recognised. It was always pleasant to think of her working in her garden while her husband attended to his main hobby, namely bee-keeping. Surgery owes much to both of them. Bryce died suddenly at his home in Upper Basildon near Reading, on 24 October 1968, leaving a widow and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Rowling, John Thompson (1921- 2019)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Lionello D Coen
Publication Date 2020-04-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John Thompson Rowling was a consultant surgeon in Sheffield at the Royal Hospital and later the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. He was born in Leeds on 11 March 1921 into a family whose medical connections dated back to Elizabethan times. His father, Herbert Samuel Thompson Rowling, was one of the old school family doctors with a special interest in anaesthesia. He was a pioneer in his specialty and worked with Lord Moynihan. Rowling’s mother, Mary Elizabeth Roberts, was a nurse. His elder sister, Dorothy, became an orthopaedic surgeon. He was educated at Monkton Combe School and then, prior to entering medical school, obtained a BA degree in natural sciences from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. He undertook his clinical training in Leeds, taking his finals in Cambridge in 1946, qualifying with his MB BChir. His first jobs after qualifying were in the Leeds area. Subsequently, he decided to enrol for National Service. He wrote: ‘…this could have been postponed or avoided, but having had a relatively safe war, it was just to accept it’. He served valiantly in the Royal Army Medical Corps, reaching the rank of major and was mentioned in despatches. He was sent to Malaya before obtaining his final FRCS diploma and was posted to remote parts of the country. He worked in the jungle as a single-handed surgeon with an anaesthetist. He wrote: ‘…we were inexperienced, but we learnt rapidly. On the whole we managed very well. The hospital was not designed for surgery of any sort, but we managed certain adaptations. The operating light in theatre was a wooden home-made frame holding six bulbs powered by a small generator. There was no X-ray, pathology or biochemistry.’ He used his ingenuity to build a suction unit in theatre by connecting a long tube to the operating table from the induction manifold of a vehicle parked outside the building. In these dangerous and challenging conditions, he performed a very wide range of emergency and elective surgery. He dealt with wounds of every part of the body, but the majority and most challenging were the penetrating wounds of the abdomen necessitating laparotomies. He fulfilled Hippocrates’ teaching that ‘He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.’ On his return to the UK, he was appointed as a registrar in Liverpool and as a senior registrar in Aberdeen and Leicester. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1952 and completed his MChir in 1959. In 1960 he received his MD degree from the University of Cambridge with a thesis entitled *Disease in ancient Egypt: evidence from pathological lesions found in mummies.* He obtained the post of consultant surgeon in Sheffield and retired from the NHS in 1986. He was a very astute clinician and a versatile surgeon who was comfortable operating in any region of the body. B J Fairbrother, a former consultant surgeon who was his registrar in 1973, writes: ‘…his surgery was radical and precise, with most of the dissection being done with the scalpel. The tissue planes simply opened up, displaying the anatomy as I had only seen before in textbooks. He certainly didn’t believe in scratching around.’ He was aggressive and ahead of his time in the management of malignancies. He introduced the use of perioperative chemo-radiotherapy and of the isolated infusion of chemotherapy into the liver. He was also a pioneer in endovascular surgery. In the early days of aortic aneurysm surgery, he devised and constructed a machine to wire aortic aneurysms that he used with success in a few patients and he visited Geoffrey Slaney in Birmingham, who had recently returned from the States, to optimise his aortic aneurysm surgical technique. He was an international expert in paleopathology, wrote on ancient Egyptian medicine, with his work cited in books and articles. His writings also included other subjects, ranging from medicine to philosophy and religion, and he was a regular contributor to the Sheffield students’ and doctors’ journal *North Wing*. ‘JTR’, as he was known at work, was an erudite man of superior abilities and varied attainments. He was a Latin, Greek and English literature scholar. He was a talented and accomplished engineer. He constructed models, installed the heating system in his house and repaired his own vehicles. He flew aeroplanes, sailed in small boats and rode a motorcycle well into his eighties. He was a man of high moral standards, scrupulously honest and a committed Christian who lived by his beliefs. JTR was a complex, eccentric character with a strong mind of his own who occasionally held unconventional opinions and he could be misunderstood by some. However, the people who understood his idiosyncrasies were faced with a multi talented, very kind and generous man. He was modest, self-effacing and underrated, and was held in the utmost affection by the people who worked with him. He was the devoted husband of Elizabeth Marion (née White), whom he married in 1951 in Penang. She predeceased him in 2005. They did not have any children. Rowling died in Sheffield on 27 July 2019 aged 98.
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First Title value, for Searching Kirby, Norman George (1926 - 2019)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2019-09-16 2019-09-20
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Occupation Military surgeon Trauma surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Major general Norman Kirby was a military surgeon and director of clinical services, accidents and emergencies, at Guy’s Hospital, London. *On wings of healing* (Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons) by Howard Cole is the definitive account of the airborne medical services from their beginning in 1940 to 1960. It was published in 1963, in a maroon binding reflecting the regimental colours of the airborne forces. On page 218, Cole records that on 5 November 1956, during the Suez Crisis, a parachute surgical team led by the unit surgeon, captain Norman Kirby, dropped on El Gamil airport in Egypt and set up a casualty collecting post and operating theatre. Kirby was soon busily engaged. This particular conflict, Operation Musketeer, described by Kirby as ‘a political disaster but a surgical success’, brought to a conclusion the story of the beginnings of airborne medical services as told in the book. Norman Kirby, having entered the annals of British military surgical history, went on to serve it and the cause of trauma management in the United Kingdom for decades to come. Norman Kirby was born on 19 December 1926 in Coventry, the son of George William Kirby and Laura Kirby née Sparrow. He went to school at King Henry VIII School in Coventry and subsequently studied medicine at Birmingham University, qualifying in 1949. That year he married Cynthia Mary Bradley, commencing a long and happy marriage that produced a son, Robert, who also became a surgeon, and a daughter, Jill, a broadcaster and travel writer. Norman’s surgical training was undertaken in the NHS at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Birmingham Accident Hospital and two years at the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital, London, as well as in Army hospitals. He gained his FRCS in 1964. The early awakenings of the military side of his career first blossomed in 1948 when he became a member of the Territorial Army whilst still a student. After qualification, he became regimental medical officer to 10th Parachute Regiment and, following two years National Service, he decided to stay in the regular armed forces. In the subsequent years, he had plenty of opportunity to exercise his skills in trauma management coping with, amongst others, treating EOKA terrorist casualties in Cyprus and casualties of the officer’s mess bomb in Aldershot in 1972. In 1978, he was made director of Army surgery and honorary surgeon to the Queen and elevated to the rank of major general. He received the OBE in 1971 and the Order of Saint John in 1977. After leaving the Army in 1982, following a highly successful career, he returned to civilian life and the NHS as head of the accident and emergency department at Guy’s Hospital. He might have thought that this appointment would be busy but straightforward and surgically based, as indicated by his title of accident and emergency surgeon, but he soon found his experience of managing military casualties was also required in civilian life, dealing with casualties from terrorist bombs, train accidents and civilian disasters, notable amongst which was the sinking of the *Marchioness* boat on the River Thames (in 1989). The year 1992 was especially taxing, with three terrorist bomb explosions in the city centre and the London Bridge rail crash. His and his staff’s exemplary and kindly management of the victims of the Cannon Street rail disaster in 1991 was brought to the attention of the House of Lords by Lord McColl during a debate on the provision of major accident services in London. In subsequent years, it soon became apparent that his management skills and diplomacy were also needed in the machinations surrounding the ultimately successful transition of his specialty from being ‘casualty’, as represented by the Casualty Surgeons’ Association, to the newly-named, independent specialty of accident and emergency medicine with its own Royal College. He used his considerable experience to help bring this transition about, even though it is possible that personally he would have preferred to be a trauma surgeon in one of the newly developing centralised trauma centres of which he approved. He retired from Guy’s in 1993. Throughout the two principal phases of his career, he was heavily involved in educational activities. He edited and wrote several books on disasters and emergencies, including the 1981 edition of the *Field surgery pocket book* (London, HMSO), treasured by generations of military surgeons, and gave lectures on the management of injury and disasters in the United Kingdom and overseas. He was an examiner for the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh. He was also active in medical societies and livery companies, holding office in many. Needless to say, he received honorary fellowships from colleges and learned societies. He was particularly proud of the award of the Mitchener medal by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1982. Norman Kirby died on 25 July 2019 aged 92. Predeceased by his wife, he was survived by his son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Partridge, Barry William Oliver (1934 - 2020)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-05-04
