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First Title value, for Searching Thane, Sir George Dancer (1850 - 1930)

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Publication Date 2012-12-05
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born on May 27th, 1850, at Great Berkhamsted, the eldest son of George Dancer Thane, MD St Andrews, who practised in Hart Street, Bloomsbury. He entered University College, London, in 1867 and was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy to Professor G Viner Ellis (qv) in 1870, a year before he obtained the diploma of MRCS. He succeeded Viner Ellis as Professor of Anatomy at University College in 1877 and retained the chair until 1919, when he was elected Emeritus Professor. As Professor of Anatomy he trained some brilliant men who acted as his demonstrators, amongst them being Rickman J Godlee (qv), Quarry Silcock (qv), Bilton Pollard, S G Shattock (qv), and Charles Stonham (qv). For many years he was Inspector of Anatomy and Inspector under the Vivisection Acts. Both positions were delicate and full of difficulties, but he carried out the duties tactfully and without friction. On December 8th, 1881, he was elected a member of the Physiological Society, which was then a small body of working physiologists. Numerous honours came to him. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1919; was President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 1896; was a member of the French and German Anatomical Societies, of the Anthropological Society of Paris, and of the Royal Society of Upsala. The Royal College of Surgeons elected him FRCS; the University of Edinburgh conferred upon him the honorary degree of LLD, and the University of Dublin that of ScD. He was for many years Dean of the Medical Faculty at University College, and throughout his active career he was in constant request as an examiner in anatomy at numerous universities and examining boards throughout England and Wales. He married in 1884 Jenny, the eldest daughter of Aug Klingberg, of Stockholm, who survived him with two daughters. He died at his home, 19 St John's Road, Harrow, Middlesex, on January 15th, 1930, and was buried at Highgate Cemetery. Thane was a man of encyclopaedic anatomical knowledge, and was one of the British representatives at the Basle conference where a new anatomical nomenclature was evolved which did not meet with his approval. In 1850 G Viner Ellis (qv) succeeded Jones Quain, the first Professor of Anatomy at University College, and in 1877 Thane succeeded Ellis. Ellis's conception of teaching anatomy was an insistence upon the exact observation of fact and a clear and restrained expression of what he exposed by dissection, for he regarded an interest in the subject as outside the aims of a teacher. Without sacrificing any of the discipline of precise observation and lucid expression, Thane made the study of human anatomy a humane occupation and threw into his teaching the whole force of his personality. He became keenly interested in his pupils individually, and from 1874-1914 kept a detailed students' register, written in a careful hand, with red ink for failures and purple ink for successes. In regard to rules and regulations he was a martinet, and was intolerant of smoking, yet his class was orderly, not from fear but from a real desire on the part of his pupils to stand well in his sight. He edited Ellis's *Anatomy* and was for many years responsible for the purely anatomical portions of Quain's *Anatomy*. Here his powers of lucid description, combined with brevity and informed by his extensive knowledge, made the successive issues examples of what may be done by a competent editor. Publications: Edited Ellis's *Demonstrations of Anatomy*, 8vo, London, 1887 and 1890. Edited Jones Quain's *Elements of Anatomy*, 9th and 10th ed, 8vo, London. Appendix to Jones Quain's *Elements of Anatomy* - "Superficial and Surgical Anatomy" (with R J GODLEE), 10th ed, 8vo, 1896.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, William ( - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, William (1840 - 1922)

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First Title value, for Searching Haslam, William Frederic (1856 - 1932)

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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born 24 August 1856 at 4 Friar Street, Reading, the son of James Haslam, a land and estate agent and auctioneer, and Catherine Clarke his wife. He was educated at Amersham Hall School, Caversham, and at Marlborough Grammar School, and was early apprenticed to a surgeon on the staff of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. Entering St Thomas's Hospital, London, on 1 October 1874 he acted as prosector in 1875-76 and in that year gained the first College prize. In 1876-77 he was appointed, whilst yet a student, assistant demonstrator of anatomy, and was selected as a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons on account of the beauty of his dissections. He also gained the Cheselden medal for anatomy and surgery. He acted as house surgeon in 1878-79 and was afterwards non-resident house physician. During 1879-82 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school of St Thomas's, and served as resident accoucheur in the Hospital in 1881. Later in this year he acted as assistant medical officer at the Deptford Fever Hospital. He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Birmingham General Hospital, in February 1882, becoming surgeon in 1891, and consulting surgeon in 1914. At Queen's College, Birmingham, he was appointed medical tutor in 1883, and acted as demonstrator of anatomy 1884-92. When the University of Birmingham was established he was appointed the first lecturer in applied anatomy, a post he occupied for eight years. In the University, too, he lectured on surgery to dental students 1908-13, and was joint professor of surgery 1913-19. On his retirement from the chair of surgery in 1919 he was appointed dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and began again to lecture on applied anatomy; during 1919-28 he taught osteology to the first year students, and spent the greater part of his working day in the dissecting room. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England he was examiner in anatomy 1891-99 and 1919-24. He was a member of the Court of Examiners 1903-13, and a member of Council 1908-24, being a vice- president in 1917-18. He married on 2 October 1888 Amy, daughter of Lewis Cooper, of Caversham Hill, Reading, but there were no children. He died on 18 February 1932 after a long illness and was buried at the Lodge Hill Cemetery, Selly Oak, Birmingham. Haslam was certainly the best beloved teacher of his generation in Birmingham. On the occasion of his retirement in 1928 he was presented by his colleagues and friends with a silver tray and a cheque as a mark of their affection, and during his life time a "Haslam Oration" was founded by the Birmingham Medical Society. The first Oration was delivered by Dr J C Brash, his successor in the chair of anatomy 3 February 1930. He was humble-minded, versatile, absolutely trustworthy and always ready to help a colleague by sound advice, or by taking place temporarily in the lecture room or operating theatre. He was perhaps, one of the last surgeons to base his surgery upon a profound study of anatomy. Publication:- A review of the operations for stone in the male bladder. The Lettsomian lectures, 6 and 20 February and 5 March 1911. *Trans Med Soc Lond*. 1911, 34, 145, etc.
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First Title value, for Searching Cholmeley, William Frederick (1866 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Choyce, Charles Coley (1875 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Christianson, Ralph Alfred (1913 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, Colin (1881 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, Ernest (1857 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, James Jackson (1880 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Chaudhuri, Abani Mohan ( - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Charnley, Sir John (1911 - 1982)

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Publication Date 2014-11-21
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on 29 August 1911 in Bury, Lancashire, John Charnley was the son of Arthur Walker Charnley, pharmacist, and Lily, née Hodgson, a nurse, he was educated at Bury Grammar School and Manchester University. He was persuaded to read medicine rather than dentistry, his first choice, by L R Strangeways, headmaster of the Grammar School. Having been undistinguished academically at school, he had a brilliant undergraduate career taking prizes at the end of each year. He passed the 2nd MB examination in March 1932 and three months later, the Primary Fellowship graduating BSc in anatomy and physiology and passed the Final Fellowship Examination in December 1936. He was house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and resident surgical officer at Salford Royal Hospital from 1937 to 1938. Early in 1938, he went for nine months to the department of Professor R J S McDowall at King's College in the Strand, as lecturer in physiology, and investigated traumatic shock. He returned to Manchester Royal Infirmary as Resident Casualty Officer at the end of 1938 and volunteered for service in the RAMC in May 1940, serving first as Regimental Medical Officer in ships from Dunkirk. He became a 'graded' orthopaedic specialist in August 1940, until he went to Cairo in March 1941 to do traumatic and orthopaedic surgery, and characteristically noted that the Thomas walking calliper allowed the patient's toes to touch the ground and so was not weight bearing. By matching the geometry of the ring of the calliper to the geometry of the bony pelvis he produced the 'Charnley calliper' a device officially adopted by the Army. From 1942 to 1944 he was OC No 2 Orthopaedic Centre attached to No 63 Military Hospital, Cairo, with the rank of Major and returned in May 1944 to the Military Hospital in Shaftesbury, Dorset. Temporary attachments to the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Oswestry, and to the Biddulph Grange Orthopaedic Hospital were arranged by Professor Harry Platt and he became lecturer in orthopaedic surgery in 1946. He was appointed visiting orthopaedic surgeon to Park Hospital, Davyhulme, and assistant orthopaedic surgeon to Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1947, visiting orthopaedic surgeon to Wrightington Hospital in 1949, and consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1952. Two orthopaedic papers and one on experimental shock were published whilst he was on active service, and he delivered a Hunterian Lecture at the College in 1946 entitled *The mechanics and treatment of fractures of the femoral shaft*. His first independent appointment after the war was at Park Hospital and there he found the familiar orthopaedic conditions, low back pain, arthritic joints, fractures and joint injuries. All were subjected to critical analysis and he was often in the anatomy and pathology departments, sometimes giving extempore tutorials to the students. He also designed and built a complex lever system in the basement of the medical school, with which he applied carefully graduated stresses to a variety of joints. He published papers on the cause of herniation of the nucleus pulposus, an approach to the medial semilunar cartilage, the Smith-Petersen guide wire and intramedullary nailing of fractures, but his significant work was on compression arthrodesis on which he lectured to the Canadia, American and British Orthopaedic Associations in Quebec in 1948. 1950 saw the publication of the first edition of *The closed treatment of common fractures*, a masterpiece of experience and imagination for which he is remembered by generations of orthopaedic surgeons, worldwide. He resigned from Park Hospital in 1961 and from Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1962, concentrating his work at Wrightington. He tried all the methods of arthroplasty of the hip and had found them unsatisfactory. He had a workshop in his house in Hale, equipped with a lathe and William Thackray, of Charles F Thackray Ltd, said that Charnley was an excellent draughtsman and bench worker who struck up instruments in the rough to be finished later by his firm. The lubrication of joints, methods of fixing metal and plastics to bone and the biomechanics of hip joint movement were all studied, as were the causes of failure of earlier operations. He noted that post-operative infection tended to arise late often due to common skin organisms. He enlisted the co-operation of Howorth Air Engineering and produced the first clean-air operating enclosure. Attention was also directed to the prevention of venous thromboembolism. A biomechanical laboratory was opened at Wrightington by Sir Harry Platt in 1961, and the clinical unit became the Centre for Hip Surgery, opened in 1962 by Field Marshal Lord Harding, an old patient. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst, Sussex, and performed his first hip replacement there in 1969, by 1982 he had performed 1400 operations at that Hospital. He became CBE in 1970 and was knighted in 1977. He was appointed to a personal Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery in the University of Manchester in 1972 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1975. The *Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society* noted that 'Charnley made other valuable contributions to orthopaedics - it was, however, his work on arthroplasty that earned him the distinction of being the first practising orthopaedic surgeon to be elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, and will ensure him a place in history as a surgeon-scientist in the tradition of John Hunter and Joseph Lister'. He became a Freeman of Bury in 1974, Lister Orator at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1976 and he was honoured by universities, institutes and associations in most parts of the world. In his younger days, he was a keen rock climber and a devotee of fast cars, especially Aston Martins. He met his wife, Jill, on a ski slope in Austria in 1957 and they were married three months later. She was introduced to high speed driving early and quickly realised that John drove himself professionally in much the same way. She made a home of distinction, entertaining colleagues and visitors from far and wide. John Charnley was the least pompous of men. His many honours did not change his open and sunny disposition nor divert him from his tasks. He was tenacious in pursuit of the highest standards, quick to anger, and sometimes ruthless when he met carelessness or incompetence. He was a perfectionist and was preparing material for a meeting of the British Orthopaedic Association in Manchester when he died on 5 August 1982. He is survived by Lady Charnley and their two children, Henrietta, an actress, and Tristram, who produces medical and scientific films.
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First Title value, for Searching Turner, Samuel Meyer (1819 - 1864)

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Publication Date 2013-01-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College, London. He was in general practice at Newcastle-under-Lyme, where he was House Surgeon to the North Staffordshire Infirmary, then Surgeon, and, at the time of his death, Surgeon Extraordinary. He was at one time Assistant Surgeon to the King's Own Staffordshire Rifles, and was latterly Surgeon to the Staffordshire Rifle Volunteers. He was a member of the British Medical Association, and had been President of the North Staffordshire Medical Society. He died on January 5th, 1864.
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First Title value, for Searching Turner, Thomas (1793 - 1873)

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Publication Date 2013-01-09 2013-08-01
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The youngest child of Edmund Turner (d1821), banker, of Truro, and of Joanna his wife, daughter of Richard Ferris, was born at Truro on Aug 18th, 1793. He was educated at the Grammar School of his native town during the head-mastership of Cornelius Cardew, and was apprenticed to Nehemiah Duck, one of the Surgeons to St Peter's Hospital, Bristol. He came to London in the autumn of 1815, entered the United Borough Hospitals, and proceeded to Paris, where he spent a year in 1816. He became a member of several French Societies and seems to have begun work for the Paris MD, but in 1817 he was appointed House Surgeon at the Manchester Infirmary. He held office until September, 1820, when ill health obliged him to resign. He took a short holiday devoted to attending classes at the Edinburgh Medical School and then settled in Piccadilly, Manchester. He was soon appointed Secretary to the Manchester Natural History Society and was elected a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, where he was brought much into contact with John Dalton (1766-1844), the Quaker Physiologist, and on April 18th, 1823, he was elected one of the Councillors of the Society. On November 1st, 1822, he delivered, in the rooms of the Literary and Philosophical Society, the first of a series of lectures upon the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the human body. The lectures were highly appreciated and were repeated several times. In 1824 he gave an address in which he outlined a plan for establishing a school of medicine in Manchester. The scheme was well received, and in the following October a suitable building was opened in Pine Street, and Dalton gave a course of lectures on pharmaceutical chemistry. A medico-chirurgical society for students was founded, and in 1825 the school was thoroughly organized. The Edinburgh College of Surgeons recognized the course of instruction in February, 1825, and the medical departments of the Navy and Army accepted its certificates from August 20th, 1827. It was not till some years later, and after considerable opposition, that the English College of Surgeons granted recognition. Turner was appointed Surgeon to the Deaf and Dumb Institution in 1825, and in August, 1830, was elected a Surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary and soon attained a large practice. On July 31st, 1832, he laid the foundation stone of a new and larger lecture theatre which was opened in the following October. The school progressed steadily under Turner's control, and the succeeding few years witnessed the dissolution of the Mount Street and Marston [Marsden] Street Schools of Medicine and the increasing growth of the Pine Street School, where he was the moving spirit. The Medical School at Chatham Street amalgamated with the Pine Street School in 1859, and the Royal School of Medicine which was thus formed became the medical faculty of Owens College in 1872. Turner gave the inaugural address and the 'Turner Medical Prize' commemorates his services. Turner was appointed Honorary Professor of Physiology at the Manchester Royal Institution in 1843, and with the exception of two years delivered annually a course of lectures until 1873. He served on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1865-1873 and was the second representative from the provinces to be elected, Thomas Paget (qv) being the first. He was much occupied from 1852 with the Sanitary Association of Manchester and Salford in trying to improve the intellectual, moral, and social condition of factory hands. He married on March 3rd, 1826, Anna (d1861), daughter of James Clarke, of Medham, near Newport, Isle of Wight, by whom he had a family of two sons and three daughters. Turner died in Manchester on Wednesday, December 17th, 1873, and was buried in the churchyard at Marton, near Skipton-in-Craven. His medical and surgical museum was given to Owens College. Turner assisted to break up the monopoly of medical education possessed by the London Schools at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He showed that the large provincial towns were capable of affording a first-rate medical education. He also recognized the fundamental principle of State Medicine that improvement in sanitary surroundings necessarily implies improvement in the moral atmosphere of the inhabitants.
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First Title value, for Searching Saxton, William Waring ( - 1879)

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Publication Date 2012-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St George's Hospital. He practised first at Market Drayton, Shropshire, and then at 1 Berkeley Gardens, Kensington, where he died on January 6th, 1879. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
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First Title value, for Searching Ballance, Sir Charles Alfred (1856 - 1936)

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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born at Clapton, Middlesex, on 30 August 1856, the second child and eldest son of the four boys and four girls born to Charles Alfred Ballance (d 1873), of Taunton, where he had been in business as a government contractor for timber, and his wife Caroline Hendebrouck Pollard. Sir Hamilton Ashley Ballance, FRCS was his youngest brother, and his youngest sister married Sir John L Myers, FBA, Fellow of New College, Oxford. After his father's death the business was sold and the family moved to Stanley House, Clapton. Charles Ballance was educated at Taunton College under the Rev William Tuckwell, and afterwards in Germany. He then entered St Thomas's Hospital where he served as house surgeon and was for a time demonstrator of anatomy. At the University of London he gained one of the gold medals at the examination for the BS in 1881, the other being won by Victor Horsley, and had similar success at the MS in 1882. He was appointed aural surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital in April 1888. The department was then at a very low ebb of efficiency but Ballance quickly developed it on both practical and scientific lines. He went to Germany, visited nine German clinics, and was among the first to perform the radical mastoid operation with ligation of the jugular vein and drainage of the lateral sinus. He thus followed the treatment recommended by H Schwartze, by Kuster, and by L Stacke. He further improved the operation by lining the cavity in the mastoid with an epithelial graft. In December 1891 he was made assistant surgeon after a severely contested election with W H Battle, FRCS, when Battle was placed first and an additional assistant surgeoncy was made for Ballance. In December 1900 he became surgeon to the hospital and held office until April 1919 when he resigned and was appointed consulting surgeon. He was elected surgeon to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in Queen Square, Bloomsbury, on 17 February 1891, Victor Horsley being his surgical colleague, and resigned on 19 May 1908, when he was elected consulting surgeon. From 1912 to 1926 he was chief surgeon to the Metropolitan Police, Clinton Dent, FRCS being his predecessor in the office. Having already accepted a commission as captain *à la suite*, to which he was gazetted on 23 December 1908 in the newly formed RAMC branch of the territorial force, Ballance was called up on the outbreak of war in 1915 and was then attached to the second London (City) general hospital. He was promoted temporary colonel AMS on 15 May 1915 and was ordered to proceed to the Near East. Here he was posted as consulting surgeon at Malta with Sir Charters Symonds, FRCS as his colleague. The two surgeons organized, supervised, and inspired with enthusiasm the large number of emergency hospitals required during the Gallipoli campaign. For his services he was given an honorary MD by the University of Malta, became a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, was decorated CB (military) in 1916 and was made a KCMG in 1918. At the Royal College of Surgeons Ballance was an examiner in anatomy 1887-91 and a member of the Court of Examiners from 1900 to 1919. He served on the Council 1910-26 and was a vice-president in 1920. He was Erasmus Wilson lecturer 1888-89, when he took as his subject "The pathology of haemorrhage after ligation in continuity"; Bradshaw lecturer in 1919, "On the surgery of the heart"; Vicary lecturer in 1921 on "A glimpse of the surgery of the brain"; Lister memorial lecturer in 1933, "On nerve surgery", and on this occasion he received the Lister memorial medal for his distinguished contributions to surgical science. Finally he gave the Macewen memorial lecture at Glasgow, "On the surgery of the temporal bone". He served as president of the Medical Society of London in 1906 and was the first president of the newly founded Society of British Neurological Surgeons in 1927. He only held office for a year, but on resigning he was elected honorary president. He married on 24 April 1883 Sophie Annie Smart, only daughter of Alfred Smart of The Priory, Blackheath. Lady Ballance died in 1928, leaving five daughters and a son. This son, Alaric Charles Ballance, MB, died 20 February 1933, a man of much promise (*Lancet*, 1933, 1, 552 and 612), leaving a widow, two sons and two daughters. The elder grandson was a student at St Thomas's at the time of Charles Ballance's death; the younger, who intended to take holy orders, was killed in action as a leading aircraftman RAF on 1 June 1941, aged 24. A daughter, Aline, married in 1919 the Rev F M Rolland, principal of Geelong College, Australia. Ballance died on 8 February 1936 and his remains were cremated at Golders Green crematorium. Charles Ballance was perhaps the first English surgeon to re-introduce the Hunterian method of experiment into surgery. The pupils of Hunter were perhaps more interested in anatomy, morbid and comparative, than in the living patient. Ballance started afresh on the lines followed by John Hunter and to some extent by Charles Bell, and there can be no doubt that he was a pioneer in experimental surgery when most of his generation were engaged in extending bacteriology and developing the methods of Lister. But he founded no school, for he was not able to devote all or even the greater part of his time to the laboratory. He lived, however, to see that his example was bearing fruit when the laboratories were enlarged at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Buckston Browne Research Farm was opened at Downe. His first piece of research work was begun in 1885 when he went to Leipzig and worked under the guidance of Birch-Hirschfeld upon the changes occurring in the coats of arteries tied without previous division. The work was continued at the Brown Institute in the Wandsworth Road, then under the control of Victor Horsley and Charles Sherrington, and was concluded in the medical school at St Thomas's Hospital with the help of Walter Edmunds. The results were published in 1886, and in book form in 1891. The value of the work was recognized at once and placed Ballance and Edmunds high amongst the surgical investigators of their time. The parasitic theory of cancer was exercising the attention of many pathologists during the years 1888 to 1896. Ballance, in conjunction with S G Shattock, spent much time in investigating and testing the evidence, but without result. He was also occupied about the same time in the laboratory of St Thomas's Hospital with the behaviour of the cells which enable tissues to be repaired after inflammation. The results were published conjointly with Charles Sherrington in 1889. The repair of nerves began to interest him about 1903, when he united the hypoglossal and the facial nerves and in five cases joined the facial with the glossopharyngeal nerve. From 1899 to 1901 he was engaged in studying the processes of degeneration and regeneration of the peripheral nerves and in 1901 he published the results in collaboration with Sir James Purves-Stewart. The rest of his life was spent in experimenting with the anastomizing of nerves. The experiments were always tried upon animals before they were applied to human patients. He was often sorely tried and his work was hampered by the restrictions of the Vivisection Act, and during the last years of his life the work was carried out in the United States where he held a research fellowship at Columbia University. Here with his friend and co-worker, A B Duell of New York (d 1936), he was engaged on facial nerve repair by the use of grafts. In conjunction with W G Spencer, FRCS he wrote letters to *The Times* in 1919 and 1927 expressing his views upon the issues raised in the Dogs' Protection Act. Ballance was a man of fine presence, somewhat above middle height, with a large and well-developed head. He moved with deliberation and spoke slowly in a very soft voice. A slight shyness made him seem austere at first but as soon as the outer husk was penetrated he appeared as a warm-hearted friend and a highly educated gentleman. He was particularly well read in the classics and in English literature. He was, too, a good linguist and could converse readily in French and in German. It is somewhat remarkable that his family history showed no trace of any scientific leaning, but all his brothers entered the medical profession. He worked slowly both in the laboratory and in the operating theatre but was endowed with extreme delicacy of touch and movement, so that the most delicate tissues were not injured by his manipulation. Publications:- The ligation of the larger arteries in their continuity, with W Edmunds. *Med-chir Trans*, 1886, 69, 443. Cultivation experiments with new growths and normal tissues, with remarks on the parasitic theory of cancer, with S G Shattock. *Trans path Soc Lond*. 1887, 38, 412. A note on the histology of sterile incubated cancerous and healthy tissues, with S G Shattock. *Ibid*. 1888, 39, 409. A case of acromegaly, with W B Hadden. *Trans clin Soc Lond*. 1888, 21, 201. On formation of scar tissue, with C S Sherrington. *J Physiol*. 1889, 10, 550. Note on an experimental investigation into the pathology of cancer, with S G Shattock. *Proc Roy Soc*. 1890, 48, 392. *A treatise on the ligation of the great arteries in continuity with observations on…aneurism*, with W Edmunds. London, 1891. Cerebellar abscess secondary to ear disease; a case successfully treated by operation, with T D Acland. *St Thos Hosp Rep*. 1896, 23, 133. On splenectomy for rupture without external wound. *Practitioner*, 1898, 60, 347: He describes in this paper the shifting dullness in the right flank and fixed dullness in the left which occurs in haemorrhage from the spleen. It is often spoken of as "Balance's sign". *The healing of nerves*, with J Purves Stewart. London, 1901. *Some points in the surgery of the brain and its membranes*. London, 1907; 2nd ed 1908. *Cerebral decompression in ordinary practice*. London, 1912. The Dog's Bill - scientific evidence - Pasteur and rabies, letters with W G Spencer in *The Times*, 19 April 1919, 30 March and 23 April 1927. Surgical experiment; the value of the method; historical examples, letter with W G Spencer, *Ibid*. 29 April 1919. *Essays on the surgery of the temporal bone*, with the assistance of C D Green; 2 vols. London, 1919. *On the surgery of the heart* (the Bradshaw lecture, RCS 11 December 1919). London, 1920. *A glimpse into the history of the surgery of the brain* (the Thomas Vicary lecture, RCS 8 December 1921). London, 1922. Some results of nerve anastomosis. *Brit J Surg*. 1923-24, 11, 327. Further results of nerve anastomosis, with Lionel Colledge and Lionel Bailey. *Ibid*. 1925-26, 13, 533. *The dawn and epic of neurology and surgery* (the Macewen memorial lecture). Glasgow, 1930. Mastoid operation, a glance into its history. *Arch Otolaryng Chicago*, 1932, 16, 55. The operative treatment of facial palsy by the introduction of nerve grafts into the Fallopian canal and by other intra-temporal methods, with A B Duell. *Ibid*. 1932, 15, 1. *Short papers on certain associated problems which arose during the conduct of an experimental research on the surgical treatment of facial palsy*, with A B Duell. London, 1932. *A note on the large pyramid cell of the facial area of the left Rolandic cortex in 14 Baboons and 4 rhesus monkeys, following certain experimental operations performed on the right facial nerve*, with A B Duell. Dundee, 1933. The original drawings illustrating this paper were presented by Sir Charles Ballance to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1933; they are preserved in the library. *On nerve surgery* (the Lister memorial lecture, RCS 5 April 1933). Dundee, 1933. *The conduct and fate of the peripheral segment of a divided nerve in the cervical region when united by the suture to the central segment of another divided nerve*. From the Research Laboratories of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London, 1934.
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First Title value, for Searching Ballance, Sir Hamilton Ashley (1867 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Ball, Sir William Girling (1881 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at New Barnet on 9 October 1881, he was the son of William Henry Girling Ball who was in business as a carpet warehouseman in Gresham Street, EC. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School, then in Charterhouse Square, from 1894 to 1899, he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he quickly made a name for himself, acting as house surgeon to Sir Anthony Bowlby, winning the Luther Holden research scholarship for surgical pathology, and becoming a demonstrator of pathology in 1907. He was elected assistant surgeon to the hospital in 1912, and in due course was promoted to surgeon. He was warden of the residential college for students from 1913 to 1920, and from 1925 was dean of the medical school. When he took office as warden in 1913 the St Bartholomew's medical school was conducted practically on the lines laid down when it was founded by David Pitcairn and John Abernethy about the year 1796. It was independent, though it had a loose connexion with the hospital; in fact, a proprietary school carried on for the benefit and at the sole risk of the teachers. When Sir Girling Ball went to take up war work in 1939 he left a school entirely reorganized and conducted on modern lines. A charter of incorporation had been obtained to make the school a medical college and to provide for the representation of the governors of the hospital upon its council; the school had become affiliated to the medical faculty of London University, and had acquired the site in Charterhouse Square formerly occupied by Merchant Taylors' School. Sir Girling Ball was mainly, but not wholly, instrumental in bringing about these changes. He was very popular with the students, and was reputed to have said publicly: "I would do anything for my boys, and my boys would do anything for me." At the Royal College of Surgeons he gained the Jacksonian prize in 1909 with an essay on the treatment of surgical affections by vaccines and antitoxins; he was a Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology in 1912, and a member of the council from 1934. He was vice-president 1943-45 and Bradshaw lecturer in 1944. He was also honorary secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1920 and was elected president in 1938. He was dean of the medical faculty of the senate of London University. In 1908 he joined the newly formed territorial force as captain, RAMC, *à la suite*, was called up in August 1914, served for a short time in France, and was then placed in command of the military wing at St Bartholomew's Hospital which was a part of No 1 London general hospital. He held an appointment as consulting surgeon to the RAF. During the 1939-45 war he was group officer for Sector 3 of the London region under the emergency medical service (Ministry of Health). He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1938. He married Violet Isobel, daughter of William Cavander, in 1912. Lady Ball survived him, but without children. Girling Ball died at Hill End Hospital, St Albans, on 16 July 1945, aged 65. A memorial service was held at St Bartholomew-the-Great on 25 July. He had practised before the war at 77 Wimpole Street. Girling Ball was a man of great physique and character. Under a brusque, commanding manner and an air of philistinism he hid administrative and intellectual abilities of uncommon quality. He made himself an invaluable member of all the committees on which he served through a mastery of the details of their business. One of his greatest contributions to British medicine was the part he played in organizing the emergency medical service in the war of 1939-45. Sir Francis Fraser, its director-general, wrote of him: "When war threatened Sir Girling Ball was an energetic member of the committees on whose advice the emergency hospital scheme and medical services were planned. He was largely responsible for shaping the London sectors, and the important part taken by medical schools and teaching hospitals of London in staffing and equipping the upgraded and expanded hospitals in the sectors was to an extent due to his guidance and help. Throughout the war, as chairman of the sector hospital officers, he was a source of strength to the headquarters staff of the emergency medical services in Whitehall, and by his example, leadership, and efficiency he was responsible to a great extent for the magnificent service rendered by their hospitals to the people of London in the years of air raid attacks. Ball helped in many ways the moulding of the medical profession and its institutions into a service for the nation." Ball was an excellent general surgeon, with special interest in urology. Publications:- *Diseases of the kidney*, with Geoffrey Evans, FRCP London, 1932, 424 pp. General surgical pathology and bacteriology, General surgery, Injuries and diseases of tendons and tendon sheaths, fasciae, bursae and muscles, Gonorrhoea. Sections 1, 2, 4, and 28, of *Surgery, a textbook by various authors,* edited by G E Gask and H W Wilson. London, 1920, pp. 1-175,283-299, 1179-1186. Some cystoscopic appearances in tuberculosis of the urinary tract. *Brit J Surg*. 1923-24, 10, 326. The treatment of simple papilloma of the bladder by fulguration. *Ibid*. 1924-25, 11, 760. Leiomyoma of the stomach. *Ibid*. 1938-39, 26, 942.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Edmund Weaver (1869 - 1931)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 12 May 1869, third child and second son of William Adams, brick and tile manufacturer, by his wife Clara Simkin. He was educated at the City of London School and at King's College Hospital. Here he gained the first Warneford prize in 1890 and the prize in medicine in the following year; afterwards acting as house physician in the children's ward of the hospital and as resident accoucheur. In the medical school of King's College he was an assistant demonstrator of anatomy. Settling at Slough, Bucks, in general practice, he became medical officer of health for the district in 1894, and in later life devoted himself to establish a Slough maternity home. He raised the necessary money for the purpose, and a proposal was set on foot after his death to endow it by means of a "Dr Weaver Adams memorial fund". He married in 1894 Constance, daughter of Captain Cockell of the Madras Staff Corps, Indian Army, who survived him with a son and three daughters; a second son was killed whilst serving in the RAF during the war of 1914-18. He died suddenly at Llandrindod Wells, whilst on a motor tour, on 24 September 1931, and was buried in the churchyard of St Laurence in the parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, Slough. Adams, in addition to his good professional work, distinguished himself at cricket as an excellent lob-bowler.
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First Title value, for Searching Wells, Robert (1808 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Button, Eardley Lorimer (1903 - 1982)

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First Title value, for Searching Butler, Richard Weedon (1902 - 1982)

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First Title value, for Searching Dodds, Robert Leslie (1898 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Burrows, Harold Jackson (1902 - 1981)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-21
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Harold Jackson Burrows was born at Harrow, Middlesex, on 9 May 1902. His father was Harold Burrows FRCS and his grandfather was a graduate of St Bartholomew's Hospital, who became a Surgeon-Major in the Bombay Army. He was educated at Edinburgh House, Lee-on-Solent and Cheltenham College, where he was a scholar. He then went to King's College, Cambridge, where he was a half-blue for rifle shooting, captained the shooting eight and regularly shot at Bisley. He went to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical training, won the Bentley Prize and qualified in 1927. He was house surgeon to the surgical professorial unit (1927-28) followed by his appointment as third assistant on this unit, working with Professor George Gask, Sir Thomas Dunhill, Mr (later Sir) James Paterson Ross, Mr (later Sir) Geoffrey Keynes. He was awarded a Beaverbrook Research Scholarship by the Royal College of Surgeons (1930-31) and he returned to Cambridge to work on tissue culture, thus increasing his knowledge of pathology as a basis of clinical work. He also spent six months at the Rockefeller Institute, New York, working under Alexis Carrel. Later he continued his research in the physiology department at the Royal College of Surgeons. Jackson Burrows was appointed surgical registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in 1931 and decided to devote his professional life to orthopaedic surgery. He was inspired by R C Elmslie, the first specialist orthopaedic surgeon at Bart's and one of the great pioneers in this speciality. They had much in common and Jackson Burrows remained a devoted disciple. He was also encouraged and helped by S L Higgs. He was appointed chief assistant in the orthopaedic department at St Bartholomew's Hospital (1931-36) and assistant orthopaedic surgeon (1937-48). When the second world war broke out he moved to Friern Barnet Hospital under the wartime arrangements of the Emergency Medical Service. As a Surgeon-Commander in the RNVR Jackson Burrows spent about two years of his service in Australia, renewing and forming many lasting friendships with antipodean surgeons who held him in high esteem. In 1949 he was greatly pleased to become an active civilian consultant surgeon to the Royal Navy and continued until 1977 in an honorary capacity. After the war he was appointed orthopaedic surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital (1948-67) and lecturer in orthopaedics at St Bartholomew's Medical College. He had a long association with the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital as assistant surgeon (1946-48); orthopaedic surgeon (1948-67) and he was Dean, Institute of Orthopaedics, British Postgraduate Medical Federation, University of London, 1946-64 and 1967-70. The latter appointment was a tremendous task which he took up with his usual enthusiasm, creating a department of pathology, a library which he largely furnished as well as providing the nucleus of books of historical orthopaedic interest, and a department of medical photography. In addition to all these responsible posts, he was honorary orthopaedic surgeon to the National Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System and to Chailey Heritage Craft School and Hospital which was near to his heart. He was consultant advisor in orthopaedics to the Ministry of Health and Chairman, Standing Advisory Committee on Artificial Limbs. He was awarded the Robert Jones Gold Medal in 1937 and he was elected to the executive committee of the British Orthopaedic Association, holding important posts culminating in his election as President in 1966-67. He was President of the Section of Orthopaedics, Royal Society of Medicine and served on the Council from 1964 to 1972. He was Nuffield Visiting Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, in 1963 and in 1964 he was visiting Professor at Los Angeles. In 1964 he was elected a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons and served until 1972. He was a Hunterian Professor in 1932 and received honourable mention for the Jacksonian Prize in 1933. He made a great contribution to the *Journal of bone and joint surgery* as assistant editor, then deputy editor and he was an active chairman of the editorial board from 1961 until 1973. During the whole of this period he was tireless in editing or rewriting other contributors' articles and he made a most valuable contribution to the style in which these articles were written. His own writings were admirable contributions to the literature and his clarity of thought and economy of expression were a constant challenge to contributors, for he had a great concern for the use of English. He became a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland; the Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopèdique; a member of the International Skeletal Society; a corresponding member of the Australian and American Orthopaedic Association and a member of the New Zealand Association. The Institute of Orthopaedics was a major concern of his and he was largely responsible for the funding of the only Chair in Orthopaedics in the University by the then National Fund for Research in Crippling Diseases, first held by his respected colleague, Sir Herbert Seddon, and the rich collection of historical books in orthopaedics. He was a first-rate orthopaedic clinician and surgeon and his patients looked upon him as a comforter and friend as well as a surgeon. There can be few famous surgeons who were so selfless and retiring and he was a gentleman whose kindness, courtesy, humour and work for others is long remembered. He was known as Jack to his family, Jacko or JB to his many friends and colleagues. He never married but was survived by his brother Kenneth and many adoring nieces and nephews when he died on 5 February 1981 aged 78 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Herbert, Herbert (1865 - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Born at Tranmere, Cheshire, on 25 February 1865, the eldest son and second of the four children of Richard Sherwood, barrister and deemster of the Isle of Man, who assumed the name of Herbert in 1876. He was educated at Liverpool and at the Leeds Medical School, and took the English Conjoint qualification in 1886. He was commissioned as surgeon in the Indian Medical Service, on the Bombay list, on 31 March 1887. He saw active service in East Africa and Somaliland in 1890 with the Zaila field force in the Husain Zariba affair. In 1891 he took the Fellowship, and was promoted major IMS on 31 March 1899, and lieutenant-colonel on 31 March 1907, retiring on 20 October 1907. Herbert specialized as an ophthalmologist, being from 1897 ophthalmic surgeon to the Jamsetji Jijibhai Hospital, Bombay, and a Fellow of Bombay University, and professor of ophthalmic surgery at Grant Medical College. On his return to England in 1908 he was appointed surgeon to the Midland Eye Infirmary at Nottingham, and was subsequently consulting surgeon. During the war he rejoined the IMS, serving from October 1914 to 1 April 1919 in hospital ships, at the Indian Hospital at Brockenhurst, and in India. He then settled at 6 Southview Drive, West Worthing, Sussex, becoming consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Worthing Hospital and consulting pathologist to the Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton. He was a vice-president of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. Herbert made his mark as an acute and original observer, and as an operator and inventor of operative techniques. He described "Herbert's pits" in the cornea of trachomatous patients, and his second, "trap-door" method of sclerotomy in glaucoma met with wide approval. His publication on superficial punctate keratitis was one of the earliest, and he was the first to record the presence of eosinophil cells in vernal catarrh. Herbert married in 1899, and was survived by two daughters and two sons, one of whom, Major Gerald Herbert, RAMC, FRCS 1931, was surgeon to St Cross Hospital, Rugby. He died on 19 March 1942, aged 77. Publications:- Changes produced in the conjunctiva by chronic inflammation. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1899, 19, 17. Colloid degeneration of conjunctiva. *Ibid* 1902, 22, 261. A distinctive conjunctival papule. *Ibid* 1912, 32, 199. *The practical details of cataract extraction*. London, 1902; 2nd edition, 1903. *Cataract extraction*. London, 1908. Superficial punctate keratitis in Bombay. *Brit med J* 1901 2, 1165. Superficial punctate keratitis associated with an encapsuled bacillus. *Ophthal Rev* 1901, 20, 339. The micro-organism of Indian superficial punctate keratitis. *Brit J Ophthal* 1931, 15, 633. The sinuous lid border, a sign of trachoma. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1907, 27, 38. Lower corneal plaques. *Ibid* 1908, 28, 251. Corneal pitting. *Brit J Ophthal* 1935, 19, 261 and 600. Subconjunctival fistula formation in the treatment of primary chronic glaucoma. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1903, 23, 324. The filtering cicatrix in the treatment of glaucoma. *Ophthalmoscope*, 1907, 5, 292. Small flap incision for glaucoma. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1910, 30, 199. Interim report on the small flap sclerotomy. *Ibid* 1911, 31, 202. The ideal glaucoma incision. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1913-14, 7, ophthalmology, p 127. The future glaucoma operation. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1919, 39, 218. An improved iris prolapse operation for glaucoma. *Brit J Ophthal* 1920, 4, 216. Small flap sclerectomy (rectangular flap sclerotomy). *Ibid* 1920, 4, 550 and 1922, 6, 65. Some late glaucoma results. *Ibid* 1921, 5, 417. A justification of the wide iris prolapse for glaucoma. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1921, 41, 239. *The operative treatment of glaucoma*. London, 1923. A new glaucoma theory. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1925, 45, 333. An iris inclusion operation for glaucoma. *Ibid* 1926, 46, 326. The future of iris inclusion in glaucoma. *Brit J Ophthal* 1930, 14, 433. Iris inclusion for chronic glaucoma. *Ibid* 1934, 18, 142.
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First Title value, for Searching Fatin, Mohamed (1906 - )

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2015-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Mohamed Fatin was born on 3 September 1906. He gained his FRCS in 1939. His last known address was in Cairo, Egypt.
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First Title value, for Searching George, Puthukudiyil Mathai (1940 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2015-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Puthukudiyil Mathai George was born on 20 May 1940. He studied medicine in Poona, qualifying MB BS in 1968, and gained his FRCS in 1978. He died on 19 January 2013 in Kochi, Kerala, India. He was 72.
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First Title value, for Searching Whitelocke, Richard Henry Anglin (1861 - 1927)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Jamaica, the fourth son of the Rt Hon W A Whitelocke, Member of the Executive Council of Jamaica, and of Bulstrode Park, Westmorland. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and then graduated at the University of Edinburgh, where he was Demonstrator of Anatomy in the School of Medicine and Clinical Ophthalmic Assistant at the Royal Infirmary. Next he was Medical Officer at the Fife and Kinross District Asylum, and was then House Surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary under Sir William Macewen (qv), whom he always regarded with enthusiasm. Subsequently he held a succession of posts: House Surgeon at the Maternity Hospital, Glasgow; Clinical Ophthalmic Assistant at Moorfields; and Clinical Assistant at the Throat Hospital, Golden Square, London, at the same time coaching in anatomy. In 1888 he settled in practice at Oxford, with the intention of practising ophthalmology, but found no opening. He therefore began general practice, acted as Demonstrator of Anatomy under Professor Arthur Thomson, and was admitted FRCS in 1893. He was elected Surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1899. He soon gained a reputation among undergraduates for the treatment of sprains and injuries of joints in sports - especially at football - being for many years Surgeon to the University Rugby Football Club, to the Great Western and London & North-Western Railways, Medical Referee to the County Court Circuit No 26, and Consulting Surgeon to the Thame Cottage Hospital and Nursing Home. He gave four courses of Litchfield Lectures on surgery at the Radcliffe Infirmary, and examined in Surgery at the Universities of Aberdeen and Liverpool. He was an active member of the Oxford Medical Society, of the Oxford and Reading Branch of the British Medical Association, and an original member of the Oxford Medical Graduates' Club from 1891. At the Oxford Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1901 he was Vice-President of the Surgical Section and a bard-working member of the Executive Committee. He was Chairman in 1909, and President in 1918, of the Oxford Branch. In 1914, at the Spring Meeting of the Provincial Surgical Club at Oxford, Whitelocke carried out a series of operations and demonstrated cases, which were specially commended by Mr Grey Turner. Sir William Osler, the Regius Professor of Medicine, was his friend, and after a talk by Osler at the Bodleian on the "History of Surgery", illustrated by books in that famous collection, there was a dinner in the Hall of Lincoln College, of which Whitelocke was an honorary member - the Rector, Dr Merry, presiding. During the War (1914-1918) Whitelocke was in charge of the Third Southern General Hospital, and afterwards acted as Surgical Specialist attached to the Ministry of Pensions. Whitelocke had a buoyant manner and was a good conversationalist who travelled much. He was a Freemason and Past Master of the Churchill Lodge No 478, was devoted to shooting and was a very good shot. When a weekly contribution scheme was started to help the Radcliffe Infirmary, he motored in the evening to many villages in all parts of the county to give addresses in favour of that object. He practised at 6 Banbury Road, and latterly had a consulting-room at 11 Upper Wimple Street, London. His health began to fail in the spring of 1927, and he died on November 19th, 1927. He married Barbara, the eldest daughter of G L Reid, MICE, of Brighton, who survived him with three daughters and two sons. His younger son, Hugh A B Whitelocke, was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1919. Publications: *Sprains and Allied Injuries of Joints*, 1900: *after Ten Years of Experience of X-ray Examinations*, 8vo, London, 1909; 2nd ed, 1910. "Loose Bodies in the Knee-joint." - *Brit Jour Surg*, 1913-14, i, 650. "Dislocations of the Patella." - *Ibid*, 1914-15, ii, 6, 349. "Appendicectomy - 843 Consecutive Removals by the Iliac Incision, Splitting the Muscles." - *Proc Roy Soc Med* (Surg Sect), 1919-20, xiii, 120.
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First Title value, for Searching Lister, Alfred Ernest John (1877 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Lister, Sir William Tindall (1868 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-28
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 4 November 1868, the sixth child and third son of Arthur Lister (1830-1908), FRS, merchant and botanist, and his wife, née Tindall. Arthur Lister was a younger brother of Joseph Lister, and William grew up in the centre of a most gifted medico-scientific family, comparable only to the Darwins. Originally Quakers, they joined the Anglican communion but retained the Quaker virtues. William's grandfather, Joseph Jackson Lister (1786-1869), FRS, was a wine-merchant and a microscopist of note; his uncle Joseph, Lord Lister (1827-1912), PRS, achieved the epoch-making introduction of antiseptic methods through his remarkable combination of outstanding gifts as surgeon and biologist; his father, Arthur, was an authority on the mycetozoa; Sir Rickman Godlee, PRCS, and Marcus Beck, FRCS were his first cousins, their mothers being his father's sisters; his elder brother Joseph Jackson Lister the younger (died 1927) became a notable zoologist, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and FRS 1900; his younger brother Arthur Hugh Lister CMG (died 1916) made his mark as a physician at Aberdeen; and Gulielma Lister, one of his four sisters, a botanist like their father, was in the first group of women elected into Fellowship of the Linnean Society. Of his own sons two became eminent in the medical profession: Arthur Reginald Lister, FRCS, as a surgeon at York, and William Alexander Lister, FRCP, as a physician at Plymouth; and a nephew Arthur Lister, FRCS, followed him as ophthalmic surgeon to the London Hospital. In this galaxy of talent Sir William Lister, who devoted his abilities to ophthalmology, was second in distinction only to his immortal uncle. William Lister was educated at Oliver's Mount, Scarborough, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1889 and graduating in medicine 1892. He received his clinical training at University College Hospital, where he was house surgeon to Sir John Tweedy, the ophthalmic surgeon, and took the Conjoint qualification in May 1895 and the Fellowship one month after. He was for some time pathologist and curator of the museum at Moorfields (Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital), and assistant surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital. Lister was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the London Hospital in 1903, and in 1904 assistant surgeon to Moorfields, but resigned the latter position a year later as his strength was not enough for the double work. At the end of the war, which he had spent on active service, he resigned the London Hospital surgeoncy in 1918 and was elected consulting ophthalmic surgeon. He was elected in 1919 surgeon to Moorfields, to which he devoted the rest of his working life, becoming consulting surgeon 1929. He was also consulting ophthalmic surgeon to King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, and ophthalmic surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. Lister was commissioned colonel, AMS, on 10 December 1914 and went to France as consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the British Expeditionary Force. There during four years of war he planned the ophthalmic services of the Army, and his ability and determination carried his plans to success. He devised the allocation of "roving ophthalmic consultants" among the army hospitals, and was also responsible for the distribution of equipment. With the help of J H Sutcliffe, MRCS, at Clifford's Inn he organized the supply and replacement of spectacles for the troops from "spectacle centres" in France. But his most successful achievement was the segregation and treatment of the large corps of Chinese labourers, affected with trachoma, which he carried through with the help of John Francis Cunningham. For his war service Lister was created CMG 1916 and promoted to KCMG 1919. In that year he was appointed surgeon oculist to the Royal Household, a position he held till 1936, and was rewarded with a KCVO in 1934. He was also consulting ophthalmic surgeon to Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank, through the war and till 1929. He gave an account in 1918 of his "War experience of gunshot and mustard-gas injuries of the eyes" in a Hunterian lecture at the College, and contributed the account of "Mustard-gas burns of the eye" to the Official Medical History of the War. He had been responsible for coping successfully with this new form of war injury, when it first befell the British Army. At Moorfields from 1919 to 1929 Lister elaborated the postgraduate teaching, emphasizing equally the pathological and clinical aspects of ophthalmology. His minutely careful operative technique and his knowledge and wisdom were also fully employed for the benefit of his patients and students. He was a slow worker, very self-critical, diffident at first and easily tired, but his will and integrity and mastery of his art gave him confidence and imperturbability when actively engaged in clinical or surgical work. He had learnt from John Tweedy, Edward Nettleship, and R. M. Gunn, and his own meticulous and enthusiastic search for knowledge enabled him to pass on with increased value the great tradition of the Hospital's teaching. He was an excellent teacher, but never took much part in professional societies, though a frequent contributor to scientific journals. He was a member of the editorial board of the *British Journal of Ophthalmology* from its beginning in 1917 and took part regularly in its work. Modesty led him to refuse twice the presidency of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, a position for which his wealth, charm, and prestige admirably fitted him. He was a most generous and hospitable man. At Moorfields he installed four Gullstrand lamps and equipped a small clinical theatre at his own expense. He retired from his hospital work in 1929, when he and his wife were both elected to the committee of management at Moorfields. He maintained his private practice till 1934. Lister worked strenuously and continuously to improve his beautiful technique and was much interested in developing instruments and devices. He invented the Lister frill operation for the removal of infected ruptured eyes; devised an electric model of Morton's ophthalmoscope and improved Basil Lang's perimeter in such a way that his model eclipsed all others and was generally adopted for constant use. Even after retirement he was ready to study the latest operative advances at first-hand. In 1923 he visited America and lectured on detachment of the retina and holes in the vitreous. In Switzerland in December 1929 he visited the clinics of Gavin, Alfred Vogt and Koly, and the next month, January 1930, he performed the first operation in England for detachment of the retina by their new method of ignipuncture, with a view to sealing the hole in the detachment. He went to Utrecht as late as March 1939 to see H J M Weve's work on retinal detachment. His opinion was highly valued by his colleagues, and he had a large private practice at 24 Devonshire Place, W. Lister married in 1894 Grace, daughter of William Cleverly Alexander, of Heathfield Park, Sussex. Lady Lister survived him with four sons, two of whom are mentioned at the beginning of this memoir. He died at his home, The Old House, Bledlow Ridge, High Wycombe, on the Chiltern hills above Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, on 7 July 1944, aged 75, and was cremated at Oxford. He left £1,000 to the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund and £500 to the Ophthalmological Society. Lady Lister endowed a travelling scholarship, "The Sir William Lister award in ophthalmology", at the Royal College of Surgeons in January 1948. Lister made time for many recreations. He was a skilful embroiderer and a keen musician, at one time a member of the London Bach Choir, and a good draughtsman. Photography was his favourite amusment, and he was in the first class as a photographer with the microscope and of architecture and mountains; he had been an active climber and a member of the Alpine Club. He rowed in his College boat (1st Trinity) at Cambridge, and was an accomplished skater. Publications: Case of macular coloboma associated with old choroiditis. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1900, 20, 188. Angioid streaks of the retina. *Ophthal Rev* 1903, 22, 151. Epithelial plaques of the conjunctiva, with W I Hancock. *Ophthal Hosp Rep* 1905, 15, 346. Disturbances of vision from cerebral lesions, with special reference to the cortical representation of the macula, with Gordon Holmes. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1915-16, 9, ophthalmology section, p 57. Evulsion of the optic nerve, with M L Hine. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1919, 39, 196. Punctate deposits on the retina. *Ibid* 1921, 41, 275. Detachment of the vitreous. *Trans Internat Congr Ophthal*, Philadelphia, 1922, 1, 50. Holes in the retina and their clinical significance. *Brit J Ophthal* 1924, 8, 1. Some concussion changes met with in military practice. *Ibid*, p 305.
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First Title value, for Searching Little, Ernest Muirhead (1854 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Dundas-Grant, Sir James (1854 - 1944)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in Edinburgh on 13 June 1854, the eldest child of James Dundas-Grant, advocate, and Louise Elizabeth Chapuy, his wife. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, at Dunkirk College in France, and at Edinburgh University, and took postgraduate courses in London, at Bart's, the London, the Middlesex, and University College Hospitals, and also at Wurzburg. Settling in general practice in London in 1877, he was attached to the Poplar Hospital and the Shadwell Lying-in Home, but his interest turned to oto-laryngology and in 1879 he was appointed surgical registrar to the Central London (now Royal National) Nose, Throat, and Ear Hospital in Gray's Inn Road, becoming later pathologist and surgeon. He took the Edinburgh surgical Fellowship in 1884, gave up general for consultant practice in 1886, and took the FRCS England in 1890. He was elected consulting surgeon to the Nose, Throat, and Ear Hospital in 1913, and was also consulting surgeon to the Sussex Throat and Ear Hospital at Brighton, and consulting laryngologist to the Freemasons' Hospital, the Brompton Hospital for Consumption, the Cancer Hospital and the West-end Hospital for Nervous Diseases. He was active in various medical societies and was president of the Hunterian Society and the British Laryngological Association; also president of the sections of laryngology and otology of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the corresponding sections at annual meetings of the BMA. He was a member of the American Laryngological Association, the Société française de Laryngologie, the Société belge d'Otologie, the Interstate Postgraduate Association of USA, the Oesterreichische otologische Gesellschaft, the Wiener laryngologische Gesellschaft and the Società italiana di Laringologia, d'Otologia e di Rinologia. Dundas-Grant was a keen volunteer, but had retired before the 1914-18 war with the rank of surgeon-major from the 24th Middlesex (Post Office) Rifle Volunteers, and had been principal medical officer of the 6th Brigade of the London Division of the National Reserve. He had also lectured at the College of Ambulance organized by Sir James Cantlie. During the war he was attached as aurist and laryngologist in London to the King George Military Hospital, Lord Knutsford's Hospital for Officers, the New Zealand Military Hospital, the Endsleigh Place Hospital, and the Russian Hospital; and was honorary consultant for diseases of the ear to the Ministry of Pensions 1917-20. For these services he was created KBE in 1920. Dundas-Grant married in 1890 Helen, daughter of Edward Frith. Lady Dundas-Grant died in May 1944, six months before her husband. He had practised at 148 Harley Street, and lived latterly at 32 Lexham Gardens, Kensington, W8, and finally in a flat at 29 Sheffield Terrace, Kensington, W8. He died in a nursing home at 27 Dartmouth Road, NW2, on 13 November 1944, aged 90, survived by his two sons, Bramwell Dundas-Grant and Commander J H Dundas-Grant, RN. His great vitality had been somewhat diminished by a street accident. He was cremated at Golders Green and a memorial service was held at Brompton Hospital chapel on 27 November 1944. Though he never wrote a book, Dundas-Grant was a prolific contributor to the scientific journals and to medical annuals and encyclopaedias. He was particularly ingenious in improving mechanical instruments, often of his own devising, and in the development of aids for hearing. His cannula for aspirating the middle ear, and his ligature-applicator for tonsillar vessels were at one time much used. He carried out considerable research on asthma and on laryngeal tuberculosis, and devised an operation for shortening an elongated uvula as a cure for cough. Sir James was a man of great social accomplishments. He was a skilled musician and a trained orchestral conductor; a good fencer; and a grand officer of freemasonry. He was honorary surgeon to the Royal Academy of Music, and honorary aural surgeon to the Royal Society of Musicians. For some time he was a manager of the Royal Institution. Publications:- Labyrinth tests. *Med Press*, 1922, 103, 501. Enlarged tonsils and adenoids. *W Lond med J*. 1924, 29, 1. Catarrhal deafness. *Practitioner*, 1925, 64, 385. Tuberculosis and cancer of the larynx. *Clin J*. 1925, 54, 469.
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First Title value, for Searching Burge, Harold William (1909 - 1975)

