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First Title value, for Searching Bulteel, Christopher (1832 - 1897)

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First Title value, for Searching Buszard, Frank (1839 - 1913)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The second son of Dr Marston Buszard, of Lutterworth, who there enjoyed a large practice and was himself the son of a medical man. Frank Buszard entered Rugby School on April 1st, 1854, and received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, where his career was brilliant. It was probably owing to the fact that Buszard entered Guy's in the same year as Hilton Fagge that he missed a chance of getting on to the Staff. At the London University he ran close behind Fagge, who had a phenomenal record. At the 1st MB he was placed third in three of the subjects out of four in honours; at the 2nd MB he was placed third in honours in surgery, and besides gained honours in the three other subjects-medicine, physiology, and midwifery. Buszard became House Surgeon at Guy's Hospital and was regarded by Sir William Gull as one of his most distinguished pupils. From Gull, Buszard probably learnt much of that tact and judgement in treating patients which stood him in such good stead throughout his career. After leaving Guy's, Buszard was elected House Surgeon to the Northampton Infirmary, as it was then named. During the seven years of his tenure of office he enjoyed a reputation for sound work and was almost worshipped by his pupils (of whom there were generally two or more) for the thorough methods of his coaching. He became endeared not only to these practitioners of the future, but also to his patients, and built up a great local reputation. He began to practise in the town as soon as he resigned the House Surgeoncy, but it was eight years before a vacancy occurred on the Hospital Staff and he was elected Surgeon in succession to James Mash (qv). In two years' time he gave up surgery, to the surprise of his friends, and was appointed Physician in succession to Dayrell J T Francis, MD. The latter had been very successful, and it was at first doubted whether a surgeon could fitly take his place, but in the end Buszard was even more sought after than his predecessor had been. His fame locally was great, and in his time he must have been called into consultation to almost every county family, whilst he always kept himself well abreast of all fresh ideas in diagnosis and treatment. His professional brethren for years recognized him as their leader, and called him in for all cases of doubt or difficulty. In the sphere of medical politics Buszard took up a bold position in defence of the just rights and interests of the profession. He was President of the South Midland Branch of the British Medical Association, first Chairman of the Northants Division, and was elected Chairman of the Northampton Medical Committee formed in connection with the Insurance Act. He was Consulting Surgeon to the Market Harborough Dispensary and Physician to the Northampton General Hospital at the time of his death. On his retirement in March, 1912, after fifty years' service to this institution, some two hundred admirers, headed by the Marquis of Northampton, presented him with two portraits of himself by Mr Harris Brown, of which one was retained by the hospital while the other went to his family. Buszard delivered an eloquent speech of thanks in which he reviewed the great progress made in hospital management during his career. Characteristically he did not mention his share-an important one-in the improvement of the Northampton Infirmary. He touched life at many points. A fluent speaker and capable debater, he would have shone in Parliament or at the Bar. He was anxious that medical men should take their share in public life, and always encouraged his younger colleagues in their efforts to do so. From 1881 onwards, for nearly twenty years, he was an Alderman of the Borough, and for the greater part of that period rendered valuable service as Chairman of the Public Health Committee in eradicating the Northampton slums and improving the health of the people. When he left the Town Council his colleague, Dr R A Milligan, declared it lost its most distinguished member. He was an ardent Conservative leader of the Unionists in his own town, a strong partisan, whose keen verbal thrusts were appreciated by his opponents at many meetings. For years he read the Sunday evening lessons at Dallington Church, of which he was Churchwarden. Tall and commanding of presence as well as kindly in manner, he inspired his patients with confidence. He was devoted to outdoor sport and was a fine cricketer and lawn-tennis player, till compelled by the onset of rheumatoid arthritis to become a mere onlooker. He retired finally from medical work in June, 1913, and died at Dallington, Northampton, on Sunday, October 14th, 1913, survived by his widow, two daughters, and one son. Buszard's elder brother, Marston Clarke Buszard, KC, was Recorder of Leicester and leader of the Midland Circuit.
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First Title value, for Searching Butler, Cornelius (1789 - 1871)

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First Title value, for Searching Butler, Frederick John (1819 - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Butler, Henry ( - 1885)

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First Title value, for Searching Butler, James Henry (1813 - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Byass, Thomas Spry (1807 - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Castellote, Raan Horace (1870 - 1899)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-24 2013-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College Hospital, where he held the appointments of House Surgeon, House Physician, Junior and Senior Obstetrician's Assistant, Ophthalmic Assistant, and Junior Demonstrator in Anatomy. In 1896-1897 he was Surgeon on the Royal Mail Steamer *Damara*, then served as a Medical Officer in the Niger Soudan Campaign, and received a medal for his services. In the following year he was special Plague Medical Officer under the Government of India. Castellote had a home address at 45 Salcott Road, Wandsworth Common. It is noted in the *Medical Directory* of 1900 that he was Medical Officer to the Mohun Expedition to Central Africa under the Belgian Government. In the Obituary of the *Medical Directory* 1901 it is recorded that Castellote died in Central Africa on September 26th, 1899, aged 29. Publications: "Notes on the Niger-Soudan Campaign of 1898-97."*-Lancet*, 1898, i, 455, 595, and Editorial Annotation, 588.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001103
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First Title value, for Searching Cathrow, William (1806 - 1869)

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First Title value, for Searching Chaffers, Edward (1842 - 1909)

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First Title value, for Searching Challinor, Henry (1814 - 1882)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-24 2016-04-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was in general practice at Bolton-le-Moors and at Accrington. He emigrated to Queensland about 1861-1862 [1], and practised for some years at Ipswich in that Colony. From 1869-1872 he was Surgeon Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, Woogaroo, and was also Medical Officer of St Helena Gaol and the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum. For the last few years of his life Challinor was Health Officer of Brisbane. In honorary capacities Challinor filled important and responsible positions. He was for years a member of the Medical Board, Principal Medical Officer of the Queensland Volunteer Forces, and Visiting Inspector of the Diamantina Orphan Schools. He died of apoplexy at Brisbane on Sept 9th, 1882. [[1] He emigrated to Brisbane, then part of New South Wales, in September 1848 and arrived at Moreton Bay on the ship *Fortitude* from Gravesend on 20 January 1849. Information supplied by Stephen C Due by email, 9 April 2016]
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First Title value, for Searching Chalmers, Albert John (1870 - 1920)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Manchester, the son of the Rev James Chalmers, MA. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, then at the Liverpool and University of London Colleges and Hospitals. After obtaining various exhibitions and medals in the earlier subjects, he gained honours in medicine and surgery at the MB in 1890; he obtained the Gold Medal at the MD of the Victoria University in 1893 with a Thesis, "Development of the Liver and Septum Transversum". He also held the following posts: Holt Tutorial Scholar; Demonstrator of Anatomy, Owens College; House Surgeon, Cancer Hospital, London; Assistant Medical Officer, Willson Green Asylum, Birmingham; Surgical Tutor and Pathologist, Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool. After becoming FRCS in 1895, he joined the West African Medical Service and served on the Gold Coast from 1897-1901. In the Ashanti War of 1900 he was one of the garrison that fought its way out of Coomassie; he was mentioned in despatches and received the medal and clasp. In 1901 he was appointed Registrar of the Ceylon Medical College at Colombo, where during the following ten years he improved the organization and raised the standard of teaching, meanwhile lecturing on pathology and animal parasitology. In 1910 he joined Dr Aldo Castellani as joint-editor of their *Manual of Tropical Medicine* (the 3rd edition of 2500 pages was published in 1919), a standard text-book of permanent value. He served as Major in the Ceylon Medical Corps, and was a member of the Ceylon Coronation Contingent in 1911, for which he received the Coronation Medal. After resigning the appointment he travelled, and studied pellagra in conjunction with Dr Sambon, and he was one of the first to recognize the occasional occurrence of the disease in this country. In 1913 he became Director of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratory at Khartoum, and was the author, wholly or in part, of a series of publications on tropical disease. At the same time he was a member of the Central Sanitary Board of the Sudan, of the Sleeping Sickness Commission, and of the Archaeological Committee. During a holiday round the world he was including the study of tropical disease, when he was seized at Calcutta with acute infective jaundice, and died after a week's illness in the General Hospital on April 5th, 1920. He married the daughter of Edwin Cannington, JP, but there were no children. Chalmers collected some 1800 volumes, consisting partly of rare old books, including a 1478 Celsus, and partly of books on tropical medicine. The library was presented by his widow in June, 1922, to the Royal Society of Medicine. The books were arranged in a special room, named the Chalmers Library, and supplied with a special catalogue. The catalogue includes the numerous publications made by him, or in collaboration with others.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001114
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First Title value, for Searching Chapman, Henry Thomas (1806 - 1876)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Ampthill, the eldest son of Thomas Chapman, surgeon, who lived to be 94, and nephew of Sir John Chapman, FRCS (qv), of Windsor. He was a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital under Abernethy from 1825-1827, and spent the winter session of 1828-9 in Paris. In 1830 he was House Surgeon to Earle at St Bartholomew's, and later assisted him in private practice. In 1832 he published *A Brief Description of Surgical Apparatus, together with an Atlas of Surgical Apparatus*, concerning which Sir James Paget, speaking from personal acquaintance, said: "It was a creditable work for the time of its publication, but it was far inferior in execution to the illustrated catalogues with which instrument makers have since been enabled to advertise". Inspection of the original suggests a depreciation and an exaggeration on the part of Paget. In 1848 he published a book *On the Treatment of Ulcers of the Leg without Confinement, with an Enquiry into the best mode of effecting the Permanent Cure of Varicose Veins*. There was a second edition in 1853 and a third in 1859. He advocated long strips of linen or calico, wet with water, and so laid on as not to constrict as did strapping and plaster. By this means he urged that elevation of the limb entailing confinement might be dispensed with. He noted improvement in cases of varicosities, even when surgical treatment by transfixing with a pin and applying a figure-of-8 ligature had failed. The method, indeed, was on the lines adopted later by Unna. He proceeded to apply wetted strips of bandage to varicose veins where there was as yet no ulceration, and he published *Varicose Veins, their Nature, Consequences and Treatment, Palliative and Curative* (8vo, London, 1856). This obtained rather better consideration from Paget: "He again describes his method, and how for clustered and saccular varices, he ingeniously adjusted various forms of pads under the straps. I do not doubt his success, but the plan requires skill and patience, more than busy men can give. The book is clearly that of a gentleman and a fair observer, and this Mr Chapman was known to be by all who, as I did, knew him well." Chapman visited Stromeyer's establishment at Hanover for the cure of deformities, was elected a Corresponding Member of the Hamburg Medical Society, operated for the cure of club-foot, and wrote in the Lancet (1838-9, ii, 329) on the etiology and pathology of the condition. He was amongst the first in England to test the value of cod-liver oil, and he published a memoir on its utility in scrofula (*Pharmaceutical Jour.*, 1841). He died at Cheltenham in 1876.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001118
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First Title value, for Searching Perera, George Nelson (1915 - 2009)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-03-03
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Occupation Urologist
Details George Nelson Perera was a pioneer urologist in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon. His consultant career spanned the years 1957 to 1971, first as a general surgeon and then as a specialist in genito-urinary surgery. He had to overcome considerable opposition from his general surgical colleagues in order to switch to urology as they still regarded the discipline as an integral part of their own work. He served the General Hospital in Colombo faithfully, training many of Sri Lanka's present generation of urologists. He was born on 14 November 1915 in Moratuwa, in what was then Ceylon, the son of Cornelius Sylvester Martin Perera. His father was the first Ceylonese to be appointed as a superintendent of a British-owned tea estate. His mother, Stella née Dharmaratne, was a housewife. Educated first at Prince of Wales College, Moratuwa, Perera moved to St Joseph College, Colombo, passed the London University matriculation examination in 1935 and went on to study medicine at the Ceylon Medical College of Colombo from 1936 to 1941, qualifying with first class honours. As a medical student he served from 1939 in the Ceylon Medical Corps and was demobilised at the end of the war with the rank of captain. Much of his own training was under the guidance of the Milroy Paul, doyen of surgery in Ceylon, a man of great presence and striking appearance, who had strong connections with the College. When George Perera went to England in 1953, he worked with, and was much influenced by, Charles Wells in Liverpool, a friend to many aspiring surgeons from the Commonwealth. Perera built up the urology unit with great care and patience. He equipped the theatres with state of the art instruments, established a dedicated male ward, a recognised number of female beds, and sent two male nurses to train at the Institute of Urology in London. The first endoscopic resection of the prostate was done using a McCarthy resectoscope by his registrar, Lalith Perera (no relation), who was guided through the operation by his mentor. George Perera was a keen teacher who inspired many trainees to continue in surgery, some entering urology as a career. He retired in December 1971 from the state sector, but continued to work in private practice for a few years. He was a keen member of the BMA (Ceylon branch) and the Ceylon (now Sri Lankan) Medical Association, and became a patron of the Sri Lanka Association of Urological Surgeons. Outside medicine, he enjoyed power-boat racing, water-skiing and fishing. He was a member of the Catamaran Club, as well as the Power Boat Association of Sri Lanka. He enjoyed a game of golf and was a member of the Royal Colombo Club. He married Phoebe née Peiris in 1942 and they had a family of three. Their daughter, Lahari, born in 1943, is married. Their elder son, Gayan, born in 1944, became a doctor, while their youngest, Sarath, born in 1955, is an engineer. Perera died on 27 January 2009 and was survived by his wife and three children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001140
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First Title value, for Searching Chapman, Henry Wilson (1808 - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Chapman, Richard (1802 - 1885)

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First Title value, for Searching Weaver, Edward John Martin (1921 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-26
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details John Weaver was a cardiothoracic surgeon at the London Hospital. He was born on 7 November 1921 in Wolverhampton and educated at Clifton College, where he boxed for the school. He went on to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and then St Thomas’s Hospital. After house jobs, he was a casualty officer at St Helier’s Hospital, Carshalton, and Queen Mary’s Hospital, Stratford. He then joined the Colonial Medical Service, where he worked in Malaya. On returning to England, he specialised in cardiothoracic surgery and was senior registrar to Vernon Thompson and Geoffrey Flavell at the London Hospital. In 1962 he spent a year in Kuwait as a consultant surgeon, followed by a year in Ibadan, Nigeria. He returned to the London as consultant surgeon in 1965 and was seconded to New Zealand to learn the latest methods in cardiac surgery under Barrett Boyes. He was a very neat surgeon whose techniques were imitated by a generation of juniors. A delightful, apparently carefree person, he was a popular and highly regarded colleague. He had a passion for driving fast cars and one of his sons became a Formula 1 driver. He died on 7 April 2003, leaving a widow, Mary, and two sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000142
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First Title value, for Searching Eddey, Howard Hadfield (1910 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23 2012-03-22
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Howard Eddey was a former professor of surgery at Melbourne University. He was born on 3 September 1910, in Melbourne. His father was Charles Howard Eddey, a manager, and his mother was Rachel Beatrice née Hadfield, the daughter of a teacher. He was educated at Melbourne High School, where he was captain of boats and featured in many winning crews. He was also in the school lacrosse team. He went on to the University of Melbourne, where he won a university blue. He was subsequently a resident at the Royal Melbourne Hospital for two years. He then went to the UK, where he studied for his FRCS, winning the Hallet prize in the process. During the second world war he served in the Australian Imperial Force with the 2/13 Australian General Hospital, becoming a Major in the Australian Army Medical Corps. He was captured by the Japanese and spent time in prisoner of war camps in Changi and then in North Borneo. While he was captured he was involved in 'kangkong' harvesting and the treating of a local wild vegetable, to produce a drink that was rich in vitamins. Howard made sure the soldiers drank this frequently, as it reduced the incidence of beriberi and pellagra. During his time in captivity Howard also wrote notes on anatomy on scrap paper. This later became a key anatomy text, used by generations of medical students. He returned to the Royal Melbourne Hospital after the war as an honorary surgeon. He was dean of the clinical school there from 1965 to 1967. As a clinician he gained an impressive reputation as a head and neck surgeon. In particular his parotid gland surgery and cancer work with radical neck dissection gained considerable prominence. In 1966 the University of Melbourne decided to establish a third clinical school at the Austin Hospital and Eddey was invited to become the foundation professor of surgery. He had no background in research, but recruited a team of young surgeons with research skills and the research reputation of the department of surgery was rapidly established. In 1971 Eddey became dean and held this position until 1975. He was a member of the board of management from 1971 to 1977, and was vice-president from 1975 to 1977. In honour of his contribution to the development of Austin as a clinical school, the new operating theatres and library have been named after him. Eddey was regarded as an outstanding teacher and, through his role with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), helped surgical education in South East Asia. He made many visits to Asian hospitals and was involved with examinations and giving lectures. The RACS created the Howard Eddey medal in recognition of his work in Asia. He was a member of the board of examiners at the RACS from 1958 to 1973, and was chairman from 1968 to 1973. He was a member of council from 1967 to 1975 and served as honorary librarian from 1968 to 1975. He served on many other bodies, including the Cancer Institute and the Anti Cancer Council. His service to the community was recognised by his appointment as honorary surgeon to Prince Charles and he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. He was married to Alice née Paul from Kew, Victoria, for 30 years. They had three children - Robert Michael, Peter and Pamela Ann. Eddey died on 16 September 2004.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000053
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First Title value, for Searching Savage, Christopher Roland (1915 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Denis Latimer (1917 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Skinner, David Bernt (1935 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-02 2007-08-02
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details David Skinner was an eminent American thoracic surgeon and one of the most influential individuals affecting surgical and medical care in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century. He was born on 28 April 1935 in Joliet, Illinois, the first child of James and Bertha Skinner, and educated at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He joined the Boy Scouts and maintained an interest in the movement throughout his life. After graduating with distinction from the University of Rochester, he studied medicine at Yale, where his MD was awarded *cum laude*. He trained in general and thoracic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, completing his residencies in 1965, when he went to Bristol as senior surgical registrar to Ronald Belsey and developed a life-long interest in surgery of the oesophagus. During the Vietnam war he served for two years in the US Air Force. He returned to join the surgical faculty of Johns Hopkins Hospital under George Zuidema. At Johns Hopkins he rapidly rose to full professor in 1972. Shortly thereafter he was appointed as the first Dallas B Phemister professor of surgery at the University of Chicago Medical School. He developed an administrative model that encompassed clinical excellence, basic surgical research, dedicated teaching and a remarkable degree of autonomy for faculty growth. His personal devotion to the development of his faculty was life-long and legendary. In 1987 he moved to New York to become President and chief executive officer of the New York Hospital and professor of surgery at Cornell Medical College. Under his leadership financial difficulties were reversed, a new hospital purchased, a new pavilion built and a merger achieved with the Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia University. He retired in 1999, but remained active as President emeritus of the New York Presbyterian Hospital and professor of surgery and cardiothoracic surgery at Weill Cornell. He served on several philanthropic and corporate boards. He generously hosted the group that travelled from our College to New York under the presidency of Sir Barry Jackson. During his career he served as President of several scientific and surgical societies, including the Association of Academic Surgery, the Society of University Surgeons and the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus, and was a member of multiple societies, including the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science. He received three honorary degrees and 15 medals or prizes for his contributions. He was made an honorary medical officer of the fire department of New York city, gaining the parking privilege that came with the honour. His faith was extremely important to him: he was a trustee of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago and the Fifth Presbyterian Church of New York. He died on 24 January 2003, following a massive stroke, and is survived by his widow Elinor and four daughters, Linda, Kristin, Carise and Margaret. Linda is a surgeon at Delaware County Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Soomro, Jamil Ahmed (1948 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Stephens, John Pendered (1919 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-02 2012-03-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John Stephens was a general surgeon at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He was born on 29 March 1919 in Northamptonshire, where his father was an engineer with farming interests. Educated at Stowe School, his scholastic achievements were complimented by a flair for sport, particularly rugby. At Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he read natural sciences, played for the University XV (winning a wartime blue) and represented the University at tennis. Clinical training followed at St Bartholomew's Hospital during the Blitz, where he captained a strong Bart's rugby XV. He held house appointments with J Basil Hume at Friern Barnet, one of the hospitals used by Bart's during its evacuation from London. On joining the RAMC in 1943, he served as regimental medical officer to the 1st Battalion Sierra Leone African Regiment in Sierra Leone, Burma and India. His release testimonial described him as "…a first class officer who fully understands the African soldier and as a result exerts an excellent influence over the whole battalion". Returning to civilian life in 1947, he passed the Cambridge qualifying examination, followed by the FRCS a year later. Further surgical experience was gained as a supernumerary registrar with J Basil Hume and Alan Hunt at Bart's, during which time he continued to play rugby for Bart's, Blackheath, Northampton and Kent. In 1952, John went to Norwich as a surgical registrar to the Norfolk and Norwich and allied hospitals, including the Jenny Lind Hospital for Children and the West Norwich Hospital. This widened an already good general surgical base, to which he added thoracic and cardiac procedures. He gained his masters in surgery in 1953 and in 1955 he was appointed as a consultant general surgeon in Norwich. He developed an interest in breast diseases and, as an enthusiastic protagonist of immunology and the use of BCG therapy for breast cancer, was ahead of his times. Sadly, he never published his results. He was a modest, charming man, with an excellent sense of humour. Despite having large hands, he was a gifted surgeon - those working with him admired his all round ability and remarkable clinical judgement. Norfolk suited his balanced life, combining medical practice with his outside pursuits. Ever a countryman at heart, he loved his thatched house at Bergh Apton, with its large garden, greenhouses and trees. He was a golfer, fly fisherman, ornithologist, skier and an excellent shot, rearing pheasants for his own shoot. Sailing was an abiding interest. In retirement he kept his boat on the west coast of Scotland. Retiring in 1984, his last few years were dogged by immobility due to spinal stenosis. John died on 11 April 2004 at the age of 85, and is survived by his wife, Barbara, two daughters and a son.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000155
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First Title value, for Searching Stephenson, Clive Bryan Stanley (1933 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-02 2007-02-09
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Occupation General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Clive Stephenson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 12 November 1933 and was educated at Scots College. He studied medicine at Wellington, where he qualified in 1957, held house posts and was a surgical registrar. After a year demonstrating anatomy in Otago, he went to London in 1962 to specialise in surgery and completed SHO jobs at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital for a year, and registrar posts at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Hackney General Hospital. In 1965 he was a lecturer in surgery at St Mary’s Hospital, London, where he became particularly interested in vascular surgery. He went on to be a senior registrar at Chelmsford for two further years. In 1969 he returned to Wellington as a full-time vascular and general surgeon, becoming surgical tutor in 1970, and finally visiting vascular and general surgeon at Wellington Hospital in 1971, a post he combined with that of visiting general surgeon at Hutt Hospital. He died in Lower Hutt on 3 July 2003.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000156
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First Title value, for Searching Fuller, Robert Charles (1914 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Gatehouse, David (1944 - 2003)

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First Title value, for Searching Gayton, William Robertson (1912 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Glashan, Robin Wattie (1933 - 2003)

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First Title value, for Searching Gourevitch, Arnold (1914 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23 2012-03-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Arnold Gourevitch was a consultant surgeon in Birmingham. He was born in Paris on 24 February 1914, the son of Russian Jewish émigrés. At the outbreak of the first world war his parents fled to England, eventually settling in Birmingham. His father, Mendel, later qualified as a doctor and became a general practitioner in Aston. Gourevitch was educated at King Edward VI School, Birmingham, and then went on to Birmingham University, where he qualified in medicine. Gourevitch joined the Territorial Army in 1938 and was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps. He served with the TA Field Ambulance, part of the 145 Brigade, 48th South Midland Division, and accompanied them to France with the British Expeditionary Force. He was evacuated from La Baule, Brittany, where he had been manning a hospital with the help of a single orderly. He was posted to Leeds as RMO of the 10th West Yorkshire Regiment, before joining the surgical division of No 7 General Hospital. In April 1941 he disembarked at Suda bay in Crete, and established a hospital, near Galatas, west of Canea. The Germans advanced through the island, and Gourevitch was captured and held at a prisoner of war camp at Galatas. Here he organised a hospital for the many wounded. As the prisoners were being transferred to more secure accommodation, Gourevitch and an Australian surgeon decided to escape. They lived in caves and huts as fugitives, and were later picked up by Special Operations Executive and taken to Libya. Gourevitch was awarded the Military Cross for his actions. He was subsequently posted to the 8th Field Surgical Unit, part of the 2nd New Zealand division, and served with the unit at El Alamein. He later took part in the invasion of Sicily and the Italian campaign. He was mentioned in despatches at Monte Cassino and was in Trieste at the end of the war. Following his demobilisation in 1946, he was appointed as a consultant in general surgery at the Queen Elizabeth and Birmingham Children's Hospital. In 1969 he was elected to the Court of Examiners of the College. He presented two Hunterian lectures. In the early 1960s he spent time in Ethiopia, teaching and operating, and helping to support the development of a medical school. In 1973 he took time off to help Israeli surgeons during the Yom Kippur war. Gourevitch was an enthusiastic after-dinner speaker. He enjoyed squash, playing golf and hill walking. A natural linguist, he knew French, Russian, Hebrew and Greek. He also enjoyed painting. He married Corrine Natkiel in 1951. They had three sons (David, Daniel and Samuel) and two daughters (Gillian and Naomi). There are nine grandchildren. He died from pneumonia on 5 February 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Spencer, Pamela Mary (1926 - 2010)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-03-03
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Pamela Mary Spencer née Bacon was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Whittington Hospital, London. She was born in London, in Dulwich, the daughter of Leonard Guy Bacon, a civil servant who had served as a bomber pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, and Edith Mary née Naylor, a former secretary. Pamela was educated at Croydon High School, where she played tennis and hockey for the school and was head girl. She went on to University College, London, where she captained the university tennis team and qualified in 1950. She was a house surgeon to the obstetric unit at UCH, a house physician at Edgware General and a house surgeon at the Central Middlesex hospitals. After casualty officer and orthopaedic house jobs at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, she returned to UCH as a lecturer to the obstetric unit, where she was later first assistant (senior lecturer). She was attached as a clinical assistant to St Peter's Hospital for Stone from 1958 to 1960. She was appointed as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Italian Hospital in London in 1960, to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in 1961, and to the Whittington Hospital in 1964. Among her many interests were skiing, travel and golf. In 1960 she married Alfred George Spencer, consultant physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital and reader in medicine at London University. Their son Charles became a consultant physician in cardiology in Stafford. She died on 30 May 2010.
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First Title value, for Searching Chapman, John Strange (1802 - 1885)

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First Title value, for Searching Chapman, Walter (1819 - 1888)

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First Title value, for Searching Dinning, Trevor Alfred Ridley (1919 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23 2010-01-27
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Trevor Dinning, known since childhood as ‘Jim’, was the architect of neurosurgical services in South Australia and the creator of a very successful research foundation. He was born in Dulwich, Adelaide, on 16 February 1919, the second child of Alfred Ernest Dinning, a school inspector and later headmaster of Adelaide Boys High School, and Maud Isabel née Ridley, who died two years after his birth. He was educated at his father’s school and then went on to study medicine at the University of Adelaide, qualifying in 1942 in the top three of the year after completing a shortened wartime course. In 1943 he joined the Army, serving as a captain in the Northern Australia Observer Unit and then in the 2nd 17th Australian Infantry Battalion. He developed pulmonary tuberculosis, which incapacitated him for some two years. He was discharged from the Army in 1946. It was at this time that he decided to make a career in neurosurgery. After his recovery, he took an appointment as lecturer in anatomy at the University of Adelaide, under the brilliant neuro-anatomist Andrew Abbie. During this time he wrote a paper on healed fractures in aborigines, based on the collection of skeletons in the South Australian Museum. Work as an anatomist doubtless contributed to his success as a surgeon: as an operator he was at his best in procedures demanding exceptional anatomical skill. At that time, it was virtually impossible to train as a specialist neurosurgeon in Australia, so, on a grant from the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Jim went to the UK. He entered neurosurgical training at Guy’s Hospital under Murray Falconer. During this appointment he was first author of a paper on ruptured intracranial aneurysm as a cause of sudden death, the work being based on forensic cases. Falconer had been a pupil of Sir Hugh Cairns, who was a pupil of the pioneering American neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing. Jim was to exemplify the best qualities of the Cushing/Cairns school – great interest in the neurosciences, unhurried and meticulous operative technique and total commitment to the welfare of patients. Jim returned to Australia in 1953 and took up an appointment in the Royal Adelaide Hospital, where he was to work for the next 30 years under a variety of titles – first as a member of the honorary staff, then from 1970 as full-time director of neurosurgery. After his resignation in 1979 he remained as a visiting consultant until 1983. He was also chief of neurosurgery in what is now the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. In both hospitals he rapidly established modern neurosurgical units, with rigorous attention to quality control and case audits. He was not the first neurosurgeon to serve these two hospitals – he was preceded Sir Leonard Lindon, one of the founders of Australian neurosurgery. Sir Leonard welcomed and supported Jim, but it is true to say that the development of an integrated state-wide neurosurgical service was very largely Jim’s achievement. He gave special attention to the needs of South Australians living in country areas, and in the 1960s persuaded the then minister of health to equip country hospitals with instruments to care for head injuries. Although he was happiest in his work in public hospitals, he ran a well-organised private service, chiefly at the Memorial Hospital, where after his retirement he treated cases of intractable pain. As a consultant neurosurgeon, Jim was liked and trusted by his colleagues, and admired as a superb diagnostician. As a doctor, he was warm and compassionate. Jim planned his unit with research in mind. When he had promising trainees, he placed them in overseas units with good research facilities, where they learned the skills that have since helped to make Adelaide a leader in head injury research. Most imaginatively, he created in 1964 what is now the Neurosurgical Research Foundation (NRF) to raise funds to sustain research work. The foundation received support because community leaders knew Jim and trusted him, and it received donations from those who knew him as a good doctor. In 1988, when Jim was president of the NRF, fundraising for an academic chair in surgical neuroscience was initiated, and in 1992 the University of Adelaide established a chair of neurosurgery research. This very productive chair is one of Jim’s greatest achievements. Jim was a master of bedside teaching, and he also taught by example. No one who worked with Jim could fail to know that he practised medicine according to the highest ethical standards and expected that his pupils would do the same. His teaching was fruitful. Today, Adelaide’s neurosurgeons are all in a sense his pupils. Some were directly recruited and trained by him. Others came to him trained elsewhere but are proud to have learned from him. Even those who came after his retirement were taught by his trainees and worked in the environment that he made. On a national level, Jim was a major force in the creation of neurosurgical training systems in Australia, which began around 1970, when he was president of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. Outside Australia, some of Jim’s pupils now hold distinguished neurosurgical positions in Scotland, England and New Zealand. One of his earliest interns, J K A Clezy, was the first professor of surgery in Papua New Guinea, and brought neurosurgery to that country. Jim married Beatrice Margaret née Hay in 1943 and they had one son, Andrew, and three daughters – Anthea, Josephine and Nadia. He had many interests outside his profession, including photography, farming, stock-breeding, bee-keeping and sailing. He died on 22 September 2003 from chronic renal failure after a long illness. He has many memorials. He is commemorated by the Dinning Science Library at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, which is appropriate – he was a very scholarly man. He is remembered in the research foundation that he created. And, lastly, his example and his teaching have entered into the fabric of Australian neurosurgery.
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First Title value, for Searching Doey, William David (1922 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Bill Doey was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London. He was born in Bessbrook, county Armagh, Northern Ireland, on 22 February 1912, the son of Rev Thomas Doey, a Presbyterian minister. His mother was Charlotte Chesney née McCay, the daughter of a minister and farmer. Bill was educated at the Academical Institution, Coleraine, Derry, and at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He then completed his clinical studies at the London Hospital, where he did house jobs until the outbreak of the second world war. From 1940 to 1946 he served in the RAF Volunteer Reserve, as a squadron leader and ENT specialist, in mobile field hospitals in France, Belgium and Holland. After the war, he was appointed as a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and as a lecturer at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. He also held appointments at St Albans City Hospital and the Hemel Hempstead Hospital. He had a particular interest in medical history, especially that of the fatal illness of Crown Prince Friedrich, Queen Victoria’s son-in-law, who had been treated by Sir Morell MacKenzie. He lectured on the subject at the Kopfklinikum, Wurzburg, Germany. Bill’s lifelong interest in fishing went back to his boyhood days in Northern Ireland, and throughout his life he and his wife, Audrey Mariamné née Newman, whom he married in June 1940, enjoyed many fishing holidays. He retired to Llandeilo, where they renovated an old farmhouse and landscaped a garden out of a former paddock. He enjoyed music, languages, photography and driving – he was a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists. He died from a heart condition on 12 January 2004, leaving three daughters, Virginia, Louise and Angela, and four grandchildren, Mariamné, Corinna, Sibylle and Niklas.
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First Title value, for Searching Drew, Alfred John (1916 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Alfred John Drew, known as ‘Jack’, was a former consultant general surgeon in Walsall. He was born in Ceylon on 17 February 1916, the son of the chief pilot for the harbour at Colombo. He was educated at Nuwara Eliya, and was then sent to Ipswich School at the age of 11. He became head boy and rugby captain. He went on to study medicine at Guy’s, qualifying in 1939. At medical school he swam and played rugby for the first XV. After house appointments at Guy’s and with the south east sector of the Emergency Medical Service during the war, he went to Preston Hall, Maidstone, as a surgical trainee. He then moved to Pembury, where he became a senior lecturer in anatomy, living in a baronial house with many others from Guy’s. After obtaining his FRCS in 1941, he moved to Sheffield as resident surgical officer to Sir Ernest Finch. Drew then joined the Navy, initially as a specialist with the First Submarine Flotilla in the Eastern Mediterranean, managing to survive the sinking of the *Medway*. He was transferred to *HMS Zulu*, and ended up in Beirut. He then spent a long period at the Massawa Naval Base on the Red Sea. He returned to the UK, as a senior surgical specialist at Chatham, having asked to be posted to the Pacific, where the fighting was continuing. Following demobilisation, he returned to Guy’s as a senior surgical registrar, working under, among others, Brock, Slessinger, Ekhof, Grant-Massey, Stamm, Wass and Kilpatrick. He also worked at St Mark’s as a clinical assistant to Gabriel. In 1951 he was appointed general surgeon to the Walsall Hospitals (the Manor and the General), where he worked for the next 30 years. A true general surgeon, he taught trainees from all over the world, spending time visiting them during his retirement. He loved to sail, and, once he had retired to Lymington in 1981, he was able to devote more time to sailing along the south coast and to France. He was also able to tend his garden and watch rugby on television. He died in Lymington on 29 February 2004, and is survived by his wife, Patricia, his daughter, Sally, and his sons, Richard and Peter.
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First Title value, for Searching Connell, Anthea Mary Stewart (1925 - 2003)