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Occupation General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Barry Partridge was born in 1934 to Annie Louisa Johnson, a secretary, and Cyril Partridge, a builder. With a younger sister, Margaret, he spent the first 4 years of his life on the family farm in Ngaere, Taranaki. The family moved to Te Puke when he was four and he attended Te Puke Primary and High Schools. Barry was keenly interested in music, learning to play the violin and continuing to play through his life. Never eager for school life, Barry left at the age of 15 years to start a building apprenticeship with his father. Commencing his Compulsory Military Training when aged 18, he spent three years in the Medical Corps and this stimulated his following a medical career. While finishing his carpentry and joinery apprenticeship, he began studying for university entrance exams through Hemingway’s Correspondence School – majoring in music and history. Successfully gaining University Entrance in 1955, he attended Auckland University to complete Medical Intermediate and gain entry to Medical School in Dunedin. Barry married Maybelle Garratt, a student nurse, in 1960 and they spent their first year together in Dunedin, as Barry completed his 5th year with Maybelle working in support. He graduated with his MB ChB the next year, being awarded the David Whyte prize in surgery along the way. Barry and Maybelle lived in Hamilton during the next four years where, following two years as a house surgeon, he became a surgical registrar. In 1965 Barry, Maybelle and their three boys - Durham, Ashton and Leighton (born in 1961, 1962 and 1965 respectively) set sail for the UK so Barry could pursue surgical training. The next year he passed his Primary FRCS in Edinburgh and then 3 weeks later in London he obtained his FRCS Eng. From there, the family moved to Leamington Spa where Barry worked the next two years on the Southern Birmingham circuit in Warneford, Warwick General and Stratford-on-Avon Hospitals. During this time, experience was gained in both general and vascular surgery. In 1968, Barry, Maybelle and their family returned to New Zealand where Barry had secured a position as Tutor-Specialist at Wellington Hospital. Obtaining his FRACS in 1970, he applied for and was appointed to a consultant position at Tauranga Hospital. There he was one of a team of three surgeons providing general surgery services for a large regional population. In addition, he progressively developed a vascular surgery service for the region. He became Clinical Director of Surgery in Tauranga holding this position until his retirement in 2004 and was instrumental in the development of the regional surgical service. He was elected to the RACS New Zealand National Committee and served for 8 years. By nature humble and considerate, Barry was committed to the provision of public hospital service. Already an encouraging teacher, who loved operating, he became a mentor to numerous young doctors as they commenced surgical training. He had excellent technical skills and, one of the generation of General Surgeons who before the now established sub-specialties became the norm, seemed to have expertise in a wide range of fields being equally adept at doing a craniotomy or cracking open a chest and doing an emergency lobectomy, performing a hysterectomy, nephrectomy, or whatever was necessary. He was an avid reader of surgical journals and when traveling in his car, would listen to surgical audio tapes and then discuss them with colleagues. In 1979 the family split, Ashton remaining with his father in Tauranga, and Maybelle, Durham and Leighton moving back to Wellington. Barry devoted his energies to patient care, and in 1981 married Marlene Kilmister, the charge nurse of the A&E Department. Both Barry and Marlene shared a commitment to health care and an interest in music and travel. Marlene died in 2012 leaving an emptiness in his life that was never filled. A wonderful clinician, Barry lived for surgery, and was highly respected in the community. On retirement he received the MNZM in recognition of his contribution to services to medicine. He compiled a book titled “The History of Vascular Surgery at Tauranga” and presented this to the Vascular Society of New Zealand in 2009. In 2013 he joined Rotary in Tauranga and until the time of his death, was a very active participant both as a committee member and through contributing many hours to the annual book sale. He was also a member of a U3A music group and just before his death had led the group in a practical talk on modern classical musicians. But, as his brother-in-law pointed out, medicine was so much his life that even in old age it tended to colour all his conversations. Barry Partridge is survived by his three sons, Durham, Ashton and Leighton, step-children Tracy, Todd and Brendon, sister Margaret, and nine grandchildren, four step-grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. This obituary is based on one published in the *Bay of Plenty Times*, 24 June, with subsequent assistance from Rob Cable FRACS, Margaret Walls and Ashton Partridge.
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First Title value, for Searching Rogers, Lambert Charles (1897 - 1961)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-06
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Occupation General surgeon Neurosurgeon
Details Born on 8 April 1897 in Melbourne son of Charles Robert Rogers and Janet Chant, he was educated in Melbourne until 1915, when at the age of 18 he joined the Australian Naval Transport Service in which he served until 1917. He then came to the Middlesex Hospital to resume his interrupted medical studies only to enable him to join the RNVR as a surgeon probationer and to serve in destroyers until the end of the war. Returning to the Middlesex he qualified in July 1920 and became a house surgeon to John Murray. During this time he was awarded a certificate of distinction as a prosector for the College and the University of London, which interest in anatomy he maintained for the rest of his life, becoming a Fellow of the Anatomical Society. This was followed by a period of five years taken up with time in general practice, as a ship's surgeon, and in visiting clinics abroad. In January 1926 he was appointed the first full-time assistant in the surgical unit of the Welsh National School of Medicine, being promoted to senior assistant in June 1929, and subsequently assistant director under Professor A W Sheen first occupant of the chair of surgery. In 1934 he went to the British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, working for a year under Professor Grey Turner, and returned to Cardiff in 1935 to succeed Professor Sheen as professor, the post he occupied from then on until the time of his death. His surgical interests tended to be more and more in the field of neuro-surgery, in which he built up a world-wide reputation, particularly in connection with the surgery of spinal tumours. The achievement of which he was most proud was his founding of the Welsh Surgical Society, of which he was President from 1953 to 1958, which brought together the surgeons of Wales and made him their beloved and respected friend. He had always maintained his connection with the medical branch of the RNVR by holding a permanent commission, so that on the outbreak of war in 1939 he was mobilised and for a considerable time served at the Royal Naval Hospital at Barrow Gurney near Bristol. Later in the war he went to the Far East including the Australian station as a Surgeon-Captain. In May 1946 he returned to civilian life in Cardiff. He continued his connection with the Royal Navy as civilian consultant in neurosurgery. As a provincial surgeon he was for many years a member of the Moynihan Club, being its secretary 1940-50 and ultimately its President 1950-52. At the College he was a member of Council 1943-59, being Vice-President for 1953-55, a member of the Court of Examiners in 1943-44 and from 1946 to 1951 an examiner in anatomy for the Primary, a Hunterian Pro-fessor in 1935, an Arris and Gale lecturer in 1947, an Arnott demonstrator in 1952, and Bradshaw lecturer in 1954. He was President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland in 1951-52, of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons 1948-54, of the Surgical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1960-61, of the Section of Surgery of the British Medical Association in 1953, and of the Cardiff Medical Society in 1954-55. He was particularly pleased when in 1952 the University of Melbourne conferred on him the degree of MD *honoris causa*. Always a keen supporter of the International Society of Surgery, he was British delegate from 1947 and finally Vice-President. He examined in surgery for the Universities of Cardiff, London, Glasgow, Belfast, Bristol, the National University of Ireland and for Trinity College, Dublin. Surgeon to the United Cardiff Hospitals, he was also adviser in surgery to the Welsh Regional Hospital Board. Most methodical and hard working he contributed extensively to medical literature and acted as editor of Treves's *Surgical Applied Anatomy* for four editions between 1939 and 1955 and of Grey Turner's *Modern Operative Surgery* 4th edition in 1955. A quiet man of strong religious convictions, his innate kindliness and unfailing courtesy gained for him the implicit trust and affection not only of his patients but also of his colleagues and a wide circle of friends from many walks of life. It led him to give unsparingly of his time and substance to many charitable causes, and he was for many years medical officer of the Glamorgan Branch of the British Red Cross. An Australian by birth, he made so notable a place for himself in British surgery that people often forgot a fact of which he was naturally proud. A keen motorist he delighted in all forms of travel. He married in 1952, comparatively late in life, Mrs Barbara Ainsley the widow of Lt-Col J K Ainsley, Royal Artillery. They had a daughter, Anne. He died on 10 October 1961 aged 64 survived by his wife, his daughter Anne and his stepson Clive.