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First Title value, for Searching Aitken, Andrew Blair (1882 - 1935)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

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 6 May 1882 eldest eon of Andrew Aitken, wool manufacturer, and Anne Hogarth his wife. He was educated at Glasgow High School and University. He acted as house physician and house surgeon at the Victoria Infirmary and was afterwards house surgeon at the Glasgow Hospital for Sick Children. He served as prosector and as demonstrator of anatomy under Professor John Cleland at the University of Glasgow and then came to London, attached himself to the London Hospital, took his FRCS, and studied at the Tottenham Hospital and at the Throat and Ear Hospital in Golden Square. For a time he practised at Sunderland, but during the war he was gazetted captain in the RAMC on 1 June 1916, was posted first to Lincoln, then to Ripon, and finally went to France as surgical specialist at various casualty clearing stations. He returned to Sunderland on demobilization in 1919 but was soon invited to join G M Gray, FRCS in partnership at Lagos, Nigeria. The two partners soon re-organized the Creek Hospital, assumed responsible charge of the clinical and operative work of the African Hospital with 200 beds, and started a medical school at Yaba, five miles from Lagos. From this training-school Africans, after a four years' course ended by an examination, could be placed upon the Nigerian medical register. Aitken married Edith May Palmer on 7 February 1914 and died suddenly whilst bathing on 8 December 1935. She survived him, without children. He attended the Yellow Fever conference at Dakar in 1928 and received the French silver médaille des epidémies in recognition of his services to tropical medicine. It is said of him that he was very silent and reserved with no bedside manner, grim to those who tried to deceive him, but whole-heartedly attentive to those who were really ill. Publications:- Note on the insertion of the rectus abdominis muscle. *Glasg med J*. 1912, 78, 171. Case of doubling of the great intestine. *Ibid*. p 431.
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First Title value, for Searching Aitken, Robert Young (1872 - 1950)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

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 Gladstone, Reginald John (1865 - 1947)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-04
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born 9 June 1865, third and youngest son of Thomas H Gladstone, DPh and his wife Matilda, daughter of Joshua Field, FRS, a pioneer of large marine steam engines and one of the founders of the Institution of Civil Engineers. His father died when he was six. He was educated at Clapham Grammar School, Aberdeen Gymnasium, and Marischal College in Aberdeen University. He took his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital where he served as house physician and house surgeon, but since he was a victim of bilateral congenital cataract he decided to make his career as an anatomist. After periods of work at Cambridge and Vienna he served the Middlesex Hospital Medical School as junior and senior demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer in embryology, a subject of which he made himself master. He went with R A Young, MD to Vienna to study methods of teaching anatomy and surgery, and in 1906 to Vancouver for the British Medical Association. He left the Middlesex Hospital in 1913 on his appointment as Reader in anatomy and lecturer in embryology at King's College, London, posts which he held until his retirement at the age of 73 in 1938. Gladstone was a most conscientious teacher and popular with his students in spite of his extremely poor sight. He also devoted much time to research, and was a regular reader in the College of Surgeons Library for many years. He left a fully documented series of embryologic specimens at King's College Hospital Medical School, and a large collection of his own beautiful anatomic drawings for a projected *Handbook of Embryology* which he never could bring himself to complete. He was a frequent contributor to the *Journal of Anatomy*, *British Medical Journal*, *Annals of Surgery*, *British Journal of Surgery*, the *Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute*, and the*Proceedings of the Zoological Society*, but his only full scale publication was his great book *The pineal organ* which deals exhaustively with the comparative anatomy of median and lateral eyes. He also wrote the article "Brain" for the *Encyclopaedia Britannica*. He served for many years as Recorder of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and was an assiduous member of the Zoological Society of London, regularly visiting the gardens on Sundays. He was an accomplished draughtsman and a keen amateur of music. Gladstone lived for many years at 22 Court Lane Gardens, Dulwich, SE21, but the house was bombed in 1941 and he moved to Greenhayes, Sway Road, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, where he died on 12 February 1947 aged 81. He had married in 1912 his first cousin, Ida Millicent Field, who survived him with a son and a daughter. Publications:- *The pineal organ, the comparative anatomy of median and lateral eyes, with special reference to the origin of the pineal body*, by R J Gladstone; and a description of the human pineal organ considered from the clinical and surgical standpoints, by Cecil P G Wakeley; foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. London, Baillière, 1940. 528 pages, 324 illustrations. A presomite human embryo. *J Anat* 1941, 76, 9-44.
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First Title value, for Searching Sheldon, George Frank (1934 - 2013)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2014-01-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details George Sheldon was one of the most distinguished American surgeons of the late 20th century, having been president of the American College of Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Society of Surgical Chairmen, the Uniformed Services University Surgical Service Visiting Board and chairman of the American Board of Surgery. He was learned in the humanities as well as in the sciences, and became an icon of American surgery at home and abroad. George was a third generation physician - his maternal grandfather, George F Zerzan, was a family practitioner in Holyrood, Kansas, and his father, Richard Robert Sheldon, a family practitioner in Salina, Kansas, the town where George was born in 1934. He schooled locally and, owing to a shortage of medical personnel in rural Kansas during the Second World War, began helping his father in the operating theatre of the local hospital and worked there during his high school years. This led to his abiding interest in surgery. He attended Kansas University, taking a bachelor's degree in history and becoming president of the students' union before entering the Medical School, from where he graduated in 1961. During his time there he wrote a history of Kansas medicine since the founding of the state in 1861. He was awarded the L L Marcell award for the highest standing in medicine on graduation, perhaps an early sign of the honours to come. After an internship, he carried out military service in the Coast Guard, followed by a year of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, before starting his surgical residency in the University of California, San Francisco. He received the Helmut Fresca award for the best resident. There followed a research fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, before he returned to San Francisco with promotion to professor in 1980. Whilst in this post he founded one of the first US trauma centres and became chief of the trauma service which, in addition to residents, also trained military surgeons before their deployment to Vietnam. During this time he also pioneered the use of intravenous hyperalimentation. In 1984 he was invited to become chairman of surgery at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he remained for the rest of his career. Over the years he published more than 400 articles and book chapters, as well as eight books on such diverse topics as surgical biology, intravenous hyperalimentation, trauma, health policy, workforce issues and history. His last book was a biography of Hugh Williamson, one of the Founding Fathers, and he was working on a biography of his hero, Philip Syng Physick, the so-called 'father of American surgery', at the time of his death. He was noted as a teacher and educator as well as a scientist. While at the University of North Carolina he received numerous awards, including the Kansas University School of Medicine distinguished alumna award, the University of North Carolina Medical Alumni Association's distinguished faculty award and the distinguished alumni award from the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Kansas. In 2011, he received the hugely prized Thomas Jefferson award, for which the recipient has to show intellectual distinction, professional superiority and productivity, involvement in the humanities, service to the university and service to the community with a Jefferson vision for higher education. Almost from the time of his induction as a fellow in 1973 he became actively involved in the American College of Surgeons (ACS), giving the prestigious opening lecture at the 1978 annual clinical congress and being elected to the board of governors a year later. In 1984 he became a regent and during his years in this capacity he served on numerous committees and task forces, taking a particular interest in education and health policy. He was elected president in 1998 and in 2004 became the founding editor of the ACS web portal, which, by the time of his death, had 28 communities, 200 editors and some four million page views. In 2012 he was awarded the ACS lifetime achievement award, only the second surgeon to receive this distinction. George Sheldon was a great anglophile and took a keen interest in UK medical matters, especially the intricacies of the NHS. With his historical bent he took an interest in the Hunterian Museum and presented artefacts to the collection. Outside of medicine he was a devoted family man, happily married to Ruth (née Guy) , by whom he had three daughters: Anne, a teacher; Elizabeth, a social scientist; and Julia, a veterinary surgeon. He treasured visits to the family cabin in Colorado, where he could relax from the hurly burly of clinical and academic practice. The writer of this memoir first met George in 1973 in San Francisco when he was visiting the trauma centre established by Sheldon, as yet to obtain professorial recognition. After the meeting I recorded in my diary 'Sheldon is a go-ahead dynamic young surgeon who I think will certainly be a big name in years to come...' How prophetic those words turned out to be! George Sheldon died of heart failure on 16 June 2013, aged 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Alles, Emmanuel Caetan (1884 - 1935)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Kotahena, Colombo, Ceylon on 30 July 1884, the eldest child of Francis Dionysius Alles, broker of Whittall and Co, and Mary Rodrigo Perumal his wife. His father's brother was a Roman Catholic priest well known in Ceylon, the Rev P M Alles, OMI. He was educated at St Joseph's College, Colombo and entered the Ceylon Medical College in 1902. In 1906 he won the Tyagaraja medal for his work in materia medica, took first place in the first class at the second professional examination, and was awarded the second professional scholarship. He graduated LMS Ceylon in 1908 and came to England where he studied at the Middlesex Hospital, took the Conjoint qualification in 1909 and the Fellowship in 1912, after serving as clinical assistant at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital from 21 August to 21 November 1912, and returned at once to Ceylon, where he registered as a practitioner on 17 January 1913. On 3 March 1913 he was appointed house officer at the General Hospital, Colombo, and on 27 September house surgeon at the Victoria Memorial Eye Hospital. A year later, 1 October 1914, he was appointed lecturer in anatomy at Ceylon Medical College. At the General Hospital he was appointed fourth surgeon on 1 October 1920, raised to the first grade on 1 October 1922 and became third surgeon on 16 April 1931. At the time of his death, four years later, he was acting second surgeon at the hospital, and lecturer in surgery at the college. Alles married (1) on 2 April 1914 Julie Frances Massillamany, who died on 3 April 1926, leaving three sons and three daughters; and (2) his first wife's younger sister Mary Magdalene Massillamany, who survived him with a son and three daughters. He practised at MacCarthy Road, Colombo, where he died on 12 May 1935.
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First Title value, for Searching Bensley, Edwin Clement (1837 - 1923)

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First Title value, for Searching Cowell, Sibert Forrest Antrobus (1863 - 1949)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-06
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Occupation Administrator
Details Born 24 September 1863, the son of Thomas William Cowell, MRCS. He was educated at Westminster, where he entered in 1876, and was elected a Queen's Scholar in 1879, and at University College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1886. He became assistant secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1888 and succeeded Edward Trimmer as Secretary in 1901. He resigned in 1934, and was succeeded by his nephew. Forrest Cowell never married. Having lived throughout his working life in London, he moved to St Albans in 1940 and died there on Thursday, 13 January 1949, aged 85. His portrait is included in the council group of 1927, and there is a separate portrait in oils in the college's collection.
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First Title value, for Searching Bell, Leighton Craig (1923 - 2013)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2015-06-05
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Occupation General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Leighton Craig Bell was a consultant general surgeon at Pontefract, Castleford and Goole hospitals. He was born in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, on 17 February 1923 and studied medicine at Queen's University Belfast, qualifying MB BCh BAO in 1945. He gained his FRCS in 1952. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior surgeon to the government of Bahrain, a senior registrar in thoracic surgery to Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, and a research fellow in thoracic surgery at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Leighton Craig Bell died on 5 May 2013 in Ramsey, Cambridge. He was 90.
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First Title value, for Searching Vallance, James Thomas (1808 - 1871)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and practised at Stratford House, Stratford, Essex, where he was at one time Surgeon to the Leytonstone, Plaistow, West Ham, and Stratford Divisions of the Metropolitan Police; Medical Officer to the West Ham Workhouse; Surgeon to the Industrial Schools; to the Stratford Ward of the Union Workhouse; to the Social Sanitary Committee; to the Grove Hall Lunatic Asylum, Bow; and to the Stratford and Bow Union Lunatic Asylums in general. He retired between 1866 and 1869 and lived at Villette, Broadstairs, where he died on September 22nd, 1871. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. His son, Thomas James Valiance (qv), succeeded to his father's practice.
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First Title value, for Searching Low, Vincent Warren (1867 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Luard, Hugh Bixby (1862 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Davis, Edward David Darelan (1880 - 1976)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Edward David Darelan Davis was born at St Mellons, Cardiff, on 11 August 1880. His father was an iron master and he started his clinical career in 1900 as a student in the wards of Charing Cross Hospital, having completed the first examinations in medicine and dentistry at University College, Cardiff. He qualified in both medicine and dentistry in 1903. He had already come under the influence of Herbert Waterhouse, to whom he became house surgeon, and Christopher, later Viscount, Addison, then lecturer in anatomy, with whom he worked as demonstrator. He decided then to devote himself to ENT surgery, which was just emerging as a new and exciting speciality and was appointed in 1912 to the senior surgical staff at Charing Cross. A year in France in 1918 gave him experience in brain surgery, to which Waterhouse had introduced him. He was one of the younger members of the generation of ENT surgeons, all on friendly terms with one another, who during the years between the wars confirmed the status of the speciality. He served in various capacities on the staffs of the Royal Dental Hospital; the Throat Hospital, Golden Square; the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street; Mount Vernon Hospital; and Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank. He took his turn as member of Council and as President of the Otological and Laryngological Sections of the Royal Society of Medicine. He gave the Semon Lecture in 1947. During the second world war L G Brown and he kept the ENT department going in the Charing Cross Hospital, at that time situated in the Strand. He contributed many papers to the *British medical journal*, *Lancet* and *Journal of laryngology* on carcinoma of the nose, mechanism of the cardiac end of the oesophagus, leontiasis ossea and Paget's osteitis. After retiring in 1946 from the active staff of Charing Cross he pursued his anatomical interests for a few more years as curator of the Ferens Institute at the Middlesex Hospital. He continued on the council of the Medical Defence Union, for which he also served for a while as treasurer, and sat on the governing body of the Royal Dental Hospital. He went on contributing to learned journals into his seventies and attending professional meetings into his nineties. He read the *British medical journal* with critical interest until a week or two before he died. His keen interest in the affairs of Charing Cross Hospital and medical school was sustained over three-quarters of a century. He seems to have won, to an unusual degree, the affection of the students, nurses, and junior colleagues who worked with him. He married Miss Mildred Russell on 1 July 1911 and they had two sons and a daughter. His son Derek is the Professor of Mental Health at Bristol University and an FRCP. In his day he was a keen gardener, played tennis, golf, snooker and enjoyed swimming and skiing. His wife died in 1971 and he died on 20 February 1976, aged 95 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, John Arthur Lloyd (1919 - 1979)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

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 Davidson, Sydney Gordon (1900 - 1980)

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First Title value, for Searching Cotter, Patrick William (1919 - 2012)

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by J R M Davidson
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2013-05-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Patrick William Cotter was a general surgeon at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand. He was born in Runanga, New Zealand, on 17 July 1919, the son of William Makuri (Bill) Cotter and Sophie Mary Adelaide Cotter née Appleby. At the time of Pat's birth, his father was a GP, but a year or two later the family moved to the UK, where Bill undertook surgical training. After a short time, Pat was sent back to New Zealand to live with his grandmother on a farm in Pahiatua. His parents returned to New Zealand in 1926, when Pat was seven; he barely knew them. Pat was educated at Fendalton School, entering Christ's College, Canterbury, in 1933 and leaving in 1937, in which year he was a house prefect, captain of swimming and in the athletics team and in the second rowing four. He spent a year at Canterbury University studying basic sciences, and then entered Otago Medical School in 1939. Whilst still at Otago, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant. After graduating MB ChB at the end of 1943, he spent a year as a house surgeon in Christchurch, and then, in 1945, he was posted to Fiji with the New Zealand Medical Corps, with the rank of captain. He returned to New Zealand in 1946, left the Army, and in January 1947 married Prudence Mary Pottinger from Wellington. He went to London by ship in March, with Prue following two months later. In the UK, Pat studied for the primary examination and passed it, and then attended courses and lectures at Guy's, St Thomas's and the Royal College of Surgeons, and clinics with Stanford Cade, Norman Tanner and others. He held locum posts at St Peter's and Great Ormond Street, and was a registrar at St Giles Hospital, Denmark Hill. He passed the final FRCS in 1949. He returned to Christchurch, New Zealand, where he was a senior surgical registrar. He then moved into private practice, in rooms with his father, and did private surgery, brief GP locums, insurance work and tutoring for final year medical students. He became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1953 and was appointed to Burwood Hospital for a small number of sessions the following year. When the Princess Margaret Hospital opened in 1959, Pat was appointed to a general surgical position there. In 1963 he moved to Christchurch Hospital, where he formed a surgical team with Rob Davidson. Pat retired in 1985. Pat Cotter's contributions to medicine in general and surgery in particular were immense. He was a member of the Canterbury divisional committee of the New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) for 10 years, was a delegate to the council and was on the central specialists' committee and was treasurer of the biennial meeting of NZMA in 1979. He spent six years on the editorial committee of the *New Zealand Medical Journal*. He was too busy to publish much, but an important piece of work was the publication, with Derek Hart and Bill Macbeth, of the results of a study of the levels of blood alcohol in patients involved in motor vehicle accidents ('Christchurch traffic trauma survey: Part 1, Blood alcohol analysis' *N Z Med J*. 1975 Jun 11;81[541]:503-7). He took the findings to a select committee of the New Zealand Parliament, and legislation followed in due course. The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons was also an abiding interest. He was a member of the New Zealand committee for 10 years, on the court of examiners for eight years, and was joint secretary of the annual scientific meeting in Christchurch in 1966. He had a special regard for Fiji and its people from his time there at the end of the war, and returned to help with teaching and operating on a number of occasions over the years. Pat developed a very busy private surgical practice. Perhaps his greatest service to private surgery was the founding (in 1960) of the surgeons' and anaesthetists' instrument pool, which eliminated the chaotic system of each surgeon arriving to operate with a bag of instruments, which then required sterilisation. So, on a given weekend, the surgeons brought their instruments, on which their initials were engraved. For a small fee, these were then sorted into sets and kept sterilised and ready for use. Pat and Keith Drayton ran the pool until they retired. Pat was part of what the then chairman of the Medical Assurance Society called the 'dissident coterie', those members who realised that all was not well with the Society and, against strenuous opposition from the then directors, changed the entire culture and direction of the organisation, transforming it into a sound business. Pat was a director of the Society from 1972 to 1980. Pat developed an early interest in medical education through the branch faculty, which eventually became the Christchurch School of Medicine of the University of Otago. He served on the joint relationships committee of the branch faculty and hospital board, and was one of the so-called 'Gang of Four' with Don Beaven, Fred Shannon and George Rolleston in the chair, who met with increasing frequency from 1967 to 1972 to plan the opening of the school. It was a remarkable achievement to have the school built and functioning for student entry in 1973. Outside medicine, Pat had interests which he pursued with equal vigour. A real estate friend guided him in the purchase of commercial property, and he bought, built and owned many properties in association with his son Paddy, including farm developments. He was chairman of a number of companies. He developed an enthusiasm for and great knowledge of forestry. He was a member of the Central Canterbury Farm Forestry Association and latterly chairman. In 1960 Pat and Prue bought a section at Charteris Bay in the Lyttelton Harbour area, built a holiday cottage there and developed the steep hillside. They then leased a peninsula opposite, and planted it entirely with Monterey pines, which are now mature. Finally, in 1980, they bought land at Pigeon Bay. Here Pat planted a great variety of trees and employed a manager to take care of the stock. He and Prue built a beautiful cottage to replace the old wooden house, with a view down the bay to the sea and surrounded it with rhododendron, fruit trees and flowers of all descriptions. There they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in January 2007. In the early 1980s, Pat, who was a well-known hoarder, was asked to form a committee to collect items of historic interest of a medical nature. The fear was that the new management of the hospitals might be inclined to dispose of items that were historically significant. The collection grew and a means of looking after it long-term was needed, so Pat and Prue settled the Cotter Medical History Trust to 'collect, preserve and display' items of an historic medical nature. Many permanent displays have been organised, an outstanding collection of old microscopes has been purchased, books have been catalogued, and photographs and plans identified and filed by a loyal and enthusiastic band of volunteers inspired by Pat. He also documented the lives of many doctors, mostly, but not exclusively, in Canterbury. Pat was never a man for the limelight, but he received two awards late in life which pleased him. The first was the Christchurch Civic Award, which was given in 2005 for his work with the Medical History Trust. The other was his appointment as Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, in 2009. Pat Cotter was a splendid colleague. Everything he did was thoroughly researched, properly executed and carried through to a satisfactory conclusion. As his son Christopher said at his funeral: 'Pat was a complex individual. He was opinionated and outspoken …. He was fiercely focused … and to an extent obsessive. …At the same time he could be remarkably generous and extraordinarily parsimonious.' Pat Cotter died on 26 June 2012, following a stroke, just three weeks short of this 93rd birthday. He was survived his wife, Prue, and their children - Christopher, Kate, Paddy and Jane - 14 grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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First Title value, for Searching Edibam, Raten Cavashah ( - 2012)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2015-04-24
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Ratan Cavashah Edibam was an orthopaedic surgeon in Perth, Western Australia. He gained his FRCS in 1963 and subsequently studied at Liverpool University. He was also a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He died in July 2012.
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First Title value, for Searching Daly, Ashley Skeffington (1882 - 1977)

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First Title value, for Searching d'Allaines, François Louis Paul de Gaudart (1892 - 1974)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation Gastrointestinal surgeon General surgeon
Details François de Gaudart d'Allaines was born in Blois. His father was serving in the French Army but resigned in 1905 on account of the Army becoming implicated in the controversy between the Catholic Church and the anti-clerical government. François early decided to be a surgeon and when the first world war started he was a junior resident. He joined the Army and served with an ambulance at Verdun. After the war he became assistant to Paul Lecène at L'Hôpital Saint Louis and quickly showed great surgical skill with enthusiasm for new developments in surgery. He was especially interested in gastro-intestinal surgery and was the first in France to perform a total gastrectomy for carcinoma. He developed a technique for a one stage operation for resection of carcinoma of the colon, and a transacral approach for carcinoma of the rectum with preservation of the anal sphincter. After the second world war he became interested in the new development of heart surgery and also the removal of aortic aneurysms. He was President of the Association Française de Chirurgie, and a member of the Académie des Sciences to which traditionally only two surgeons are admitted. A man of great culture as well as an outstanding surgeon he was interested in all human achievement and especially in literature and art. He returned to his native county in the Loire Valley where he had acquired a small chateau at Clemont which had formerly belonged to his family. There he bred cattle and was killed by a car when inspecting his herd in February 1974.
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First Title value, for Searching Dalal, Karsoulal Kesharlal ( - 1962)

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First Title value, for Searching Wherry, George Edward (1852 - 1928)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-30
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Bourne in Lincolnshire on December 31st, 1852. He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital and passed the examination for MRCS a few months before he attained the legal age for qualifying. He served as an Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital for a short time until he was elected House Surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, in 1874. He held the post for three years, became a member of Downing College, and graduated BA and MB in 1878. Sir George Humphry (qv) nominated him to act as his deputy at the Hospital, where he was elected as an additional Surgeon on Nov 24th, 1879, having just previously passed the examinations for the Fellowship of the College and the Master of Surgery in the University. He resigned his office of Surgeon in 1915 and was elected a Consulting Surgeon. Soon after his appointment as Surgeon he instituted the Ophthalmic Department. From 1884-1911 he was University Lecturer on Surgery and undertook the course of operative surgery and the clinical teaching. After the death of Professor Howard Marsh (qv) in 1915 Wherry acted as supervisor of the surgical examinations in the University. In 1927 he was complimented by being elected an Hon Fellow of Downing College. Wherry married in 1881 Albinia Lucy, daughter of Robert Needham Cust, LLD, of the Bengal Civil Service. She was killed in a motor accident on March 4th, 1929, leaving a daughter who married Major R W Oldfield, Military Attaché to the Legation at Prague. Wherry died with acute abdominal symptoms at Zermatt whilst on a holiday in Switzerland on Aug 12th, 1928. Three years before his death he was successfully operated upon for a popliteal aneurysm by ligature of the femoral artery at the apex of Scarpa's triangle. Wherry was tall, spare, and active, a good runner in early days and an Alpine climber. He was on the Committee of the Alpine Club and contributed to the Alpine Journal. At home he was a local antiquary, and was a lover of Charles Lamb, about whom he published Cambridge and Charles Lamb in 1925, telling the story of six Cambridge 'Charles Lamb dinners' held between 1909 and 1914. Publication: "Notes from a Knapsack," 8vo, Cambridge, 1900.
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First Title value, for Searching Whipple, John (1800 - 1877)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Kingsbridge, Devonshire, on June 24th, 1800, the son of Commander Whipple, RN; studied at the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, as a pupil of Sir Stephen Hammick, Bart (qv), and at St Thomas's Hospital. For some years he accompanied Admiral Sir A Cochrane on his travels as Surgeon, and then settled in practice in Plymouth. During the cholera epidemic in 1832 he laboured so zealously in the cause of the sick that he was presented with the freedom of the town and with a silver snuffbox in token of the gratitude and esteem of his fellow-townsmen. He was a bold and skilful surgeon, and in 1886 divided the tendo Achillis for the relief of club-foot, being the first British surgeon to do so. On February 7th, 1846, he amputated at the hip-joint, the third time that operation had been done with success in England. The patient survived Whipple, being alive in 1877. From the establishment of the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital in 1840 he was one of the Surgeons, retiring in 1870 in favour of his son, Connell Whipple, MRCS. For many years he was Surgeon to the Plymouth Dispensary. At the Plymouth Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1871 he was President, and on his retirement from that office in 1872 was made Vice-President for life. Whipple's kindness of heart made him very popular in South Devon and Cornwall; he devoted himself to practice and hospital work and took no part in public affairs. Although ailing for the previous year, he continued work until a month before his death, which occurred at St Andrew's Lodge, Plymouth, on June 18th, 1877.
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First Title value, for Searching Whishaw, Reginald Robert (1862 - 1908)

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First Title value, for Searching White, Andrew (1780 - 1858)

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First Title value, for Searching Niven, Peter Ashley Robertson (1938 - 2013)

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by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2014-03-07
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Peter Niven was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Bristol. He was born in London on 3 March 1938, the son of Harold Robertson Niven, a Cambridge law graduate, who had served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was a detective chief inspector in the City of London police, and Elizabeth 'Betty' Isobel Robertson née Mair, daughter of Alexander Mair, professor of Greek at Edinburgh. Peter had two brothers - Colin, who became headmaster of Alleyn's School, and Alistair, a former director of literature at the Arts Council. Peter won a scholarship to Dulwich College and flourished academically. He also made his mark in several sports, representing his school at rugby, captaining the second XI cricket team, playing hockey, which was his favourite game, and golf, which became a lifelong interest. At Dulwich his fascination with history was stimulated by the *James Caird*, a life boat kept at the school, which the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton used in 1916 to travel to South Georgia to seek help after his ship *Endurance* had become trapped in ice. Peter later visited the site of the expedition on an Antarctic cruise. He went on to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, with an exhibition and a state scholarship. He continued to enjoy both his academic and sporting pursuits and, after graduation, went to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical training. He represented the medical school at rugby and cricket. He was a house physician in Luton and Dunstable, and then returned to Bart's as a house surgeon in neurosurgery. Deciding on a career in obstetrics and gynaecology, the requirement was to gain the FRCS and then a specialist qualification. His surgical training started as a demonstrator in anatomy at Bristol. He remained there until he gained his FRCS in 1966. He then held resident appointments at Queen Charlotte's and Samaritan hospitals in preparation for his membership examination of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which he gained in 1969. He then returned to Bart's for his registrar and senior registrar posts. At Bart's, under the direction of Tim Chard, he researched human placental lactogen, and was awarded an Eden travelling fellowship, which took him to Miami to work under Bill Spellacy. This work resulted in him being presented with the Purdue-Frederick award by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. After his stay in Miami he drove his family in a small car, and just a tent to sleep in, across America to Santa Barbara. The journey took three weeks. His first consultant appointment was to Newcastle General and Hexham hospitals. Very soon after he moved to Bristol. His disciplined approach to teaching was much-valued. He made a significant contribution to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, becoming a member of the education board, and chair of the higher training committee and the working party on assessment of surgical skills. He served as an examiner for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and for many universities in England and Scotland, including London, Bristol, Liverpool and Cardiff, and also abroad in Hong Kong and Sudan. He was chairman of the South Western Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society from 1997 to 1998, and a member of several distinguished clubs and societies, including the Gynaecological Visiting Society, the Royal Society of Medicine and the Medical Reading Society in Bristol. He was especially interested in the vaginal approach to pelvic surgery. He contributed a chapter on endoscopy in gynaecology for the third edition of *Shaw's textbook of operative gynaecology* (E & S Livingstone, 1968). As an obstetrician he immediately won the confidence of his patients and their families by his readiness at all times to help with problems and practical difficulties. He was often in demand by colleagues to care for their families. He continued to walk, play golf and ski. He was a member of the Bristol and Clifton Golf Club and served as captain of their seniors. He had a remarkable memory for sporting detail, from turf to track. Reflecting the breadth of his interests, he was a member of Probus and the Savage, Clifton and Shakespeare clubs. He married Peta, who was a Bart's nurse, in 1964. They had three sons, Alistair, Iain and James. They were a close family, and holidays were adventurous and challenging, rather than restful! They walked from the west to the east coast of England, and Offa's Dyke was another favourite. To celebrate his retirement Peter canoed from the source of the Thames to the Dulwich College boathouse with three school friends. In 2005 Peter was found to have renal carcinoma and had a nephrectomy. In 2010 he was found to have a secondary tumour in the lung. He died on 7 March 2013, aged 75. He enjoyed a fulfilled life, devoted to his family and profession.
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First Title value, for Searching Newman, Sir George (1870 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Newman, John Campin (1872 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Newton, Sir Hibbert Alan Stephen (1887 - 1949)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Alan Newton was born in Melbourne, 30 April 1887, son of Hibbert H Newton, Clerk of Parliaments in Victoria, and his wife, who was descended from the distinguished English legal family of Stephen. He was educated at Haileybury College, Melbourne, and Melbourne University, where he qualified in 1909, taking first place in the final honours list and winning the Beaney surgical scholarship. At the Royal Melbourne Hospital he was resident medical officer 1910, surgical registrar 1911, and surgical clinical assistant 1912-13 to Frederick Bird. At this period he came to England, and worked at University College, London, under Ernest H Starling, FRS, the professor of physiology, and at the National Hospital, Queen Square, under Sir Victor Horsley, studying shock injury of the spinal cord. He was also influenced by Gordon Clunes Mathieson and by Arthur Hertz (Sir Arthur Hurst), who was making a pioneer study of bowel movement by X-ray observation after opaque meals. Newton now went back to Australia and was appointed surgeon to out-patients at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1913, after taking the MS degree at Melbourne in 1912. During the war of 1914-18 Frederick Bird went on active service in 1914 and Newton followed him in 1916. He served in France as a major in the Australian Army Medical Corps, and worked in 1917 with Harvey Cushing in the Ypres salient. He became a Fellow of the College by examination in 1919. When he started again at Melbourne, Newton quickly developed his great surgical skill, and began to deploy his abilities as teacher and administrator. He had a profound knowledge of anatomy always at the call of his brilliant visual memory, and great manual dexterity supported by sound and decisive judgement. As a lecturer and public speaker he was clear, accurate, and concise, with felicitous command of moving English and no trace of local accent. In private conversation he had a quiet, winning sense of humour. Newton remained a general surgeon, though originally attracted to brain surgery and a pioneer of thyroid operations in Australia. Among much notable work he developed Hamilton Russell's operation for hernia, perfected his own technique of operation for gastro-jejunal ulcer, performed a remarkable end-to-end suture of a pancreas ruptured by a horse's kick, and devised the incision along the outer border of the erector spinae for exposure of the kidney. He was elected a Fellow of the American College in 1924, and was a foundation Fellow of the Australasian College in 1927, the year of his appointment as surgeon to his hospital; he became consulting surgeon on retirement in 1946. He was also consulting surgeon to the Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. At the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons he was censor-in-chief in 1936, in succession to Hamilton Russell, was knighted that year in King Edward VIII's only honours list, 23 June 1936, and was president 1942-45. He was an Honorary Fellow of the British Medical Association and vice-president of its Victorian branch, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was for many years a member of the Faculty of Medicine at Melbourne University, and later a member of the University Court and was Stewart lecturer in surgery from 1947. He was also a councillor of Trinity College. Newton effected in 1945 an arrangement for co-operation in teaching among the three principal hospitals at Melbourne and promoted the formation of a permanent postgraduate education committee. He served on the Medical Board of Victoria, and was chairman of the board of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Research. During the second world war, 1939-45, Newton was consulting surgeon at the Australian Army Headquarters, with the rank of colonel. He was throughout the war a member of the Central Medical Co-ordination Committee, and from 1940 chairman of the Medical Equipment Committee of the Commonwealth. In this capacity, and without waiting for higher authority, he seized a fleeting opportunity and bought the whole Java quinine crop of 1941, just before the Japanese occupied the Netherlands Indies, and thus saved the health of the Australian forces in their long struggle to regain the East Indies. He was elected an Officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. After retirement he became a director of several prominent Australian business firms, including the National Mutual Life Association and the Fourth Victoria Permanent Building Society. Newton married in 1919 Mary Cicely, daughter of J Hartley Wicksteed, who survived him with a son and daughter. They lived at 272 Domain Road, South Yarra. He died at Melbourne on 4 August 1949, aged 62. Physically, intellectually, and in character he was a great man. His son is a barrister in Melbourne, and his daughter a lecturer at Melbourne University. Publications: A study of the superficial veins of the superior extremity in 300 living subjects, with R J A Berry. *Anat Anzeiger*, 1908, 33, 591. Some anatomical and surgical considerations of the normal double bismuth meal. *Austral med J* 1912, 1, 631. The normal movements of the colon in man, with A F Hertz. *J Physiol* 1913, 47, 57. A preliminary note on an experimental investigation of concussion of the spinal cord and allied conditions. *Brit med J* 1913, 1, 1101. Fracture dislocation of cervical vertebrae without lesion of the spinal cord. *Austral med J* 1913, 2, 1329. Two cases of syphilitic gummata. *Med J Austral* 1914, 1, 37. Latent fracture and fracture dislocation of the cervical vertebrae. *Ibid* 1915, 1, 164. A preliminary note on the treatment of perforated duodenal ulcer, with W W S Johnston. *Ibid* 1915, 2, 507. Case of chronic empyema treated by visceral pleurectomy. *Ibid*. 1916, 1, 7. A case of lipoma growing from the sheath of the ulnar nerve. *Ibid* p 241. Study of gunshot wounds of the brain, with A E Brown. *Brit J Surg* 1919, 7, 72. The treatment of renal tumours. *Med J Austral* 1922, 1, 634. Cholecystitis and its complications. *Ibid* 1927, 1, 69. Carcinoma of the colon, with H Searby. *NZ med J* 1929, 28, 83. Operation for cure of oblique inguinal hernia, with H Searby. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1929, 48, 491. Case of successful end-to-end suture of the pancreas. *Ibid* p 808. Pulsion diverticulum of the pharynx. *J Coll Surg Austral* 1929, 2, 3. Carcinoma of the jejunum. *Austral NZ J Surg* 1931, 1, 103. An analysis of nine hundred and ninety-five cases of acute appendicitis treated at the Melbourne Hospital. *Ibid* 1932, 1, 311. Toxic goitre, with H H Turnbull and P MacCallum. *Ibid* 1933, 2, 244. A lecture to nurses on toxic goitre. *Una*, 1933, 31, 261. The system of admission to Fellowship of the College. Austral. *NZ J Surg* 1934, 4, 77. Place of surgery in early carcinoma of the breast. *Med J Austral* 1935, 2, 69. The spirit of the place. *Melbourne Hosp Clin Rep* 1935, 6, 49. Role of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in post-graduate education. *Med J Austral* 1936, 1, 129. Major surgery in patients over 70 years of age. *Ibid* p 187. On surgical education, Halford oration, Institute of Anatomy, Canberra. *Ibid* 1937, 1, 41. Surgical apprenticeship. *Austral NZ J Surg* 1937, 6, 424. Toxic goitre with special reference to end-results, Listerian oration, British Medical Association, South Australian branch. *Med J Austral* 1938, 2, 265. The hospital management of patients suffering from thyrotoxicosis. *Roy Melbourne Hosp Clin Rep* 1938, 9, 133. Drainage in acute appendicitis. *Austral NZ J Surg* 1939, 8, 241. Making medical men, Bancroft memorial lecture, Queensland branch, BMA. *Med J Austral* 1939, 2, 87. The Gordon Craig research and education grants. *Austral NZ J Surg* 1939, 9, 85. Gunshot wounds of the brain. *Med J Austral* 1940, 1, 22. Problems relating to supply of medical equipment. *Ibid* 1940, 2, 453. Control of medical equipment in nation at war, Syme memorial lecture, Victorian branch, BMA *Ibid* 1944, 2, 101. Presidential address, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. *Austral NZ J Surg* 1944, 14, 68. Presidential address, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. *Ibid* 1945 15. 68. Forgotten abdominal pack. *Roy Melbourne Hosp Clin Rep* 1946, 17, 11. Balance sheets of cash and cures. *Ibid* p 42. Silver spoons and golden genes, Sir Richard Stawell oration, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. *Med J Austral* 1947, 2, 677. The development of thyroid surgery in Melbourne. *Royal Melbourne Hospital, centenary volume*, 1948, p 36.
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First Title value, for Searching Newton, Robert Earle (1867 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Smart, John Gordon (1926 - 2013)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2014-07-18
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details John Gordon Smart was appointed to the Leicester Royal Infirmary as a general surgeon with an interest in urology in 1965. Later he became the first pure urologist to the hospital and was responsible for building up the urology unit to become the largest in the Trent region. Possessing an administrative flair, he also started the day unit service and directed it after its inception in 1979, being responsible for the planning and later the running of the definitive day stay unit at Leicester's City General Hospital. Eleven specialties used the unit and it boasted one of the largest through-puts in the country. He was born in London on 5 June 1926, the second son of John McGregor Smart, a merchandise buyer and importer, and Margaret née Edwards, a seamstress. His older brother, Donald, also studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital and became a general practitioner. Gordon started his secondary education at William Ellis School in Highgate, north London, and continued at Highgate School (for some of the war years the school was evacuated to the country). He was extremely athletic in these schooldays, a fast sprinter and good at both rugby and soccer: indeed, he was approached to have a trial for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Training at Middlesex Hospital, he graduated in 1949 and served six months as a house surgeon under R Vaughan Hudson, then a senior surgeon at Middlesex Hospital. National Service followed in the medical branch of the RAF from 1950, when he was stationed at RAF Scampton with 617 Squadron ('The Dambusters'). After a year he was promoted to squadron leader for his work on high altitude flying. Already developing an interest in art, Gordon particularly admired the pencil drawings drawn by many of the airmen who lost their lives during wartime operations: he felt that they received scant recognition. Returning to civilian life, although electing to pursue a career in surgery, he first needed to obtain a post in medicine and became a house physician at Willesden General Hospital. Following this, he benefitted from a six-month spell in general practice as he covered his older brother Donald's absence on sick leave. After studying on the Royal College of Surgeons' course and passing the primary FRCS, he commenced his surgical training as a casualty and receiving officer at senior house level to the Dreadnought Seaman's hospital. This post was a requirement for those sitting the final FRCS examination at the time. He furthered his experience at senior house officer level in general surgery and urology at St James' Hospital, Balham, being privileged to gain experience with Norman Tanner in gastroenterology, and was introduced to urology by H K ('Pop') Vernon and H Burke. After attending a postgraduate course at St Thomas' Hospital, he passed the final FRCS examination in 1957, before continuing his general surgical experience as a registrar for a year to H L Cochrane at Fulham Hospital. He broadened this good base at registrar level in a two-year rotating post, starting with R W ('Bob') Nevin at St Thomas' Hospital, then at the Hydestile branch, the Royal Waterloo Hospital, before gaining further experience in the casualty department back at St Thomas'. A locum senior registrar post for a year at St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, added to his overall experience as he worked with two general surgeons, Bernard Williams and J W Younghusband, and also W Wiggins-Davies, whose main interest was in urology. Gordon felt he needed further experience in the developing specialty of urology and obtained a rotating senior registrar training post at St Thomas' Hospital and St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. Starting in Chertsey, he worked with a most delightful general surgeon, Murray Pheils, who was an excellent teacher. In 1965 Pheils left this post and a lucrative private practice to take up a newly created position as professor of surgery at the Repatriation Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales. Back at St Thomas' Hospital, Gordon worked with the urological surgeon T W Mimpriss, achieving his aim of concentrating on urology. He saw and treated a lot of urothelial tumours of the bladder and upper tracts and published a paper on 'Renal and ureteric tumours in association with bladder tumours' (*Br J Urol*. 1964 Sep;36:380-90). Further research work into the use of radioactive phosphorus in prostatic cancer led to a South West Regional Board prize and a paper 'Radioactive phosphorus treatment of bone-metastatic carcinoma of the prostate' (*Lancet*. 1964 Oct 24;2[7365]:882-3). He was able to drop some clinical commitments and, with the aid of funding from the regional board, he set up a laboratory and employed a technician for studies on urinary infection. This valuable experience in research led to a thesis for the MS degree and to his election as Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. He delivered a lecture on 'The diagnosis and localisation of urinary infections' at the College on 10 March 1966. His successful application for the post of consultant surgeon with an interest in urology in Leicester was supported by T W Mimpriss, Murray Pheils and R W Nevin, the highly respected general surgeon and long-time dean of the St Thomas's Medical School. Once in post, he showed the determination and eloquence he had exhibited back in his schooldays. In 1943, as a schoolboy, he had taken part in a BBC Home Service programme presented by the eminent sociologist Karl Mannheim, discussing a variety of topics, including 'Why do we agree over right and wrong?', 'Can society survive without common values?' and 'The power of society to influence man's behaviour'. As a consultant surgeon, Gordon showed he was clearly a person who had strong opinions on what he felt was best and proved outspoken in committees. He was supported by his consultant colleagues in the development of the urology unit and day care facilities. Not afraid of hard work, he worked up to the last moment before enjoying family holidays - something appreciated by his patients who recognised his personal care. He did not suffer fools gladly, but was very supportive of all the clinical staff, particularly the nurses. He assumed many roles even before he became a consultant. From 1962 for six years he was an examiner for the Royal College of Nursing and tutor in anatomy for the Association of Occupational Therapists for two years. After his consultant appointment, from 1974 to 1982, he was a Royal College of Surgeons tutor for the Leicester area. From 1986 he represented all surgical specialties and day services on the management board. His colleagues thought so highly of his endeavours that he was elected chairman of the Leicester area consultants committee for two years from 1976, after less than 10 years as a consultant. He enjoyed his membership of the Punch Club, an informal group of urological surgeons, and was a supportive member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and the urology section of the Royal Society of Medicine, being an elected member of both councils. As a mark of esteem his colleagues in hospital and general practice elected him president of the Leicester Medical Society from 1989 to 1990, having served as secretary some 10 years previously. During his training, at a party, he met Joanna ('Jo') Brenchley, a nurse at Middlesex Hospital. They married in Ospringe, Kent, in 1956, and she supported Gordon during much of his surgical training, undertaking a variety of jobs herself, ending up studying at the Bar. After moving to Leicester, she became a Justice of the Peace, working on the criminal and domestic benches. Jo was also a member of the Police Authority, being heavily involved in a charity which supported prisoners in their rehabilitation once they had served their sentence. Fiona, their only child, was born in 1966, after Gordon had taken up his consultant post. She became a civil servant and then set up her own company. Gordon and his wife were very fond of travel, visiting India, Pakistan, Israel and Jordan. Gordon was also interested in arts and antiques. Having collected many paintings, he enjoyed painting himself in both oils and acrylic. He was a great admirer of Turner's works. In his own painting, he was a perfectionist, just as he was in his distinguished surgical career. Sadly, shortly after his retirement, Jo was diagnosed with advanced myeloma. Gordon supported her during her various treatments, and nursed and cared for her until she died in 2004. Fiona, always encouraged by her father throughout various stages of her life, was equally supportive of him in his later years. J Gordon Smart died peacefully at his home in Wymeswold, Leicestershire, on 22 February 2013 aged 86, with Fiona by his side.
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First Title value, for Searching Pepper, Augustus Joseph (1849 - 1935)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 7 November 1849 at Barrowden, Rutlandshire, the second son; of Anthony Sewell Pepper, butcher, and Rachel Swann, his wife. He was educated at Barrowden and at Billesdon School, Leicestershire. He then entered University College, London with a scholarship, and in the medical faculty won the Atkinson-Morley surgical scholarship, the Filliter exhibition in pathology, and the Bruce medal in surgery and pathology. At the University of London he was equally successful: in 1873 he gained the exhibition of £40 and gold medal value £5 in anatomy, the gold medal in physiology and histology, the gold medals in chemistry and materia medica at the first MD and at the final MB in 1876 the gold medals in medicine, forensic medicine, and obstetric medicine. He served as house physician, obstetric assistant, and surgical registrar at University College Hospital, and as demonstrator of anatomy under G Viner Ellis, who remained his friend for life, in the medical school. He was also teacher of practical surgery. He was appointed in 1880 an assistant surgeon supplementary to the staff at St Mary's Hospital, where he was lecturer on histology and medical tutor 1880-82. He was in charge of out-patients 1882-97, surgeon 1897-1910, and consulting surgeon from 1910 until his death. He lectured on clinical surgery jointly with Herbert Page 1897-1900, with A Quarry Silcock 1900-05, and with J E Lane 1905-06. Pepper was an accomplished anatomist, a remarkably good operator, a precise pathologist, and a first-rate teacher. These qualities led him almost by accident to become one of the leading exponents of forensic medicine, on the gross pathological side as opposed to toxicology. He was at first called in by the coroner, Dr Danford Thomas, to make autopsies and give evidence at the inquests which it was Thomas's duty to conduct. Pepper was so careful and clear a witness that his fame spread, and he was summoned by the Home Office to unravel the more difficult cases often associated with crime and he was thus associated with the trials of Crippen and the Moat Farm murderer and was a witness in the Druce case. It may be noted that as early as 1882 Pepper gave a postgraduate course at St Mary's Hospital on practical legal medicine. Pepper is described as a short man of very vivid personality. When confronted with a difficult case he at once stripped the history of all extraneous matter and went straight to the point, making an exact diagnosis, which was nearly always correct. His clear mode of thinking and his logical mind made him a brilliant, popular, and impressive clinical teacher and lecturer. He was at his best in the operating theatre, where his exact knowledge of anatomy caused him to be perfectly at home even in the most difficult operations, whilst his courage and resource in sudden emergencies were outstanding features. He was somewhat retiring in private life; he was a fine whist player and an expert horticulturist. Sir Leander Starr Jameson of the "Jameson raid" in South Africa, who had been a fellow student, remained throughout life an intimate friend. He died on 18 December 1935 at Bracknell, Foots Cray Lane, Sidcup, Kent, survived by his wife, Rachel Lockley, whom he married on 7 March. 1898. There were no children. Publications: *Elements of surgical pathology*. London, 1883; 4th edition, 1894; German translation, Leipzig, 1887. Perforating ulcer of the foot in a patient affected with remarkable degenerative changes in the spinal cord and nerves, with A Quarry Silcock. *Trans Path Soc Lond* 1884 85, 36, 63. Lectures on practical legal medicine. *Lancet*, 1887, 2, 399; 555; 903. Excision of the thyroid for malignant disease; recovery. *Ibid*. 1891, 1, 770.
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First Title value, for Searching Perrin, Walter Sydney (1882 - 1935)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at 50 Camberwell Road, SE, on 25 April 1882, the eldest son of J Walter Perrin, a City merchant, and Harriet S Savage, his wife. He was educated at Wilson School under Mr McDowell, at Richmond Hill School under Mr Whitbread, and at the City of London School under Mr A T Pollard. On 1 October 1901 he was admitted with a Tancred scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He graduated BA in 1904, after gaining a first class in Part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos and a first class in zoology in Part 2. He had by this time come under the influence of Adam Sedgwick of Trinity College, who was starting a school of protozoology at Cambridge. Perrin was given the Shuttleworth research scholarship and the Thruston prize by Caius College and was sent to Austria, where he went to the zoological station at Rovigno, Istria, and worked in the laboratory of Prowazek during the autumn of 1904 and the first half of the year 1905. On his return to England he was awarded the Walsingham medal and £20 given by the University of Cambridge for papers published as a result of his work on protozoology with Prowazek, and was given the post of University demonstrator of zoology under Sedgwick. He remained in Cambridge trying unsuccessfully for a Fellowship at Caius College and maintaining himself by coaching until 1907, when he realized that zoology would not maintain him and turned to medicine. He entered the London Hospital as a student, gained an entrance scholarship and two years later the Jonathan Hutchinson prize for an essay on intussusception, was awarded the medical and surgical scholarships, and was admitted MRCS and LRCP in 1912. He took the Mastership of Surgery at Cambridge in 1914, but never graduated MB. At the London Hospital he filled the posts of house surgeon, house physician, and surgical registrar, was elected assistant surgeon in 1921, and became surgeon in 1928. He also acted in the medical school of the hospital as demonstrator of anatomy when William Wright was head of the department. During the war Perrin acted first as officer in charge of the Belgian Field Hospital at Fumes; he was gazetted temporary lieutenant, RAMC on 12 March 1918 and temporary captain a year later, on appointment as a surgical specialist at various casualty clearing stations in France. On demobilization he returned to his ordinary civil duties. He married Dorothy Edith Rafferty on 9 December 1916; she survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died after a short illness on 8 December 1935 at 16 Upper Wimpole Street, aged 53. Perrin, had his means allowed of it or had he gained a properly remunerated teaching post, would have been as good a protozoologist as he afterwards became a surgeon. He was excellent at research and a trained teacher of students. As a surgeon he devoted himself more especially to the diseases of the rectum, and was president of the subsection of proctology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1932-33. His last appointment was as surgeon to the Royal Masonic Hospital. Publications: A preliminary communication of the life history of Trypanosoma balbianii. *Proc Roy Soc* 1905, B 75, 368. Researches upon the life history of Trypanosoma balbianii. *Arch Protistenk* 1906, 7, 131. Preliminary communication on the life history of Pleistophora periplanetae. *Proc Camb Phil Soc* 1906, 13, 204. Observations on the structure and life history of Pleistophora periplanetae. *Quart J micr Sci* 1905-06, 49, 615. Note on the possible transmission of sarcocystis by the blowfly. *Spolia Zeylan* 1907, 4, 58. Intussusception, a monograph based on 400 cases, with E C Lindsay. *Brit J Surg* 1921-22,9, 46-71. The ambulatory treatment of piles. *Lancet*, 1929, 1, 569.
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First Title value, for Searching Whitehead, Sir Hayward Reader (1855 - 1925)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-06
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Gawcott, Buckinghamshire, on July 14th, 1855, the second son of the Rev T C Whitehead, Head Master of Christ's College, Finchley. He studied at Charing Cross Hospital, and, becoming FRCS, was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital in 1881. He was also Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. Another Assistant Surgeon of the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, A W D Leahy (qv), together with Whitehead, entered for the Army Medical Examination at the same time. Leahy took first place for the IMS, and later became Lieutenant-Colonel. Whitehead, resigning his posts in London, joined the Army Medical Department as Surgeon on probation, gained the Montefiore Gold Medal at Netley in 1882, and was gazetted Surgeon Captain on July 29th, 1882. He was promoted to Surgeon Major on July 29th, 1894, and to Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel by special promotion for service on the North-West Frontier of India on May 20th, 1898. He became Colonel RAMC on January 26th, 1905. From 1892-1896 he was Assistant Professor of Military Surgery in the Army Medical School at Netley. He was next sent to India and saw active service in the Tirah campaign, 1897-1898, being present at the action of Dargai, the capture of the Sampaglia and Arhanga Passes, the operations against the Khanni Khel Chamkannis tribe of Afridis, and those in the Bara Valley. He was mentioned in dispatches in the *London Gazette*, April 5th, 1898, was awarded the Medal and two Clasps, and specially promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. He then held administrative posts until 1908, when he was appointed Principal Medical Officer in the Mohmand Campaign on the North-West Frontier. He was again mentioned in dispatches and received the Medal and Clasps. On January 21st, 1909, he was promoted Surgeon General and posted as Deputy Director to the Southern Command in England. In 1912 he was transferred to the Eastern Command until 1915. In July, 1915, he was sent to Malta as Director of Medical Services; in March, 1916, he was appointed Principal Medical Officer of the British Forces at Salonika, and continued in that post until September, 1917, being mentioned in dispatches (*London Gazette*, December 6th, 1916, and November 14th, 1917). He was made KCB, a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, Commander of the Legion of Honour, and received the 2nd Class of the Serbian Order of St Sava, and the Greek Order of the Redeemer. He retired to Whinfleld, Cobham, Surrey, and died at Lyndhurst on September 28th, 1925. He married in 1898 Evelyn Wynne, the second daughter of Colonel H Cayley, CMG, IMS, who survived him. Major W T Whitehead, MC, RAMC, Government Bacteriologist in the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at Khartoum, was his nephew.
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First Title value, for Searching Peters, Edwin Arthur (1868 - 1945)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born 16 April 1868 at Merstham, Surrey, second child and second son of Edwin Peters and Damaris Kingsnorth, his wife. He was educated at Charterhouse and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in Part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1889, and second-class honours in Part 2, 1891. He then entered Guy's Hospital, won the gold medal for diagnosis, and served as house physician. Peters specialized as an oto-laryngologist, and after postgraduate study at Heidelberg he became clinical assistant at the Throat Hospital, Golden Square. After serving as senior clinical assistant at the Royal Ear Hospital (the nose, throat, and ear department of University College Hospital) he was elected to its staff and ultimately became consulting surgeon. He was consulting aural surgeon to the Bolingbroke Hospital and to Paddington Green Children's Hospital. During the first world war he served as captain, RAMC, commissioned 21 December 1914, and was subsequently for many years otologist and laryngologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley. Peters carried on his large private practice to the end of his life, long after he had given up his hospital appointments. He was honorary secretary of the laryngological section at the Royal Society of Medicine, and president of the otological section in 1934. Peters married twice: (1) on 7 March 1895 Alice Mary Serjeant, whose two daughters survived him, one an artist and the other, Dr Alice D K Peters, BM, BCh Oxford, an industrial dermatologist and medical officer to a Royal ordnance factory; (2) on 27 April 1933 Margaret R A Mains, who survived him with a son and daughter. He died on 29 January 1945, aged 76, and was buried at Netley Abbey. He had practised at 41 Wimpole Street and lived at Queensborough Terrace and at Ingleside, Netley Abbey, Hants. In addition to valuable clinical studies in his own specialty, Peters carried through some useful anatomical and physiological researches. He early improved the current surgical technique in mastoid operation. He also devoted much care to the study of climatic effects on public health. He was a man of great loyalty, courtesy, and kindness. His favourite recreations were golf and partridge-shooting, at both of which he excelled, and he enjoyed carpentry, yachting, and country pursuits. Publications: *Handbook of diseases of the ear*, by Richard Lake, 5th edition by E. A. Peters. London, 1927. Nose and throat, in T N Kelynack *Tuberculosis in infancy and childhood*, London, 1908. Treatment of hysterical deafness by pseudo-operation, with Sir Arthur Hurst. *Lancet*, 1917, 2, 517. Infection of Eustachian tube, presidential address to otological section. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1934, 28, 221. Tonsils and naso-pharyngeal sepsis. *Lancet*, 1935, 2, 1354; and as a pamphlet, London, Baillière, 1935.
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First Title value, for Searching Whitehouse, Edward Orange Wildman (1817 - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Whitehouse, John (1858 - 1893)