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by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2005-11-02 2008-12-12
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Anthea Mary Stewart Connell was a senior ophthalmic consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados, from 1969 to 1996. She was born on 21 October 1925, the daughter of two medical doctors. Her father, John S M Connell, was a surgeon and gynaecologist and had served as a colonel in the RAMC on wartime hospital ships. Her mother, Constance B Challis, had trained at Cambridge and the University of Birmingham Medical School, and became a public health doctor. Anthea was educated at Edgbaston High School, before moving to City Park Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and then to the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She completed her medical education at the University of Birmingham Medical School, qualifying in 1952. Her ophthalmic training was at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, firstly as a resident, then as a registrar and subsequently as a senior registrar/first assistant in joint appointments at Moorfields, Guy’s Hospital and the London Hospital. In 1969 she moved to Barbados as a senior consultant and head of the department of ophthalmology and assistant lecturer at the University of West Indies until 1991. She initiated the Barbados Eye Study and was its director from 1987 to 1996. This group investigated glaucoma in the Barbadian population and founded the Inter-Island Eye Service. Although living in Barbados, she held courses and organised diploma of ophthalmology examinations in the Caribbean, which were recognised by the Royal College of Surgeons. She was also a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, giving presentations at their annual meetings. She wrote extensively, covering her work and research in Barbados and the islands. In 1963 she married George E P Dowglass, a master of wine, who was a wine merchant. They had one child, Charlotte, born in 1965, who became financial director to Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London. Anthea supported the local community, was chairman of the local Conservative Policy Forum, and enjoyed painting in oil and acrylic, showing her work both locally and in London. She died on 23 September 2003 after a long series of strokes.
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First Title value, for Searching Littlewood, Arthur Henry Martin (1923 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Richmond, David Alan (1912 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-02
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details David Richmond was an orthopaedic surgeon in Burnley. He was born on 1 September 1912 in Stockport, where his father, George, was Manchester’s last private Royal Mail contractor. His mother was Edith Lilian née Hitchin. He was educated at Stockport Grammar School and went up to University of Manchester to read medicine. In 1933 he was awarded a BSc in anatomy and physiology and won the Dickinson scholarship in anatomy. On qualifying he won the Dumville surgical prize and the surgical clinical prize. He was captain of the lacrosse university team and was presented to the Duke of York, later King George V. After qualifying, he was house surgeon and demonstrator in anatomy at Manchester Royal Infirmary, and then became registrar to H H Rayner and Sir Harry Platt. From 1940 to 1946 he was a surgeon in the EMS Hospital at Conishead Priory under the supervision of T P McMurray and I D Kitchin, and was involved in the treatment of many casualties. After the war he went with his family to work as a surgeon to a general practice in Stratford, North Island, New Zealand, which proved to be a low point in his career. The family returned to England in 1947, when he joined the RAMC as an orthopaedic specialist with the rank of Major, and served in Malaya and Japan. Whilst in Japan he worked in the American Military Hospital in Tokyo with several reputed American surgeons. He returned to England in 1949 as first assistant to I D Kitchin at Lancaster Royal Infirmary. In 1950 he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Burnley with the task of setting up an orthopaedic and trauma service where none had previously existed. This soon proved to be a success and he was joined by two other consultant colleagues. In 1960 he won a WHO travelling fellowship to work with Carl Hirsch in Sweden, and later his special interest in the surgery of the hand took him to the United States for several sabbaticals. In Burnley he was a respected member of the medical community, branch President of the BMA, and devoted much time to training junior medical staff and students, who remembered his freshly cut rose buttonhole. He married Eira Osterstock, a theatre sister, in 1939, and they had one son William David Richmond, a surgeon and a fellow of the College, and one daughter, Jennifer, who became a nurse. He retired in 1977 and the following year moved to Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries and Galloway, where he could devote himself to gardening and walking. Eira predeceased him in 1983 and he learned to cook and continued to be active in the Gatehouse Music Society. In 1996 he moved to Suffolk to be near his daughter, but began to develop signs of a progressive debilitating illness, from which he died on 9 August 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Riden, Donald Keith (1959 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-02 2006-12-21
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Occupation Oral and maxillofacial surgeon
Details Surgeon Commander Donald Keith Riden RN was born in Liverpool on 5 May 1959, the son of Alfred Donald and Mavis Irene Riden. He attended West Derby Comprehensive School in Liverpool from 1970 to 1977, and then went on to study dentistry at King’s College Dental School, winning the Wellcome award in pharmacology and therapeutics in 1980 and the annual oral surgery prize in 1981. With an increasing interest in oral and maxillofacial surgery, which had developed from his early days at dental school, he entered Southampton University Medical School in 1984, qualifying in 1988. Serving in the Royal Navy, he undertook his house surgeon appointments in urology, orthopaedics, general surgery and accident and emergency at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar. He had short appointments in endocrinology at Southampton General Hospital and in general surgery at the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth. After an ENT job at RNH Haslar, he returned to RNH Plymouth to start his oral and maxillofacial training, becoming a registrar in October 1993 and gaining his FDS in 1994. Subsequently he entered the south west specialist registrar rotation in Plymouth, Frenchay, Southmead and Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1994 to 1999. As is customary with RN medical officers, he saw service overseas and at sea, serving in Gibraltar, on HMS *Tamar* (Hong Kong), HMS *Ariadne*, HMS *Minerva*, HMS *Nelson* and HMS *Illustrious*. He was on active service in Kosovo from 2000 to 2001. He loved to travel, particularly in the Far East and was able to serve in Hong Kong, China and India as a visiting registrar. He was awarded consultant status by the Defence Medical Service Consultant Approval Board of the College in 2000. His first posting as consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon and postgraduate clinical tutor was to RNH *Haslar*. In 2003 he was appointed to the Joint Services Hospital, the Princess Mary Hospital, RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, where he remained until illness intervened. He published papers on dental pain and, during his training rotation, wrote *Key topics in oral and maxillofacial surgery* (Oxford, Bios Scientific, 1998) and contributed to the UK national third molar audit in 1998. In his later years he honed his skills as both a facial trauma and head and neck cancer specialist, developing techniques for facial reconstruction and neck dissections. He was a particularly good teacher of house officers and SHOs, and enormously enjoyed this role. He thoroughly enjoyed his time in the Royal Navy, especially on overseas deployments. He had a lifelong interest in music and was a lover of classical music and opera. He was an accomplished classical guitar player. He regularly sang with a variety of groups, choral unions and barbershop, and was a member of Portsmouth Choral Union, Solent City Barbershop Club and Island Blend, a Cyprus barbershop group. He married Leslie Carol, a teacher and college librarian, in August 1981. They had three sons, Daniel James, Andrew Mark and Nicholas John. He died on 19 February 2005 from carcinoma of the oesophagus.
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First Title value, for Searching Brennan, Thomas Gabriel (1937 - 2005)

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First Title value, for Searching Kingsford, Edward (1817 - 1898)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital. He practised throughout life at Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, where he was Surgeon to the Sunbury Dispensary, the Middlesex Industrial School at Feltham, and the Welsh School at Ashford, Middlesex. He died at Sunbury on September 13th, 1898.
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First Title value, for Searching King, Thomas (1795 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching King, Thomas Wilkinson (1809 - 1847)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-14
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Occupation Anatomist
Details The son of a medical man practising at Dover, he entered Guy's Hospital in 1824 after an education in London and Paris. He practised in Bedford Square, and at the time of his death was Lecturer on Pathological Anatomy at Guy's Hospital, where he contributed much to the *Guy's Hospital Reports*, writing especially on cancer. He married in 1841 Anne Best, who survived him, and died of phthisis at his residence in Bedford Square on March 26th, 1847. Sir Samuel Wilks says of him, "He had not lived long enough to be famous, but the few who were acquainted with him personally or by his writings knew him to be a very remarkable man. He gave a few lectures on pathology, but they were not practical and were badly delivered. Some of them were published in the *London Medical Gazette* for 1843 and are well worthy of perusal on account of their highly philosophic character." Publications:- *Of some of the First General Laws or Fundamental Doctrines of Medicine and Surgery*, 8vo, London, 1840. "The Safety-valve Function of the Heart." - *Guy's Hosp Rep*, 1837, ii, 104. This is one of the most valuable and best known of his papers. "On Disorders which are Variable, and on the Practical Inferences which are Deducible from the Character of Changeableness," 8vo, London, 1840; reprinted from *Guy's Hosp Rep*, 1840, v, 215. In January, 1847, shortly before his death, King published a paper in the *Lancet*, 1847, i, 89, "On the Nature of Cancer, and a Simple Mode of Examining the Structure of Tumours", in which he refers to another paper published by him in the *Lond Med Gaz*, 1845, xxxvi (NS i), 597, "On the Frequency of Cancer in the Two Sexes, and at Different Ages, as a Point of Diagnosis and Practice". He refers also to his own customary teaching on tension and to an analysis of his papers, published "at the museum of Guy's Hospital", with interesting conclusions by Charles King, "an able friend".
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First Title value, for Searching Goodall, Peter (1927 - 2006)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-05-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Peter Goodall was a consultant general surgeon in Derby. He was born on 8 February 1927 in London, the son of the Rev Norman Goodall, a minister of religion, and Doris Stanton, a Birmingham Medical School graduate. Peter was educated at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Barnet and Highgate School, and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He then went to Westminster Hospital for his clinical studies, where he won a scholarship in anatomy and physiology and the Chadwick prize in medicine, surgery and pathology. After house jobs at the Westminster Hospital he did his National Service in the RAF Medical Branch. He returned to the Westminster as a resident medical officer, and then went on to a post as surgical registrar at Oxford under ‘Tim’ Till and Joe Pennybacker. He was subsequently a senior registrar in Cardiff under Sir Patrick Forrest and Hilary Wade. Sir Patrick wrote of him: ‘When I went to Cardiff in 1961 there were no research facilities, there were no research staff, but one senior registrar…Peter Goodall. He wanted equipment to study reflux through the oesophageal sphincter. It cost £100 and the department bought it for him. His clinical work was meticulous. He was a perfectionist and liked things to go where they were meant to go.’ Peter Goodall was appointed as a consultant in Derby, where he built up a reputation as a careful and reliable surgeon, particularly in the surgery of the stomach and the thyroid, and one who took pains to train his junior staff. His operating theatre was a temple of silence, so that he could concentrate on the task in hand: woe betide anyone who disturbed the peace. He was active in the section of surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Welsh Surgical Travelling Club, and served on the Court of Examiners of our College. He married Rhonwen (Wendy) Bulkely Williams in 1952, by whom he had a son and three daughters, two of whom went into nursing. He was keen on gardening and was a fine joiner, making many items of furniture out of cedar and green oak. He played the oboe well, and was particularly interested in the music of Finzi. In retirement he continued to enjoy all these hobbies and, together with Wendy, painstakingly restored a house in the Dordogne. Seemingly austere and perhaps a little shy, Peter will be remembered as perhaps one of the last gentleman surgeons, always the champion of his patients. He died on 30 October 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Grimshaw, Clement (1915 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-09-22
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Clem Grimshaw was a thoracic surgeon in Oxford. He was born on 15 May 1915, in Batley, Yorkshire, to a wool family and was educated at Woodhouse Grove, the local Methodist school, where he learned to play the organ. A Latin master encouraged him to go to Edinburgh. On qualifying, he spent a year in general practice in Perth and, while waiting to go into the Army, he did a temporary post in the obstetrics department at Hope Hospital, Salford. There two surgeons died in the Blitz, and Clem was kept back for surgical duties, after which he passed the Edinburgh FRCS and then joined the RAMC in the Far East. After the war he returned to specialise in thoracic surgery with Andrew Logan and with Holmes Sellors at Harefield until he was appointed as a second consultant thoracic surgeon to the United Oxford Hospitals. At first he was dealing with pulmonary tuberculosis, but his practice gradually expanded into the surgery of lung cancer and the heart. He retired at 63 to spend time with his wife Hilde and four daughters. Much of his retirement was spent travelling in Scotland and Europe, reading widely, listening to music and playing golf. He died from congestive heart failure on 25 August 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Hammick, Sir Stephen Love (1777 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Langstaff, Joseph (1778 - 1856)

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First Title value, for Searching Pitcairn, Sir James (1776 - 1859)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-02-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on July 18th, 1776, the eldest son of the Rev Robert Pitcairn, of Brasenose College, Oxford, Vicar of English Combe, Somerset, and Incumbent of Spring Chapel, London. The family originated in Pitcairn, Fifeshire, and to it belonged the two well-known physicians – William Pitcairn, MD (1711-1791), Physician and Treasurer to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and President of the College of Physicians; and his nephew, David Pitcairn, MD (1749-1800), his successor as Physician to St Bartholomew’s. James Pitcairn went to school in London, and then was a pupil of Sir Everard Home at St George’s Hospital at the same time as Benjamin Brodie. Having graduated MD at Edinburgh, he returned to become house surgeon at St George’s Hospital. He was thereupon selected by Sir Everard Home for special service at the request of the Commander-in-Chief, was gazetted at once a Staff Surgeon on Aug 30th, 1799, and was sent in 1814 to Holland, where he served to the end of the campaign, and then with the Russian Contingent at Guernsey. In 1800 he went to Ireland to the charge of the 56th Regiment, which was soon dispatched to the Mediterranean under Sir Charles Stewart, and joined the Army under Sir Ralph Abercrombie on the expedition to Egypt where he served to the close of the campaign. He returned to Dublin in 1802 in charge of the Recruiting Staff, and organized arrangements in view of the threatened invasion of England by Napoleon. From 1804-1815 he supervised the encampments formed at the Curragh and in the Connaught District of Ireland. In 1816 his services were transferred to Munster, and at Cork during thirty-one years he personally superintended the arrangements for foreign service and the embarkation. The position was full of difficulties and obstacles which his good sense and affable nature tended to lessen and remove. He was knighted by Lord Normandy in 1837 for professional services. In 1847 he succeeded Dr George Renny as Director-General of the Medical Department for Ireland until 1852, when he retired with the rank of Inspector of Hospitals. The Medical Officers of the Army presented him with a service of plate and an address. It was said of him that he discouraged criticism of the absent with such interruptions as: “Never let your mouth be opened unless for good; if you cannot speak to the credit of a man, keep it shut. This has been my rule through life and I have never had cause to regret it.” He died at 3 Haddington Road, Dublin, on Jan 12th, 1859.
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First Title value, for Searching Lane, James Robert (1825 - 1891)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated privately and at the Grosvenor Place School of Medicine, which he entered in 1843 under his uncle, Samuel Armstrong Lane (qv). The reputation of this school was at that time high, and young Lane shone among his fellows by reason of his zeal and diligence. He was also a fine oarsman, and as a member of the St George's Hospital Boat Club was twice in the winning crew of the Ladies' Plate at the Henley Regatta. Rowing was at that time the popular form of athletic pursuit with medical students, and Henley already ranked high among rowing contests. After qualifying he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Grosvenor Place School of Medicine, and on obtaining the Fellowship in 1850 was elected to the surgical staff of St Mary's Hospital, then newly opened. Subsequently, in the Medical School of St Mary's, he held successively the posts of Lecturer on Anatomy, Physiology, Operative Surgery, and Surgery. Early in his career he was appointed to the surgical staff of the Lock Hospital, where he became a well-known specialist in venereal diseases. In conjunction with Berkeley Hill (qv) and others, he laboured unremittingly to alleviate the sufferings and condition of the patients at the Lock, and the result of these public-spirited labours, and of his valuable evidence before the Commission, was the passing of the Contagious Diseases Acts in 1864, the repeal of which in 1870 caused him deep regret. Appointed Surgeon to St Mark's Hospital for Fistula, he gained an extensive knowledge of diseases of the rectum, contributed on the subject to medical literature, and on his retirement was presented with a valuable testimonial by over two hundred of his patients. In the full tide of his career he developed symptoms of paralysis, and passed through all the agonies of an aggravated form of the disease to the end. Until the year 1881, however, he continued with great equability of temper his work as Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital. He had then to retire and was appointed Consulting Surgeon. His old pupils marked their esteem and affection by presenting to him a massive piece of plate and an illuminated address. He was also latterly Consulting Surgeon to the Lock Hospital, and in 1876 delivered the Harveian Lectures as President of the Harveian Society, the subject being syphilis. As a lecturer he was clear and simple, an earnest speaker with great grasp of his subject. During his illness he went his rounds at St Mary's on the arm of his house surgeon, with his dressers and a few students. Closely associated both in hospital work and in private practice with his uncle, Samuel Armstrong Lane, he was greatly influenced by the conservative principles which guided his illustrious relative. Thus, though his practice might perhaps be considered by a younger race of surgeons as not sufficiently 'advanced', it had the overwhelming merit of being absolutely free from rash and speculative interference. If Lane advised that such-and-such an operation should not be performed, there might perhaps be some little doubt still lingering in restless minds; but, on the other hand, if he declared in favour of operation, everyone in the theatre or at the bedside felt satisfied that the proceeding was amply justified. There should be on the staff of every hospital such a man, not merely someone who is ready to apply the brake, as it were, to the too rapidly revolving wheels of contemporary surgery, but one whose extensive and ripe experience can command regard. As a surgeon, Lane was not only good, but excellent in every department; it was, however, in connection with operations in the pelvic region that he distinguished himself. Those who watched his long and slender fingers dealing with a difficult case of vesico-vaginal fistula could not fail to be impressed by his manipulative skill. He delighted in these plastic operations, and though possibly his equals in the art might have been found, it is quite unlikely that his superiors would be forthcoming. In rectal surgery too he greatly excelled, and had his health been better he would doubtless have held a leading position in this branch of practice. Lane was at his best in connection with the treatment of vesical calculus. Lateral lithotomy upon a straight staff to which he had added a short rectangular beak was the only cutting operation that he performed, and this he did to perfection. For the removal of large tumours, of joints, or of limbs, he was less suited. Indeed, these operations and others which should be done in the standing position he would often pass on to a junior colleague. Lane died in retirement at his residence, 9 Matheson Road, West Kensington, on June 6th, 1891, from acute pneumonia, and was buried at Fulham Cemetery. His son, James Ernest Lane (qv), succeeded him, both as a Surgeon at St Mary's Hospital and as a syphilologist. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: Lane hated quackery, advertisement, and the restlessness and push at that time known as *fin de siècle*. Accordingly he disliked publication and limited his writings, which are as follows: *On the Prevention of Contagious Venereal Disease*, 8vo, London, 1869. *Facts respecting the Contagious Diseases Acts*. Answer to a speech by Duncan McLaren, Esq, MP, published under the above title. 8vo, London, 1870. *Lectures on Syphilis delivered at the Harveian Society*, 12mo, 1878; 2nd ed, 1881. "Lithotomy in the Female." - *Lancet*, 1863, i, 34, etc. "Diseases of the Rectum." - *Ibid*, 1865, i, 444; ii, 87, etc. "Lithotomy with the Straight Staff." - *Ibid*, 1865, i, 142. Revision of articles on "Amputation", "Dislocations", "Fractures", "Diseases of the Anus and Rectum", and "Vesico-vaginal Fistula" in Cooper's *Surgical Dictionary*. In conjunction with EDWARD BALLARD he published *On Vaccino-Syphilis*, containing extracts from his Harveian Lectures, 12mo, Stockton-on-Tees.
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First Title value, for Searching Lane, Samuel Armstrong (1802 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Lane, Thomas Moore (1797 - 1844)

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First Title value, for Searching Hopper, Ian (1938 - 2005)

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by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2006-09-22 2009-05-07
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Ian Hopper was an ENT consultant in Sunderland. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 19 May 1938, the son of John Frederick Hopper, an insurance manager, and Dora née Lambert. He was educated at Dame Allans School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and High Storrs Grammar School, Sheffield, where he played rugby in the first XV. At Sheffield University, although he boxed for a short while, he turned away from contact sports and played table tennis for the university and the United Sheffield Hospitals. He was much influenced by the skills of the professor of surgery, Sir Andrew Kay. He held house physician and house surgeon posts at Sheffield Royal Infirmary and Wharncliffe Hospitals. Having obtained his primary fellowship, he chose to specialise in ENT surgery. He became registrar and later senior registrar in ENT at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary. In 1969 he was appointed ENT consultant at Sunderland Royal Infirmary and General Hospital, where he stayed until his retirement in 1997. Ian Hopper was regional adviser in otolaryngology, a member of the Overseas Doctors Training Committee and the College Hospital Recognition Committee. He was on the council of the British Association of Otolaryngologists (from 1983 to 1997), honorary ENT consultant at the Duchess of Kent Military Hospital, president of the North of England Otolaryngological Society, a council member of the Section of Otology at the Royal Society of Medicine and chairman of the Regional Specialist Subcommittee in Otolaryngology. He married Christine Wadsworth, a schoolteacher, in 1961. Their son, Andrew James, was bursar at Collingwood College, Durham University, before entering the private student accommodation market and their daughter, Penelope Anne, teaches art at Poynton High School, Cheshire. In retirement Ian Hopper made bowls his main sport and subsequently became vice-chairman of Sunderland Bowls Club. He was also a keen snooker player. He died peacefully in hospital after a long illness on 4 March 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Herdman, John Phipps (1921 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-09-22 2012-03-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John Herdman was born on 15 December 1921. He studied medicine at Oxford, qualifying in 1945. He completed house jobs at the United Oxford Hospitals and at Ancoats, Manchester, from which he passed the FRCS. He then returned to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research for two years, before undergoing further registrar posts in Oxford. In 1953 he went to Canada and worked as a general surgeon at the St Joseph's Hospitals, Sarnia, Ontario, until 1973. He then studied health services planning under D O Anderson in the University of British Columbia, where he wrote a graduate thesis on patterns in surgical performance in the Province of British Columbia, and revealed a natural aptitude for epidemiological research. In 1976 he joined the staff of Riverview Hospital, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, becoming surgical consultant in June 1976, where his duties were administrative. By 1978 he was the chief physician of North Lawn in charge of the entire medical and surgical service. By 1985 he was involved in a successful application for re-accreditation of Riverview Hospital and its mental health services. He was also involved with the care of patients who developed megacolon as a side effect of their medication. He retired in 1991. He died on 4 April 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000261
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First Title value, for Searching Lowden, Thomas Geoffrey (1910 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-13
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Thomas Lowden was a casualty surgeon in Sunderland. He was born in Leeds on 25 March 1910, where his father, Harold Lowden, was an engineer and his mother, Ethel Annie Lamb, a schoolteacher. From Leeds Grammar School he won a Holroyd scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, and went back to Leeds for his clinical training, qualifying in 1934. After junior posts in Leeds General Infirmary and the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne (from which he passed the FRCS), he joined the RAMC as a surgical specialist in 1941. He served in India, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, North Africa and Egypt, before taking part in the Sicily landings and the invasion of Italy, rising to the rank of acting lieutenant colonel. He remained for a time in Germany, before returning to specialise in accident and emergency surgery, becoming consultant in that specialty in Sunderland in 1946 and establishing its casualty department. He published The casualty department (Edinburgh and London, E & S Livingstone, 1956), and developed a subspecialty of hand surgery and was an early member of the Hand Club (later the British Society for Surgeon of the Hand). After he retired in 1970 he continued to do locums at Hexham General Hospital. He married Margaret Purdie, a doctor, in 1945. They had a daughter, Catherine, who became a teacher, and a son, Richard, a lawyer. Among his hobbies were mountain walking, especially in Norway, 16 mm photography and the history of the Crusades. He died on 9 October 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000177
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First Title value, for Searching Reid, Douglas Andrew Campbell (1921 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-13
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Campbell Reid was a leading hand surgeon. He was born on 25 February 1921 in Cardiff, the son of David William Reid, a general practitioner, and Edith Mary née Smith, a nurse. His grandfather, David Spence Clark Reid, had also been a GP. He was educated at Christ’s College, Finchley, where he played in the first XI in football and cricket, and won prizes for shooting. After premedical studies at Queen Mary College he entered the London Hospital Medical College, which at that time was evacuated to Cambridge. After qualifying he was a house surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital and then at Hackney Hospital, where he worked through the V1 air raids. He was then a casualty officer, assistant anaesthetist and house physician at the London Hospital. From 1945 to 1946 he was a casualty officer at Chase Farm Hospital, and then went on to be an anatomy demonstrator at the London Hospital, passing his primary in April 1946. He then passed the final from a registrar post at Haslemere. He decided to specialise in plastic surgery, first as senior registrar to Sir Harold Gillies at Park Prewett, Basingstoke, and later as senior registrar to R G Pulvertaft at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary and at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield. During this time he was awarded a research prize for an essay on reconstruction of the thumb and was later the first to undertake pollicisation in the UK using the Littler neurovascular pedicle. In 1962 he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the United Sheffield Hospitals, the Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Chesterfield Royal Hospital. He won the Frank Robinson silver medal from the United Hospitals of South Manchester in 1980, and was the Sir Harold Gillies lecturer and gold medallist of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1981. He served on the council of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons from 1952 and was on the editorial board of the British Journal of Hand Surgery. He published widely on all aspects of hand surgery, including *Surgery of the thumb* (London, Butterworths, 1986) and *Mutilating injuries of the hand* (Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1979). Outside surgery he was a keen ornithologist and photographer. In 1946 he married Margaret Joyce née Pedler, who was an archivist and head of her division at the Foreign Office. They had a son and two daughters. In 1969 he underwent an emergency replacement of the aortic valve and in 1982 he retired to Eastbourne. He died on 16 August 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Salz, Michael Heinz (1916 - 2005)

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First Title value, for Searching Blaiklock, Christopher Thomas (1936 - 2018)