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First Title value, for Searching Barnett, Cyril Harry (1919 - 1970)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14 2016-11-18
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Cyril Barnett was born on 30 October 1919, in North Hackney, London, to Barnett Barnett, a traveller in chemistry, and Rosa (née Freedman) his wife. He was educated at Selhurst Grammar School, Croydon and entered St Catharine's College, Cambridge in October 1938, where in his second year he was awarded a College Prize. In 1940 he entered Westminster Medical School, and during his clinical training won the Chadwick Prize in Medicine and Surgery, the Abrahams Prize in Clinical Pathology, and the Prize in Forensic Medicine. After holding resident appointments as house surgeon to Norman Matheson FRCS at Ashford Hospital, Middlesex, and senior house physician to A G Maitland-Jones FRCP at the Northern Hospital, he was commissioned in the Royal Army Medical Corps in May 1944. He served as Lieutenant and Captain until April 1947, for much of the time as regimental medical officer to an infantry battalion in Burma. On demobilization he obtained the post of orthopaedic registrar under B Whitchurch Howell FRCS at Southend General Hospital, Essex, and while there he passed the Primary FRCS examination and became interested in the anatomy of orthopaedic conditions. This led to his decision to seek an appointment in an anatomy department. In October 1947 he became part-time demonstrator at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, under Professor A B Appleton. He was appointed full-time demonstrator by Professor D V Davies in April 1949, passing the final FRCS examination soon afterwards. Promotion to assistant lecturer, lecturer and senior lecturer followed, and he was appointed University Reader in October 1955. In April 1956 Cyril Barnett received a grant from the Nuffield Foundation to enable him to take up a temporary appointment in the Anatomy Department of the University of Melbourne under Professor Sydney Sunderland; he returned to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in October 1957. In October 1963 he was invited by the University of Tasmania to become Foundation Professor of Anatomy and Dean of the proposed new medical school. The University of London gave permission for him to be seconded to Hobart in April 1964 to plan and initiate the new school; he returned to St Thomas's in December 1967. The University of London conferred on him the title of Professor of Functional Morphology in 1965 in recognition of his interest in the relationship of structure to function in organs, tissues and cells. Amongst those who influenced Cyril Barnett were Rodney Maingot and Frederic Wood Jones who was a friend of his. Cyril Barnett was a member of the Anatomical and Heberden Societies, a Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society, and a Founder Member of the Biological Engineering Society. He was a member of the Editorial Board of Medical and biological illustration, and a Consultant to the Army Personnel Research Establishment of the Ministry of Defence. Between 1950 and 1970 he published nearly seventy papers. Cyril Barnett died from carcinoma of the tongue, on 23 October 1970, a week before his fifty-first birthday. He was survived by his wife, Sheila Catherine, nee Arnold, and their son and daughter. Publications: The axis of rotation at the ankle joint in man. (jointly) *J Anat* 1952, 86, 1-9. The metatarsal formula in relation to march fracture. (jointly) *Lancet*, 1953, 1, 172-5. Locking at the knee joint. *J Anat*, 1953, 87, 91-95. The oldest anatomical school in London. *St Thomas's Hosp Gaz* 1953, 51, 179-182. Spiral structures within the hepatic portal vein of mammals. *Proc Zool Soc* 1954, 123, 747-751. A comparison knee and avian ankle. *J Anat* 1954, 88, 59-70. The structure and functions of fibrocartilages within vertebrate joints. *J Anat* 1954, 88 363-368. Squatting facets on the European talus. *J Anat* 1954, 88, 509-513. Some factors influencing angulation of the neck of the mammalian talus. *J Anat* 1955, 89, 225-230. Flow of viscous liquids in branched tubes, with reference to the hepatic portal vein. (jointly) *Nature*, 1956,177, 740-742. Wear and tear in joints. *J Bone Jt Surg*, 1956, 38B, 567-575. A note on the dimensions of the bronchial tree. *Thorax*, 1957, 12, 175-6. The testicular rete mirabile of marsupials. (jointly) *Aust J Zool* 1958, 6, 27-32. The evolution of some traction epiphyses in birds and mammals. (jointly) *J Anat* 1958, 92, 593-601. Variations in the venous systems of mammals. (jointly) *Biol Rev* 1958, 33, 442-487. Struktur and Funktion der Synovialgewebe. (jointly) *Med Grundlagenforsch* 1960, 3, 623-650. *Synovial joints: their structure and mechanics*. (jointly) London, 1961. The normal orientation of the human hallux and the effect of footwear. *J Anat* 1962, 96, 489-494. Lubrication within living joints. (jointly) *J Bone Jt Surg* 1962, 448, 662-674. A suggested reconstruction of the land masses as a complete crust. *Nature*, 1962, 195, 447-8. A comparison of adult and foetal talocalcaneal articulations. (jointly) *J Anat* 1965, 99, 71-76. Absorption into rabbit articular cartilage. (jointly) *J Anat* 1965, 99, 365-375. *The human body*. (jointly) London, 1966. The effects of age upon the mobility of human finger joints. (jointly) *Ann rheum Dis* 1968, 27, 175-7. *Practical embryology*. London 1969. Oceanic rises in relation to the expanding earth hypothesis, *Nature* 1969, 221, 1043. Talocalcaneal movements in mammals. *J Zool* 1970,160, 1-7.
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First Title value, for Searching Gray, Sir Archibald Montague Henry (1880 - 1967)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-04
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Occupation Dermatologist
Details Archibald Gray was born at Ottery St Mary, Devon, the son of Frederick Archibald Gray MRCS (1872) in practice there; he was educated at Cheltenham College and then at University College and Hospital London. He graduated with honours in 1903 and proceeded to the MD with the University Gold Medal in 1905. After holding resident posts at his own hospital which included house surgeon to Horsley and house physician to Rose Bradford and at the Hospital for Women in Soho Square, he early acquired a local fame as an able surgeon. He then proceeded to Vienna for a year in order to train as a dermatologist and on his return was appointed to the dermatological department at the University College Hospital, becoming ultimately consulting physician to that Hospital and to the Hospital for Sick Children. The reason for this strange change may be traced to the fact that no forseeable vacancy in the gynaecological department presented, and this, at a time when the London teaching hospitals were more inbred than they now are, virtually debarred Gray from following up his surgical promise in his chosen field. At this juncture the department of dermatology at University College Hospital became vacant on the death of the famous Henry Radcliffe Crocker FRCP (1845-1909). It was generally believed at the hospital that Gray's ability and character persuaded some of his future colleagues to suggest to him that there could be a future for him at his old hospital. In any event he returned from Vienna well equipped to carry the dermatological department (1909) and his later success in this new field justified the change and kept for University College Hospital a man who became one of its most loyal and devoted sons; and who served it in many ways including a period as Dean of the Medical School. From the outset of his career Gray showed that medicine was not his only field of activity for he displayed administrative gifts and interests which were widely spread over all his professional life. He joined the Officers Training Corps (RAMC) and commanded the University College section. At the beginning of the first world war he was attached to the Medical Director-General's staff of the War Office with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and in 1918 was appointed consulting dermatologist to the BEF for the remainder of the war. He later became consultant adviser to the RAF, the Ministry of Health and to certain special hospitals of the LCC. London University was the object of his prolonged interest and service. He was a member of the Senate for many years, being Deputy Vice-Chancellor (1938-39) and Dean of the Medical Faculty (1932-36). He also represented the University on the General Medical Council and served on several Government committees; including the committee on the medical service of the Navy, Army and Air Force (1931-33), on the Goodenough Committee (1942-44) and on a Ministry of Health survey of the Medical Schools of London (1945-46). From 1948-1962 he was adviser to the Ministry on dermatology. Particularly fruitful were his years of activity on the King Edward Seventh Hospital Fund. His war work was rewarded by the CBE; he was knighted in 1946 and created KCVO for his work on the King Edward Seventh Hospital Fund in 1959. His eminence as a dermatologist also received recognition here and abroad, in honorary membership of numerous American dermatological societies and he was chosen Harveian Orator to the Royal College of Physicians in 1951. At the Royal Society of Medicine he was one of the honorary secretaries (1920-24), then honorary treasurer and lastly President (1940-43). Gray was secretary of the section of dermatology at the last general International Congress of Medicine (1913), a Vice-President of the 8th Congress of Dermatology (1930) and President of the 10th Congress in London (1952). He was for some years editor of the *British journal of dermatology* and a contributor to various textbooks. The writer first knew Gray when he was regarded as a budding gynaecological surgeon and the sudden change in the direction of his work was a nine day wonder at the University College Hospital and its medical school. However he slipped into dermatology with characteristic competence and eagerness, habits which set the pattern for the rest of his life. He was easy in his relations, occasionally curt with the vague and the indecisive, but never hurtful, for he was without malice. Gray was a man of small stature, his quiet face frequently lit up by a charming smile. He was kind to his patients and was prepared to take endless trouble for them for he remained a good physician despite his contacts with the world of administration. Gray married in 1907 the daughter of F B Cooper of Newcastle, Staffs., and they had a son and a daughter. The disability of his last years was grievous for a man who remained actively intelligent, but he bore it with dignity, finally dying at his home, 7 Alvanley Gardens, NW6, after a long illness at the age of 87, on 13 October 1967. He was survived by his wife and children. A memorial service was held at the Vincent Church, Gordon Square, on 14 November 1967.