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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, William Weatherston (1915 - 2013)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2014-09-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details William Weatherston Wilson, known as 'Bill', was a highly-respected general surgeon who spent his entire consultant career in Lancashire. He was first appointed as an assistant surgeon at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan, in July 1949; he was then 'upgraded' in February 1950 to consultant surgeon to the Wigan and Leigh Group and Wrightington Hospital on a salary of £1,684-1s-10p per annum, the norm for consultants appointed in the early years of the NHS as maximum-part-time employees. Described as having a sharp eye and ready wit, he was popular with patients from all social backgrounds. The son of William Weatherston Wilson, an industrial chemist, and Mary Wilson née Hobson, a housewife, he was born on 13 March 1915 at Bonhill, a small town situated in the Vale of Leven, West Dunbartonshire. He had two sisters, Mary Conway Berry and Rebecca Weatherston Wilson. His step-mother was Mabel Gertrude Wilson. After boarding at Scarborough College from 1928 to 1932, he decided to embark on a career in medicine and entered Manchester University to pursue his studies. Here he was greatly influenced by John Sebastian Bach Stopford (later Lord Stopford of Fallowfield), his anatomy professor. Perhaps not as academic as some of his contemporaries, having won no prizes, he was captain of the University Athletics Club and was shot-putter for the English Universities Athletic Union. After qualifying in 1938 with a MB ChB and the conjoint diploma, he held house appointments at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham. In 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War, Bill volunteered to join the RAMC and served as a captain for six years. Working in the Middle East as a graded surgeon, in 1942 he was ordered to Amman, Transjordan, to take charge of the Italian Mission Hospital at very short notice. He discovered that the Italian missionary surgeon, who was in charge of the hospital, had been telephoning Rome daily about British troop movements. As he was the only doctor in the hospital, Bill performed all the surgical operations, as well as being the administrator. He could only blame himself for any poor anaesthetics, as he had to administer them all. His repertoire was all-inclusive: he dealt with numerous skull fractures, brain abscesses and hysterectomies, cholecystectomies and mastoidectomies, in addition to the common hernias in all anatomical sites. Returning from Egypt to Manchester, he passed the primary FRCS in 1946 and the final examination the following year, proceeding to the ChM in 1953. His first post in civilian life was as a supernumerary chief assistant in general surgery at Manchester Royal infirmary for two years from May 1946. After this, he worked for a further year as chief assistant at the Christie Hospital. He then gained his first consultant post in Wigan at the age of 34. In addition to his busy clinical life, he had an early baptism into administration, serving for six years on the hospital management committee. He was also active in the Wigan branch of the BMA. A great supporter of postgraduate activities, he was secretary of the Manchester Surgical Society for five years and became president in 1951. He was a founder member of the Wigan and Leigh Medical Society, a weekly meeting point for hospital doctors and general practitioners. He was also an active member of the flourishing Manchester Medical Society, founded in 1834. He became president of the section of surgery in 1971 and delivered his presidential address on 'Quis lapidem posuit: a speculation on gallstones'. He was elected an honorary member of the section of surgery in 2009, at the meeting celebrating 175 years of the foundation of the society. In spite of a busy professional life, he still found time to analyse the results of his surgery in a critical manner and published worthwhile articles. His early publications were case reports, such as 'Adenomatoid leiomyoma of the epididymis' in the *British Journal of Surgery* (*Br J Surg*. 1949 Oct;37[146]:240). His first article resulted from his observations during the war. 'Hepatic hydatid disease' was published in the *British Journal of Surgery* (*Br J Surg*. 1950 Apr;37[148]:453-63); the paper reviewed the natural history of the disease and described his observations in the public abattoir in Amman, where some 12 per cent of slaughtered sheep were infested with hydatid cysts. As an established consultant surgeon, he wrote 'Thyroid disease and some complications' in the *Annals* of the Royal College of Surgeons (*Ann R Coll Surg Engl*. 1973 Jul;53[1]:27-39. Another paper, 'Revision operations after primary gastric surgery', was also published in the *Annals* (*Ann R Coll Surg Engl*. 1982 Jul;64[4]:225-8). In this he discussed his experience over 31 years as a single surgeon working in a district general hospital of 179 reoperations after primary gastric surgery failed to relieve symptoms of duodenal ulcer. He served the College as a member of the Court of Examiners from 1970 to 1982, six years in general surgery and another six years in ophthalmology. He was external examiner in surgery abroad in Basra, Lagos, Tripoli, Juba, as well as at home in Edinburgh and Glasgow. All this extra service from a provincial centre was something to be admired, as was his election to the National Distinction Awards Committee, of which there were 20 members in total and only three surgeons. He served on the committee from 1978 to 1981. One honour he prized above all others was his election to the 1921 Travelling Surgical Club and serving as its president in 1972 - a mark of fellow members' esteem. All was not work in Wigan! Bill was a regular skier in alpine resorts, a keen fly fisherman and golfer. He was a member of his local Wigan golf club for 51 years, but was more active in the game after retirement. As a knowledgeable fisherman, he was a member of Wynesdale Fishing Club for half a century. Brown and rainbow trout in one of the lakes in the Peak District of Derbyshire rose to his expectations from time to time. He was a member of the Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall, London. Bill met his future wife, Ruth Audrey née Ainsworth (aka 'Jane') at Manchester University Medical School after he returned from the Second World War. Jane became a paediatrician and family planning expert. She and Bill had three sons, all having 'Weatherston' attached to the surname Wilson: Angus William, Gerald William and Adam Charles. In a note attached to his CV, Bill wrote of his wife: 'Charming wife Jane who is a paediatrician but also an outstanding cook who entertained many surgeons from at home and abroad at her dinner parties.' Unexpected tragedy struck the Wilson household when their eldest son, Angus, was maimed in a road traffic accident in 1984. He died in 2013, after 29 years as an invalid. This must have been a severe problem for Bill and Jane to face in their retirement years, and also for their two remaining sons, Gerald and Adam. During his last few years, Bill and Jane continued to live in the large family house at Charnock Green until late 2011, when he had a minor stroke and his wife also became unwell. Their sons converted the house to make it suitable for 'nursing home' purposes, with the provision of carers as their needs increased. William Weatherston Wilson died on 23 May 2013 at his home in Chorley, Lancashire, at the age of 98. He was survived by his wife Jane and his two remaining sons, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Sadly, Jane died just a year later, on 5 June 2014.
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First Title value, for Searching Flemming, Percy (1863 - 1941)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-19
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 30 January 1863 in London, the eighth of the nine children of Horatio Henry Flemming, owner and manager of a saddlery and harness business, and Julia Steggal, his wife. He was educated at University College School, London, passing at sixteen to University College Medical School, where he was university scholar in medicine in 1887 and took honours in midwifery, surgery, materia medica, and anatomy at the MB examination in the same year, and won the gold medal at the MD examination in 1888. He was demonstrator of anatomy in 1886, and later house physician at University College Hospital and demonstrator of anatomy to Professor Sir George D Thane, at University College. As a young man he coached students privately, and being interested in the medical education of women he earned a reprimand for taking women students into the anatomical museum at University College. After taking the Fellowship in 1889 Flemming decided to specialize in ophthalmology. He served as clinical assistant to Sir John Tweedy at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, having as a colleague Sir John H Parsons, and from 1900 to 1919 was an additional assistant surgeon there, elected on the expansion of the staff. He failed at his first candidature for the assistant surgeoncy under Sir John Tweedy at University College Hospital, but was elected a year later on the resignation of Marcus Gunn in 1897. He was elected surgeon in 1904, and resigned as consulting surgeon in 1923, when a eulogy with a good portrait was published in the *UCH Magazine*. He continued his private practice at 70 Harley Street for five years, but believing that the lack of day-to-day hospital experience unfitted him for treating his own patients adequately he retired to St John's Wood in 1928. In 1939 he moved to The Firs, Upper Basildon, near Pangbourne, Reading. While living there he was elected a member of the Reading Pathological Society in 1939. Flemming married on 29 December 1892 Emily Elizabeth Haden, MD, a former student of the Royal Free Hospital and subsequently consulting physician to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, formerly the New Hospital for Women, on whose staff Flemming himself served as ophthalmic surgeon. Mrs Flemming died at Upper Basildon on 12 August 1940 and a memorial service for her was held at Trinity Church, Marylebone Road, on 21 August (*Lancet*, 1940, 2, 218). Flemming was a first-rate teacher and was the last professor of ophthalmic medicine and surgery at University College before the chair was absorbed by the University of London; he received the title of emeritus on retirement. He served on several official and other committees including the Committee for the Prevention of Blindness and the Departmental Committee on the Partially Blind. With Marcus Gunn, Flemming helped to found the training school for ophthalmic nurses at Moorfields. He published a number of papers in the *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society*, and was particularly interested in the ocular signs of general disease, such as thrombosis of the cavernous sinus. He was always an explorer and student of old London, and published a history of Harley Street. After retirement he worked seriously at London archaeology, was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1931, and made a study of monastic infirmaries, particularly that of Westminster, for the London Museum at Lancaster House. Flemming died at Upper Basildon on 19 December 1941, aged 78. He was survived by three sons and one daughter. One of his sons, Cecil Wood Flemming, is an FRCS. Publication: *Harley Street from early times to the present day*. London, 1939.
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First Title value, for Searching Footner, George Rammell (1879 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Mannington, Frank (1873 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Mansell-Moullin, Charles William (1851 - 1940)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Guernsey on 24 October 1851, the second child and second son of James Mansell Moullin, MRCS, who was then surgeon to St Mary de Castro Hospital in the Island, and his wife Matilda Emily Grigg of Newbury, Berks. His father moved afterwards to 80 Porchester Terrace, London, W2, and practised there for many years, becoming district accoucheur at St Mary's Hospital. Charles was educated at a private school and matriculated from Pembroke College, Oxford, after obtaining a scholarship on 26 October 1868. He gained a second class in classical moderations in 1870 and a first class in the final school of Natural Science in 1872. In 1877 he was elected to the medical Fellowship at Pembroke College and held it until 1886. He won the Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in 1875 and took postgraduate courses in Vienna, Paris, and Strassburg, and was an examiner in the final school of Natural Science in 1883. Receiving his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he filled the offices of house surgeon, house physician, and assistant chloroformist. Finding that there was a likelihood of a surgical vacancy on the staff of the London Hospital, he applied for and was elected surgical registrar there in 1880, became assistant surgeon in 1882, then surgeon, and finally consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1909. In the Medical School attached to the Hospital he lectured on comparative anatomy, was senior demonstrator of anatomy, lecturer on physiology and subsequently on surgery. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was an examiner in physiology 1884-92, was a member of the Council 1902-15, and vice-president. He was a Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology in 1892 and 1914. He delivered the Bradshaw lecture in 1912 "On the biology of tumours". During the war he served with the rank of brevet colonel, RAMC(T), at the second London General Hospital and was decorated CBE as a reward for his services. He married Edith Ruth Thomas in 1885. She survived him with one son, who entered the RAF; Mrs Mansell-Moullin died on 5 March 1941. He died on 10 November 1940 at 2 Cottesmore Court, W8, aged 89. Mansell-Moullin was one of the most brilliant graduates of University of Oxford trained under the old regulations when biology, taught as a whole, was based on a sound training in Latin and Greek. Quiet and unassuming, his career at the London Hospital was somewhat overshadowed by that of his colleague and contemporary, Sir Frederick Treves. He worked untiringly with his wife for more than twenty-five years to secure for women the right to be trained as doctors, and was a prominent supporter of the Suffragette movement. His surgical work fell into three periods. At the beginning he was interested in genito-urinary surgery, and his Hunterian lectures in 1892 dealt with the operative treatment of enlarged prostate. He then turned to the stomach and appendix, and even in 1900 could show excellent results from gastro-enterostomy. He often operated for gastric haemorrhage. From 1910 onwards he became absorbed in seeking the origin of carcinoma. He was a rapid operator, and it was told of him that once when removing a testicle his reply to the statement by the anaesthetist that "The patient is ready now, Sir", was "Thank you, I have just finished and am putting in the last suture". He was a sound practical teacher, who inspired loyalty and affection in his house surgeons and dressers. His textbook of surgery, though very good, never achieved popularity. Publications: *On the pathology of shock* (MD thesis). London, 1880. *Sprains, their consequences and treatment*. London, 1887: 2nd edition, 1894. *Surgery*. London, 1891; 3rd edition, 1895. *The operative treatment of enlargement of the prostate* (Hunterian lectures). London, 1892. *Enlargement of the prostate, its treatment and radical cure*. London, 1894; 4th edition, 1911. *Inflammation of the bladder and urinary fever*. London, 1898. *The surgical treatment of ulcer of the stomach*. 1902. *When to operate in inflammation of the appendix*. 1908. *The biology of tumours* (Bradshaw lecture). 1912.
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First Title value, for Searching Maples, Ernest Edgar ( - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Mapother, Edward (1881 - 1940)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation Psychiatrist
Details Born at 6 Merrion Square, Dublin, on 12 July 1881, the only son of the seven children of Edward Dillon Mapother and his wife, Ellen, daughter of John Tobin, MP, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. His father, surgeon to St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, professor of anatomy and physiology, and president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland 1879-80, was for many years one of the most successful teachers in Dublin. The family moved to London about 1888 and his father practised at 32 Cavendish Square. Edward, the son, was educated at University College School and at University College Hospital, where he gained the medals in anatomy and physiology and graduated at London University with medals in medicine and pathology at the MB examination. He then acted as house physician to Dr Risien Russell at the National Hospital in Queen Square, Bloomsbury. During 1908-14 he was a medical officer at the Long Grove Mental Hospital, Epsom. He was gazetted a temporary lieutenant, RAMC, on 14 April 1915, and served in Mesopotamia and France until he was recalled to the neurological division of the Second Western General Hospital, which had its headquarters at Manchester. As the neurologist he organized and opened two hospitals at Stockport, acting as officer in command until they were closed in March 1919. From September 1919 to November 1920 he was medical superintendent of the Maudsley Hospital during its tenure by the Ministry of Pensions. In 1923 the Maudsley Hospital was opened by the London County Council to fulfil the purposes for which its founder, Henry Maudsley, had endowed it. Mapother was placed in charge and held office until he resigned on account of ill health in 1939. The hospital became an undisputed success as a centre of teaching, treatment, and research, owing largely to Mapother's initiative and foresight. For some years he was physician in psychological medicine at King's College Hospital, London, and he was elected professor of clinical psychiatry in the University of London, when the chair was established in 1937 and was made tenable at the Maudsley Hospital. At the Royal College of Physicians he served on the Council in 1937 and 1938, and delivered the Bradshaw lecture in 1936. He also gave the Norman Kerr lecture at the Society for the Study of Inebriety in 1938. He was president of the section of psychiatry, Royal Society of Medicine, in 1933, and vice-president of the section of neurology and psychiatry of the British Medical Association in 1934. He married in 1915 Barbara Mary, daughter of Charles H Reynolds; she survived him, but without children. Mrs Mapother died on 21 August 1945. He died on 20 March 1940, after a long illness due to asthma and pulmonary fibrosis, at Mill Hill Emergency Hospital, which was then a branch of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Mapother did much to develop and stabilize psychological medicine in this country. He used scientific methods and adhered to the principles of sound clinical medicine. He was entirely out of sympathy with extreme psycho-analysis and with the tendency to divorce psychotherapy from medicine. He was however in no sense a reactionary, for he was at once receptive and original, quick to see and patient to bring about the development of psychological medicine in hitherto neglected fields. He was insistent too that psychiatrists should have a sound training in general medicine. Publications: Manic-depressive psychosis. *Brit med J* 1926, 2, 872. Assessment of alcoholic morbidity. *Mott memorial volume*. London, 1929. Tough or tender, a plea for nominalism in psychiatry. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1933-4, 27, 1687. Mental symptoms associated with head injury. *Brit med J* 1937, 2, 1055. The physical basis of alcoholic mental disorders. (17th Norman Kerr memorial lecture, 1938). *Brit J Inebr* 1938-9, 36, 103. The integration of neurology and psychiatry (Bradshaw lecture, Royal College of Physicians, 1936). Not published.
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First Title value, for Searching Marlow, Frederick William (1877 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Marriage, Herbert James (1872 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Housman, Basil Williams (1864 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Howard, Russell John (1875 - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 20 January 1875, the fourth child and third son of James Henry Howard, timber merchant, and Maria Dyer Field, his wife. He was educated at King's College School and at the London Hospital, with which he remained closely connected throughout his life. He was a scholar of the Hospital Medical College in surgery and obstetric medicine, took first class honours and the gold medal in medicine and forensic medicine at the London MB examination and the gold medal at the MS examination, and served as demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical College and as house surgeon in the Hospital. After a period as surgeon to outpatients at the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women he was appointed surgeon to the London Hospital in 1908, becoming eventually senior surgeon, and he continued to lecture on surgery and surgical nursing after his retirement from the surgeoncy in 1939. On the formation of the emergency medical service, at the outbreak of war, he was made group officer and head of the sector based on the London Hospital, in September 1939. At the Royal College of Surgeons he served on the Court of Examiners from 1925 to 1935. Howard carried on a large consulting practice at 20 Queen Anne: Street, W, but will be chiefly remembered as a great teacher, simple and reasonable in his methods, of which he also conveyed much in his text-books. His forcible sayings were noted and his sound advice sought after. He regularly held informal discussions, "rags", for his pupils on Saturdays at 9 am, and even introduced a blackboard into the operating-theatre. His portrait by James Gunn, RP, at the London Hospital Medical College shows him, characteristically, lecturing in his white coat. Howard never married. He died suddenly on 2 December 1942 at the Manor House, Oving, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, aged 67, and was buried at Oving. A memorial service was held at St Philip's Church, Stepney Way, E on 7 December. Howard was of large frame with small hands and feet. He had a crisp cockney voice, brilliant eyes and smile. He was compact of energy, vitality, and humour. His honesty and loyalty were absolute, and he was free from all feelings of jealousy. He was a hospitable host to colleagues and pupils at his country house, occupying them in carpentry and regaling them afterwards with excellent liqueurs. Howard was an active freemason; he was the first initiate and afterwards master of the London Hospital Lodge, and achieved the rank of Acting Senior Grand Deacon. Publications:- *Surgical nursing and the principles of surgery for nurses*. London, 1905. *The house-surgeon's vade-mecum*. London, 1913; 2nd edition, 1926. *The practice of surgery*. London, 1914; 2nd edition, 1918. *Surgical emergencies*. London, 1924.
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First Title value, for Searching Howell, John (1871 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Howlett, Edward Henry (1856 - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching Fowler, Charles Edward Percy (1866 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Fox, Edward Joseph (1873 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Francis, Alfred George (1862 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Franklin, Philip Julius (1880 - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Frazer, John Ernest Sullivan (1870 - 1946)

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Publication Date 2013-06-19
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born in London, 30 January 1870, second son of Joseph Frazer and his wife Frances E Mahony. He was educated at Dulwich and St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1891 at the age of 21. He intended to become a surgeon, held various hospital posts in London and the country, and took the Fellowship in 1898. But his career was cut short by after-results of severe septicaemia arising from an accidental wound at a post-mortem examination. Frazer now turned to anatomy for his livelihood. He became demonstrator of anatomy at St George's Hospital, transferred to King's College as senior demonstrator under Peter Thompson (1871-1921) in 1905, and to St Mary's as lecturer in 1911. He was promoted University of London professor of anatomy at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1914. During the 1914-18 war he served as surgeon to out-patients at the hospital. Frazer retained his professorship till March 1940, and during this long term of office proved himself an original anatomist, among the foremost osteologists and embryologists of his day, and a brilliant and inspiring teacher. He was created emeritus professor in 1942. He had been succeeded in the chair by James Hugo Gray, an Australian of outstanding promise, who died untimely on 20 December 1941, aged 32 (*Journal of Anatomy* 1941-42, 76, 319-21, with portrait and bibliography). At the College, Frazer was a Hunterian professor 1915-16 and examined for the primary Fellowship 1919. He also examined for Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and London universities. He was secretary of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1915-19, for many years a member of its council, and president 1935-37. He was secretary of the section of anatomy and physiology of the British Medical Association at the Birmingham meeting 1911, and Harveian lecturer of the Harveian Society of London in 1924. Frazer was widely known by his publications, especially his *Anatomy of the human Skeleton* and his *Manual of Embryology*, with his own drawings. In his lectures, which he illustrated with excellent coloured-chalk drawings, he stressed the surgical aspects of anatomy. He formed a fine collection of wax models of developing organs and embryos. Frazer married in 1910 Violet Lowder Jacques, daughter of John T Jacques, MRCS 1865, of Leicester; Mrs Frazer survived him with a son. He lived at various addresses in Kensington: 2 Pembridge Crescent, 8 Clydesdale Road, and finally 53 Cathcart Road, SW10, where he died after nine years of illness on 15 April 1946, aged 76. He was buried at the City of Westminster cemetery, Hanwell. In early years Frazer was a fine athlete and a champion hammer-thrower. He was a large, strong muscular man, but capable of deft manipulations in the laboratory, and an accomplished draughtsman. In middle life he enjoyed golf and "the less violent forms of exercise". He was a staunch conservative, of equable, humorous, and kindly temperament. Publications:- Anomaly of omo-hyoid. *J Anat*. 1900-01, 35, 494. The lower cervical fasciae. *Ibid*. 1903-04, 38, 52-64. The insertion of the pyriformis and obturator intemus and formation of posterior circular capsular fibres and upper retinaculum of Weitbrecht. *Ibid* 1903-04, 38, 170-185. On some minor markings on bones. *Ibid*. 1905-06, 40, 267-281. Derivation of the human hypothenar muscles. *Ibid*. 1907-08, 42, 326-334. Development of the larynx. *Ibid*. 1909-10, 44, 156-191. Persistent canal of His. *Ibid*. 1909-10, 44, 395. Pharyngeal end of Rathke's pouch. *Ibid*. 1910-11, 45, 190-196. Formation of the nasal cavities. *Ibid*. 1910-11, 45, 347-356, and further] communication 1911-12, 46, 416-433. Second visceral arch and groove in the tubo-tympanic region. *Ibid*. 1913-14, 48,' 391-408. On the factors concerned in causing rotation of the intestine in man, with R H Robbins. *Ibid*. 1915-16, 50, 75-110. Formation of the pars membranacea septi. *Ibid*. 1916-17, 51, 19-29. Formation of the duodenal curve. *Ibid*. 1918-19, 53, 292-297. Functions of the liver in the embryo. *Ibid*. 1919-20, 54, 116-124. Report on an anencephalic embryo. *Ibid*. 1921-22, 56, 12-19. Early formations of the middle ear and Eustachian tube: a criticism. *Ibid*. 1922-23, 57, 18-30. Disappearance of the precervical sinus. *Ibid*. 1926-27, 61, 132-143. Note on R H Hunter's paper on development of the duodenum (*J Anat*. 1926-27, 61, 206-212). *Ibid*. 1926-27, 61, 356-9. Development of lower end of vagina, with A Bloomfield. *Ibid*. 1927-28, 62, 9-32. Development of the region of the isthmus rhombencephali. *Ibid*. 1928-29,63, 7-18. The terminal part of the Wolffian duct. *Ibid*. 1934-35, 69, 455-468. A curious abnormal human brain. *Ibid*. p. 526-7. There are also numerous shorter communications in the *Proceedings of the. Anatomical Society*, published as supplementary matter in the *Journal of Anatomy*. *The Anatomy of the human Skeleton*. London, Churchill 1914; 2nd edition, 1920; 3rd edition, 1933; 4th edition, 1940. Development, opening chapter in *Queen Charlotte's Textbook of Obstetrics*. London, Churchill, 1st to 6th editions, 1927-43. *A Manual of Embryology*. London, Bailliere, 1931; 2nd edition, 1940. *Buchanan's Dissection guide*, with E Barclay-Smith and R H Robbins. London, Bailliere, 1930. *Buchanan's Manual of Anatomy including Embryology*, 6th edition, London,. Bailliere, 1937. The two foregoing are revisions of the work of A M Buchanan (1844-1915). *Manual of practical Anatomy*, with R H Robbins. London, Bailliere 1937.
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First Title value, for Searching Page, Harry Marmaduke (1860 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Paling, Albert (1862 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Marsh, Frank (1855 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Marsh, Frank Douglas (1888 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Marson, Francis Herbert (1871 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Albert Edward (1864 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Christopher (1866 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Frank Beauchamp (1884 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Henry Meredith (1899 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Martyn, Sir Henry Linnington (1888 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Masina, Hormasji Manekji (1863 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Masterman, Ernest William Gurney (1867 - 1943)

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Occupation Missionary surgeon Missionary doctor
Details Born on 2 January 1867 at Rotherfield Hall, Sussex, the eldest of the four sons of Thomas William Masterman of Tunbridge Wells and Margaret Hanson Gurney, his wife, daughter of Thomas Gurney of New Park Lodge, Brixton Hill. His brothers all distinguished themselves: John Howard Bertram Masterman (1867-1933) became professor of history at Birmingham University, 1902-09, and Suffragan Bishop of Plymouth, 1922-33; Arthur Thomas Masterman (?1868-1941), superintending inspector of fisheries at the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1910-20, was elected FRS in 1915 (*Nature*, 1941, 147, 408); and the youngest brother, Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman (1874-1927), Liberal MP, author and journalist, became Financial Secretary to the Treasury in Asquith's government in 1912; he had been largely responsible for the success of the National Health Insurance scheme of 1911, while Under-Secretary at the Local Government Board (see *DNB*). E W G Masterman was educated at Monkton Combe School and at Clifton College. He early decided to become a medical missionary, and entered the Medical School of Edinburgh University in 1884. While there he heard the African missionary C T Studd, who whetted his enthusiasm. Private circumstances compelled him to earn his living for a short time as a schoolmaster, but in 1887 he was able to enter St Bar¬tholomew's Hospital, where he won the Brackenbury surgical scholarship in 1891, the year of his qualification, and was also Skynner scholar and Lawrence scholar in 1892. He served as house surgeon at St Bartholomew's and also at the Belgrave Hospital for Children, and took the Fellowship on 14 January 1892. Contact with Percy d'Erf Wheeler led to his appointment as assistant medical officer to the Jerusalem Hospital of the Church Mission to the Jews in 1892. He served in Palestine and Syria for more than twenty years: at Jerusalem, Safed, Damascus, and again in Jerusalem, till the war of 1914 compelled his return to England. He had become an excellent Arabic scholar and was much interested in archaeology, serving for many years as secretary to the Palestine Exploration Fund. In fact he had identified himself closely with the life of Palestine, and he returned to work there at the end of his life. He published an illustrated account of the Jerusalem Hospital in *The Lancet*, 1918, 1, 305. He had taken the Cambridge Diploma of Public Health in 1899 and was admitted MD of the University of Durham in 1909. After his return to England he began, at the age of forty-nine, a new medical career into which he threw himself with characteristic energy. In 1916 he took charge of the London County Council's St Giles' Hospital at Camberwell and remained there for eighteen years, retiring in 1934. He brought the hospital to a high state of efficiency and also took an intimate part in the lives and welfare of his poorer neighbours. He also looked after the Guardians' Institution at Gordon Road, Camberwell and their "scattered homes" for destitute children. He was particularly interested in the progress of the ante- and post-natal clinics of the maternity unit at St Giles'. During his London years he took an active part in the work of the British Medical Association and attended each annual Representative meeting from 1920 to 1934. He served on the central council in 1931 and was chairman of the Camberwell division 1928-29 and of the Metropolitan branch 1934-35. He also served on the public health and hospitals committees of the council and on several special committees, notably that concerned with conditions in the Indian Medical Service. When he retired from the LCC service at the age of sixty-seven he went back to Palestine and gave his services under the Church Missionary Society wherever needed, taking charge of the hospitals at Gaza and Hebron and at Es Salt in Transjordan. In 1938, aged 71, he became medical superintendent of the 60th General Hospital, the former German Deaconesses' Hospital, until its evacuation to India. In 1939 he was appointed medical adviser for the Near East to the Church Missionary Society. He was chairman of the Lebanon Hospital for Mental Diseases at Asfuriyeh, and though in failing health visited it in July 1942. Masterman married (1) in 1894 Lucy, daughter of the Rev John Zeller, Swiss Bishop of Jerusalem. She died in 1908 leaving five daughters, of whom Lucy Margaret Theodora Masterman became MRCS 1924 and was resident medical officer at the Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, in 1943 and an MD London. He married (2) in 1909 his first wife's sister, Joanna, who survived him with a son and a daughter; the son, Ernest Bertram Zeller Masterman, MRCS 1934, MD Cambridge, while serving with the RAMC in West Africa, was on leave in Jerusalem when his father died there on 29 March 1943. Publications: Jerusalem from the point of view of health and disease. *Lancet*, 1918, 1, 305, with references to his own special reports. Caesarian section, with E M Moore. *LCC Ann Rep*, vol 4, Public health, part 3 Medical supp 1931, pp 108-117. Hour-glass stomach. *Ibid*. 1932, pp 117-122. Perforated peptic ulcer. *Ibid*. 1932, pp 123-128.
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First Title value, for Searching Panting, Laurence Christopher (1869 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching May, Bennett (1864 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Russell, Robert Hamilton (1860 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Rutter, Francis Burchett (1869 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Salisbury, Walter (1888 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Saneyoshi, Yasuzumi (1848 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Sankey, Joseph Nicholas (1900 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Hughes, Edgar Alfred (1860 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Plowman, Sidney (1854 - 1932)

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Publication Date 2013-10-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at the School of Pharmacy of the Pharmaceutical Society, where he gained the junior Bell scholarship in 1872, and the senior Bell scholarship in 1873. He also gained medals in material medica and botany, in chemistry, practical chemistry, and pharmacy, and the Pereira medal in 1873. He subsequently studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, won the open scholarship in surgery at the Society of Apothecaries in 1884, and was *proxime accessit* for the Murchison scholarship in clinical medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was an examiner in chemistry to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and was tutor and joint lecturer on materia medica and therapeutics at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, where he was also apothecary and teacher of pharmacy in the hospital. He had been clinical assistant in the skin and the ear and throat departments. He landed in Melbourne, Victoria from RMSS *Valletta* at the end of 1889, having been invited by the council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia to teach chemistry, physics, and materia medica, as well as to direct the laboratory in the society's College of Pharmacy in Swanston Street, Melbourne. He died at Frankston, Victoria on 27 April 1932.
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First Title value, for Searching Panton, John Alison (1894 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Rushton (1847 - 1932)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 9 October 1847, the son of Edward Parker, LRCS Edinburgh, who practised and was police surgeon at Liverpool, and Mary Rushton, his wife. He was educated at the school kept by John Brunner, father of Sir John Brunner, and afterwards at the Royal Institution School, Liverpool. He received his medical education at University College, London, where he gained the medals in anatomy, physiology, and surgery, and was chosen house surgeon at University College Hospital in 1869. He spent a year in Paris and Vienna, returning to London to act as demonstrator of anatomy at University College for the year 1870-71. He resigned this post on becoming demonstrator of physiology and histology at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary School of Medicine, where he taught from 1871 to 1878, and was appointed surgeon to the Stanley Hospital in Liverpool in 1872. He was elected assistant surgeon to the Royal Infirmary in 1878, and continued to serve on the staff until 1907, when he retired and was made consulting surgeon. He lectured on surgery, was teacher of operative and practical surgery, and served as dean of the Liverpool School of Medicine 1878-80. In 1882 he was appointed professor of surgery at University College, retaining the position for fifty years, whilst the College became incorporated with the Victoria University in 1884 and was converted into the University of Liverpool in 1903. He took an active interest in the British Medical Association, acting as secretary of the section of surgery in 1883 and president of the section in 1912. He was also president of the Liverpool Medical Institution from 1902 to 1904. He married in 1884 Catherine Elizabeth (d 1924), eldest daughter of Thomas Bickerton, FRCS Edinburgh. There were no children. He died on 25 March 1932 at 59 Rodney Street, Liverpool, aged 84. In the course of his long career Rushton Parker did much to advance surgery in Liverpool. He was amongst the keenest disciples of Lister and early introduced his methods at the Royal Infirmary. A bold and skilful operator, he was one of the pioneers in the treatment of hernia by the radical operation, and he shares with the surgeons of the Leeds school the introduction of the operation for the removal of tuberculous glands. He was one of the first men of his time to popularize the methods employed by Hugh Owen Thomas in the treatment of chronic disease of the bones and joints. He was a man of wide culture, a good linguist, a lover of books, and a geologist. Publications: Extirpation of enlarged lymphatic glands. *L'pool Manch med Burg Rep* 1873, p 47, and *Brit med J* 1902, 2, 1312, and 1908, 2, 192. Maisonneuve's internal urethrotomy. *Lancet*, 1874, 1, 162. Peritonitis, and Diseases of the nose, in Heath's *Dictionary of Surgery*, 1886, 2, 76 and 198. Diseases of special joints, in Gould and Warren's *International Handbook of Surgery*, 1900, 1, 714. Treatment of fractured femur with Thomas' splints. *Trans Int med Congr* 7, London, 1881, 2, 452. Extirpation of carbuncle. *Provincial med J* 1893, 12, 176. Modern herniotomy. *Provincial med J* 1893, 12, 411; 460. Radical cure of hernia and treatment of hernia in children. *Brit med J* 1893, 1, 1101; 1895, 2, 700; 1909, 1, 947; and *Lancet*, 1898, 2, 1398. On Lord Lister's catgut and disinfection of the skin. *Brit med J* 1909, 1, 1036. Trephining for focal and traumatic epilepsy. *Brit med J* 1893, 2, 1037, and 1902, 1, 1257. Treatment of fractured nose. *Clin J* 1919, 48, 72. On the pronunciation of Latin. *Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury*, 9 September 1913; issued separately as an amended reprint in November 1916.
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First Title value, for Searching Parkin, Alfred (1879 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Parkinson, John Porter (1863 - 1929)