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by David Currie
Publication Date 2006-09-22 2018-05-01
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Christopher Thomas Blaiklock was a consultant neurosurgeon at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He was born on 27 July 1936 in Newcastle upon Tyne and raised in Northumbria. His parents, Thomas Snowdon Blaiklock and Constance Rebecca Blaiklock, were both doctors. He attended Oundle School, Northampton, and then carried out his National Service (from 1954 to 1956) in the Royal Navy. He went on to study medicine at Durham, qualifying in 1961. Chris was influenced by his medical house officer post with the Newcastle neurologist, Sir John Walton. His original intention was to pursue a career as a physician, but, having passed the MRCP in 1966, he came to the view that, with the resources available at the time, he could achieve more for patients as a surgeon and he did his basic surgical training in Cardiff. He decided on a career in neurosurgery which, at the time, could not be said to be the most successful of surgical specialties, but he was fortunate to be regularly in the right place at the right time. He was a neurosurgical registrar at Atkinson Morley Hospital in London, which was famous (or notorious) for giving a rigorous training. While he was there the first CT (computed tomography) scanner in the world was installed and Chris was among the first neurosurgeons to experience the revolutionary transformation of neurological imaging and the huge improvement that brought to patients' experience of neurological diagnosis. In 1972, he was appointed as a senior registrar in neurosurgery in Glasgow with Bryan Jennett at a time when Glasgow was being recognised as a centre of excellence in neurosurgical research. The first CT scanner in Scotland was installed in Glasgow during his training there. In 1974, he was appointed as a consultant neurosurgeon at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He was only the third neurosurgeon in Aberdeen after Martin Nichols and Bob Fraser. The department covered the whole of the North of Scotland, including the Northern and Western isles. In addition to providing a comprehensive neurosurgery service, the department housed, prior to the advent of intensive care units, the only ventilation unit in the region and the two neurosurgeons were responsible for its management along with a single trainee. Chris brought his experience of CT imaging and saw the installation of the first CT scanner in Aberdeen. He introduced the operating microscope and effectively brought neurosurgery in Aberdeen into the modern era. When the world's first MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner was built and became available for clinical use, Chris was the first neurosurgeon in the world to employ it and gain experience in its use in neurosurgery. Chris was unusual in being a neurosurgeon who was also a member (and subsequently a fellow) of the Royal College of Physicians, and his diagnostic skills were evidence of his broad general knowledge. For many years, the neurosurgeons in Aberdeen also offered the out-of-hours neurology service, handing patients over to the well-rested neurologists in the morning. Chris often remarked that he could just as easily have enjoyed being an engineer. He had a fascination with how things worked. He carried a skill with tools and his manual dexterity into his operative surgery. He was a true craftsman. His operative surgery was calm, precise and quick, and an inspiration to his trainees. He was an NHS partisan. Despite a heavy workload, his waiting times were negligible and he was offended on occasions when it was suggested to him that he might see a patient 'privately'. He was intensely proud of the local service and of the beautiful territory he served. He enjoyed demonstrating the extent of the territory he covered by placing a pair of compasses on Aberdeen and passing it through his most distant centre of habitation - one of the North Sea oil platforms. The circle also passed through Watford. He contributed extensively to NHS administration, both locally and nationally. With the introduction of clinical management, he became director of surgery for Grampian - a post that he accepted without dropping any clinical sessions. He lacked self-importance or pomposity, and was genuinely interested in people and their occupations and he was always available. For a year, while the other consultant post was unfilled, he provided the service single-handedly. Chris Blaiklock died at home on 8 February 2018 at the age of 81 and was survived by his wife Judith, an anaesthetist, and by his son, Ian, and daughter, Fiona. He will be remembered with great affection by former patients, colleagues in all health professions and by his trainees who have occupied consultant posts in Scotland and in other countries.
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First Title value, for Searching Bond, Kenneth Edgar (1908 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-09-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Kenneth Edgar Bond spent much of his career as a surgeon working in India. The son of Edward Vines Bond, the rector of Beddington, and Rose Edith née Bridges, the daughter of a landowner, he was born on 24 October 1908 and was educated at Mowden School, Brighton, and Haileybury College, before going on to Peterhouse Cambridge and St Thomas’s Hospital to study medicine. As an undergraduate he became interested in comparative anatomy, which led to a special study of reptiles, and in later life he kept snakes, which he exercised on his lawn in Bungay. He held junior posts at St Thomas’s, the Royal Herbert Hospital and Hampstead General Hospital. During the first part of the war he served in the EMS, in London, working as a surgeon at North-Western Hospital, Connaught Hospital, and New End Hospital. In October 1942 he joined the Army, first as surgical specialist at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Millbank, and later in India, where he was officer in charge of a surgical division in Bangalore and then in Bombay. Following demobilisation, he was appointed as a senior surgical registrar in abdominal, colon and rectal surgery at St Mark’s Hospital, London. In 1948 he returned to India, where he was honorary consulting surgeon at the European Hospital Trust, the Masina Hospital and Bombay Hospital. Following his retirement in 1970, he returned to Beddington as patron of the parish, a duty which he took very seriously, fighting one vicar who unlawfully removed and sold six fine medieval pews, and going to endless trouble to interview prospective candidates for the parish. He had a lifelong love of Wagner, regularly visiting Bayreuth. He was twice married. His first marriage to Wendy Fletcher was dissolved. He later married B H M Van Zwanenberg, who died in 1970. He died on 1 July 2003.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000265
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First Title value, for Searching Bonham, Dennis Geoffrey (1924 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-09-22
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Dennis Bonham was head of the postgraduate school of obstetrics and gynaecology at the National Women’s Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. He was born in London on 23 September 1924, the son of Alfred John Bonham, a chemist, and Dorothy Alice Bonham, a pharmacist. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Nuneaton, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He then went to University College Hospital for his clinical training and for junior posts. He spent three years in the RAF at Fighter Command headquarters at Bentley Priory and then returned to University College to work with Nixon, researching into polycystic ovarian syndrome and the use of Schiller’s iodine in carcinoma of the cervix. In 1962 he was seconded to the British perinatal mortality survey as the obstetrician and co-authored its report with Neville Butler. In December 1963 he went to New Zealand as head of the postgraduate school of obstetrics and gynaecology in the University of Auckland. There, over the next 25 years, he made huge contributions to medicine and perinatal outcome, marked by an 80 per cent fall in perinatal mortality. He established the Foundation for the Newborn and the New Zealand Perinatal Society, and was adviser to WHO, receiving the gold medal from the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies. He went out of his way to encourage women into his specialty, setting up job-sharing training schemes. In 1990 he was involved in a controversial study into carcinoma of the cervix, which led to a national outcry, an inquiry and his censure by the New Zealand Medical Council. He married Nancie Plumb in 1945. They had two sons, both of whom became doctors. A big man, with colossal energy, he had many interests, notably sailing on the Norfolk Broads and New Zealand coastal waters, garden landscaping, building stone walls and designing terraced gardens. He was a passionate grower of orchids, becoming president, life member and judge of the New Zealand Orchid Society. He was awarded the gold medal of the 13th World Orchid Conference in 1990. He died in Auckland on 6 April 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000266
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First Title value, for Searching Keane, Brendan (1926 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-10-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Brendan Keane was a surgeon at the Whakatane Hospital, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. He was born in Dublin on 9 May 1926, one of six children. His father rose to become private secretary to Eamon de Valera and head of the Irish Civil Service. His mother was a teacher from the Aran Islands, where the family spent their summers in thatched stone cottages. His early schooling was at Roscrea, a Cistercian monastic boarding school where the examinations were all in Gaelic. From there he went to University College, Dublin, to study veterinary surgery, but changed to medicine after a year. After a period as house surgeon at Coombe Hospital, Dublin, he went to England, to work at Sefton General Hospital, Liverpool, as a casualty officer. He then joined the RAMC, spending two years in Malaya, rising to the rank of major, treating British and Gurkha soldiers and their families. He returned to Halifax General Hospital, Yorkshire, to complete a series of training posts in surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology. In 1965 he moved to Gibraltar, where he remained for six years. During this time he became a passionate lover of the Spanish language. He then sailed for New Zealand, working as a consultant surgeon at Whakatane Hospital in the Bay of Plenty. On retirement he continued his study of Spanish, enrolling on a short course at the University of Zaragoza, and began to learn French from scratch. His other hobbies included golf, snooker, Irish history and jazz. He married Christine in 1957 and they had four children. He died on 22 October 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000267
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First Title value, for Searching Katz, Gerson (1922 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-10-26
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Gerson Katz was a cardiothoracic surgeon in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was born in Johannesburg and studied medicine at Witwatersrand University. After qualifying he completed junior posts in Durban at King Edward VIII Hospital. He then went to the UK, to specialise in surgery. He was a house surgeon at the National Temperance Hospital in 1947, subsequently doing registrar jobs at the London Chest and Harefield hospitals and then becoming a senior registrar in Southampton. In 1952 he returned to Johannesburg, to join Fatti and Adler in developing the cardiothoracic unit at the Johannesburg General Hospital. He entered private practice in 1956. He was appointed part-time consultant in the faculty in 1962. He worked at Rietfontein, Natalspruit, the old Johannesburg General, and former J G Stydom hospitals, before moving to Johannesburg Hospital. He retired in 2000. During his career he saw the evolution of open heart surgery. He was an outstanding teacher, winning an exceptional service medal from the Faculty of Health Sciences in 2001. He married Beatrice and they had five children. He had a great love for the arts. He died from acute myeloid leukaemia on 17 February 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000268
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First Title value, for Searching Soden, John Smith (1780 - 1863)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-02-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Coventry on March 29th, 1780; was educated at King Edward’s Grammar School. He was then apprenticed to George Freer, of Birmingham, the author of *Aneurysm and some Diseases of the Arterial System* (1807), who evidently inspired his pupils with higher aims that the mere routine of practice, for Soden was Jacksonian Prizeman in 1810 with an essay on “The Bite of Rabid Animal”. Moreover, Joseph Hodgson (q.v.), a fellow pupil with Soden, President of the College in 1864, was the author in the following year (1811) of the Jacksonian Prize Essay on “Wounds and Diseases of the Arteries and Veins” – an elaborate piece of work. Having qualified in 1800, Soden entered the Army as a Hospital Mate on June 13th, 1800, became Assistant Surgeon in the 79th Highlanders three days later, served in Egypt, and resigned before April 16th, 1803. After returning to London he settled in practice at Bath, where he was appointed Surgeon to the United Hospitals, the Eye Infirmary, the Penitentiary, and the Lock Hospital. He thus took up a position as a leading practitioner in Bath, a successful operator and eye surgeon. He was an original member of the British Medical Association. He practised at 101 Sydney Place, Bath, and died in retirement on March 19th, 1863. His son, John Soden (q.v.), succeeded to his practice. He was ambidextrous in operating for cataract, sitting facing the patient, the patient also sitting; he made the lower incision by means of Baer’s triangular knife. Puncturing the cornea almost vertically, he watched for the jet of aqueous humour, then carried the knife across the anterior chamber without touching the iris. Soden made an admirable collection of the Portraits of Medical Men – Ancient and Modern, British and Foreign. It was presented after his death to the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society by his son John Soden, of Bath. The collection consists of four folio volumes containing 872 mounted medical portraits, with two additional volumes, the one of caricatures and newspaper cuttings, the other of autograph letters and signatures of medical men. The six volumes are preserved at the Royal Society of Medicine, where they are known as ‘The Soden Collection’. Publications:- “On Inguinal Aneurysm, Cured by Tying the External Iliac Artery.” – *Med-Chir. Trans.*, 1816, vii, 536. “Of Poisoning by Arsenic” – *London Med Rev*, 1811. *Address* at the Third Anniversary of the Bath District Branch of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, 1839, 8vo, Bath, 1839. *Address* at the Annual Meeting of the Bath and Bristol District Branch of the above, 1854.
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First Title value, for Searching Young, George William ( - 1850)

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First Title value, for Searching Crowfoot, William Henchman (1780 - 1848)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-02-21 2011-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on Sept 9th, 1780, at Kessingland, a village on the Suffolk coast, where his father occupied a large farm. His mother, who was a daughter of the Rev J Henchman, died while he was an infant, and he was placed in charge of his uncle by marriage, the Rev W Clubbe, Vicar of Brandeston. Mr Clubbe, an elegant Latin scholar, taught him to love classical studies. In 1794 he was apprenticed to his uncle, Mr Crowfoot, of Beccles, who was a second father to him, and in 1799 he came to London and entered as a pupil at the Borough hospitals under Cline and Astley Cooper, the latter of whom became his friend in after-life. Sir Astley Cooper in his work on *Dislocations* (1842) refers to Crowfoot as one who, "to high professional skill, adds all the amiable qualities which can become a man." Crowfoot hoped to obtain through his patron's influence a medical appointment in India, but he failed in this and settled at Framlington. In 1803, his practice being limited there, he removed at his uncle's suggestion to Beccles, and in 1805 became his partner, thenceforward obtaining high professional credit and success. It was in the December of 1805 that he accidentally met a party bearing the body of a soldier who had been thrown on the beach at Kessingland and lain for several hours apparently dead. Finding that the precordia still retained some warmth, he caused the body to be carried to a house, and persevering in the means of restoration which his professional skill suggested, he at length revived the sufferer. For this action the Royal Humane Society awarded him a silver medal. He died, after an illness of only four days, on Nov 13th, 1848, of typhus fever, contracting the disease from a post-mortem on a typhus patient. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Beccles Dispensary. Publications:- Crowfoot's publications record the remarkable results of his own experience and are characterized by strong good sense. They include:- "On Carditis." - *Edin Med and Surg Jour*, 1809, v, 298. He stressed the connection between rheumatism and carditis before that connection was so much insisted upon as at present. "Surgical Cases." - *Ibid*, 1825, xxiv, 260. "On the Use of Extension in Fractures of the Spine." - *Jour Prov Med and Surg Assoc*, 1843, xi, 337. In this paper he showed the value and success of the treatment in cases too often regarded as hopeless.
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First Title value, for Searching Bryce, Alexander Graham (1890 - 1968)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Graham Bryce was born in Southport, Lancashire, the son of Elizabeth Dodds and Alexander Graham Bryce who was the managing director of a calico printing firm. He went to school at the Southport Modern School for Boys until the age of 11 when he proceeded to complete his secondary education at the Bickerton House School until he was 16. When he was 16 he matriculated and went very early to the Manchester University Medical School so that he graduated at what was a very tender age, at 21. He proceeded to the Degree of MD in 1913, and to the Diploma of Public Health in 1915. He gained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1923. At the University of Manchester, he was a diligent and successful student, obtaining distinctions and exhibitions in anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and medicine, and a host of prizes and medals. As house physician to Dr E M Brookbank, a cardiologist of high national repute, he was early acquainted with diseases of the heart. This served him well later in life when he entered the practice of thoracic surgery. His subsequent years of postgraduate study indicated that he practised what he subsequently preached, namely that hard experience in general medicine and surgery is an essential basis for later devotion to a specialty; as a house officer in medicine, he studied the problem of cancer of the stomach, to form the basis of his thesis for a doctorate which he obtained in 1913. Further postgraduate experience was gained as a resident medical officer at the Manchester Children's Hospital, and in 1914 as senior resident in the Manchester Tuberculosis Hospital. Like so many surgeons of his generation he served in the RAMC in artillery, infantry, and cavalry medical units, from 1915 to 1919. During this period he decided to enter the practice of surgery and held surgical house appointments from 1919 to 1921 at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. He journeyed south to work as senior house surgeon at the Royal Dock Hospital for Seamen and subsequently at St George's Hospital. In 1923, having obtained his English Fellowship, he returned to Manchester as senior surgical registrar at the Royal Infirmary, where subsequently he was appointed resident surgical officer, holding the post for two years. At that time a galaxy of surgical stars, known throughout the world, held appointments on the staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and fierce competition for places existed. His potential was recognized by his election as surgical tutor until 1927 when he moved to the Manchester Victoria Memorial Jewish Hospital as a consultant surgeon. An additional appointment as honorary assistant surgeon at Salford Royal Hospital placed him in the company of men as distinguished as Geoffrey Jefferson and J B Macalpine. Although in private practice, he found time and energy to commence a study of thoracic surgery and obtained appointments in sanatoria in the Manchester area. He published several papers on general surgery in 1913-1932 and in 1934, together with James E H Roberts, Sir Clement Price Thomas and a spontaneous pneumothorax and pulmonary lobectomy. In those early days of thoracic surgery, like many men of that era entering this specialty, he visited surgical centres in Great Britain and overseas; he studied in Berlin, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, and during these tours he made abiding friendships amongst thoracic surgeons. In 1934 he achieved a cherished ambition when appointed to the honorary staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmary. His quiet, gentle and self-deprecatory manner did not decieve his many friends, as underneath a gentle exterior was a dogged determination to pursue the craft and science of surgery successfully. He established thoracic surgery in his district; at a meeting of the Association of Surgeons in Manchester in 1934, together with the late J E H Roberts, Sir Clement Price Thomas and a few others, he formed a small club over a drink in the Midland Hotel. He was the first secretary of this club which rapidly became known as the Society of Thoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. For many years he held this post and the large and flourishing present day Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons owes much to him. Young men of the generation just behind his, know how much they are in debt to him. To them in particular he showed a real sympathy and encouragement which is not easily forgotten. Graham Bryce was happy in his family life. His wife Isabel Bryce was the daughter of the distinguished Professor James Lorrain Smith, FRS and she herself achieved success and fame, particularly in the field of sociology, with particular reference to medicine. At the time of his death, she was chairman of the Oxford Regional Hospital Board. For her work in the field of hospital administration she was awarded the DBE in 1968. To many thoracic surgeons her friendliness and human sympathy are widely recognised. It was always pleasant to think of her working in her garden while her husband attended to his main hobby, namely bee-keeping. Surgery owes much to both of them. Bryce died suddenly at his home in Upper Basildon near Reading, on 24 October 1968, leaving a widow and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Golding-Bird, Cuthbert Hilton (1848 - 1939)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Myddleton Square, Pentonville, London on 7 July 1848, the fourth child and second son of Golding Bird, MD, FRS, and his wife, Mary Brett. His father (1814-1854) was appointed assistant physician to Guy's Hospital in 1843 on the retirement of Richard Bright; his uncle, Frederic Bird, was obstetric physician to Westminster Hospital. His mother founded the Golding Bird gold medal and scholarship for bacteriology at Guy's Hospital. Golding-Bird was educated at Tonbridge School 1856-62, and afterwards at King's College School in the Strand and at King's College. He graduated BA at the University of London in 1867, and won the gold medal in forensic medicine at the MB examination in 1873. Entering the medical school of Guy's Hospital in October 1868 he received the first prize for first year students in 1869, the first prize for third year students and the Treasurer's medals for surgery and for medicine in 1873. For a short time he acted as demonstrator of anatomy at Guy's, but on his return from a visit to Paris he was elected assistant surgeon in 1875 and demonstrator of physiology, Dr P H Pye-Smith being lecturer. He held the office of surgeon until 1908, when he resigned on attaining the age of 60, was made consulting surgeon, and spent the rest of his life at Meopham, near Rochester, in Kent as a country gentleman interested in the life of the village, in gardening, and in collecting clocks. At the Royal College of Surgeons Golding-Bird was an examiner in elementary physiology 1884-86, in physiology 1886-91, in anatomy and physiology for the Fellowship 1884-90 and 1892-95. He was on the Dental Board as Examiner in surgery in 1902, a member of the Court of Examiners 1897-1907, and a member of the Council 1905-13. He married in 1870 Florence Marion, daughter of Dr John Baber, MRCS, of Thurlow Square, Kensington, and of Meopham. She died on 23 March 1919, and there were no children. He died at Pitfield, Meopham, Kent, of angina with asthma after much painful dyspnoea, on 6 March 1939, being then the oldest living FRCS. Golding-Bird was an exceedingly neat operator and a delicate manipulator. His training in histology, at a time when all section-cutting of tissues was done by hand with an ordinary razor, enabled him to make sections of the retina, drawings of which afterwards appeared in many editions of Quain's *Anatomy*. He did much useful work during his long period of retirement, for he was surgeon to the Gravesend Hospital and the Royal Deaf and Dumb School at Margate, chairman of the Kent County Nursing Association, a member of the Central Midwives Board, and churchwarden of St John's Church, Meopham. He was interested in local archaeology and wrote a history of Meopham which reached a second edition. He also published a history of the United Hospital Club and contributed many papers to the medical journals. He long retained his youthful appearance and it is recorded that when he had been assistant surgeon for some years, a question of amputation having arisen, the patient said she would not have her “leg took off by that boy”, but if it had to be done, pointing to the house surgeon, he should do it. He left his residence, Pitfield, to Guy's Hospital, £1,000 towards the maintenance of Meopham Church and churchyard, £1,000 upon trust for the Village Hall, Meopham, £300 to Kent County Nursing Association, £300 to Meopham and Nursted Local Nursing Association, £100 to the National Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children, £50 each to the Mothers' Union Central Fund, the SPG, the YMCA, the YWCA and the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, and the residue, subject to life interest, between Gravesend Hospital, Epsom Medical College, and the Village Hall, Meopham.
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First Title value, for Searching Nisbet, Norman Walter (1909 - 2007)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-08-21 2009-05-01
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Norman Walter Nisbet was a former director of research at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Oswestry. He was born in Edinburgh on 23 March 1909, the son of a science master. He first qualified as a dentist, but abandoned dentistry in favour of medicine. After completing his training in general surgery in Edinburgh and Birmingham, he began his orthopaedic career. In 1938 he was appointed as a house surgeon at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, where at the outbreak of the Second World War he became resident surgical officer. During the war years, the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt was virtually a military hospital. Nisbit was responsible for the surgical care and rehabilitation of many war casualties. One German airman crashed not far from the hospital. Norman treated his serious fractures by standard methods and his burns with ‘Tannifax’, which turned the burnt area black. When the airman saw the black area he was horrified, thinking that he had been deliberately painted black as a distinguishing mark - what the English do to their prisoners - according to German propaganda. He was only reassured by seeing a British soldier, similarly treated, peeling away the black tan on his own injury to reveal healthy skin underneath. Of the hundreds of war wounded Nisbet treated, the German patient was the only one who sent him a letter of thanks. During this time, he had an unrivalled opportunity of learning all aspects of orthopaedic and fracture surgery under the influence and guidance of Sir Harry Platt, Sir Reginald Watson-Jones and Sir Henry Osmond-Clarke, amongst others. He also worked closely with Dame Agnes Hunt, the founder of the hospital. Between 1946 and 1947 he served in the Royal Air Force as a senior orthopaedic consultant with the rank of wing commander, in charge of the orthopaedic unit at the RAF Hospital, Wroughton, Wiltshire. On demobilisation, he became a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, Coventry. He also held the posts of orthopaedic surgeon to the Paybody Orthopaedic Home and the Coleshill Orthopaedic Hospital for Children. Nisbit was in New Zealand from 1950 to 1962 as associate professor in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Otago and director of the orthopaedic and fracture department of the Dunedin Hospital. The University of Otago later created a personal chair of orthopaedic surgery for him, its first personal chair. He always had a keen interest in medical research. While he was in Dunedin, spurred on by the then professor of surgery, Sir Michael Woodruff, he began working on the biology of transplantation with special reference to immunology and genetics. He returned to the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hosptial in 1964 as the first director of the purpose-built Charles Salt Research Centre. He continued his work in immunology and published extensively. He retired as director of research in 1983, at the age of 74. However, having received a personal MRC grant to further his work into the origins of osteoclasts, he stayed on for another three years. With his wife, Mary, he retired to the south coast of England. His passion had always been shooting. He maintained a gun in a shoot in Sussex until the age of 93. Thereafter he continued shooting clay pigeons. Mary, who had been in declining health for many years, died in 2005. They had been married for 60 years. Nisbet, having looked after Mary for many years, continued to live completely independently. He swam daily, shopped, cooked and cleaned for himself and carried on driving his car until, at the age of 95, his health slowly went down hill and he began to depend on others. He died on 25 September 2007 at the age of 98 and is survived by his daughter, Lesley, son-in-law St John and grandchildren, Katherine and Tom.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Malley, Eoin (1919 - 2007)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-08-21
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Occupation Cardiac surgeon
Details Eoin O’Malley was a cardiac surgeon and a past president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was born on 5 April 1919 in Galway, where his father was professor of surgery. From Clongowes Wood College he went to medical school, at first in Galway and later at University College, Dublin, where he proved himself a formidable debater and rugby football player, and won prizes and distinctions in every subject. He completed house appointments in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital and went on to specialise in surgery at Southend General Hospital and the Lahey Clinic in Boston. He was appointed to the consultant staff of the Mater Hospital as a general and cardiac surgeon in 1950 and became professor of surgery in 1958. At first an all round general surgeon, he was one of the first to specialise in cardiac surgery and succeeded in setting up a specialist unit, which was later named after him. As a teacher he was noted as a skilled and thoughtful lecturer and a sympathetic examiner. As a trainer of young surgeons he took care to see that his pupils expanded their vision by going abroad to other centres for clinical experience and research. Indeed, to encourage his colleagues to travel, he founded the Irish Surgical Travellers Club. Together with other Irish professors of surgery, Eoin organised a national surgical training programme, a planned rotation scheme, entry to which was to be by competitive examination. He soon became involved in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, was elected to its council in 1965 and became president in 1983. His presidency was marked by the celebration of the bicentenary of the college. His interests outside surgery included fishing, meteorology, literature, theatre, history and politics. Eoin married Una O’Higgins, a young solicitor, in 1952. Una was the daughter of the Irish national hero Kevin O’Higgins, the hard man of the liberation movement and first minister of justice in the new republic, who was assassinated when Una was only five months old. Later Una became a nationally celebrated poet, whose verse sang of peace and forgiveness. Una was a prime mover in the reconciliation movement and a founder of the Glencree Reconciliation Centre. They had six children, of whom Kevin has followed his father and grandfather into surgery. A man of great dignity, utterly without bombast or arrogance, Eoin was the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and distinctions, including the honorary Fellowship of our College. Enid Taylor
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First Title value, for Searching Cook, Charles Alfred George (1913 - 2003)

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First Title value, for Searching Dunstone, George Hargreaves (1925 - 2006)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-06-08
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Occupation General surgeon
Details George Hargreaves ‘Steve’ Dunstone was a consultant general surgeon at Dryburn Hospital. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring, county Durham, on 23 October 1925, the son of William Anthony Hargreaves, a jeweller and watchmaker, and Elsie Bailey, the daughter of a schoolmaster. He was educated at the primary and grammar schools in Houghton-le-Spring, from which he won a county scholarship to King’s College, Newcastle upon Tyne, in the University of Durham. After qualifying, he completed junior posts at Darlington Memorial Hospital and the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton. From 1949 to 1951 he did his National Service in the RAMC in Malaya with the Gurkha Rifles. On demobilisation he trained as a surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, where he developed a particular interest in vascular and oesophageal surgery under Kenneth McKeown. He was appointed consultant general surgeon at Dryburn Hospital in 1964, where his outstanding technical expertise attracted many trainees from Australia. He was postgraduate surgical tutor and college tutor for our College, and an active member of the Vascular Surgical Society and the Hadrian Surgical Club. He was president of the North of England Surgical Society from 1984 to 1985. In 1955 he married in 1955 Mavis Blewitt, by whom he had two daughters. His many interests included fly-fishing and travel, particularly to France, and the game of bowls. He was a governor of Durham High School for Girls and a member of Hatfield College of Durham University. He died on 15 November 2006 from bronchopneumonia and essential thrombocythaemia, leaving his wife, two daughters and two grandsons.
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First Title value, for Searching Langton, John (1839 - 1910)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on September 27th, 1839, the youngest of three sons of Henry John Langton, a wholesale chemist, and of Anne Earnshaw Ellis, the daughter of John Ellis. He was born at Denmark Hill, on the site now occupied by King's College Hospital, and was sent to the Church Hill School at Brighton, then kept by the Rev Dr Butler, where he remained from 1849-1852. From Brighton he went to Cassel, where he lived in the house of the Court Chaplain from 1853-1856, attending school and learning German. In 1857 he was articled to John Henry Hewer, his brother-in-law, who practised in Highbury New Park. In the same year he matriculated at the London University and entered as a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Here he dressed for Edward Stanley (qv), for whom he had a warm affection. In 1862 he passed the 1st MB examination for the University of London, but never completed the course. In 1861 he became a MRCS Eng, and then was appointed House Surgeon to Sir William Lawrence (qv). Shortly afterwards Langton began to coach in anatomy; he soon made his mark as a successful teacher, and in 1865 was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical School. In 1868 he was elected Assistant Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital on the resignation of Thomas Wormald (qv). In addition to his work as Demonstrator of Anatomy, he was Demonstrator of Operative Surgery and Demonstrator of Diseases of the Eye in conjunction with George Callender (qv). In 1873 he became Joint Lecturer in Anatomy with Sir Thomas Smith, and Demonstrator of Diseases of the Ear and Surgeon in Charge of the Aural Department. In 1881, on the retirement of Luther Holden, he became full Surgeon, holding that office till 1904, when he retired on reaching the age limit of 65, and was made Consulting Surgeon and a Governor of the hospital. In 1864 Langton was appointed Surgeon to the City of London Truss Society and held that post for forty-three years, retiring from it only three years before his death. At first he was the junior colleague of John Abernethy Kingdon (qv), a godson of John Abernethy, for whom he had an immense admiration. Later he worked with Jonathan Macready, W McAdam Eccles, and G E Gask as his juniors. This work he never tired of: he attended the Truss Society at Finsbury Square six mornings a week, leaving his home at 8 am, travelling by the Metropolitan Railway from Portland Road to Moorgate Street Station. In this way he acquired an unrivalled experience of hernia, of which he said in 1908, at the Medical Society of London, that he had seen about 250,000 cases. In addition to these activities, Langton was also Consulting Surgeon to the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, to the City of London Lying-in Hospital, to the Prince of Wales's Hospital, to the Mildmay Mission Hospital, to the Friedenheim Home for the Dying, to the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, and to the London Female Guardian Society. At the Royal College of Surgeons he filled many positions. He was a Member of the Board of Examiners in Anatomy and Physiology from 1880-1884, and a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1884-1894. He was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology in 1889-1890 ; a Member of the Council from 1890-1906, a Junior Vice-President in 1896, and Senior Vice-President in the centenary year of 1900. He was Bradshaw Lecturer in 1900, when he took as his subject, "The Association of Inguinal Hernia with Descent of the Testis". Langton was an active member of the Medical Societies, filling many offices at the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, at the Medical Society, of which he was President in 1904 and later Treasurer, and at the Clinical Society. In 1871 he married Sophia, the second daughter of John Scott, JP, of Dulwich and afterwards of Bickley, by whom he had six children, of whom three sons and two daughters survived him. John Langton was a fine upstanding man, six feet in height, rather portly late in life, clean-shaven, with fine-cut features and a mobile mouth. His parents being evangelical puritans, he was brought up, in the manner of those times, to observe the Sabbath strictly and to regard the theatre with abhorrence. This early training coloured his life and led him to be regarded by those who knew little of him as hypocritical. This he was far from being, he enjoyed life to the full, and with his ready smile and generous help endeared himself to his friends and patients. As a teacher he was first-rate. He was at his best in the wards and out-patient department, where with question and answer, and many a jest and story, he would keep a large class of students interested for two to three hours at a time. When he entered the lecture theatre his manner changed, and he became pedantic and dull. He was an excellent surgeon, devoted to his work, and imbued with the principle that the patients of the hospital are individuals, each with his own body and soul and wants and cares, to be treated kindly as men and women and not as cases. Every day of the week he came to hospital, including Sundays, and if he could catch his house surgeon in bed on Sunday morning he was delighted. As a researcher, as a pioneer in advancing the knowledge of science and of surgery, and as an author Langton was not so successful. His knowledge of hernia was unrivalled - he probably saw more cases of hernia than any living man - and he had at his command a mass of notes and of information. He intended to write a book on the subject and to give the world something out of the store of his experience, but death came and the work had not been done. He died on September 4th, 1910, after some two years of failing health, and was buried at the East Finchley cemetery. Publications: Langton edited the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th editions of Holden's *Manual of the Dissection of the Human Body*. *The Association of Inguinal Hernia with Descent of the Testis*.- Bradshaw Lecture, Dec 12th, 1900. Editor of *St Bart's Hosp Rep*, 1881-6, xvii-xxii. Articles on "Hernia" in Heath's *Dictionary of Surgery*.
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First Title value, for Searching Lannelongue, Odilon Marc (1840 - 1911)

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First Title value, for Searching Larkin, Frederick George (1847 - 1927)

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Josiah Oake (1842 - 1925)