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First Title value, for Searching Macintosh, Sir Robert Reynolds (1897 - 1989)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation Anaesthetist
Details Robert Reynolds Macintosh was born in Timaru, New Zealand, on 17 October 1897 the son of Charles N Macintosh, a surveyor who had been a member of the first rugby football team representing New Zealand abroad in 1893, and his wife Beatrice, née Thompson. He was educated at Waitaki Boys' High School and in 1916 volunteered for war service, initially taking a commission in the Royal Scots Fusiliers and later transferring to the Royal Flying Corps. He was mentioned in despatches but towards the end of the war he was shot down over France and taken prisoner. Although he made a number of attempts to escape none of these was successful and he was not repatriated until the end of the war. He entered Guy's Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1924. His early house appointments included one in Montevideo where he perfected his Spanish and initially he intended to be a surgeon. He passed the FRCS Edinburgh three years after qualification but found that his skills in anaesthesia were too much in demand and he settled in London, where in conjunction with W S McConnell he developed a group practice in private anaesthetics largely concerned with dental work. At this stage in his life he and other consultants from Guy's used to play golf at Huntercombe where they frequently dined with Lord Nuffield and his wife. They were able to give him informal advice on a number of Lord Nuffield's proposed benefactions to medicine. He had on one occasion anaesthetised Lord Nuffield who had unpleasant recollections of previous anaesthetics and who found an intravenous barbiturate induction a pleasant surprise. Lord Nuffield originally proposed to found chairs in medicine, surgery and obstetrics and gynaecology, but when Macintosh commented light-heartedly that anaesthesia was not included, Lord Nuffield took up the point and proposed to endow a chair of anaesthesia. The University said that there was inadequate academic status in anaesthesia to justify a chair but Lord Nuffield insisted on its creation making his other lavish donations conditional on this development. He increased his benefaction to £2 million and the University fell in with his suggestion. Macintosh took up the chair in February 1937 with two main ambitions; firstly to make anaesthesia more safe and secondly to enable anaesthesia to extend the limits of surgery. Macintosh embarked on his academic appointments with great enthusiasm as he loved teaching, although he was not a great speaker and was not always comfortable when lecturing or presenting papers. Within two years he enlisted the support of Dr Kurt Mendelssohn and Dr H G Epstein from the Oxford University physics department and with their help created the Oxford Vaporiser which would deliver a known concentration of ether. Two prototypes had been developed by 1941 and thereafter production was started at the Morris motor works in Cowley. By the end of the war over four thousand had been supplied to service and civilian hospitals and a modification of this vaporiser was used in the Falklands campaign of 1982. His new department also advised Lord Nuffield on the development of a tank ventilator for patients with poliomyelitis. During the war he was consultant in anaesthesia to the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force holding the rank of Air Commodore. He continued to run the department of anaesthesia at the Radcliffe Infirmary. The war research undertaken in his department included assessment of various methods of artificial ventilation, the provision of respirable atmosphere in submarines, the design of life-jackets and the determination of the maximum altitude at which airmen could bale out without oxygen. He ran regular short courses to train young doctors in the skills and techniques of anaesthesia and persuaded the hospital to provide nurses to assist the anaesthetist. He developed the laryngoscope blade which bears his name and in conjunction with Freda Bannister wrote a standard textbook of anaesthesia. At the end of the war he was awarded the Order of Liberty by Norway. Macintosh believed that most anaesthetic deaths were caused by the incompetence of anaesthetists and did much to debunk the then fashionable concept of attributing many of them to "status thymo-lymphaticus". Dr William Mushin joined his department in 1943 and together they undertook an investigation into anaesthetic deaths. In 1949 he persuaded the Association of Anaesthetists to appoint a committee to investigate deaths associated with anaesthesia and this was the precursor of the detailed audit system established later. After the war the anaesthetic department was not given the promised accommodation and many developments were hampered. He continued to receive many invitations to travel abroad where his achievements were recognised by numerous honorary degrees and diplomas. Throughout his life he taught simple but safe methods of anaesthesia which were appropriate even in under-developed countries. He was created a knight in 1955 and retired from his chair in 1965 but maintained his interest in the specialty of anaesthesia, attending meetings up to the age of 90. He was made an honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1965 and of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1966. The award of an honorary FRCS in 1989 gave him especial pleasure. He enjoyed swimming and a good game of tennis. In 1925 he married Rosa Marjorie Henderson and her death in 1956 left him desolate. In 1962 he married Dorothy Ann Manning who survived him and to whom he attributed the happiness of his retirement years. He died on 23 August 1989 aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Doyle, John Coundley (1932 - 2015)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by John F Gurry
Publication Date 2015-09-18
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Occupation Vascular surgeon
Details John Doyle, former Director of Vascular Surgery at St Vincent's Public Hospital and Medical Director at St Vincent's Private has died, after a lifetime of exemplary service and outstanding leadership to both hospitals. I first met John in 1964 and over the 50 years since then he became in turn to me a teacher, mentor, close colleague and good friend. John Coundley Doyle was born on 17 June 1932, the eldest of three siblings. His early education was at CBC St Kilda, until moving to Xavier College in year 9. He matriculated in 1950, and was Captain of the School in that year, also playing in the First Eighteen and First Eleven. The following year he commenced medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating with honours through the St Vincent's Clinical School in 1956, third in the year behind Henry Berger. John commenced as a junior medical officer at St Vincent's in 1957, working through the usual rotations, but particularly remembering his time with Professor John Hayden in the Professorial Medical Unit, and his rotation through the Charles Osborne Surgical Unit where he first came to know John Connell. In 1959 John married Ann Considine in April and in August they moved to England where John commenced his surgical career. He won the Hallet Prize, first place in the Primary Examination of the FRCS, while studying at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, and then worked at the Essex County Hospital before completing his surgical training as surgical Registrar and Lecturer in the Professorial Surgical Unit at St. Mary's Hospital in London, under Professor W T Irvine, but also working with Mr Felix Eastcott, a pioneer vascular surgeon who had performed the first carotid reconstruction. His experience at St Mary's exposed John to over two years concentrated training in vascular surgery, a then emerging new specialty. In 1964 John returned to Melbourne and St Vincent's, taking up a Hospital and Charities Fellowship in Vascular Surgery in the Connell Unit, practicing both general and vascular surgery. In late 1965 and early 1966 he joined Peter Ryan as a surgeon in the St Vincent's Hospital Team to South Vietnam. On his return he was appointed to Professor Dick Bennett's fledgling Department of Surgery as First Assistant and Senior Lecturer. He held this position until 1970 when he joined Des Hurley's Surgical Unit as Outpatient Surgeon, continuing in that position until the Vascular Surgery Unit was formed in 1980. In 1977 a Vascular Outpatient Clinic with five inpatient beds was established, with John Connell, John Doyle and John Gurry appointed. On the formation of the Vascular Unit, John Connell became the Senior Surgeon. Following John Connell's retirement in 1987, John became the Senior Surgeon and Director, retiring as Director in 1994, and from St Vincent's Public in 1997. John was most influential and instrumental in setting up the Vascular Surgery Unit as a separate specialty from General Surgery, finally convincing an at times reluctant John Connell that this was the way forward. As Head of Unit he recognised, embraced and encouraged the emergence of endovascular surgery. He also introduced cervical plexus block anaesthesia in Carotid Endarterectomy in cooperation with Michael Davies and Keith Cronin from the Department of Anaesthesia, leading to a significant improvement in outcomes. John published and presented a number of papers on various aspects of vascular disease and surgery during his career. During his time at St Vincent's, John held many senior positions. At various stages he was Chairman of the Senior Medical Staff, Chairman of the Division of Surgery, Coordinator of Medical Graduate Education, Medical Service Director Special Surgery, a member and Chairman of the Electoral College, a member and Chairman of the Medical Advisory Council, and importantly an inaugural Director of the newly incorporated Board of St Vincent's Public Hospital. His influence and leadership was considerable, as was his mentoring and teaching of students, residents and junior specialists. As well as his work at St Vincent's Public, John was also in private practice, operating mainly at St Vincent's Private, the Mercy and St George's. In 1995 on John Clareborough's retirement John became part time Medical Director of St Vincent's Private Hospital, holding that position there and at the combined St Vincent's and Mercy Private Hospital until 2006. He was very influential in this role providing wise counsel, practical advice and principled leadership, and was highly regarded and respected by staff at every level. A man of great integrity, very high personal standards, and compassion for the sick and underprivileged, John was widely read, particularly in biographies, the French Revolution, the Second World War and Winston Churchill, with a remarkable recollection for historical dates and facts. He was a conservative but very competent surgeon and excellent diagnostician in a field where conservatism paid. He was a kind and considerate doctor much admired by patients, families and nurses alike. Family values were most important, and together John and Ann were a great team. John had more than his share of medical problems in recent years, and indeed decades of chronic back and neck pain following earlier injuries. His stoicism and acceptance of his problems was quite remarkable. John died on 23 March, leaving Ann, his loving and devoted wife of 56 years, their four children and partners, and seven grandchildren. He will be greatly missed.
