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First Title value, for Searching Barrington, Frederick James Fitzmaurice (1885 - 1956)

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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 Barclay, Dorothy Margaret Somerville (1914 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Browne, Sir George Buckston (1850 - 1945)

2025-06-18T10:23:20Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-24
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born 13 April 1850 in Manchester, the elder son of Henry Browne, MD (1819-1901), physician to Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Ann, his wife daughter of George Hadfield, MP for Sheffield. Henry Browne's father and grandfather had practised at Manchester since the latter, George Buckston Browne (1756-1811), qualified as a Member of the Company of Surgeons of London on 11 March 1779. He was the younger son of Theophilus Browne (born 1715), apothecary of Derby, and Margaret daughter of George Buckston of Bradbourne Hall. Theophilus was the son and grandson of clergymen, both Cambridge graduates; he was friend of Erasmus Darwin; his elder son Henry succeeded to his practice as an apothecary and was twice mayor of Derby. Sir Buckston Browne was thus the fifth medical man in direct paternal descent from Theophilus. He was educated at Amersham Hall School Reading, and at Owens College, Manchester, and in 1866 matriculated at University College, London. He won medals in anatomy, chemistry and midwifery and a gold medal in practical chemistry, and served for a time as demonstrator of anatomy to Professor G V Ellis. At University College Hospital he won the Liston gold medal in surgery, and was elected after open practical competition house surgeon to Sir John Erichsen. He had qualified MRCS in 1874, but before opportunities for further hospital appointments appeared he was invited by Sir Henry Thompson to become his private assistant. This position Browne held for fourteen years, and in 1884 he also started his own consultant practice. In those days elderly men who would now undergo excision of the prostate had to suffer partial operation followed by a "catheter" life under the personal supervision of their surgeon. Thompson had the largest practice of this nature in London. He was also a man of great social distinction, a connoisseur, an artist, and a famous host. Buckston Browne profited both professionally and intellectually from their long association. Although holding no hospital appointment and the Membership as his sole qualification, he achieved through great dexterity, skill and assiduous work, supported by modest, straightforward self-reliance the leading practice in this line of surgery. He never took a holiday though he often walked twenty or thirty miles out of London and back. Among his distinguished patients were R L Stevenson and George Meredith, as Meredith recorded in an appreciative letter afterward published. Meredith dedicated his novel *Lord Ormont and his Aminta* 1894: "Gratefully inscribed to George Buckston Browne, surgeon. Browne has recorded (*Rationalist annual*, 1938) how he used to walk from Wimpole Street to breakfast with his patient at Box Hill, twenty-six miles south of London. Another patient was Sidney Cooper, RA, who lived to be 100 years old. In 1901 Browne delivered the Harveian Society's lectures, speaking on twenty-five years of urinary surgery in England. He had been a member of the society since the year in which he qualified, but he felt that the invitation to deliver the lectures was of great professional benefit 'to one who had so long practised without public recognition'. He was also a member of the Clinical and Pathological Societies, and of the Medical Society of London of which he was ultimately elected an honorary Fellow. In 1909, when Browne retired, he found himself a very rich man. He had spent much on pictures and objects of art, a taste fostered by Sir Henry Thompson's example, from whom also he acquired appreciation of the worth to professional men of dining together in amity. His first relaxation was a voyage round the world, during which he was shipwrecked off the New Zealand coast. Soon his life was clouded by bereavement. He had married in 1874, the year of his qualification, Helen Elizabeth, daughter of George Vaine of Sparsholt, Hampshire. During the first great war their only son, Lieutenant-Colonel George Buckston Browne, DSO, RFA, was killed, and in 1924 their only grandson, George Buckston Browne, the sixth, died of enteric fever. Mrs Browne died in 1926. Their only daughter married Sir Hugh Lett, Baronet, sometime PRCS. Lady Lett survived her father. Buckston Browne now devoted himself to public benefactions, especially to those destined to furthering mutual accord within his profession and to the promotion of surgical science. His benefactions were partly prompted by fear that his name might be forgotten, as he had outlived his son and grandson, but at the same time he was sincerely modest and took real pleasure in small private acts of generosity for which he always "begged no acknowledgment". In 1927 Browne endowed at the College an annual Buckston Browne Dinner at which fifty Fellows and fifty Members should sit down together in amity within the College house. The Buckston Browne Dinner was warmly welcomed and encouraged by successive Councils and was a most potent force in bringing the generality of Members back into contact with the College's affairs. Browne himself usually made one of his excellent speeches, simple, direct, and very clearly enunciated, at the dinner. He spoke at the wartime Buckston Browne Luncheon in 1944, when already in his ninety-fifth year. At several of the dinners he gave each guest a small parting present, and in 1938, when his son-in-law Sir Hugh Lett was President, it took the form of a silver snuff-box suitably inscribed and full of "Kendal brown" snuff. Browne had long been a total abstainer from alcohol and smoking, though a generous host providing excellent wine and cigars for his less abstemious friends. But he had long taken snuff which he recommended as a sure prophylactic against the common cold. In 1928 Browne endowed an annual dinner for the Harveian Society, which became one of the best-liked social foregatherings of the profession. But he did not neglect the more serious work of the Society or the College. At the Harveian Society he endowed a biennial Buckston Browne prize in memory of his son, to be awarded for an essay based on original work, and accompanied by a Harveian medal designed for him by the Royal Mint, at the suggestion of his friend Sir D'Arcy Power, FRCS, from Faithorne's engraved portrait of William Harvey. The Society elected him its life-president. His benefactions to the College were even more princely the building and endowment to a value of £100,000 of a surgical research-farm under the direct control of the College. Browne who had been brought up in the high day of Victorian agnosticism had one particular hero, Charles Darwin, next to whom he ranked John Hunter, Edward Jenner, and Joseph Lister. In 1928 Sir Arthur Keith, FRCS, when president of British Association, appealed publicly for the preservation of Darwin's house at Downe, Kent, which was for sale. Browne immediately bought it, presented it to the British Association to preserve as a national Darwin memorial, and proceeded with characteristic thoroughness to re-collect Darwin's furniture for it. He was successful in securing the co-operation to this end of the Darwin family, but also placed in the house some his own family portraits, as a memorial to his wife and son. In 1931, when Keith suggested to him the need for young surgeons to have some retreat comparable to John Hunter's farm at Earl's Court, where their researches would be uninterrupted by the pressure of metropolitan interests, Browne bought thirteen acres adjoining the Darwin estate, built the Buckston Browne research farm, and presented it to the College. He had been elected a Fellow in 1926 as a Member of twenty years standing, and in 1931 was awarded the honorary medal of the College. In 1932 he was created a Knight Bachelor. He was also awarded the honorary doctorate of laws by Aberdeen University. Browne was a generous benefactor to University College Hospital where he equipped the senior common room with fine furniture and pictures of his own collecting, and also endowed a bed in memory his wife. To Wesley College, Cambridge, he presented a previously unknown portrait of John Wesley, and to the Royal College of Surgeons a charming eighteenth-century portrait of John Hunter which he believed to be by Gainsborough. In 1931 he paid for and personally supervised the restoration of the Hunterian museum pictures. He was elected a freeman of the Society of Apothecaries in 1938, and in 1944 an honorary licentiate. At one of his last public appearances (1944) he gave the Society a gift of silver in honour of his son-in-law's Mastership. Browne's interests and benefactions were not confined to his profession. He served as president of the Old Owensian Association and as vice-president of the Dickens Fellowship. At Sparsholt, his wife's old home, he endowed two cottages in her memory. To the Victoria and Albert Museum he gave a bust of King Charles II and a Chippendale barometer, and also made gifts to the National Portrait Gallery. He had given away during his lifetime very considerably more than £100,000. His pictures and art collections were sold at Christie's in April and his books at Sotheby's in May 1945. Browne continued active till the close of his life. In his eighties, he would frequently walk the fifteen miles between his house, 80 Wimpole Street, and his "farm" at Downe, and always went about London on foot. He still wrote an excellent, bold hand, and was a fairly frequent contributor to the medical journals and to *The Times*. He lived in London almost throughout the war of 1939-45, being with difficulty persuaded to take refuge at Sparsholt for some months, though in fact he had by then lived through the worst of the air-raids in London. He broke his femur early in the new year of 1945 and died in University College Hospital on 19 January 1945, three months before his ninety-fifth birthday. Portraits:- Painting in oils by E Bundy, ARA, at the Farm; painted in 1915. Bronze bust by C Hartwell, commissioned in 1931 by the Council of the College, at Lincoln's Inn Fields. Painting in oils by Robin Darwin, great-grandson of Charles Darwin, at Downe House; painted about 1933. Miniature by P Buckman, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1934. Bronze bust by J N Gosse at the Farm, presented by Dr A H Gosse 1935. There are several photographs in the College collection, which show better than the formal portraits his air of genial independence. Publications:- Twenty-five years' experience of urinary surgery in England. Harveian Society's lectures 1901. Urinary surgery, in Heath's *Dictionary of surgery*. Edward Jenner. *Med Press* 1934, 137, 206; reprinted in *British masters of medicine*, edited by Sir D'Arcy Power, 1936. The rise of the medical profession (speech at Buckston Browne luncheon, Royal College of Surgeons, 12 February 1942). Privately printed. Reminiscences. *Rationalist annual*, 1938. *University College Hospital medical school. Senior common room. An illustrated description of the pictures and furniture presented by Sir Buckston Browne*. 44 pages, portrait, and 14 plates. Also an unillustrated edition, 12 pages.
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First Title value, for Searching Alder, Alexander Bruck (1926 - )