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First Title value, for Searching Parry, Albert Alexander (1865 - 1928)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-11 2017-05-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of Edward Alexander Parry, contractor, and Jane Cartmell, his wife, he was born at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 29 June 1865. He was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, and at the University of Melbourne, where he graduated MB in 1886 and BS in the following year. He then came to England and entered Guy's Hospital Medical School, and returning to Australia practised at Rockhampton, Queensland, where he died on 28 August 1928, survived by his son Trevor A Parry, MB.
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First Title value, for Searching Andrew, John (1922 - 1999)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-27 2015-12-09
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details John Andrew, also known as 'Tony', was born on 2 February 1922 in Poulton-le-Flyde, Lancashire. He was the son of Percy Andrew, a general practitioner, and Ida Louise née Rishworth, a first-generation American, whom his father had met as a nurse in France during the first world war. His grandfather had been house surgeon to Sir James Paget at St Bartholomew's and later worked in Monte Carlo. Andrew was educated at the Perse School, Cambridge, and at first wished to be a classicist, but his father persuaded him to follow the family tradition and go to Bart's. After junior osts, his training in neurosurgery was mainly at Bart's under J E A O'Connell, but he spent a year in Chicago working with Percival Bailey. Afterwards, he was appointed consultant neurosurgeon at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, a post he relinquished on his appointment to the Middlesex Hospital and the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases. Tony Andrew was a man of meticulous habits, demanding the highest medical standards from his staff. Though he was an extremely skilful general neurosurgeon and wrote on lumbar spinal canal stenosis, his special interest was in stereotaxic surgery. In 1969 he published, with E S Watkins, an atlas based on detailed anatomical work, which provided quantitative information about the variability of the position of nuclei within the basal ganglia. This was a valuable practical tool. Other important research work was done with P W Nathan on the site within the frontal lobes, damage to which resulted in impaired bladder function. Andrew combined a keen if acerbic sense of humour with his conscientious, careful and even intolerant personality. His premature retirement from the Middlesex Hospital was precipitated by the noise in the operating theatre resulting from the temporary accommodation of orthopaedic surgery from the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Andrew had a busy private practice, mainly from the Middle East and Mediterranean, which he valued for the interesting clinical material it provided. After a time he set up a neurosurgical service in Abu Dhabi. In later life he built a house in Cyprus, where he spent much of his time. He spoke Greek, as well as German and French. In 1974 he married Margaret Morrell, a widow. There were no children. In his youth he had been a keen mountaineer and rock climber. Later in life he took up wind-surfing. He was fond of music, was an enthusiastic pianist, and a painter. He was a Catholic and his religion meant much to him. His last years were clouded by illness, by low pressure hydrocephalus, Parkinsonism and prostatic cancer. He eventually succumbed to a stroke and died on 30 May 1999. The following obituary was provided at a later date by a member of Mr Andrew's family. John Andrew was a consultant neurosurgeon at the Middlesex Hospital. His mother, an American, met his father during the First World War in France where she was a nurse, and he a doctor. They married and he went into general practice. When John was born, his mother really wanted to call him Anthony, but, thinking that Anthony Andrew would sound rather odd, he was christened just John. He was known officially as John, but 'Tony' to his friends. He attended the Perse School in Cambridge and wanted to read classics but, as his grandfather and father were doctors, there was pressure on him to follow suit. When he subsequently became a fellow of the RCS, he was the youngest and his grandfather the eldest. He received his medical training at Bart's and, when he first qualified, he went as an assistant doctor on a brides' ship to Australia and the Caribbean. He was then appointed as a registrar to John O'Connell at Bart's. JOC was a great character and excellent teacher. John subsequently went to Chicago on a Fulbright scholarship. For a time he was a consultant at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, and then a consultant neurosurgeon at the Middlesex Hospital. He was very encouraging to his registrars and gave them every opportunity to acquire surgical skills. Like most doctors, he expected nightly reports on the patients and was readily available for visits to the hospital of any time. He had a special interest in tremor and published in 1969 *A stereotaxic atlas of the human thalamus and adjacent structures* (Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins Company) with E S Watkins. The work that gave him the most satisfaction was the discovery, with Peter Nathan, of the area of the brain that governed the bladder. He was totally dedicated to his NHS work, and his private practice provided him with much interest in view of the unusual cases that presented themselves. He spoke Greek and had many patients from Greece and Cyprus, where he subsequently built a house and enjoyed playing the piano and sitting on the veranda, watching the stars in the wonderfully clear sky. Watching birds and identifying them by their song was another hobby. In Romford he had worked with Nikos Spanos, a well-respected neurosurgeon in Cyprus, and with Jesus Lofuente, from Barcelona. Said El Gindi from Egypt worked with him for a time in London, and John had many patients from Egypt. He learnt some Arabic, and this was to prove useful when he went to Abu Dhabi to set up neurosurgery on his retirement from the Middlesex Hospital. He spent some happy years there and learned to windsurf, which was an achievement requiring great tenacity. John really was a Renaissance man with many interests. When young, he was a member of a climbing club and had a climb named after him in Cornwall. He was also a keen sailor and owned a squib, a small racing keelboat, which was moored at Burnham-on-Crouch, and he and his wife headed there every Sunday when the weather was fine and after the patients had been visited (he operated on a Saturday morning and enjoyed tea in the afternoon whilst watching the wrestling). When these physical activities were curtailed by ill health, he was able to spend many quiet hours painting. He had never had the opportunity to do this when he was young, but he had lessons with the painter Conchita Moore and, in Cyprus, with Nicolas Panayi. He was a member of the Medical Art Society and went with them to Morocco. His painting of a rough sea in Essaouira was shown at their annual exhibition at the Royal Society of Medicine. He was happily surprised by this. He also played the piano and made a good curry! Finally, one must also add that he had a keen sense of humour, rather acerbic at times, and had a stock of limericks. Margaret Andrew
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First Title value, for Searching MacCormick, Sir Alexander (1856 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Taynish, North Knapdale, Argyll on 31 July 1856, son of Archibald MacCormick, farmer and ship-master, and his wife Mary Campbell of Barnashaly, North Knapdale. He was educated by Mr Stewart at Lochgilphead, Argyll, and at Edinburgh University, where he was a class-mate in the medical school with Arthur Conan Doyle, David Orme Massey, and Robert Scot Skirving, who remained his lifelong friend. He took a gold medal at his graduation in 1880, and served as university demonstrator of physiology. After being house surgeon to E R Bickersteth at Liverpool Royal Infirmary, he went to Australia in 1883 on his appointment as demonstrator of anatomy at Sydney Univer¬sity, the demonstrator of physiology being Thomas Anderson Stuart, who afterwards proved himself a first-rate administrator in developing the Sydney Medical School. MacCormick became in due course lecturer on surgery at the University and surgeon to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was surgeon to the Sydney Hospital 1888-96. On his retirement from the Prince Alfred as consulting surgeon in 1915, he became surgeon to St Vincent's Hospital, which he served till 1932. He was also consulting surgeon to the Coast Hospital, Little Bay. Finding the hospitals in early days unnecessarily primitive, and conditions for surgical work in private houses even worse, he built his own private hospital, The Terraces, which he ultimately presented in 1926, with land and an endowment of £25,000, to the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales, and its name was changed to "The Scottish Hospital". During the South African war in 1900, Mac-Cormick, with his friend Scot Skirving, served in the New South Wales contingent with the rank of major, and was mentioned in despatches. In the first world war he was a consulting surgeon, with the rank of colonel, with the British Army in France 1914-17. MacCormick was a big burly man with the appearance of a prosperous farmer, but he was a skilled diagnostician as well as an accomplished and thoughtful anatomist and surgeon. With T Anderson Stuart he carried through some very original work on the mechanism of swallowing, in a patient who lived for twenty years with a pharyngeal "window", after operation by MacCormick for eradication of metastases, following epithelioma of the lip with extensive glandular involvement. He had taken his Edinburgh doctorate in 1885, with a thesis on the myology of the Australian wild cat, and contributed some thirty articles to the *Australian Medical Gazette* between 1884 and 1906, including many on cystotomy. MacCormick was endowed with enormous bodily and mental vigour; he usually worked at The Terraces from 6.30 in the morning, beginning to operate at 7 am and after a hasty lunch began again at the Prince Alfred or the Coast Hospital at 1.30 and went on till the late evening. He got through a vast amount of work of high quality. He was also a deep reader, and his business ability made him much in demand on the boards of insurance companies. He was a man of few words, but he inspired confidence in all his assistants and patients. His most original contributions to surgery were (1) his insistence on patency of the whole biliary tract before closing the abdomen in gall-bladder operations; (2) his operation for removal of cancer of the tongue, devised in 1899; and his operation for irreducible dislocation of the metacarpal joint of the thumb, by passing a tenotome through the back of the joint, which remains the simplest and best method. MacCormick was a keen and skilled yachtsman, who once sailed his own craft from Australia to England with a crew who, like himself, were all over sixty years old. MacCormick married in 1895 Ada Fanny, daughter of Charles Cropper of Yamma, New South Wales. He was knighted in 1913 and created a KCMG in 1926. Lady MacCormick survived him with a son and two daughters; their elder son, Campbell, was killed in France in the first world war while serving as an officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. In Australia they lived at Kilmory, Point Piper, Sydney, but settled after his retirement at St Brelades, Jersey where he enjoyed much good sailing. From the German invasion of the Channel Islands in 1940 they escaped by a few hours, but went back after the liberation, and there MacCormick died on 25 October 1947, aged 91. Publications:- The myology of the limbs of *Dasyurus viverrinus*. *J Anat Physiol* 1886-87, 21, 103 and 199. Thesis for MD Edinburgh. The position of the epiglottis in swallowing, with T P Anderson Stuart. *Ibid* 1892, 26, 231. Aneurysm by anastomosis. *Austral med Gaz* 1888, 8, 39. The practice of cystotomy. *Ibid* 1889, 8, 227. Cases of pylorectomy for carcinoma. *Intercolon quart J Med Surg* 1894, 1, 17. Operative treatment of senile disease of the prostate. *Australas med Congr* 1905, 7, 143. Treatment of cerebral hydatids. *Ibid* p 154. For a complete bibliography see the obituary in the *Medical Journal of Australia*, listed below.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Sidney Maynard (1875 - 1928)

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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 Smith, Samuel Montgomery Charles Alfred Anderson (1826 - 1915)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Thomas (1809 - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Savage, John James (1889 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30 2023-03-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John James Savage was born on 10 January 1889 at Broken Hill, New South Wales, the son of John James Savage and Annie Savage née O’Connor. He was educated in Western Australia, went to Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar in 1911, and completed his clinical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He held resident posts at the Metropolitan Hospital, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's, the Freemasons', the North Eastern Fever Hospital, and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. He qualified in 1917, was commissioned in the RAMC and attached to the Royal Air Force, with which he served during the remainder of the war of 1914-1918. He took the Fellowship in 1926, and then returned to Western Australia, where he practised at Mackie Street, Victoria Park, Perth, and later at 40 Falcon Street, Narrogin. During the war of 1939-45 he was medical officer in command of the Narrogin Military Camp from 1940 to 1943. He was an exceptional athlete in many fields. He died at Narogin in 1948. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 3 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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First Title value, for Searching Scholes, John Lelean (1914 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Hutchinson, Jonathan (1859 - 1933)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-17
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Jonathan Hutchinson, like his distinguished father Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, was surgeon to the London Hospital. When he was born at Reigate in 1859 it was still possible for a surgeon to be encyclopaedic. Few advances had been made: Lister was still a physiologist; anaesthesia was on its trial; the microscope was but little used, for the staining and hardening of tissues was in its infancy; the ophthalmoscope and laryngoscope were new instruments. He lived to see everything changed, for he lived in the very heart of scientific surgery both at home and in the hospital. Educated at University College School, then in Gower Street, he entered the London Hospital Medical College in October 1876, having gained the Buxton scholarship in arts. During his student career he was awarded honorary certificates in anatomy, physiology, and chemistry, and won the medical scholarship. He qualified MRCS in 1880, and was admitted FRCS on 13 November 1884, after serving as house surgeon to Frederick Treves. In the Medical College he was appointed assistant demonstrator of anatomy in 1882, and filled the post of demonstrator during 1893-95. At the Hospital he was elected surgical registrar in 1885 and served until 1889, when he became assistant surgeon, succeeding to the full staff in 1898, and becoming consulting surgeon in June 1920. He showed a versatility comparable with that of his father, for he filled the office of clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, was ophthalmic surgeon to the Great, now Royal, Northern Hospital, and was surgeon to the Lock Hospital. He began his connexion with the Royal College of Surgeons of England by winning the Jacksonian prize in 1888 with an essay on *The diagnosis, effects, and treatment of injuries to the epiphyses of long bones*; the prize was awarded to him again in 1914, when he competed with *The pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of trigeminal neuralgia*. The honour was great, for in the long previous history of the Jacksonian prize it had been gained more than once only by Joseph Swan in 1817 and 1819, by George Calvert in 1822, 1823, and 1824, and by Rutherford Alcock in 1839 and 1841. He delivered the Erasmus Wilson lecture in 1892 on *Syphilitic affections of bones, joints and the lymphatic system*, and in the following year he spoke on *Injuries to the epiphyses and their results* in his capacity as Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology. He was a member of the Court of Examiners 1911-21, and was elected a member of the Council in 1913. This honourable position he resigned in 1914, as no member of the Council can compete for the Jacksonian prize. Although he was never greatly interested in committee work he acted as honorary secretary of the Medical Society of London, was a member of the Pathological Society and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, then a somewhat exclusive body, as early as 1888. He lived during the greater part of his professional life at 1 Park Square, Regent's Park, where he died on 27 March 1933, having survived his wife, Caroline Linnell, for nine years. In an annexe to the house there was long maintained the clinical museum collected by his father, which was used to illustrate post-graduate lectures at the Policlinic. Hutchinson showed many of the best traits of his quaker ancestry and upbringing. Quiet in speech, courteous in manners, endowed with a sober humour and a love of artistic shape and colour, he was so reserved that his life was spent in domestic peace and comfort. He did everything conscientiously and to the very best of his ability. He was a good clinical teacher, and a fine but not a showy operator. His interests were manifold and were not confined to his profession, for he became interested in Japanese and English art and was a member of the Burlington Fine Arts Club. As a good citizen he took an active part in maintaining the amenities of the district in which he lived. He wrote comparatively little. Publications:- *Aids to ophthalmic medicine and surgery*. London, 1889; 3rd edition, 1900. *The surgical treatment of facial neuralgia*. London, 1905. *On facial neuralgia and its treatment, with especial reference to the surgery of the fifth nerve and the Gasserian ganglion*. London, 1919. *Hernia and its radical cure*. London, 1923. He edited the second (1903) and third (1909-10) editions of Treves's *Manual of operative surgery*, and wrote the articles on Gonorrhoea, Diseases of the skin, and Syphilis in Treves's *System of surgery*, 1895-96, and edited the 2nd (1904), 3rd (1911), and 4th (1924) editions of Treves's *Students' handbook of surgical operations*.
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First Title value, for Searching Ibrahim, Sir Ali (1880 - 1946)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Alexandria 10 October 1880, the eldest child of Ibrahim Ata, farmer and landowner at Moutoubis near Rosetta, and his wife Mabrouka Khafegi. He was educated at Ras-el-Tin School, Alexandria 1888-92, at Khedivieh School; Cairo 1892-96, and at the Cairo School of Medicine 1896-1901. Immediately after qualification he acquitted himself with great credit in the plague epidemic of 1901 and the cholera epidemic of 1902. He was appointed director of hospitals at Beni Suef 1903, and at Aswan 1904, when he attracted approbation by his successful suppression of an epidemic of anthrax at Tukh. The same year he was moved to the hospital at Asiut; he then took a further course in anatomy at the Government School of Medicine, Cairo, with a view to undertaking more special surgery. In 1910 he was made assistant surgeon at the Kasr-el-Aini, Cairo. He was nominated the following year, 1911, chief of the Egyptian Red Crescent mission to Turkey, of which Egypt was still a quasi-dependency, during the Balkan war; and he further widened this experience by visiting European clinics. Returning to Cairo he established his fame as. surgeon to the Kasr-el-Aini Hospital, and was appointed director of the Hospital and dean of the Medical Faculty in 1929. He had been professor of surgery since 1924, and was an excellent teacher. Ibrahim steadily promoted the active connexion of his school with foreign medical bodies and particularly with the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was a patriot of broad mind, who believed that the interests of Egyptian educational and scientific progress could best be served by attracting the best men of whatever nationality. He was also an administrator of vision and ability, who inspired the reconstruction of Kasr-el-Aini and the creation of the great Fouad I Hospital at Cairo. Towards the end of his life he planned and successfully started a new full-scale medical school at Alexandria. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College in 1928. He became rector of the Fouad I University in 1941, having been vice-rector since 1936. He was president of various professional bodies such as the Egyptian Red Crescent Society, the Egyptian Medical Association which he founded and the semi-official "Medical Order" whose creation he had promoted. He was appointed Minister of Health in 1940, but finding political life uncongenial he soon resumed his academic work. Ibrahim was a man of artistic taste, an amateur of music, and a collector of Persian carpets. He was president of the Egyptian Institute in 1941, and president of the executive council of the Cairo Arab Museum. He married in May 1913 Hafiza Wahbi Ragheb, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. One son, Dr Hassan Ibrahim, was admitted FRCS by examination on 12 December 1946. Ibrahim died at 2 Khalil Agha Street, Garden City, Cairo, on 28 January 1947, aged 66. There is a good photograph of him in the College Archive collection. His most valuable original studies were made on amoebic abscess of the liver, on bilharzia of the ureter, on funiculitis and hydrocele; and he perfected the operation of splenectomy. Select bibliography:- Bilharziasis of the ureter. *Lancet*, 1923, 2, 1184. Relation of funiculitis to hydrocele in Egypt. *Lancet*, 1927, 2, 272. Splenomegaly. *Internat Congress of Tropical Medicine, Cairo *1928, *Comptes rendus*, 3. Stones of the ureter. *Brit J Urol* 1929, 1, 396. Stones of the gall-bladder. * J Egypt med Ass* 1934, 17, 661. Relation of hydrocele to endemic funiculitis. *J Egypt med Ass* 1935, 18, 661. Conditions chirurgicales de la Bilharziose. *Société internat de Chirurgie, Congrès* 10, Cairo 1935. Sarcoma of the glans penis. *J Egypt med Ass* 1937, 20, 602. Amoebic liver abscess. *J Egypt med Ass* 1938, 21, 177.
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First Title value, for Searching Ince, Arthur Godfrey (1871 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Ingall, Frank Ernest (1869 - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Ionides, Theodore Henry (1866 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Watkins, Kenneth Harold (1903 - 1938)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-04
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Occupation Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 16 September 1903 at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, the elder of the twin sons of Harold Ernest Watkins, MRCS, LRCP, medical officer of health for Newton-in-Makerfield, Lancs, and his wife, *née* Smith. He was educated at Oundle School, Northants, at the Manchester University, and at St Thomas's Hospital. Whilst still a student he was awarded the Bradley memorial scholarship in clinical surgery in 1926, and the prize in clinical medicine in the following year. At Manchester he graduated with second-class honours at the MB ChB examination, and at the London University he was placed in the honours list with distinction in medicine and surgery. He then acted as house surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and, having decided to practice as a genito-urinary surgeon, became house surgeon to the genitourinary department of the Salford Royal Infirmary. In 1932 he was attached as a Rockefeller Fellow to the Brady Urological Institute at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and when the Fellowship expired he spent some time in Europe visiting the various urological clinics. At Freiburg he met the lady who afterwards became his wife. Returning to England he acted as resident surgical officer at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and as resident medical officer at the Christie Hospital, whilst at the Northern Hospital and at Crumpsall he organized urological units. He acted, too, as medical officer and registrar at the Radium Institute, where he was able to study the effects of irradiation on growths in the urinary tract. In 1933 he was appointed surgeon for genito-urinary diseases at the Manchester Northern Hospital and urological assistant at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester. In 1934 as Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons he took "The bladder function in low spinal injury" as the subject of his lecture. He married Irmgard Herrmann on 21 April 1935, who survived him with a son and a daughter. He was killed on 15 September 1938 whilst being driven in a motor car, which skidded on a slippery road between Neubrandenburg and Neustrelitz, Germany; he was buried at Newton-le-Willows, Lancs. Watkins was a great loss to genito-urinary surgery. He was skilful as an operator, and his contributions to the specialty show him to have been full of ideas, which would have led him far had he lived. He was universally admired, respected, and beloved. He spoke ill of none and none spoke ill of him. Publications: A preliminary note on temperature variations during general anaesthesia, with S R Wilson. *Brit J Anaesth* 1927, 4, 201. The clinical value of bladder pressure estimations. *Brit J Urol* 1934, 6, 104-118. Paralysis of the bladder and associated neurological sequelae of spinal anaesthesia (clauda equina syndrome), with Fergus R Ferguson. *Brit J Surg* 1938, 25, 735. An experimental investigation into the cause of paralysis following spinal anaesthesia, with A D Macdonald. *Ibid* 1938, 25, 879.
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First Title value, for Searching Ewart, George Arthur (1886 - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 1 June 1886, the only son of James Cossar Ewart (1851-1933), MD, FRS, for forty-five years (1882-1927) Regius Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University, and his second wife Edith Sophia, daughter of George Turner, MRCS, of Sherborne, and sister of Sir George R Turner and Edward B Turner, both Fellows of the College (For a memoir of J C Ewart, see Royal Society of London, *Obituary notices of Fellows* 1932-35, 1, 189, with portrait.) G A Ewart was educated at Edinburgh Academy, at Clifton College 1900-04, and at Edinburgh University, where he was Vans Dunlop scholar 1905; he became a scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1906. He took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I, in 1908, and represented the University against Oxford as a cross-country runner the same year. At St George's Hospital Medical School, where he entered on 24 November 1909, he won the Brackenbury surgery prize in 1911, the William Brown scholarship in 1912, and the Herbert Allingham surgical scholarship in 1913. He served as house physician to Sir Humphry Rolleston, and house surgeon to Sir Crisp English, and as surgical registrar. He was appointed assistant surgeon in 1914, becoming, in due course, surgeon and lecturer in operative and practical surgery. He was also surgeon to the Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital and to the Rupture Society, and consulting surgeon to the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. He was a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons. During the war of 1914-18 he was commissioned captain, RAMC(T), on 4 January 1915, and later promoted major. He served at the 54th General Hospital with the BEF in France, and at the 4th London General Hospital at the Duke of York's Headquarters. Ewart married in 1914 his first cousin Dorothy, younger daughter of Sir George Turner, FRCS, surgeon to St George's Hospital. Mrs Ewart survived him with a son and two daughters. He practised at 44 Brook Street and later at 26 Queen Anne Street, and lived in Norfolk Crescent and later at the Old House, Weybridge, where he died, after one day's illness, on 2 October 1942, aged 56. Ewart's dramatic methods in surgery were based on a sound and sure technique. He excelled at emergency operations for acute abdominal diseases. He was a good teacher and a hospitable host. Shooting, photography, and natural history made up his non-professional occupations. Publications:- Acute retention of urine complicated by perforation of a duodenal ulcer. *Brit med J*. 1921, 1, 420. A case of hour-glass stomach. *Brit J Surg*. 1921, 9, 42. Gastric diverticula, with report of a case before and after operation. *Brit J Surg*. 1936, 23, 530.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, William (1778 - 1854)

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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Archibald (1849 - 1940)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-04 2017-05-05
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born in 1849 at Riverina, New South Wales, son of Sydney Grandison Watson, RN, pastoralist on the Upper Murray. He was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, where he won the scripture prizes and was noted as an athlete. He was destined for the Church, but after a visit to the Pacific islands, where he lived at the court of Thackabu, King of Fiji, he decided to study medicine, and went to Europe for the purpose in his middle twenties. He studied at Bonn and Göttingen, qualifying MD *cum laude* from the latter in 1878, with a thesis *Ueber das Fibro-Adenom der Mamma*, and in Paris where he received the MD in 1880 for his thesis *Étude sur le traitement des hernies étranglées inguinales et crurales vulgaires*. Here he made friends with Pierre Marie (1853-1940), the neurologist and describer of acromegaly, whose career he followed with admiration. Coming to London, he took the LSA in 1880, the Membership of the College in 1882 and the Fellowship in 1884. He was for a time demonstrator of anatomy at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, and taught at the London School of Anatomy kept by Thomas Cooke at Handel Street, Brunswick Square. He also took a course at Moorfields. In 1883 he went to Egypt to study cholera. In London he had made the acquaintance of Edward Stirling (1848-1919), like himself a native of Australia, who returned to Adelaide in 1881 as lecturer in physiology, afterwards becoming professor and FRS and a knight. When Sir Thomas Elder endowed a chair of anatomy in 1884 at Adelaide University, Watson was appointed on Stirling's advice as the first professor. Watson held the chair from 1885 to 1919, when he retired with the title of emeritus professor; he had also taught pathology, surgical anatomy, and operative surgery. A dispute at the Adelaide Hospital and the consequent retirement of many of the staff led to his appointment as surgeon there, and he subsequently became consulting surgeon. He eagerly applied his anatomical knowledge to surgical problems, and his surgical teaching was influential throughout Australia, while he criticized surgery "throughout the world". He had a passion for the preservation of the tissues, and would denounce the unnecessary destruction of even the smallest subcutaneous vein. Watson had an unusual appreciation of the anatomical planes of the body and the possibilities they gave of a bloodless approach or mobilization of a viscus. He drew attention to, if he did not discover, the value of the division of the lateral blade of the mesentery of the colon as a means of mobilizing it. His anatomical knowledge of the blood supply of the uterus, and his teaching that the vessels could be exposed by division of the peritoneum, made hysterectomy a precise and safe operation. He was also associated with Professor Stirling in the pioneer work on hydatid disease. During the South African war, Watson served as consulting surgeon to the Natal Field Force in 1900, and in the first world war was pathologist to the Australian Imperial Forces in Egypt, 1914-16. Watson was an imaginative talker and a dramatic lecturer. He was a man of many interests, a student of electricity, a good linguist, and an experienced sailor with a knowledge of the migrations of fish. In 1935 his past pupils presented him with his portrait painted by W B Mclnnes, and founded the Archibald Watson annual prize of six guineas in applied surgical anatomy, for an undergraduate of the Adelaide University Medical School. The portrait shows him as a bearded man of fine presence. Watson travelled widely in the outlying parts of Australia and Australasia. His exploits and adventures became legendary even in his life-time. He died at Thursday Island off Cape York, the northern-most point of Queensland, on 30 July 1940. He left a legacy of £1,000 to the pupils who had subscribed for his portrait; they used it to endow a scholarship in the University.
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First Title value, for Searching Fairbairn, John Shields (1865 - 1944)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-05
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 21 December 1865 at Bathgate, West Lothian, eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1838-1912, for whom see *DNB*), then minister of the Bathgate Evangelical Union Congregational Church, and Jane, his wife, daughter of John Shields, of Byres, Bathgate. He was educated at Bradford, where his father was principal of Airedale Theological College from 1877 to 1886, and at Oxford, where his father was the first principal of Mansfield College from 1886. He won an open science demyship at Magdalen, and was placed in the first class in the final school of natural science 1891. He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, and took the Conjoint qualification in 1895 and the Oxford BM in 1897. At the Hospital he served as house physician and as obstetric house physician under Charles James Cullingworth (1841-1908), was obstetric tutor and registrar 1898, and in 1902 was elected assistant obstetric physician, becoming in due course obstetric physician and ultimately consulting obstetric physician; he was also lecturer in midwifery and diseases of women at the hospital's medical school. He had taken the FRCS in 1900, but was elected FRCP in 1909 and thereafter was closely connected with the College of Physicians, serving as an examiner 1910-14 and a Councillor 1926-28, and gave their Bradshaw lecture in 1934 on the medical and psychological aspects of gynaecology. He also examined for Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, and Glasgow universities and for the Society of Apothecaries. It was at his instigation that the Society founded its Mastership of Midwifery, the first higher diploma in the subject to be granted in Great Britain; Fairbairn was himself elected to this degree *honoris causa* in 1929. He was also physician to the General Lying-in Hospital, York Road, Camberwell, and here he established the first post-certificate school for midwives. On the Central Midwives Board he preceded Sir Comyns Berkeley, FRCS, as chairman, and from 1930 was Inspector of Midwifery under the General Medical Council. In earlier years Fairbairn was pathologist at the Chelsea Hospital for Women, where he had among his colleagues Sir Ewen Maclean, FRCP, T W Eden, FRCP, Sir Comyns Berkeley, and Victor Bonney, FRCS, all of whom left their mark on the advance of midwifery and gynaecology in London, and were among his collaborators in the "Ten Teachers" textbooks which achieved a merited popularity. During the war of 1914-18 Fairbairn was commissioned captain, RAMC(T), on 16 August 1915 on the staff of the 5th London General Hospital; he was also attached to the clinical teaching staff of the RAM College. Fairbairn took an active part in professional societies, being a well-read man and a keen debater. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh. In the British Medical Association he was secretary of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Oxford meeting 1904, and president of the section at the Bradford meeting 1924 and the Melbourne meeting 1935, when he was admitted an Honorary MD of the University. Fairbairn played an influential part in the foundation of the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, was a foundation Fellow 1929, and succeeded the first president, Sir William Blair Bell, in the chair. During his presidency the original bye-laws were revised, and his combination of common sense and vision put the young College on a sound constitutional base. The first diplomate examination was held under his presidency, and he secured for the College a silver mace and the library of rare gynaecological books collected by Roy Dobbin, FRCP, formerly professor of midwifery at Cairo. For many years he edited the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire*. Fairbairn made a great name in his days of active hospital work and private practice at 45 Queen Anne Street, W, and later as an administrator, but his chief influence was educational. He was not only a first-class teacher but he took a philosophic view of the ends of education and, as has been stated above, was instrumental in starting several new schools and qualifications. He was one of the first within the profession to appreciate the great part which medicine must play in realizing the aspirations of sociologists and economists; social medicine in its maternity and child-welfare aspects grew from Fairbairn's teaching. He humorously suggested that the baby is not to be looked on as a mere by-product of pregnancy and labour, but that obstetricians and paediatricians must work as a team; he was an original member of the Preposterous Club, which sought to bring them together. The antenatal and postnatal clinics at St Thomas's, which he established, were the first in London, second only to those started by J J Buchan at Edinburgh, and were most successful. He arranged for every student at St Thomas's to serve six months as a clerk in the obstetric department. Fairbairn married in 1913 Elma, second daughter of J P Stuart, of Elgin, who survived him; there were no children. In 1927 he first experienced duodenal disturbance, and retired in 1936 to his parents' old house, Blucairn, Lossiemouth, where he busied himself with growing alpine plants, but kept in touch with his professional colleagues London, who had given him a farewell dinner in March 1936 at which Sir Ewen Maclean made the chief speech. He died at Lossiemouth on 22 January 1944, aged 78. Mrs Fairbairn died there on 28 January 1949 after a long illness. A portrait of Fairbairn by Souter was presented to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists by Lord Riddell. Publications:- The pathology of fibroma of the ovary. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp*. 1902, 2, 128. Necrobiosis in fibromyomata of the uterus. *Ibid*. 1903, 4, 119. Full-term ectopic pregnancy. *Ibid*. 1906, 10, 599. A case of tubal abortion. *Ibid*. 1906, 10, 609. Primary chorionepithelioma of the ovary. *Ibid*. 1909, 16, 1. Pelvic cysts due to spinal meningocele. *Ibid*. 1911, 20, 1. *A textbook for midwives*. London, 1914; 5th edition, 1930. *The practitioner's encyclopaedia of midwifery and the diseases of women*. London, 1921. *Obstetrics*. London, 1926. *Gynaecology with obstetrics*. London, 1928. *The medical and psychological aspects of gynaecology*. (Bradshaw lecture, RCP) London, 1934. Changes in thought in half a century of obstetrics. *Trans Edinb Obstet Soc*. 1935, p 63. Joint editor of the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire*, and of the "Ten teachers" textbooks: *Midwifery*, 1917, and *Diseases of women*, 1921.
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First Title value, for Searching Fairlie-Clarke, Allan Johnston (1877 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Stone, William Gream (1866 - 1947)

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Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Liverpool, 31 October 1866, second child and eldest son of William Stone, solicitor, and Catherine Fleetwood Nelson, his wife. He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took second-class honours in moderations and literae humaniores (classical "Greats"). He received his medical education at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and clinical assistant in the electrical and ear departments. Stone settled in practice in South London, became medical officer to Camberwell Provident Dispensary and to St Gabriel's College, and was surgeon to the Brixton Orphanage. He was also a surgeon to the Metropolitan Police. During the war of 1914-18 he was surgeon to Southwark Military Hospital. He married in 1897 Lilian Emily Doughan, but there were no children. Stone died on 9 December 1947, aged 81, at The Stone House, 21 Rose Hill, Dorking, Surrey, and was buried in Dorking cemetery. He left the residue of his estate, after a few small personal legacies, to the Sisters of the Transfiguration at the Mount Tabor Institution for Mentally Defective Persons, at Basingstoke. Publications: Recurrent attacks of catalepsy, alternating with violent mental excitement. *Lancet*, 1901, 1, 1132. Hereditary aphasia: a family disease of the nervous system, due possibly to syphilis, with J J Douglas. *Brain*, 1902, 25, 293-317. Case of prolapsus uteri treated by injection of paraffin, with J J Douglas. *Brit med J* 1903, 2, 79. A case of enlargement of the bones of the cranium, jaw, and thorax (? syphilitic). *Clin Soc Trans* 1904, 37, 239. A note on a case of hereditary aphasia. *Lancet*, 1905, 1, 423.
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First Title value, for Searching Strange, Arthur (1868 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Street, Ashton (1864 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Stuart-Low, William (1857 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Sturton, Clement (1900 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching McEvedy, Peter George (1890 - 1951)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

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Publication Date 2013-09-30 2017-02-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 23 April 1890 at Blackwater farm, Christchurch, New Zealand the seventh son of Peter McEvedy, farmer, and Julia Leahy his wife. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Wellington, NZ, and at Guy's Hospital, qualifying in 1916. From 1916 till 1919 he served during the war in the New Zealand Medical Corps. He then acted as house surgeon to Sir William Arbuthnot Lane at Guy's. After two years in general practice at Oldham, Lancashire, he was appointed resident surgical officer at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester. He settled in consultant practice in the city at 2 St Peter's Square, and was elected to the honorary staff at Ancoats, where he ultimately became senior surgeon. He was also surgeon to the Warrington Infirmary and Stretford Memorial Hospital. As a student he was recognized for ability, capacity of work, and strength of character. As a surgeon, though modest and retiring, he was known to the best judges as one of the finest operators of his generation. He was also an excellent postgraduate teacher. He was particularly noted for the excellence of his technique in gastric and thyroid operations. His operation for femoral hernia replaced all others, and he was a pioneer in the operative treatment of ulcerative colitis by colectomy. But he did not despise the comparatively minor work of surgery for varicose veins and piles, and established a special clinic for those diseases. He was an enthusiast for local anaesthesia. McEvedy was a founding member of the Surgical Travellers Club in 1927, and was president of the Manchester Medical Society in 1950. He married on 12 June 1920 Miss Dennis, who survived him with a daughter and three sons, two of them medical men. He died on 21 September 1951, aged 61, at his home at Bucklow Hill, Cheshire. He had a constant sympathy with the "under-dog", and also gave generous help and encouragement to his assistants. Publication:- Operation for femoral hernia. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Eng* 1950, 7, 484
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First Title value, for Searching Swain, James (1862 - 1951)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Hertfordshire in 1862 the son of George Swain, he was educated at Westminster Hospital Medical School, which he entered with a scholarship in 1879. He won the Chadwick and other prizes, and held the usual resident appointments. He went to Bristol as house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, and remained connected with the city for the rest of his long life. At the Infirmary he was successively senior resident officer, assistant surgeon 1892, surgeon 1902, and consulting surgeon when he retired in 1922. There was still considerable rivalry when Swain went to Bristol between the staffs of the Infirmary and the General Hospital. The surgeons to each were also in general practice and they looked with disapproval on the rise of specialization. They did not approve when a physician specializing in throats began to operate or when an obstetrician used operative procedures. Swain was in a strong position, as he not only held high surgical degrees but was a man of determination and integrity, who never allowed anyone to quarrel with him. He gave his countenance to the younger specialists, and set the example of being a pure consultant in his practice. When Greig Smith left the chair of surgery in the old University College of Bristol in 1897, Swain was appointed to succeed him, but such was the rivalry of the two hospitals that C A Morton of the General Hospital was appointed jointly with him. When the University of Bristol was incorporated in 1909 Swain was appointed the first professor of surgery and held the chair till 1920, when he resigned and was succeeded by E W Hey Groves, whom he outlived by six years. He was granted the title of emeritus professor of surgery. During the war of 1914-18 Swain was consultant surgeon to the Southern Command, with the rank of colonel, AMS. He travelled widely in southern England throughout these years, and was sent several times to France. He was mentioned in despatches, created CB in 1917 and CBE (military) in 1919. During 1917-19 he was one of the British delegates to the Inter-Allied Conference on the treatment of wounds in war, which met in Paris. Swain retired completely from surgical practice in 1922 on account of failing eye-sight; he had given up his professorship two years earlier, at the age of 58. He settled at Wyndham House, Easton in Gordano, Somerset, and was appointed a local Justice in 1929; he sat regularly as a magistrate at Long Ashton. Swain did more than anyone else to establish the flourishing modern surgical school of Bristol on sure foundations. His example of silently ignoring causes of friction helped to abolish the unfortunate rivalries of earlier days. He was president of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1909-10, and jointly edited its *Journal* from 1897 to 1924. Swain married in 1899 Hilda May, sixth daughter of Dr A J Harrison of the General Hospital, Bristol. He died on 6 January 1951, aged 88, survived by his wife, son, and daughter. He was fond of foreign travel, and knew Switzerland well. In earlier years he had been a prominent member of the Clifton Operatic Society; his performance as the Major-General in their production of Gilbert and Sullivan's *Pirates of Penzance* was long remembered. Publications: On a case of perityphlitis. *Westminster Hosp Rep* 1885, 1, 214. Appendicitis. *Bristol med chir J* 1894, 12, 9. J Greig Smith's *Abdominal Surgery*, 6th edition, 1897. Abdominal injuries. *Encyclopedia medico*, edited by J W Ballantyne. 2nd edition, Edinburgh, 1915, 1, 50.
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First Title value, for Searching Swan, Russell Henry Jocelyn (1876 - 1943)

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Publication Date 2013-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon Genito-urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born 20 July 1876 at Gosberton, Lincs, the second son of Richard Jocelyn Swan (1849-1925), MRCS 1870 (see *Lancet*, 1925, 2, 1257), and his wife Ana Elizabeth, elder daughter of Robert Russell Harper, MRCS 1875, of Holbeach, Lincs. R J Swan was the second son of John W Swan, MRCS 1835, of Ballyragget, Co Kilkenny; he practised till 1879 at Northleach, Glos, then for six years at Gosberton, and at Camberwell from 1885 till his death in 1925; his brother, Robert Lafayette Swan, was president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1899. Both the Swans and the Harpers had many medical forbears. R H J Swan was educated at Wilson's School and Guy's Hospital Medical School, where he was demonstrator of anatomy and of biology. He took first-class honours in medicine at the London MB examination when only twenty-two, and served as house surgeon and obstetric registrar at Guy's. He played Rugby football for the Hospital, and was an elusive half-back. He then served as house surgeon at St Peter's Hospital for Stone, where he acquired the interest in genito-urinary surgery which coloured his whole career. In 1902 he took the London MS and the Fellowship, though not previously a Member of the College. He was elected to the staff of the Royal Cancer Hospital, Fulham Road, where he served successively as surgical registrar, assistant surgeon, surgeon, and finally surgeon emeritus. He became also consulting surgeon to St Paul's Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases, to the Walton Cottage Hospital, and to the Watford Peace Memorial Hospital, and he served on the grand council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. During the first world war Swan was commissioned a temporary major, RAMC on 1 February 1917, and served as district consulting surgeon in the Eastern Command. He was surgeon to the Royal Herbert Hospital at Woolwich and to the American Red Cross Hospital for Officers, and later surgeon to the RAF hospitals. He was mentioned in despatches and created OBE for his services. At the outbreak of the second war in 1939 he gave up his large private practice and became divisional surgeon in the emergency medical service at Park Prewett, Basingstoke, where he carried on his duty even when his health began finally to fail. Swan was an excellent all-round surgeon, whose main interests were in cancer and genito-urinary diseases. He was also specially interested in the surgery of peripheral nerve injuries. His operations on the breast were models of technique, for he was a fine operator, careful and thorough, of sound judgement and calm decision. He served on the editorial board of the *British Journal of Urology*, and was president of the section of urology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He was also a member of the Société internationale d'Urologie. In 1917 he operated successfully upon the King's aunt, HRH the Duchess of Albany. Swan married twice: (1) in 1908 Una Gladys, daughter of A Waterlow; she died in 1924 of an obscure malignant disease, leaving a son and three daughters; (2) in 1927 Joyce Hazel, younger daughter of H M Thornton of Purley. Mrs Swan was taken severely ill on their honeymoon and was paralysed for some months; she recovered and survived him, but without children. Swan died in London on 2 March 1943, aged 66. He had practised at 75 Wimpole Street. A memorial service was held at the Royal Cancer Hospital on 9 March. He was a man of great charm, gentle, and considerate. He was a good player of golf and lawn-tennis. Swan had travelled much and took cinematograph films of the places he visited. He was a good raconteur, and also made a valuable collection of postage stamps. Publications: Genito-urinary diseases, in French's *Index of differential diagnosis*, Bristol, 1911. Primary unilateral renal tuberculosis. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1910, 64, 39. Some reflections upon villous-covered tumours of the urinary bladder. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1925-26, 19, urol p 1. New growths of the kidney. *Brit med J* 1933, 1, 606.
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First Title value, for Searching Cushing, Harvey Williams (1869 - 1939)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-20 2020-08-05
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Born in Cleveland, Ohio on 8 April 1869, the youngest of the nine children of Henry Kirke Cushing (1827-1910), MD, LLD, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Western Reserve Medical School, and Betsey Wilkinson, his wife. His grandfather and great-grandfather had both been members of the medical profession. The family was of puritan English stock and had been in New England from 1638 till the migration to Ohio in the mid-nineteenth century. Cushing dropped the use of his second name, Williams, to avoid confusion with his Harvard con¬temporary Dr Hayward Warren Cushing who also practised at Boston; the confusion first became inconvenient in 1895, Harvey Cushing dropped the W from his publications in 1900 and gave up the name completely in 1912 when he settled at Boston. Cushing took his bachelor of arts degree at Yale University in 1891, when Chittenden was teaching nutritional physiology, and graduated master of arts and doctor of medicine at Harvard in 1895. He acted as house officer at the Massachu-setts General Hospital during the year 1895-6. He then went to Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore, serving as assistant resident surgeon to William S Halsted 1896; resident surgeon 1897-1900; instructor in surgery 1897-98; assistant in surgery 1898-99; and associate in surgery 1899-1900. During this period he came under the influence of William Osler, who did much to stimulate his abilities and something to mould his character. During the year 1900-1901 he visited Europe and studied surgery under Theodor Kocher and physiology under Hugo Kronecker in Switzerland, under Mosso at Turin, and under Charles Sherrington and A S F Grunbaum (from 1915 A S F Leyton) at Liverpool. Returning to Baltimore he resumed his former position as associate in surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School 1901-02, becoming associate professor of surgery 1903-12. He migrated to Boston in 1912, where he was Moseley professor of surgery in the Harvard University Medical School 1912-32, and emeritus professor 1932-39; surgeon-in-chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital 1912-32, and surgeon-in-chief emeritus 1932-39. He gave up active surgical practice in 1932, and went to New Haven as Sterling professor of neurology at Yale University 1933-37, emeritus professor 1937-39, and associate Fellow of Trumbull College 1933-39. From 1937 until his death he filled the post of director of studies in the history of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. During the first world war he left Boston for France in March 1915 with the Harvard unit to serve in the American ambulance at Neuilly, was director of the United States army base hospital No 5 from May 1917 to November 1918, served as an operating surgeon with the British Expeditionary Force, and in 1919 was transferred to the medical headquarters of the American Expeditionary Force as senior consultant in neurological surgery. For his services he was made a military Companion of the Bath 1919, Chevalier, Légion d'Honneur 1922 and Officier 1927, and received the United States Distinguished Service Medal in 1923. He gave accounts of his war experiences in several articles (Nos 147, 148, 152, 157, 158, 165, 168, 169, 170, 113 in the *Bibliography* of Cushing's writings issued by the Harvey Cushing Society in 1939) and in greater detail in his book *From a surgeon's Journal* 1915-1918, Boston and London 1936 (Nos 22, 23). There were five printings of the Boston volume and one issue for England and Canada, 16,460 copies in all. In October 1918 he had a severe attack of acute polyneuritis, but recovered sufficiently to reach England in January and the United States in February, and was discharged at Washington 9 April 1919. Early in 1920 Lady Osler asked him to write a life of her husband Sir William Osler who had died on 29 December 1919. The work was a labour of love. Cushing never once mentioned himself in *The Life*, though he had been an intimate friend for more than thirty years. It took five years to complete, and the two volumes were published at Oxford by the Clarendon Press in 1925 (No 6). *The Life of Sir William Osler* was a great success and was awarded the Pulitzer prize as the best biography of the year. A one-volume edition was printed on India paper (No 7), and was reissued in 1941 on ordinary paper. From 1920 to 1933 Cushing worked at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, having a suite of rooms in which he lived, going home occasionally to see his wife and children. Operations and consultations both on private and hospital patients were undertaken in the hospital but a theatre was not specially reserved for the use of "The Chief", as he was called affectionately by the students and his assistants. In 1931 he was offered the post of professor of the history of medicine in the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, in succession to Professor W H Welch who had resigned. He accepted the invitation but afterwards withdrew, and Professor H E Sigerist was appointed. His term of service as surgeon-in-chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital came to an end in 1932, and he returned to Yale as professor of neurology, and was appointed consulting neurologist to the New Haven Hospital. Failing health made him resign these posts and for the last two years of his life he employed himself in completing for the press his magnum opus *Meningiomas* (No 24) which represents twenty-five years of work, an also worked at his *Biobibliography of Andreas Vesalius* published posthumously in 1943. He married in 1902 Katherine Stone Crowell Cleveland. She survived him with one son and three daughters. The elder son was killed in a motor accident in 1926 while he was a student at Yale; the second daughter Betsey married James Roosevelt, son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States 1932-45. Cushing died of coronary thrombosis on 7 October 1939. Harvey Cushing was the founder of neurosurgery. He began his professional life as a general surgeon, perhaps with a slight bias in favour of abdominal surgery, but from 1902 onwards he devoted himself to the surgery of the brain, and ended by specializing in the operative treatment of cerebral tumours. It is said that when he retired from Boston in 1932 he was removing nearly two hundred tumours a year, with a very low rate of mortality. He had then educated a school of pupils, and their pupils in turn had made his methods known throughout the world. As an operator he was satisfied with nothing less than perfection. He worked very slowly, in complete silence, and a single operation might take from three to six hours. He was particularly careful to keep the field of operation free from blood and had invented a suction apparatus for the purpose, which in his hands was very efficient. The blood thus saved was stored and was used for transfusion at the end of the operation if it was required. Late in life he also adopted the electric knife. As a man he was slightly above middle height, 5 ft 9 in, of spare build, with pleasant and clean-cut features. He spoke quietly and without emphasis. His wit was quick and ready, and his repartee, though effective and sometimes dictatorial, left no sting. He moved quickly and almost with a dancing gait. He was equally at home in the United States and in Great Britain and was ever welcomed with enthusiasm by his many friends. He was deeply cultivated in the *literae humaniores*, a lover of good books and the collector of a very fine library, which he bequeathed to Yale. The catalogue of it was published in 1943. He had a genius for friendship, saw the best points in everyone, and was wholly free from malice. Full of ideas, he grasped the need for using the talents of everyone. A supreme individualist, he had learnt on the Yale baseball team, in which he played for three years, the value of team work and of the necessity for men in one centre to know by practical experience what was being done elsewhere. With this desire he instituted at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital the practice of inviting surgeons to take charge for a few weeks annually. In 1922 he came to London as visiting surgeon at St Bartholo¬mew's Hospital, while Sir Cuthbert Wallace of St Thomas's Hospital took his place in Boston. Always generous, he asked that the income derived from the Charles Mickle Fellowship, which had been awarded him by the University of Toronto in 1923, should be given to some brilliant undergraduate to enable him to study cerebral surgery in Boston. Unsought honours were showered upon him both at home and abroad. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England, in addition to receiving the Honorary Fellowship in 1913, he delivered the Lister memorial lecture in 1930 and was awarded the Lister medal and prize. He paid several visits to the College, the last in July 1938 when he was on his way to Oxford to receive the honorary degree of DSc from the university. On the occasion of this visit several pleasing photographs were taken by Professor John Beattie of him talking to Sir Charles Sherrington, Sir D'Arcy Power, Dr Arnold Klebs, and Professor Lynn Thorndike, over the College's collection of books by Vesalius. His seventieth birthday was celebrated at New Haven on 8 April 1939 by the presentation of a bibliography of his writings, prepared by the Harvey Cushing Society. It shows that he had written thirteen books and 330 articles. The portrait which appears as the frontispiece is a speaking likeness. Sir D'Arcy Power, who wrote the foregoing, confessed himself "too sad" at Cushing's death to write adequately about him. The following sketch of Cushing's activities is therefore added to his memoir: While at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cushing had been taught the necessity for speed in operating, and he retained through life the ability to work brilliantly at high speed in emergency, but he learnt from Halsted the greater needs of gentleness, scrupulosity, and avoidance of blood-loss. His interest began to turn to neurosurgery in his first years at Baltimore, and during his year of travel he completed at Bern an experi-mental investigation (No 50) of the effects of increased intracranial tension on arterial blood pressure. Next, under Sherrington, he took part in comparative studies of the anthropoid brain. During this year he also found time for the first, and in some ways the most charming, of his historical essays: "Haller and his native town" (No 47) dated from "Bern, March 20, 1901", and re-issued posthumously in the volume of essays called *The medical career* 1940. He had become convinced of the necessity for the surgeon to base his work on wide scientific knowledge, and for this end he founded on getting back to Baltimore the "Hunterian laboratory" for "comparative surgery". He later organized a similar laboratory of surgical research at the Brigham Hospital, Boston. He also educated himself very thoroughly as a general neurologist, before undertaking to advance the more technical operative side of his chosen specialty. Cushing had an iron constitution and his operations, often lasting many hours, wore out all his assistants, but only failure depressed him. A few hard games of tennis were all the recreation he sought. He kept elaborate notes and drawings of his work, and published them with scrupulous honesty. The series of his books on brain surgery and brain tumours, and his annual reports, with his numerous clinical articles, form perhaps the most remarkable record of a surgical career ever penned. He was able to record an ever-growing practice and an ever-decreasing mortality. His annual reports of later years at the Brigham and many of his public addresses, at least from his address at the last International Medical Congress in 1913, also carry a forthright expression of his decided views on wider social and cultural aspects of practice. The most brilliant students flocked to his clinic, and though severe in his demands and his criticism he knew the importance of training disciples and had, unconsciously, the power of evoking affection as well as admiration. Already in 1898 he had begun to experiment in cocaine anaesthesia (No 28) and nerve blocking, unaware of the dramatic history of his master Halsted's own experiments of fifteen years before. And in 1902 he was early in the field afterwards so fully exploited by G W Crile, of Cushing's native Cleveland, of avoidance of shock in surgical cases (No 51). At that time he was also a pioneer in America of the study of blood-pressure changes, at which he had worked in Switzerland and Italy (Nos 50, 51, 52 and especially 55). By 1904 he had begun to operate for cerebral tumours (No 62), the field which he afterwards made peculiarly his own and which he published his great series of books: *Tumors of the nervus acusti* 1917 (No 3), *Classification of gliomas* 1926 (No 8), *Tumors arising from blood-vessels* 1928 (No 13), *Intracranial tumors: 2000 cases* 1932 (No 16 and *Meningiomas* 1938 (No 24). His more strictly laboratory work concerned itself chiefly with the physiology of the hypophysis. His first book *The pituitary body and its disorders* 1912 (No 1) was the first clinical monograph on the hypophysis and a landmark in modern endocrinology It was followed by his *Studies in intracranial physiology: The thin circulation; The hypophysis; The gliomas* (Cameron prize lecture, Edinburgh 1926 (No 10); *Pathological findings in acromegaly* 1927 (No 12 issued by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, and containing the most detailed pathological study of individual cases of acromegaly ever made; *Pituitary body, hypothalamus, and parasympathetic nervous system* 1932 (No. 20): this includes a reprinting, without addition, of his original description earlier in the same year (No. 298) of the syndrome of pituitary basophilism, which came to be generally known as "the Cushing syndrome". In 1928 he began to introduce electro-surgical methods into his armamentarium (No 269). At his sixtieth birthday in 1929 he was presented with a Festschrift of papers by his pupils and disciples, *The Harvey Cushing birthday volume*. His war years were equally well documented. In 1918 he contributed to the *British Journal of Surgery*, v 5, a study of wounds involving the brain (No 169), and he edited his private war diaries, which had been published already in part, in 1936: the book became a best-seller (see above). At page 197 he records the death from wounds of Revere Osler, only son of Sir William on 30 August 1917. The tragedy is recorded also in his *Life of Osler* at vol 2, page 576, though there without mention of Cushing's having been with Revere at the end. Cushing had formed close friendships with Osler, Halsted, and Wm H Welch while at Baltimore, and after Osler's translation to Oxford in 1908 he was a frequent visitor to "The Open Arms" in Norham Gardens. He formed many English friendships, of which the warmest was perhaps with Sir D'Arcy Power his senior by fourteen years. They had a common interest, encouraged by Osler, in their love for medical books. This interest also brought Cushing into friendship with F H Garrison, MD, assistant librarian of the Army Medical Library and the authoritative historian of medicine, and with Arnold C Klebs, MD, the Swiss-American humanist, who became the most intimate friend and constant adviser in the collecting of renaissance and other historical scientific books. On moving from Boston to New Haven in 1932 Cushing unfortunately sold his fine collection of modern neurological books, as he had suffered severely from the financial depression. But his main library, which he had for long thought of selling, "so that others might repeat the pleasure he had had in bidding for the books", perhaps the richest in renaissance science ever collected by a private man, he bequeathed with endowment to Yale where it has been joined by the collections of Dr Klebs and Dr John F Fulton. On this library he based a number of essays and historical studies (eg Nos 224, 246, 247, 260, 277, 279, 295, 319, 323, 325). He did not live to complete his greatest undertaking in this field, *The Biobibliography of Andreas Vesalius*, which was published with splendour in 1943; Cushing had made himself the leading authority on Vesalius and amassed the finest Vesalius library ever brought together. His "popular" writings were collected into two charming books *Consecratio medici* 1925 (No 15) and *The medical career* (posthumously published) 1940. While of tireless energy and brilliantly alert, Cushing suffered from several severe illnesses. The polyneuritis which supervened on his war work has been mentioned; he also developed a gastric ulcer for which operation was necessary, and suffered from a painful inflammation of the surface blood-vessels, especially of the feet. Cushing aimed at perfection in all his activities: he was in a rank by himself as a surgeon and teacher, the results of his scientific researches were of first importance, he was an accomplished writer, a skilled draughtsman, and an expert bibliographer. His commanding manner was softened by his zest and humour, and the Sunday afternoon tea-parties, at which he dominated and charmed the company, were eagerly frequented. Publications:- Cushing's writings are recorded in *A bibliography of the writings of Harvey Cushing* Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta publishing Co for the Harvey Cushing Society 1939. The College library has a copy of the special issue, inscribed by Cushing. His principal writings have been mentioned in the memoir above; the following were published posthumously:- *Harvey Cushing's seventieth birthday party, April 8, 1939, Speeches, letters and tributes*. Menasha, C C Thomas for the Harvey Ching Society 1939. *A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius* edited by John F Fulton, MD New York: Schuman's, 1943. *The Harvey Cushing collection of books and manuscripts* Catalogue by Margaret Brinton and Henrietta Perkins. Yale medical library, Historical library, publication No 1 New York: Schuman's, 1943. *A visit to Le Puy-en-Velay: an illustrated diary* [August 1900]. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1944. Limited edition, with facsimiles.
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First Title value, for Searching White, Charles Powell (1867 - 1930)