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First Title value, for Searching Abson, Edward Pennington (1918 - 2009)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Jonathan Marrow
Publication Date 2018-04-05 2018-04-27
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Casualty surgeon
Details Edward Abson was a major player in the movement to improve casualty services by the creation of specialist consultant posts. He became one of the first 30 such specialist consultants, being appointed to Kent and Canterbury Hospital, and was later the third president of the Casualty Surgeons' Association (CSA). He was born in Merthyr Tydfil on 6 March 1918, one of four children of James Abson and Lily Abson (née Hulme). His family were from the Stockport area, but were living in Wales when Edward and his twin sister were born. His father was secretary of a gas company. The family moved back to Cheshire when Edward was a young child. His first school was in Romiley and he went on to the King's School in Macclesfield. He later studied medicine at the Victoria University of Manchester, qualifying MB ChB in 1941. Soon after obtaining full registration, he volunteered for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was commissioned with the rank of temporary surgeon lieutenant, and between 1942 and 1945 served on HMS *Penn*, a destroyer on convoy duties. Among numerous active engagements at sea, HMS *Penn* was involved in bringing a tanker, loaded with inflammable fuel and crippled by enemy action, into Valetta harbour, a turning point in the siege of Malta. At the end of hostilities, Edward was stationed at an air/sea rescue base for a year, where he gained further experience in the management of trauma. His interest in the sea continued after demobilisation: he was a keen sailor and took part in several long-distance transfers of sailing boats. After the war, he held hospital positions in Stockport and Blackburn, and also carried out some locum work in general practice. He secured the diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and then spent six months as a postgraduate student in the anatomy department in Manchester before passing the primary FRCS in 1949. Surgical training posts followed, mostly in the Manchester region. He gained orthopaedic as well as general surgical experience. In 1956, he was successful in the final FRCS exam in London. By then he had moved to Dudley, in the Midlands. In Dudley, Edward worked first as a surgical registrar and then as a senior clinical medical officer (SCMO). He also had a chance to see the work of the pioneering Birmingham Accident Hospital. SCMO was one of the sub-consultant grades given to experienced doctors in charge of casualty departments, which was most likely Edward's role for the latter part of his time in Dudley. In 1963 he moved again, first to Southampton and then to the Isle of Wight, holding senior casualty officer posts at each. In 1962, a report by Sir Harry Platt, a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon, was commissioned by the Department of Health. It recommended that casualty departments be renamed 'accident and emergency' and that they should be supervised by orthopaedic surgeons. Many of the other recommendations were very welcome, but the senior casualty officers pointed out that the work of their departments had many challenges outside the field of orthopaedics. A senior casualty officers' subcommittee was set up within the British Medical Association in 1963, with Edward Abson as secretary. Between 1963 and 1980, Edward was prominent among those campaigning for the establishment of consultant posts in casualty departments. In 1965, he co-wrote an article in *The Lancet*, 'The casualty consultant' (*Lancet*. 1965 May 29;1[7396]:1158-9), the first of a series of publications about casualty departments and their patients. In October 1967, he was one of nine doctors in charge of casualty departments who met at BMA House in London and resolved to set up the CSA, the precursor to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. In 1972, 30 consultants in accident and emergency were appointed, as an experiment, to improve care in accident and emergency departments. Edward was one of them, being appointed to Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Edward was elected president of the CSA, serving from 1975 to 1978. He was the third to hold this office. The writer first attended a meeting of the CSA in 1977, during Edward's presidency. The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) was formed in 1968. Cordial relations were quickly established between the ACEP and the CSA. In 1981 Edward Abson, was made an honorary member of the ACEP, together with David Caro and John Collins, CSA presidents before and after Edward. There has been exchange of equivalent honours between presidents of British and US emergency medicine bodies since then. Edward retired from clinical work in about 1983. He saw himself as a surgeon in the casualty department and vigorously opposed changing the name of the CSA. Casualty or accident and emergency? Surgery, medicine or both? Debate about the name of the Association and of the specialty continued for many years, but in 1990 an AGM of the CSA voted by a large majority to change the name of the Association to the British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine. Sadly, Edward was one of two senior members of the Association who felt so strongly that they resigned and walked out of the meeting to show their opposition to the change. Edward never married. He remained in Kent, living independently until 2007, when he moved to a care home in Folkestone. He died on 13 March 2009, seven days after his 91st birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Slack, Sir William Willatt (1925 - 2019)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2020-11-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Sir William Slack, known as Willie to his friends and colleagues (but always William to his wife), was a much-admired surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital who served as a surgeon to the Queen for 15 years between 1975 and 1990. He was born on 22 February 1925 to Cecil Moorhouse Slack, who was awarded a Military Cross and bar in the First World War, and Dora Slack née Willatt in North Ferriby near Hull and schooled at Bramcote School, Scarborough and Winchester College. He was a natural sportsman from a very early age, playing croquet as soon as he could walk (his father was passionate about the game) and winning many athletics cups at school. His greatest love was association football; he played for Winchester, won a blue at Oxford and regularly played for Corinthian Casuals FC. At his funeral, the Cup Final hymn ‘Abide with me’ was sung in recognition of his lifelong love of ‘the beautiful game’. In 1944, he proceeded to New College, Oxford and thence to the Middlesex Hospital for clinical studies. He qualified in 1950. After house jobs, he continued much of his surgical training at the Middlesex, where he was particularly influenced by Leslie le Quesne, although in 1953 he spent a year at St Bartholomew’s, where he worked for Edward Tuckwell, also an influence. The final FRCS was passed in 1955. While a senior registrar at the Middlesex, in 1959 he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he pursued research into the distribution of colonic blood vessels and muscle layers in diverticular disease, work which he had started at St Mark’s Hospital and for which he was awarded an MCh in 1961. Willie was appointed as a consultant surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1962 and simultaneously as a senior lecturer to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, holding both appointments until his retirement in 1991. He was later appointed to the consultant staff of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth (from 1970 to 1988) and of the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers (from 1975 to 1991). While practising the full range of general surgery, he took a special interest in colorectal surgery and many of his publications relate to this discipline. Amongst other topics, he authored papers relating to diverticular disease, large bowel cancer, radiation injury of the bowel, inflammatory bowel disease and sexual function after rectal surgery, all in peer-reviewed journals or textbooks. In 1980, he was president of the section of coloproctology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He took a great interest in student teaching and in 1966 was appointed as undergraduate sub dean at the medical school. Noted for his tact and diplomatic skills, it was no surprise that in 1983 he was appointed dean of the school when a merger with University College Hospital Medical School was in the air. This merger came about in 1987, as part of the reorganisation of medical teaching in London and a consequent reduction in the number of medical schools, and he then had the difficult task of keeping the peace between the various heads of department as they vied with each other for position. Inevitably, under Willie’s leadership, a very strong academic union emerged. In 1974, an unexpected letter arrived informing him that he had been appointed to the post of surgeon to the Queen. He did not know that he had been an applicant, but later realised that a discreet vetting process had been undertaken and that the opinion of Edward Tuckwell, a former chief and himself in Her Majesty’s service, had been important. He was later promoted to the post of serjeant surgeon to the Queen and in 1990 was made KCVO at a private ceremony in Buckingham Palace. He loved to tell the story of having to ask an equerry what colour waistcoat he should wear with his morning suit for the audience. Black was the firm reply! Typical of his low-key style, he and his family celebrated the occasion by going to supper in a local Greek taverna and drinking retsina to celebrate! Outside of surgery, Willie had catholic interests. He was a keen member of the Surgical Sixty Travelling Club and a liveryman of the Barber’s Company, where he was master from 1991 to 1992. He also enjoyed the six-monthly meetings of the highly select 1995 Club, a luncheon club limited to six medically-qualified members and their spouses where no topic of conversation was off limits and discretion scrupulously observed. In retirement, he moved from London to Somerset, where he had a full-sized croquet lawn built in his back garden and established a local challenge cup, which was hotly competed for by his new found many friends in the area. He regularly played skittles in the local pub, became addicted to growing vegetables and spent much time helping on the farm run by his younger son. He also loved opera, a lifelong passion. Sir William met his future wife Joan (née Wheelwright), who later became a distinguished geneticist, while both were medical students in Oxford. They married in 1951 soon after they qualified and had four children: Robert, Graham, Diana and Clare. After 65 years of very happy marriage, Joan died in 2015. Until his early nineties, Willie was still travelling to London regularly, seemingly as fit and well as 20 years earlier, but increasingly he found the house and garden too much to look after by himself and moved into a small flat, where he never really settled. His last days