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Matthew Algernon (1836 - 1913)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in 1836 and received his professional training at Guy's Hospital. He practised at Leeds, where he was for a time Senior Resident Surgeon at the Public Dispensary; he was also Assistant Surgeon to the 9th Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers. Before 1871 he had removed to Ashford Road, Maidstone, where he was Surgeon to the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital. Later he was appointed Public Analyst for the County of Kent and for Maidstone, and was a Member of Council and then President of the Society of Public Analysts, as well as a Member of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. He was also for a time Medical Officer of Health and Gas Analyst for the Borough of Maidstone. In 1870 he had been appointed a Certificated Teacher in the Science and Art Department. He resided and practised for many years at Trinity House, Maidstone, and then moved to The Kulm, Bearsted, Kent, where he died during April, 1913. At the time of his death he was still Public Analyst for Kent and Maidstone, and was Vice-President of the Society of Public Analysts and a Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, as well as Consulting Surgeon to the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital. He was the inventor and author of “The Hormagraph, an Instrument for Investigating the Field of Vision”. Publications: *Pocket Memoranda relating to Infectious Zymotic Diseases*, 24mo, London, 1885. “Contribution to the Etiology of Diphtheria.” *Public Health*, 1890. “The Relationship between the Occurrence of Diphtheria and the Movement of the Sub-soil Water.” * 7th and 8th internat. Congr. of Hygiene and Demography*, 1891 and 1894. “On the Estimation of Dissolved Oxygen in Water.” *Trans. Chem. Soc.*, 1892. *Annual Reports of the Medical Officer of Health for the Borough of Maidstone, to the Local Board, for the years* 1879-81, 8vo, Maidstone, 1880-82. *Report to the Local Board on the Outbreaks of Small-pox in Maidstone*, 8vo, 2 diagrams, Maidstone, 1881.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, William ( - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, William ( [1] - 1900)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21 2016-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details [2] Studied anatomy and physiology at the Webb Street School, which was then under the management of Richard Grainger (1798-1861), the younger brother of the talented but ill-used founder. In 1838 he entered as a medical student at St Thomas's Hospital, where he came under the influence of Joseph Henry Green (qv) (1791-1863), the philosophical surgeon whose memory he always held in the highest esteem. [3] In August, 1842, he was appointed Curator of the Museum and Demonstrator of Morbid Anatomy in the Medical School of St Thomas's Hospital, then situated in the Borough. These posts were held until 1854, when he joined the Grosvenor Place or Lane's Medical School in Kinnerton Street [4] near St George's Hospital. Here he lectured on Surgery and Hospital Practice, having Thomas Spencer Wells (qv) as a colleague. About this time Adams began to devote his attention more particularly to orthopaedic surgery, of which he became one of the leading exponents and most successful practitioners in this country. He was appointed Surgeon to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital, and Surgeon to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic before it had specialized in brain surgery. At the Great Northern (now the Royal Northern) Hospital he devised the operation which became known by his name - osteotomy of the neck of the femur within the capsule of the hip-joint. For this purpose he invented a saw with a short cutting surface and a long blunt shank - "my little thaw," as he always called it - by which the bone could be divided through a minute incision in the skin. He also brought into prominence the treatment of Dupuytren's contraction by subcutaneous division of the fibrous bands. In 1864 he was awarded the Jacksonian Prize for "Club-foot, its Causes, Pathology and Treatment". The essay is a classic, for it is an epitome of the knowledge of the time. In 1872 he severed his connection with the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in consequence of a quarrel between the staff and the management, in which it was thought by his contemporaries that the staff was in the right. In 1876 he was President of the Medical Society of London, and in that capacity visited the United States and Canada as a delegate to the International Medical Congress held in September at Philadelphia. He was accompanied by Dr Lauder Brunton and Richard Davy (qv). With Lister (qv) he watched Professor Sayre excise the hip-joint in a boy. He lived and practised until 1896 at 5 Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, where is now the College of Nursing. He retired to 7 Loudon Road, St John's Wood, and died there on Feb 3rd, 1900, the morning of his ninetieth birthday. [5] He never married. [6] Adams was a careful but slow operator who maintained his interest in general surgery and pathology to the end of his life. He had been one of the promoters and first members of the Pathological Society of London as early as 1846. He was a good but prolix talker, with a soft voice and well-marked lisp. Sir James Paget used to complain of him that he never finished his sentences, and when one of us (D'A P) was curator of the Museum at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he would often come in later days and waste two or three hours of valuable time, having himself nothing to do. His talk, however, was interesting, for he would tell of his reminiscences of 'resurrection days' and the snatching of bodies for the purposes of anatomy. He took with him from Grainger's School Tom Parker as his dead-house assistant at St Thomas's Hospital. Tom Parker was a notorious resurrectionist, and there is good reason to suppose that he was the executioner who cut off the heads of the four men sentenced for high treason after the Cato Street Conspiracy in 1820. Publications:- "Observations on Transverse Fracture of the Patella." *Trans. Pathol. Soc.*, ii, 254. "The Enlargement of the Articular Extremities of Bone in Chronic Rheumatic Arthritis." - *Ibid*., iii, 156. (He refuted in this paper the teaching of Rokitansky.) Lectures on Orthopaedic Surgery, 1855-8. "Presidential Address on Subcutaneous Surgery." - *Proc. Med. Soc. Lond.*, 1857. *On the Reparative Process in Human Tendons after Subcutaneous Division for the Cure of Deformities, with a Series of Experiments on Rabbits and a Résumé of the Literature of the Subject,* 8vo, plates, London, 1860. (A piece of good pathological work illustrating the method of repair of divided tendons.) *Lectures on the Pathology and Treatment of Lateral and other Forms of Curvature of the Spine*, 8vo, 5 plates, London 1865; 2nd ed., 1882. *Club-Foot, its Causes, Pathology and Treatment* (Jacksonian Prize Essay), 8vo, illustrated, London, 1866; 2nd ed, 8vo, 6 plates, London, 1873. (The original manuscript is in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons.) "Congenital Dislocation of Hip-Joint." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1885, ii, 859; 1887, i, 866; 1889, i, 243; and *Trans. Amer. Orthop. Cong.*, 1895. "Congenital Wry-Neck" - *Trans. Amer. Orthop. Assoc.*, 1896. "Rotation of the Spine in the so-called Lateral Curvature." - *Ibid.*, 1899, etc. The following are in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons:- *A New Operation for Bony Anchylosis of the Hip Joint by Subcutaneous Division of the Neck of the Thigh Bone*, 8vo, 4 plates, London 1871. "On the Successful Treatment of Hammer-Toe by the Subcutaneous Division of the Lateral Ligaments", 8vo, plate, London, 1868, from *Proc. Med. Soc. Lond*., ii; 2nd ed., 1892. "On the Successful Treatment of Cases of Congenital Displacement of the Hip-Joint", 8vo, 2 illustrations, London, 1890, from *Brit. Med. Jour*. "Subcutaneous Surgery: its Principles, and its Recent Extension in Practice" (Sixth Toner Lecture), 1876, in *Smithsonian Miscell. Collections*, xv, 8vo, Washington, 1877. *Observations on Contractions of the Fingers (Dupuytren's Contraction), and its Successful Treatment by Subcutaneous Divisions of the Palmar Fascia and Immediate Extension; also on the Obliteration of Depressed Cicatrices after Glandular Abscesses or Exfoliation of Bone by a Subcutanous Operation*, 8vo, 4 Plates, Washington, 1879. The 2nd edition appeared with the title, *On Contractions of the Fingers (Dupuytren's and Congenital Contractions) and on 'Hammer-toe'*, etc., 8vo, 8 plates, Washington, 1892. "The International Medical Congress in Philadelphia" (Presidential Address before the Medical Society of London). - *Proc. Med. Soc. Lond.*, 1875-7, iii, 97; printed as an 8vo volume, London 1876. *Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. Letters and Documents in reference to the recent Arbitration by a Committee appointed by the Council of the Metropolitan Branch of the British Medical Association to investigate Certain Charges made by Mr W Adams against Mr Brodhurst, in connection with the Events which have lately occurred at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital*, 8vo, London, 1872. *Principles of Treatment applicable to Contractions and Deformities*, 1893. Special section contributed to the 2nd edition of William Spencer Watson's *Diseases of the Nose and the Accessory Cavities*, 8vo, London, 1890. Adams delivered the Lettsomian Lectures before the Medical Society of London in 1869, his subject being the "Rheumatic and Strumous Diseases of the Joints and the Treatment for the Restoration of Motion in Partial Ankylosis." In the same year he cut through the neck of the thigh bone, but Mr Brodhurst had already performed this operation several times. [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] 1820 (1st February); [2] Son of James Adams L.S.A. of 39 Finsbury Square, a Governor of S. Thomas's Hospital.; [3] His eldest brother, James, was also a pupil of J.H. Green, became an ophthalmic surgeon & died aged 31.; [4] 'Kinnerton Street' is deleted and 'Grosvenor Place' added; [5] 'the morning of' is deleted and '2 days after' is added, and 'ninetieth' is deleted and '80th' added; [6] 'He never married.' is deleted, and the following added 'He married 21 August 1847, Mary Anne MILLS, who died in 1897, and had 2 sons & 1 daughter - all now (1931) dead without descendants (information from P.E. Adams MRCS, nephew). the last surviving son died in 1920. He is also reported to have had "two harems(?)"'; Portrait (No.1) in Small Photographic Album (Moira & Haigh).]
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First Title value, for Searching Agnis, John Crown (1828 - 1866)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Langford, Malden, Essex, on Nov 11th, 1828, and dying unmarried was the last representative of an ancient Cambridgeshire family. He was a very promising lad, and at the age of 16 entered University College, London, and soon carried off the Senior Greek Prize, “being a mere boy in comparison with his competitors” (*Lancet*). He received his medical education at University College Hospital, became House Surgeon, and was gazetted to the 3rd Light Dragoons on Aug 11th, 1854. He afterwards became Assistant Surgeon to the Horse Guards Blue in 1860 (Sept 18th), holding this post to the end of his life. As an operator he was “bold and skilful”, “notably endowed”, as his *Lancet* biographer remarks, “with that special surgical acumen which is logic in action”. His talents were such that his friends urged him to bring himself into greater evidence. Accordingly he began to study deformities and “energetically followed out a series of special researches into their general surgical pathology.” In 1864 the Examiners for the Jacksonian Essay Prize awarded an Honorarium to Agnis for his essay on “Club-foot, its Causes, Pathology and Treatment”. The many illustrations to the Essay were drawn by the author, but the paper has not been published. Agnis was a skilful artist, “an enthusiastic entomologist, and versed in almost every branch of natural science”. He died in London on June 28th, 1866, after a brief illness. He had previously suffered from the effects of a severe hunting accident.
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First Title value, for Searching Aikin, Charles Arthur (1821 - 1908)

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First Title value, for Searching Ainger, Major (1820 - 1861)

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First Title value, for Searching Albert, Eduard (1841 - 1900)

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First Title value, for Searching Ackland, Thomas Henry (1908 - 1994)

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Publication Date 2005-07-06 2012-07-19
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Occupation General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Thomas Ackland was a general surgeon in Melbourne who introduced mammography into Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 8 September 1908, the son of William Ackland, an engineer, and Blanche Glana née Rye, the daughter of a veterinary surgeon. He was educated at Spring Road State School and then won an entrance scholarship to Melbourne Grammar School in 1921. He held prizes in English, French, Latin, Greek, Greek and Roman history, scripture and map drawing. He was dux of the school, and held university exhibitions in Greek, and in Greek and Roman history. He went on to Melbourne University, where he held exhibitions in anatomy, physiology, pathology, bacteriology, surgery, and in obstetrics and gynaecology, and gained first class honours. He proceeded to train at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He subsequently went to the UK, where he studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, gained his FRCS, and was a resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital, with Milligan, Morgan, Gabriel and Lloyd Davies. During the second world war he served with the 4th, 116th and 121st Australian General Hospitals, in the Middle East, New Guinea and Australia. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After the war, he was appointed to the honorary staff of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, which he served from 1948 to 1968. He also held the positions of consulting surgeon to the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital (from 1946 to 1973) and to the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute (1955 to 1968). He served on the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria from 1955 to 1981, and was the founder of its public education committee. In his early career he had an interest in surgery of the large bowel, and made major contributions to the understanding of the pathology and treatment of strangulated haemorrhoids. He later took an interest in breast disease. After his appointment as Robert Fowler travelling fellow in clinical cancer research in 1961 he introduced mammography into Australia, and pioneered adjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of breast cancer. In 1940 he married Joan Rowell, a writer and literary critic and the daughter of John Rowell, an artist. They had one daughter, Judy, and two sons, Peter and Michael. He read voraciously, enjoyed music and played the violin in the Zelman Memorial Orchestra. He painted and also enjoyed boating and fishing. He died on 12 October 1994.
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First Title value, for Searching Annis, David (1921 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-07-06 2012-07-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details David Annis was a consultant surgeon at Liverpool's Royal Infirmary. His father was a Polish Jew who emigrated from England to Canada and served with distinction in the Canadian Army during the first world war, being decorated for his conduct at Vimy Ridge. After the war, he returned to England to set up a pharmaceutical company in Manchester and married a Christian Protestant woman, much to the displeasure of his family, who held a funeral service for him. David was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and then studied medicine at Liverpool. He always wanted to be a surgeon. He took his primary FRCS after his second MB in 1939. After house jobs at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, he gained his FRCS. He was appointed research fellow in experimental surgery at the Mayo Clinic from 1949 to 1951, but refused a third year and returned to Liverpool University as senior lecturer in the department of surgery. He was appointed consultant surgeon at the Royal Infirmary in 1954. For the next 25 years he had a distinguished academic career. He was director of studies in surgical science and of the bioengineering unit. He was an examiner at many British universities, as well as in Lagos and Riga, and was a member of the Court of Examiners, accompanying them to India, Ceylon, Burma and Singapore. In 1981, he left his hospital post to set up a new department of clinical engineering at Liverpool University where, together with a polymer scientist, he used electrostatic spinning to produce elastic polyurethane grafts which provided pulsatile vessels for implanting into pigs and sheep. He was a member of the editorial committee of the Bioengineering Journal and the British Journal of Surgery and of the physiological systems and disorders board of the Medical Research Council. A physician colleague described him as a physician/physiologist who operated. He was a popular member and sometime President of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club, where he and his wife Nesta were superb hosts. As a young man David enjoyed playing the clarinet and writing verse. He enjoyed the countryside and motoring abroad. A shy, diffident, kind, amusing and courageous man, he was a role model for a generation of young surgeons. He and Nesta had four children, three of whom work in the NHS. For the last two years of his life he was affected by Alzheimer's disease. He died on 3 February 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Alderson, Richard Robinson ( - 1888)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at the London Hospital; practised at York, where he was Surgeon to the York Union, Assistant Surgeon to the 2nd West York Militia (Light Infantry), and Honorary Surgeon to the 11th Derbyshire Volunteer Rifles. During the Crimean War he was a First-class Staff Surgeon to the Osmanli Horse Artillery - Turkish Contingent - and on his return to England he practised in Aberdeen Walk, Scarborough, where he seems to have remained until 1863. He moved about this time to Filey, and appears to have died there at some time before 1888. He passed the examination for the Fellowship, but is not registered in the College books as Fellow, nor did he receive the diploma, probably because he never paid the additional fees.
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First Title value, for Searching Birbara, George (1928 - 2006)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-09-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details George Birbara was a general surgeon in Leeton, New South Wales. He was born in Sydney on 16 August 1928. His parents, Anis, a tailor, and Amanda (née Diab) had emigrated from Lebanon. George went to Sydney Boys’ High School and Sydney University. After house appointments, he went to England in 1954 to specialize in surgery, working at the Royal Masonic, Whipps Cross, St James’s Balham, St Cross Rugby, St Luke’s Bradford and Southampton Chest hospitals. Having passed the FRCS, he returned to Leeton, New South Wales in 1959. He married Hazel, a school teacher, in 1956. They had two sons (Nicholas and Andrew) and two daughters (Rosemary and Helen), none of whom followed him into medicine. He died on 17 January 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Moffoot, Alexander Gordon (1923 - 2008)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-09-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Alexander Gordon Moffoot was a general surgeon in British Columbia, Canada. He was born in Edinburgh on 24 April 1923, the son of George Roberston Moffoot, a dental surgeon, and Doris Hilda née Jobey. His brother followed in his father’s footsteps to become a dentist, but after attending Yarm Grammar School in Yorkshire, Alexander went to Edinburgh to study medicine, where he qualified in 1945. After junior posts he served in the RAMC with the 6th Airborne Division in Palestine. On demobilization he decided to specialize in surgery, took the FRCS course at Guy’s Hospital and passed the FRCS in 1952. In 1955 he moved to Alberta, Canada, and worked for the next five years in the Innisfail Municipal Hospital, moving to British Columbia in 1960, where he worked at the Saanich Peninsular Hospital, combining general surgery with general clinical practice in a group of six. He married Ruth Hugill, a speech therapist, in 1953. They had one son Jonathan and a daughter June Ruth, who became a nurse. He died on 5 January 2008 in Sidney, British Columbia.
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First Title value, for Searching Leather, Peter William ( - 1900)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Received his professional training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised at Prescot, and then (1847) at Mill Lane, West Derby, Liverpool. He was Surgeon to the Liverpool Cholera Hospital, and later (1858) was Surgeon to the Liverpool Workhouse, Infirmary, and Fever Hospital, his address being in Brunswick Road. He rose in time to be Senior Surgeon at the Workhouse, etc, and in 1861 was practising at Brownlow Hill. Nothing further is known of him for many years before his death, which probably occurred previously to 1900. [He remains to the last among the Members in the College *Calendar*, apparently because he had not paid his Fellowship fees.]
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First Title value, for Searching Lee, Frederick Fawson (1839 - 1899)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Christ's Hospital (the Bluecoat School). He received his professional training at St George's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon in 1861. In 1862 he was appointed House Surgeon at the Salisbury Infirmary, and held office until he entered into private practice in that city in 1869. He acquired a very large practice, was Surgeon to the St Nicholas Hospital, and Hon Physician to the Infirmary from his election in 1874 to his death. He took a very keen interest in the Volunteer Movement, having joined the 1st Wilts Rifle Volunteers in 1869 as Assistant Surgeon and rising to the rank of Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel in 1891. He resigned in 1898 with the Long Service Medal and permission to wear his uniform and retain his rank. He was a zealous advocate of ambulance training and conducted classes for the police and for railway servants. The Salisbury and Wilton Ambulance Detachment presented him with an illuminated address as a token of grateful esteem in December, 1898, and the Volunteer officers and men also gave him a testimonial. He was a very regular attendant at the meetings of the Southern Branch of the British Medical Association, of which he was a member for twenty-five years. At the time of his death, in addition to his other posts, he was Ex-President of the Salisbury Medical Society and Hon Medical Officer to St Mary's Home. His partners latterly were Levi Stephenson Luckham, MRCS, and Herbert Lorraine Earle Wilks, MRCS. He died of pneumonia, following on a short attack of influenza, having in common with his Salisbury colleagues been hard pressed by work in the struggle against an influenza epidemic which had prevailed in the city for several weeks. His death occurred on the evening of April 12th, 1899, at his residence in the Close, and he was buried in the Cathedral Cloisters on April 17th, the funeral being attended by the whole of the profession in Salisbury, the officers and men of the Volunteer Corps, many nurses, and other friends.
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First Title value, for Searching Lee, Henry (1817 - 1898)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-21
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details The son of Captain Pincke Lee, of Woolley Firs, Maidenhead Thicket. He entered King's College, London, as a student in 1833, but transferred to St George's Hospital in 1834, where he became one of the first, if not the first, Surgical Registrar, and later Curator of the Museum and Lecturer in Physiology. Seeing that promotion was slow at St George's Hospital, he gladly took the opportunity of connecting himself with the newly-founded King's College Hospital, where he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in 1847. About the same time he also became Surgeon to the Lock Hospital, and laid the foundation for his reputation as a syphilologist. In 1861 there were two vacancies on the staff at St George's Hospital, caused by the simultaneous resignation of Caesar Hawkins (qv) and E Cutler (qv). Henry Gray (qv) proposed to stand, but died from confluent small-pox. Lee consented then to transfer back to St George's Hospital, and he and Timothy Holmes (qv) were elected. Two years later, in 1863, Lee became full Surgeon and retired in 1878, at the age of 60, to make way for junior men, his immediate successor being T Pickering Pick (qv). Lee's connection with the Royal College of Surgeons was long and honourable. He was awarded the Jacksonian Prize in 1849 with a dissertation "On the Causes, Consequences and Treatment of Purulent Deposits"; he was a Member of Council 1870-1878, and in 1875 delivered the Museum Lectures on Surgery and Pathology as Hunterian Professor, his subject being "Syphilis and Local Diseases affecting principally the Organs of Generation". Lee is to be remembered as a pathologist, a syphilologist, and a surgeon. He was a disciple of Brodie, and an ardent admirer and follower of the teaching of John Hunter. His contemporary and old friend, Holmes, who wrote his obituary notice in the *Lancet*, was of the opinion that his works most likely to stand the test of time were his treatise on practical pathology, his lectures on syphilis at the Royal College of Surgeons, and his treatise on venereal diseases in Holmes's *System of Surgery*. In addition to these he was the author of many works and contributions to scientific journals. He was always interested in the diseases of veins, and revived one of the most successful of the palliative operations which were in use for the treatment of varicocele and varicose veins in the period before the introduction of antiseptic surgery enabled surgeons to use the methods of excision and injection. This method consisted in blocking the circulation in the vein in two places by pins thrust under its course with a figure-of-eight ligature wound about each, and then dividing the vein subcutaneously between the pins. In 1856 he read a paper at the Medico-Chirurgical Society on "Calomel Fumigation in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Syphilis", which was claimed as a real and important improvement on the current practice of the administration of mercury. Lee retired in 1878, living for twenty years afterwards. He died at his residence, 61 Queensborough Terrace, Hyde Park, on June 11th, 1898. He was twice married, and was survived by his widow and by daughters of both marriages; his only son predeceased him. A fine portrait of Lee, by James Sant, RA, hangs in the Secretary's room of the Royal College of Surgeons, and his bust by Brock is in the Hall. Publications: *On Diseases of the Veins, Haemorrhoidal Tumours, and other Affections of the Rectum*, 8vo, 2nd ed, London, 1846. "Statistical Analysis of One Hundred and Sixty-six Cases of Secondary Syphilis observed at the Lock Hospital, 1838-9," 8vo, London, 1849; reprinted from *Lond Jour of Med*. *On the Origin of Inflammation of the Veins, and on the Causes, Consequences and Treatment of Purulent Deposits*, Jacksonian Prize Essay, 1849, 8vo, plate, London, 1850. The original MS of this essay is in the Royal College of Surgeons' Library. *Pathological and Surgical Observations, including a Short Course of Lectures delivered at the Lock Hospital, and an Essay on the Surgical Treatment of Haemorrhoidal Tumours*, 8vo, 2 plates, London, 1854. *An Essay on the Surgical Treatment of Haemorrhoidal Tumours; read before the Medical Society of London*, Feb 11th, 1854, 8vo, London, 1854. *On the Radical Cure of Varicocele by Subcutaneous Incision*, 8vo, London, 1860. *On General Principles in Medicine: an Introductory Address, delivered at St George's Hospital*, 1863, 8vo, London, 1863. *Lectures on Syphilitic and Vaccino-syphilitic Inoculations: their Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment*, 2nd ed, 8vo, 5 plates, London, 1863; translated into French by EMILE BAUDOT, 1865, and into Portuguese by MARQUES, 1863. *Lectures on some Subjects connected with Practical Pathology and Surgery*, 2 vols, 3rd ed, 8vo, London, 1870. *Lectures on Syphilis, and on some Forms of Local Disease affecting principally the Organs of Generation*, 8vo, London, 1875. *On Syphilitic Inoculation*, 1862. "Syphilis" and "Gonorrhoea" in Holmes's *Surgery*, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions; also "Venereal Diseases" in 3rd edition. "Phlebitis" and "Diseases of the Veins" in Cooper's *Surgical Dictionary*. *Phlebitis*, 1850. "Secondary Deposits and Mortification from Diseases of the Arteries." - *Brit and For Med-Chir Rev*, 1857, xx, 214. "Mercurial Fumigation in the Treatment of Syphilis." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1856, xxxix, 339. "Abscesses and Purulent Infiltration of Bone." - *Lond Jour of Med*, 1851-2. "On Repair after Injuries to Arteries and Veins" (with L S BEALE). - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1867, 1, 477. "On the Tapetum Lucidum and the Functions of the Fourth Pair of Nerves," 8vo, London, 1887; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans*, 1886, lxix, 239, and *Lancet*, 1886, i, 203.
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First Title value, for Searching Tjandra, Joe Janwar (1957 - 2007)

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Publication Date 2008-03-27 2013-11-25
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Occupation Colorectal surgeon
Details Joe Tjandra was a colorectal surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Royal Women's Hospital, and associate professor of surgery at the University of Melbourne. He was born in Palembang, Indonesia, to Hasan and Tini Tjandra, who were of Chinese origin. His father ran a small trading business. After primary school in Indonesia, Joe Tjandra was sent to Singapore, where he learnt English. He went on to Melbourne, Australia, to Mentone Grammar School, and then studied medicine at the University of Melbourne. He was house surgeon to Alan Cuthbertson and Gordon Clunie in the colorectal unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He then went to the UK, where he trained under Les Hughes at Cardiff. He gained his FRCS in 1986. In 1987 he returned to Australia and carried out clinical research with Ian McKenzie at the Research Centre for Cancer and Transplantation at the University of Melbourne. They worked on monoclonal antibodies, hoping to target toxins specifically to cancer cells. Among the volunteers for his project was his old headmaster at Mentone. Tjandra was awarded his MD for this research and, in the following year, gained his FRACS while a surgical registrar in the colorectal unit. Tjandra then spent a year with John Wong in Hong Kong, after which he went to the Cleveland Clinic, USA, to work for two years with Victor Fazio. He then spent a further year with Les Hughes in Cardiff. In 1993 he returned to Australia and was appointed colorectal surgeon to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and to the Royal Women's Hospital. In 2002 he was made an associate professor at the University of Melbourne and, three years later, coordinator of the Epworth Gastrointestinal Oncology Centre. He also established a large private practice. He published over 150 scientific papers, wrote 70 chapters and edited six books. His *Textbook of surgery* (Malden, Mass/Oxford, Blackwell Scientific) is now in its third edition. He was frequently a visiting lecturer/professor, particularly in the Asian Pacific region, but also in the US and Europe. He was editor of *ANZ Journal of Surgery* for several years and was on the board of a number of international journals. He died on 18 June 2007, aged just 50, following a ten-month battle with bowel cancer. He leaves a wife, Yvonne Pun, a rheumatologist, two sons (Douglas and Bradley) and a daughter (Caitlin).
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First Title value, for Searching Alford, Richard (1816 - 1893)

2026-04-04T04:45:36Z

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Publication Date 2009-09-18 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of the Rev Samuel Alford, of Curry Rivel, and younger brother of Henry Alford (qv). Educated at University College. Practised at Tewkesbury, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary, and removed to Weston-super-Mare in 1855, continuing to practise there until 1886. He was one of the founders of the old Dispensary which developed into the Weston-super-Mare Hospital. He acted as Surgeon to the Dispensary and as Consulting Surgeon to the Hospital. He died at 6 Ozil Terrace, Weston-super-Mare, on March 30th, 1893. Publications: "A Case of Spasma Glottidis." - *Prov. Med. and Surg. Jour.*, 1847, 625. "A Case of Jugular Vein Opened by Ulceration: Death." - Quoted in Liston's *Practical Surgery*, 6th ed. "A Case of Mortification from Head of Fibula to Crest of Ilium; Recovery." -* Assoc. Med. Jour.*, 1853. "Induction of Premature Labour by Ergot of Rye and Puncturing the Membranes." - *Lond. Med. Rev.*, 1861-2, ii, 511.
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First Title value, for Searching Alford, Stephen Shute (1821 - 1881)

2026-04-04T04:45:36Z

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Publication Date 2009-09-18 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College, London, and acted as House Surgeon to the North Staffordshire Infirmary. He moved to London, becoming Surgeon to the North St Pancras Provident Dispensary, Surgeon to the Keepers and Helpers at the Zoological Gardens, Hon Surgeon to the Asylum for Infirm Journeymen Tailors, Medical Officer to the Orphan Workhouse School at Haverstock Hill, and Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the North St Pancras Provident Dispensary. He lived at 7 Park Place, Haverstock Hill, and died on July 5th, 1881, as the result of a railway accident. Alford was an active supporter of the British Medical Association, and throughout his life was interested in the treatment of dipsomania. At the time of his death he was Hon Secretary to the Society for the Promotion of Legislation for the Control and Cure of Habitual Drunkards. Under the auspices of a Committee of the British Medical Association he had organized a home for that purpose near his house, 61 Haverstock Hill, which he had hoped to supervise. Publications: *A Few Words on the Drink Craving, showing the Necessity for Legislative Power as regards Protection and Treatment*. *Dipsomania, its Prevalence, Causes and Treatment.* *The Habitual Drunkards Act, with an Account of a Visit to the American Inebriate Homes.*
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First Title value, for Searching Allard, William (1818 - 1894)

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First Title value, for Searching Attree, William ( - 1846)

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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Robert Marshall (1818 - 1893)

2026-04-04T04:45:36Z

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Publication Date 2009-09-18 2016-01-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born March 2nd, 1818; educated at St Bartholomew's and St George's Hospitals and at Paris. Joined the Cape Mounted Riflemen as Assistant Surgeon, June 30th, 1843, and served in the field with this regiment during the Kaffir War of 1846-1847 (medal). He joined the Staff on Jan 12th, 1849, was transferred to the 6th Foot on March 16th, and to the 3rd Dragoon Guards on April 25th, 1851. He was promoted Staff Surgeon (2nd Class), March 28th, 1854, rejoining the Dragoons May 12th, 1854. Surgeon Major, 3rd Dragoon Guards, June 30th, 1863. He was again placed on the Staff on March 13th, 1866, and was transferred to the 7th Dragoon Guards on Aug 7th, 1867. He retired on half pay with the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, July 31st, 1869, and died at Welbourn Hall, Grantham, Lincolnshire, on March 17th, 1893. [1] [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] Portrait in College Collection.]
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First Title value, for Searching Allen, William Edward (1834 - 1885)

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Publication Date 2009-09-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born Sept 23rd, 1834; educated at University College. Entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon, Feb 10th, 1859; promoted Surgeon Feb 10th, 1871, and Surgeon Major July 1st, 1873. Retired Nov 5th, 1884, and died at Romford on May 15th, 1885.
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First Title value, for Searching Lawrence, Sir William (1783 - 1867)

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Publication Date 2005-07-28 2012-07-19
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Medical Lecturer Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on July 16th, 1783, at Cirencester, where his father, William Lawrence (1753-1837), was the chief surgeon of the town. His mother was Judith, second daughter of William Wood, of Tetbury, Gloucestershire. The younger son, Charles Lawrence (1794-1881), was a scientific agriculturist who took a leading part in founding and organizing the Royal Agricultural College at Circencester. William Lawrence went to a school at Elmore, near Gloucester, until he was apprenticed in February, 1799, to John Abernethy, who was then Assistant Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Abernethy became Lecturer on Anatomy in 1801 and appointed Lawrence his Demonstrator. This post he held for twelve years, and was esteemed by the students as an excellent teacher in the dissecting-room. He was elected as Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital on March 13th, 1813, and in the same year was elected F.R.S. In 1814 he was appointed Surgeon to the London Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye, in 1815 to the Royal Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlehem, and in 1824 he became full Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's, a post he did not resign until 1865. In 1829 he succeeded Abernethy as Lecturer on Surgery and he continued to lecture for the next thirty-three years. He had also lectured on anatomy for some years before 1829 at the Aldersgate Street School of Medicine. He became a Member of the College in 1805, a Fellow in 1843, was a Member of Council from 1825-1867, a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1840-1867, Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1854, Vice-President four times, and President in 1846 and 1855. He obtained the Jacksonian Prize in 1806 with an essay on "Hernia, and the Best Mode of Treatment", which went through five editions in its published form, and he delivered the Hunterian Oration in 1834 and 1846. From 1816-1819 he was Professor of Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. At his first lecture in 1816 he criticized Abernethy's exposition of Hunter's theory of life. His views on the "Natural History of Man" (1819) scandalized all those who regarded life as an entity entirely separate from, and above, the material organism with which it is associated. The lectures caused a serious breach between Abernethy and Lawrence, who was accused of "perverting the honourable office entrusted to him by the College of Surgeons to the unworthy design of propagating opinions detrimental to society, and of loosening those restraints on which the welfare of mankind depend." Lawrence regarded life as the assemblage of all the functions and the general result of their exercise, that life proceeds from life and is transmitted from one living body to another in uninterrupted succession. In his lectures on comparative anatomy he endorsed the views of Blumenbach, and showed that a belief in the literal accuracy of the early chapters of Genesis is inconsistent with biological fact. The lectures on the "Physiology, Zoology, and Natural History of Man" - the beginning of modern anthropology in this country - were republished by Lawrence, but Lord Eldon characteristically refused to protect his rights in them on the ground that they contradicted Scripture. Lawrence valued the work so little that he announced its suppression, and having, in the satire of the day, been ranked with Tom Payne and Lord Byron, he was thereupon vilified as a traitor to the cause of free thought. This form of abuse pursued him still more fiercely when, like Burke, who changed his views after an introduction to the King's Cabinet, he became a Conservative in the College Council Room, after having headed an agitation against the rule of the Council of the College. In 1826 there appeared a "Report of the Speeches delivered by Mr. Lawrence as Chairman at two meetings of Members, held at the Freemasons' Tavern". On the occasion of his second Hunterian Oration in 1846 a new charter which had lately been obtained failed to satisfy the aspirations of the Members of the College. An audience mostly hostile had assembled, and Lawrence defended the action of the Council and spoke contemptuously of ordinary medical practitioners, thereby raising a storm of dissent. "All parts of the theatre", says Stone, "rose against him. So great was the storm that Lawrence leant back against the wall, folded his arms, and said, 'Mr. President, when the geese have ceased their hissing I will resume.' He remained imperturbable, displayed his extraordinary talent as an orator, and concluded his address in a masterly peroration which elicited the plaudits of the whole assembly." Lawrence was at one time much in the councils of Thomas Wakley, the founder of the *Lancet*, with whom he conducted a weekly crusade against privilege in the medical world. This, of course, had not been forgotten when he appeared as the advocate of the College in 1846. As a lecturer on purely medical subjects Lawrence had a long career, during which he was without superior in manner, substance, or expression. He republished his lectures on surgery in 1863, and the work was praised by Sir William Savory and Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, who said of them that, "though superseded by other works, they are still a mine of carefully collected facts to which the student refers with pleasure and profit". Sir G. M. Humphry (q.v.) and Luther Holden (q.v.) have also borne witness to his powers as a lecturer and to his genius as a clinical exponent. Sir James Paget (q.v.), who attended his lectures, did not at the time, he says, esteem them enough, but when he came to lecture himself he followed their method and thought it the best method of scientific speaking he had ever heard: "every word had been learned by heart and yet there was not the least sign that one word was being remembered. They were admirable in their well-collected knowledge, and even more admirable in their order, their perfect clearness of language, and the quietly attractive manner in which they were delivered." Brodie described William Lawrence as remarkable for his great industry, powers of acquirement, and inexhaustible stores of information. He had a considerable command of correct language, a pure style of writing free from affectation, was gifted with the higher qualities of mind, and possessed a talent seldom surpassed. He was a vigorous, clear, and convincing writer. In addition to many contributions to the *Lancet*, the *Medical Gazette*, and the *Transactions of the Medical and Chirurgical Society*, of which he was President in 1831, he published in 1833 *A Treatise on Diseases of the Eye*, which embodied the results and observations obtained in his large ophthalmic practice. Lawrence lived to a great age and enjoyed a high degree of physical strength combined with an intense mental activity. On one occasion a friend ventured to congratulate him on looking so well. "I do not know, sir," replied Lawrence, "why I should not look as well as you do." At the age of eighty he was photographed by Frank Hollyer, and the picture, now in the College Collection, well displays his magnificent physical qualities. He became Serjeant-Surgeon to H.M. the Queen in 1858, was created a Baronet on April 30th, 1867, and died in harness in July, 1867. As he was mounting the College stairs in his capacity of Examiner, he had a stroke of paralysis, which deprived him of the power of speech. He was helped down to the Secretary's office from the second landing on the main staircase, where the seizure took place, by Mr. Pearson (the College Prosector) and others. "When taken home, he was given some loose letters out of a child's spelling-box," says his biographer, Sir Norman Moore, "and laid down the following four: B, D, C, K. He shook his head and took up a pen, when a drop of ink fell on the paper. He nodded and pointed to it. 'You want some black drop, a preparation of opium,' said his physician, and this proved to what he had tried to express." He married Louisa, daughter of James Trevor Senior, of Aylesbury, and left one son and two daughters. His son, Sir Trevor Lawrence, became Treasurer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the daughters died unmarried at a very advanced age. His grandson, Sir William Lawrence, was for many years an almoner at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Lawrence died on July 5th, 1867, at 18 Whitehall Place, S.W., where he had lived for many years. His children founded a scholarship and medal in his memory in 1873. The former was increased by his daughter to the annual value of £115 and is tenable at St. Bartholomew's Hospital as the chief surgical prize. The medal was designed in 1897 by Alfred Gilbert, R.A., and is a fine example of numismatic portraiture. A three-quarter-length portrait in oils by Pickersgill hangs in the Great Hall of St. Bartholomew's Hospital; it was painted by subscription and has been engraved. A bust by H. Weekes, R.A., is in the College; it was ordered in 1867 and is placed near the head of the staircase. It is a fine likeness. A crayon portrait by Samuel Lawrence is in the possession of the family. Lawrence was a masterful man who, by virtue of his energy and long life, impressed himself upon the growing Medical School at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where, almost in spite of himself, he carried on the tradition of Abernethy; Paget, Savory, Humphry, and to a lesser extent Sir Thomas Smith and W. Harrison Cripps, fell under his sway and were influenced by him. He was a great surgeon, though not an operator equal to Astley Cooper, Robert Liston, or Sir William Fergusson; but his powers of speech and persuasion far exceeded the abilities of the rest of the profession. It was truly said of him that had he gone to the bar he would have shone as brilliantly as he did in surgery.
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First Title value, for Searching Cullum, Victor John Leslie (1930 - 2008)