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Occupation Pathologist
Details The fourth son of the Rev L Borrett Powell White, DD, Canon and Prebendary of St Paul's and Rector of St Mary Aldermary in the City of London, was born 21 April 1867. He entered St Paul's School in 1878 and left in July 1886, being then in Math VIII and having been elected a foundationer in 1879. He matriculated with first-class honours at the University of London in January 1884, but went to Cambridge where he had gained a scholarship at Sidney Sussex College in 1886 and a Lovett exhibition in 1887. He graduated BA after being placed a Senior Optime in part 1 of the Mathematical Tripos in 1889. He then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained the Burrows and Skynner prizes in 1893 and, after acting as house surgeon, held the Treasurer's research scholarship in pathology for the year 1894-95 and, coming under the influence of A A Kanthack, determined to devote himself to pathology. In 1898 he was appointed pathologist to the Birmingham General Hospital, and in 1900, after making a voyage as surgeon in the SS *Patroclus*, was elected demonstrator of pathology in the Yorkshire College at Leeds. He filled this post for two years, delivered the Erasmus Wilson lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons "On the pathology of tumours", and in 1902 was appointed demonstrator of morbid anatomy and pathology at St Thomas's Hospital, when S G Shattock was lecturer; in 1904 he was advanced to the post of demonstrator of pathology, and in 1905 he became assistant pathologist in the Medical School. White moved to Manchester in 1906 on becoming the first holder of the research studentship of the Pilkington fund, a position he held for the rest of his life. In 1910 he was appointed pathologist to the Christie Hospital for Cancer, and in 1915 he was created special lecturer in pathology at Manchester University. He was also director of the Helen Swindell Cancer Research Laboratories in the University and histologist to the Manchester Committee on Cancer. He married in 1918 Lettice Mary, daughter of Horace Lamb, FRS, professor of mathematics in the University of Manchester. She survived him with a son and a daughter. He died on 26 September 1930, after being paralysed and confined to his bed for two years. White did much good work at a time when pathology was developing from morbid anatomy and was fortunate in working under the two great teachers of his generation, Kanthack and Shattock. He was throughout his life more a pathologist for pathologists than a teacher of undergraduate students. He was treasurer of the Pathological Society of Great Britain, and took an active part in forming a committee of pathologists to watch their interests and secure for them adequate emoluments. Of a shy and retiring disposition, he was widely read in general literature and had a very great knowledge of natural history. Publications: General pathology of tumours, Erasmus Wilson lectures. *Lancet*, 1902, 1, 423 and 491. *Lectures on the pathology of cancer*. Manchester, 1908. Experiments on cell proliferation and metaplasia. *J Path Bact* 1910, 14, 450. *The pathology of growth tumours*. London, 1913. *The principles of pathology*. Manchester, 1927.
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First Title value, for Searching Crooks, James (1901 - 1980)

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Occupation ENT surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Born on 2 October 1901, Crooks graduated in Edinburgh. He moved to London working first as house physician and casualty officer at Great Ormond Street and then, in 1929, as resident medical superintendent. He had taken his FRCS the previous year, and came under the influence of Denis Browne when paediatric surgery was an exciting new specialty. At first he intended to follow a general surgical career, but in 1931 the opportunity of a consultant post at Great Ormond Street led him into ENT surgery, which became his lifelong study. He had a great rapport with children which, combined with his deft technique enabled him to carry out many examinations and therapeutic manoeuvres under local anaesthesia. He was a pioneer in the treatment of the infected antrum, and was a skilled but selective tonsillectomist in an era when wholesale tonsillectomy was the fashion. He built up a large and successful practice, which included several members of the Royal Family. He was appointed CVO in 1958. When the Hospital for Sick Children was being rebuilt in the 1930s he was much involved in planning the main block with the architect, not only concerned with the main concepts but also with details of cleanliness, control of infection, nursing supervision and facilities for parents. Much of what he initiated has become standard practice. Though the war held up development for many years he continued, as Chairman of the Building Committee from 1948 to his retirement in 1967, to guide the formation of the present hospital. He married first in 1931 Irene Heath, painter and writer, by whom he had two daughters. In 1970 he married Caroline Woollcombe. He was himself a lover of the arts and an amateur painter of distinction. In his retirement he extended hospitality to his old friends from Great Ormond Street and exercised his surgical craftsmanship in his workshop on the care of an ancient Rolls-Royce. He died on 16 April, 1980.
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First Title value, for Searching Fuchs, Ernst (1851 - 1930)

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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in Vienna on 14 June 1851 the son of Adalbert Fuchs, professor of agriculture at the Technische Hochschule, Vienna. He was educated at Vienna under Billroth and Brücke, and was afterwards assistant in the Physiological Institute at Innsbruck. He was assistant to Arlt in the Ophthalmological Clinic at Vienna from 1876 to 1880, and in the latter year was appointed professor of ophthalmology at Liège. In 1885 he succeeded Jaeger as professor of ophthalmology and director of the Second Eye Clinic at Vienna; from this position he retired in 1915. He died on 21 November 1930, survived by his son Adalbert, professor in the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna. Fuchs was a man of great personal charm and culture. He spoke English, French, Italian, and Spanish fluently. He was an alpinist and had travelled in Europe, America, Africa, and Asia. In 1921 his numerous friends presented him with a Festschrift on the attainment of his seventieth birthday. It appears in the *Archiv für Ophthalmologie*, vol 105. His *Lehrbuch der Augenheilkunde*, first published in 1889, was long a standard textbook.
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First Title value, for Searching Crone, William Plunkett (1919 - 1980)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

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Occupation General surgeon Venereologist
Details William Plunkett Crone was born on 23 March 1919, in London, the second child and first son of William Crone, a civil servant and secretary to the Northern Ireland Government Board of Trade. His mother was Mary Jane, née Plunkett. His early education was at the Methodist College, Belfast. He entered Queen's University, Belfast, where he qualified as a doctor in 1942. He then joined the RAF reaching the rank of Acting Squadron-Leader. After the war he became an ex-service registrar in Leeds, the resident surgical officer at Leeds General Infirmary and finally senior surgical registrar, where he worked for the late George Armitage. He took his FRCS in 1953. He published papers on retro-peritoneal rupture of the duodenum and intestinal polyposis associated with pigmentation and intussusception in triplets, in the *British medical journal*, 1954. He was appointed consultant surgeon in Goole and Pontefract, but gave up surgical practice in the early 1960s. He then became consultant venereologist to the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and the Royal Halifax Infirmary after working as medical assistant in venereology to the Leeds Regional Hospital Board. He was a member of Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chirurgical Society and Leeds Regional Surgical Club. His pastime was golf. In 1947 he married Dr Agnes A Jervis, daughter of Dr J Johnstone Jervis, Medical Officer of Health for the city of Leeds. He died on 4 May, 1980, leaving his wife, one daughter who is a dermatologist, and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Raye, Daniel O'Connell (1842 - 1925)

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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born at Kilmainham, Dublin, in August 1842, a nephew on his mother's side of Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator, who was at the time a prisoner in Kilmainham gaol. He was educated at Queen's College, Galway; at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; in Paris and Vienna. He received a commission as assistant surgeon, IMS on 31 March 1866 and served on the Bengal side, was promoted surgeon on 1 July 1873, surgeon-major 31 July 1878, and surgeon-colonel 2 April 1894. He saw service on the North-East Frontier at Daphla in 1874-75, and was later civil surgeon at Nimar. He was professor of anatomy in the Calcutta Medical College, and in 1892 succeeded Kenneth McLeod as professor of surgery and first surgeon to the Hospital. In 1894 he was appointed inspector-general of civil hospitals in the Punjab, and retired on 2 April 1899. He married in 1881 Katherine Mary Fox (d 1922), and had three daughters. His death took place at Lacks Yews, Mattingley on 29 December 1925.
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First Title value, for Searching Wood, Samuel (1812 - 1879)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at University College Hospital, acted as House Surgeon to the Shrewsbury Infirmary from 1837-1848, and was then appointed Surgeon. He was also Surgeon to the Shropshire and Montgomery Counties Lunatic Asylum, practising at St Mary's Court, Shrewsbury. He was much interested in archaeology; was a Fellow and the local Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, a member of the Numismatic Society of London and of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, a Fellow of the Ethnological Society, and an authority on the antiquities of his native district. He died at St Mary's Court, Shrewsbury, on June 19th, 1879. Publications: Wood published papers in 1863 "On a Case of Traumatic Tetanus" for which he had divided the implicated nerve; also "An Operation for the Cure of Femoral Hernia" in 1871. *Address to the Members of the Shropshire Scientific Branch of the British Medical Association*, 8vo, Shrewsbury, 1868.
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First Title value, for Searching Woods, Charles John (1807 - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Woods, George (1817 - 1889)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Liverpool on February 28th, 1817, the son of Peter Woods, solicitor, of Liverpool. He studied at St George's and Charing Cross Hospitals, and at the latter was a pupil of John Howship, Surgeon to the Hospital, who is still remembered by 'Howship's lacunae' in bone. In 1840 he settled in practice at Liverpool, was elected Medical Officer of the Fever Hospital, where in the course of duty he was infected both by cholera and by typhus. His brother-in-law, Philip F Curry, being Coroner, Woods was much engaged in making post-mortem examinations. In 1853 he removed to Southport, where he built up a large practice and was Surgeon to the Southport Convalescent Hospital. At one time he was President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch of the British Medical Association, and until his death a Member of the Council. He was interested in freemasonry and was twice WM of his Lodge; at one time he was President of the Union Club. He retired from practice in 1882, being succeeded by his son, and died after a long illness at 1 Church Street, Southport, on April 15th, 1889. He was a widower and left two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Green, Charles Robert Mortimer (1863 - 1950)

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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born 21 May 1863, the third son and fourth of the ten children of the Rev Edward Peter Green and his wife Anne Griffiths. He was educated at Mercers' School and the London Hospital, and played in the Hospital rugby XV. He qualified LSA in 1884, and took the Conjoint diplomas the next year. On 30 September 1886 he was commissioned as surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. He saw active service on the North West Frontier at the Black Mountain and Hazara, winning the medal with clasp in 1888, and at Tirak in 1897-98 and again won the medal with clasp. He had taken the Fellowship and the Cambridge DPH in 1895. He was promoted major in September 1898, and lieutenant-colonel in 1906 when he took the Durham MD, and was placed in the special list for promotion on 1 April 1912. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the hospital ships *Ellora* and *Sicilia*, in the Mahsud operation 1917, and in Mesopotamia and again on the North West frontier. He was promoted colonel on 11 November 1916. After the war he was appointed Inspector General of Civil Hospitals in the Central Provinces. During his years of civil service he was attached the Eden Hospital, Calcutta, and was professor of midwifery in Calcutta University; he was also civil surgeon at Simla. He was appointed an Honorary Surgeon to the King on 15 June 1920, and retired on 28 March 1921. After his return to England Colonel Green settled at Guildford and took an active part in local affairs. He was attached to the honorary staff of the Royal Surrey County Hospital. He was a man of great physical strength, quiet, imperturbable, and fairminded. He retained his zest and big-hearted generosity to the end of his long life. Green married in 1899 Alice Whitworth Yates; there were two sons and a daughter of the marriage. He died at Guildford on 10 April 1950, aged 86. Publication:- E A Birch. *Management of children in India*, 5th edition by C R M Green and V B Green-Armytage, 1913.
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First Title value, for Searching Hilmy, Abbas (1901 - 1963)

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First Title value, for Searching Hinde, Raymond Thomas (1916 - 1959)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Raymond Thomas Finde, son of T J Hinde of Harrow, was educated at the Haberdashers' School and at Guy's Hospital, where he played in the Rugby XV. After qualifying in 1940 he held house appointments at Guy's and then joined the Indian Medical Service. While in India he transferred to the Royal Indian Navy in which he served as a Surgeon Lieutenant during the second world war. In 1944 Hinde was invalided from the service and returned to Guy's as registrar to the ear nose and throat department and demonstrator in anatomy. In 1946 he became registrar and then first assistant to the Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology at the Radcliffe Infirmary. In 1949 he took the Fellowship, and in the same year he married Dr Jean Mary Briscoe who was also on the staff of the Radcliffe. In 1951 Hinde was appointed consultant ear nose and throat surgeon to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Hinde was a brilliant conversationalist; speaking lucidly and precisely himself, he was amused by the small pomposities of everyday speech. Beneath his humour was a deep Christian faith. He was a keen yachtsman and sailed in the Fastnet race. He died after a few months' illness at the age of 43 on 27 June 1959 in the Radcliffe Infirmary, survived by his wife and their young son. Publications: Review of diagnostic problem in 100 cases of chronic maxillary sinusitis. *J Laryngol* 1950.
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First Title value, for Searching Costobadie, Lionel Palliser (1889 - 1977)

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First Title value, for Searching Miller, George Gavin (1893 - 1964)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at South Shields on 7 December 1893 son of George Gibb Miller and his wife Alice M Jones, he went to Canada in 1910, but served overseas during 1914-18 as a Captain in the Royal Highlanders. He qualified from the University of Western Ontario in 1922, and worked at the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit and the Peking Union Medical College. In 1926 he was appointed to the Royal Victoria Hospital at Montreal and as demonstrator of surgery at McGill, eventually becoming surgeon-in-chief to the Hospital and Professor at the University. During 1930-31 he studied in Edinburgh, London and Vienna, and from the latter he introduced the Hofmeister-Finsterer gastrectomy to North America. He established himself as a leader in gastro-intestinal surgery, and pioneered the surgical therapy of ulcerative colitis. With H F Moseley he edited a McGill-Royal Victoria *Textbook of Surgery*. He was a charter Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and a member of its Council 1949-53; he was a Vice-President of the American College of Surgeons 1950-51. Miller was a good swimmer and water-polo player; he enjoyed both work and play. He married on 28 October 1924 Catherine T Schurman, who survived him with their two sons. He practised at 1390 Sherbrooke Street West and lived at Argyle Avenue, Westmount, Montreal, but retired in 1953 to Clovelly, St Andrews, New Brunswick. He died after a long illness in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal on 1 December 1964 aged 71.
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First Title value, for Searching Hodgson, Norman (1891 - 1963)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Sunderland on 19 April 1891, son of a pharmaceutical chemist, he received his medical education at the University of Durham graduating in 1912. He then held house appointments at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. In 1914 he joined the RAMC and served as a surgical specialist in Greece. After the war he returned to postgraduate study in Newcastle, and in 1920 was appointed assistant surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, becoming full surgeon in 1929 and retiring in 1956. He was also surgeon to the Ingham Infirmary, South Shields. In 1954 he was given a personal chair and in 1956 created emeritus professor on retirement. He played a great part in the establishment of the whole-time chair of surgery in Newcastle. In 1957 he was president of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, having been president of the North of England branch of the BMA in 1937-38 and of the Newcastle and Northern Medical Society. After retiring he became adviser in surgery to the Newcastle Regional Hospital Board. A modest, kindly man, he had a boyish manner and humorous approach to life. He married first Bessie Mellowdew of Oldham, who died in 1943 leaving two daughters and a son, and secondly in 1945 Violet Ann Dixon of Tynemouth. He died in Newcastle on 30 August 1963 aged 72.
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First Title value, for Searching Hogarth, Robert George (1868 - 1953)

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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 Holman, Charles Colgate (1884 - 1954)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

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 Holmes, Thomas Sydney Shaw (1884 - 1964)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Islandmagee, Co Antrim, he was educated at the Methodist College and Queen's College, Belfast, then still a constituent of the Royal University of Ireland, graduated in 1907 and served as demonstrator in anatomy. He served in France during the 1914-18 war as a surgical specialist with the rank of Captain RAMC. On return to civil life he was appointed in 1920 assistant surgeon and later surgeon to the Samaritan Hospital for Women, Belfast; on his retirement in 1949 he was appointed a governor of the hospital. He had a large consulting practice in obstetrics and gynaecology, and in 1926 was the first obstetric specialist appointed to the Belfast City Hospital, where he established a department which became the largest in the area. Holmes was largely responsible for the new Jubilee Maternity Hospital opened in 1935. He was a great clinical teacher, affectionately known as "Tommy". From 1939 to 1941 he was president of the Ulster Medical Society and in the war of 1939-45 kept open house at his home in Malone Road for doctors on war service. He was a member of the BMA for over fifty years, and he was vice-president of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the 1937 Annual Meeting in Belfast. He maintained a keen interest in his old school and Rugby football, having captained the team which won the Ulster Schools' Cup in 1900; he was later captain of Collegians and played for Ulster. He was president of the Old Boys Association of his school in 1949. He also enjoyed shooting and fishing. He became great friends with his students and housemen, sharing their successes and failures, and when he was eighty was still receiving letters from past students from every part of the world. Thomas Holmes died in Belfast on 27 August 1964, survived by his wife, two daughters, and a son; his younger son had died on war service in the RAF.
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First Title value, for Searching Simpson-Smith, Alexander (1900 - 1942)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 2 June 1900; his parents lived in 1919 at Kirkside, Honley, Huddersfield. He was educated at St Cuthbert's School, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, of which he became captain, at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was a mathematical scholar, and at Guy's Hospital. He qualified in 1925 and, after taking the higher surgical qualifications, he was elected to a Richardson research scholarship in 1930, which enabled him to go to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. At Guy's he had served as junior demonstrator of anatomy and staff anaesthetist, and on coming home from America was appointed resident surgical officer and radium registrar, and proved himself a brilliant operator. He was then appointed resident assistant surgeon and surgeon to out-patients at the West London Hospital, and surgeon in 1934 to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He was also consulting surgeon to the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Hospital, Alton, the mental hospitals at Napsbury and Shenley, the Surrey Dispensary, and the Mignot Hospital, Alderney, Channel Isles. Simpson-Smith was a member of the British Medical Association, and served as honorary secretary of the Medical Society of London and of the clinical section at the Royal Society of Medicine, and was a council-member of the Harveian Society. Simpson-Smith was awarded a research fellowship by the Association of Surgeons in 1934, and worked till 1939 at the Royal College of Surgeons and its Buckston Browne Farm on the surgical treatment of gastric ulcer in collaboration with Laurence O'Shaughnessy, and on other problems. On the outbreak of war in September 1939 Simpson-Smith was commissioned a major in the RAMC, and was posted to a military hospital near London. After the fall of France in 1940 he was posted to the Middle East. He served first at a base hospital at Cairo and later was promoted lieutenant-colonel and stationed at Tobruk. He was mentioned in despatches, and his excellent work was praised by an Italian surgeon, Giorgio Colognato of Rome, who had charge of many British prisoners of war after the surrender of Tobruk. Simpson-Smith had made a special study of the treatment of war burns. He was captured at Tobruk on 20 June 1942 and escaped early in July, after dealing with all casualties. He was last seen in a motor-ambulance heading for the oasis of Siwa. He was reported to be wearing a German officer's shirt, and appears to have been shot. He was officially reported missing, but his grave was subsequently found at Halfaya-Sollum. He was 42 years old. Simpson-Smith married in 1939 Marguerite Alice, daughter of T B F Davis of Jersey and Durban, South Africa, who survived him. Simpson-Smith was endowed with ability, gaiety of spirit, and personal magnetism. His qualities and powers seemed to mark him for a great professional and scientific career. While a student he underwent operations on his right hand, which had been injured in childhood, so that he might achieve his ambition of practising surgery. The Alex Simpson-Smith lectureship was founded in his memory at the West London hospital. Publications: Spontaneous fractures of clavicle and humerus. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1930, 53, 73. Cases of malignant disease treated with radium in general surgical wards, with F J Steward. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1933, 83, 160. Treatment of compound fractures of tibia. *Brit med J* 1933, 2, 1019; of maxillary fractures. *Ibid* 1934, 2, 632. Appendicitis in children. *Practitioner*, 1935, 134, 518. Traumatic rupture of the urethra. *Brit J Surg* 1936-37, 24, 309. Sarcoma of the intestine in children. *Ibid* 1938-39, 26, 429. New instruments: Bone drills. *Lancet*, 1932, 2, 20. Bone clamp. *Ind med Gaz* 1932, 67, 660. Trephine. *Lancet*, 1933, 1, 1350. Mirror for viewing operations. *Lancet*, 1936, 2, 382.
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First Title value, for Searching Sinclair, Neil Frederick (1885 - 1950)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Shafton, Bluefield, Jamaica, in 1885, the eldest son of Frederick Archibald Sinclair, MB Edinburgh 1882, and his wife. He came to England at the age of sixteen, and made his own way while completing his education. At the London Hospital, which he entered in 1903, he won the Anderson and dressers' prizes. After qualifying in 1908 he served as house physician, and as house surgeon to Sir Frederick Eve and Percy Furnivall. He was also receiving room officer and resident accoucheur and was elected president of the residents' mess. In the first world war he served in France, and was promoted captain, RAMC on 1 December 1918. He was very popular, and became familiarly known as Bulgie. In 1916 he took the Edinburgh Fellowship. After the war he was appointed surgical registrar at the West London Hospital, with which he thenceforward largely identified his career. He became assistant surgeon in 1919, surgeon in 1930, and senior surgeon in 1936. He was dean of the Hospital's Postgraduate School, and continued as lecturer on surgery after the School was opened to undergraduates. He was a great teacher, preferring the conversational bedside lesson to the formal lecture. He served on the Court of Examiners of the College from 1943 to 1946. Sinclair was also senior surgeon to the King George Hospital at Ilford, where he was appointed surgeon in 1933. He was at one time surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children, and later consulting surgeon to the Kensington Children's Hospital. He was also consulting surgeon to Chiswick, Northwood, Twickenham, and Brentford Hospitals. He was an active member of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society and filled the offices of secretary and president; he was also secretary of the Medical Society of London. He practised at 116 Harley Street, and later lived at 14 Upper Harley Street. Here he died peacefully on 14 November 1950, aged 65, survived by his wife, their daughter, and their son, a medical student at the London Hospital. Sinclair was a friendly, robust figure. He was always unhurried and often unpunctual, willingly expending his time for patients or colleagues, regardless of appointments. He was especially interested in the surgery of the thyroid and of the upper abdomen. Publications: Stovaine spinal anaesthesia. *W Lond med J* 1932, 37, 33. A case of diffuse polyposis of the stomach. *Brit J Surg* 1933, 20, 645. Gastric neoplasms and their treatment. *Mod Treat Yearb* 1946.
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First Title value, for Searching Horsford, Cyril Arthur Bennett (1876 - 1953)

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First Title value, for Searching Horton, Robert Lester (1889 - 1955)

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First Title value, for Searching Howarth, Walter Goldie (1879 - 1962)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-03
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born at Prestwich, son of J E Howarth and twin brother of (Sir) Edgar Goldie Howarth KBE, CB, he was educated at Shrewsbury, King's College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. After house appointments, when he was house surgeon to Sir George Makins and W H Battle, he spent considerable time in postgraduate study of otolaryngology at Vienna, Freiberg and Berlin. In 1911 he was appointed the first pure rhinolaryngologist on the staff of St Thomas's taking over the department from H B Robinson, one of the assistant general surgeons who up to this time had always dealt with this aspect of surgery in addition to their general duties. In 1932 he was appointed the first head of the united ear nose and throat departments, as before this date the aural department had remained a separate entity. He was also consultant to the City of London for Diseases of the Chest, and to Midhurst, Horsham, Petworth, and Haslemere Hospitals. During the war of 1914-18 Howarth was an officer of the Territorial Army attached to the Second London General Hospital, and later was appointed consultant to St Dunstan's Hospital for blinded servicemen many of whom had extensive nasal as well as orbital wounds. He was a Hunterian Professor in 1921, and in 1929 became editor of the *Journal of Laryngology and Otology*, a position he held with distinction for the next thirty-two years, during which time the Journal exerted great influence internationally. In 1937 he was invited to give the Semon lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine, and he was also President of the Laryngological section. The problem of wastage of time in out-patient departments exercised him and he published a time sheet for the organisation of a department in a teaching hospital. An essentially shy and modest man, he was extremely kind, well liked by students, and did a great deal to further the advance of his specialty. He had in 1912 translated Brüning's book on *Peroral Endoscopy* into English, the first book on its subject in this country. While at Cambridge he captained the University Golf team in 1901 and in 1900 won the Linskill Cup. Always a keen horseman, he sustained a severe fracture of the carpus, shortly after being appointed consultant, necessitating the removal of some of the bones of his wrist, but, in spite of this handicap which eliminated him from first-class golf, he continued to operate with dexterity and for many years after was a regular rider to hounds. During the war of 1939-45 he returned to St Thomas's to work but afterwards became a whole-time cattle farmer in Sussex, rising daily at 5 am, and breeding Jersey cattle. In 1905 he married Esther Mary, daughter of Halsey Ricardo FRIBA, by whom he had a daughter and three sons, one of whom A E Howarth, is a Fellow and otolaryngologist. Howarth died at his farm on 29 April 1962 aged 83. Publications: Radical operation for frontal sinusitis. *J Laryngol* 1923, 38, 341. Endoscopy of the upper respiratory and alimentary tracts. *Brit Encycl med Pract* 1951, 5, 140. Diseases of the nasal ancillary sinuses, in Handfield-Jones and Porritt *Essentials of modern Surgery*, 4th edition 1951.
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First Title value, for Searching Howat, Robert King (1870 - 1958)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Scotland on 22 November 1870, the eldest child of Andrew Howat, a muslin merchant, and his wife née Smith, he was educated at Pollokshields Academy and Glasgow University where he qualified in 1892. He took the English conjoint diplomas in 1893 and the Fellowship in 1896 but continued to practise in Glasgow, where he became a Fellow of the Royal Faculty in 1899. He was lecturer in surgery at Anderson's College and assistant surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He moved to Yorkshire in 1901 on his appointment to the staffs of the North Riding Infirmary at Middlesbrough and the Admiral Chaloner Hospital at Guisborough. He had charge of the X-ray and the eye, ear nose and throat departments, and ultimately became consulting surgeon to both hospitals. He qualified as a barrister in 1914, but never used his legal knowledge professionally. He was a member of the Medico-Legal Society. Howat retired in 1932 and moved to London. King's College availed itself of his skill as an honorary demonstrator of anatomy, and in his eightieth year (1950) he published a useful handbook of osteology. He was also a regular reader in the College of Surgeons library. He made some research into the detail of William Hunter's controversy with the Monros in the 1760s, but did not publish his results. Howat was an able man of somewhat uncompromising temper. His interests ranged over many branches of surgery and the surgical sciences, and their past history, and he retained his intellectual alertness to the end of his long life. Howat married May Foster on 21 October 1936. After retirement he lived at Claygate, Surrey, but later moved to Hornsey Lane, Highgate, where he died on 9 February 1958, the sixty-fifth anniversary of his taking the Membership, aged eighty-seven, survived by his wife and by the son and daughter of his first marriage. Publications: Immediate treatment of severe post-partum haemorrhage. *Brit med J* 1916, 1, 193. Treatment of minor injuries of the foot. *Practitioner* 1919, 102, 325. Traumatic rupture of the heart. *Lancet* 1920, 1, 1313. Cross-section of perineum; method of limiting rupture in labour. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1937, 44, 1084. *Osteology for dissectors*. London, Kimpton 1950.
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First Title value, for Searching Howett, Robert Anthony (1928 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Hoyte, Frank Christopher (1926 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Boreham, Peter Francis (1922 - 2014)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2014-08-11
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Peter Boreham was a much-loved and highly respected general surgeon in Cheltenham with a major urological interest. He was born on 26 May 1922 in Szechuan, China, into a missionary family. He was the second son of the Reverend Frederick Boreham and his wife Mildred née Slater: an older brother, Douglas, died in infancy just six weeks after Peter was born. Peter's early years were not without hazard: he was shipwrecked at the age of two on the Yangtze River. He had two younger siblings, Cicely, who became a headmistress, and John, who was knighted, and was director of the Central Statistical Office. Frederick and Mildred Boreham returned to England from 1924 to 1929 to serve in various livings, including Norwich, where Frederick was priest at New Catton. It was here that Peter started his education in the kindergarten of Norwich High School for Girls. Later, in 1931, when both parents were back in China, he was sent as a boarder to Feltonfleet Preparatory School, where he was later joined by his sister and brother. Peter's departure from Feltonfleet was quite spectacular: he had an accident with a glass door and was taken away by ambulance with a tourniquet around one limb, never to return to his prep school! His secondary education was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire. Peter proved a good but not exceptional scholar, and excelled at swimming and athletics. Having decided on medicine as a career, in 1940 he went to Cambridge to study natural sciences and was resident in Jesus College. In Cambridge he became a member of Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union and made many friends through this organisation: this was an acknowledgment of his own Christian faith and his parental influence. He left Cambridge having obtained a BA degree, and went to Middlesex Hospital in 1942 for his clinical training until 1945. During these war years much of his training took place out of London at Aylesbury and Northwood, Middlesex and Harlesden. Having qualified MB BChir from Cambridge, in 1945 he worked as a house surgeon to Arthur S Blundell Bankart, a well-known orthopaedic surgeon on the staff of Middlesex Hospital who had paediatric and neurosurgical leanings. He was better known for his work on shoulder joint dislocation and his description of the 'Bankart lesion'. Peter observed a charming physiotherapist who was watching this famous surgeon operate and was also on his ward round. Peter went to a 'nurses hop' (informal dance), where he was happy to find Kathleen Edith Born, the physiotherapist who had caught his eye earlier. Some six weeks after they first met, Peter proposed and was accepted. On 18 January 1946 Peter and Kathleen (shortened to 'Ka' and pronounced 'Car') were married by Peter's father in West Alvington Church, Kingsbridge, Devon. Clearly during his training life was hard for the newly-weds. Peter was still doing house appointments in 1946 at Middlesex Hospital, working with two well-known surgeons, David Patey and Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. Patey was a general surgeon with wide interests and was a superb clinical teacher, perhaps better known for his work on breast diseases: he was also founder of the Surgical Research Society. Gordon-Taylor built up a reputation as a fearless surgeon in the First World War and his knowledge of anatomy allowed him to attempt formidable operations. Peter then became a casualty officer at Middlesex Hospital, as accident and emergency experience was at the time a requirement for any doctor wishing to sit the FRCS examination. In mid-1946 it was time for him to do National Service, and he joined the RAMC. After preliminary training, he was posted to the British Army of the Rhine. Having already decided on surgery as a career, he used this period to engage in postal courses to progress his studies for the FRCS. In August 1947 Michael, their first child, was born in Torquay, and Peter was allowed two weeks 'compassionate leave' when Michael was ill. Following two years of National Service, Peter was discharged, later to join the Territorial Army with the rank of major when working as a senior registrar. Back in the recently-formed NHS in 1949, he took up a post as a resident medical officer at a mental hospital in Camberwell, Peter, Ka and young Michael living in a flat in Maida Vale. In May 1949, having passed the FRCS, he obtained a post as a registrar back at Middlesex Hospital, working with Sir Eric Riches and Cecil Murray. This was a popular firm with students and trainees alike: both were superb technicians and good teachers, Sir Eric in urology and Murray in general surgery, particularly in the days when partial gastrectomy was the preferred treatment for chronic peptic ulcer. He continued in this post until 1952, being elevated to senior registrar for the last two years. Their second child, Jenny, was born in December 1949, and this necessitated moving to larger living accommodation in Hampstead Garden Suburb early in 1950. On 1 March 1953, their third child, a second daughter, Judy, was born. After working for three years with Riches and Murray, Peter obtained a research post at Middlesex Hospital to work on 'implantation metastases in surgery'. This provided him with sufficient material for two papers. Already attending meetings of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine, he gave a short paper on 'The surgical spread of cancer in urology' (28 April 1955), which was then published in the *British Journal of Urology* (*Br J Urol*. 1956 Jun;28[2]:163-75). In this he described six cases of carcinoma of bladder recurring in the urethra. A second article on 'Implantation metastases from cancer of the large bowel' was published in the *British Journal of Surgery* (*Br J Surg*. 1958 Sep;46[196]:103-8. Short papers on rare cases increased the number of publications on his CV. He started applying for consultant posts, only to find that there were 60 or more applicants for each post in this post-war period: but was encouraged when short-listed for the odd one. It proved necessary to embellish his CV with a masters degree in surgery. The MChir Cambridge involved writing three papers each of four hours: one had four questions with no choice, another had two questions without a choice and one had one question, again without a choice! Senate House in Cambridge, where he sat to write papers, was not warm in the winter months and 'regular' candidates learned to bring rugs and hot coffee to help. Three vivas of half an hour each completed the examination. Peter obtained this highly prized degree at the second attempt. He next gained a year's appointment as a resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital, London. Although the post entailed becoming a 'house-surgeon' again, it was the best job at this stage of his career, enabling him to get concentrated experience in coloproctology. Working with W B Gabriel, O V Lloyd-Davies and Sir Clifford Naunton Morgan was a superb way of adding another 'specialty' to his already broad experience. Gabriel, often known as the 'Archangel Gabriel', was a man with an imposing presence and great physical and moral strength: he had a reputation for total patient care and long operating lists. Oswald Lloyd-Davies was a superb technician with an inventive mind who, with Naunton Morgan, perfected the technique of synchronous combined excision of the rectum for carcinoma. The lithotomy-Trendelenburg position, for which he developed special leg supports, is generally known as the Lloyd-Davies position. Naunton Morgan, also on the staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital, was a man of boundless energy and an enthusiastic teacher. Peter's next appointment was again at senior registrar level, although he effectively worked as a second consultant. It was at the Whittington Hospital, north London, where he worked with Neville Stidolph, a South African-born general surgeon with a major interest in urology, who also had an extensive private practice. Peter consolidated his knowledge and experience whilst applying for more consultant posts. Shortlisted for several, in 1958 he was at last successful in Cheltenham for a post advertised as a consultant surgeon with an interest in urology. This post he held until he retired in 1987. Peter and Ka were able to put down roots at last in Cheltenham. At their large Georgian home, the Borehams enjoyed tennis and eventually had a swimming pool built by Peter and his son, Michael. There were plenty of activities centred round their home and they were able to form many friendships in the neighbourhood. The family became active members of Christ Church, Cheltenham, and from 1960 to 1965 Peter was a churchwarden. Two further children were born in Cheltenham - Sarah in 1960 and Caroline in 1961. The enlarged family were able to enjoy holidays in the UK and abroad, camping in Spain and France. Peter was passionate about sailing his Wayfarer dinghy, using his children as ballast. On occasions they were tipped into the freezing Easter waters of Falmouth. As one of three general surgeons, in addition to looking after the majority of urological patients, Peter dealt with a third of the general surgical emergencies. He paid visits to Tewkesbury Hospital and developed a reputation amongst his juniors and colleagues as caring and compassionate to patients, but expecting others to adopt his high standards. As a surgeon he was calm, precise and workmanlike. Perhaps appearing a little stern to those who worked with him, they loved his intelligence, his wry smile and sense of humour which was never far away. He was a great supporter of postgraduate activities, and played a full part in hospital committees, including chairmanship of the consultant staff, whose business he handled with characteristic brevity and effectiveness. He was a consultant member of the former hospital management committee, disbanded during one of the first of the many NHS re-organisations. He served as a member of Gloucester Health Authority and of the South West Regional Higher Awards committee. An active member of the Gloucester branch of the British Medical Association, he became its president in 1975. He was a member and president of South West Surgeons Club and the South West Urologists group. In 1973 he was president of Cheltenham Rotary Club and during his presidency raised money to provide a Land Rover ambulance for a hospital in Kambia, Sierra Leone. In 1961 he was elected to the 1921 Surgical Travelling Club and was an active member for 25 years, serving first as secretary and later as president. Peter and Ka went on the twice yearly visits to most major surgical centres in Europe and a few in the USA. In retirement he wrote *Surgical journeys* (Merlin, 1990) - a history of this club. This was Peter's final publication and was a masterpiece of research. Retiring from the NHS in 1987, a large number of his junior staff came to a farewell dinner in his honour: they made a presentation of a silver salver, with their signatures engraved on it. Naturally, his family and many friends were delighted that all his work, both medical and voluntary, was recognised nationally by the award of an OBE in 1987. Peter and Ka went on a world tour visiting cousins in Canada and Australia, and former trainees with whom he had kept in touch. Peter was made chairman of the Kambia, Sierra Leone, appeal, and they both went to visit and work alongside doctors in the local hospital. Later they were able to welcome many Kambian staff who came to Cheltenham for professional training. Ill-health dogged the later years of his retirement. In 1994 he lost the sight in one eye due to polymyalgia rheumatica. Six years later, he needed major by-pass heart surgery in Bristol. After these health scares Peter and Ka moved out of their large Georgian house into a smaller, more manageable home. In 2002 he needed further surgery, this time for spinal stenosis and, some five years later, he underwent prostatic surgery. Developing very severe pneumonia in 2010, Peter was treated in Cheltenham General and Tewkesbury, the hospitals he had worked in for so many years. Eventually nursing care proved necessary, and he moved into St Faith's Nursing Home. Here, with failing eyesight and general vascular degeneration, he was visited twice a day by his dear wife Ka, who held his hand as they listened to the classical music he had enjoyed throughout his life. Although ailing, he never lost his faculties, and retained much of his excellent memory to near the end. Peter Francis Boreham died with all the family present on 8 March 2014, aged 91. He was survived by his five children, Michael, Jennifer, Judith, Sarah and Caroline, 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Several of the family have followed Peter into medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Chare, Michael John Bruton (1945 - 2013)

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First Title value, for Searching Toyne, Albert Howard (1920 - 2002)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-11-25 2017-04-18
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Specialist in sports medicine
Details Howard Toyne was a pioneer of sports medicine in Australia. He was born in Dandenong, Victoria, Australia on 10 November 1920, the son of Albert Toyne, a meat inspector, and Marion Crozet Toyne née Marsh, a housewife and the daughter of a station master. He attended the University High School in Melbourne, and then went on to study medicine at Melbourne University and Alfred Hospital, qualifying in 1944. He was a resident at Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne, and then, from 1944 to 1948, served in Japan with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Occupational Forces. Following his demobilisation, he worked in general practice in Cooroy, south east Queensland. He then went to the UK for further training. He worked as a registrar at Connaught Hospital, Walthamstow and at the Rowley Bristow Hospital, Pyrford, and gained his FRCS in 1954. He returned to Melbourne, to Prince Henry's Hospital, as an orthopaedic surgeon and developed his interest in sports medicine. He also held a consultant appointment with the RAAF. He worked as a doctor with Australian teams at the 1956 and 1964 Olympics, and was sports medicine liaison officer to the Australian Olympic Committee (a position he held until 1973). He was a founding member and then president of the Australian Sports Medicine Federation. He was instrumental in getting a world sports medicine conference staged in Melbourne in 1974 and served on the executive of the Fédération Internationale de Medicine Sportive from 1972 to 1982. He was director of the St John Ambulance Association and president of the Victorian branch of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Outside medicine, he enjoyed cycling, Australian rules football, golf, swimming and walking. In retirement, he lived in Tewantin, Queensland, and became very active in two local life saving clubs. He was also regularly seen at the Tewantin Bowls Club. He was married twice. In 1944 he married Claire Briggs, a nurse, and then, in 1979, Josephine, a stenographer. He had three children, Peter, Phillip and Michael (who predeceased him). Howard Toyne died on 4 September 2002. He was 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Whiteley, Michael Miles (1924 - 2014)