were in a nearby care home, where he died on 28 April 2019, aged 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Lockhart, William (1812 - 1896)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at the Meath Hospital, Dublin, and at Guy's Hospital. He began practice as assistant to Dr Wainwright of Liverpool, and after three years was fired with the desire of becoming a medical missionary by the experiences and aspirations of Dr Moffat and John Williams, who had then just returned from their missionary journeys. He was sent out by the London Missionary Society to China in the company of Mr (afterwards Dr) Medhurst, and began his ministration in Macao in 1839. There was at that time only one other medical missionary in China. This was Dr Williams, an American, who had already obtained a footing at Canton. From Macao, Lockhart moved on to Chusan on its first occupation by the British, and in 1843 to Shanghai on its being opened up. Here he founded a hospital, which was so successful from the first that in ten months' time the Chinese patients had numbered 10,000. He remained at this hospital till 1858, and found himself in an isolated position outside the city walls during the Tai-Ping Rebellion, when the hospital lay between the investing army of the Imperialists and the rebels holding Shanghai. The fire of the contending armies poured upon the hospital. Under these trying conditions Lockhart steadily pursued his work among the sick and wounded, the shells on several occasions bursting within the building. The last shell which entered the hospital burst upon the floor of the hall crowded with patients, on the very spot from which only a few moments before a wounded patient had been removed. When the French troops joined the investing forces, Lockhart very courageously volunteered to enter the city in order to try to induce the rebels to surrender and thus avoid more bloodshed. In company with his friend, Mr Wyllie, he safely passed the rebel outposts, and for several hours argued with the leaders, who listened to him but declined his proposals. In the end they burnt the city, which they had evacuated. This great conflagration was always described by Lockhart as the most impressive sight that he had ever witnessed. Leaving the hospital under efficient superintendence he returned to England in 1858. Long before Lockhart's death the institution became the most important hospital for Chinese in China. Lockhart's stay in England was short, but during that time much took place in China. His brother-in-law, Mr (afterwards Sir Harry) Parkes, HM Minister to Japan and China, whilst on a diplomatic mission to the Chinese forces under a flag of truce, had been treacherously taken prisoner with his companions, many of whom died after cruel suffering. As a punishment for this act of treachery Lord Elgin advanced on Peking and destroyed the celebrated Summer Palace, the British Embassy taking up its quarters in the city in October, 1860. Lockhart returned to China with a view to founding a hospital in Peking, which as Medical Officer to the Embassy he was able to do in October, 1861, and during the two and half years of his stay in the capital, over 30,000 patients were treated. Sir Harry Parkes, in a letter to Lockhart, thus expressed the high value he set on his admirable work: "The political good which your proceedings must have will be very great, and your mission will achieve more than the diplomatic in impressing the masses of Peking in our favour. Your hospital I look upon as the most marked incident in our relations with China that has occurred since the signing of the last treaty, and most sincerely do I pray that you may go on and prosper." The Chinese attitude towards Western medicine had for long been not as hostile as is generally imagined. (A work, for instance, on medicine in the Chinese language, at present in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons, on being taken to the late Sir Richard Douglas at the British Museum was found by him to be a translation of Jenner's early work on vaccination.) Notwithstanding this, however, Lockhart doubtless had to make head against floods of ignorance and superstition in his dealings with the sick Chinese. He returned to England finally in 1864, owing to family circumstances, and settled in practice at 67 Granville Park, Blackheath, Kent, in 1865. Here he remained in uninterrupted devotion to his professional duties till March, 1895. Despite a very busy life he was able to attend regularly the board and committee meetings of the London Missionary Society, where his advice was of the greatest service. He had collected a unique library of works dealing with China, and these he presented to the Society shortly before his death. Subject to certain conditions by him imposed, this is now known as the 'Lockhart Library'. Up to within a few days of his death he was in full vigour and possession of his faculties, but fell very ill on Monday, April 27th, 1896. At a consultation held late at night it was decided that he was too old and feeble to be operated on, although his illness called for immediate surgical intervention. He died, without any suffering, at his residence in Granville Park, on the morning of April 29th, 1896. Mrs Lockhart, whom he married in 1841 and with whom he celebrated his golden wedding, was Miss Catharine Parkes, elder sister of Sir Harry Parkes, and she, together with married sons and daughters, survived him. Publications: *The Medical Missionary in China; a Narrative of Twenty Years' Experience*, 8vo, plate, 2nd ed, London, 1861. *Reports* of Chinese Hospital, Shanghai, and of Chinese Hospital, Peking. Translations from Chinese works on Midwifery, Inoculation, etc, in the *Dublin Med Jour*.
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First Title value, for Searching Collins, Frederick Michael (1900 - 1973)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-30 2015-05-08
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details The following was published in volume 5 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Born at Poona in India on 5 September 1900 son of Denis Collins (afterwards Major-General) RAMC, he was educated at Stoneyhurst College, Pembroke College Cambridge, and King's College Hospital Medical School, whence he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1922, graduating in medicine and surgery at Cambridge in 1924. After resident posts at King's College Hospital he joined the RAMC winning the Montefiore and Tropical Medicine Prizes while training at Millbank. He took the Fellowship in 1928, and was posted to India as a surgical specialist; promoted to Captain, and with a fine future before him in the RAMC, Collins was offered the post of personal surgeon to the Viceroy, Lord Willingdon, and transferred to the IMS. After only two years at the Viceregal Lodge, Collins was posted to the Madras Presidency with the brevet rank of Major. During leave between the two posts he took the MCh at Cambridge in 1934. He was sent to outlying districts to gain experience, but while at Ootamacund he pricked a finger while operating and incurred infection which threatened his life and necessitated amputation of the finger from his right hand. He was however appointed Professor of Operative Surgery at Madras and second surgeon to the General Hospital. In 1940 he became Professor of Surgery and Principal of Andhra Medical College, but was recalled to military duty because of the increasing demands of the second world war, and served in command of the surgical divisions of Army Hospitals in Assam and later at Dehra Dun. At the end of the war in 1945 he succeeded Grant Massie as Consulting Surgeon, India Command, which was by that time a mainly administrative post. He retired in the rank of Colonel when India became independent in 1947, and joined the Ministry of National Insurance in London, where before long he became Deputy Chief Medical Officer, forming and developing a new department to deal with the medical aspects of National Insurance and later taking over the medical side of the Ministry of Pensions. When he retired from the Ministry he carried on medical board work at Roehampton. Collins married Vera Curzon in 1927, they had a son and daughter, but Mrs Collins died after long and tragic illness in 1964, to his great grief. He married secondly in 1965 Marion, widow of J R Galvin. They settled at 24 Buillards Oak, Midhurst, Sussex, where after eight happy years he died on 5 November 1973 aged seventy-three, survived by his wife and the children of his first marriage. A requiem mass was celebrated at St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Midhurst on 9 November 1973. Freddy Collins was a fine operative surgeon and an able administrator, conscientious, systematic and industrious. He was always cooperative and loyal to his colleagues in military and civil service. The following was published in volume 6 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Frederick Collins was born on 5 September 1900 in Poona, India, the only son of Denis Joseph Collins, physician and surgeon, Major General, Army Medical Service and Julie Furgius, née Rearden, whose father was a wine merchant and importer. He was educated from 1910 to 1912 at Belaeden College, Dublin, and was at Stonyhurst College from 1912 to 1917. He went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1917. In 1920 he entered King's College Hospital, where he obtained the Burney-Yeo Scholarship in anatomy and physiology. After holding resident surgical posts at King's he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and during his training period at the Millbank College won the Montefiore and tropical medicine prizes. After passing the Final FRCS in 1928 he was posted to India as a military surgical specialist. In 1933, the Countess of Willingdon, the Vicereine, on learning that he was the son of her old friend General Collins, persuaded Captain Collins to apply for a transfer to the Indian Medical Service with the object of making him personal surgeon to the Viceroy; this move may have been unfortunate as Collins' qualifications and administrative ability would probably have helped him to attain high rank in his father's old service. After two years at Viceregal Lodge, Collins was posted to the Madras Presidency. He had expected a teaching post, but was sent for some time to gain experience in outlying districts. At Ootacamund he pricked a finger while operating and developed a severe infection which led to the amputation of a finger on his right hand. Before the outbreak of the second world war he was appointed Professor of Operative Surgery and second surgeon at Madras General Hospital and in 1940 became Professor of Surgery. He was transferred to the Andhra Medical College as Principal and Professor of Surgery. On being recalled to military service in 1942 he did excellent work as an officer commanding surgical divisions of general hospitals in Assam and at Dehra Dun. In 1945 he succeeded Grant Massie as consulting surgeon, India Command. On the grant of independence to India he returned to the United Kingdom and joined the administrative staff of the Ministry of Pensions and rose to become Deputy Chief Medical Officer. Outside his medical career his main interests were rugby, tennis and golf. He married first, in 1927, Vera Isobel Curzon, who died in 1964, and second in 1965, Marion Galvin, nee Arrow, who survived him. He died on 5 November 1973, leaving one son and one daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Leaming, Donald Baldock (1925 - 2019)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Lionel Hartley