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Publication Date 2008-11-14
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Victor Cullum was an orthopaedic surgeon in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was born in Cape Town on 25 February 1930, the son of John Richard Leslie Cullum, a businessman, and Olive Mildred née Willmott, who owned a nursery school. He was educated at St George’s Primary School, Cape Town, and St John’s College, Johannesburg, before studying medicine at Witwatersrand University. After qualifying, he completed intern posts in medicine and surgery at Johannesburg Hospital and went to England to specialise in surgery. He did a series of house jobs at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary and the Birmingham Accident Hospital, and passed the FRCS in 1958. He was then a registrar in orthopaedics at the Hammersmith Hospital, working partly in Hammersmith and partly at the Ascot Infirmary. Returning to South Africa, he held registrar appointments in the orthopaedic department of Johannesburg Hospital and was registered as an orthopaedic specialist in 1963. He entered private practice in 1964, while continuing to hold part-time appointments at the Johannesburg and Germiston hospitals, and the Johannesburg branch of the General Mining Hospital Group. He married Joyce Grimes in 1957. They had two girls (Irene Alison and Jennifer Anne) and two boys (John Brian and Robert Victor). Victor Cullum was a keen dinghy sailor and a member of the South African Racing Yacht Association. He and his wife undertook a circumnavigation of Africa during the summer months of 1991, 1992 and 1993. He died on 26 May 2008.
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First Title value, for Searching Sahoy, Ronald Rabindranath (1940 - 2008)

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Publication Date 2008-11-14 2009-05-01
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon General surgeon
Details Ronald Sahoy was a pioneering cardiothoracic and general surgeon in the Caribbean. He was born on 3 January 1940, in Essequibo, British Guiana (now Guyana). His father was Kunandan Ramdial Sahoy, a business man who owned a trucking service, and his mother was Baidwattee née Narayan, who had worked as a clerk in the civil service in London in the sixties. Ronald was educated at the Modern Educational Institute, which had been founded by a cousin, Ongkar Narayan, the Central High School, Guyana, and Queen’s College, Guyana, where he won the Guyana Government intercollegiate scholarship. He studied medicine at the University of the West Indies, where he qualified in 1965, winning the Wilson-James surgery prize. He completed internships at the University Hospital of the West Indies in general surgery and general medicine and cardiology, followed by a senior house officer post in general and cardiothoracic surgery and a casualty officer post. He then did a general surgical rotation for two years, from which he won a Commonwealth scholarship in 1969, which took him to London to study for the FRCS. In 1970 he was clinical assistant to Norman Tanner at St James’s Hospital, Balham. Having passed the FRCS, he returned to the University Hospital of the West Indies, where he was a senior registrar in general and cardiothoracic surgery for the next three years. In 1973 he became a consultant surgeon to the National Chest Hospital, formerly the George V Memorial Hospital. There he headed the cardiothoracic team. In 1976 he entered private practice at the Medical Associates Hospital, where he was the senior surgeon and medical director. He married Pauline Rohini Samuels in 1965. Their two sons both became airline pilots. He died suddenly on 6 April 2008.
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First Title value, for Searching Pheils, Murray Theodore (1917 - 2006)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-11-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Murray Pheils was professor of surgery at the University of Sydney. He was born in Birmingham on 2 December 1917, the younger of the two sons of Elmer Theodore Pheils, an osteopath, and Lilian Mary née Cole. His father Elmer was a colourful character: he was born in Toledo, Ohio, and trained as an osteopath under George Still, the founder of that profession, subsequently qualifying in medicine from Ohio. He went to London in 1907, and soon built up a successful practice, including among his patients George Bernard Shaw and Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother), who he cured of torticollis by massage. Despite early hostility, he was widely accepted by regular members of the profession, and insisted that both his sons went to medical school. Murray was seven when Shaw became his father’s patient and soon got to know the great man well, describing their friendship in ‘Thank you Mr Shaw’ (*Brit med J* 1994 309 1724-1726). Murray Pheils was educated at Leighton Park School and followed his elder brother to Queens’ College, Cambridge, before going on to St Thomas’ Hospital for his clinical training. There he was influenced by B C Maybury, B W Williams, R H O B Robinson and T W Mimpriss. After qualifying, he was house surgeon and casualty officer at St Thomas’ and St Peter’s, Chertsey, before joining the RAMC in 1942. There he served in Africa and in the South East Asia Command and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Whilst still on the house at St Thomas’ he married Unity Louise McCaughey, who came from a family long established in New South Wales. Her grandfather Sir Samuel McCaughey had set up the Murrumbidgee irrigation scheme which transformed agriculture in New South Wales. After the war, Murray obtained an ex-serviceman’s registrar post at St Thomas’ and then held further general surgery and urology posts at St Thomas’ and St Peter’s. In 1951 he was appointed as a consultant at St Peter’s, having obtained his Cambridge MChir. He became a very successful surgeon with a lucrative private practice, particularly after the Nuffield Private Hospital was built and opened. However, as the years passed Murray became restive – he had always wanted a teaching hospital post but, because of his late arrival back from the Far East after the war and, by that stage, having three young mouths to feed and educate, he had to take the post at Chertsey. Following a trip out to Australia in 1965, Murray had renewed his friendship with John Lowenthal, who was chairman of the Sydney University department of surgery. He was informed that there was to be a teaching department established at the Repatriation Hospital at Concord and they were looking for a mature surgeon to run the new teaching department. Murray returned to the UK, saw the post advertised, applied and was appointed to start in mid 1966. He rapidly made his mark not only as a clinician but also as a teacher. Casualties were being received from the Australian Forces in Vietnam. The condition of the evacuees was very poor and the whole process needed urgent attention as preventable deaths were all too common. Murray went to the Army hospital at Ingleburn and triaged the evacuees so they were transferred to an appropriate hospital for treatment. Furthermore, surgical teams of senior registrars and junior consultants were sent to Vietnam to improve the standard of care. With the backing of his colleagues, Murray was instrumental in transforming the management of the Australian Vietnam War casualties. His Second World War experience was invaluable in this respect. He became a full professor in 1973 and chairman of the university department in 1979. As the Concord department grew and evolved (the hospital became an acute hospital), so Murray’s department developed a special interest in bowel cancer. He published extensively on colorectal cancer, as well as writing a landmark paper on ischaemic colitis with Adrian Marston and others. He also published on abdominal actinomycosis, vesicocolic fistula and cholecystitis. He set up the section of colon and rectal surgery at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and endowed the Murray and Unity Pheils travel fellowship. Until he was over 80 he had a medico-legal practice in Sydney. He was a consultant to the New South Wales Law Reform Commission on informed decisions about medical procedures. He continued his interest in the Army, as a colonel in the RAAMC and as a consultant surgeon to the Australian Army. Outside surgery, he had a keen interest in his family and that of his wife, and wrote *The Return to Coree: the rise and fall of a pastoral dynasty* (St Leonards, New South Wales, Allen & Unwin, 1998). He died on 19 December 2006, leaving his wife, Unity, two sons (Michael Murray and Peter John) and two daughters (Diana and Johanna). Peter John Pheils is a consultant surgeon in Broadstairs, Kent.
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First Title value, for Searching Leigh, Henry Thomas (1807 - 1876)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised at Turnham Green, Middlesex (Leigh & Son, Annandale House). At the time of his death he was Surgeon to the Chiswick Dispensary. He died on May 8th, 1876.
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First Title value, for Searching Lewis, Cecil Wilfred Dickens (1916 - 2006)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-11-09 2007-03-08
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Cecil Wilfred Dickens Lewis was a former foundation director of postgraduate medical education at Hong Kong University. He was born on 5 January 1916 in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, the son of Wilfred Ernest Llewellyn Lewis, an Anglican clergyman, and Dorothy Gertrude Lewis. Most of his relatives were clergy, but one brother was a medical practitioner. He was educated at St John’s School, Leatherhead, and the Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff, where he qualified in 1939. At the outbreak of the Second Wold War he joined the RNVR, where he served in Q-ships in the English Channel, on *HMS Ripley* (a destroyer in North Atlantic convoys) and finally as a medical officer to the Royal Marines at Eastney, Hampshire. After the war, he returned to Cardiff as assistant lecturer in anatomy and then as registrar and lecturer in the surgical unit. Here he published extensively, together with Lambert Rogers, and did research into fluid balance following head injuries, which became the subject of his MS thesis, the second to be awarded by the University of Wales. He was appointed consultant surgeon at Cardiff in 1954. In 1956 he was appointed foundation professor of surgery in Perth, Western Australia, a post he held until 1965. He then went on to be dean and professor of medical education at Auckland. In 1973 he was appointed foundation director of postgraduate medical education in Hong Kong University, where he remained until 1978. At the College he won the Jacksonian prize in 1955, and a Hunterian professorship on moles and melanomata in 1956. He married Betsy Jean Pillar in 1940, and Helen Mary Hughan in 1988. He had two sons (Peter Wyndham Dickens and David Robin Dickens) and a daughter (Celia Rosemary). A son, Robin, predeceased him. Among his many hobbies he included water-colour painting and sculpture, playing the clarinet and wood-turning. A committed Christian, he was a member of the Third Order of St Francis for the last 20 years of his life. He died on 19 March 2006 in Abergavenny.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Keeffe, Declan (1922 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-11-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Declan O’Keeffe was a surgeon in Kenya. He was born in London on 18 February 1922, the son of Edmond, a furniture salesman, and Jessica Edith née Riches. From St Dominic’s Preparatory School, West Hampstead, he won a ‘free place’ to the Regent Street Polytechnic Secondary School. He later went to Guy’s Hospital on a senior county exhibition and scholarship. At Guy’s he won prizes in haematology and bacteriology and completed house jobs. He then joined the RAF medical service. On demobilisation he was a junior and then senior surgical registrar at Guy’s, before joining the Colonial Medical Service in Kenya as a provincial surgical specialist. After he retired he remained in Mombasa in private surgical practice. He married Isabella McNeill in 1947, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. His eldest son studied medicine at Guy’s. O’Keeffe died on 1 December 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Marsden, Austin Joseph (1919 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-11-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Austin Marsden was a consultant surgeon in Ormskirk and St Helens. He was born in St Helens, Lancashire, on Christmas Day 1919, the third son of George Marsden, a shoe merchant, and Agnes née Liptrot. He was educated at St Helens Catholic Grammar School, from which he went on to read medicine at Liverpool University, where he won gold medals in anatomy and medicine. After junior posts he was on the surgical unit under Charles Wells. He was appointed consultant to Ormskirk and St Helen’s. Deafness precluded him from military service. He married Mary Catherine Robers in 1945. They had two sons and two daughters, one of whom became a doctor. Among his many interests were European languages and medical history. He wrote an account of Pierre Franco, the 16th Century French surgeon. Marsden died in June 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Laird, Martin (1917 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-11-09
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Occupation General Practitioner
Details Martin Laird was a general practitioner in Richmond, South Australia. He qualified from Sheffield University in 1941 and then demonstrated anatomy for two years. In 1943 he became a resident medical officer at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield. He then served in the RAMC in Burma, returning after the war to Sheffield, to specialise in surgery and take the FRCS. He was resident surgical officer to the Sheffield Royal Infirmary and then went on to the Westminster Hospital as registrar. In 1952 he went to Nottingham General Hospital as a senior registrar and remained there for the next three years. He then retrained in general practice in Cleethorpes. In 1956 he emigrated to South Australia, where he was in general practice in Richmond. He died in Adelaide on 13 November 2004. He was predeceased by his wife Joan. He leaves three daughters, Fiona, Alison and Isobel.
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First Title value, for Searching Amphlett, Samuel Holmden (1813 - 1857)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The second son of the Rev Richard Holmden Amphlett, MA Oxon, Lord of the Manor and Rector of Hadzor, Worcestershire, and afterwards of Wychbold Hall, near Droitwich. He was younger brother to Mr Justice Sir Richard Paul Amphlett (1809-1883). Apprenticed to Mr Jukes at the Birmingham General Hospital, he succeeded his master as Surgeon to the institution in September, 1843. He married the eldest daughter of Dr G E Male (d. 1845), Physician to the Birmingham General Hospital from June, 1805, to September, 1841. Amphlett died on Jan 28th, 1857, at Heath Green, near Birmingham, with the eulogy that “his frank and candid expression of opinion, his integrity and uprightness endeared him to a large circle of friends whose confidence he enjoyed.” The Amphletts were an influential family of very long standing in the County of Worcester.
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First Title value, for Searching Amyot, Thomas Edward (1817 - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Eldest son of Thomas Amyot, FRS, Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries and sometime Private Secretary to the Right Honourable William Wyndham. His mother was Jane, daughter of Edward Colman, of Norwich, surgeon. Thomas Amyot was born on Jan 28th, 1817, and was admitted to Westminster School on Jan 12th, 1829. Educated professionally at the Hunterian School of Medicine and at St Thomas’s Hospital. Married on Oct 28th, 1847, Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev Francis Howes, Minor Canon of Norwich Cathedral, and had issue one son and a daughter. He practised at Diss in Norfolk, and died there on Dec 15th, 1895. Amyot appears to have inherited the versatility of his father, for his leisure hours were spent in microscopy, astronomy, geology, and botany. He is also said to have had musical and literary tastes. He was President of the Norfolk and Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society and of the East Anglian Branch of the British Medical Association. Publications: “Diabetes: Saccharine Treatment – Death – Autopsy.” – *Med. Times and Gaz.*, 1861, i, 327. “A Case of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus with Bursting of the Head.” – *Ibid.*, 1869, i, 330. “Foot and Mouth Disease in the Human Subject.” – *Ibid*, 1871, ii, 555.
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First Title value, for Searching Jefferiss, Christopher David (1940 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-08-16
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Christopher Jefferiss was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Devon. He was the son of Derek Jefferiss, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Exeter. Like his father, he was an undergraduate at the Middlesex Hospital, where he qualified in 1964. He held a variety of junior posts at the Middlesex, Weymouth and District, and the Royal Devon and Exeter hospitals, before becoming a senior house officer at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter in 1970, gaining the FRCS in the same year. He then abandoned his intention of becoming an obstetrician and gynaecologist in favour of orthopaedics, becoming successively registrar, senior registrar and finally consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the Princess Elizabeth and Royal Devon and Exeter hospitals, eventually specialising in the surgery of the hand and the foot. He was an active member of the Hand Society and also the British Society for the Surgery of the Foot, and published 14 papers as author and co-author, mostly to do with the hand. Christopher played a leading part in the postgraduate orthopaedic training programme in Exeter. He became lead clinician in orthopaedics in 1996, and in 1997 clinical director for trauma, orthopaedics and rheumatology. In 2001 he was awarded a certificate of commendation by the BMA and the chairman’s award from the Devon and Exeter NHS Trust in recognition of his outstanding service. He was much sought after as a medico-legal specialist and was regarded by all as a man of great integrity and wisdom. He died on 26 November 2004 from a cerebellar tumour, and is survived by his wife Madlen, a former Bart’s theatre sister and by their three children, Fred, Lizzie and Emily.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Alexander Dunlop (1794 - 1871)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of Andrew Anderson, merchant, of Greenock, and nephew of Professor John Anderson, founder of the Andersonian University, Glasgow. Born in Greenock, he pursued his preliminary studies in Glasgow, and completed his medical training in Edinburgh and London. He was appointed a Surgeon's Mate (General Service) in 1813, and on March 13th was Hospital Assistant to the Forces. On May 12th, 1814, he joined the 49th Foot as Assistant Surgeon, but was afterwards placed on half pay, was re-employed by exchange on full pay, was again placed on half pay, and finally commuted on Sept 3rd, 1830. He served in Canada for a part of the time. He practised in Glasgow in 1820 and was elected Surgeon to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1823, being appointed Physician to the Institution in 1838. Also served as Physician to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and from 1852-1855 was President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons. He married in 1829 a daughter of Thomas McCall, of Craighead, Lanarkshire, and had by her four sons and two daughters. Of the sons one, Dr T McCall Anderson, became Professor of Medicine in the Andersonian University. A D Anderson died at 159 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, on May 13th, 1871. He wrote only a few articles for professional papers, and is best remembered by that "On the Treatment of Burns by Cotton," published in the *Glasgow Medical Journal* for 1828. He is said to have enjoyed an extensive share of what is called "the best practice". He had a delicate sense of honour, and always showed himself acutely sensitive in regard to the feelings of others. His portrait by Sir Daniel Macnee, painted in 1870, hangs in the Faculty Hall at Glasgow.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Henry Graeme (1882 - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born Aug 1st, 1882, the younger son of Nicol Anderson, of Barrhead, Renfrewshire. Educated at Glasgow, King’s College, London, and the London Hospital. Graduated at the University of Glasgow, and was admitted a Member and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on the same day. He filled various minor posts at the London, St Mark’s, the Royal Orthopaedic, the Metropolitan, and the Cancer Hospitals before he was elected Assistant Surgeon at St Mark’s Hospital, where he devoted himself to the surgery of the rectum. He joined the Royal Navy on the outbreak of War in 1914 and was posted to the Royal Naval Air Service Expeditionary Force, serving at Antwerp, Ypres, and on the Belgian and Northern French coasts. Appointed Surgeon to the British Flying School at Vendôme in 1917, and from 1918-1919 was Surgeon to the Central RAF Hospital, and was afterwards transferred from the Royal Navy to the Royal Air Force as Surgical Consultant to the RAF, with the rank of Major. He returned to civil practice at the end of the war, living at 75 Harley Street, and died suddenly whilst playing in a lawn tennis tournament on June 28th, 1925. He was married and left a widow and one daughter. Anderson was one of the small number of Air Medical Officers who obtained a pilot’s certificate when flying was in its infancy. He gave much thought and research to the physical fitness of airmen, the prevention and treatment of aerial injuries, and the selection of aviators from the surgical point of view. He was a keen sportsman and was particularly interested in boxing. Publication: *The Medical and Surgical Aspects of Aviation*, Oxford Medical Publications, 1919.
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First Title value, for Searching Toogood, Jonathan (1784 - 1870)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-04-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was apprenticed to Mr Dawe, of Bridgwater, and was educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He practised for many years at Cornhill, Bridgwater, Somerset, where he founded, and was for thirty-three years Surgeon to, the Infirmary. He also practised at Taunton. He died at Torquay, after his retirement, on Dec 7th, 1870, being then Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Toogood’s *Reminiscences* are dedicated to Dr Francis Sibson, FRS, who conducted the author safely through a very severe and dangerous illness. Though not a biography, the work contains interesting accounts of West Country practice in the first half of the nineteenth century and of the extraordinary survivals of superstitions. The following letter is quoted by Toogood as a specimen of the familiar correspondence of Abernethy, whom he had consulted in a hopeless case:- “MY DEAR SIR, “All I can say to patients situated as yours is, after telling them what treatment seems rational and appropriate to the case, to exhort them not to despond; because we know many obstinately disordered states of the bowels which have continued until they have nearly exhausted the patient, have unexpectedly arrived at a kind of crisis, by the production of morbid discharges, etc. And with regard to local diseases, the proverb of ‘‘tis a long lane that has no turning’, is fully verified, for when least expected, a favourable change often occurs, as I suppose you can testify. In every situation of life our primary enquiry ought to be what is right to be done, and having ascertained as far as we have the power, we must then perform or endure it. I have no objection to opiates when required to soothe pain.” And he adds, in reference to a second case - “I hope Miss F - will do well under your care; I know the amendment of the health is the primary object in the cure of all local diseases; ‘tis the removal, in my opinion, of the cause. I feel that I am writing what you know, and that you will think me stupid; I will therefore add no more than that I remain, “Yours most sincerely, “J TOOGOOD, ESQ, JOHN ABERNETHY. “*Bridgwater*.” Publications: - *Hints to Mothers. Reminiscences of a Medical Life; with Cases and Practical Illustrations,* 8vo, Taunton and London, 1853.
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First Title value, for Searching West, Sir Augustus (1788 - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Morgan ( - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Banks, Sir William Mitchell (1842 - 1904)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-11-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Edinburgh on Nov 1st, 1842, the son of Peter S Banks, Writer to the Signet. He received his early education at Edinburgh Academy and passed from there to the University of Edinburgh. Graduated MD with honours, and won the Gold Medal for his thesis on the Wolffian bodies in 1864. Acted for a time as Prosector to Professor John Goodsir and later as Demonstrator of Anatomy under Professor Allen Thomson at the University of Glasgow. Served as dresser and as House Surgeon to James Syme (qv) at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and visited Paraguay to act as Surgeon to the Republican Government. He became assistant to E R Bickersteth (qv) at Liverpool in 1868 in succession to Reginald Harrison (qv), and joined the staff of the Infirmary School of Medicine, first as Demonstrator and afterwards as Lecturer on Anatomy. This post he retained with the title of Professor when the Infirmary School was merged in University College, Liverpool. He resigned the Chair in 1894 and was then honoured with the title of Emeritus Professor of Anatomy. Meanwhile, having served the offices of Pathologist and Curator of the Museum, he succeeded Reginald Harrison as Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, in 1875, served as full Surgeon from 1877 till Nov, 1902, when he resigned and was appointed Consulting Surgeon. The Committee of the Infirmary paid him the unique compliment of assigning him ten beds in his former wards. Mitchell Banks was the first representative of the Victoria University on the General Medical Council, and was a Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1890-1896. He was one of the founders of the Liverpool Biological Association and was elected the first President. He was placed on the Commission of the Peace as JP of Liverpool in 1892 and in 1899 he received the honour of knighthood. He was an honorary LLD of Edinburgh. He married in 1874 Elizabeth Rathbone, daughter of John Elliot, a merchant of Liverpool, and by her had two sons, one of whom survived him. He died suddenly at Aix-la-Chapelle on Aug 9th, 1904, whilst travelling home from Homburg, and was buried in the Smithdown Road Cemetery in Liverpool. Mitchell Banks deserves recognition both as a surgeon and as an organizer. The modern operation for removal of the cancerous breast is largely due to his practice and advocacy. He recommended, in the face of strenuous opposition, an extensive operation that should include removal of the axillary glands when most surgeons were contented with local amputation. He drew attention to his method in 1878 and made it the topic of the Lettsomian Lectures at the Medical Society of London in 1900. As an organizer he formed one of the band who built up the fortunes of the Medical School at Liverpool. Finding it a provincial school at a very low ebb, Banks and his associates raised it by dint of hard work first to the rank of a medical college and, finally, to that of a well-equipped medical faculty forming part of a modern university. The plan involved the rebuilding of the infirmary, and Banks was a member of the medical deputation which, with characteristic thoroughness, visited many continental hospitals to study their design and equipment before the foundation stone of the Liverpool building was laid in 1887. Mitchell Banks had a sound knowledge of the history of medicine. His collection of early medical works was sold in seventy-eight lots by Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge in June, 1906. He wrote good English in a pleasant style, as may be seen in “The Gentle Doctor”, a scholarly address to the students of the Yorkshire College at Leeds in Oct, 1892, and in “Physic and Letters”, the Annual Oration delivered before the Medical Society of London in May, 1893. His portrait, painted by the Hon John Collier, was presented to him by his colleagues and students, when he retired from active duties at University College, Liverpool. “The William Mitchell Banks Lectureship” in the University of Liverpool was founded and endowed by his fellow-citizens in his memory in 1905. Publications:- A paper dealing with a more extensive operation in cases of cancer of the breast appeared in the *Liverpool and Manchester Medical and Surgical Reports*, 1878, 192. *Some Results of the Operative Treatment of Cancer of the Breast*, Edinburgh, 1882. *The Gentle Doctor*, Liverpool, 1893. *Physic and Letters*, Liverpool, 1893.
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First Title value, for Searching Lipscomb, John Thomas Nicholson (1819 - 1898)