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First Title value, for Searching O'Driscoll, Thomas Gerrard (1924 - 2014)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2016-07-08
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Thomas Gerrard O'Driscoll was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the regional eye unit, Oldchurch Hospital, Romford. He was born in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, on 5 December 1924, the second son of Patrick O'Driscoll, a civil servant in the Customs and Excise, and Mary O'Driscoll née O'Carroll. He was educated at St John's School, Kinsale, and Roscrea College, and went on to study medicine at University College, Cork, where he gained scholarships in the first and second years of his course. He qualified in 1948. He was a house officer at Leicester General Hospital and Chester Royal Infirmary, a senior registrar at Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary and a resident medical officer at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was subsequently appointed to his post in Romford. He gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1951 and his FRCS in 1956. He listed John Kelly of St Finbarr's Hospital, Cork, and Seymour Philps and Frederick Ridley, both at Moorfields, as the surgeons who had most influenced him during his training. Outside medicine, he was interested in squash, swimming and the piano. In 1963 he married Mairead Keaney. They had one daughter and two sons. Thomas Gerrard O'Driscoll died on 16 March 2014. He was 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, James Alexander (1876 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, James Ernest Heleme (1881 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-23
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Born 23 August 1881 at West Bromwich, Staffordshire, son of James Roberts, engineer and ironfounder, and Mary Jane Helme, his wife. His father was managing director of J and S Roberts, ironfounders of Swan Village. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Birmingham, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He took the Conjoint qualification in 1906, won honours in surgery at the London MB BS examination 1908, and took the Fellowship in 1909. He was house surgeon at St Luke's Hospital and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and to C B Lockwood at St Bartholomew's. He was then appointed demonstrator of surgical pathology and at the same time chief assistant surgeon to out-patients, and later demonstrator of operative surgery, at St Bartholomew's. He became in due course surgical registrar and chief assistant in the orthopaedic department. He was appointed in 1913 assistant surgeon to the East London Hospital for Children. Roberts served as a major, RAMC, in the war of 1914-18, at No 41 casualty clearing station in France and as surgical specialist at No 5 General Hospital; he was mentioned three times in despatches. His experience attracted him from orthopaedic to thoracic surgery. On his return to civil work he joined the staff of Brompton Hospital in 1919 and devoted most of his energy to this work, developing particularly the treatment of empyema. He was the first to use active negative pressure suction, and his operation for the closure of old chronic empyema cavities was the most efficient method devised up to the time of his death. With H P Nelson he introduced one-stage lobectomy. He was also in 1919 appointed assistant surgeon at St Bartholomew's, and became surgeon in 1933. On his retirement in 1946 he was elected consulting surgeon, and emeritus surgeon at Brompton. He was also surgeon to Queen Mary's Hospital at Roehampton, and consultant thoracic surgeon to the London County Council's Sanatoria. Roberts was president in turn of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Tuberculosis Association, and the Medical Society of London, where he gave the Lettsomian lectures in 1935 on the surgery of pleural and pulmonary infection. He was a member of the International Society of Surgery and joint honorary treasurer of its twelfth Congress held at the College in September 1947; a member of the Belgian and Polish Surgical Societies, and of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons. He also served on the Ministry of Health's standing advisory committee on tuberculosis from its creation till his death, and for ten years on the Joint Tuberculosis Council. Roberts was an excellent teacher who created a school of thoracic surgeons to carry on his work. He spent his holidays in the Alps, and became an authority on alpine plants and on dragon-flies. He married on 30 December 1916 Coral, daughter of Captain J A Elmslie and sister of R C Elmslie, orthopaedic surgeon to St Bartholomew's. She survived him but without children. He died at The Croft, Ottershaw, Surrey, on 25 August 1948, aged 67, after a long illness. He had practised at 89 Harley Street. A memorial service was held at St Bartholomew-the-Less on 21 September 1948. Roberts based his surgical innovations on a sound knowledge of mechanical and physiological principles, combined with clinical and observational acumen. He was of a brusque fighting spirit, often absentminded and absorbed in his own work, but essentially kindly, loyal, and encouraging to younger men. He was one of the great pioneers of chest surgery, full of ideas and courage, with a deep concern for the general welfare of his patients especially children, and a wide knowledge of the practical aspects of many branches of medicine. Publications: Pulmonary lobectomy, with H P Nelson. *Brit J Surg* 1933, 21, 277. The surgery of pleural and pulmonary infection, Lettsomian lectures. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1935, 58, 183. Extrapleural pneumothorax. *Brit J Tuberc* 1938, 32, 68. Primary carcinoma of the lung. *Med Press*, 1940, 203, 88. Thoracic surgery, in Grey Turner's *Modern operative surgery*, 3rd edition, 1943, 1, 305.
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First Title value, for Searching Hughes, Basil (1878 - 1953)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 30 March 1878 at Hales, Staffordshire the son of Captain John Edward Hughes RN, he was educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy and at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was bracketed fifth junior optime in the Mathematical Tripos, part I, in 1900, and then became a schoolmaster. He soon decided to qualify in medicine and entered King's College Hospital, where he won scholarships and prizes, and was house surgeon and senior house physician. He then held resident posts at the Royal Free Hospital, and at Paddington Green and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospitals. After taking the Fellowship in 1911 he was appointed to the staff of Bradford Royal Infirmary, and in 1913 set up there in private consultant practice. During the war of 1914-18 he served in France with the West Yorks Regiment, and later as officer in charge of the surgical division at the 28th General Hospital, Salonika, He was awarded the DSO in 1918 and the Order of St Sava of Serbia, and published an account of his wartime practice. On return to Bradford he became assistant surgeon to the Children's Hospital in 1919, and to the Royal Infirmary in 1922. He was also surgeon to the Municipal General Hospital, St Luke's, with charge of one hundred beds. He had a very large consulting practice, and was particularly interested in the surgical diseases of children and in the treat-ment of rheumatoid arthritis. He was a founding Fellow of the International College of Surgeons (1943). Hughes was a short lithe man, an excellent forward at association football, and a keen and fearless soldier. The charm and force of his personality made a deep impression. Hughes married twice; his second wife, whom he married in 1932, was Norah Blaney, a distinguished actress and daughter of W H Cordwell of London; she survived him, but without children. He retired in 1945 to farm at Par, Cornwall, where he drove his own tractor till the end of his life. He died in the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, London, on 21 November 1953 aged 75. Publications: *War surgery from firing line to base*; with H Stanley Banks. 1918. Classification of war wounds, in Hamilton Bailey's *Surgery of modern warfare*, 1941.
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First Title value, for Searching Hughes, David Morgan (1875 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Le Brun, Henry Ieuan (1918 - 2013)

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by Charles Gallannaugh
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2014-01-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Henry Le Brun was a general surgeon at Lewisham Hospital. He was born on 28 January 1918 in Pontypridd, Glamorgan, in the heart of the mining country, where his father was a mining engineer. His second name 'Ieuan' (Welsh for 'John') and the fact that his mother's maiden name was Thomas reveals his Welsh ancestry. His maternal grandfather was a GP in Hirwaun, a village near Aberdare in the Rhondda valley. His paternal grandfather was vicar of Alderney, the name Le Brun being not uncommon in the Channel Islands. In due course the family moved to Yorkshire, where no doubt his father's experience in mining had led them. Henry went to school at Barnard Castle, but his schooling was interrupted by a severe ear infection, which led to a number of operations to drain the infection in the mastoid bone at a time before antibiotics were discovered. He was left with a profound facial nerve paralysis on one side of his face, together with hearing loss, a burden he bore with great fortitude throughout his life. Despite this severe disability, he clearly rose above it and in due course went up to Sheffield University to study medicine, qualifying MB ChB in 1942. He remained a benefactor of his former university until the end of his life. Clearly he would have been unfit for military service; he continued his studies during the Second World War and after, becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1948. Following registrar appointments at Lincoln and Ashford in Middlesex, and after obtaining his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1952, he went as a senior registrar to St Mary's Hospital. Here he worked with two leading surgeons of that era - Arthur Dickson Wright and Sir Arthur Porritt. He published in the *British Journal of Surgery*, although he did not write widely, preferring to teach by example. In 1959 he was appointed as a consultant surgeon to Lewisham and Greenwich hospitals, and in later years his work moved entirely to Lewisham. At Lewisham Hospital Henry quickly established a rewarding relationship with J S Staffurth, who was in charge of endocrinology there. These two clinicians had a common interest in the management of thyroid disease and more often than not on a Saturday morning Henry would carry out a partial thyroidectomy. He and Staffurth were part of a small group of clinicians who helped transform the hospital from a former London County Council institution towards the modern era. Over the years Henry, as chairman of the hospital management committee, became a leading figure in developing the link with Guy's Hospital, which led to the introduction of undergraduate teaching at Lewisham. He was assisted in this by a close personal connection with Guy Blackburn at Guy's, and in 1974 was appointed RCS surgical tutor at Lewisham. To assist Henry at a thyroid operation, or indeed any other procedure, was an experience that filled his registrars with admiration. It would not be inappropriate to compare his work to that of a great artist of the past addressing a canvas. Few surgeons reveal the delicacy of touch, the sense of spatial awareness and the knowledge of surgical anatomy which he displayed as he went about his work. He was truly a master craftsman. Henry loved music and opera, and his Bechstein grand piano was a source of great joy to him. He studied Italian to further his enjoyment of opera and later developed an interest in French literature. When he retired and he and his wife moved to Seaford in Sussex he took up cooking with the help of the Cordon Bleu Cookery School, becoming an accomplished chef. Many memorable dinner parties followed at their home. Henry, in the words of his former colleague J S Staffurth in a letter to his widow, was 'a modest and shy man'. Those of us who had the privilege of working with him at a stage of our careers when our early skills were being refined owe him an immense debt of gratitude. Henry did not suffer fools gladly and, like many, could be exasperating at times, but those of us who developed long and lasting friendships with him over the years will remember him as a kind and generous man, who overcame adversity against great odds to become a master surgeon of a type too rarely seen today. Henry Le Brun died peacefully on 6 October 2013 in Eastbourne District Hospital, where he had been admitted from his home after a fall. He was 95. He was survived by his wife, Jennifer.
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First Title value, for Searching Madan, Jamshed Kaikhushru (1918 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2015-12-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Jamshed Madan was a surgeon who worked in Mumbai, India. He was born on 28 January 1918 and gained his FRCS in 1950. The Royal College of Surgeons was notified of his death on 22 August 2013. He was 95.
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First Title value, for Searching McFarland, John Bryan (1930 - 2013)

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by Sir John Temple
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John McFarland was a consultant surgeon in Liverpool. He was born on 17 September 1930 in Rodney Street, Liverpool, into a well-established medical family. His father, Bryan McFarland, was professor of orthopaedics at the city's university; his mother, Ethel McFarland née Ashton, was also a doctor. John spent his early childhood in Liverpool, but was probably as often in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey, where his father built a holiday home 'Bryn Ion', which overlooked the ninth tee of the Holyhead golf course. John's early schooling was at Trearddur House School, where no doubt he began his long affection and interest in the sea and sailing. Senior school followed at Shrewsbury, from where he entered Liverpool Medical School in 1948. He qualified in 1954 and, after house posts, began his National Service, as was the norm at that time. He spent the next two years serving in the RAMC, mainly in Kenya at the height of the Mau Mau troubles. While in Kenya he often acted as an anaesthetist, which might explain why he was always kinder to and more tolerant of his anaesthetic colleagues than many others with a surgical leaning. He never talked about his time in the Army: like many ex-service men, he may have felt that those who didn't have similar experiences would never be able to understand, particularly the actions, deprivations and necessities entailed in military service, in what was effectively a war zone. Returning to civilian life, he became a demonstrator in anatomy. During this time he met a childhood acquaintance, Meryl McKie Reid, the daughter of Andrew McKie Reid, an ophthalmic surgeon. It turned into a love match and they duly married in 1962. Surgical training in Liverpool followed at Sefton General, Alder Hey, the Royal Infirmary and, of course, the Royal Southern Hospital. The opportunity to spend two years in America arose, then considered essential for an academic or teaching hospital career in many disciplines. He went to work in Owen H Wangensteen's department at the University of Minnesota. His research was centred on gastric freezing as a method for reducing gastric bleeding associated with peptic ulcers. This was a major area of upper gastrointestinal research at that time inspired, particularly in Liverpool, by the work of the Rod Gregory and his discovery of the hormone gastrin. In the early autumn of 1963, John and Meryl travelled from Minnesota down to New Mexico by Greyhound bus, a journey that took the best part of three days. By chance, a fellow traveller was Lee Harvey Oswald, the reputed assassin of President Kennedy in November 1963. John never said much about this episode, but both he and Meryl were questioned by the FBI and figure in the Warren Report. Whenever any new investigation occurred into that tragic event, the American agents from the Liverpool consulate would appear to re-question John and Meryl. John wrote up his research and unusually did this as two separate theses, for his MD and ChM. He furthered his academic leanings by being appointed as a senior lecturer in surgery with an honorary consultant contract, based at the Liverpool Royal infirmary in Frank Stock's department. It might have been thought that this indicated a serious intent to follow an academic career, leading to a professorial position like his father, but John finished his training and settled upon an NHS teaching hospital career. In 1968 John moved across to consultant status. He was first, for a year, at the Northern and Walton hospitals, and then went to the Royal Southern Hospital, where he remained until it closed in 1978. Thereafter he transferred to the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He was a popular teacher of both undergraduates and trainees, renowned for his diagnostic prowess, surgical dexterity, kindness, hospitality and subtle, quiet sense of humour. He never sought power or influence in medical politics either locally or nationally, but preferred to devote his extra medical energies to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This brought college involvement as a regional tutor, and as a member of the Court of Examiners (from 1973 to 1979). Other, even more prestigious, peer recognition of his qualities and achievements as a surgeon did come along. He was elected to the Liverpool XX Club, and was one of two Liverpool members of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club. He became a James IV traveller in 1976. This opportunity afforded him the chance to travel to Asia, including in Afghanistan, India and Iran, and other countries on the north west frontier to teach, lecture and operate. Subsequently he became a full member of the James IV Association of Surgeons. His hospitality was always convivial and relaxed. Visitors to his lovely family home in Fulwood Park might be invited to take a sauna, which John had built in the cellar. Unfortunately, the pine wood, bought from a local timber merchant in Liverpool, had not been properly seasoned. Guests were advised to try to avoid the hot resins and oils that continually seeped and dropped from the ceiling. John decided to retire at the relatively early age of 61 in 1991, a conscious decision having seen his own father die whilst still in harness at a similar age. Immediately following his retirement party at the Royal he went down to Liverpool Marina and sailed off with his son Jonathan into retirement on the next full tide in his Vancouver 32 *Nuada*. The next four years were spent sailing around the Mediterranean, sometimes with Jonathan, but often alone, before settling in Soller, Majorca, where he bought an apartment in the port. Here he had built his last *Nuada*, a Menorcan Llaut. Sadly he didn't get many opportunities to enjoy this vessel as his health problems began to limit his mobility. In early retirement, John devoted much time to teaching and operating in a small hospital in Kerala, India. There are many anecdotes involving such a colourful character, but John will be best remembered for his generosity of spirit, both ethereal and actual, his knowledge, skill and humanity as a general surgeon, his gifts as a teacher, his genuine pride and pleasure in the success of those he helped to train, and his unfailing courtesy and friendship to the many he encountered during a long life. John McFarland died on 5 October 2013, aged 83. Predeceased by his ex-wife Meryl, who died in 2000, he was survived by his son Jonathan.
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First Title value, for Searching James, Peter Ashman (1921 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2015-11-20
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Occupation Radiologist Thoracic surgeon
Details Peter James was a consultant thoracic surgeon in Uganda and latterly a consultant radiologist at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. He was born on 19 September 1921 in Nailsea, north Somerset, the son of Walter Ashman, a chartered surveyor, and Hilda Ashman née Kitley, a nurse who had served at sea with the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service during the First World War. He was educated at St Goar's School, Bristol, and at Bristol Grammar School, where he was a Peloquin scholar. He then studied medicine at Bristol University, gaining his MB ChB in 1943. He was a house surgeon to Arthur Rendle Short in Bristol and then, between 1944 and 1947, he was a captain in the RAMC, mainly with the 7th Indian Parachute Field Ambulance. After the war, he trained in Bristol, Gloucester and Newport as a general surgeon, and then at Morriston, Brompton and Great Ormond Street hospitals as a thoracic surgeon. From 1960 to 1967 he was a consultant thoracic surgeon in Uganda and an honorary lecturer at the University of East Africa. He was a member of the council of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa and president from 1965 to 1966. He was also a member of the Advisory Committee on Medical Education in East Africa in 1966. He was awarded an MBE in May 1963. In 1967 he left Uganda, re-trained in Canada and Bristol as a diagnostic radiologist, and was appointed as a consultant in radiology for the Manchester teaching area at Wythenshawe Chest Hospital and Manchester Chest Clinic. He wrote various papers on tuberculosis and medical education and contributed a chapter on thoracic surgery to *Companion to surgery in Africa, etc* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone, 1968). Outside medicine, he enjoyed sailing, bridge, driving, flying and competitive bowls. He died on 23 May 2013 in Southbourne, aged 91. He was survived by his widow Jean James (née Tregear), a former dermatologist, whom he had married in 1947.
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, John Jackson Whatley (1883 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Everidge, John (1884 - 1955)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-03
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Son of James Walter Everidge, he was educated at King's College School and King's College Hospital, where he was junior scholar in 1904, senior scholar in 1907 and Alfred Hughes anatomy prizeman. He qualified in 1908, and in 1912 became Sambrooke surgical registrar and surgical tutor at King's College Hospital. During the first world war Everidge served as a surgical specialist in France and was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the OBE. He held the rank of Major RAMC and was subsequently nicknamed "The Major" by several decades of students. After the war Everidge returned to King's as junior urological surgeon, and in 1929, when his chief Sir John Thomson-Walker retired, he became senior urologist and lecturer on urology. Beyond his own hospital he held numerous appointments, including those of consultant to the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank and to the London County Council. He was President of the Listerian Society of King's College Hospital 1922-23. During the second world war Everidge was one of the senior staff at Horton Emergency Hospital, and in 1939-40 he was President of the Section of Urology at the Royal Society of Medicine. At the end of the war, when he was due to retire from the staff of King's, Everidge was appointed active consulting urological surgeon and in 1953 the title of emeritus lecturer was conferred on him in recognition of his long and valuable service to the medical school of King's College Hospital. In 1950 he had been made a Fellow of King's College, and he was a member of the Association Internationale d'Urologie. Everidge wrote numerous papers on his specialty and contributed articles to the leading textbooks. For some years he was Chairman of the editorial committee of the *British Journal of Urology*. He was a member of council and a former treasurer of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, but he refused the Presidency because of slight deafness. Everidge was a keen sportsman: in his youth he was an enthusiastic lawn tennis player and later he took up golf and fishing and was a member of the Flyfishers' Club. John Everidge was one of the leading urological surgeons of his time: he was a pioneer in transurethral prostatic surgery from 1927, and played a part in the development of the modern resectoscope. Everidge married Kathleen I Robertson and they had one son and one daughter. He always remained young by keeping up with new surgical procedures and by his liking for student activities, dances and fast cars. He died on 8 June 1955 after a long illness at his home, 7 Wimpole Street, aged 71. Publications: Urinary surgery in *Modern Operative Surgery*, ed G Grey Turner, 2, 1934. Nephroureterectomy, *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1940, 33, 295.
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First Title value, for Searching Every-Clayton, Leopold Ernest Valentine (1869 - 1954)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

First Title value, for Searching Fairbank, Sir Harold Arthur Thomas (1879 - 1961)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-03
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on 28 March 1879 son of Thomas Fairbank MD, MRCS a practitioner at Windsor, he was educated at Epsom College from which he gained an open scholarship to Charing Cross Hospital. He qualified in 1898 as a doctor and in 1899 as a dentist but, after a house surgeon's appointment at Charing Cross, he volunteered for the South African war and was at Lord Robert's camp at Paardeberg when Cronje surrendered. On his return to England, after achieving his higher surgical qualifications he was appointed resident superintendent at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and became surgical registrar. He was then appointed orthopaedic surgeon to Charing Cross, the first appointment of its kind in London, and also to Great Ormond Street, where his particular study was of congenital dislocation of the hip. In 1914 he visited orthopaedic centres in New York and Boston but, as the holder of a commission in the RAMC (TF), he was mobilised with the 85th Field Ambulance and proceeded to Belgium and France, mostly in the vicinity of Ypres. Later his unit was moved to Macedonia to serve in Struma valley, and he was appointed consulting surgeon to the British Salonika Force, being awarded the DSO and OBE, and being three times mentioned in dispatches. On returning to England he was invited to take charge of an orthopaedic department at King's College Hospital and to act as consultant orthopaedic surgeon to King Edward VII Hospital for Officers and to the Treloar Hospital at Acton. He was an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and president of its Orthopaedic and Children's sections. As president of the British Orthopaedic Association he was invited to give the Lady Jones Lecture at Liverpool in 1929, and was Robert Jones lecturer at the College in 1938; he was made an honorary MCh (Orth) Liverpool in 1939. On the outbreak of the second world war he was appointed consultant adviser in orthopaedic surgery to the Ministry of Health, and he was knighted for his services. For over fifty years he contributed to original literature and he was blessed with a retentive memory for people and places together with great courtesy and charm. He epitomised his life's work in his book *An Atlas of general Affections of the Skeleton* Livingstone, 1951. He married in 1909 Florence Kathleen, younger brother of A G Ogilvie, by whom he had a son, T J Fairbank FRCS an orthopaedic surgeon at Cambridge, and two daughters. Fairbank died on 26 February 1961 in his eighty-fifth year. A memorial service was held at St Mary's, Bryanston Square on 9 March.
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First Title value, for Searching Falconer, James Law (1876 - 1961)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

First Title value, for Searching Falkner, Edgar Ashley ( - 1952)

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First Title value, for Searching Farquhar, George Greig (1879 - 1963)

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First Title value, for Searching Fearnley, Harold (1884 - 1964)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

First Title value, for Searching Purves, James Ewart (1894 - 1964)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Purves was born in Edinburgh on 25 December 1894 and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1917. During the first world war he served as a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and afterwards returned to the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, where he held a number of appointments, including an assistant lectureship in physiology. Later he was specialist surgeon to the Isle of Lewis and Harris. Long before the National Health Service, the Highlands and Islands of Scotland had their own medical organisation under the Scottish Board of Health: a general practitioner and a nurse were posted to isolated parishes, where otherwise there would have been no chance of a doctor. When the scheme was developed Purves received the first appointment in pure surgery at the Lewis Hospital, Stornoway in the middle 1920s. The town was at the end of a six-hour sea crossing from a port eight hours by rail from Edinburgh or Glasgow. Purves found himself in complete isolation in those days before the aeroplane. There was no laboratory, house surgeon or secretary, and only a part-time anaesthetist. Purves persevered and convinced the critical island community of the value of the hospital; his practice included gynaecology and orthopaedics, and he made or repaired most of his own apparatus. Eventually he obtained an adequate theatre and extended wards. After a period on the staff of the New End Hospital, Hampstead he went into general practice at Bromley, Kent where he had charge of the Phillips Memorial Hospital; he became attracted by homeopathy. He campaigned against the impending National Health Service in 1947-48 and did not join it, but continued to practise privately till his retirement. He was secretary of the Bromley division of the BMA 1953-57. Jim Purves was a generous individualist with many interests and many friends. He married Dr Joyce C B Mitchell MB who died before him. He lived at 74 The Knoll, Beckenham where he died on 2 September 1964 aged 69, survived by his only daughter Dr Rosabelle Purves LRCP & SEd.
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First Title value, for Searching Miller, William Henry (1881 - 1951)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21 2014-08-07
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Occupation Gastrointestinal surgeon General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 16 March 1881, the eldest child of Henry Septimus Miller, a timber merchant, and Annie Elizabeth Potts, his wife. His childhood was spent in Canada, but his parents came back in 1893 and he was educated in London at William Ellis's school and Guy's Hospital, where he won the Durham and Hilton scholarships. He qualified in 1906, took honours at the London MB in 1907, and first-class honours with the gold medal in gynaecology at the MD in 1911, the same year that he took the Fellowship. He was house surgeon at Guy's, and clinical assistant at the Soho Hospital for Women, and then assistant medical registrar and surgical registrar at the Samaritan Hospital. After a period in general practice at Enfield he went into partnership with A C Hartle MD, at Bedford, and ultimately became senior partner in this large practice. Soon however he went on active service during the war of 1914-18, as a surgical specialist in the RAMC. After his return to Bedford he took an increasing part in the profession life of the district. He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Bedford General Hospital in 1924, became senior surgeon in 1932 in succession to W G Nash, and was elected consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1948. He continued to work at the Hospital till March 1951, when he finally retired on his seventieth birthday. He had at first been chiefly a gynaecologist, but in the second half of his career preferred to practise gastric surgery. He was a good teacher of surgery. During the second war, 1939-45, he was chairman of the local medical war committee, and he was a medical referee for the Ministries of Pensions and Labour, surgeon and agent for the Admiralty, and referee for the National Fire Service and the Royal National Hospital at Ventnor. He was a member of the Association of Medical Officers of Schools. He was medical adviser to the Bedfordshire Hospital Services Association, and a member of the Bedford Group Hospital Management Committee. Miller married in 1904 H M Zimmerman, who survived him with a son and daughter. Their elder son had been killed in 1940. He died suddenly in his surgery at 4 De Parys Avenue, Bedford, on 31 December 1951, aged 70. Miller was a man of strong and decisive character. His charm and friendliness made him a tower of strength to the many people who turned to him successfully for sound advice and practical help.
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First Title value, for Searching Rankin, Fred Wharton (1886 - 1954)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28 2020-08-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 20 December 1886 at Mooresville, North Carolina, he was educated at Davidson College and the University of Maryland, and served as resident surgeon at the University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore in 1909. In 1916 he was called to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, as assistant surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, becoming surgeon in 1922, and was associate professor of surgery in the University of Minnesota from 1926 to 1933. He then moved to Lexington, Kentucky as surgeon to St Joseph's Hospital, and in 1941 was appointed professor of clinical surgery in the University of Louisville. Rankin was a leading authority on abdominal cancer, and wrote much in the professional journals, especially on the surgery of the colon and rectum. He served in France as a Major, US Medical Corps in 1917-18 and in many theatres of war during 1941-45 with the rank of Brigadier-General. He was President successively of the American Medical Association, the American Surgical Association, and the American College of Surgeons. Rankin married Edith, daughter of Charles H Mayo, Hon FRCS. He died at Lexington, Kentucky during his term of office as President of the American College on 22 May 1954 aged 67
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First Title value, for Searching Rayner, Henry Herbert (1879 - 1960)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details He was born on 26 July 1879 at Preston son of Alex C Rayner MRCS (1874) who was in general practice there. Educated at Preston Grammar School, he graduated from the Manchester Medical School in 1901, and held resident posts at Preston Royal Infirmary and the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. He took the Fellowship in 1907. He was appointed assistant surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1911 and was later surgeon, retiring in 1945. During the first world war he served as a Captain RAMC in the 67th General Hospital at Marseilles. After retiring he lived for some years in Anglesey, but returned to the Manchester district about 1955 and died at 2 Higher Downs, Altrincham, Cheshire on 19 January 1960 aged 80, survived by his wife with their son and four daughters. He was a clear, incisive and humorous teacher, a careful operator, and a wise consultant with a very large private practice at 14 St John Street, Manchester. His clear-thinking critical mind and diagnostic skill greatly impressed his colleagues and students. He was an occasional contributor to the professional journals and his articles all added to his reputation. Publications: Treatment of trigeminal neuralgia by the injection of alcohol into the Gasserian ganglion. *Brit J Surg* 1920, 7, 516. Treatment of acute appendicitis, *Brit J Surg* 1942, 29, 346.
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First Title value, for Searching Miskin, Leonard John (1872 - 1950)

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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, James Murray Duff (1886 - 1936)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 20 March 1886 at Annfield House, Great Western Road, Aberdeen, the fifth child and only son of O R Mitchell, a commander in the British India Line and afterwards one of the nautical assessors at Aberdeen, whose wife was Jane Manzie Duff. Mitchell was educated at Ashley Road School, Aberdeen and in 1902 entered Marischal College, graduating from the University in 1907. He then entered into general practice in Edinburgh, rearranged his studies and took the BSc in 1909, continued in practice and graduated MD in 1912 with a thesis entitled "An investigation into the relationship between the nutrition, housing, and food of school children". He then entered into partnership at Brigg, Lincolnshire, and having taken the Diploma in Public Health at the University of Cambridge was appointed school medical inspector under the Lindsay County Council and MOH for the Brigg Urban District. On the outbreak of war he was gazetted temporary captain, RAMC on 9 September 1915, was attached to the 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, and served at St John's Hospital, Malta. He applied for more active work, was attached as medical officer to the 5th Essex Regiment, and on 15 September 1916 was very seriously wounded on the Somme within a few days after joining the regiment. On recovery he acted as surgeon to the Dovercourt and Harwich Military Hospital, and on demobilization lived for a time in London and served on the staff of the Medical Pensions Board. He finally moved to Sutton, where in spite of his disabilities he did good work as surgeon to the Sutton and Cheam Hospital and to St Anthony's Hospital, North Cheam. Whilst acting in this capacity he passed the examination for the Fellowship of the College, without having previously taken the Membership examination. He married Lillie, second daughter of Major-General Frederick Henry Smith, of the 18th Bengal Cavalry, on 14 December 1916. She survived him with one son. He died at Stone Court, Brighton Road, Sutton, Surrey on 5 October 1936. A man of unyielding courage, who was sorely hampered by great physical disabilities due to his war service. Publications: The pillion-rider's pelvic split accident. *Lancet*, 1932, 1, 20. Bowel distension; the alimentary system as an accessory respiratory organ. *Lancet*, 1936, 1, 767. *School medical inspection and allied public health problems*, DPH thesis 1909; unpublished.
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First Title value, for Searching Monprofit, Ambroise (1857 - 1922)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21 2014-07-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Angers and Paris, he was born in 1857. He was appointed intern in Paris in 1883, and studied under Professors Terrier (1884), Panas (1885), Lannelongue (1886), and Tillaux (1887). He served as demonstrator of anatomy at the Faculté de Médécine in 1885 and moniteur of tracheotomy (1886) at the Hôpital Trousseau. In 1888 he graduated MD Paris with a thesis on salpingitis. He then travelled under the Ministre d'Instruction publique in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and England to study the organization of surgical teaching, and on his return to France began to practise as a surgeon at Angers. In 1892 he was appointed assistant professor of clinical surgery at Paris, and in 1893 was given charge of the obstetric clinic at Angers, becoming professor of clinical surgery at the Angers School of Medicine in 1898. During the war he went to the front on the second day of mobilization in 1914 as a médecin-major with the ambulance service. For his services he was promoted médecin-principal, received the Croix de Guerre, and was decorated Officier of the Legion of Honour. He died in 1922. Monprofit, it is said, had a surgical conscience, operative resource, and a high moral sense. His generosity, his proverbial kindness, his probity, and his great medical erudition soon gained him a reputation beyond his own province. He was one of the promoters of decentralization in French surgery, and he introduced abdominal surgery into the western provinces of France. He was a member of the French Academy of Medicine, of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, of the International Society of Surgery, of the British Medical Association, was a founder of the Angers Society of Medical Science, and was president of the 19th French Congress of Surgery. Publications: *Le gastro-entérostomie*. Paris, 1903. *Chirurgie du gros intestine*. Paris, 1904.
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Clifford Arthur (1879 - 1948)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 15 September 1879 at Blackheath, the third son of William Henry Moore, wool-broker, and Lucy Sugden his wife. He was educated at Avondale School, Clifton, and at Malvern College, and took his medical training at the Bristol Medical School and the London Hospital. He was appointed in 1908 senior resident medical officer at the Bristol General Hospital, becoming assistant surgeon in 1913 and surgeon in 1920, and continuing to serve after its amalgamation with the Royal Infirmary. He was elected a consulting surgeon to the Bristol Royal Hospital on his retirement in 1939, but owing to the war continued to work till 1944, when illness forced him to give up hospital and private work. During the war of 1914-18 Moore served in the RAMC, first at the 2nd Southern General Hospital and later as officer in charge of the 56th General Hospital in France, with the rank of major. In the second world war he worked at the Cossham Memorial Hospital, Kingsmead, and the Southmead Hospital, Bristol. He was also regional adviser in surgery to the Ministry of Health under the emergency medical service. Moore was demonstrator of surgical anatomy and clinical lecturer in surgery at Bristol University. He was a vice-president of the Medical Defence Union, represented the Bristol area on the consultant and specialists' group committee of the British Medical Association 1934-36, and was president of the Bristol Medico-chirurgical Society. Moore married in 1912 Mary Elizabeth Davies, who survived him with three sons. He died on 16 March 1948 at South Lodge, Henbury, Bristol, aged 69, and was cremated after a funeral service at Henbury parish church. He was an unrivalled diagnostician, and a rapid and brilliant operator. He was an untiring worker with an extreme sense of duty, and took a very full share of night emergency work. Moore's recreations were in music and in visits to the mountains of Wales and Switzerland; he was an ornithologist, and in early years a keen photographer.
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First Title value, for Searching Moorhead, Andrew Samuel (1878 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Riddiough, Sidney (1891 - 1959)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 21 September 1891 the son of J T Riddiough of Bradford, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and King's College, Cambridge, where he was an exhibitioner. Having obtained second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1912 and in the Mathematical Tripos in 1913, he became a master at the Leys School, but shortly afterwards he decided to study medicine at Guy's Hospital. Qualifying in 1917, he graduated BChir, MB in 1919 and after qualification he held the appointments of out-patients officer at Guy's Hospital and house physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. After a period in the RAMC when he was attached to the Highland Light Infantry on active service in France, he returned to Guy's to become chief clinical assistant in the department of neurology. In 1923 he entered general practice at Dewsbury, Yorks, joining the staff of the General Infirmary as an assistant surgeon. When he left in 1931, having become a Fellow, he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Infirmary. In 1932 he settled in consulting practice in Cambridge, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was consulting surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Huntingdon County Hospital, and Royston Cottage Hospital, and consulting urologist to Peterborough Memorial Hospital. Riddiough was a Freemason and held the rank of deputy provincial grand master of Cambridgeshire and was past grand deacon of England. Active in public life he was a member of the council of the borough of Cambridge, and also of the Cambridgeshire County Council. Of a genial disposition, he was an after-dinner speaker and raconteur of considerable note. He did not marry. Riddiough died on 7 January 1959 aged 67; the funeral was at Holy Trinity, Cambridge. He lived at 67 Bridge Street, Cambridge.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005306
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First Title value, for Searching Maingay, Henry Bertram (1867 - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching Cavenagh-Mainwaring, Wentworth Roland (1869 - 1933)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30 2017-11-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Eden Park, Marryatville, South Australia, on 26 September 1869, fourth child and second son of Wentworth Cavenagh, gentleman, he was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, at the University of Adelaide, and at the London Hospital, having come to England in 1894. (1) He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital in 1900, becoming surgeon in 1919. He was the first lecturer on pathology in Adelaide University and was for eight years the lecturer on surgery. He also at various times performed the duties of Prof Archibald Watson as professor of anatomy. During the war he served (1915) with the rank of captain in the Third Light Horse, Australian Army Medical Corps, in Gallipoli and Egypt, and was afterwards surgical specialist at the 2nd Stationary Hospital, El Arish, Palestine. On his return to Adelaide at the end of the war he acted as secretary of the South Australian branch of the British Medical Association. He died at North Adelaide on 27 June 1933, and was buried in West Terrace cemetery, Adelaide. [(1) He was born Wentworth Roland Cavenagh, but in later life became Wentworth Roland Cavenagh-Mainwaring. His mother was Ellen Jane Mainwaring.]
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First Title value, for Searching Manders, Horace (1853 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Goodwin, Arthur Charles (1869 - 1957)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Ashbourne, Derbyshire 28 June 1869 second son of Robert Docksey Goodwin MRCS (1832), who had served as a surgeon in the Crimean War. He was educated at Repton, Bath College, and Keble College, Oxford, where he read classics, and at the London Hospital where he served as house surgeon. After serving as house physician at the Royal Chest Hospital and as senior house surgeon at Poplar Hospital, he settled in practice at West Bromwich in 1904, and became surgeon to the General Hospital and the Guest Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was officer in command of the first North Midland Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance in the Middle East and subsequently of a stationary hospital in Egypt, and was mentioned in dispatches. He returned to his practice at West Bromwich, but moved in 1925 to Gloucester, and after a few years to Newport, Isle of Wight. He took the Conjoint Diploma in Laryngology and Otology in 1934 at the age of 65. Goodwin was enjoying a holiday at Dawlish, South Devon, when war broke out in September 1939. He immediately offered his services there and remained in practice throughout the six years of the war, serving at the Cottage Hospital. After the war he settled permanently at Charlton House, Dawlish. Goodwin married twice: (1) his first wife died on 4 July 1948; (2) he married in 1955 Hilda Gauld who survived him. He died on 16 December 1957 aged 88, after nine months' illness. As a young man he had been a keen motor-cyclist but he later took to horse riding which he enjoyed until his middle eighties. He was an active Territorial and received the Territorial Decoration in 1924. He was a devout Christian, and endeared himself by his goodness of character to colleagues and patients.
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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Leonard Norman (1929 - 2014)

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by Robert J Ryall
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2014-11-28
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Leonard Norman Allen ('Len') was a urological surgeon at Edgware General Hospital, Middlesex. He was born in the village of Brede, Sussex, on 30 April 1929, the youngest son of Norman Williams Allen and Mildred Kathleen Allen née Hoad. His father, a much-respected member of the local community, was a grocer and the village sub-postmaster for half a century. Len's mother, very protective of her last born, postponed her son's entry to the local primary school until his sixth year due to the severe visual impairment from which he had suffered since birth. His condition, severe myopia, was not finally diagnosed until he was nine years old. It is said that, on receiving his first pair of spectacles, he 'whooped with joy' on being able to see the world around him properly for the first time. Despite his delayed start, he won an entrance scholarship to Rye Grammar School, but his progress was again encumbered; with the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, he was, like many other children, evacuated, in his case to a kind, welcoming family on a farm near the comparative safety of Bedford. It was four years before he was able to return to Rye Grammar School, from which he again achieved scholastic success, and was awarded a state scholarship in his final term. This enabled him to enrol - after conscription for two years of National Service in the RAF - at University College Hospital Medical School. He qualified MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1954. Len Allen's pre-registration posts were at Leicester General and Leicester Royal hospitals, where he first met a young newly-qualified Scottish doctor, Elizabeth Taylor. They married in 1957. Len chose to embark on a surgical career. He obtained his FRCS in 1959 and was shortly afterwards appointed as a junior registrar at his alma mater, University College Hospital, and then as a senior surgical registrar to Robin Sturtevant Pilcher and Doreen Nightingale, and, after that, upon the death of the former, to Charles Clarke. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon to Edgware General Hospital, where he spent the rest of his professional life. He brought with him a particular vision, influenced by the values of Beveridge and the optimism of the immediate post-war years, which saw the development of the welfare state and the NHS. He believed in the importance of working together, in a cross-fertilisation of all talents, that one person's amassing of awards, prizes or accumulation of research papers, pursued as a measure of merit, could be bettered by joint endeavour and shared recognition. Len, as a consequence, was elected chairman of the consultant surgical group by his peers. In his professional life, Len was an able, trustworthy and judicious surgeon to his patients; for his colleagues, he was a faithful friend, dependable in counsel and constant in support. In his personal life, Len was a stalwart, strong, good-humoured and ever-loving husband, a thoughtful and caring father, and the fondest of grandfathers. One of his children became a doctor, two became veterinary surgeons and another is a qualified nutritionist, while three of his eight grandchildren are studying medicine: there can be no greater compliment paid to a doctor from his family. In his final illness, which was sudden and unanticipated, he showed staunch courage, boundless fortitude and tenacious good cheer, borne up throughout by his steady faith, the love of his wife and family, and the constancy of his friends and colleagues. Leonard Norman Allen died on 6 February 2014, aged 84. He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth Allen, two sons, Peter and Michael, two daughters, Jennifer and Penelope, and eight grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Birt, St John Michael Clive (1916 - 2009)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2016-07-08
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Occupation General surgeon
Details St John Michael Clive Birt was a consultant general surgeon at Jersey General Hospital. He was born on 12 February 1916. His father, Amelius Cyril Birt, was a general practitioner in Wantage. His mother, Gertrude Isabel Kidd, came from a medical family: many were doctors attached to the London Hospital and her father, Joseph Kidd, had been Disraeli's personal physician. Birt was educated at Marlborough College, and then went on to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, which his father, uncle and a cousin had all attended. He qualified in 1939. His first post was as an orthopaedic house surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital. From 1949 to 1941 he was a house surgeon and resident surgical officer at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. In 1942 he was called up to serve in the Second World War and, despite not having the FRCS, he held surgical postings, first on a submarine depot ship and then in a training station for the Fleet Air Arm. He was demobilised in 1946. He became a surgical registrar at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, and, from 1947 to 1948, at St Thomas' Hospital. He then spent a year in Montreal, Canada, at Montreal General Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital. Returning to the UK, in 1950 he was a senior registrar at St Peter's Hospital for Stone in Covent Garden. As Birt outlined in biographical notes given to the Royal College of Surgeons, there was strong competition for consultant posts in the aftermath of the war: 'I finished my surgical training in 1950 in common with others who had had their training delayed by the war. I went up for two surgical appointments (in) Swindon and Exeter, on each occasion I was one of over 120 applicants and got to the last four.' He decided to make 'his own explorations' and went to Jersey, outside the NHS. He was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at Jersey General Hospital in 1951, where he remained until his retirement in 1981. Here he was, as he says, '…very happy doing a wide variety of surgery and playing a part in improving the hospitals and medical facilities in general.' He was awarded an OBE in 1974. During the 1950s he was county surgeon for St John's Ambulance in Jersey. He was president of the Wessex division of the British Medical Association in 1971 and of the South Western Obstetric and Gynaecological Society in 1975. He played golf and squash (he played for St Thomas' Hospital), but particularly enjoyed sailing and boating. From 1952 to 1953 he was commodore of the Royal Channel Islands Yacht Club. In 1946 he married Mairi Araminta Cameron. She died in 1988 and in 1990 he married Daphne Isaacs. He had three children with his first wife: Michael, Nicola and Caroline. St John Michael Clive Birt died in August 2009. He was 93.
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First Title value, for Searching Dutta-Gupta, Amarendra Kamas ( - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Eadie, James (1881 - 1963)

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First Title value, for Searching Edgecombe, Wilfred (1871 - 1963)

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First Title value, for Searching Edridge-Green, Frederick William (1863 - 1953)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London 14 December 1863 son of Thomas Allen Green, whose family were makers of Crown Staffordshire ware. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, the Newcastle Medical School, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He held resident posts at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and at Northumberland House Asylum, and was appointed medical superintendent of Hendon Grove Asylum. The year after he qualified he published a useful book on *Memory* in the then well-known International Science series, which reached a second edition. He made an original study of colour blindness, won a gold medal with his MD thesis on this subject, attacking the Holmgren wool-test and putting forward his own theories of the function of the retinal rods and visual purple. Through Sir Lauder Brunton his work was presented to the Royal Society, but in 1892 their committee unanimously recommended continuing the Holmgren tests, for railways and ship-owners. However in 1904 the Ophthalmological Society confirmed Edridge-Green's conclusions. He revised his monograph of 1891, *Colour blindness and colour perception*, in 1909, his conclusions were supported by the work of Doyne and Gotch at Oxford, and in 1912 the British Association reported in his favour. His colour perception spectrometer and lantern and his bead tests were subsequently adopted by the Royal Navy and by the selection boards for the Services. He became a special examiner and adviser on vision to the Ministry of Pensions, ophthalmic surgeon to the London Pensions Board, and chairman of the ophthalmic board of the Central London medical boards for National Service. The Board of Trade changed to his methods in 1915, during the first world war, in their recommendations to the railways and shipping-lines, and he was appointed their adviser in 1920; he was also adviser to the Ministry of Transport. His best book *The Physiology of Vision* appeared in 1920. At the College he was a Hunterian Professor in 1911 and an Arris and Gale Lecturer in 1920. He received a Beit Memorial Research Fellowship, was a Président d'honneur of the Société d'Ophtalmologie of Paris in 1930, and was awarded the Thomas Gray prize in 1936 for the invention of his lantern. He served on the International Code of Signals committee from 1892 and was created CBE in 1920 for his war-work. He was President of the Durham Medical Graduates Association. Before taking up ophthalmelogy he had made some researches on memory and mind functions. Trained as a psychiatrist, his discovery of the mechanism of colour vision led him into prolonged controversies in pressing its practical application. Edridge-Green married in 1893 Minnie Jane daughter of Henry Hicks MD, FRS the geologist. She died in 1901 and their two sons died before their father. He died in a nursing-home at Worthing on 17 April 1953 aged 89. He was a bearded, shy man, who retained the look and manner of a late-Victorian man of science into the mid-twentieth century. He bequeathed to the College his portrait painted by F Walenn in 1895, with the gold medal awarded him by the University of Durham. The College also possesses an excellent caricature portrait drawing by George Belcher RA, presented by J Pike in 1957. Edridge-Green bequeathed £3000 to found an annual lecture at the College on vision or colour vision; the first lecturer was appointed in 1955. Principal Publications: *Memory: its logical relations and cultivation*. Bailliere, 1888. *Colour Blindness and Colour Perception*. 1891; 2nd edition 1909. The relation of light perception to colour perception. *Proc Roy Soc*. 1910, B-82. *Colour Vision and Colour Blindness* (Hunterian lectures) 1911. The discrimination of colour. *Proc Roy Soc*. 1911, B-84. *The Physiology of vision*. Bell, 1920. 292 pages. Colour vision and colour blindness. *Encyclopaedia Britannica* 1922. *Science and Pseudo-science* (partly autobiographical). Bale 1933. The solution of the problem of vision. *Chemistry and Industry*, 12 August 1939.
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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, Thomas Henry (1876 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Haigh, William Edwin (1878 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born on 29 August 1878, William Edwin Haigh studied medicine at University College, London and St Bartholomew's Hospital, and qualified in 1909. Haigh was Assistant Demonstrator in Anatomy at University College, London, and later held appointments at the General Infirmary and the Hospital for Women and Children, Leeds, and at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool. He then served in the Balkan War as a medical officer, and during the first world war was seconded to the Serbian Army and won several Serbian decorations. After the war Haigh worked at the Wesleyan Mission Hospital in Hankow, China until 1923, when he became a member of the medical staff of the League of Nations and carried out some important investigations, the most impressive being his enquiry into the severe incidence of typhus fever in Poland and Russia. In 1925 he returned to England and took the DPH at Liverpool in 1926. Soon after this he joined the public health staff at Derby, and was deputy medical officer of health from 1941 till his retirement in 1946. Haigh's organisation of the immunisation services was outstanding. He was awarded the Neech prize in 1930 for his thesis on the ventilation of the Derby cinemas. Haigh was a quiet, friendly man of great integrity, gifted with vitality, a fine memory and a love of research. He married a Parisian lady and they had one son, Claude Haigh. Haigh died on 29 November 1961 at his home, Geneva, 419 Burton Road, Derby, aged 83. Publications: Malaria in Albania. *Reports, Health Commission, League of Nations*, 1924-25. An enquiry into the ventilation of cinematograph theatres. *Derby, MOH Report*, 1930.
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First Title value, for Searching Square, James Elliot (1858 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 1 October 1858, the fourth son of the fourteen children of William Joseph Square, FRCS, and his wife Charlotte Anne Hancock. He was educated at Honiton, Marlborough College, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He qualified MRCS in 1881, before the establishment of the Conjoint Board, but took the LRCP two years later. He took the Fellowship at the end of 1883. His elder brother, William, was already a Fellow. After serving as clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, he settled in practice as an ophthalmologist at Plymouth. He was for thirty-seven years surgeon to the Royal Eye Infirmary, as his father and brother had been, and was elected consulting surgeon when he retired. He was also for many years treasurer of the Plymouth Medical Society. During the war of 1914-18 Square was administrator of the 4th Southern General Hospital, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, RAMC (T), gazetted 29 September 1908. He practised at his father's old house, 22 Portland Square, but lived latterly at 10 Bedford Terrace, Plymouth, where he died on 23 September 1948, a week before his ninetieth birthday, being then the senior Fellow, G Andrew and W R Williams having died shortly before. Square married in 1893 Mary Louisa daughter of General John Mullins, RE, and was survived by his son and three daughters. As a young man he was a keen Rugby footballer, and played for his School and Hospital teams, also for Middlesex and Devon County Clubs. Publications: A case of strangulated internal hernia into the foramen of Winslow. *Brit med J* 1886, 1, 1163. Inflation of the Eustachian tubes. *Brit med J* 1888, 1, 295.
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First Title value, for Searching Stabb, Ewen Carthew (1863 - 1941)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Paignton, Torquay, South Devon on 15 October 1863, the eldest son of William Henry Stabb and Ellen Curling, his wife. He was educated by a private tutor before entering St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1882. Here he won the prosector's prize in anatomy in 1883-84, was runner up for the first College prize in 1884, and was considered brilliant and hard-working. He served as junior demonstrator of anatomy and as demonstrator of practical surgery, and was prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. After qualification he served various offices at St Thomas's Hospital, being resident assistant surgeon to out-patients 1886-87, resident accoucheur 1888-89, assistant house surgeon, house surgeon, clinical assistant in the throat and ear departments, chief assistant in the throat department, resident assistant surgeon 1891, and surgical registrar 1891. He was then senior resident medical officer at the Royal Free Hospital, clinical assistant at the Evelina Hospital for Children, and surgeon to out-patients at the Great Northern Central Hospital. He practised at 57 Queen Anne Street, W, and retired to South Hill, Kingskerswell, Newton Abbot, Devon. During the war he served at Aldershot, at Epsom, and at the Manor (County of London) War Hospital, with a commission as temporary major, RAMC, dated 20 March 1917. Stabb married on 30 July 1901 Emma Langworthy Froude, who survived him with one son, a flight-lieutenant (1942) in the Royal Air Force. He died at Mount Scylla, Cadewell Lane, Shiphay, Torquay on 19 December 1941, aged 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Edmund Benjamin (1869 - 1952)

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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Edward Charles Bell (1900 - 1959)

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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Martin Llewelyn (1868 - 1954)

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First Title value, for Searching Jones, William Warner (1872 - 1952)