Publication Date 2019-10-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details At 2.00 am on 25 May 2019, Don died at the age of 94 after more than seven years of invalidism from a series of strokes. At first Don’s walking was affected and he fought back to walking with support. However further lesser strokes occurred until he became bed-bound and his surgical hands ‘lost their cunning’. He faced these troubles with dignity and fortitude, uncomplaining. Only once during all that time did he register a comment when he said to me “If you are going to have a stroke, have a big one”. Don, always known to his friends as Spike, was born in Nottingham 6 February 1925, the fourth and youngest child of a non-medical family. He had completed his secondary education at the Henry Mellish school and when the family moved to Newcastle-on-Tyne, he commenced his studies at the Medical School, part of the University of Durham, graduating in 1947. Training in Surgery followed and Don earned his English Fellowship in 1953. That year also saw Don’s marriage to Margaret (Meg) Smith. Harry, the eldest of his siblings had already graduated in Medicine and subsequently became an anaesthetist. In 1961 he was a well trained surgeon working at his teaching hospital in Newcastle-on-Tyne. Because of the pyramidal structure of the National Health System at that time promotion to consultant status was slow, with many excellent surgeons being in their mid-40's before achieving this. Don decided to look further afield and applied for the position of Reader (one level below full Professor) in a new university surgical unit to be created at the very new Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) in Brisbane. The unit head was Professor William (Billy) Burnett one of the last of the Glasgow trainees of Professor Illingworth who had provided the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth with many Professors. Unfortunately Billy was known to be a very difficult senior, as several of his staff were to subsequently discover. Don, Meg and two young children arrived in Brisbane in August 1961 where a stiff westerly wind was causing its usual chill. Brisbanites were dressed in warm clothing but the newly arrived Novocastrians, inured to the Tyneside cold, went to the Oasis Pools and Gardens and, with Meg in a bikini, cavorted in the water. They wondered why there were so few people swimming and also why our part of the world seemed to have so few people. To help with the latter problem they had two more children! Don then discovered that the new surgical unit did not yet exist (no surprise to the locals) and so he had to work as Senior Lecturer (one step down from Reader) with Billy at the Brisbane General Hospital (now Royal Brisbane Hospital) until early 1962 when the unit was finally opened. This only happened after a ‘vigorous’ meeting at which Billy demanded 120 beds and was given 30, a decision applauded by Don. In 1963 he received his Australasian Fellowship. The PAH 1982 year photo showed at the top our new Reader and well down towards the bottom a second year Resident, Lionel Hartley. Don, devoid of pomposity and treating all from student to senior consultant with the same respect and courtesy, fitted in well with PAH surgeons who were striving to create a significant surgical hospital with high standards of education and research. Don contributed by his teaching, research and publications on both surgical subjects and medical education. Years later I spoke to a female graduate who had been taught by Don in a surgical term. She said “I remember Dr Leaming. He was a lovely man.” By 1965 Don had decided that he would leave the university surgical department and, replacing the retiring Chris Cummins, became the Flying Surgeon based at Longreach. The Longreach summer was yet another test for this north of England family. Don was joined by anaesthetist Graham Smith who could also fly a plane. Don’s popularity in Longreach was evidenced later by the number of locals who visited him and Meg at home in Brisbane and later during his long hospital stay. In 1968 Don returned to the PAH taking the position created by the retirement of Sir Clarence Leggett and holding that post until his retirement in 1985. During those years Don served as a surgeon in the civilian hospital in Bien-Hoa, Vietnam at a time in that conflict where there was no front line as in former wars. Between 1976 and 1982 he was a member of Queensland Council of the Australian Medical Association, becoming its Chairman. He was also a member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Court of Examiners (1972-1982) and Queensland State Committee (1965-1973). With these last two posts he arranged that I would replace him on his retirement. After leaving the PAH Don continued in private practice and came to assist me for many years in operative surgery. It was a very happy time as the anaesthetist for many of these cases was Graham Smith who had worked with him in Longreach. How can you sum up a life with so many parts. Don was doctor, surgeon, educator, researcher, examiner, administrator, medical politician, husband, father, brother, grandfather, outstanding chef, colleague and warm-hearted friend. Perhaps it was summed up for us – “He was a lovely man.”
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First Title value, for Searching Roarty, John Stanislaus (1924 - 2017)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Brett Courtenay
Publication Date 2018-02-22
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Dr John Roarty is regarded as one of the pre-eminent orthopaedic surgeons, and a pioneer of hip replacement surgery, in Australia. He devoted his life to his profession, and with a gentle tenacity, in his characteristically unassuming way, rose to the top of his field. Born on April 18, 1924, to Winifred and Stanislaus Roarty in Bellevue Hill, Sydney, John was the eldest of four children. He completed high school at St Aloysius College in Kirribilli and entered the Faculty of Medicine at Sydney University at the age of 17. He graduated in 1947, joining the staff at Lewisham Hospital as a resident medical officer, initially as an intern and then as the orthopaedic registrar before becoming medical superintendent in 1950. While the Orthopaedic Association had been established 15 years before, no formal exam nor formal training program existed for specialists in this area of medicine in Australia. The most renowned post-graduate qualification was at the University of Liverpool in the UK which fuelled John's desire to move to the UK to pursue a career in this field of medicine. His plans were almost thwarted when earlier that year he met and fell in love with June Shepherd, a violinist at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney. They met at a Loreto Normanhurst Old Girls gathering at the Minerva Theatre in Kings Cross and courted over their shared love of music, regularly attending Sydney Symphony concerts at the old Sydney Town Hall. Together they agreed he should go to the UK to continue his studies, and June would follow him to London. He left Sydney in June 1950 as the doctor on a Swedish war freighter, The Wangaratta, carrying Tasmanian apples and wool. His journey on this ship reinforced his lifelong passion for sailing. He was a member of Middle Harbor Yacht Club and then became a member of The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron where he raced regularly on his yacht, Julimatch. An active sportsman, he was a keen golfer, holding memberships of Pymble Golf Club and then Royal Sydney Golf Club. Having commenced his studies at the University of Liverpool in 1950, he graduated with the Master of Chirurgie at the end of 1951 and then began three years of orthopaedic training, working at the Birmingham Accident Hospital, Wingfield Morris Hospital in Oxford and at St Mary's Hospital in London. In 1954, he was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It was at that point John decided to return to Australia, again as a ship's doctor, to join his dear friend and mentor Ron McEwen in his medical practice. Sadly, Ron died suddenly of a heart attack before John arrived back. He honoured his commitment and Ron's legacy, returning to Sydney in November 1954 and continuing the practice. He took up a position at Lewisham Hospital as well as taking over the clinics at the Royal Far West Children's Health Scheme at Manly. This scheme brought children from remote areas to Sydney for specialist care. As well as doing clinics at Manly and operating on patients at St Vincent's and Lewisham Hospitals, Roarty regularly travelled to remote clinics in Bourke, Cobar, Nyngan, and Wentworth and continued working for the Far West until nearly 1980 by which time there were specialists in rural areas and no longer the need for this service. He was passionate about his remote area work. In 1955 he was appointed as a clinical assistant to St Vincent's which began a lifelong involvement with both St Vincent's Hospital and the Sisters of Charity. It was in that year that he married his wife, June, on October 29 at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. They went on to have five children. They were devoted to each other until June's death in December 2005, sharing a love of travel and the arts, in particular classical music. They were generous philanthropists in the arts, medicine and the Catholic community. In 1969 Roarty studied with John Charnley, the father of modern hip replacement surgery, attending operating sessions and outpatient clinics to learn the techniques of hip replacement. As a result, he brought groundbreaking hip replacement surgery to St Vincent's. During the 1980's, Roarty and a number of other doctors conceived the idea of a medical clinic attached to a large hospital campus, similar to those they had seen in the US. After an enormous amount of work as chair of the steering committee and later chair of the Medical Council, Roarty developed the plan for and oversaw the construction of St Vincent's Medical Clinic, together with the Sisters of Charity. He was the first of many orthopaedic surgeons to move into the clinic following its opening in August 1990, and continued his practice there until 2000. He was a founding trustee of the St Vincent's Clinic Foundation and its chair from 1998 to 2000. In addition, under his leadership, the clinic became a world-class private medical and research facility. His commitment to and passion for the hospital continued throughout his life - until his final weeks, he was always interested in what was happening at St Vincent's and the clinic. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on Australia Day 2012, for his services to medicine, in particular through his contributions to the St Vincent's Clinic. He was a great supporter of and mentor to generations of surgeons and could always be relied on for a valuable opinion. He is survived by children, Chris, Julianne, Mark, Lisa and Tim, 12 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Connolly, Rainer Campbell (1919 - 2009)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by T T King
Publication Date 2009-10-21