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First Title value, for Searching Lister, Thomas David (1869 - 1924)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-27
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Occupation Physician
Details Born in London on January 30th, 1869, the son of Francis Wilson Lister and Elizabeth Wishart, only daughter of David Roy, of Glasgow. He was educated at the Haberdashers' Company's School, and received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon in 1893-1894. He was Registrar and Pathologist to the East London Hospital for Children from 1897-1900, and from 1917-1919 Consulting Physician for Chest and Heart Cases to the Prince of Wales's Hospital for Officers, Marylebone. At the time of his death he was Physician to the Mount Vernon Consumption Hospital; Hon Advisory Physician to the Council of the National Association for Establishing Sanatoria for Workers, and had drafted, as chairman of its sites and buildings subcommittee, the scheme for the Benenden Sanatorium. He was also Physician to the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women, and to the City Dispensary; Consulting Physician to the Benevolent Fund of the National Union of Teachers, the National Association of Local Government Officers, and the Post Office Sanatorium Society. He was also an invited member of the Panel Committee of the County of London and of the Hospital Fund Board of Delegates, and Lecturer at the London School of Clinical Medicine. A man of many interests and of great industry, he carried out much valuable work. Possessed of a keen, incisive, mathematical mind, he interested himself deeply in the problems of life insurance and the industrial aspects of disease, especially of tuberculosis. He was a recognized authority on these subjects; indeed, one of the foremost, as his writings prove. He was the chief Medical Officer of three great life assurance offices - the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation, the North British and Mercantile Insurance Office, and the Friends' Provident Institution. It was characteristic of him that he was not content to study the medical problems of life assurance only, but that he also endeavoured to get a grasp of the actuarial and the business aspects of this important subject. His Presidential Address before the Assurance Medical Society on March 3rd, 1920, was a thoughtful, original, and suggestive essay, indicating numerous lines for future investigation and research. In it he developed an ingenious idea of vital trajectories (curves). Lister died after a long illness at his residence at Henley-on-Thames on July 30th, 1924, being survived by his widow - only daughter of Eugen Ritter - two sons, and a daughter. Publications: Edited the new edition of Chavasse's *Advice to a Mother*, 1912. A work on Medical Examination for Life Assurance, which is a standard work of reference, 8vo, London, 1921. *Sanatoria for the People* (with G H GARLAND), 8vo, London, 1911. "Industrial Tuberculosis." - *Lancet*, 1910, ii, 1122. "Value of Sanatorium Treatment." - *Ibid*, 1917, ii, 739. "Prognosis in Phthisis Pulmonalis." - *Med Press*, 1911, i, 138. "Tuberculin Treatment of Ambulant cases of Phthisis." -*Proc Roy Soc Med* (Med Sect), 1912-13, vi, 111. "Opening of Discussion on Treatment of Phthisis by Induction of Pneumothorax." - (*Therap and Pharmacol Sect*), 1914-15, viii, 9.
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First Title value, for Searching Estlin, John Bishop (1785 - 1855)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-04-04 2008-05-01
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on Dec 26th, 1785, at St Michael’s Hill, Bristol, the son of John Prior Estlin (1747-1817) and his second wife, who had been Miss Bishop. His father was the well-known Unitarian, friend of Coleridge, Southey, and Priestley, who kept a school in a large house at the top of St Michael’s Hill. In this school John Bishop Estlin was educated until he began his professional studies at Bristol Infirmary in 1804. He continued his studies at Guy’s Hospital and completed them at Edinburgh. He settled in practice at Bristol in 1808 and soon became interested in ophthalmology. In 1812 he established in Frogmore Street, Bristol, a dispensary for the treatment of diseases of the eye which he maintained for some time at his own expense. His reputation as an ophthalmic surgeon was soon established and he became well known throughout the West of England. He married in 1817 Margaret Bagehot, aunt of Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), the English economist and journalist: she died four years later, leaving an only daughter. His health failing, Estlin visited the island of St Vincent in 1832, where the warmer climate soon restored him. In 1838 he obtained and circulated a fresh supply of lymph from cows near Berkeley, in Gloucestershire, where Jenner had originally obtained the material for vaccination against small-pox. In 1845 he published his *Remarks on Mesmerism*, in which he gave a lucid exposition of the scientific method of investigating the phenomena said to be due to the hidden forces of nature. He was also a social reformer, dealing with temperance, the abolition of slavery, religious toleration, and the suppression of medical impostures. In religion he was a convinced Unitarian like his father, and wrote in favour of the Christian miracles and on Prayer and Divine Aid. He was always generous, but nevertheless grew rich and became, by force of upright character and professional skill, one of the most trusted men in Bristol. He died on June 10th, 1855, and was buried in the Lewins Mead burial ground, Bristol. There are monumental tablets to him and his wife in the adjoining meeting-house. PUBLICATIONS:— *Remarks on Mesmerism*, 1845. “Observations on Diseased Spine . . . Strictures on Baynton’s Treatise,” 8vo, Bristol, 1818; reprinted from *Edin Med and Surg Jour*, 1817, xiii, 341. Papers on “Amaurosis.” - *Edin Med and Surg Jour*, 1815, xi, 410. “Cases of Cysticercus Cellulosæ in the Eye.” - *Lond Med Gaz*, 1837-8, 839; and 1839-40, N.S. ii, 35. “One Hundred Cases of Operation for Strabismus.” - *Prov Med and Surg Jour*, 1842, iv, 303. “On Pretended Cure of Cataract by Prussic Acid.” - *Ibid*, 1842-3, v, 209. “An Address on Mesmerism.” - *Ibid*, 1843, vi, 303; and 1845, ix, 513.
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First Title value, for Searching Bickersteth, Robert (1787 - 1857)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-04-24 2013-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Kirby Lonsdale, Westmorland, where his father was engaged in a large medical practice. He belonged to a family many of whom have been distinguished as bishops and clergy of the Church of England. After his apprenticeship he studied in Edinburgh and London, becoming an MRCS in 1806. After starting in practice he was elected at the age of 23 Surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary in 1810, and held the appointment for forty years, when he was made Consulting Surgeon. His son Edward Robert Bickersteth (q.v.) and his grandson Robert Alexander (q.v.) succeeded him as surgeons to the Royal Infirmary. He was an active member of the Medical Institution, and joined the British Medical Association. He died of inflammation of the lungs at his house in Rodney Street on April 17th, 1857.
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First Title value, for Searching Boutflower, Charles (1782 - 1844)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-04-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on Feb 2nd, 1782. Received his later professional training at St George’s Hospital, where he was entered as a six months’ surgical pupil on Oct 7th, 1814. He had previously seen much active naval and military service. He joined the Royal Navy as Assistant Surgeon on April 4th, 1800, and became Surgeon’s Mate on the Hospital Staff not attached to a regiment on May 24th, 1801. He joined the 40th Foot as Assistant Surgeon on April 27th, 1802, being promoted to Surgeon of the 96th Foot on March 25th, 1808, and transferring to the 40th Foot on June 8th, 1809. He was placed on the Staff on Sept 3rd, 1812, and was on half pay from Sept 25th, 1814, to June 25th, 1815. He retired on half pay on Jan 25th, 1816. He saw active service as a surgeon in America in 1807, when he was taken prisoner, and in the Peninsula from 1809-1814. He practised in Liverpool after leaving the Army, and died on March 26th, 1844. PUBLICATION: *The Journal of an Army Surgeon during the Peninsula War*. [Colonel Johnston notes in his *RAMC Roll*, No. 2418, that in the *London Gazette* the name is wrongly given as ‘Boat Flower’ and in some *Army Lists* as ‘Boatflower’. His signature was ‘Boutflower’, but the name is certainly pronounced ‘Bo-flower’, which may have led to the mistake in spelling.]
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Details Born on April 5th, 1827, at Upton House, Stoke Newington, then a pleasant suburb of London, the fourth child and second son of Joseph Jackson Lister and Isabella Harris. J Jackson Lister was a port-wine shipper in partnership with Thomas Barton Beck, of Tokenhouse Yard, the grandfather of Marcus Beck (q.v.). Joseph Jackson Lister (1786-1869) was the inventor of the achromatic objective used in modern microscopes, and was admitted a FRS on February 2nd, 1832. Like his wife and his partner he was a member of the Society of Friends. Isabella Harris, Lister’s mother, was the youngest daughter of Anthony Harris, a master mariner of Maryport, Cumberland. Before her marriage she had assisted her widowed mother, who was superintendent of Ackworth School, near Pontefract, in Yorkshire, a school intended for the education of the children of Friends who were “not in affluent circumstances”. Joseph Lister was sent first to a private school at Hitchin and afterwards to the Quaker School kept by Mr Binns, of Grove House, Tottenham, where he got a sound classical education with some knowledge of comparative anatomy. From an early age he determined to become a surgeon, and he soon learned to macerate bones, dissect fish and small animals, and articulate their skeletons. He also showed some ability in drawing and sketching. Lister entered the unsectarian University of London in 1844, taking the Arts course and graduating BA in 1847, with honours in classics and botany. He must also have visited the North London (now University College) Hospital, for he was [may have been] present on December 21st, 1846, when Robert Liston (q.v.) performed the first operation in London upon a patient anaesthetized with ether. During his undergraduate period he suffered from small-pox, followed by a nervous breakdown, leading to a long holiday, so that he did not begin his medical studies at University College until October, 1848. During his student career he took an active part in the Debating Society at University College and in the affairs of the Hospital Medical Society. He seems to have been influenced more especially by the teaching of Wharton Jones (q.v.) and William Sharpey, physiologists, and by Thomas Graham, the Professor of Chemistry; and in 1853 he published two papers based on experiments. The first confirmed Kölliker’s observations on the muscular tissue of the iris, in which he demonstrated the existence both of dilator and sphincter fibres; the second, on the involuntary muscle of the skin, showed the means by which ‘goose skin’ is produced. Both communications were illustrated by delicate camera lucida drawings such as his father had taught him to make. In 1851 he served as House Surgeon to Sir John Eric Erichsen (q.v.) after he had acted as House Physician to Dr Walter Hayle Walshe. Lister had no definite plan for the future at the end of his house surgeoncy, and was advised by Professor Sharpey to visit Edinburgh, where James Syme (q.v.) had made a great surgical reputation, and then proceed to the Continental schools. He took the advice, went to Edinburgh, lodged in South Frederick Street, and presented himself to Syme in September, 1853. Syme at once took a liking to the young Quaker. He was invited to Millbank, Syme’s country house at Morningside, and became a regular attendant at the Royal Infirmary and Minto House, being sometimes allowed to assist at private operations. By the end of October Lister had determined to stay in Edinburgh through the winter, and in November Syme appointed him ‘Supernumerary Clerk’, a non-resident post which was much coveted. The duties were to assist at every operation, to watch the subsequent course of the case, and to take notes. During his term of office he read a paper at a full meeting of the Royal Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society to show that cancellous exostoses ossified in the same manner as the epiphysial cartilages of long bones. He was appointed Resident House Surgeon to Syme on his return from a Christmas visit to his family at Upton House in 1854, and held office until the end of February, 1855. Syme had by this time formed so high an estimate of his surgical ability that he gave Lister to understand that they stood in the relationship of Surgeon and Consulting Surgeon, and that he had authority to operate upon such emergency cases as he thought fit. This privilege was very unusual at a time when hospital surgeons were most averse to delegate any of the duties entrusted to them either in teaching, operating, or treatment. Lister made the best use of his opportunities, and his twelve dressers were not slow to appreciate their good fortune; to them he was always known as ‘The Chief’, whilst Syme was spoken of as ‘The Master’. News reached Edinburgh in October, 1854, that Richard James Mackenzie, Surgeon to the Infirmary, and Lecturer on Surgery at the Edinburgh Extra-mural School, had died of cholera at Balbec on September 28th, whilst serving as temporary surgeon to the 79th Highlanders in the Crimean War. Lister determined to “take advantage of this unrivalled opportunity”, as he called it, hired a lecture-room at 4 High School Yards, was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on April 21st, 1855, took lodgings at 3 Rutland Square, nearly opposite Syme’s consulting-room, and settled in Edinburgh to teach and practise surgery. He paid a hurried visit to Paris in June, 1855, to take a course of operative surgery on the dead body, returned to Rutland Square in July, and in August became engaged to Agnes, Syme’s elder daughter. The engagement led him to resign his membership of the Society of Friends and to become a Scottish Episcopalian, though he retained to the end of his life nearly all his Quaker characteristics. The wedding took place in Syme’s drawing-room at Millbank, in Scottish fashion, on April 23rd, 1856, and the marriage was supremely happy though there were no children. Lady Lister died of acute pneumonia whilst on a holiday at Rapallo on April 12th, 1893. Lister gave his first lecture on the “Principles and Practice of Surgery” at 4 High School Yards on Wednesday, November 7th, 1855. In preparation for it he had carried out a series of researches - mainly on the web of the frog’s foot - to show the early stages of inflammation, the results of which he communicated to the Royal Society on June 18th, 1857. At the end of the session he made an extended tour with his wife, visited France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, making the acquaintance of many Continental surgeons. He returned to Edinburgh in October, 1856, rented a house, No 11 Rutland Street, and was unanimously elected Assistant Surgeon to the Edinburgh Infirmary on October 13th, 1856. He began his second course of lectures on November 15th, and again dealt with the pathology of inflammation, treating also of the coagulation of the blood and the effects of stimuli on the pigment cells of the frog. He dealt, therefore, with the institutes of medicine rather than with surgery: his class, though small, was appreciative. James A Lawrie, Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of Glasgow, became an invalid in August, 1859. The Home Secretary, Sir George Cornewall Lewis - on the advice of Allen Thomson, Syme, and Robert Christison - nominated Lister to the post, for which there were seven candidates. The appointment was confirmed on Jan 28th, 1860, and Lister’s departure from Edinburgh was celebrated by a banquet and the presentation of a silver flagon. He inaugurated his appointment as Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of Glasgow by delivering a course of lectures to a class of 182 students. He had, however, no charge of beds, and it was not until August 15th, 1861 - nineteen months after his appointment to the Chair of Surgery - that he was elected Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary; nor then without some opposition. As a result of his experiences as Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary at Glasgow Lister described and practised a new method of amputation at the knee, and invented a tourniquet for compressing the aorta during amputation at the hip and for use during ligature of the large arteries for aneurysm, which was then of frequent occurrence. He also devised a method for reducing the loss of blood during amputation by raising the limb for some minutes before a tourniquet was screwed home. He also invented a needle with an eye for passing wire sutures through the tissues. Lister was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1860 and delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1863, taking “Coagulation of the Blood” as the subject. James Miller, the Professor of Systematic Surgery at Edinburgh, died in 1864, and Lister was urged to apply for the Chair on the ground that it was held for life, whilst at Glasgow the Surgeon to the Infirmary could only be elected twice, each time for a period of five years, and he might thus again be left without a hospital appointment. Lister applied, but James Spence was elected. In this year he invented a simple instrument for removing foreign bodies from the external auditory meatus and described his well-known operation for excision of the wrist. The year 1865 is memorable in the life of Lister because Dr Thomas Anderson, the Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow, drew his attention to Pasteur’s work which showed that putrefaction was due to living organisms in the air. In March, 1865, he used liquefied German creosote and then carbolic acid in the treatment of compound fractures, and he thus began the use of antiseptic surgery. The stages through which it passed were: crude acid in a watery solution; a purer acid dissolved in oil; a putty made by mixing common whitening with a 1-4 or 1-6 solution of carbolic acid in linseed oil; and finally a dressing of lint soaked in carbolized oil. The experimental dressings were carried out quietly in his ward at the Glasgow Infirmary until he published his epoch-making papers in the *Lancet* from March to July, 1867, under the title, “On a New Method of Treating Compound Fractures, Abscess, etc., with Observation on the Conditions of Suppuration”. He made his system still more widely known by reading a paper at the Dublin Meeting of the British Medical Association in August, 1867, “On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery”. He directed attention in it to three causes of suppuration: “(1) Simple inflammatory suppuration; (2) Suppuration caused by a chemical or a mechanical stimulus; (3) Suppuration caused by decomposition.” It does not appear as if he had yet thought of ferments or fungi as a cause. In the summer of 1866 Lister applied for the post of Professor of Surgery at University College which had become vacant by the resignation of Sir John Eric Erichsen (q.v.), but John Marshall (q.v.), who had been Assistant Surgeon from 1847, was elected. From 1867-1869 Lister was occupied in experimenting with a variety of wound dressings whilst he continued to work at the Glasgow Infirmary and to give a daily lecture at the University to a crowd of enthusiastic students. Towards the end of this period he had learnt and accepted the germ theory of putrefaction. He tied the carotid artery of a horse with silk which had been soaked in carbolic acid on December 12th, 1867, and obtained union by first intention, and in December, 1868, he first used an absorbable ligature - catgut. Professor Syme - his father-in-law - fell into ill health in 1869 and resigned his chair of Clinical Surgery at Edinburgh in July. Lister was appointed in his place on Aug 18th, his pleasure being marred by the death of his father on October 24th. Lister returned to Edinburgh directly after the funeral and took a furnished house at 17 Abercromby Square, moving afterwards to 9 Charlotte Square, then a fashionable and medical centre. Here he soon became known as the leading surgeon in Scotland and acquired a larger practice than at any other time of his life. From 1873-1881 he was deeply interested in the effects of yeasts and micro-organisms on suppuration, and made a succession of changes in the dressings of wounds. He began to use the carbolic spray in 1871 and did not abandon it until 1887, although Sir John Burdon Sanderson had shown as early as 1873 that bacteria are not carried by the air and are killed by a dry heat of 100° C. In 1870 he employed many layers of carbolized gauze and a layer of ‘hat-lining’. In 1876 he used boric lint, on the suggestion of Louis Pasteur, as a dressing for wounds. In 1884 he used corrosive sublimate ‘blue’ wool and gauze and sal alembroth - a double salt of bichloride of mercury and chloride of ammonium. In 1889 he adopted a gauze charged with a double cyanide of mercury and zinc. He first used a rubber drainage tube in 1871, seemingly on his own initiative, though it had been employed by Chassaignac as early as 1859; his patient was Queen Victoria, upon whom he operated at Balmoral for an abscess in the axilla. He had been appointed Surgeon to the Queen in Scotland in 1870. Sir William Fergusson (q.v.) died on February 10th, 1877, and as early as Feb 18th Lister had been approached as to his willingness to become Professor of Clinical Surgery at King’s College Hospital in London, to fill the vacancy thus created. John Wood was next in order of succession. He was appointed, and on June 18th, 1877, Lister was elected to an additional chair of Clinical Surgery and was given beds in the hospital. He resigned his offices in Edinburgh and came to London purely in a missionary spirit to advance the cause he had so deeply at heart, and took a house at 12 Park Crescent, Regent’s Park. He brought with him Sir W Watson Cheyne, who had been his House Surgeon; John Stewart, who afterwards practised at Halifax, Nova Scotia; W H Dobie, who lived afterwards at Chester; and James Altham, who spent his life at Penrith. In 1892 he resigned his office of Professor of Clinical Surgery at King’s College on reaching the age of 65, but was invited to continue as Surgeon to King’s College Hospital for an additional year. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England Lister was a Member of the Council from 1880-1888, serving as Vice-President in 1886, but declining to be nominated for the office of President. He delivered the Bradshaw Lecture in 1887 “On the Present Position of Antiseptic Treatment in Surgery”. In 1897 he was given the Honorary Gold Medal, which is the highest distinction the College can bestow on its Members and Fellows. At the Royal Society he was elected a Fellow in 1860; served on the Council from 1881-1883; was foreign secretary from 1893-1895, succeeding Sir Archibald Geikie; and President in succession to Lord Kelvin from 1895-1900. He delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1863, was awarded a Royal Medal in 1880, and the Copley Medal in 1900. He became Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen in October, 1878, following John Hilton (q.v.), and Serjeant Surgeon in 1900 in place of Sir James Paget (q.v.). He was created a baronet in 1883, and received the patent of a baron as Lord Lister of Lyme Regis at Queen Victoria’s second Jubilee in 1897. On the coronation of King Edward VII he was chosen one of the twelve members of the newly established Order of Merit and was gazetted a Privy Councillor. A British Institute of Preventive Medicine was established in London in 1891 on the lines of the Institut Pasteur in Paris and was called the Jenner Institute when it was opened in 1897, the name being changed in 1903 to “The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine”. Lister was appointed the first Chairman of the governing body, and became President of the Institute when the present building was completed in 1910. The touching meeting between Lister and Pasteur at the Sorbonne took place on Dec 27th, 1892, and in January, 1896, Lister attended Pasteur’s reburial in the chapel at the foot of the Institut Pasteur. In 1896 Lister gave an address as President of the Liverpool Meeting of the British Association; in the autumn of 1897 he visited Toronto in the same capacity; and in 1902 he made a voyage to South Africa. Most of the time from 1903-1907 was spent in London, where his household was superintended by his sister-in-law, Miss Syme; but he often paid visits to Lyme Regis in Dorsetshire, where he had bought a house in 1870 jointly with his brother Arthur and his brother-in-law, Smith Harrison. Sight and hearing began to fail in 1909, and with gradually failing powers he died quietly of pneumonia on the morning of Feb 10th, 1912, at Park House, Walmer, Kent, without issue and the peerage ended. A stately Memorial Service was held in Westminster Abbey on Feb 16th and his body was buried by the side of his wife at the West Hampstead Cemetery, London. Lister was 5 feet 10 inches in height, well formed and well proportioned; the head round, the forehead broad, full, and in later life rather wrinkled; the eyes blue and soft, the nose small but well formed; the lips full, especially the upper lip, the left half of which had a slight tilt; the mouth expressive of rare delicacy of feeling; the lower jaw strong; the complexion fresh and healthy; the lips and chin carefully shaven, the cheeks with ‘mutton-chop’ whiskers, as was the usual fashion of his generation; a fine head of hair - brown in youth - worn rather long and ending in light curls at the back. He spoke softly, frequently with a slight stammer; he sighed often and had a pleasant gentle smile, though he laughed but rarely. Equable in temper, he never spoke unadvisedly with his lips, even under great provocation, and seemed rather to pity than to be vexed with his opponents. He was courteous to all, but sheltered himself behind a natural reserve which many attributed to shyness. A lover of home life and very simple in his tastes, he maintained to the last evidence of his Quaker upbringing by using ‘thou’ and ‘thee’ when writing familiarly to members of his family. He was deeply religious, but without ostentation, attaching himself to no sect, but living a Christian life. No lover of money, he proportioned his fees to what he thought a patient could afford rather than what it was right or customary to charge, and he never, therefore, acquired wealth. He had square thick hands with rather short fingers, the skin being cracked and roughened by the constant use of carbolic solutions. He used his hands to good effect, but he was a slow operator, and in the face of any temporary difficulty during an operation he sweated profusely. The *British Medical Journal* (1927, ii, 110) gives an account of the various portraits of Lister, with a full-page coloured plate of the portrait by J H Lorimer, RSA, dated 1895. A portrait by W W Ouless, RA, 1897, hangs on the staircase at the Royal College of Surgeons, and near it is a bust by Sir Thomas Brock, RA, who also executed the medallion in Westminster Abbey. A colossal bust by the same sculptor stands near the top of Portland Place in the centre of the roadway; it was executed in 1922. The Lister Memorial Fund was raised by public subscription with the object of showing a lasting mark of respect to the memory of Lord Lister and in grateful appreciation of his eminent services to the science of surgery and the signal benefit thereby conferred on mankind. It consists of a general fund out of which a lecturer is paid once in three years, and a Bronze Medal which is awarded, irrespective of nationality, in recognition of distinguished contributions to surgical science. The Museum of the College also possesses a Lister Memorial Cabinet filled with various objects belonging to Lord Lister and collected by the assiduity of the late Sir Rickman J Godlee, Bart, KCVO (q.v.). Many honours fell to Lister in addition to those already mentioned: FRCS Edin in 1855 and Hon in 1905; FFPS Glasgow, 1860 and Hon 1898; FRS and LLD, Edin, 1878; Hon MD Dublin, 1879; LLD Glasgow, 1879; DCL Oxon, 1880; LLD Cantab, 1880; DSc Vict, 1898; Hon MD, Würzburg, Bologna, Budapest, Geneva; Kt Grand Cross Ord Dannebrog; Kt Prussian Ord ‘pour le mérite’, 1885; Fellow of University College, London; Cothenius Med Germ Soc of Naturalists, 1877; Royal Medalist of the Royal Society, London, 1880; Copley Med, 1902; Laureate French Acad Sci and Bondet Prizeman, 1881; Mem Assoc de l’Institut de France; Mem Assoc de l’Académie de Méd, Paris; Hon Mem Amer Acad Arts and Sci, Med Socs Munich, Leipzig, Vienna, Budapest, Dresden, Amsterdam, Petersburg, and Finland, and Obstet Soc Leipzig; Corr Member Soc de Chirurg, Paris, etc; Emeritus Professor Clin Surg King’s College; Consulting Surgeon King’s College Hospital; a freeman of the City of London, June 20th, 1907, and of Edinburgh, January 22nd, 1908. ANTISEPSIS ENSURING ASEPTIC SURGERY Lister revolutionized the art of surgery and started an indefinite extension by inventing the first method through which a surgeon was able with certainty to prevent inflammation from disturbing the natural healing of a wound when made by the surgeon, as well as to restrict or even to prevent inflammation in an accidental wound. He achieved asepsis by using chemical antiseptics; subsequently an improved asepsis resulted from methods of sterilization by heat under pressure. The use of antiseptics is as old as surgery itself. As employed by Hippocrates, ασηπτος referred to that which does not putrefy, the unputrefiable; αποσηπεσθαι had reference to the prevention of putrefaction in honey by cooking it; δνσσηπτος, putrefying with difficulty, was applied by Galen to linen and hemp for ligatures as opposed to catgut. The balsams, benzoin surviving longest; the caustics, including boiling oil; later the vegetable and mineral acids; and throughout the various forms of alcohol - all were used with the object of neutralizing the ill consequences of decomposition. Many experiments during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had for their object the estimation of the relative antiseptic properties of various substances. In contrast with much popular opinion Ancient Medicine obstinately opposed the theory of contagion. The idea of contagion was discountenanced by medical authority, and philosophy firmly held that all infection, including that of wounds, was air-borne. Aristotle in one passage had named plague, phthisis, itch, and ophthalmia as diseases transmitted by contagion; but in another he had upheld spontaneous generation, the parasites of man generated ‘nits’ and the ‘nits’ generated nothing. The Hebrews, perhaps learning from Egypt, certainly believed in the contagion of leprosy and of venereal disease, and through flies. But there is no trace of such ideas in Hippocrates and his followers. The body parasites and flies were held to generate spontaneously until Redi in 1658 carried out before the Academy of Experience in Florence his experiment of preventing the development of maggots in meat if flies were kept away by fine wire netting. Avenzoar described how the itch mites burrow under the skin, and this was demonstrated by experiment by Galés in Paris in 1812 and again by Renucci in 1834. But the old humoral pathology held sway, and in 1842 Hebra still maintained that there was a special itch dyscrasia which resulted in the spontaneous generation of the itch insect. After a further series of experiments in France, Hebra in 1844 changed his opinion and accepted the itch insect as the cause of scabies. Improvements in the microscope, to which Lister’s father contributed importantly, permitted the discovery of micro-organisms. The large *Bacillus anthracis* was seen in the splenic blood of infected cattle in 1855 by Pollender, it was proved by Davaine in 1863 to be characteristic of the disease, and later was stained by Koch, so as to be seen in tissues. Fermentation attracted attention from earliest times in connection with the fermentation of wine, the leavening of bread, and the digestive processes in the stomach and intestines. Further, with the rise of chemistry came in a number of simple chemical reactions. By loose analogy these fermentations and reactions were transferred to the causation of disease and of inflammation in wounds. Liebig with other chemists adhered to old vague notions; putrefaction was attributed to an inherent tendency to decay, favoured by a supply of oxygen; any organisms appeared late and only modified the course of fermentation. The yeast organisms had been seen by Leeuwenhoek in 1680, and various observations followed until in 1844 Pasteur began to inquire into the correct fermenting of wine, and as to the production of tartar. Whilst he was continuing his observations the chief authorities in Paris were united in rejecting organisms as the cause of fermentation. In 1850 Claude Bernard at the Collège de France declared that the process of fermentation was an obscure one; in 1853 Dumas employed the same expression, ‘obscure’; Berzelius held it to be a catalytic process. It was in August, 1857, that Pasteur read to the Lille Scientific Society a paper on lactic acid fermentation by organisms, and in December, 1857, a paper to the Académie des Sciences on alcoholic fermentation and its relation to yeast globules. As to anticipations of Lister, a most remarkable and curious account published in the *Lancet* (1912, i, 885) relates to the opinion of Randall, a London surgeon, as described by Mr Justice Street in charging the Jury at the Guildhall on May 4th, 1687. The judge said, “The plaintiff did naught save wash and tend the wound, for he saith that the pus which all others admire and desire as showing that Nature hath armed herself for the fight is not to be desired but that it is itself an impurity which should be avoided. He hath even in his mind some crotchet that pus is engendered by some small animal or plant, some bug or gnat, or beetle or fungus belike, though he saith openly that he cannot prove the existence of such creatures. This, however, he contendeth is because his glasses do not magnify sufficiently to see them. And he meaneth not the glasses or spectacles for weak or aged eyes, but the microscope which hath a rare and admirable faculty of making small things appear large. He saith forsooth that the true treatment is to keep all extraneous matter from the wound and even the air which he imagineth to be full of his bugs, gnats and beetles.” The surgeon was non-suited. In 1860 Lister was appointed Regius Professor of Surgery in the University of Glasgow and Surgeon to the Glasgow Infirmary which had been built over the town pits filled with corpses during former epidemics. Naturally he taught that suppuration in wounds was due to decomposition brought about in some way by the air; the only alternative then held by many was that some change in the blood happened. He based his belief on experiences gained in the practice of subcutaneous surgery so-called, in the difference between the healing of a fracture uncomplicated by a wound and that of a compound fracture, between the healing after fracture of ribs with surgical emphysema following a crush, and that after a penetrating wound of the thorax. At Glasgow in the years 1864-1866 Lister had a mortality after amputation of 45 per cent. In 1865, of 15 excisions of the wrist, 6 were attacked by hospital gangrene, and 1 by pyæmia. Within one week 5 men, following amputation, died of pyæmia; in six months (1865-1866) there were 13 deaths from pyæmia. Lister, busily engaged on surgery, had not read widely; he had made no previous acquaintance with Pasteur’s researches until his attention in 1865 was drawn to them by his colleague, Thomas Anderson, Professor of Chemistry. He then learnt that putrefaction and fermentation were set up by the vitality of minute organisms suspended in the air, and that Pasteur had disproved the influence of oxygen and other gaseous constituents of the atmosphere. Neither had he heard of Semmelweiss, who had limited his statements to a cadaveric virus, and to a miasma given off from the bodies of lying-in women and their infants; he had made no point of a microbic infection. His ideas were opposed by German obstetric physicians and by Virchow. When poor Semmelweiss pricked his finger whilst operating on a new-born infant, the septic delirium which followed caused him to be sent into a lunatic asylum, where he died three weeks later of pyæmia. For a time his opinions were treated as those of a madman. Neither had Lister learnt beforehand of Lemaire’s use of carbolic acid. Between 1860 and 1865 Lemaire, without a hospital appointment, and with no opportunities of applying it as a preventive in surgical operations, had used saponized coal tar, i.e., coal tar dissolved in a tincture of *Quillaia saponaria* (soapwort), in various ways as an antiseptic, for the reduction of inflammation and suppuration already established. All his observations were the reverse of methodical; the use had already been discarded before Lister took it up. Lister’s statement as to the adoption of carbolic acid was that in the course of the year 1864 he had been much struck with an account of the remarkable effects produced by carbolic acid upon the sewage of the town of Carlisle. He obtained the carbolic acid he first used from Professor Thomas Anderson. The material was dark and tarry from impurities, largely insoluble in water, and corresponded with what the Germans named creosote. He first made use of it in March, 1865. When first used for swabbing out a wound it proved unsatisfactory; next the carbolic acid was made to saturate lint, and some cauterization followed. Next carbonate of lead, glazier’s putty, was employed as an excipient applied between two sheets of calico. His epoch-making paper “On a New Method of Treating Compound Fracture, Abscess, etc., with Observations on the Conditions of Suppuration” appeared in the *Lancet* from March to July, 1867. Note the use of the term ‘conditions’, and not of ‘causes’. Improvements in method were continuous; in 1867 Calvert, of Manchester, supplied pure crystalline phenol, and wounds were washed out with a 5 per cent solution of the pure phenol; silk ligatures, after being steeped in it, had their ends cut short and generally remained buried; the carbolic acid was mixed with melted shellac, 1-4, and spread on calico; over this was painted indiarubber dissolved in benzine; on evaporating it left a layer of indiarubber which prevented sticking. Immediately over the sutured wound a sheet of oil silk covered with gum copal was laid after it had been dipped in the carbolic acid solution to free it from organisms, and by this means irritation was prevented. The above formed the essential antiseptic dressing in use when Lister left Glasgow for Edinburgh in the autumn of 1869. In an infirmary hitherto notorious for erysipelas, pyæmia, hospital gangrene, and tetanus, Lister had almost abolished such occurrences, whilst he had commenced to undertake surgical operations hitherto considered unjustifiable. The principle of Lister’s dressing was, by means of an antiseptic, to keep out the causes of putrefaction from entering wounds from the air, at the same time to exclude the antiseptic from the wound. There were two persistent misconceptions of Lister’s dressing: one that the dressing was intended to close up an operation wound; the ‘occlusion band’ idea was a cause of much misconception abroad. Lister’s dressing gave vent to any discharge, and when Sir James Paget painted collodion over a closed incision and then applied Lister’s dressing over it he courted the failure which ensued. The other misconception was that Lister’s method comprised the free application of carbolic acid to an operation wound, hence the number of carbolic acid poisoning cases which occurred under Billroth and Kocher. Lister’s method was properly understood and followed with success by Bickersteth, of Liverpool, and others in this country, by Nussbaum, of Munich, and by R von Volkmann at Halle. Simpson, of Edinburgh, published cavilling articles against him. He made inapplicable references to Lemaire, germs were declared to be mythic fungi; he continued to advocate surgery in private houses in preference to hospitals, but this was countered by Prescott Hewitt’s note of twenty-three cases of pyæmia after operation in his private practice. Another cause of Simpson’s opposition was that Lister had not adopted his acupressure to which he had absurdly attributed a diminution of pyæmia at Aberdeen under Pirie. On the other hand, Lister adopted Simpson’s chloroform as an anaesthetic to the exclusion of ether. In 1868 Lister entered upon a very complicated subject - the use of catgut instead of the carbolized silk. He used catgut steeped in carbolic acid dissolved in olive oil, which proved satisfactory in experiments on animals. In June, 1876, he began to prepare the catgut with chromic acid, later he added sulphurous acid, which gave the catgut a green tint such as he described in 1908. Of the innumerable alternative methods of sterilizing catgut, none proved free from occasional septic contamination by streptococcal germs and by those of tetanus. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 Lister published *A Method of Antiseptic Treatment applicable to Wounded in the War*, which received no attention from either French or German surgeons. The immediate amputations practised by Wiseman and other English naval surgeons, and so extensively by Larrey, had been forgotten. William MacCormac (q.v.), the chief English surgeon, did not save a single case of amputation in French hospitals during the Franco-German War in 1870. Alphonse Guérin between September, 1870, and February, 1871, saved only one case of amputation. At the Hôpital Saint-Louis from March to June, 1871, he adopted Lister’s methods in a half-hearted sort of way, and out of 34 secondary amputations 19 survived. Lister’s paper in 1870, “On the Effects of the Antiseptic System of Treatment upon the Salubrity of a Surgical Hospital”, marks the starting-point of a revolution in hospital construction, maintenance, and sanitation, which had often to be forced upon unwilling authorities. It is no wonder, considering the general state of hospital wards and the continual infection of wounds by erysipelas, pyæmia, and gangrene, that Lister should have introduced first the hand spray and then the steam spray. Already by 1881, when research by Tyndall and others had tended to exclude the air as a cause, and in view of Pasteur’s and Koch’s researches on micro-organisms, Lister had begun to contemplate the possibility of dispensing with the spray; he finally abandoned its use in 1887, and made an apology for its previous adoption at Berlin in 1890. Lister’s way of urging the practice of antiseptic surgery may be gathered from his introductory lecture at Edinburgh on November 8th, 1869: “On the Causation of Putrefaction and Fermentation”. Note the use of ‘causation’ as compared with the use of ‘conditions’ previously. He commended the germ theory to the Edinburgh students. “You are as competent as you ever will be to draw logical inferences from established data.” In the course of a demonstration to members of the British Medical Association Lister remarked, “In order, gentlemen, that you may get satisfactory results from this sort of treatment, you must be able to see with your mental eye the septic ferments as distinctly as we see flies and other insects with the corporeal eye. If you can, you can be properly on your guard against them; if you do not see them, you will certainly be liable to relax in your precautions.” It is quite certain that disbelief among surgeons was largely occasioned because they had never themselves seen the objects under discussion. There is the tale of a senior at the meeting of the London Pathological Society asking what germs had to do with frogs; he had heard the term ‘bacteria’ used and he confused it with ‘batrachia’. Two opponents may be mentioned: Spence, a colleague of Lister in Edinburgh, painted the skin of the margins of incisions with tincture of iodine. But there was really no comparison between the limited surgery practised by Spence and Lister’s extended field of operations. Savory at the Cork Meeting of the British Medical Association put forward 619 surgical operations carried out in the old way at St Bartholomew’s Hospital - a hospital where general cleanliness and sanitation were the best at that day. The operations had been followed by 45 deaths, a mortality of 7.2 per cent. But all the operations belonged to the limited class practised before Lister’s changes. Also the list included minor operations, 74 circumcisions, 25 tenotomies, 36 cases of fistula in ano, without deaths. Of 29 removals of the breast, with no deaths, the axilla was not opened in any one case; among 73 major operations there were 11 deaths and 13 excisions of joints with 4 deaths; Savory himself preferred amputation to excision. There were 9 deaths from pyæmia, 28 operation cases were attacked by erysipelas, and 4 died. The exclusion of the minor operations would render Savory’s statistics still more unfavourable. Some use was made of Lister’s antiseptic method by Bergmann (q.v.) in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877. Among 81 severe gunshot injuries treated in this way the deaths numbered 15 (18.6 per cent), while among 143 similar severe gunshot injuries treated by older methods the deaths were 71 (49.6 per cent). Whereas immediate amputation had hitherto been the best treatment for a gunshot wound of the knee-joint, Bergmann saved cases without amputation. In London, except by Howse at Guy’s Hospital, and by Marcus Beck at University College Hospital, Lister’s methods were but little understood or practised until after his removal to London as Professor of Clinical Surgery at King’s College Hospital in succession to Fergusson. MacCormac’s Address at St Thomas’s Hospital on December 5th, 1879, and the debate which followed, exhibited the limited knowledge and the confusion in the minds of London surgeons opposing Lister. MacCormac mentioned as alternative antiseptics to carbolic acid, thymol, salicylic acid, boracic acid, acetate of alumina, and chloride of zinc. He did not refer to perchloride of mercury, with which in a 0.5 per cent solution Bergmann treated wool used for dressing in 1877. Lister’s methods reached their acme at the London International Congress in 1881; Watson Cheyne gave a full account of them in his *Antiseptic Surgery*, 1882. The further developments which replaced Lister’s procedure may be dated from Koch’s *Untersuchungen ueber die Aetiologie der Wundinfectionskrankheiten*, Leipzig, 1878, and his demonstrations at the London International Congress, including the staining of micro-organisms, and their cultivation on solid media, in test-tubes and on plates, in addition to fluid cultures in flasks. In 1881 Koch described perchloride of mercury as having a much more powerful influence in killing spores of anthrax than carbolic acid. That sublimate combined with albumin and so became much less active failed to prevent it from replacing carbolic acid, and its free application to fresh wounds resulted in numerous cases of mercury poisoning. The enhanced reputation of mercury salts led Lister to further research on the medication of dressings in order to avoid the irritation and pustulation produced by the perchloride. He tried the combination of mercury and ammonium chloride, sal alembroth, which proved too freely soluble after further research he adopted a double cyanide of mercury and zinc in 1889. Mercuric iodide was also introduced as a less poisonous solution than mercury chloride. Then came the further researches by Pasteur, by Koch, and especially by pupils and followers of Koch who hunted out to their sources the causes infecting wounds; they distinguished in particular staphylococci and streptococci, and described methods of sterilizing by steam under pressure. Pasteur attended a debate on puerperal fever in Paris, and declaring that none of the causes ascribed was the true one, went to the blackboard and drew micrococci in a chain as the real cause (*see* R F Godlee). Following up others, Fehleisen in 1883 demonstrated that erysipelas and allied infections were caused by streptococci. Alexander Ogston, whilst studying in Germany, showed that pus from acute suppuration in the hip-joint contained a pure cultivation of *Staphylococcus aureus*, and this organism proved to be the usual cause of suppuration and abscess, whilst the *Staphylococcus albus* was relatively inert. By 1878 Pasteur had come to recommend the flaming of instruments, and the sterilization of materials for dressings, etc., by heat at 100°-120°C under pressure. Neuber at Kiel, in private practice as a surgeon without hospital appointment, set himself to attain sterility of everything coming in contact with a wound, by boiling in the soft Kiel water instruments, dressings, clothing of patients, and overalls of surgeons and attendants. He washed out wounds with boiled normal salt solution. By 1885 he had set up a small private hospital having general sterility as its object. To hard water bicarbonate of soda was added. In 1886, Schlange having shown that dressing materials of commerce were nearly always contaminated by germs, Bergmann with his assistants, in particular Schimmelbusch, instituted the sterilizing procedures which were demonstrated at the Berlin International Congress in 1890. They used the bacillus of blue pus as a naked-eye indicator. Lister, whilst being shown round by Bergmann, noticed some beads of pus under the dressings, probably indicating imperfection in the sterilizing of the patient’s skin. The account by Schimmelbusch in his *Antiseptische Wundbehandlung*, 1893, and Rake’s English translation from the second German edition in 1894, popularized a procedure which replaced Lister’s methods up to the war of 1914. Further research was made by a number of observers upon infection through the patient’s skin, the hands of the surgeons, his assistants and nurses, through the mouth and hair, and into the sterilization of catgut already mentioned. Cleansing of the skin by soap and water without scrubbing was shown to free it almost from infection, particularly in the delicate skin of children and the face and neck of adults; whereas more active scrubbing and treatment by carbolic acid or perchloride of mercury defeated the end in view by setting up dermatitis. A 2 per cent solution of iodine in rectified spirit painted once or at most twice upon clean skin came into general use. The hands and nails of the surgeon, his assistants and nurses were proved to require personal manicure. Sir Thomas Watson had suggested in a lecture the use of thin impervious leather gloves - to be destroyed at the end of the case - when attending a patient with puerperal fever. Mikulicz and others used cotton gloves, sterilized in boiling water, but being permeable they required to be often changed in the course of an operation. Halsted in the United States obtained the manufacture in 1891 of the rubber gloves which came into general use. The great harm to the individual caused by oral sepsis was exposed in particular by William Hunter, Physician to Charing Cross Hospital. An enormous development occurred in the better care of the mouth demanded of surgeons and nurses; whilst provisionally the wearing of masks was a protection to patients, yet persistence of oral sepsis rebreathed by the masked surgeon was an added danger to him. Also the sterilization of anaesthetic masks was shown to be needed, and above all things, the necessity of putting the patient’s mouth in good order before undertaking operations. Hair kept clean was proved not to be a source of infection. [Such is a summary of Listerism to the outbreak of the European War in 1914.] PUBLICATIONS:- Lister’s collected papers were published in two quarto volumes at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in June, 1909, having been prepared by a Committee to celebrate his eightieth birthday on April 5th, 1907. There are two impressions, nearly the whole of the first impression having been destroyed by a fire at the printers.
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First Title value, for Searching Canton, Edwin (1817 - 1885)