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Urologist
Details Alder was born in Victoria, Australia and educated at Melbourne graduating from the University in 1949. After holding resident posts at the Prince Henry (1949-50) and Royal Children's (1951) hospitals, he came to England in 1953, served as Nuffield Demonstrator of Anatomy at Oxford, and took the Fellowship in 1954. He returned to Melbourne and was appointed Demonstrator of Surgical Anatomy at the University, and then became assistant surgeon to Prince Henry's and the Alfred Hospital. Determining to specialise in urology, he was appointed assistant urologist at Prince Henry's and the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1956. He was also a consulting urologist to the Royal Australian Navy and the Naval Volunteer Reserve, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian and the American Colleges of Surgeons. Alder practised at 77 High Street, Kew, living next door at No 79. Publications: Transurethral or open operation in prostatic obstruction? *Med J Aust* 1957, 1, 636-8. The growth of the muscle tibialis anterior in the normal rabbit in relation to the tension- length ratio. *Proc Royal Soc* London. 1958, B148, 207-16.
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First Title value, for Searching Dunlop, John Arthur (1915 - 1972)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details John Dunlop was born on 29 June 1915 in India, where his father, John Dunlop, was a doctor. He was educated, with an entrance scholarship, at Epsom College, and in 1932 gained a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, and qualified in 1937. After holding a number of resident posts at St Thomas's, he became resident surgical officer at the London Clinic. On the outbreak of the second world war he joined the RAMC and was posted to the 17th General Hospital until the fall of France, when he was transferred to the Commandos, and later went to India with the 17th Hospital. Dunlop volunteered for parachute training and served in Burma as Commanding Officer of a mobile surgical unit, ending his Army career with the rank of Major. After the war he worked for a time at Oldchurch Hospital, and later was chief assistant in surgery at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield. Dunlop was appointed to the staff of Blackburn Hospital in 1950, where he worked particularly in urology; he was especially interested and influential in postgraduate teaching. He had married in 1941, and died after long illness from carcinoma of the oesophagus on 24 July 1972, survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Farrar, David James (1942 - 2015)