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Campbell Connolly was a consultant neurosurgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He was born on 15 July 1919, the elder son of George Connolly, a solicitor who had served in the First World War, and his wife, Margaret, née Edgell, of Brighton. His grandfather, Colonel Benjamin Bloomfield Connolly was a distinguished military surgeon who had been principal medical officer of the Cavalry Brigade at El Teb (Sudan) and was commander of the Camel Bearer Company on the expedition to relieve General Gordon. Connolly’s education was at Lancing College, Bedford School and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, from which he graduated in 1941. Owing to the shortage of junior medical staff, he was immediately employed as a locum anaesthetic houseman and gave a number of anaesthetics for Sir James Paterson Ross who had, at the start of his career, an interest in neurosurgery. This position led to Connolly’s appointment as a house officer at the wartime hospital, Hill End, St Alban’s, to which the professorial surgical department of St Bartholomew’s had been evacuated. Though Paterson Ross was nominally in charge of neurosurgery, J E A O’Connell was the neurosurgeon within the professorial unit. While working at Hill End, Connolly was seconded to Sir Hugh Cairn’s head injury hospital at St Hugh’s, Oxford, to learn about electroencephalography, which it was thought might be useful in neurosurgical diagnosis. Oxford was one of the few places in the country where this new technique was being explored. This experience put him in contact with Cairns, who was responsible for the organisation of neurosurgery in the Army. Connolly eventually spent almost a year at St Hugh’s. Early in 1943 he found himself posted to an anti-aircraft battery in south London, where he had little to do until his commanding officer told him that he was to accompany the battery to a destination in West Africa. Alarmed, he wrote to Cairns and was almost immediately removed and placed in a holding post at Lancing. Connolly was one of the last survivors of the young neurosurgeons who staffed the mobile neurosurgical units that had been established by Hugh Cairns at the beginning of the Second World War. These saw action in France and Belgium in 1940, and the first one was captured at Dunkirk. Subsequently another six were formed and deployed in the Western Desert, Italy, Northern Europe and Burma. Through the influence of Cairns, Connolly was posted to mobile neurosurgical unit No 4 in Bari, Italy, when the senior neurosurgeon of the unit, Kenneth Eden died suddenly of poliomyelitis in October 1943. With its head, John Gilllingham, and John Potter, he accompanied the unit in the campaign up the east coast of Italy, ending at Ancona with the rank of major and with a mention in despatches. This unit treated over 900 head injuries from the battles at the Gothic Line and the Po Valley, as well as those from partisan activities in Yugoslavia. Many of the Yugoslavian patients had open head wounds for which treatment had been delayed by difficulties in transport, a subject on which Connolly contributed a paper to *War supplement No.1 on wounds of the head* published by the *British Journal of Surgery* in 1947 (*Br J Surg* 1947;55(suppl1):168-172). The results were surprisingly good, the mortality being 20 per cent. The use of penicillin, first clinically tested by Florey and Cairns, and then by Cairns in mobile neurosurgical unit No 4 in North Africa, was considered to be an important factor in these results. After VE day, Connolly returned to England in July. He was posted to the Far East, spending six unproductive months in India following the ending of the war in August. After demobilisation, he returned to Bart’s to a post created to accommodate ex-servicemen such as himself whose training and careers had been affected by war service. He obtained the FRCS in 1947. Cairns had plans for an organised training scheme for neurosurgeons, something not achieved until many years later, and he offered Connolly an appointment at Oxford to a training programme of some years’ duration, beginning as a house surgeon. At the same time Cecil Calvert, in Belfast, who had done much of the surgery at St Hugh’s during the war, invited him to the Royal Victoria Hospital as a consultant. The rigours of being a houseman at Oxford under Cairns were known to Connolly: he took the offer in Belfast and stayed there for four years. In 1952 he moved to the Midland Centre for Neurosurgery in Birmingham. In 1958 he was appointed as the second neurosurgeon to O’Connell at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and remained there until his retirement as senior neurosurgeon in 1984. He was also in private practice and established a reputation especially for judgement and skill in intervertebral disc surgery. He was on the staff of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers and was a civilian consultant to the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1984. In the College he was Hunterian Professor in 1961, speaking on cerebral ischaemia in subarachnoid haemorrhage. He was president of the section of neurology of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1980 to 1981, a Freeman of the City of London and a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. He married Elisabeth Fowler née Cullis, who was an anaesthetist at St Hugh’s. He died of cancer of the prostate on 14 August 2009, survived by his wife, two daughters and a son.
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First Title value, for Searching Elebute, Emmanuel Adeyemo (1932 - 2019)

2025-06-29T17:05:50Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2019-04-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details When Ade (as he was universally known) died, the President of Nigeria said that his country had lost an icon. Ade would have liked the word because of its classical connotations; not only was he an academic surgeon with an international reputation, but he was also an author and an historian with a wide knowledge of both English and African literature. Ade Elebute was born in Nigeria into a prominent family. He received his primary education in Lagos, before the time when the lagoons (which give Lagos its name) were dominated by the huge concrete flyovers that now exist. It was obvious from the beginning that he was bright and he was given a place at the famous Church Missionary Society (CMS) Grammar School, about which, and the prominent Nigerian business man who endowed it, J P L Davies, Ade wrote a book (*The life of James Pinson Labulo Davies: a colossus of Victorian Lagos* Lagos, Prestige, 2013). It was at the CMS Grammar School that the foundations of his lifelong Christian faith were laid and where he thrived on a curriculum of science, foreign languages and English and Nigerian classics, as well as music. This education, for which he was ever grateful, paved the way for him to progress from being head boy to a scholarship at Trinity College Dublin to read medicine. So grateful was he for this education that, on his return to Nigeria, he became a passionate philanthropic supporter of the school, gifting, amongst other things, the school’s current grand piano. Trinity College Dublin proved a fertile ground for his medical education, as shown by him winning the majority of the available prizes in the pre-clinical and clinical curricula and culminating in the Fitzpatrick scholarship for the best performance throughout all professional examinations in his medical school year. He graduated in 1956, subsequently proceeding to an MD by thesis. Thereafter, he commenced his surgical training in major hospitals, including Birmingham Accident Hospital, the Midland Centre for Neurosurgery, Hammersmith Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He returned to Nigeria to work at University College Ibadan until 1962, when he was invited to join the staff of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), where he rose to be professor of surgery in 1969, subsequently becoming provost of the college of medicine in 1977 and chief medical director in 1978, holding these two posts until 1980. Throughout this time, he also sought to raise the standards of surgery in West Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. Key to this was the inauguration of the West African College of Surgeons. Amongst other positions in Nigeria he was president of the Nigerian Medical Association and president of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. He also helped ensure the African presence on the international stage through his membership of the executive committee of the International Federation of Surgical Colleges and of the executive council of the International Society of Surgery. He also served on the editorial board of the *World Journal of Surgery*. He had a distinguished research career having served as senior Buswell research fellow at the University of Rochester, New York and Commonwealth tropical medicine senior research fellow at the Medical Research Council’s toxicology unit in Carshalton. Throughout his career, he maintained links with UK surgery not only through his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh and his membership of the editorial board of the *British Journal of Surgery*, but also through his attendance at meetings of the Surgical Research Society and the Association of Surgeons, which, in 1996, awarded him its honorary fellowship. One very close link was with Manchester Medical School, where he was invited to undertake a visiting professorship in the department of surgery at Hope Hospital in Salford, which housed Manchester University’s first Medical Research Council unit – the trauma unit – led by H B Stoner. This academic attachment proved very fruitful and he collaborated with the scientific staff of the unit to produce several papers, in particular one notable paper on a new system of sepsis scoring (‘The grading of sepsis’ *Br J Surg*. 1983 Jan;70[1]:29-31). In the 1980s he gradually moved from academic life to become involved in the business life of his country by becoming chairman of the Glaxo group of companies in Nigeria, a post he held for more than a decade. He oversaw the transition of the company, through several amalgamations, to GlaxoSmithKline (Pharmaceuticals) Nigeria in 2001, at which time he retired. From 1985, together with his wife, he promoted a healthcare company, Hygeia, to provide health care, initially in Lagos, but later across Nigeria. Not only did this provide high quality medical care through a group of multispecialty hospitals, the Lagoon Hospitals, it also promoted universal health insurance for the population, including low income groups. Throughout his professional life, he was supported by his wife Oyinade Elebute, a distinguished academic physiologist and nephrologist. They were proud of their family of one son and three daughters, one of whom has followed her parents into medicine and is a consultant haematologist in London. Ade Elebute died on 23 February 2019, aged 87. A proud African and exemplary Nigerian, an internationally-renowned academic and master surgeon, a passionate entrepreneur, friend of Britain and British surgery, and a devoted family man: Ade Elebute was truly an icon.
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