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First Title value, for Searching Cantrell, William (1801 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Cape, Henry (1817 - 1866)

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First Title value, for Searching Cardell, John Magor (1832 - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Carden, Henry Douglas ( - 1872)

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First Title value, for Searching Atkins, William (1817 - 1875)

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Publication Date 2009-11-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy’s Hospital, and practised at Warrington House, New Cross Road, Deptford, where he filled the office of Surgeon to the Royal Kent Dispensary and Surgeon to the Royal Humane Society. Later he practised at West Mount, Sidmouth, and died there on Sept 22nd, 1875.
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First Title value, for Searching Barnes, John Wickham (1830 - 1899)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-11-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Bath, where his father had long been in general practice. His grandfather and youngest brother were also medical practitioners. He entered Charing Cross Hospital in 1849, attending also the adjacent Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, where he had the advantage of G J Guthrie’s (qv) teaching. Guthrie appreciated his pupil, and for two half-yearly periods he acted as House Surgeon, subsequently becoming a Life Governor of the Institution. Next he was appointed House Surgeon to the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital, Maidstone. Having to leave on his marriage in 1853, he started practice in Maidstone, then moved to Aylesford. Desiring to practise in London he accepted the post of District Medical Officer for Islington at £40 a year, where although the area was small he was able to develop a practice which brought him in £1000 after one year. The appointment led him to espouse the cause of the Poor Law Medical Officers. He was Hon Secretary of the Poor Law Medical Officers’ Association for twenty years, the office being at 3 Bolt Court, Fleet Street. He laboured to secure a legal superannuation allowance for Poor Law Officers, then a voluntary matter with Boards of Guardians and only occasionally given. His continued exertions in conjunction with his friend, Joseph Rogers, met their reward in the Poor Law Officers’ Superannuation Act of 1896. He received two silver medals from the Medical Society of London for his services in the matter. For a quarter of a century he was Surgeon in the 2nd Middlesex Volunteer Artillery and retired with the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel and with the Volunteer decoration. About three years before he died he went to live at Walton-on-the-Naze, but shortly before his death on October 12th, 1899, moved back to London. His son, Dr Raglan W Barnes, followed him in the medical profession, and at the time of his death was serving in South Africa as a Major in the RAMC.
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First Title value, for Searching Barnes, Robert (1817 - 1907)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-11-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Norwich on September 4th, 1817, second son of Philip Barnes, an architect and one of the founders of the Royal Botanic Society of London. His mother was Harriet Futter, daughter of a Norfolk squire. Sent to school at Bruges from 1826-1830 he became proficient in French; later he had as tutor George Borrow, the well-known author of the *Bible in Spain*. After an apprenticeship in his native town he entered University College and continued medical studies at the Windmill Street School and at St George’s Hospital. After qualifying in 1842 he spent a year studying in Paris. Having failed to be appointed to the post of Resident Physician to Bethlem Hospital he started practice at Notting Hill. He taught at the Hunterian School and lectured on Forensic Medicine at Dermott’s School. He served as Obstetrician to the Western General Dispensary, and in 1859 was elected Assistant Obstetric Physician, and in 1863 Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital. But within a year he changed over to St Thomas’s Hospital, and in 1875 passed on to become Obstetric Physician to St George’s Hospital. Thus he became the foremost representative in London of his special branch, and his name was attached to instruments and apparatus. With the development of ovariotomy, he advocated an active practice of surgery by obstetricians and gynaecologists. In midwifery he prescribed early interference. In 1847 he first published an account of placenta praevia, elaborated in his Lettsomian Lectures to the Medical Society in 1858, “On the Physiology and Treatment of Flooding from Unnatural Position of the Placenta”. His plan was to separate with the finger the placenta as soon as possible, but other measures have replaced his. He advocated a bag to dilate the cervix, long forceps to extract the foetal head, or perforation when extraction failed. He proposed the term ‘ectopic gestation’ instead of ‘extra-uterine foetation’. Barnes was an active controversialist; the differences of opinion between the Obstetrical and Gynaecological Societies, with which he was much concerned, were solved by their union in the Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Mrs Robert Barnes gave a sum of £4,010 to the Royal Society of Medicine, and the gift is commemorated in the name of the large hall of the society. Another gift has caused the Pathological Laboratory at St George’s Hospital to be named after him. He was twice married: by his first marriage he had three children; a son, Dr R S Fancourt Barnes, assisted his father in the publication of *Obstetric Medicine and Surgery*, 1884. By his second marriage he had a son and a daughter. He retired at about the age of 70, and died of apoplexy at Eastbourne on May 12th, 1907.
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First Title value, for Searching Barratt, Joseph Gilman (1819 - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Barrett, Caleb (1821 - 1911)

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First Title value, for Searching Barrett, John (1811 - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Barrett, Thomas (1816 - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Barron, Edward Enfield (1811 - 1878)

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First Title value, for Searching Bridge, Stephen Franklin (1790 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Brietzcke, Henry (1841 - 1879)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-05-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London in 1841, the son of E J Brietzcke, formerly of the Admiralty. He entered as a student at Guy’s Hospital in October, 1860. A severe attack of rheumatism towards the end of his time at the hospital, followed by cardiac trouble, caused him to become Surgeon to one of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s ships. Sailing on June 11th, 1864, the vessel was wrecked near its destination. Brietzcke endured many privations and went through considerable perils, but returned to England with improved health, though during the remainder of his life he remained somewhat of an invalid. He joined the Naval Medical Service, and was on the West Coast of Africa for one year. He then became House Surgeon to the Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary, retained this post for three years, and finally entered upon general practice in Derby in 1869. From this, poor health and partnership troubles compelled his retirement in 1871. After a time he obtained the appointment of Medical Officer to the Fulham Convict Prison, and in 1872 was transferred to the post of Assistant Surgeon to the Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight. Thence he was moved successively to Portland, Portsea, and Millbank, being appointed Senior Medical Officer to Portsea in October, 1876. He married in 1874, and when he died at Portsea he left a widow and two young children. He was buried on March 11th, the prison officials attending the funeral. Despite his wretched health Brietzcke was a hard worker and a keen reformer. It was chiefly as an indefatigable officer of the medical convict service that he was best and most widely known and appreciated. Being of a warm, generous, sympathetic temperament, thoroughly unselfish, hating and fighting abuses of all kinds, gifted with far more than ordinary talent for appreciating the humorous in all matters, his company and correspondence were highly prized by his friends. Amongst the many abuses against which he vehemently protested was that which made the medical officers in the convict service hold an inferior position, both in regard to the large amount of work expected of them and the inadequacy of their pay, when contrasted with the more favoured position occupied by other officers of the service having unskilled work to perform. Brietzcke himself once wrote to a friend: “My great difficulty appears to be how to detect the malingerer. I have always found it difficult enough to make a correct diagnosis in any disease when the symptoms are at all obscure, but it seems ten times more so when you know that nearly every assertion your patient makes is false. And most of these men employ their solitary hours (which are not a few) in endeavouring to discover means for deceiving the doctor.” Publications: “Caries of First Lumbar Vertebra; Inflammation of the Membranes of the Cord extending to the Brain; Death by Coma.” – *Lancet*, 1872, ii, 668. “A Case of Aneurysm of the Arch of the Aorta, in which Death occurred from Rupture into the Pericardium.” – *Ibid.*, 1875, ii, 730. Extensive researches on urea in relation to muscular force were embodied by him in a paper in the *Brit. and For. Med.-Chir. Rev.*, 1877, lx, 190.
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First Title value, for Searching Brigham, William ( - 1864)

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First Title value, for Searching Cartwright, Samuel (1815 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Charles, Thomas ( - 1873)

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First Title value, for Searching Seddon, Joshua (1798 - 1862)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Received his medical education at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He was at one time Surgeon to the North Staffordshire Infirmary. He practised at Longdon, Rugeley, Staffordshire, and died on May 10th, 1862. Publications: "Case of Exostosis of the Tibia - Operation."- *Prov Med Jour*, 1847, 70. "Retroversion of Uterus at Sixth Month of Pregnancy." - *Ibid*, 1848, 205.
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First Title value, for Searching Chater, George (1812 - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Chavasse, Charles Allen ( - 1863)

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First Title value, for Searching Chavasse, Pye Henry (1810 - 1879)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-04-20 2018-03-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Cirencester, was apprenticed to his cousin, Thomas Chavasse (qv), then in practice at Old Square, Birmingham. Later he studied at University College Hospital, and having qualified began practice in Birmingham, especially among women and children. He was a regular attendant at the meetings of the Birmingham Branch of the British Medical Association; also at one time he was President of Queen's College Medico-Chirurgical Society. Frank and genial, he was a good colleague. Five years before his death he retired, suffering from cerebrospinal sclerosis, and died at Edgbaston on September 20th, 1879. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: He was the author of popular works on motherhood, subjects which ran through many editions, and were translated into nearly all European and many Asiatic languages, as also American editions. They include: *Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children, and on the Treatment on the Moment of some of their more pressing Illnesses and Accidents*, 9th ed, Philadelphia, 1868; 18th ed, 1878. *Counsel to a Mother*, being a continuation and completion of *Advice to a Mother*, Philadelphia, 1871. *Advice to a Wife on the Management of her own Health, and on the Treatment of some of the Complaints incidental to Pregnancy, Labour, and Suckling*, 12th ed, Philadelphia, 1871. *Physical Training of Children, or Advice to Parents*, Philadelphia, 1571. *Aphorisms for a Mother*, 2nd ed, 1877. "A Chart of Auscultation and Percussion." - *Lancet*, 1881-2, ii, 260. "Treatment of Scarlatina Anginosa." - *Assoc. Med. Jour.*, 1856, 210. Different editions of these works show certain changes of title, as do also the American editions. In his particular branch of medical authorship he may be said to have been the successor of Conquest and Bull. "The Mental Culture and Training of Children." - *The Mother's Book*, Philadelphia, 1880.
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First Title value, for Searching Chavasse, Thomas (1800 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Chavasse, Sir Thomas Frederick (1854 - 1913)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-04-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was the sixth son of Thomas Chavasse, FRCS (qv), of Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. He commenced his medical education at Queen's College and at the General Hospital, Birmingham, and then proceeded to Edinburgh. After graduation he went in September, 1876, to Vienna, attended Billroth's Clinic, and took a course of operative surgery on the dead body. Among his British fellow-students at Vienna were George L Berry, Samuel West, James Reid, Andrew Duncan, Surgeon Major Shepherd, killed at Isandula, Mansell Moullin, and Story, of Dublin, all of whom subsequently became well known. After six months he went on to Berlin and attended Langenbeck. In the summer of 1877 he returned to become House Surgeon under James Spence, in Edinburgh. Spence was opposing Lister, but Chavasse attended the latter's Sunday afternoon clinics. Having qualified by passing the examination for the FRCS Edin, although not yet 25, he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital, and in 1881 became full Surgeon, a post he held until he was appointed Consulting Surgeon in 1912. It was largely through his influence that the hospital was rebuilt, also that Miss Ryland, a near relative of Lady Chavasse, bequeathed £25,000 to the hospital; Chavasse himself endowed with £1250 a bed in memory of his father. Among other activities he was Consulting Surgeon to the Sutton Coldfield Dispensary and to the Corbett Hospital, Stourbridge. He was County Director for Worcestershire of the British Red Cross Society and of the St John Ambulance Brigade. He acted as President of the Midland Medical Society and was President of the Surgical Section at the British Medical Association, Birmingham Meeting, in 1911. Chavasse took an active interest in politics and was Chairman of the East Worcestershire Liberal Unionist Association, and was a close personal friend of Austen Chamberlain, at whose meetings he often acted as Chairman. On December 13th, 1912, by an accident in the hunting field, he sustained multiple fractures of the right thigh, from which he was beginning to recover, and was walking a little in his bedroom, when death occurred suddenly from pulmonary embolism on February 17th, 1913. Only on the previous January 30th a presentation of his portrait on his retirement from the post of Surgeon had been made to his son in his absence. He was buried in the Broomgrove Cemetery. He married in 1885 Frances Hannah, the only daughter of Arthur Ryland, JP, of Birmingham, founder of Messrs. Ryland, Martineau & Co, who survived him with one son, Dr Arthur Chavasse, and three daughters. The presentation portrait was painted by A T Nowell, and a replica was given to Lady Chavasse. Publications:- "Successful Removal of the Entire Upper Extremity for Osteochondroma." - *Med.-Chir Trans.*, 1890, lxxiii, 8. The operation had been first practised in 1838 in the United States by McClellan, and a table of 44 operations was appended. Paul Berger in 1882 had suggested a systematic method for its performance. *The Operative Treatment of Genu Valgum*, 1879. *The Diagnosis of Cervical Tumours*, 1882. Other contributions, marking the progress of surgery permitted by the adoption of Lister's methods. "On Abdominal Injuries," in Heath's *Dictionary of Surgery*.
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First Title value, for Searching Sieff of Brimpton, Rt Hon Lord Marcus Joseph, Baron Sieff of Brimpton (1913 - 2001)

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by John Blandy
Publication Date 2011-06-16
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Occupation Businessman
Details A businessman and former chairman of Marks and Spencer, Marcus Sieff was elected to an honorary fellowship in 1984 in recognition of his contributions to the College. He was born in 1913, the younger son of Israel Sieff and Rebecca Marks, an ardent Zionist. Rebecca's father Michael had co-founded the retailer Marks and Spencer in Leeds in 1884. Marcus was educated at Manchester Grammar School, St Paul's in London and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read economics. He started working at Marks and Spencer in 1935. In the Second World War he served in the Royal Artillery, winning an OBE for gallantry and reaching the rank of colonel. From 1954, he was successively a director, assistant managing director, vice-chairman, joint managing director and deputy chairman of Marks and Spencer. He was chairman of the company from 1972 to 1984. He introduced schemes to improve the welfare of his employees, including profit sharing. He was created a life peer in 1980. He died in London on 23 February 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Crockett, David John (1923 - 2009)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-07-07
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David Crockett contributed greatly to the specialty of plastic surgery in the Sudan and then in Bradford as a consultant surgeon from 1964 until he retired in 1987. A very gifted man, he enjoyed many hobbies during his very busy professional life and was above all a family man. He was born in Northampton on 5 August 1923, the son of Leonard Marshall Crockett, a dental surgeon, and his wife, Eleanor Carol née Baker. Educated first at Winchester House School, Northamptonshire, he completed his school education at Charterhouse. He then went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before entering St Thomas' Hospital for his clinical training. In his undergraduate days at Cambridge David took up judo for recreation and this proved beneficial at a later date in the Sudan, where he instructed the Sudanese police in the art of self defence. Qualifying in 1946, he was a casualty officer and house surgeon at St Thomas' before becoming a senior house officer in orthopaedics at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, in 1947. He then entered National Service in the RAMC for two years with the rank of captain. Deciding on a surgical career, he undertook a general surgical senior house officer post at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, and then demonstrated anatomy at St Thomas' whilst studying for the primary FRCS. Having passed this hurdle, he continued in general surgery as a surgical registrar, first at Tilbury and then Alton, and passed the final FRCS examination. An interest in trauma was kindled at the Birmingham Accident Unit, by which time he was veering towards a career in plastic surgery. No doubt influenced by Douglas Jackson, he studied many aspects of burns. Of his early joint publications, 'Bacteriology of burns treated by exposure', was published in the Lancet in 1954 (ii 1157). He then undertook a research project on oedema and colloid replacement at the Middlesex Hospital from 1955 to 1956. Definitive training in plastic surgery took place at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, from 1956 to 1959. David then accepted a post as a senior lecturer in general surgery at the University of Khartoum, working first with Julian Taylor. He remained in the Sudan for five years before returning to the UK. The time spent in Africa was a productive period, with publications on cancer, keloids and reconstructive procedures. His workload was enormous and his reputation amongst Sudan's medical fraternity was very high. He was an invited lecturer at many conferences of the Sudanese Association of Surgeons, including one held at the time of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the Kitchener Medical School in 1974, giving a lecture on keloids. Also taking part were three other fellows present as examiners for the overseas primary FRCS (G W Taylor, Ian McColl and N Alan Green) and two working for WHO (Adrian Marston and Ivan Johnston). In 1964 David Crockett and his family returned to the UK, and he became a consultant plastic surgeon at the Bradford Royal Infirmary, St Luke's Hospital and Airedale Hospital. He retired in 1987 after a very full professional life punctuated by conferences in the UK. At St Thomas' Hospital he had met Anne Chalmers, a nurse, whom he married on 7 August 1947 at Quinton, Northamptonshire. As both of Anne's parents had died, David's parents proved very supportive during their courtship and for many years of their happy married life. Anne later trained as a medical social worker at Leeds University and then practised in the Bradford area. They had a family of four: Carolyn Mary, Paul Jonathan Marshall, Georgina Jane and Thurstan David. David and Anne enjoyed many educational and social trips in mainland Europe, the Indian subcontinent and Australasia. For some 18 years they had a bungalow retreat in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland. They kept a small boat there and enjoyed family holidays sailing, walking in the countryside, bird watching and cataloguing the many orchids that grew in the area. David made a collage of the varieties of orchid he found in Ireland and was very knowledgeable in various facets of natural history. He was a talented landscape painter and, as a creative carpenter, he made tables and chairs to furnish their home and garden. In retirement, David and his brother Clifden Crockett played serious bridge on a regular basis in Northampton, but the more friendly and 'family' variety was played at home with his wife. Snooker with many friends at his house was another form of relaxation. David John Crockett died on 28 June 2009. He had suffered a stroke on 11 June and was nursed at home by Anne with superb help from the local nursing and social services, and also from his granddaughter, Naomi, who had trained as a doctor at Leeds University. He could not speak, but was able to smile and recognised his family until he passed away. He was survived by Anne, their four children and seven grandchildren, Naomi, Tamara, Thomas, Victoria, Hannah, Kathryn and Jonathan.
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First Title value, for Searching Dalliwall, Kenneth Hayat Singh (1913 - 2010)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-07-07
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Kenneth Dalliwall was a much respected consultant orthopaedic surgeon who served many hospitals in the north east London area over the years. He worked at the Whipps Cross, Connaught and Wanstead hospitals, and at the Walthamstow and Loughton Children's hospitals. He was also an assistant surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital and practised privately in Harley Street. Retiring at the age of 65 in 1978, he continued in medico-legal practice for five years. He was born in Mussoorie, India, on 25 March 1913, the elder of two sons of Har (Harry) Bhajan Singh Dalliwall, a barrister, and his wife, Emma Elizabeth née Colville. The family went to England in 1915, but sadly the father died when Kenneth was a young boy. From Forest School, Snaresbrook, Kenneth went to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he studied natural science. He proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical years. His brother also entered medicine and became a general practitioner in Southport. Kenneth's years as a student saw many structural changes at Bart's in West Smithfield. The surgical block with five operating theatres, one on each floor, had already been completed in 1930 with a complement of 250 beds. So dressers were allocated to clerk and look after patients allocated to them. A year before he qualified an equivalent medical block was built to the south of the square - the so-called 'King George V block' - that was opened by Queen Mary. Students had excellent tuition in surgery from George Gask and Sir James Paterson Ross, and one of the chief assistants, John P Hosford, a general surgeon, who at that time had an interest in orthopaedics. Respite from Ken's studies came by sailing with United Hospitals, at Burnham-on-Crouch, a form of exercise and relaxation that never deserted him throughout his years as a consultant and into retirement. After qualifying, he held house appointments at the Kent and Sussex hospitals. He volunteered to serve in the Royal Army Medical Corps after a further post at the Seaman's Hospital, Greenwich. As a surgical specialist with the rank of major, he went to France shortly after D-Day and served in field hospitals during the Allies' advance in Normandy. An interest in trauma was ignited during these years and prepared him for his future specialist career in orthopaedics. Towards the end of the war he was sent to the Far East. Japan surrendered when he was on board a ship off Singapore. He went into prisoner of war camps to help poorly nourished Australian soldiers, and for the next few months accompanied many of them back to Australia. He remained with the troops in hospitals in Sydney until he returned to England. He was demobilised in 1947, but continued a strong connection with the Territorial Army as a colonel commanding the 57 Middlesex General Hospital at Harrow. For these services he was decorated with a TD and bar. Having gained the FRCS in 1943 during the war years, he continued registrar training in general surgery at the Dreadnought Hospital before specialising in orthopaedics at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street. Here he worked for, and was influenced by, H Jackson Burrows and Sidney Higgs. Burrows later became dean of the Institute of Orthopaedics, Postgraduate Medical Federation, University of London and Higgs was a great organiser, but very demanding of his trainees in his meticulous attention to detail. In 1953, and at the age of 40, he was enjoying a successful medical career and a thriving social life. Through an interest in drama he met Margaret Faulds, a personnel officer who worked in the City of London. At the New Lindsay Theatre Club in London's Notting Hill, they discovered a mutual interest in drama, a love of wining and dining and in conversation. In the early years of their friendship, Margaret needed a crash course in the art of sailing. On one of these occasions, after Margaret had cooked a superb meal in the tiny galley of a small sailing boat, Ken proposed. They married in Lancashire on 25 November 1957. Margaret retired from her City job in 1961 in order to support Ken and worked as an administrator and secretary in his private practice. After working all week, they dashed up to Norfolk for a period of rest and relaxation. Much of this time was spent sailing and with friends in the East Anglian Cruising Club. In 1962 they bought *Betty*, a 21 foot twin-berthed, wooden sailing cruiser. Before he retired he was a member of many yacht clubs: the Royal Burnham and Royal Corinthian at Burnham-on-Crouch, the Littleship Club, London, and the Cambridge Cruising Club. He was a life member of the Naval and Military Club. In 1984, when Hawthorn Cottage, Thurn, Norfolk, came on the market, they moved from Essex to enjoy Norfolk all year round. They moved Betty to a mooring at Boundary Farm, Oby, and became popular members of the local community: their zest for life contributed greatly to the village's social calendar. Kenneth Dalliwall remained a true gentleman, a wonderful husband, a man who enjoyed the company of friends. As a man of faith he believed that death was not the end of his existence. He died on 28 June 2010, and was survived by his wife of 53 years, Margaret. One Norfolk friend in a tribute at his funeral held at St Edmund's Church, Thurne, Norfolk described his long years of work as 'a long dedication to his practice and patients that is another testimony to one of Ken's greatest qualities - his sense of duty and loyalty'.
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First Title value, for Searching Graham, Norman Garrick (1932 - 2010)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-07-07 2011-07-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Garrick Graham was a consultant general surgeon in Huddersfield from 1967 to 1993 and chairman of the Huddersfield NHS Trust for many years after 1992 and into his retirement. He was born in Palmerson North, New Zealand, on 15 December 1932. His father, Cecil Davies Graham, worked in life insurance and his mother, Martha Berneice Isabel née Glass, was a housewife. Through his father he was proud of his lineage through 'Graham' of the 'House of Montrose'. Garrick Graham was a proud member of the Huddersfield St Andrew's Society from 1968 and became 'chief' in 1977 and again in the 1980s. His education commenced at the Central Primary School, New Plymouth, New Zealand, where he was 'dux' in 1945. This was followed by secondary education at King's College, Auckland, where he gained the Swale's memorial biology and the Moorhouse science prizes in 1950. In addition to these scholastic achievements he represented the school XI at cricket in 1950. Garrick went to Otago University medical school from 1951 to 1956 and was greatly influenced by D'Ath in pathology, who gave superb clinico-pathological tutorials and W E Adams, an anatomist, who had a great gift for imparting his knowledge. After qualification he was a houseman in the Auckland hospitals from 1958 to 1959 and then a surgical registrar up to 1962, when he passed the FRACS. During his years in New Zealand he led a very active life in sport. He had played cricket for the university first XI and was in the Waikato provincial team in 1955. He also kept himself fit as a member of the Otago Rugby Union Referees Association. In 1964 he went to the UK as a lecturer with senior registrar status at Leeds General Infirmary, where he was fortunate to work with John C Goligher. He was taught the importance of good clinical work underpinning all other areas of practice. During this period of training, Garrick Graham had many joint publications on ulcerative colitis, including 'Early surgery in the management of severe ulcerative colitis' (*Brit.med.J.*, 1967 2 193) and 'Reliability of physical signs in patients with severe ulcerative colitis' (*Brit.med.J.*, 1971 2 746). He also published on many aspects of bowel surgery, acute pancreatitis, the biliary tract and vagotomy. In 1967 he was appointed as a consultant surgeon in Huddersfield. He was widely respected as a busy and approachable general surgeon, who was also an examiner in surgery for the BDS at the University of Leeds and in the final MB BCh. He assumed managerial roles for several years leading up to his retirement and wrote an article 'Self-governing hospital: a hospital manager's assessment' (*Brit J Hosp Med* 1989 42, 438). This was from his experience in the years 1986 to 1991 as the part-time unit general manager at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. He became a membership councillor and was elected by the local population to help steer the Catherdale and Huddersfield Trust into the future. Passionate about health and health services, he assumed the role of chairman of Huddersfield NHS Trust from November 1992 and was involved for many years following his retirement. 'Huddersfield Royal Infirmary always occupied a special place in his heart: he was a great man and I miss him greatly,' wrote one colleague from the Trust. He married Joy Frances Bayly on his 24th birthday in Te Awamutu, New Zealand. They had three children: Michael Ian, born in New Zealand in 1958, became a research manager in the pharmaceutical industry and now works in finance; Kathryn Denise, also born in New Zealand, was a stewardess on cruise liners but more recently a primary school teacher; and Jacky Joy, who was born in the UK, is a former BBC journalist and now a vicar in the Anglican church. Relaxation in Garrick's consultant years came from playing golf to a high standard - he won the Moynihan cup (Leeds) in 1977. In his earlier years as a consultant he switched his allegiance to Association Football. From active participation as a referee in rugby union in New Zealand, in the UK he followed the 'round ball'. From 1970 to 1974 he was director of Huddersfield Town Football club. As early as 1990 Garrick developed a keen interest in wines and had an extensive cellar in his large Victorian house. For his last 10 to 15 years he had been particularly interested in wines from New Zealand. To accompany the wines, in retirement he also became very interested in cooking and became an accomplished chef. He and Joy hosted many fun dinner parties. Norman Garrick Graham died on 25 February 2010 and was survived by his wife of 54 years Joy, their three children and three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Hardy, Eric Gordon (1918 - 2010)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-07-07 2013-12-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Eric Hardy was a hardworking general surgeon who spent his consultant career in Chester and was awarded emeritus status when he retired in 1982. He was born on 21 July 1918 in Royton, Lancashire. His father was Frank Stanley Hardy, a typewriter mechanic, and his mother Jean née Leslie. Eric was the only son of a short-lived marriage and was brought up in the Scottish Glens by his mother, a talented if irascible teacher. Overcoming the circumstances of his upbringing, Eric excelled at Banff Academy, winning school prizes. As a classical scholar with little or no science training, he decided to study medicine. He qualified with honours in 1940 at Aberdeen University and at a later date completed his medical doctorate. After house appointments in Aberdeen he moved south, first to Chester and then to Norwich. He entered wartime National Service as a flight lieutenant in the RAFVR, one of his postings being in Norfolk. There he met and married Shirley née Cook, a staff nurse. Eric went to Norwich after the war as a registrar, and he gained considerable experience with Charles Noon, a surgeon of the 'old school', and Norman Townsley, who had just come back from Army service in Norway and India. Two of his three sons were born in Norwich. John, now an IT consultant, was born in 1949 and Peter, a local government officer in Norfolk, in 1951. The family lived in 'Pull's Ferry', a delightful house owned by the dean and chapter of Norwich Cathedral, that fronts the River Wensum. In 1953 the family emigrated to the USA when Eric obtained a post as a fellow and instructor in surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He worked in the famous cardiovascular unit with Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley at the Jefferson Davis Hospital. Notwithstanding a stimulating professional environment and the prospect of rapid career advancement, in 1955 Eric and Shirley decided to take the children home to England. He was then appointed resident surgical officer at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and associated hospitals, working with his former 'chiefs' and in addition 'Monty' Ridley Thomas, a good general surgeon with a urological interest, and Alan Birt. Working for all four surgeons, including his former chiefs, Noon and Townsley, he obtained good paediatric training, some neurosurgical experience, vascular training, as well as exposure to the full range of general surgical procedures. Eric Hardy then proceeded to Newcastle, perhaps on the recommendation of Norman Townsley who held him in high regard and knew the professor there well. He became first assistant in the department of surgery at Durham University and to the surgical professorial unit in Newcastle. Under the guidance of the dynamic Andrew Lowden his surgical skills were further increased. He returned to his studies and passed the English fellowship in 1958, under the impression that this was essential at consultant interviews. He was appointed to the Chester Royal Infirmary as a consultant general surgeon the following year. Eric and the family moved there in July 1959 just after the birth of their third son, Michael, who is now a technical consultant in the oil industry. He published on 'Acute ischaemia in limb injuries' and did experimental work on 'The role of bacteria in irreversible haemorrhagic shock', and the use of trypsin on experimental thrombotic and inflammatory conditions. He was an avid correspondent to the broadsheets and was respected for his comments on medical and world matters. His MD thesis was accepted in 1954 but in 1987, after he had retired, he wrote a letter to the editor of the *Journal of the RSM* based on this thesis. An article on Meigs' and pseudo-Meigs' syndrome had been published suggesting the role of 'lymphatic stomata' in the diaphragm in the benign ovarian tumour producing both ascites and pleural effusion. Eric Hardy, based on his early work, felt that frequent shock waves produced by coughing, for example, could easily explain the diffusion of fluid in the abdomen to a sub-atmospheric pressure zone of the pleural cavity and through an attenuated diaphragm. There was no need to implicate lymphatic stomata. In Chester he gained a superb reputation as a fine diagnostician, an excellent teacher who 'did not suffer fools gladly', but who was extremely supportive to his staff and much appreciated for his support of medical colleagues. Many of his trainees still use and pass on some of Eric's techniques. He was a founder and president of the Liverpool and North West Society of Surgeons and was honoured by his peers when elected president of the Chester and North Wales Medical Society. He retired from his busy surgical life in 1982, and for the next ten years became a 'hobby' farmer in west Cheshire. After his wife, Shirley, died in 1994 he moved back to Norfolk and lived for some 15 years in Surlingham near Norwich. He was very active up to the last, and was shopping in Norwich a few days before his death following a fall. Eric Gordon Hardy died on 9 July 2010, and left three sons and five grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Reynolds, Ian Stuart Russell (1943 - 2011)