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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 Ingall, John Robert Franklin ( - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-10
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ingall received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1952. He gained the London MB BS in the following year. After holding house posts at the Westminster Hospital and surgical registrarships there and at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, he moved to the United States, where he was Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was also Program Director, Regional Medical Program for West New York and consultant surgeon to the Sisters of Mercy Charity Hospital. He later practised as a general and urological surgeon at Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Jack Ingall died on 26 April 1994 in Hemel Hempstead Hospital, and there was a memorial service at St Alban's.
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First Title value, for Searching Brownlee, Joseph John (1901 - 1972)

2025-06-18T10:23:20Z

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 Raper, Frederick Peter (1913 - 1966)

2025-06-18T10:23:20Z

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 Parker, Geoffrey Edward (1902 - 1973)

2025-06-18T10:23:20Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Geoffrey Edward Parker was born on 24 June 1902 and was educated at Windlesham House School, Hove, Marlborough College, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He came to St Thomas's Hospital for his clinical course and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the Cambridge MB in 1926. Two years later he took the FRCS. After holding junior posts at St Thomas's, the West London Hospital, and the National Temperance Hospital he ultimately became consultant surgeon to the French Hospital, the Italian Hospital and the Woolwich Group. He was specially interested in urology. During all this time his career closely resembled that of many a London surgeon, but it was in the latter part of the second world war that he distinguished himself to a unique degree. He served with the RAMC from 1942 in North Africa and Italy, but also acquired special experience in parachute jumping, unarmed combat and the use of small arms. Early in 1944 he was parachuted into France in the Jura mountains and worked as a surgeon with the Maquis, caring for the resistance fighters with supreme courage which was rewarded by the DSO in 1945, and also by the Croix de Guerre with Palm and Gold Star, and he was made Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur. Later he received honours also from Belgium and Italy. His experiences were described in his books *The black scalpel* 1968 *and Surgical cosmopolis* 1970. At Cambridge Parker was awarded a blue for boxing, and he also played squash and golf. In later life he did a good deal of writing and painting, his pictures having appeared in exhibitions in England, France and America. In 1930 he married Kathleen Hewlett Johnson and had two sons and a daughter. This marriage was dissolved and in 1967 he married Margaret Lois Wilsdon who survived him. Parker died on 5 December 1973 at the age of 71.
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First Title value, for Searching Ashworth, Arnold ( - 1993)

2025-06-18T10:23:20Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Sandrey, John Gordon (1903 - 1988)

2025-06-18T10:23:20Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in Australia in 1903, John Gordon Sandrey went to Sydney High School where he won a scholarship to Sydney University from which he graduated MB, ChB with honours in 1926. After two years he came to London where he trained in surgery while holding posts as resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital and St Peter's Hospital for Stone. He was appointed consultant at the latter at the early age of 27 and subsequently at the Prince of Wales' in Tottenham, the Greenwich group and Horsham Hospital. In 1937 he was appointed a civilian consultant to the Royal Navy and from 1940 until 1946 served as a temporary Surgeon Captain in the RNVR after which he continued as a consultant until his retirement. He contributed widely to the urological literature and for several years was responsible for the section on urology in "Rose and Carless", the manual of surgery edited by Sir Cecil Wakeley. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the International Society of Urology. After retiring he and his wife, Barbara, spent six months each year in London and six months going to and from their home in Australia. Thus they travelled widely and made many enterprising and sometimes dangerous voyages and safaris. After a long illness he died at his home in Sydney on 28 February 1988. He was survived by his wife and daughter and three grandchildren, one of whom is a medical practitioner in France.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007638
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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