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First Title value, for Searching Jordan, Anson Robertson (1883 - 1958)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Woolwich on 4 July 1883, son of the Rev Joseph Jordan, Vicar of Woolwich. Jordan's family moved to Bedford on the death of his father, and he was educated at Bedford School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1904. He received his clinical training at the London Hospital and qualified in 1907. He held the appointments of house surgeon at the London and house physician at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. Jordan began to practise at Cambridge, where he was ophthalmic clinical assistant at Addenbrooke's Hospital, but he moved to Dover in 1913 and spent most of his working life there. During the first world war he joined the RAMC and served as a Captain with No 29 Casualty Clearing Station in France. After the war Jordan returned to general practice in Dover and to surgery at the Royal Victoria Hospital, endearing himself to patients and colleagues. He never married and the loss in 1930 of his sister, who was on the staff of the London for some time, left him very lonely. In 1937 he retired to Cambridge, but the following year re-entered general practice at Sandgate, Kent. During the second world war Jordan took up residence in Buckland Hospital, Dover and worked long hours coping with the casualties from the Dunkirk beaches and later during air raids. In 1948 Jordan left Sandgate to take a small administrative post in Buckland Hospital among his colleagues and friends. A keen motorist and mechanic, he toured the country extensively in the early days of motoring. He was honorary secretary of the Folkestone and Dover Division of the BMA 1922-26, acting honorary secretary 1940-45, and chairman of the Division 1933-35. Reading was his relaxation in later years and his particular interests were theology and history. Jordan died on 11 September 1958 at Ashford Hospital, Kent, aged 75.
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First Title value, for Searching Jordan, John Furneaux (1865 - 1956)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details He was born at Birmingham in 1865 one of 3 sons of Thomas Furneaux Jordan FRCS. His grandfather had been a surgeon, his brother Bertram became a physician at Birmingham, and an uncle and his son were physicians there. He was educated at King Edward's School and at Queen's and Mason Colleges, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy and physiology. After qualifying through the Royal University of Ireland, he served as house surgeon at Queen's Hospital and was elected assistant surgeon to the General Hospital in 1893. Under the influence of Lawson Tait he turned his attention to gynaecological surgery, and in the twenty years before the outbreak of the 1914 war he was a pioneer in this field, writing much on his specialty and attaining a leading practice in the Midlands. He was surgeon to several hospitals and in particular promoted the work of the Birmingham and Midlands Hospital for Women, whose new buildings he was instrumental in building in Showell Green Lane. He also took a leading share in the work of the new Maternity Hospital when it opened in Loveday Street in 1906. He took an active part in professional affairs, serving as honorary treasurer of the Birmingham branch of the British Medical Association and president of the Queen's College Medical Society, but he was not interested in teaching. He was appointed Ingleby lecturer in 1911. Jordan followed Sir Victor Horsley FRCS in advocating total abstinence from alcohol. As a young man he was a keen player of association football and was vice-president of the Old Edwardians Association. He also played lawn tennis and was a skilled gardener. He practised at 9 Newhall Street, Birmingham, and lived at 5 Carpenter Road, Edgbaston. Jordan retired in 1928 to Bromsgrove, but later moved to London. He married in 1898 Mildred, daughter of John Player of Edgbaston, who survived him with their son, an architect. He died at 178 Coleherne Court, London on 1 May 1956, aged 90. He was of spare build, erect and distinguished in appearance, of quiet manner and firm character. Publications: Clinical notes on one hundred consecutive cases of abdominal section. *Brit Gynaecol J* 1897, 13, 206. On tubal abortion with clinical notes of eight cases of ectopic gestation. *Brit med J* 1898, 2, 803. The after-effects of removal of the appendages and of removal of the uterus. *Brit Gynaecol J* 1899, 15, 369. The advantages and disadvantages of vaginal coeliotomy. *Birm med Rev* 1899, 45, 269. Treatment of myoma of the uterus. *Brit med J* 1906, 1, 621. Puerperal infection, with special reference to vaccine treatment. *Brit med J* 1912, 2, 1.
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First Title value, for Searching Handousa, Ahmed El Sayed ( - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Harbison, David Thomas (1870 - 1953)

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First Title value, for Searching Bartlett, John Richard (1934 - 2014)

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by Richard Gullan
Publication Date 2014-02-24 2014-06-06
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Occupation Neurosurgeon Photographer
Details John Richard Bartlett was a consultant neurosurgeon at the Brook Hospital, Woolwich, and later at King's College Hospital, London. He was born on 18 January 1934, the son of Justin Bartlett, a GP in Saffron Walden, and his wife Elsie (née Wright), who was also a doctor. Aged 10, he was given a book *The boy electrician*, which led to a lifelong passion for science. His grandmother gave him the plates and box cameras used by his grandfather Sir John Kirk during explorations in Africa with Livingstone in the 1860s: this started a lifelong interest in photography. In 1947 he went to Radley College. There he considered becoming an engineer, but as his grandfather, both parents, and an aunt were doctors and an uncle, Sir Almroth Wright, was engaged in medical research, he was led inexorably to medicine. At Radley he was introduced to rowing, his main sport during school and college years. He read natural sciences at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, and completed his clinical training at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1958. He was appointed house surgeon to Sir Arthur Porritt. John decided to pursue a career in neurosurgery after completing a junior post at the Midland Centre for Neurosurgery, working for Edwin Robert Bickerstaff and Jack Morton Small, and a nine-month spell at the Birmingham Accident Hospital with William Gissane and P S London. He obtained his FRCS in 1966. His neurosurgical training started with Richard Turner Johnson and John Dutton in Manchester, where he was highly influenced by the very positive and active operative teaching. Johnson had great confidence in John's surgical abilities. This was demonstrated when, during a period of absence from the unit, he asked John to look after his private patients. He then moved to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, to complete his training with Joe Pennybacker and John Potter. The senior neurosurgeon at the neurosurgical unit in the Brook Hospital, Woolwich, Geoffrey Knight retired. His main interest was the treatment of affective disorders, especially depressive illness, with a modified frontal leucotomy technique, performing a subcaudate tractotomy using stereotactically placed Yttrium-99 seeds. While the consultant post on offer was not entirely to his liking, Pennybacker encouraged him to 'go for it', confident that John would, with his excellent surgical skills, soon do the sort of neurosurgery he really wanted to pursue! So in January 1971 he was appointed to the Brook and started work alongside George Northcroft and John Gibbs. John, having been one of the first neurosurgeons from the UK to study microsurgery with Gazi Yasargil in Zurich, brought microsurgery to the Brook. He also developed the use of the cavitron ultrasonic surgical aspirator (CUSA) and laser, relatively new to neurosurgical practice, in his tumour surgery. He remained committed to psychosurgery and, with Paul Bridges, a consultant psychiatrist, published extensively. This surgical practice aroused much controversy, but despite sometimes extremely aggressive hostility from those determined to see this work stopped, they remained strong advocates for the patients, all refractory to every other method of treatment. They knew this type of treatment was a 'last resort'. However, they saw and showed that it helped many to be freed from institutional care. The procedure went on to become a factor in the development of the functional neurosurgery of today. John received the bronze award in the 1988 BMA film and video competition, for his video *Psychosurgery: a last resort*, a stimulus for a *QED* science programme broadcast on BBC2 in March 1990. 'JRB' trained numerous doctors. His qualities - enthusiasm, honesty, clarity of thought, desire for high standards and commitment to training - influenced many trainees in the development of their careers. He engendered respect and affection from all in the unit, irrespective of position. John was an excellent clinician, in the style of a good neurologist, taking a careful and probing 'history', really listening to the patient, and examining them sensitively and carefully - looking for little clues, however small. Policies and protocols were not for him! 'Why go to medical school unless it's to learn to understand the natural history and pathology of disease and above all think!' But of course managing complex conditions involves far more than this. 'You can make a diagnosis, but what are you going to do about it?' he would often say. With his absolute passion for science in its broadest sense and his supreme logic, he would work out from 'basic principles' the best way to solve the task at hand (a message he would frequently convey to his own children when helping them with their homework!), all done under a beguiling veil of calm kindness and empathy. He would weigh up with precision the optimum treatment for each individual, fully taking into account the real and often forgotten limitations of modern neurosurgery at its best, and also the limitations that might exist for the patient. He was involved in several major publications on the use of CT scanning in its infancy, the Brook unit having one of the very first CT scanners in the world. Economic evaluation and implications of the CT scanner were undertaken, resulting in two papers in the *British Medical Journal* with, amongst its authors, John Banham (subsequently knighted and later the director general of the Confederation of British industry) ('A clinical study of the EMI scanner: implications for provision of neuroradiological services.' *Br Med J*. 1978 Sep 16;2[6140]:813-5, 'Evaluating cost-effectiveness of diagnostic equipment: the brain scanner case.' *Br Med J.* 1978 Sep 16;2[6140]:815-20). Further publications on MRI scanning demonstrated its huge potential and the revolution it would cause, particularly in spinal imaging and diagnosis. John's visionary fascination for modern technology was exemplified as computers became available. He spent many happy hours with his four children, trainees and colleagues, learning to manage systems and develop programs. This resulted in the computerisation of the neurosurgical unit clinical records system well in advance of other centres. Senior colleagues recognised John as an outstanding surgeon. His results (regular audits were carried out) spoke for themselves. His anaesthetic colleagues loved working for him because there were no 'unexpected moments of excitement'. As he would say 'if things seem exciting it always strikes me that perhaps something has gone wrong'. As a trainee one would think this was easy, just as we all do when we watch any world-class musician or sportsman at work! For much of his career there was political indecision and uncertainty over the future of the Brook unit. Many options were considered, some in great detail, producing considerable tension between the various parties involved. John fought with total honesty for what he believed was right for his department, neurosurgery and above all his patients. He gained the respect of those he fought. Almost 30 years after the initial Ministry of Health meeting in 1967 to rationalise neurosurgical provision for the Metropolitan Regions, the Brook unit was amalgamated with the Guy's/Maudsley unit within King's College Hospital in 1995 to form a single neuroscience centre for south east London, East Sussex and Kent. Once established in King's as the senior consultant neurosurgeon, he showed great leadership and was determined to make the unit flourish, despite all the past conflict and the bitter last minute decision to cancel the construction of a new purpose-built unit that had been fully designed and should have opened on the Maudsley site in 1995. He rapidly engaged with his new colleagues to help create major services for pituitary and acoustic neuroma surgery. John was president of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons from 1996 to 1998, at a time when there was much need for change. He was instrumental in revising the Society's constitution and structure to make it fit for purpose as a rapidly modernising specialty within the NHS. He was a good president - he listened, showed fine judgement and great determination. He became an associate of the Royal Photographic Society in 1993, when he presented a panel of pictures depicting daily life in the Brook Hospital. In retirement photography became his main hobby. Many people will remember him with his camera around his neck and seeing exhibitions of his work, often carried out on holidays in 'remote' places. He was president of the Bromley Camera Club for its centenary year and London organiser for the Royal Photographic Society. He always had time for anyone who was starting out on their photographic adventure and would give what help he could, teaching all four of his children use of the camera, the darkroom, the principles of light and composition, and being rewarded by three of them taking up professional careers in photography and film. John Bartlett was a special person. He was first and foremost a committed doctor who displayed a passion for the welfare and care of his patients and secondly a neurosurgeon. He fulfilled that latter role with vision and determination, tempered by great modesty, grace and humility. He died on 6 January 2014, aged 79, from prostate cancer. He was supported throughout by his devoted wife Cilla, a pillar of strength to him at every stage of his glowing career, and his deeply loved four children and grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Letcher, Herbert George (1903 - 1952)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Kadina, South Australia on 16 August 1903, eldest child and only son of Herbert Richard Letcher MB ChB Melbourne, who was in general practice at Adelaide from 1896 to 1940, and his wife née Sands, he was educated at St Peter's College, the University, and the Royal Hospital at Adelaide, qualified in 1927, and practised as his father's assistant at 82 Hutt Street, Adelaide. Letcher then came to England, and after holding resident posts at the East Surrey Hospital, Redhill, the Victoria Hospital, Southend, the Radium Institute, and the Central Middlesex Hospital, he settled at 51 Woodhurst Road, Acton in 1937, and became surgeon to Acton Hospital. He was particularly interested in the treatment of the acute abdomen and in urology. During the war of 1939-45 he was a surgical specialist with the rank of Major RAMC, and served in the Middle East and the Sudan. He returned to Acton after the war, and died there on 10 September 1952, aged 49. Letcher married in 1934 Dorothy Dalton, who survived him with two sons. He was a short dapper man, of vitality and friendliness; he was a good cricketer and tennis player, and swam well; he was also interested in racing, and enjoyed exploring the English countryside. Publication: Encrustation of the bladder as a result of alkaline cystitis, with N M Matheson. *Brit J Surg* 1936, 23, 716.
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First Title value, for Searching Letchworth, Thomas Wilfrid (1874 - 1954)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

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 Thurston, Edward Owen (1873 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Boothroyd, Lawrence Sydney Arthur (1920 - 2014)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2018-03-05
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Urologist
Details Lawrence Sydney Arthur Boothroyd, known as 'Boots', was a consultant general surgeon and urologist at Lions Gate Hospital, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, on 12 September 1920, the son of Sydney Lionel Boothroyd, a master printer and lithographer and the founder of Calcutta Chromotype Limited, and Margaret Sarah Elizabeth Boothroyd née Butt, a milliner and later co-director of Calcutta Chromotype. Boothroyd spent his early years in Calcutta, before being sent to England at the age of eight. He was educated at Colet Court, St Paul's Preparatory School, and then Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire, and went on to study medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. During the Blitz he was posted to rooftop fire-duty. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1943 and was a house surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital and a house physician at Botleys Park Hospital. In 1945, he was conscripted into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in England and India, ending his service as a captain. He gained his FRCS in 1950 and was a registrar at the Royal Masonic Hospital under Sir Arthur Porritt, Sir Cecil Wakeley and Eric Riches, and then a resident surgical officer at Bolingbroke Hospital, working with Edward Muir. He gained his FRCS in 1950 and decided to emigrate to West Vancouver, Canada, in 1955. He worked as a general surgeon and urologist at Lions Gate Hospital and, later, as a family practitioner. He also volunteered overseas, training medical staff in small hospitals in the Caribbean and Africa. He retired in 1990. Outside medicine, he served on the West Vancouver School Board, as a school trustee and chairman. He enjoyed singing, dancing and performing - and organised the New Year's fancy dress balls at the West Vancouver Community Centre and musical revues at the West Vancouver United Church. Throughout his life he was an active sportsman. He also led his family on adventures, including cycling from John O'Groats to Land's End. In 1953, he married Margot Findlay, a graduate of the Royal Free Hospital Medical School. They had four children (Wendy Margaret, Gillian Sarah, James Findlay and Susan Elizabeth) and seven grandchildren. In his final years he suffered from dementia, and died peacefully in early December 2014 following a stroke. He was 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Bruce, Peter Thomas (1931 - 2015)

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by John Wheelahan
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2016-05-11
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Occupation Urologist
Details Peter Bruce was born Vienna 26 February 1931. He arrived in Australia in 1939 with his parents Paul and Mizzi Bruce. Peter's grandfather, Richard Bruchsteiner, was born in Hungary but moved to Vienna where he established a specialist printing works. Paul became manager of the business. In the aftermath of the Anschluss, Paul realised that with Jewish ancestry he could not remain in Vienna, and arranged for his family to emigrate to Australia. They left Austria in 1939, and arrived in Melbourne when Peter was 7 years old. They were unable to take money with them, but were able to send a container of some of their possessions to Australia. Peter's father was a specialist in printing containers and packaging, both metal and cardboard, and readily found work in Melbourne. He established his own business that eventually, through mergers, grew into Containers Ltd. He was a director of Containers Ltd and became a generous supporter of benevolent organizations, including Musica Viva, of which he became President. His parents Paul and Mizzi had a love of music that Peter inherited. Peter had an enormous knowledge of the music of Europe in the classical period, Viennese composers in particular. Peter was a radio presenter for many years for Melbourne's classical radio station 3MBS, and later Sydney's 2MBS, where his knowledge of music of all periods was put to good use. Peter was educated at Geelong Grammar School. He studied Medicine at Melbourne University and graduated MB BS in 1955. He was a resident at Royal Melbourne Hospital for one year, 1956-1957.He worked his passage to London in 1957 as a ship's doctor and did postgraduate study in London, Vienna and Liverpool between 1957 and 1961. He passed the Primary Fellowship examination in London in November 1957. In 1958 he worked as House Surgeon at Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital, London, under Mr Alan Hunt and Mr David Wallace. In 1959 he worked at the Hammersmith Hospital under Professor Ian Aird. In November 1959 he passed the Final FRCS examination in London. In 1959 he obtained a British Council Scholarship to work at University of Vienna under Professor R Ubelhör, and enjoyed a return to the city of his birth, for 6 months in 1959-60. In 1960-61 he worked at Royal Liverpool Infirmary as Registrar to Professor Charles Wells. In 1961-62 he worked as a Fellow at UCLA, Los Angeles under Professor Willard Goodwin. He then returned to Melbourne, and passed the FRACS examination in Melbourne in October 1962 and was appointed to the staff of Royal Melbourne Hospital as assistant Urologist in 1962, a position held until 1973. He was appointed urologist at Sandringham Hospital in 1964, and Queen Victoria Hospital in 1974. Peter developed interest in bladder augmentation by colocystoplasty and published a number of papers and book chapters on this subject. He travelled widely and presented numerous papers at urological conferences. Peter had an irrepressible enthusiasm for life. His hallmarks were a cigar, a safari suite, classical music blaring and a ready smile. He had many interests - music, camping in the bush, duck shooting, fishing, good food, bridge, opera, tennis, farming, and travel, in Australia and overseas. In particular, he enjoyed friendships, both old and new, and was an enthusiastic host. For example, he was a member at Kooyong Tennis Club, and he hosted young visiting tennis players for the Australian Open, such as Bjorn Borg. He had a lifelong love of the countryside. In the late 1970's he purchased a farm at Wandong near Kilmore. Eventually, in 1985, he gave up city practice and settled at Shepparton, where he continued to practice urology and was better able to indulge in his love of country life. Peter hosted a most enjoyable urology conference with his 3rd wife, Constance, at their home in Shepparton in October 1991 and the theme of the meeting was "All the Rivers Run". He always carried a gun in the back of his car, in case an opportunity arose to drive off the road into the bush, to look for game! The Howard government gun buy back put an end to this, however. Peter married Susan-Gaye Anderson, a well-known television presenter, at St John's Church Toorak in 1963. They had two children, Melissa and Justin. They divorced in 1973. Peter remarried Carlin Munro and together they cared for Peter's and Carlin's children. To his friends and family he was known as "a true gentleman, admired surgeon, accomplished farmer, romantic lover, proud father, loving grandfather, skilled handyman, classical music aficionado, passionate art collector, loyal and exciting friend, and a kind compassionate, forgiving, enthusiastic and inspiring man." Peter spent the final years of his life in Sydney, where he ticked off another wish from his bucket list by opening a B&B at Pearl Beach with his then partner Kathryn Davies. During his life Peter underwent many surgical operations including two major spinal operations, but he continued an active life, including playing tennis well into his retirement. Although various illnesses finally robbed him of his freedom and independence he retained full recognition of everyone he knew and loved, and a cheeky sense of humor, through to the end After his funeral in Sydney in early March, which celebrated his love of music, enthusiastic character, achievements and popularity, his children took his ashes to a property that was equally between Sydney and Melbourne, one of Peter's favorite spots beside his beloved Murray River, where they were scattered on the waters. Another memorable Celebration of Life ceremony was held in Melbourne on March 29 2015, where his friends and family spoke of his life, and children, grandchildren and stepchildren played and sang a musical tribute to his life.
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First Title value, for Searching McCullagh, William McKim Herbert (1889 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching McCurrich, Hugh James (1890 - 1955)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 3 August 1890 one of the four children of John Martin McCurrich, chief engineer of the Bristol and Avonmouth Dock, he was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Vienna. Qualifying in 1915, he joined the Army as a combatant in the Middlesex Regiment but was later transferred to the RAMC, from which he was invalided out with trench foot. He returned to St Bartholomew's and was appointed house surgeon to D'Arcy Power and then to an obstetrical appointment, after which he held a succession of posts at the Royal Masonic Hospital, the West London Hospital, Putney General Hospital and the Royal Hospital, Sheffield as resident surgical officer. In 1925 he went to Brighton as medical superintendent of the Municipal Hospital, which subsequently became the Brighton General Hospital, and in 1931 he resigned to become consultant only, and was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, where in 1939 he was also appointed as gynaecologist and in 1946 became full surgeon. At the same time he was surgeon to the Victoria Hospital at Lewes and for two years the Hove General Hospital. He had always taken a great interest in the development of the health services and had in 1926 become Roger Prize Essayist of the University of London, writing on this subject. From 1938 to 1941 he was President of the Brighton Division of the British Medical Association, and in 1944 he founded and was first President of the Regional Hospitals Consultants and Specialists Association, in which he was a tremendous driving force. He was President of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Association in 1946-47, its centenary year. He contributed to Pye's *Surgical Handicraft*, and described a new operation for restoration of the common bile duct. A man of great courage and endurance, he remained a conscientious doctor in spite of his activities in medical politics. Among his other interests were the Brighton Boys' Club and sailing; he was a member of four yacht clubs. He was twice married, first to Dorothy Bettina Ellis by whom he had two sons and a daughter, and secondly to Nora Shaw. He died at Hove on 16 July 1955 after a long illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Sloane, John Stretton (1870 - 1956)

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First Title value, for Searching Tait, Ivan Ballantyne (1928 - 1994)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2018-05-01
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Occupation Urologist
Details Ivan Ballantyne Tait was a consultant in charge of genitourinary medical services at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He was born on 14 September 1928 in Stepps, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father, also Ivan Tait, was a civil engineer; his mother was Elise Alexander Tait née Forsyth. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying in 1951. After house posts, he carried out his National Service from 1952 to 1954, serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a medical officer to the Gurkha Rifles in Malaya. He was mentioned in despatches in 1953. He was a senior house officer on the professorial surgical unit and a house surgeon on the neurosurgical unit, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and then a registrar at St Mary's Hospital in London. He went on to become a senior surgical registrar Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. From 1964 to 1966, he was a surgical research fellow at the University of Kentucky, USA. On his return, he was appointed as a consultant surgeon in genitourinary medicine at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and later moved on to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He became a colonel in the Territorial Army (RAMC), and was an honorary surgeon (Territorial Army) to HM The Queen from 1985 to 1988. He was president of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh and a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. In 1965, he married Jocelyn Mary Connell Leggatt. They had two children - Arabella and Alexander - and two grandchildren. Ivan Ballantyne Tait died on 14 November 2004, aged 76.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007669
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First Title value, for Searching Taliat, Jacob ( - 1956)

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First Title value, for Searching Millard, David Ralph Jr. (1919 - 2011)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-02-24 2016-04-15
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David Ralph Millard, chief of the division of plastic surgery at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, was a pioneering plastic surgeon who developed several techniques used in cleft lip and palate surgery. He was born in St Louis, Missouri, on 4 June 1919, the son of David Millard, an attorney, and Florence. He was educated at Asheville School for Boys in Asheville, North Carolina, and went on to Yale University and then Harvard University Medical School, where he entered the accelerated wartime programme, qualifying MD in 1944. After Harvard and an internship at Boston Children's Hospital, Millard served in the US Navy from 1945 to 1946. He then spent a year as a surgical resident at Vanderbilt University. The renowned UK-based surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, widely regarded as the father of plastic surgery, visited Vanderbilt and Millard asked to become a trainee at Gillies' unit at Rooksdown House in Basingstoke. He remained there from 1948 to 1949. While he was in the UK, he visited all the leading plastic surgeons, including Tommy Kilner, Archibald McIndoe, John Barron and Arthur Rainsford Mowlem, and saw Victor Veau in Paris. On his return to the United States, Millard joined the plastic surgery department at Barnes Hospital, St Louis, and then six months later moved to Detroit, to a fellowship position with Claire Straith, from whom he learnt more about rhinoplasty. He subsequently spent a final year as a resident in the plastic surgery department at Baylor University, Texas. In 1952 Millard returned to the UK to work with Gillies. Together they wrote *The principles and art of plastic surgery* (London, Butterworth & Co Publishers Ltd, 1957), which has become a classic text. In 1954 Millard was called up for military service for a second time and served a year in Korea. During his time there, he developed a new cleft lip operation, now known as the Millard repair, which created a 'Z' shaped scar and a softer, more natural-looking lip. He presented a paper on his new operation at the First International Congress of Plastic Surgery at Stockholm in 1955. Returning once again to the United States, he briefly practised in Beverley Hills before moving to Miami, Florida. He also made regular trips to the Bahamas and Jamaica to operate. Between 1956 and 1966 he published a number of classic papers on cleft lip repair, rhinoplasty and face lifts. He was also a pioneer in breast reconstruction. In 1967 he took over the residency programme at the University of Miami and stayed there as chief of the division for the next 25 years, training several generations of residents and fellows. He was president of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1985. In 1996 the Association named him clinician of the year. In 2000 Millard was named one of 10 Plastic Surgeons of the Millennium by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. He was an honorary fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh. He was married to Barbara (née Smith). They had three children - Duke, Meleney and Bond - and six grandchildren. Predeceased by his wife, Millard died on 19 June 2011 at the age of 92.
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First Title value, for Searching Taunton, Edgar (1878 - 1960)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation Barrister Medical Officer
Details Born about 1878 he was educated at University College Hospital and qualified in 1899, while living at Bethersden, Kent. Intending to enter the Public Health service he took the Diploma in Public Health in 1901 and was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple. He served as Deputy Medical Officer of Health for the East London Borough of Bethnal Green. He had been senior resident medical officer at the Royal National Hospital for Consumption at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, but during the first world war served in the RAMC with the rank of Captain. Taunton retired to St Leonard's-on-Sea, Sussex, living first at 141 London Road, and later at 26 Kenilworth Road, when he died on 7 January 1960, aged about 81.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005411
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Julian (1889 - 1961)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 26 January 1889 son of Edward Ingram Taylor and Margaret Boole, he was educated at University College School, University College and University College Hospital, where he qualified in November 1911 with the Conjoint Diploma, following this up with the qualifying degrees of London University in which he obtained honours in medicine in 1912. He served in a succession of resident appointments at University College Hospital, becoming a true disciple of Wilfred Trotter. At the outbreak of war in 1914 Lance-Corporal Taylor of the Medical contingent University of London Officers Training Corps was commissioned as Lieutenant RAMC serving initially with 85th Field Ambulance in France and later in Salonika as officer in charge of the surgical division of the 52nd and 43rd General Hospitals, for which service he was awarded the OBE in 1919. After the war, returning to University College Hospital, he worked for a time in the newly created surgical unit but was soon appointed to the consultant staff and, in addition, joined the staff of the National Hospital, Queen Square. He was also attached to Harrow Hospital, to King Edward VII Hospital for Officers and to the Florence Nightingale Hospital. For a short period he was surgeon to the Queen's Hospital for Children. He quickly became recognised as a superb teacher of surgery as well as a highly competent surgeon, prepared in the Trotter tradition to cover a wide field of surgery. When war again broke out in 1939 he volunteered to return to the RAMC although over the age of 50, and in 1941 was posted as surgical consultant to the Malaya command with the rank of Colonel. Shortly after his arrival Malaya and Singapore were overwhelmed by the Japanese and he was taken prisoner. After an interval an order was issued that all senior officers were to be transferred to camps in Formosa but, following universal request and pressure, Julian Taylor was permitted to remain in Changi Prison with the others, where for the next three and a half years he carried out remarkable work, not only in the field of surgery working with negligible facilities but, even more, in the field of morale by his inspiration to men much younger than himself. With his wide range of knowledge and experience he could lecture on English history, French history, the City of London, the tides round the English Coasts and the sailing of small boats, thus relieving the tedium and hopelessness of the situation. In the field of surgery he approached all problems from simple first truths and was perfectly capable of tackling anything from the top of the head to the soles of the feet. One great problem was the rehabilitation of those who had lost a lower limb and needed an adequate prosthesis. With the help of a sapper officer, Captain Bradley, he designed and constructed artificial limbs which, although heavy being made of local wood, served their wearers well and which incorporated efficient artificial knee joints. Another surgical triumph was the successful operative treatment of chronic peptic ulcer under appalling conditions - an emaciated patient, no X-rays, chloroform anaesthesia, thread the only suture material and little milk for the postoperative period. The finest testimony to his work is the chapter on surgery in Changi prison camp which he contributed to the official history of surgery in the second world war. For his work he was awarded the CBE. Returning to London he appeared uninterested in once more building up a larger consulting practice, partly because he returned to find his wife stricken with a mortal and lingering illness during which he did much to nurse her himself. He threw himself into his work at University College and at the College, where he was elected a member of Council in 1946 and a member of the Court of Examiners in 1952. As a member of the committee of management of the Conjoint Board of the two Royal Colleges, he acted as their visitor to the Faculty of Medicine of University College Khartoum in December 1953. In 1954 at the age of 65 he retired from his hospital, but in October 1955, while Vice-President of the College, he acted for the President, Sir Harry Platt, during the latter's visit to North America. Later in the same year he was appointed Bradshaw Lecturer, and he made a detailed catalogue of the College silver in his capacity as Custodian. He was President of the Association of Surgeons in 1953 and of the Surgical and Neurological Sections of the Royal Society of Medicine. In the autumn of 1956 he was asked to accept the chair of surgery in the University of Khartoum, vacant and occupied temporarily by John Morley. Thereafter the third phase of his career commenced. His decision was of incalculable benefit to the Sudan and enabled him to encourage and instruct the young surgical students in a developing country, in which there was a grave risk that the high standard set up by the Sudan Medical Service prior to Independence would be difficult to maintain in the transition period. By his personal influence and enthusiasm, he persuaded the College to initiate the practice of conducting examinations for the Primary FRCS in Khartoum. When he first arrived he had to overcome considerable inertia in the department of pathology, partly attributable to the fact that, in a country where post mortem examinations are unacceptable, the teaching of and research into morbid histology are, to say the least, difficult. He inspired the assistance of the newly appointed Professor, J B Lynch FRCS, in together overcoming these difficulties and conducting research into the causes and treatment of madura foot, black and yellow, a scourge in the Sudan. At this time he was on sabbatical leave from the Council of the College, from which he was due to retire in 1962. As a member of the Khartoum Yacht Club he was able to keep a boat on the Nile and continue his lifelong hobby of sailing. A man who hated humbug and pomposity and quickly detected the insincere and superficial, he would go out of his way to help and encourage those whom he considered worthy, however much they appeared to be rebels against orthodoxy. He possessed a personal reserve of manner which some found a barrier, but this concealed a fundamental gentleness combined with immense force of purpose and self-discipline. Possessed of a ready wit, some idiocy on the part of a self-styled authority on any problem would bring a twinkle to his eye and a dry comment very much to the point. As an examiner of experience he held strong views that any examination should be educative as well as a test of knowledge and that it was morally wrong to allow a candidate who had been guilty of an inaccuracy to depart under the impression that his answer had been correct. For the last two years of his life, despite a serious failure in health, he carried on steadfastly, and when in August 1961 he returned to England on leave he died soon after arrival, while actually discussing further measures for the development of Sudanese surgery. To the end he preserved his youthful appearance and approach to life. If ever a man proved in his life the truth of Napoleon's dictum that the moral is to the material as ten to one, that man was Julian Taylor. He married in 1926 Edith Margaret (MB London, MRCS, FFARCS) daughter of Dennis Ross-Johnson, who died in University College Hospital on 2 November 1955 and by whom he had two sons. He died suddenly on 15 April 1961 at the age of 72 while on leave from the Sudan at his home at Bepton near Midhurst. A memorial service was held in St Pancras Church on Wednesday 10 May 1961 at which the lesson was read by the President, Sir Arthur Porritt, and an address was given by A J Gardham MS, FRCS, Senior Surgeon to University College Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Winston Sullivan ( - 1984)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Winston Sullivan Smith qualified in medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1936 and his early appointments were as resident medical officer to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and later to the Children's Hospital, Melbourne. He was then appointed to the Gresswell Sanatorium, Victoria, and in the early years of the war served as resident medical officer at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne. In 1941 he joined the Australian Army Medical Corps for five years and served in the South-West Pacific Area during 1945 and 1946. After demobilisation he came to England for postgraduate study, working initially at the Whittington Hospital, Liverpool Maternity Hospital and the North Middlesex Hospital. He passed the MRCOG in 1947 and the FRCS in 1951 and before returning to Australia served as assistant master at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. Shortly after returning home he was appointed consultant obstetrician and honorary assistant gynaecologist to Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne. He was also honorary gynaecologist at Warragul Hospital, Victoria, and senior honorary obstetrician at Essendon Hospital, Melbourne. After retiring from his hospital appointments he continued to live at South Yarra, Victoria, where he died in September 1984. He is survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Pandalai, Krishnan Gopinath (1885 - 1960)

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First Title value, for Searching Pardhy, Anand Krishna (1912 - 1956)

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First Title value, for Searching Pardhy, Krishna Moreshwar (1876 - 1959)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecological surgeon
Details Born in 1876, a Brahmin, he spent his professional life in Edgbaston, Birmingham. He figured in the news in December 1943 when he was acquitted of a serious charge (*Brit med* 1944, 1, 56 quoting *Birmingham Post* 15, 16, 17 Dec 1943). His son was Anand Krishna Pardhy FRCS. Pardhy died in a London hospital on 28 June 1959 aged 85 and was cremated at Perry Barr, Birmingham. Update: See below for an updated and expanded version of the published obituary uploaded 14 July 2025 Krishna Moreshwar Pardhy was a general and gynaecological surgeon in Birmingham. He was born on 8 December 1876 in the Central Provinces, India and studied medicine at Grant Medical College in Bombay. He qualified as a licentiate in medicine and surgery in 1899 and was then a medical officer in Bombay. He subsequently joined the Indian Army as a civil surgeon and was sent to South Africa during the Boer War, where he served in the Transvaal. He was awarded a South Africa medal. From South Africa he travelled to London. He gained his conjoint examination in 1901 and became a house surgeon at the Royal Cornwall Infirmary in Truro. In November 1905 he joined the 1st Volunteer Battalion, the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry as a surgeon-lieutenant. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in December 1910 and moved to Birmingham, where he became a surgeon at the Birmingham and Midland Homeopathic Hospital. During the 1930s he also worked from an address in Harley Street, London. In 1914 he wrote a paper ‘Nephrotosis (movable kidney, floating kidney, dropped kidney) its relation to mental disorders and their treatment’ for the *Practitioner*. He was president of the Indian Medical Association of Great Britain and a member of the Midland Medical Society and the Midland Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. Pardhy had first met Gandhi while he was in South Africa and stayed with him in Durban for a short while. In 1931, while attending the London Round Table Conference, Gandhi made a visit to Birmingham. Pardhy and his wife held a dinner for him at their house in Edgbaston, with around 50 other guests attending. In 1943 Pardhy was charged with sexually assaulting a patient at his consulting rooms in Birmingham. The first trial at Birmingham Assizes in July ended with the jury failing to agree. At the second trial in December, the jury spent just 45 minutes deliberating on their verdict: he was found not guilty. In 1911 Pardhy married Irene Margaret Hannam. They had three children – Anand Krishna, who became a surgeon in Bombay, Malini and Urmila, an accomplished singer and musician. Predeceased by his daughter Malini (in 1929), his wife (in 1947) and son Anand (in 1956), Pardhy died in a London hospital on 28 June 1959. He was 83.
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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Alexander Edward Patrick (1896 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Turner, William (1870 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 25 January 1870, ninth and youngest child and fifth son of Frederic Turner of Nizels, Hildenborough, near Sevenoaks, Kent, a retired army clothier, and Martha Orr Faithfull, his wife, daughter of Lt-Col Richard Coventry Faithfull, HEICS. His father died when William was a very small child. He was educated at King's College School, at King's College, London, of which he ultimately became an Associate, and at King's College Hospital, where he was a pupil of Lister. He won the Sambrooke exhibition 1888, the first- and the second-year scholarships, and at the final MB a scholarship and the gold medal for the year. At King's College Hospital he served as house surgeon, house physician, demonstrator of anatomy, and surgical registrar; and then served for a period in the Metropolitan Asylums Board's smallpox ships. In August 1897 he was appointed assistant surgeon to Westminster Hospital, but his normal career was interrupted when he volunteered for active service in South Africa with the Imperial Yeomanry. He acted as surgeon at their base hospital at Deelfontein 1900, and medical officer in charge of the branch hospital at McKenzie's Farm 1900-01. Coming back to Westminster Hospital he became in due course surgeon and lecturer in clinical surgery, was senior surgeon for eleven years, and was elected consulting surgeon and a vice-president on retiring in 1934. He was also consulting surgeon to the Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Ealing, the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, City Road, the Maidenhead Hospital, and the London Brighton and South Coast Railway. He examined in surgery for the University of London. During the first world war Turner served at the 4th London General Hospital, with the rank of major, RAMC(T), having been commissioned captain *à la suite* on 2 December 1908, when the Territorial Force was formed. He was also on the staff of the King George Hospital, the 22nd American Red Cross Hospital, the American Women's Hospital for Officers, and Mrs Mitchison's Hospital at Clock House, Chelsea. He had a large private practice at 104 Harley Street, and was a member of the British Medical Association for fifty years. Turner married in 1904 Lily, only daughter of J K Hamilton, of Tavistock, who survived him with a son, Claude Frederic Hamilton-Turner, DM, MRCS, who was serving abroad as a squadron-leader in the RAF Medical Service, when his father died in the Westminster Hospital on Sunday, 30 April 1944, aged 74. A memorial service was held at Westminster Hospital chapel on 3 May 1944. "Billy" Turner was a sound, industrious surgeon, a good teacher, and a wise counsellor, generous of his services to his hospitals and his colleagues. Publications: Treatment of fracture of patella by open method of wiring. *Westmr Hosp Rep* 1899, 11, 99. Treatment after operation, with E Rock Carling, FRCS London, 1912. The acute abdomen, Creasy memorial lecture. *Postgrad med J* 1936, 12, 45.
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First Title value, for Searching Turney, Horace George (1860 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation Physician
Details Born at Denmark Hill, London, SE on 28 October 1860, younger son and youngest of the four children of George Leonard Turney, needle and pin manufacturer, and Anna Neeve, his second wife. He was educated at Dulwich College and at Trinity College, Oxford. While at Oxford he had a severe attack of scarlet fever, and by way of convalescence went a voyage to Australia. He stayed in Queensland for a year's sheep farming and almost decided to stay permanently. But returning home he started to study medicine, several years later than the normal, at St Thomas's Hospital, with which he remained closely connected for nearly sixty years. Though at first intending to be a surgeon, he changed to the physicians' side, for he felt the aptitudes of a scholar rather than of a craftsman. He had taken the Oxford Mastership and the English Fellowship two years after qualifying, but the following year he took the MRCP and was soon elected to the medical teaching staff at St Thomas's, where he was resident assistant physician 1891-93, after serving as house surgeon and house physician, and having won the Mead medal in medicine and pathology. He duly rose to be assistant physician (1893) and then physician, and on his retirement in 1920 he was elected consulting physician and later a governor, and served on the grand committee and as almoner. Though he had a large private practice Turney's main interest was in the hospital. As assistant physician he created the department for diseases of the peripheral nervous system. He was always a general physician, but his strong leaning towards neurology led to his presidency of the section of neurology at the Royal Society of Medicine, which he addressed on "Vasomotor neuroses". He took active interest in the administration of the Hospital's Medical School, serving twice as dean, and was the best teacher of good pupils, but not so successful in coaching less well-equipped men. He was much interested in the Nightingale Nurses' Training College, to which he was physician, and was at one time chairman of the Nurses' Co-operative Guild. He served as physician to the United Kingdom Temperance Insurance Office, and succeeded his colleague Sir Seymour Sharkey, FRCS (1847-1929) as medical referee to H M Treasury. During the first world war he served at the 2nd London General Hospital, with the rank of captain *à la suite*, having been commissioned on 23 December 1908, on the formation of the Territorial Force, RAMC. He was created OBE (military) for his services. At the Royal College of Physicians, Turney served on the council 1915-17, as an examiner 1916-20, and as a censor in 1921, 1922, and 1924. He also examined in medicine for Liverpool University. Turney married in 1896 Margaret Ferguson, who had been Sister of Charity Ward at St Thomas's; she survived him with two sons and a daughter; another daughter had died in infancy. One son, Dr Horace Ferguson Turney, DM, MRCP, was serving as a major in the RAMC at the time of his father's death. Turney practised in Portland Place and later at 7 Park Square West, where he died on 26 February 1944, aged 83. He bequeathed £1,000 to St Thomas's Hospital to endow a bed. He was a tall man with a pale face and heavy, drooping moustache. He played no games and his only exercise was an occasional stroll in Regent's Park, though in early life he had been an active bicyclist. Turney was as big in character as in physique, cool in judgment and courteous in manner, but alert in mind and with an engaging humour. He was keenly interested in church architecture, which he studied on many visits to Italy and in his holidays at home; being an expert photographer he made beautiful records of the buildings which he admired. He usually visited Italy in the spring, and took an English country-house, where he entertained his friends, in the summer. Publications: The trophoneuroses. Allbutt's *System of medicine*, London, 1909. Vasomotor neuroses. *Proc Roy Soc Med*, presidential address to neurological section, 1915, 8, 1-26.
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First Title value, for Searching Yousry, Fouad Raouf ( - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Yudin, Sergei Sergevitch (1891 - 1954)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in 1891 he attended the medical faculty of Moscow University and then joined the Russian Army in 1914, being wounded three times, on one occasion suffering traumatic paraplegia for nine months. After the October revolution of 1917 Yudin worked at the Zakharino Hospital, interesting himself in particular in the study of extensive thoracoplasty for chronic empyema. For this work he was made a member of the Russian Surgical Association. In 1922 he went to the Industrial Institute at Serpouhoff investigating problems of regional and local anaesthesia and producing a monograph on spinal anaesthesia. In 1926 he visited the United States, going to the Mayo Clinic and the clinics of Crile, Cushing and Babcock. In 1928 he was appointed to the Sklifassovsky Institute in Moscow, the most important surgical centre in Russia. In 1932 he visited Barcelona, Paris and London, and it was at the Middlesex Hospital that he met Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. Yudin took particular interest in the work of Marriott and Kekwick on drip transfusion, having himself published a book on *The Transfusion of Corpse Blood* at about this time; subsequently he invited Kekwick to visit him in Moscow. He was unique in being the only Russian surgeon to visit clinics outside his own country and was undoubtedly the outstanding Russian surgeon of his day. Early in 1942 he had a coronary thrombosis and, while in hospital, wrote a treatise on the management of fractures due to gunshot wounds, but by June 1942 he had recovered and was appointed consulting surgeon to the Red Army. In 1943 a small Anglo-American military mission headed by Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor and Elliott Cutler visited him in Moscow, and at this time he had performed over five thousand gastric operations, including 281 gastro-duodenal resections for bleeding peptic ulcer and eighty-nine cases of oesophagoplasty by a special technique of his own. A dynamic personality he was adored by his assistants and was a fervid patriot, a writer, a poet and a man of wide culture. He died of a coronary thrombosis in Moscow on 14 June 1954 aged 63.
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First Title value, for Searching Gordon-Wilson, Alexander Gordon (1873 - 1952)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on 21 May 1873 second child and only son of Thomas Headland Gordon-Wilson and his wife née Kelly, he was educated at Highgate School, and won an entrance scholarship in science to the London Hospital. At his qualification he took honours in forensic medicine in 1897. He served as senior house surgeon at Poplar Hospital, and was resident acchoucheur and senior clinical assistant in the nose throat and ear department at the London Hospital. He then settled in practise in South Kensington, and became physician to the Kensington Dispensary and Children's Hospital. Gordon-Wilson married in 1918 Eve Smith, who survived him with their two sons Dr Clifford Gordon-Wilson MRCP and Mr Maurice Gordon-Wilson. He died at 51 Queen's Gate Gardens, London SW7 on 13 April 1952 aged 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Standeven, Alfred (1916 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation Trauma surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Alfred Standeven was born in 1916 and graduated in 1939 after studying at Queen's College, Cambridge, and St Mary's Hospital. Shortly afterwards he joined the Royal Air Force, serving from 1941 to 1946. He passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1944 before being posted to serve as a surgical specialist in Burma and later in Japan. He was twice mentioned in despatches. After demobilisation he served as senior registrar, first at Southend and later at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. He passed the MCh degree in 1954 and the FRCS two years later. He then joined the surgical unit at St Mary's as first assistant and acquired considerable experience of vascular surgery. In 1958 he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospitals in Folkestone and in Dover and brought to them a vast experience of trauma surgery and vascular surgery. He retired in 1981 but the enjoyment of his last few years was marred by the need for repeated blood transfusions for multiple myeloma. He died on 6 May 1983, aged 67, and is survived by his wife Patricia (Paddy) and two daughters, one of whom is a doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Maitland, Herbert Lethington Chisholm (1900 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Partridge, Eleanor Joyce (1893 - 1956)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation General surgeon Psychiatrist
Details Born in Devonshire on 7 November 1893, she was educated at the London School of Medicine for Women, where she served as demonstrator and junior lecturer in anatomy. After qualifying in 1917 she was house surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital and the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. Subsequently she was clinical assistant at both those hospitals and at the West London Hospital. For fifteen years her interests lay in surgery and anatomical research, but she then turned to psychiatry. After being a clinical assistant at the Institute of Medical Psychology (The Tavistock Clinic), she was appointed psychiatrist there. She was a member of the British Psychological Society and the Society of Analytical Psychologists. At that time she lived at 2 Eaton Terrace, London, but shortly before the war of 1939-45 she returned to Devonshire. She had consulting rooms at 3 Barnfield Crescent, Exeter, and was for a time medical director of the Lympstone Grange Nursing Home, and visiting psychiatrist to the Withymead Centre, Exeter. After her marriage to Edward Wenham, formerly of Los Angeles, California, they lived at Thorp Lympstone, near Exeter. She died suddenly on 11 May 1956 aged 62, the day after arriving in Switzerland to recoup from a long illness. She was survived by her husband and daughter. Publications: The relations of the glosso-pharyngeal nerve at its exit from the cranial cavity. *J Anat* 1918, 52, 332. Joints, the limitations of their range of movement, and an explanation of certain surgical conditions. *J Anat* 1924, 58, 346. *Baby's point of view, the psychology of early babyhood*. 1937.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005239
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First Title value, for Searching Passe, Edward Roland Garnett (1904 - 1952)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born on 25 June 1904 at Johannesburg, South Africa, second son of John James Passe, an engineer, and Eleanor Jane Price his wife, his parents moved to Australia while he was a child, and he was educated at Melbourne High School and graduated in dentistry at Melbourne University in April 1926. Passe came to the London Hospital to study medicine, qualified in 1929, and took the Diploma in Laryngology and Otology in 1931. He served as house surgeon at the Central London Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, and was receiving room officer and first assistant in the aural department of the London Hospital. Here he came under the influence of Norman Patterson, Donald Wheeler, and Geoffrey Carte, whose practice among singers he largely inherited. He built up a good practice in otolaryngology but after a visit to Gunnar Holmgren's clinic at Stockholm in 1937 he devoted himself enthusiastically to the new procedure of fenestration for otosclerosis. At Holmgren's clinic he met Julius Lempert of New York, and worked closely with him thereafter. Passe was for twenty years a keen member of the RNVR medical service, and served in it during the war of 1939-45. While stationed at Bermuda he took the opportunity of visiting Lempert's clinic in New York several times. In 1939 he reported fourteen successful fenestration operations, twelve done with Holmgren and two with Lempert; ten years later he made his "second interim report" on the results of over 500 cases. He was consulting aural surgeon to the Maida Vale Hospital, aural surgeon to the Wembley Hospital, and senior consulting aural surgeon to the King Edward Memorial Hospital at Ealing. His fundamental research was carried through in collaboration with J C Seymour in the Ferens Institute of Otolaryngology at Middlesex Hospital. By the age of 45 Passe had achieved an international reputation as a pioneer in the surgery of the labyrinth. He demonstrated his operation by invitation at Utrecht and Dublin in 1947, at Cairo in 1949, and at Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in 1951. He also described it at a special meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine in the summer of 1951. This success led him to explore the surgical relief of other intractable diseases of the ear, such as tinnitus, nerve-deafness, and Meniere's disease. The operation which he employed at first was stellate ganglionectomy, with stripping, ligation, and division of the vertebral artery; in 1951 he substituted preganglionic section of the second and third thoracic ganglia and division of the sympathetic trunk below the third thoracic ganglion. At the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in Dublin in July 1952 he reported on 200 sympathectomies in ten years with good results for the relief of Meniere's disease. He was to have gone to Boston in November 1952 to discuss the value of sympathectomy in aural surgery with Reginald Smithwick before the New England Otolaryngological Society; the paper he prepared was read there by his widow. Immediately after the Dublin meeting he went to Cornwall for a holiday, where he also practised his skill as a sculptor in the studio of Dame Barbara Hepworth. Returning to London he died suddenly on 1 August 1952 aged 48. He had practised at 36 Weymouth Street. Garnett Passe married in December 1939 Barbara Hope Slatter, who survived him; there were no children. He was an all-round sportsman, a leading member of the Medical Golfing Society who played frequently at Wentworth and Sunningdale, and he won the silver medal for skiing at Davos when he was 47. He was a short, dapper man with iron-grey hair, self-confident but modest, even-tempered and generous. Publications: Surgical treatment of fourteen cases of otosclerosis. *J Laryngol* 1939, 54, 566. Fenestration operation for otosclerosis, interim report. *Lancet* 1947, 1, 171. Méniere's syndrome successfully treated by surgery of the sympathetic. *Brit med J* 1948, 2, 812. A second interim report on the fenestration operation. *J Laryngol* 1949, 63, 495. Sympathectomy in relation to Ménière's disease, nerve deafness, and tinnitus. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1951, 44, 760.
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First Title value, for Searching Patrick, Conrad Vincent (1898 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Stillman, Irvine Roger (1915 - 1987)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Irvine Roger Stillman was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on 29 September 1915 and after early education went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, graduating with a BA degree and later proceeding to MA. His clinical studies were undertaken at Oxford University and the Radcliffe Infirmary and he qualified in 1943. After early house appointments in general surgery and orthopaedics he was appointed resident surgical officer at Chesterfield and passed the FRCS in 1957. He later became senior hospital medical officer to the casualty department of Chesterfield Royal Hospital and played an important role in the design of a new accident and emergency department at the hospital. Shortly after the new department was opened he was promoted consultant and was a founder member of the Casualty Surgeons' Association. He was one of the first to recognise the importance of immediate treatment of road accident victims and having visited Heidelberg to study their methods founded the "Flying Squad", established in 1978, at Chesterfield to take a team of doctors and nurses to road-side victims. He had a keen interest in photography, and was instrumental in spearheading the development of clinical photography at the hospital. He retired in 1981 and his contribution to the town where he had spent most of his working life was recognised by the award of the honorary freedom of the Borough of Chesterfield in 1983. In 1947 he married Kay Walton, a nursing sister, and their daughter has qualified in medicine. He died in 1987 aged 72.
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First Title value, for Searching Marks, Sir Simon, Lord Marks of Broughton (1888 - 1964)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Occupation Businessman
Details Simon Marks was born on 9 July 1888 son of Michael and Hannah Marks and was educated at Manchester Grammar School. His father died in 1906 and Simon aged 18 went into the business his father had founded in Leeds market in 1884 of penny bazaar stores. During the first world war he worked on various Government projects chiefly under Chaim Weizmann and developed his latent interest in Zionism. After the war he expanded his family business with unprecedented success and profit, till "Marks and Spencer" became familiar throughout the country. He persuaded manufacturers to produce goods of quality and style and sold them within the means of poorer people on a great scale, thus incidentally improving public taste especially in clothing. He was an excellent employer, providing good conditions for all his staff. His range of interests was wide, and in his charitable dispositions he particularly encouraged the application of scientific developments to practical purposes. He gave munificent financial help to this Royal College, to which he was attracted by the advocacy of Sir Archibald Mclndoe. Marks gave more than half a million pounds to the College for the expansion of education and research, and persuaded the Council to open a campaign to raise further funds. He was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1957 and to the Court of Patrons; other members of his family followed his lead in support of the College's work. Lord Marks died on 8 December 1964 aged 76, survived by his wife with their son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, Alan Francis (1914 - 1959)

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First Title value, for Searching Waldy, John (1860 - 1937)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 12 December 1860, the eldest son of Edward Waldy of Barmpton, near Darlington, and Jane Chiesman, his wife. The second son, a solicitor, was more than once mayor of Darlington. John Waldy was educated at Pemberton School kept by the Rev Christopher Jackson at Middleton St George, Co Durham, and on 1 October 1877 joined the Medical School at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which was the medical faculty of the University of Durham. He was appointed an assistant demonstrator of anatomy in 1881, jointly with William Robinson, FRCS, before either was qualified. In October 1881 he entered St George's Hospital, London, where he acted for some time as assistant medical registrar. He then returned to Newcastle, became house surgeon for two years at the Royal Infirmary, and for another two years was house physician, being the last resident to be appointed without a time limit. In both positions he proved himself an excellent clinical teacher and a firm disciplinarian. As house physician to Sir George Hare Philipson, then senior physician and a character, he had many stories to tell. As soon as Waldy had obtained the FRCS he began to practise at Catterick in partnership with John Hanley Hutchinson, who had been a pupil of Sir William Gowers. The practice soon extended over thirty villages and required eleven or twelve horses to work it, much of the ground being covered in a high gig driven tandem. The round often began at 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning and was not completed until late in the afternoon. Waldy would then dine, order the medicines he had prescribed to be made up, and instantly fall asleep in front of the dining-room fire, where he remained until the maid came in the next morning. This habit he continued even after his first marriage. In 1899 he began to use a brougham drawn by a pair of horses, which was replaced about 1911 by a motor car. During the war he acted as surgeon to a VAD convalescent home for sick and wounded soldiers, and during the last years of his life he gave up general practice for consulting work. He married twice: (1) in 1893 Alice Elizabeth, second daughter of Valentine Rippon, JP, of Rogerley Hall, Frosterley, Co Durham; she died 24 December 1930; her elder sister married William Robinson, MD, FRCS, of Carlton House, Sunderland; (2) on 13 June 1933 Annie Simpson, who survived him without issue. He died at his home, 1 Green Park, Darlington on 25 April 1937. His ashes were buried in the churchyard of Haughton-le-Skerne. Throughout his life he was a total abstainer, and he disliked tobacco. He was held in high esteem by his colleagues for his honesty and thoroughness. His remarkable memory enabled him to recall similar cases which he had seen many years previously. His treatment was simple, for he usually said to the patient: "Go to bed, and take two or three glasses of nice hot milk every day," so that he was known by the soubriquet "Go-to-bed Waldy". Waldy left £1,000 each to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-on-Tyne, St George's Hospital, Westminster Hospital, and Darlington Municipal Hospital; and he left land, known as Green Park, to the county borough of Darlington, to be kept as a public recreation ground.
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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, Charles McIntosh (1901 - 1954)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Invercargill, New Zealand in 1901, he was educated at Southland Boys High School and Otago University, Dunedin. After qualifying he held resident posts in New Zealand and was senior house surgeon at Dunedin Hospital. In 1926 he was awarded a Dominion scholarship for study in England, and he was in succession house surgeon to ETC Milligan at the Seamen's Hospital, to Canny Ryall at All Saints Hospital, to Victor Bonney at Freemasons' Hospital and the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and to J A Willett at the City of London Maternity Hospital. In 1932 he went to Liverpool, where he remained for the rest of his life, and was appointed first resident obstetric assistant and registrar under Leith Murray at Liverpool Maternity Hospital, becoming assistant obstetric surgeon in 1935. In 1943 he became a member of the staff of Liverpool Women's Hospital, and in 1951 visited the USA to deliver the Joseph Price Oration to the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynaecologists and Abdominal Surgeons. Later in 1951 he was visiting professor in Egypt at the Abassia Faculty of Cairo University and at the Farouk University in Alexandria. He was an external examiner at the University of Dublin, and wrote, in particular, on lower uterine Caesarian section which he did much to popularise. A gifted speaker, he had a mastery of prose in his writings and an extensive knowledge of literature. In addition he was a good linguist, especially in German. Occasionally he would slip away to watch a game of cricket, a game he had played well in his younger days. A shy generous man of great courage, he faced premature death with fortitude. He died in Liverpool on 21 September 1954 aged 53, survived by his widow, son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, Henry Seeker (1863 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Wakefield on 12 April 1863, the third child and second son of Thomas Walker, MRCS 1848, and Elizabeth Jackson Seeker, his wife. His elder brother, John William Walker, MRCS 1882, was elected FRCS in 1941 and lived till 1953. The Walkers had practised medicine at Wakefield for two hundred years. H S Walker was educated at Wakefield Grammar School, Leeds Medical School, then part of the Yorkshire College, and at University College Hospital, London. After serving as house surgeon at Durham County Hospital, he settled as an eye and ear specialist at Leeds, and was appointed in 1890 assistant surgeon to the eye, ear, nose, and throat department of the General Infirmary. After six months study at Vienna, he introduced the mastoidectomy operation at Leeds. When the eye and ear departments were divided in 1912 he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Infirmary. He was also lecturer in ophthalmology and otology at Leeds University. He attended "Ranji", the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, after serious eye-injury in a grouse-shooting accident in 1914. The Prince, in gratitude for his recovery, named a ward after Seeker Walker in his hospital at Nawanagar, and also endowed a new ophthalmic theatre and out-patient department at the Leeds Infirmary. Walker's architectural ingenuity found scope in the creation of the new buildings of the Infirmary. Walker was commissioned in the RAMC on the formation of the territorial force in 1908, and during the war of 1914-18 he carried out the work of the eye departments of the East Leeds and Beckett Park Military Hospitals, with the rank of major. He was made consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Infirmary when he retired in 1919, and then settled in Wiltshire. Here he served on the committee of the Bath Eye Infirmary, was pensions secretary of the Wiltshire Association of the Blind, and was the moving spirit and chairman till 1939 of the foundation committee of the Bradford-on-Avon District Hospital, which he saw opened in September 1947. Walker married in 1902 Elaine Mary Secker. He died on 18 February 1948, aged 84, at Fair Field House, Bradford-on-Avon, and was buried at Great Chalfield. He was survived by his son and two daughters. He was a man of cheerful disposition, and alert and precise mind. His manual dexterity as an operator was also displayed in his carpentry. Publications: Sarcoma of iris. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK*, 1895, 15, 814. Cysticercus of conjunctiva. *Ibid* 1896, 16, 47. Tumour of optic nerve. *Ibid*, p 139. Cerebellar abscess complicating mastoid disease. *Brit med J* 1895, 1, 806. A case of mastoid disease accompanied by septic thrombosis of lateral sinus and post-pharyngeal abscess, with retention of some hearing power. *Trans Otol Soc* 1901, 2, 126. A diagrammatic model intended to assist in the teaching of ocular refraction. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1901, 21, 142. A model to illustrate the passage of rays of light through the eye in the various forms of astigmatism. *Ibid* 1905, 25, 307.
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First Title value, for Searching Marston, Archibald Daniel (1891 - 1962)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21 2015-11-23
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Occupation Anaesthetist
Details Born on 28 March 1891, the son of Daniel Marston and Annie Bell, he was educated privately and entered Guy's Hospital in January 1909 as a dental student and the following year as a medical student also. Qualifying in 1915 he held a house appointment at Guy's and then entered the Royal Navy as a temporary surgeon. He had originally intended to become a surgeon and had passed the Primary examination in 1913 but, stimulated by Sir Alfred Fripp, he took up anaesthesia and in 1919 was appointed to the staff of Guy's as a consultant anaesthetist, and as a teacher of anaesthesia he was known to generations of Guy's men over a period of thirty-seven years. In 1934 he was appointed to the staff of the Royal Masonic Hospital. Although always remaining a clinical anaesthetist, his greatest interest and achievement was the raising of the status of anaesthesia, and in 1948 he became the first Director of the Department of Anaesthetics at Guy's and, at the College, the first Dean of the Faculty. He had been previously in 1941 President of the Section of Anaesthetics of the Royal Society of Medicine and in 1944 President of the Association of Anaesthetists. He was awarded the Hickman medal by the Faculty in 1957 and the John Snow medal by the Association in 1958. While Dean of the Faculty he delivered the first Clover Lecture on 16 March 1949 on "The Life and achievements of Thomas Clover". He examined first for the Diploma of Anaesthetics and later for the Fellowship of the Faculty, and he acted as consultant in anaesthesia for the Ministry of Health. He retired from the staff of Guy's in 1956, his relaxation being gardening and billiards, and he was a member of the Bath, National Sporting, and Surrey County Cricket Clubs. In 1923 he married Emily Phyllis Irene, daughter of Henry Cox, who died in 1961 without issue. He died at Brighton on 14 January 1962, and a memorial service was held in Guy's Chapel on 6 February 1962.
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First Title value, for Searching Storey, John Colvin (1886 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Stevens, Thomas George (1869 - 1953)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 25 March 1869 at Stoke Newington Green, North London, eldest of the three children of George Jesse Barnabas Stevens MRCS 1866 and his wife Charlotte Honey, he was educated at St Paul's School and Guy's Hospital where he served as house surgeon and resident obstetric officer, after qualifying with honours. He was resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and the Evelina Hospital for Children, having determined to specialise in gynaecology and obstetrics. He took the Fellowship in 1895 and the MRCP in 1896; in later years under the influence of his friend Victor Bonney he opposed the formation of a third Royal College, but when the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (as it was called at first) was formed in 1929 he accepted Fellowship and served on the first Council till 1935. During 1896 Stevens was demonstrator of biology at Guy's and examined in biology for the Conjoint Board. He was elected an assistant surgeon to the Hospital for Women in Soho Square in 1899, and was ultimately con¬sulting surgeon. In 1902 he was appointed tutor in obstetrics at St Mary's Hospital, and in 1908 physician to out-patients at Queen Charlotte's. He was elected assistant obstetric surgeon at St Mary's in 1912 on the retirement of C M Handfield-Jones, was promoted surgeon two years later on the unexpected retirement of W J Gow, and finally became consulting obstetric surgeon. He was also gynaecologist to the Mildmay Mission Hospital. Stevens examined for the Conjoint Board and for London University. He served as Vice-President of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the British Medical Association's annual meetings at Aberdeen in 1914 and at Winnipeg in 1930. He was a frequent contributor of cases and papers to the like section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Stevens was a skilled operator of wide experience, and excelled as a teacher, particularly in practical teaching, and was popular with students in spite of his caustic wit. He was an active Freemason and was Master of the Sancta Maria lodge in 1917. He practised at 8 Upper Wimpole Street, and retired in 1934 to Bournemouth. He married on 31 August 1899 Lizzie Jane, eldest daughter of John Reeves of Blackheath; she died on 2 April 1953. Stevens died at 6 Dunkeld Road, Talbot Woods, Bournemouth on 10 November 1953 aged 84, survived by his only son T Russell Stevens FRCS, surgeon to the Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester. He was a short man with a pointed beard. His recreations were golf and fishing, and he was an accomplished artist, particularly fond of painting interior scenes. Select Publications: *Diseases of women* University of London Press, 1912 426 pp. The treatment of salpingitis; acute and chronic. *Lancet* 1926, 1, 192 and 249. Ovarian tumours from the pathological aspect. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1931, 38, 256.
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First Title value, for Searching Kinder, Alexander (1883 - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching Steward, Edward Simmons (1869 - 1954)

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First Title value, for Searching Knaggs, Robert Lawford (1858 - 1945)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

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 Körte, Werner (1853 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Kosinsky, Julian (1833 - 1914)

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First Title value, for Searching Krogius, Frans Ali Bruno (1864 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Unwin, Harold Arthur Robert Edmond (1881 - 1964)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1902. After training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he won the University scholarship in 1904 and held house appointments, he settled in practice at Yeovil, Somerset and became surgeon to the Crewkerne and Yeovil Hospitals. During the war of 1914-18 he was a surgeon specialist at the 14th General Hospital, Boulogne with the rank of Captain RAMC. Unwin was chairman of the East Somerset division and President of the Dorset and West Hants branch of the British Medical Association. He lived at The Small House, Dorchester Road, Yeovil and died on 17 March 1964 aged 83, survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Stock, William Stuart Vernon (1873 - 1952)

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First Title value, for Searching Walton, Herbert James (1869 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Stopford, Sir John Sebastian Bach, Lord Stopford of Fallowfield (1888 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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Occupation Neurologist
Details Born on 25 June 1888 son of Thomas Rinck Stopford of Hindley Green near Wigan, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University, graduating with honours in medicine in 1911, having gained prizes and distinctions. In 1915 he proceeded to the degree of MD with a gold medal. In 1912 he was appointed a junior demonstrator in anatomy at Manchester University, followed by senior demonstrator, then lecturer, and in 1919 succeeding Elliott Smith as Professor, which chair he held until 1937 when he became Professor of Experimental Neurology until his retirement in 1956. During the war of 1914-18 he worked as neurologist at the 2nd Western General Hospital and at Grangemouth Hospital where he started his investigations into the anatomical basis of sensation. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University 1928-30, for two periods Dean of the Medical School, and in 1935 at the age of 46 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor. He was in addition Vice-Chairman of the Interdepartmental Committee on Medical Schools, for many years a member of the General Medical Council, a member of the University Grants Committee, and a member of the Manchester Salford and Stretford Joint Hospitals Board, which was in existence long before the inauguration of the National Health Service, and naturally with its coming he was appointed first chairman of the Manchester Regional Hospitals Board. In many other ways he gave the benefit of his experience, as by his chairmanship of the John Rylands Library, the Manchester Royal College of Music, and the Universities Bureau of the British Empire. He was in the first list of Life Peers in 1958. A born and bred Lancastrian he enjoyed the outdoor relaxations of the common man, football and gardening. In his youth he was a really good half-back playing for Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University. Honest and wise, he was undoubtedly a great Vice-Chancellor as well as a distinguished scientist. In 1916 he married Lily (MB ChB Manchester 1914) daughter of John Allan of Blackburn and they had one son. He retired first to Morecombe Bay in 1956, and died on 6 March 1961 in his sleep at his home at Arnside, Westmorland aged 72.
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First Title value, for Searching Strachan, Gilbert Innes (1888 - 1963)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 7 August 1888 he was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow University. Qualifying in 1910 he became house surgeon and then resident gynaecological officer at Western Infirmary, Glasgow, followed by a period as house surgeon at Glasgow Maternity Hospital, as house physician at Bristol Royal Infirmary and then as house surgeon at Glasgow Hospital for Sick Children. For a time he acted as demonstrator of anatomy at Glasgow University. During the war of 1914-18 he was commissioned as Captain RAMC and attached to the 3rd Western General Hospital at Cardiff. After the war he worked as a research pathologist under the Medical Research Council investigating the pathology of still births. In 1921 he was appointed assistant lecturer in midwifery, under the Midwives Act, in University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and senior assistant to the Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Welsh National School of Medicine. Later appointments were those of consulting gynaecologist to Penarth and District Hospital, assistant gynaecologist to Cardiff Royal Infirmary and gynaecologist to Cardiff City Mental Hospital. Subsequently he was consulting obstetrician and gynaecologist to Cardiff Royal Infirmary, to Llandough Hospital, to Mountain Ash Hospital, and to Abertillery and District Hospital. In 1932 he became Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Welsh National School of Medicine. A lifelong supporter of the BMA, he was secretary of the Cardiff Branch in 1922-29, its chairman in 1930-31, President of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Division in 1937-38, and finally Vice-President of the Association. He was President of the Section of Obstetrics of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1951-52, and an examiner for the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Conjoint Board and the Universities of Wales, Birmingham, Bristol and Oxford. A notable collector of Spode and Chinese porcelain, he was deeply interested in music. In 1920 he married Olive Andrews by whom he had a son. He died in Cardiff on 9 December 1963 aged 75.
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First Title value, for Searching Sutherland, Donald McKay (1893 - 1962)

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First Title value, for Searching Larkin, Frederick Charles (1858 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Jarman, Ronald (1898 - 1972)

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First Title value, for Searching Lawford, John Bowring (1858 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Lawrence, Laurie Asher (1857 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Lawrence, Thomas William Pelham (1858 - 1936)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation Curator Pathologist
Details Born 20 March 1858 at The Grange, Ware, Herts, the fifth of the seven sons of Robert Lawrence, owner of maltings at Ware and Hertford, and of Elizabeth Dawes, his wife. He was educated at the Cholmely School, Highgate under J Bradley Dyne, DD, and played rugby in the first XV. He began to study law in a solicitor's office, but in 1879 entered University College Hospital. He soon attracted the attention of Sir George Dancer Thane, professor of anatomy at University College, by his skilful dissections and his artistic powers, and became his assistant demonstrator. After a short experience as assistant to a doctor in Devonshire he returned to London and was appointed curator of the museum at University College in succession to Charles Stonham in October 1890, became lecturer on morbid anatomy in UCF Medical School in 1910, and was pathologist to the hospital from 1910 until 1924. As curator of the museum at University College he was responsible for the description of the surgical and obstetric specimens, and he arranged all the preparations in the museum of the new medical school after its separation from the College. In 1923 he retired from University College and went to the Royal College of Surgeons to assist Cecil Beadles, who followed Samuel Shattock as pathological curator. Beadles died in 1933 and Lawrence continued to serve until March 1935, when he retired on account of ill-health. His retirement was marked by a special vote of thanks from the President and Council of the College and by a farewell banquet at the Langham Hotel given by his numerous friends and colleagues. He lived during his active life at Latimer Cottage, Epsom Lane, Tadworth, Surrey, and died on 26 June 1936 at Shaston, Little Common, Sussex, survived by his wife, Christina Knewstub, whom he had married on 6 August 1902, and by his only child, a daughter. Lawrence was a man of many interests in life and his motto was "thorough", for all that he did was well done and always to the very best of his ability. Well read in Latin and Greek, he knew French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Russian, and kept himself well informed of the chief works on pathology in those languages. His artistic ability is seen in the drawings of the bones which he made for the tenth edition of Quain's *Anatomy*. He was devoted to his garden and was skilled in the almost lost art of mowing with a scythe. He was a true friend and a man of great modesty and self-effacement. Publications: Necrosis of the cortex of both kidneys, with Sir John Rose Bradford, *J Path Bact* 1893, 5, 195. The optic commissure. *J Anat* 1894, 28, *Proc Anat Soc* pp 18-20. Redescription of the specimen of spondylolisthesis in the museum of University College. *Trans Obstet Soc Lond* 1900, 42, 75-89. *University College, London: Descriptive catalogue of surgical pathology*, new edition, with Raymond Johnson. London, 1899-1906. True hermaphroditism in the human subject. *Trans Path Soc Lond* 1905-06, 57, 21-44, with summary in Latin. Tumours, in Choyce's *System of Surgery*, 3rd edition, 1932, 1, 328-587, with Raymond Johnson. A note on the pathology of the Kanam mandible; notes on the pathology of a neolithic skeleton and also certain pathological bones from Bromhead's site, Elmenteita, appendices A and D, in L S B Leakey's *Stone-age races of Kenya*, 1935. He delivered the Erasmus Wilson demonstrations at the RCS 1928, on surgical specimens in the museum; they were not published.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Arthur David Winton (1900 - 1970)

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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Arthur Rocyn (1883 - 1972)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-18
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Occupation General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on St David's Day 1883 in Rhymney, the third and youngest son of David Rocyn Jones, Arthur came of a family of Welsh bone-setters. His Pembrokeshire great-grandfather, Thomas Jones, was a farmer with a reputation for treating animals, whose son (1822-1877) and grandson (1847-1915) were bone-setters in a practice continued by Rocyn-Jones' eldest brother; another brother was Medical Officer of Health of Monmouthshire. From Lewis School, Pengam, Rocyn Jones went to University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, and from there to University College, London. On qualifying he became house surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary to Sir John Lynn-Thomas (1861-1939), a general surgeon and pioneer of bone surgery, and then in 1913 became house surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, where he was joined by Harry Platt, and, before a distinguished cosmopolitan audience, assisted Fred Albee in probably the first spinal arthrodesis in this country. He remained during the first world war as acting surgeon. Thereafter he became consultant, not only on the active staff of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases and Fulham Hospital, but also to hospitals as far distant as the Prince of Wales and Glen Ely Hospitals in South Wales, the North Wales Sanatorium and the West Suffolk General Hospital at Bury St Edmunds. As senior surgeon and Chairman of the Medical Committee at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital after the second world war, he took a leading part in establishing there the Institute of Orthopaedics of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation of the University of London at a time beset with difficulties and doubts. An original member of the British Orthopaedic Association, he became its Vice-President (1946 and 1947) and Archivist (1953). He had an outstanding command of English, both spoken and written, and he was fluent in Welsh also. He made many contributions to literature, especially in orthopaedic history, of which he had a wide knowledge. Examples are provided by the remarkable series of biographical articles published in the British section of the *Journal of bone and joint surgery* from 1948 to 1954, by his Presidential Address on 'The Evolution of Orthopaedic Surgery in Great Britain' to the Orthopaedic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (*Proc Roy Soc Med* 1937, 31, 19-38) and by his Founders' Lecture on 'The British Orthopaedic Association' at its 50th Anniversary Meeting in 1968 (*J Bone Jt Surg* 1969, 51B, 1). In 1968 a number of the *Journal of bone and joint surgery* was dedicated to him in commemoration of his 85th birthday. Outside orthopaedics, Rocyn Jones was a member of the Council and former Vice-President of the Honorable Society of Cymrodorion (founded 1751), a member of the Cambrian Archaeological Society, Past Master of the London Welsh Lodge of Freemasons and a Deacon at King's Cross Welsh Congregational Chapel. An outstandingly modest and kindly man, he was very happily married to a former nursing sister, daughter of the Vicar of Beaufort. He died at his home on Stanmore Hill on 12 February 1972, aged 88, survived by his widow, Margaret, and by a married daughter, Glayne, a former physiotherapist.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Bertrand Seymour (1875 - 1966)

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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Reginald Cruickshank Stuart ( - 1960)

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First Title value, for Searching Minaisy, Ahmed Mahmoud (1912 - 1964)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Minaisy took the Fellowship in 1940. He practised in Egypt throughout his career, and died there in 1964 or early 1965.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005948
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First Title value, for Searching Brophy, Cyril Mary (1893 - 1951)

2026-04-02T09:11:32Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details He was educated at University College Hospital and qualified during the first world war. He served as a temporary Captain in the RAMC and won the MC. After the war he held appointments at University College Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and then went into practice at Wimbledon, in partnership with G A Hodgson MRCS and N L M Reader FRCS. He was elected to the honorary staff of the Nelson Hospital, Merton. Brophy died before 1952. His wife died on 12 January 1969.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005586
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First Title value, for Searching Tuckfield, Peter Cader ( - 1968)

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First Title value, for Searching Truscott, Brian McNeill (1912 - 1971)

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First Title value, for Searching Worton, Albert Samuel (1874 - 1940)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 21 April 1874, the fourth child and second son of John Worton, who was in the wine trade, and his wife, *née* McCormick. He was educated at Allan Glen's School and at the University of Glasgow. He then acted as assistant dispensary surgeon to the Royal Sick Children's Hospital, Glasgow, and was house surgeon at the Eye and Ear Infirmary, Liverpool. He then came to London, was admitted MRCS and FRCS on the same day, became chief clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, and ophthalmic surgeon to the Kensington and Fulham Hospital, known afterwards as Princess Beatrice Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he was ophthalmic surgeon to the City of London Red Cross Hospital and the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham, and was the oculist attached to the White City Medical Board. He married on 5 June 1910 Annie Myrtle, the younger daughter of Robert Davidson, the London manager of the Bank of Scotland. She survived him with two sons and two daughters. He died on 31 January 1940. Publications: Teno-plication: a method of advancement without resection of tendon for convergent squint. *Ophthalmoscope*, 1914, 12, 326. Hereditary optic neuritis; eleven cases in three generations. *Lancet*, 1913, 2, 1112. Traumatic detachment of retina; operation; recovery. *Brit med J* 1934, 1, 146.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004816
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First Title value, for Searching Wright, Dudley d'Auvergne (1867 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 11 February 1867 at Colombo, Ceylon, where his father, William Dumaresq Wright, was colonial treasurer; his mother's maiden name was Amy Braybrooke; he was their second son and third child. He was educated at Appledurcombe College, Isle of Wight, and at Haileybury, and took his medical training at University College Hospital, going to Vienna for postgraduate study. Wright was elected to the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital, to which he ultimately became consulting surgeon; he was also senior surgeon to the Manor House Orthopaedic Hospital, Hampstead, and consulting surgeon to the Leaf Cottage Hospital, Eastbourne, and the Philipps Memorial Cottage Hospital at Bromley, Kent. He served the office of president of the British Homoeopathic Association. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he was appointed by the French government to be chief surgeon at the Hôpital de l'Alliance at Dieppe, and became médecin-chef of the Allied Military Hospital at Yvetot, Seine-inférieure, in 1915. He was created a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1921. Wright married in 1892 Ethel, daughter of A Morse, of Appledurcombe, Isle of Wight. After retirement they lived at Bournemouth and then emigrated to South Africa, where they lived at Lotus Cottage, Wynberg Park, Cape Town. While sailing in the Egyptian liner *Zamzam*, during the second world war, they were torpedoed in the South Atlantic on 17 April 1941, and were taken to Germany. After internment in separate camps, they were allowed to live together in Berlin, and were repatriated to South Africa through Portugal in 1942. Later they came back to England and settled at Bembridge, Isle of Wight, where Wright died on 22 January 1948, aged nearly 81. Mrs Wright survived him with their son, Denis Wright, Mus Doc, and their daughter, Mrs Martini. Wright's recreations had been gardening and motoring. Publication: *The treatment of haemorrhoids and rectal prolapse by means of interstitial injections*. London, 1899.
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First Title value, for Searching Albuquerque, Victor Mansfield (1902 - 1973)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Educated at King's College, London, he practised in Kathiawar, India before joining the Indian Medical Service in 1934; in the Service he rose to the rank of Colonel. Later he practised at New Delhi. He died in 1973 aged about seventy.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005611
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Edward Ernest Thurlow (1910 - 1971)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Edward Ernest Thurlow Taylor was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 3 February, 1910. He was the younger son of Herbert Taylor, a cotton manufacturer, and of Edith Taylor (née Thurlow). His early life was varied and interesting. He was educated at Cheltenham College, and went from there to Balliol College, Oxford. He did not at this stage contemplate a career in medicine. Instead he read first mathematics and later law, gaining an honour's degree in jurisprudence in 1931. From 1931 to 1934 he was articled to a firm of chartered surveyors in London. Just before he was due to take his final examination in accountancy he was offered a post in the Colonial Service in Nyasaland. This he accepted and travelled to Africa in 1934. At about this time, however, he developed acute appendicitis and his appendectomy gave him his first glimpse of hospital work. From this point he became increasingly convinced that his future lay not in accountancy but in medicine. In 1935 he resigned his post in Nyasaland, returned to London, and started his medical training at St Thomas's Hospital. He qualified in 1940 (MRCS LRCP and BM BCh Oxon) and after only 8 or 9 months in house posts, he joined the RNVR, rising later to the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander, and while serving in the Navy he took the FRCS in 1941. In June 1944 he took part in the invasion of Normandy. After demobilization in 1945 he held registrar and first assistant posts in general surgery at St Thomas's Hospital and St George's Hospital, and in 1947 gained the degree of master of surgery in the University of Oxford. In August 1948, his training completed, Edward Taylor was appointed honorary assistant surgeon at Northampton General Hospital. In Northampton his reputation, based as it was upon clinical reliability, a meticulous surgical technique, and unshakable integrity, was soon established, and he quickly became a greatly respected member of the hospital staff. He was relied upon by all. He was a true general surgeon with interests in widely differing fields. He found himself equally at home in abdominal surgery, in genito-urinary work, and in thyroid surgery. Later he showed his ability to absorb technical advances by his mastery of arterial surgery. By nature a practical rather than a theoretical surgeon, his publications were few, but in 1943 he contributed a review of Crohn's disease to the *Postgraduate medical journal* and in 1959 wrote on duodenal megabulbus and annular pancreas in the *British journal of surgery*. Though his modesty made him a reluctant hospital politician, his integrity ensured him positions of responsibility. In 1962, as a continuing demand for postgraduate medical education swept the country, a clinical tutorship was established at Northampton General Hospital. It was almost inevitable that Edward Taylor should be the first to hold this post, and it was he, therefore, who laid the foundation of Northampton's postgraduate activities. It fell to him, too, to make an immense, but typically unostentatious contribution to the successful planning of the Cripps Postgraduate Medical Centre, which was so soon to transform the medical life of the town. An enthusiastic member of the British Medical Association, he was Chairman of the Northampton Branch in 1966, and was elected a Fellow of the BMA in 1967. At the time of his death he was also Chairman of the Surgical Division at Northampton General Hospital, and President-Elect of the Northampton Medical Society. Edward Taylor had many interests outside surgery. He was an enthusiastic sportsman, playing lawn tennis and squash racquets very well indeed. Later he fell under the spell of mountaineering, spending much of his spare time climbing in North Wales, in the Alps, and in Spain. It was typical of the man that, finding a knowledge of Spanish useful on climbing holidays in Andalucia, he should have taken and passed an examination in that language at the age of 58. In 1965 his mountaineering achievements were recognised by his election to membership of the Alpine Club. Though he rarely mentioned it, this was an honour of which he was understandably proud. In his later years Edward Taylor had the misfortune to develop diabetes, and characteristically he managed his own treatment with great skill and with the minimum of guidance. He never for one moment allowed the disorder to interfere with any of his activities, professional, social or athletic. Indeed, many of his closest colleagues and friends, of which he had many, were quite unaware of his handicap. In 1938 Edward Taylor married Miss Beryl Mary Hinde, and they had two children, Susan who qualified as a doctor in 1964, and William who works in the Civil Service. Susan Taylor later married Mr Glenn Neil-Dwyer, a young surgeon who in 1972 was working as senior registrar in neurosurgery at Southampton General Hospital. When he died on 9 September 1971 his wife and family survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Douglas Compton ( - 1965)

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First Title value, for Searching Underhill, Betty Margaret Lois (1908 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Betty Underhill was born on 22 December 1908, the only child of William Wood and Elizabeth Roberts, both head teachers. She was educated at North London Collegiate School and Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a first class honours degree in zoology. She remained at Oxford doing research in genetics and cytology for her BSc and then obtained the London diploma in education and the Board of Education teaching certificate. From 1932 to 1943 she followed the family tradition and taught biology, first at King's Norton Secondary School for Girls and then at the County School for Girls, Ealing. In 1943 she entered the London School of Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital where she won prizes in anatomy, paediatrics and public health. She qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1947 gaining the MB, BS the following year. After junior appointments at the Royal Free Hospital, Leicester Royal Infirmary, and at Chase Farm, Whipps Cross and Central Middlesex Hospitals she gained her FRCS in 1953. She completed her training at Frenchay Hospital and the Royal Marsden. In 1956 she went abroad under the aegis of the Ministry for Overseas Development and held various posts in Bahrain and the West Indies. For a period she was appointed lecturer in surgery at the Barbados campus of the University of the West Indies. She returned to England in 1973 to live in West Sussex but continued to act as locum surgeon at Worthing and Chichester for several years. Miss Underhill was a keen supporter of the Medical Women's Federation and was President of the Sussex Association in 1977-78. She was also an active Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her main hobbies were gardening and photography and she exhibited at many major international photographic exhibitions. She was also very fond of travel and cookery and mentioned on her curriculum vitae that she had been twice round the world, once via the northern and once via the southern hemisphere. She never married and died peacefully at home on 14 May 1983.
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First Title value, for Searching Tulloch, Alan Keith (1910 - 1986)

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First Title value, for Searching Tudor, Richard William (1920 - 1985)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Richard William Tudor, the son of William Victor Tudor, a civil servant, and of Daisy Alice (née Baker) a teacher, was born in Birmingham on 19 July 1920. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, after winning a County Scholarship, and at Birmingham University where he won the Queen's Scholarship and graduated in 1943. He joined the RAMC in the same year and served in West Africa with the rank of Captain. He returned to Birmingham for surgical training after demobilisation and was finally appointed consultant surgeon to East Birmingham and Solihull Hospitals. He had joined the staff at East Birmingham Hospital in 1960 and saw its growth from its infancy to a very large undergraduate teaching hospital. He played a major part in the surgical work there and was particularly keen on teaching students. He was a senior lecturer in surgery at the University of Birmingham and was secretary and treasurer of the Birmingham Medical Institute. His principal surgical interest was gastroenterology, and he had particular experience and skill in inflammatory bowel disease. In this connection he was responsible for setting up a domiciliary stoma service which was run by one of his former ward sisters, and he was a keen supporter of the local ileostomy club. He wrote sundry medical papers and outside his professional life was interested in gardening, the countryside and literature. He married Dr Mary Maud Gowen (Mollie), MB ChB in 1946. They had one daughter and three sons, two of whom graduated in medicine at Birmingham University, one, Richard Gowen Tudor, becoming FRCS England in 1984. Richard Tudor died suddenly on 19 September 1985, only a few weeks after his retirement on 1 August 1985, and was survived by his wife and children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007732
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First Title value, for Searching Talbot, Francis Theodore (1872 - 1969)

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First Title value, for Searching Burnell, George Frederic (1891 - 1972)

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First Title value, for Searching Lakin, Charles Ernest (1878 - 1972)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation Dermatologist Pathologist Physician
Details Charles Ernest Lakin was born in 1878, the son of a general practitioner who became the Mayor of Leicester. He was educated at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School where he was a First Entrance Scholar, and won Broderip and Freeman Scholarships, and qualified in 1901 with the Conjoint Diploma, and the degrees of London University in 1902, obtaining honours in medicine and obstetric medicine. In 1903 he proceeded to the degree of MD, and in 1908 he passed the examination for MRCP having been admitted as a Fellow of the College of Surgeons in 1905. At this period it was the custom for the physicians to undertake the post-mortem examinations and to teach pathology, and in this activity Lakin was outstanding as a teacher and expert opinion. During the first world war he served as pathologist at Addington Park War Hospital with a commission in the RAMC, although in civil life he held the appointment of consulting physician at the Middlesex Hospital. He was also on the staff of the London Fever Hospital and had, therefore, a special interest in infectious diseases. He was, in addition, consulting physician to Golden Square Throat Hospital and to the West Suffolk Hospital and acted as medical referee for HM Treasury. In his earlier years he had been a demonstrator of anatomy and a clinical assistant in the dermatological department at the Middlesex Hospital. For a time he was a clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. At the College of Physicians he was Lumleian Lecturer in 1932, Harveian Orator, and in 1947 Senior Censor. One time President of the Medical Society of London, he was also honorary librarian and delivered the Lettsomian Lecture in 1934. As a teacher he was outstanding with his wide field of knowledge of general medicine, infectious fevers, dermatology, children's diseases and, in particular, of pathology. Coronary thrombosis was no novelty to him as early as 1920. A bachelor, he was a genial host with many friends, a lover of music and a keen student of history. At the time of his death he was the most senior Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He died at his house, West Stow Hall, Bury St Edmunds, on 2 May 1972, aged 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Arthur Wilfred (1892 - 1973)

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First Title value, for Searching Abel, Arthur Lawrence (1895 - 1978)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Arthur Lawrence Abel was born on 15 November 1895, the son of the Reverend Arthur E Abel, a congregational minister, and he preached in his father's pulpit at the age of 18 years. He did his medical training at University College Hospital, graduating in 1917. He obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1920 and the MS in 1921. In the first world war he served as a temporary Surgeon Lieutenant in the Royal Navy spending most of his time with Atlantic convoys. He was house surgeon to Wilfred Trotter and then at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, when he met and later married Dr Margaret Paterson; he worked with the Ministry of Pensions and was demonstrator of anatomy at the London School of Medicine for Women. He held the post of surgical registrar at the Cancer Hospital (now the Royal Marsden) for five years which exerted a profound influence on his subsequent career stimulated by outstanding surgeons including Ernest Miles. He developed a superb technique in the surgery of the colon and rectum. He was however prepared to tackle lesions of all sorts in any region of the body. He had a distinguished career at the Royal College of Surgeons - Jacksonian Prizeman in 1924 for work on oesophageal obstruction, Hunterian Professor of 1926 and Bradshaw lecturer in 1957. He was a member of the Council from 1947 to 1963 and a Vice-President, 1956-57. He was surgeon to the Princess Beatrice, Gordon and Royal Marsden Hospitals and to the Institute of Cancer Research. He was a member of the British Medical Association for over thirty years and much involved in its work from 1944 when he first represented Marylebone on this representative body. He was chairman of the division and President of the Metropolitan Counties Branch in 1951, Vice-President of the Section of Surgery in 1952 and President in 1958 and was a member of more than thirty committees over the years. He was elected to the Council of the Association in 1946 and served until 1970. At the annual meeting in Bristol he received the Honorary Degree of MD from Bristol University. He developed a large hospital practice but also an extensive private practice. His exuberance, uninhibited personality and flamboyance in dress, all made him a popular and sought after post-graduate lecturer in this country and abroad. His didactic style and challenging dogmatism drew large audiences and he acted as visiting professor in leading surgical centres in Australia and South and North America. Indeed he was in Canada en route from South America to Australia when his last illness began. He was a Fellow of the American and Argentinian Oncological Societies and Honorary Member of the Society of Surgeons of Madrid, and Honorary Fellow of the American Medical Association. In London he was Honorary Fellow and Auditor, Orator in 1962 and President in 1963, of the Hunterian Society. He was also a Fellow and Past-President of the Harveian Society. Lawrence Abel wrote many authoritative papers and an important book *Oesophageal obstruction, its pathology, diagnosis and treatment*. Whilst proctology and surgery of the colon and rectum were his principal interests, he was much concerned with cancer in general, and was a member of the Grand Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign for Research. He was a surgeon of exquisite skill, his fine appearance often enhanced by one of the eighteenth or nineteenth century brocade waistcoats which he collected and his clear and incisive words made him easily recognisable, and he had a large and faithful band of friends. Mrs Abel died in 1963. They had one daughter and three sons, two of whom are doctors. One of them became a Fellow of the College in 1955. He died on 18 February 1978.
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First Title value, for Searching Langley, Eric Francis (1910 - 1971)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Eric Langley was born in Melbourne in 1910, his father having been a member of the staff of the Alfred Hospital. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, and graduated in medicine at Melbourne University in 1933, having had a good academic record and done well in athletics. He then held a junior post at the Alfred Hospital, and having married an English girl they came over to England to enable him to train for the FRCS, which he obtained shortly before the outbreak of the second world war. He joined the RAF and after service in several stations in England he and his wife managed to get back to Australia, where he joined the Royal Australian Air Force as a Flight-Lieutenant in 1941. He was promoted to Squadron-Leader in 1942 and served in two hospitals in Melbourne, and in 1943 he was posted to New Guinea with the rank of Wing-Commander. There he won a reputation for surgical skill and devotion to his work, and in April 1944 he returned to a RAAF hospital at Concord, New South Wales where he remained till demobilization in 1945. While at Concord he not only impressed his neighbours as a sound surgeon, but he and his wife found the neighbourhood congenial and thought of settling in Sydney, which they did when Langley was appointed to the Staff of the Royal North Shore Hospital. Meanwhile the RAAF hospital at Concord was moved to Richmond, and he was glad to continue his association with the service by becoming visiting surgeon at Richmond which he attended regularly at least once a week right up till the time of his death. For his tireless service to the RAAF he was awarded the OBE in 1963. Though he had little time for outside interests, his hobbies may be said to have been horticulture and fast motor cars; but his chief enjoyment was derived from the pleasures of family life. He died suddenly on 15 October 1971, and as one of his friends put it "he left us as unobtrusively as he had lived". His wife and family survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Secretan, Walter Bernard (1875 - 1966)

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First Title value, for Searching Searby, Clifford Henry Coomer (1897 - 1967)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Henry Searby was born on 8 January 1897, the son of C A H Searby, Headmaster of Melbourne High School, where he was educated. He proceeded to the University of Melbourne (Ormond College) in 1914, but when war broke out he was one of a group of undergraduates who completed their year and then enlisted in the Army. After serving in the Middle East, where he contracted an intestinal infection which dogged him for the rest of his life, he was demobilized in order to complete the medical course, returning to his studies in 1917. He graduated in 1921, undertook several junior appointments in the Melbourne (later Royal Melbourne) Hospital, and for two years held the Stewart lectureship in anatomy in the University. In 1925 he came to England, passed the Fellowship examination, and returned to Melbourne to work as assistant to Alan Newton. In 1927 he became surgeon to outpatients, and in 1934 surgeon to inpatients at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, an appointment which he held till he retired in 1949 when he was made consulting surgeon. In 1928 he became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, and thus commenced a long and most distinguished career in the College during its early formative years. He served on the Council and the Court of Examiners, as Vice-President and also Chairman of the Executive Committee which involved many responsible duties which he undertook with devotion and enjoyment, for there is no doubt that he derived much satisfaction from these arduous tasks. In the second world war he served as a surgical specialist in the Royal Australian Air Force with the rank of Group Captain. He was honorary surgeon to HRH the Duke of Gloucester during his term as Governor-General of Australia, and he was also honorary surgeon to King George VI and to Her Majesty the Queen from the time of her accession to the throne. His public duties in Melbourne included the Medical Board of Victoria, of which he became President, the Council of the Victorian Branch of the British Medical Association, and the Council of Ormond College. In 1955 he was President of the Melbourne Club. In spite of these many calls upon his time he never failed to maintain the highest ideals in his surgical practice, both in regard to the care of patients and in advancing the operative treatment of goitre and upper abdominal disease, subjects in which he was particularly interested. He set himself high standards, and was sometimes critical of others who seemed to him to deviate from them. He played an active part in the Clinical School, and when he was acting as Sub-Dean from 1930 till 1934 he made notable improvements in clinical teaching and in the students' working conditions. In acknowledgement of his contributions to the science and art of surgery he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Unfortunately his latter years were impaired by serious ill-health, and his death on 31 August 1967 came as a merciful release from suffering. He had married in 1929 Mary Hordern, and she and their two sons survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Dahne, Stanley Frederick Logan (1901 - 1971)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005600-E005699
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377868377868
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born at Morriston, Glamorgan on 27 July 1901, only child of C G Dahne a general practitioner at Portardawe, Glamorgan, and Mabel Louise Thomas his wife, daughter of a Swansea dental surgeon. C G Dahne, whose father was a Danish metallurgist naturalised in Great Britain, was surgeon to the factories and mines and had been commended for bravery in several mining accidents. Logan Dahne was educated at Shrewsbury School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1927 and proceeding to the Cambridge Degrees in surgery in 1932 and in medicine in 1936. He was a resident at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading and settled there in a general practice partnership with Norman Hooper FRCS, and Eric Beale MD. During the second world war he remained at his post in Reading, serving on many medical boards and on the Borough Council for five years. In 1948 he decided to specialise in otolaryngology, took his Cambridge MD with a thesis based on his extensive experience of tonsillectomy, and was appointed consultant in otolaryngology at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, where he originated allergy clinics in his department. He retired to Wales in 1966 and settled at St David's, where he involved himself in local affairs, but kept in touch with his English friends and former associations. Dahne was Chairman of the Reading Division of the British Medical Association 1939-43 and in 1960, and represented it at many central Representative Meetings from 1944 till 1966; he was President of the Oxford and Reading Branch 1940-41 and a member of the Association's Council 1948-59, when he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the BMA; from 1966 to 1971 he served on the West Wales executive. He was President of the Reading Pathological Society 1955-56, and a member of the Council of the British Society of Allergologists. In younger days Logan Dahne was a fine oarsman both at Shrewsbury and Cambridge, where he was in the winning crew of the Head of the River race; he belonged to the Leander Club for forty-eight years. Later interests which he cultivated assiduously were gardening, history, and heraldry, in which his skill enabled him to design arms for the Royal Berkshire Hospital and the BMA. Dahne married in 1928 Mary Katharine, daughter of Martin Randall MD, FRCS; Mrs Dahne was herself a Cambridge graduate in Arts; her brother and several cousins were in medical practice. He died at St David's on 12 June 1971, six weeks before his seventieth birthday; he had successively survived severe coronary thromboses in 1952 and 1969. The funeral service was held in St David's Cathedral, he was survived by his wife and their married daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005685
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format Obituary
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First Title value, for Searching Dain, Sir Harry Guy (1870 - 1966)

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First Title value, for Searching Acland, Sir Hugh Thomas Dyke (1874 - 1956)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004800-E004899
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377006377006
Occupation General surgeon
Details He was born on 10 September 1874, son of John Barton Arundel Acland, Member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand and a barrister, and Emily Weddell Harper his wife, who was a daughter of the first Bishop of Christchurch, Primate of New Zealand. J B A Acland was the sixth son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet, whose third son Henry became Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford and was himself created a baronet. H T D Acland was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch and Otago University, Dunedin, and then came to England for clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he obtained numerous prizes including the Cheselden medal and served as house surgeon. After qualifying in 1898 he served in the South African war 1900-01 and then came back to England to take the Fellowship. He returned to Christchurch to practise and was appointed to the staff of Christchurch Hospital, where he ultimately became consulting surgeon. In the first world war he served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Europe, and was torpedoed in the troopship Marquette. He was later mentioned in dispatches, and was created CMG and CBE. He then returned to his practice at 51 Brown's Road, Christchurch. He was one of the founders of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He was an honorary surgeon to the Governor-General of New Zealand 1930-35, and a member of the City Council 1936-41, after being knighted in 1933. He was Assistant Director of Medical Services 1940-48 for the Southern Military District, with the rank of Colonel, New Zealand Army Medical Service. Acland married in 1903 Evelyn Mary daughter of J L Ovens of East Sheen, who survived him with three sons and a daughter. He died at Christchurch on 15 April 1956.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004823
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Adam, John Law (1866 - 1961)

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