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by John Black
Publication Date 2011-07-07
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Ian Reynolds, formerly a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Hereford, was born into a medical dynasty. His grandfather, Russell Reynolds, himself a third generation doctor, was a pioneer radiologist in the early years of the 20th century and some of his equipment is on display in the Science Museum in London. Ian's father, Seymour Reynolds, was also a radiologist and became dean of the Charing Cross Medical School, where the main building is named after him. Ian went to school at Harrow, where his outgoing personality and sporting ability made him a popular figure. He gained colours in cricket, rugby and Harrow football, and played three times at Lords in the Eton/Harrow match. His medical training was at Caius College, Cambridge, and St Thomas' Hospital. He never achieved the sporting representative honours of which he was capable (he was a batsman of county standard) because of a disdain for training and practice, there being for Ian many more interesting things to do in life. He was a true Corinthian and never put winning before sportsmanship and enjoyment of the game. His surgical training was initially in London. He became a surgical registrar in Wolverhampton and did the West Midland senior registrar rotation in orthopaedics, working in Birmingham and Coventry. In 1980 he obtained a consultant post in Hereford, where the need to be able to cover a wide range of the specialty suited him perfectly: not for Ian the narrow sub-specialist approach. When he arrived in Hereford his new post increased the complement to three orthopaedic surgeons and he also had sessions at Oswestry. When he retired there were nine. His cheerful light-hearted manner concealed (lightly) a good brain and he was clinically very astute and well informed, with technical skills to match. He did not take to NHS management other than chairing the medical staff committee. The social milieu in Hereford, a small cathedral city, suited Ian and his wife Jill, a former St Thomas' nurse, perfectly. Ian was a generous host and loved entertaining, wine and food. Their household became a hub for a large collection of friends from all walks of life. The Reynolds' house in Hereford came with a two and a half-acre garden, including 'Scott's Hole', a sizeable crater of uncertain origin. Ian took this as a challenge and began to fill it with increasingly exotic and rare plants, as well as ponds and many other garden features. He knew every one of his plants, and there were hundreds, by their Latin names. His garden was included in the National Garden Scheme 'Yellow Book', the standard for opening to the public, an achievement of which he was very proud. Ian developed carcinoma of the prostate in 2004, and after initial treatment had a four-year remission. Unfortunately, the condition returned in 2009 and he died on 12 February 2011. He left a widow Jill, three children (Nick, Kim and Jonathan) and five grandchildren. His daughter Kim continues the medical tradition into a sixth generation.
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First Title value, for Searching Roualle, Henri Louis Marcel (1915 - 2007)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-07-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Henri Roualle was a consultant general surgeon in London serving at many hospitals at various stages of his career, including Connaught, Wanstead, Finchley Memorial, the National Temperance and Whipps Cross hospitals. He was also visiting surgeon to HM prison, Wormwood Scrubs. He was born on 19 May 1915 in Epsom, Surrey. His parents, Louis Francois Auguste Roualle and Marie Marguerite Caroline née Rolo, came from Normandy and settled in England, taking British nationality. Henri and his brother Jean were both educated at Epsom College, where their father was a language teacher in French and German. The Roualle brothers were brought up as bilingual speakers and enjoyed the privileged ambience of the school grounds, playing with the children of other masters. Henri entered the lower school in 1923 and moved into the main school, where he became a school prefect and head of Roseberry house. He switched from the classical side to science subjects in the sixth form. After a distinguished academic career in school, he gained a scholarship to study medicine at St Bartholomew's. During these years he developed acute appendicitis with peritonitis and poliomyelitis, the latter leaving him with a permanent limp. For his preclinical years he went to the medical college in Charterhouse Square and spent his clinical years at St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield. He contributed papers as a student to the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Journal* on a wide range of topics from 'Moliere and medicine' to 'carbuncle of the kidney'. On qualification he became a casualty house surgeon and then was attached to the obstetric and gynaecology unit. His unpublished memoirs describe his recollections of these years. He then took a job as a ship's doctor on a Blue Funnel steamer, the *Myrmidon*, sailing from Plymouth to Australia and back via Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. On the return journey, the Second World War broke out and Henri Roualle found himself in a convoy returning home via South Africa. In October 1939 he returned to Bart's as an anatomy demonstrator working with W J Hamilton, and ended this time in Cambridge with the evacuation of the preclinical school. The students were housed in Queen's College, Cambridge, and enjoyed the facilities of the university, including the lecture theatres and the anatomy dissecting room. Bart's students were segregated in a 'roped-off' area about one quarter the size of the larger portion used by the Cambridge undergraduates, who were to be seen there occasionally. Bart's students under the Hamilton were taught a lot of anatomy, almost to the exclusion of physiology and biochemistry. This state of affairs existed until Easter 1946, when the preclinical school returned to war-damaged Charterhouse Square in London. Henri Roualle then went to Queen Alexandra's Hospital, an EMS hospital at Cobham, as a 'junior' surgeon for a year and a half. Although he had a limp following poliomyelitis, he was accepted for military service as a medical officer in the RAF with the rank of flight lieutenant. He served in West Africa until 1942, then in France and was in Brussels on VE day. As part of the army of occupation he saw the horrors of Belsen, and describes these very vividly in his typewritten private memoirs. Brought up in the Roman Catholic faith, his wartime experiences turned him to agnosticism. He was, however, always committed to Christian moral principles. He returned to Bart's in 1946. During his postgraduate years he worked as a chief assistant to Sir James Paterson Ross on the surgical unit. Later his teaching skills were utilised as a surgical tutor, a post used to help students consolidate their knowledge and, in particular, to help those struggling with examinations. His further training took him to Barnet General Hospital. At the RCS he won the Jacksonian prize in 1948 and followed this as Hunterian Professor in 1950, when he delivered a lecture on 'malignant disease of the thyroid gland'. This was a survey of 100 cases and was published in the *Annals* of the Royal College of Surgeons (1950:7:67-86). In 1952 he was appointed as a consultant general surgeon to Barnet Hospital, also working at the National Temperance and Finchley Memorial hospitals. Many Greek Cypriot patients attended the National Temperance Hospital, and Henri taught himself modern Greek in order to communicate with them. In the 1960s he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis, almost certainly from a patient. This necessitated treatment in a sanatorium in Norfolk. Henri's final posts were at Whipps Cross and Connaught hospitals. He also served as surgeon at Wormwood Scrubs prison, where he had dealings with John Stonehouse MP and other notable figures. In 1946 he married Molly Walden, a nurse whom he had met at RAF Hospital, Ely. They were together for just over 60 years and had three children, Anne-Marie, Yvonne and Michael. Henri Roualle was a very hard working and conscientious surgeon who was perceived as such by his children. None of the children entered medicine, and perhaps got to know their father better in his retirement. The family recall their father as a proficient linguist who encouraged them, when holidaying abroad in their teens, to speak the native language. Linguaphone records were studied by the whole family, particularly in Spanish and Italian. The interest in languages rubbed off on the children. Anne-Marie taught Spanish and French at several schools, including Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls; her sister Yvonne teaches Italian at Sherborne Girls' School. Their brother, Michael, went to Epsom College and entered farming and then banking. Henri Roualle's last few years were dogged by indifferent health. In addition to cardiac problems, he developed circulatory problems in his 'polio' leg. This was amputated below the knee in his 85th year, and he was in hospital for several months due to MRSA infection. An attack of shingles compromised the sight in one eye to which he adapted well, but he did not venture out of doors thereafter. His intellect remained strong: he read daily newspapers and was always keen to discuss articles he had read and found interesting. Henri Roualle died after another short illness on 28 March 2007 and was survived by his wife Molly, by their children and four grandchildren, Simon, David, Helen and Samuel.
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First Title value, for Searching Travis, William (1772 - 1851)

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First Title value, for Searching Trevan, Henry ( - 1880)

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First Title value, for Searching Treves, Sir Frederick (1853 - 1923)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Came of an old Dorset yeoman stock, the family records being traceable back for several centuries, nearly all his ancestors having married Dorsetshire women. He was born in Dorchester on February 15th, 1853, where his father, William Treves, was in business as an upholsterer. His mother was Jane, daughter of John Knight, of Honiton. At the age of 7 he went to the school in South Street kept by the Rev William Barnes, the Dorset poet, whose writings preserve the Dorset dialect. Treves has handed down an account of his schooling in his *Highways and Byeways of Dorset*. A man of varied accomplishments, Barnes was an engraver, artist, musician, naturalist, and he composed a philological grammar from sixty-seven languages. Unsuccessful in keeping a school, he ended his days happily as Rector of Winterborne Came, and his statue stands in front of Dorchester Church. Treves entered Merchant Taylors' School, then in Suffolk Lane, City of London, in May, 1864, was in the School XV, left in 1871, and subsequently attended University College, London. He entered the London Hospital in 1871 and was appointed House Surgeon for three months from May 25th, 1876, his colleague being Mr S A Fisher, after which he was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal National Hospital for Scrofula at Margate, where his elder brother, William Knight Treves (qv), was one of the Hon Surgeons. He married in 1877 and bought a share in the practice of William Milligan of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. In 1879, having obtained the FRCS in the previous year, he applied for and was elected Surgical Registrar at the London Hospital, where he had Dr Francis Warner as his medical colleague. On September 23rd, 1879, he became Assistant Surgeon, being promoted to Surgeon on September 30th, 1884, and Consulting Surgeon on December 7th, 1898. In the medical school attached to the London Hospital he was Demonstrator of Practical Anatomy, 1881-1884; Lecturer on Anatomy, 1884-1893; Teacher of Operative Surgery, 1893-1894; and Lecturer on Surgery, 1893-1897. Treves founded his surgery on anatomy, and was fortunate in practising at a time when Lister's teaching allowed of a great extension of abdominal surgery. To this he added a remarkable energy, rising early to write, with facility as well in illustrating as in intercalating anecdote. He was an expert dissector, and operated neatly, quickly and cautiously. He was myopic and generally wore spectacles, but in operating, especially in the days of the spray, he laid aside his spectacles and held his head close to his work. He taught without elaboration. He would remove a uterine fibromyoma as one would amputate a limb, turn down flaps, clamp and tie blood-vessels, suture the flaps over the stump. He rapidly became known beyond the London Hospital owing to his genius as a writer. In 1881 he was appointed Erasmus Wilson Professor at the College of Surgeons and lectured "On the Pathology of Scrofulous Affections of Lymphatic Glands". In 1882 he published his first book, *Scrofula and its Gland Disease* (12mo, London, 1882) - the experience gained at the Margate Hospital forming the foundation. His knowledge of German allowed him to add a good résumé of previous knowledge and of advances made in the pathological histology of the disease. Four histological plates are included in the book, for he was preparing at the same time an article on 'Scrofula' for Holmes and Hulke's *System of Surgery* (3rd ed, 1883), of which there were also two American editions, a New York one of 1882, and a Philadelphian edition of 1883. Unfortunately the publication just preceded Koch's revolutionary communication of the tubercle bacillus. Treves brought the vague scrofula pathology nearest to tuberculosis when he quoted statistics to show that 'phthisis' in the father (not so much in the mother) predisposed to scrofula in the child; but there was still confusion with congenital syphilis. In 1884, in his paper "The Direct Treatment of Psoas Abscess with Caries of the Spine" (*Med-Chir Trans*, 1884, lxvii, 113), he was following Lister's lead. Treves published his most widely known book in 1883, *Surgical Applied Anatomy* (12mo, London and New York, 1883), and continued to lecture on anatomy until 1893. The fifth and later editions were revised by Sir Arthur Keith; the eighth edition by Professor C C Choyce was published in October, 1926. In 1883 he was awarded the Jacksonian Prize for his dissertation on "The Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstruction of the Intestines in its Various Forms in the Abdominal Cavity". This was published in 1884 (12mo, London and New York); a new and revised edition appeared with the title, *Intestinal Obstruction: its Varieties, with their Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment*, in 1899, and again still further amended in 1902. He followed up the subject as Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology at the College of Surgeons in 1885 and 1886, founding his descriptions on numerous dissections, including dissections of animals at the Zoological Gardens. His observations were illustrated by pen-and-ink drawings, and by others in watercolours. They described mechanical disarrangements of the intestines, congenital and acquired, which induce phases of intestinal obstruction. The lectures were published as *The Anatomy of the Intestinal Canal and Peritoneum* in 1885 (4to, London). The fatal condition of intestinal obstruction had in olden days got the name of 'the Miserere Mei' from the psalm said over the patient; it had been treated by repeated clysters, and occasionally, as in animals, by paracentesis. Abdominal exploration was just becoming a practicable measure, and his description was that of a fresh investigator of the anatomy of the abdomen from the standpoint of active intervention. In 1885 (12mo, London) appeared his *Influence of Clothing upon Health*, which included much anticipatory of the changes which women have come to make. Subsequently he wrote the article on "Physical Education" in *A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health*, edited by T Stevenson and Shirley F Murphy (1892, 537-613). In 1886 he edited *A Manual of Surgery* - treatises by various authors, in three volumes - with preface, February, 1886. In 1891 he published *A Manual of Operative Surgery* (8vo, London and Philadelphia) in two volumes, and in 1892 *The Student's Handbook of Surgical Operations*, abridged from the author's *Manual of Operative Surgery* (12mo, London and Philadelphia). In 1895-1896 he edited *A System of Surgery* (8vo, London), in two volumes. Of the foregoing it may be said that they represented the highest level of the surgery of his day, and subsequently he was assisted in revised editions by Mr Jonathan Hutchinson, junr. But as distinguished from his *Surgical Anatomy* they have aroused only a temporary interest. Meanwhile 'appendicitis' surgery gave Treves an enormous development of private practice. He became the most successful of London surgeons, receiving more often than others the 100-guinea fee, then the upper limit. Private patients were so plentiful that in 1898, at the age of 45, he resigned the post of Surgeon to the London Hospital. Hospital practice changes and advances from year to year. On his visit the surgeon has around him the keen and critical minds of his students urging him on. Private practice lags behind hospital practice; without hospital practice a surgeon becomes stereotyped. Treves as Surgeon to the London Hospital was recognized as the leader of English Surgery. After his resignation he gradually ceased to lead. He had been for several years an Examiner in Anatomy and in Surgery at the Universities of Cambridge, Aberdeen, and Durham. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1892-1894, and a Member of Council from 1895-1903. *Appendicitis* - From various causes the importance of disease in the appendix vermiformis of the caecum was ignored until after the middle of the nineteenth century. All evidence supports the conclusion that appendicular disease has always been common, for the appendix is a remnant of the distal portion of the mecum of lower animals, and as such is prone to disease. Galen's physiology of the caecum as a second stomach, wherein the liquid contents tend to dry up, was the basis of the clinical pathology described under the terms 'iliac passion', 'typhlitis (caecitis)', 'perityphlitis', 'paratyphlitis'. As an anatomical structure, the appendix was first described and figured by Vesalius. In the early part of the nineteenth century post-mortem observations were made, in particular at Guy's Hospital by Hodgkin, Bright, and Addison; at Westminster Hospital by Burne; but the bearing of these observations were unnoticed in general practice - the clinical pathology held sway. Active treatment by surgery developed first in the United States. It is sufficient here to note the writings of Fitz in 1886, and his introduction of the term 'appendicitis' which concentrated attention upon the vital pathology of the disease. When Treves called 'appendicitis' an uncouth term he missed the mark. In the development of this branch of surgery, concurrent developments must be borne in mind. Lister's method permitted the active treatment of pistol-bullet wounds of the intestines in the United States, and of the immediate surgical interference for perforated gastric ulcer which arose in Germany. British surgery had overlooked the subject. In Holmes and Hulke's *System of Surgery* (3rd ed, 1883), in Erichsen and Beck's *Surgery* (8th ed, 1884), in Heath's *Dictionary of Surgery* (1886) - indeed, in Treves' own *Manual of Surgery*, issued in 1886 - there is less about perityphlitic abscess than older surgical books gave to the iliac passion and abscess. Samuel Fenwick, Physician to the London Hospital, in the *Lancet* (1884, ii, 987, 1039) gave a full description of perforations of the appendix. He added (p 1041) that theoretically it would seem much better to cut down directly upon the appendix as soon as the diagnosis is tolerably certain, and tie off the appendix above the seat of the perforation, removing any concretion and decomposing material. Treves did not refer to his colleague's observations: in his Hunterian Lectures in 1885 he described merely the anatomical variations he had met with in the examination of 100 bodies. In July, 1883, (Sir) Charters Symonds instigated by his colleague, Dr F A Mahomed, had removed a concretion from the appendix, closing the opening by Lembert's sutures. The patient, a man in Guy's Hospital, aged 25, had suffered two attacks of pain and had developed a swelling. There had been no return of pain eighteen months later, although the appendix had not been removed (*Lancet*, 1885, i, 895). In his paper "Relapsing Typhlitis treated by Operation" (*Med-Chir Trans*, 1888, lxxx, 165) and "Discussion" (*Proc Roy Med-Chir Soc*, 1886-8, ii, 333), Treves described how he had operated for the first time for such a condition upon a patient under Stephen Mackenzie, Physician to the London Hospital. He had cut down upon an appendix kinked by omental adhesions; after dividing the adhesions he had straightened out an appendix, two and a half inches in length, distended towards its tip, but not containing a concretion. The patient had recovered and had remained free from symptoms. Timothy Holmes had operated similarly, but symptoms had recurred. Howard Marsh and W J Walsham, operating late on cases of septic peritonitis at St Bartholomew's Hospital, had removed a diseased appendix, but neither patient had survived. Treves developed his pathology of typhlitis, perityphlitis and paratyphlitis, and the operation on chronic and recurring cases in the interval between the attacks. In acute cases his general prescription was delay until the fifth day, when peritoneal suppuration would have become circumscribed. He continued the same advocacy in his paper on "A Series of Cases of Relapsing Typhlitis treated by Operation: a Series of 14 Cases" (*Brit Med Jour*, 1893, i, 835), and again "Relapsing Typhlitis" (*Ibid*, 1895, i, 420, 517) - a further series of 18 cases; he had removed the appendix during the quiescent period in 16, with recovery except in one ease which died on the fourth day, apparently from peritonitis. In two the removal was abandoned owing to adhesions; 14 were private cases, and 4 were in the London Hospital. Meanwhile, in spite of Treves, attention was given to the fatalities ensuing from perforation: the tragic deaths, especially in children and young people, and to the life-saving immediate operation. Treves underwent the bitter experience of losing his younger daughter, who was so attacked that she could only have been saved by an immediate operation. Yet he never seems to have fully accepted for himself the lead given by the American surgeons. Treves contributed an article on "Perityphlitis and its Varieties" to Allbutt's *System of Medicine* (1897, iii, 879). He also published separately *The Surgical Treatment of Perityphlitis* (2nd ed, revised and enlarged, 1895), also *Perityphlitis and its Varieties: their Pathology, Clinical Manifestations and Treatment* (8vo, London and New York, 1897). The advances made in London may be gathered from a discussion opened by Treves on "The Subsequent Course and Later History after Operation of Cases of Appendicitis" (*Med-Chir Trans*, 1905, lxxxvii, 431). Reports from various hospitals are included, that from the London Hospital relating 1,000 cases. *King Edward's Coronation* [*Dict Nat Biog*, Supplement 2, i, 591 (Treves is not mentioned by name in this brief notice of the King's illness)]. - King Edward VII at the age of 30 had suffered gravely from typhoid fever, which had been followed by varicose veins and phlebitis, limiting his exercise. He was stout, and bronchitic. His Coronation had been appointed for June 26th, 1902. At Windsor, on June 13th, he had an abdominal attack which Sir Thomas Barlow and Sir Francis Laking attributed to appendix trouble. Treves was called in on June 18th. The local swelling having subsided somewhat and the temperature having fallen, the King journeyed to London on June 21st. That evening the lump increased and the temperature rose. Early on the 24th, Lord Lister (qv) and Sir Thomas Smith (qv), the senior Serjeant Surgeons, joined the physicians in consultation, and came to the conclusion that an operation was imperative and should be performed immediately. The King's thought was to keep faith with his people and go to the Abbey, and he did not give way until after a scene of prolonged and painful pleading. Treves said bluntly to him, "Then, Sir, you will go as a corpse." The operation followed at 11 o'clock am. Treves laid open an abscess containing decomposing pus and inserted two large drainage tubes. Convalescence ensued, and the Coronation took place on Aug 9th. Nothing was reported concerning the appendix, nor is there any report of further abdominal trouble. The King died of bronchopneumonia on May 6th, 1910, and no account of any post-mortem examination was issued. Treves was made a Baronet, with honourable augmentation of a lion of England in his coat armour. Honours followed, including that of LLD Aberdeen, and his election as Lord Rector of the University. Before his Address he gave notice in the local press that if there was the slightest noise he would immediately leave the room and deliver no Address. The students gave him a most enthusiastic welcome and the most attentive hearing. He was elected first President of the Club of "Dorset Men" and was succeeded in this position by Thomas Hardy. His myopia doubtless was against sport, but in his early days he would bicycle fifty miles, was a first-rate swimmer, was a certificated master mariner: with his brother and McHardy, the ophthalmologist, he yachted from Margate, and fished off the West Country coast. He joined in the protests against the pigeon-shooting at Monte Carlo, although he would catch or even shoot dogfish. *War Services and Public Work* - Towards the end of 1899, following on the outbreak of the war in South Africa, Treves along with others was appointed a civilian Consulting Surgeon. On arrival he was placed in charge of a Field Hospital, which starting from Frere accompanied the Ladysmith Relief Column. Treves was present at the Battle of Colenso and at the entry into Ladysmith. His *Tale of a Field Hospital* (4to, London, 1900) described his experiences. The bullets mostly used - unless in some way they had become deformed - penetrated the soft tissues with extraordinarily little damage. Tetanus was absent, because the fighting was over uncultivated ground. Enteric, as yet uncontrolled by vaccine, was the great enemy as in former wars. Civilian influence overcame the military objections to trained nurses, and when a few ladies seeking notoriety tried to make a sort of picnic and interfere with the nursing, Treves exclaimed against "the plague of women which had descended upon South Africa", in which he was supported by Lord Milner. Treves received the CB and KCVO for his services. He continued private practice until 1908, after which he devoted himself to public work, travel, and writing books; was one of the founders of the British Red Cross Society, and became Chairman of the Executive Committee. He had much to do with the organization of the Radium Institute, and was Chairman of the Committee of Management. He served as a member of the Territorial Forces Advisory Committee of the Territorial Force Association, and also of the Army Sanitary Commission. During the European War, 1914-1918, he was President of the Headquarters Medical Board and the primary adviser on the higher personnel of the Force. He ranked as Honorary Colonel RAMC (T), Wessex Division. *Literary Genius* - Treves, in addition to being a great surgeon, possessed the seeing eye, the inquiring mind, and a great love of natural beauty. He was an admirable conversationalist and a stimulating companion. He had a facile pen and an abundant fund of anecdote. He got through much by rising early: with a love of travel was joined that of writing at every spare moment. Of his surgical writings, his *Surgical Applied Anatomy* was the first book to give full play to his literary talent and is the one which may claim to reach the standard of a medical classic. Of his general writing, the highest level of his literary work may be considered to be *The Tale of a Field Hospital* (1900), although its subject has been thrown into the shade by the greater happenings in the European War of 1914-1918. He was not blind to a drawback that a tale of typhoid fever and gunshot wounds might be deemed by the general reader to be sombre or even gruesome, as he mentioned in his preface. Certainly the term 'sombre and gruesome' may be given to *The Country of the Ring and the Book* (1913). It is a work which must have involved much research and elaborate preparation of 106 photographs, plans, and maps, but is concerned with the most revolting of mediaeval stories, and the 'Browning furore' which inspired it has cooled. Sombre and even gruesome may also be applied to his *Elephant Man and other Reminiscences* (8vo, London, 1923). An unfortunate patient in the London Hospital was afflicted with congenital diffuse neurofibromatosis, which not only disabled him but gradually killed him by changing to cancer. Other reminiscences of the London Hospital in its unregenerate days were included in this book. His other books, full of attraction and charm, will continue to be read by those following his travels. His *Highways and Byeways of Dorset* (1906, reprinted 1906 and 1911) not only forms one of a series descriptive of English counties, but allies itself with the Hardy and Barnes literature. He travelled widely from 1903, and wrote *The Other Side of the Lantern: An Account of a Commonplace Tour round the World* (8vo, London) in 1905. The second part of the title indicates a tour in 1903-1904 by way of the Mediterranean, Red Sea, India, Burma, Ceylon, China, Japan, and America. The quaint first part of the title is explained in a Preface:- "A paper lantern, round and red, hangs under a cloud of cherry blossoms in a Japanese village. There is a very familiar flower symbol painted upon one side of it. Some children have crossed the Green to see what is on the other side of the lantern. A like curiosity has led to the writing of the travel book." Other books by Treves are: *A German-English Dictionary of Medical Terms* (with Hugo Lang) (8vo, London, 1890); *The Cradle of the Deep* (1908), which includes descriptions of the West Indies; *Uganda for a Holiday* (1910), which noted a visit to the Great Rift Valley, the Lake Victoria Nyanza, and the sources of the Nile; *The Land that is Desolate* (8vo, London, 1913), a tour of Palestine, before the War and the subsequent Mandate to England: starting from Jaffa, to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho and the Dead Sea, Haifa, Acre, Nazareth, Lake of Galilee, Damascus, ending with a railway accident on the return to Haifa; *The Riviera and the Corniche Road* (1921); *The Lake of Geneva* (1922). Treves practised at 6 Wimpole Street. After his retirement from practice King Edward lent him the Thatched House Cottage in Richmond Park. His heart began to give trouble, and he went in 1920 to live in the South of France, on the Lake of Geneva at Evian, and lastly on the opposite or Swiss side at Vevey. In 1922 he passed through a severe attack of pneumonia from which he appeared to recover. But on December 3rd, 1928, he was seized in his flat at Vevey with acute infective cholecystitis and peritonitis; he was removed to a Nursing Home in Lausanne; when Sir Hugh Rigby arrived he was moribund, and he died on December 7th. He was cremated, and his ashes were brought back and buried in Dorchester Cemetery. Among those who attended the funeral was Thomas Hardy. Treves had married in 1877 Anne Elizabeth, youngest daughter of A S Mason, of Dorchester, who survived him, as also his elder daughter, Enid Margery, married to Brigadier-General Sir Charles Delme-Radcliff. There are several portraits of Sir Frederick Treves. The best is that in early middle age, at the height of his career as a surgeon. This portrait by Sir Luke Fildes in oils was left in reversion to the College of Surgeons in case of nonacceptance by the National Portrait Gallery. The *Vanity Fair* one represents him in khaki. He left an estate of over £102,000.
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Details Born at Dorchester in 1843, and therefore ten years senior to his brother, Sir Frederick Treves, Bart (qv). He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. He was then appointed Resident Surgeon at the Royal Sea-Bathing Infirmary, Margate, and thus began a long and honourable connection with that town. In 1870 he started in private practice in partnership with William F Hunter and William H Thornton, JP. In 1872 he was made Surgeon to the Royal Sea-Bathing Infirmary and held office until 1901, when he became Consulting Surgeon. He was early appointed District Medical Officer, and later Medical Officer of Health, and held this office for some twenty years. On the termination of his partnership he withdrew almost entirely from general practice and devoted himself to surgery, especially to that of tuberculosis, for which he had special opportunities. In this he was conspicuously successful. The wide reputation enjoyed by Margate as a resort for the tuberculous and as a haven for the convalescent is due in very large measure to Treves. He founded the Margate Cottage Hospital, and was successively its Surgeon, Consulting Surgeon, and President. Treves practised for many years at 32 Dalby Square, latterly in partnership with William Greenwood Sutcliffe, his neighbour, and with his son, Frederick Boileau Treves. After a period of ill health, which caused him to withdraw from his manifold activities, he died on October 14th, 1908, and was buried in Margate Cemetery. Publications:- "The Condition of the Circulation in Scrofula." - *Lancet*, 1871, i, 568. "Excision of Knee-joint, and the Condition of Rest Necessary to be Maintained." - *Ibid*, ii, 463, 508. "Treatment by Excision of Masses of Scrofulous Glands." - *Ibid*, 1888, ii, 105. *On the Diagnosis and Treatment of Scrofulous Glands*, 8vo, London, 1889. *Present Methods of Treating Tuberculosis (Section 5): The Surgical Aspect*, 8vo, London, 1903.
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First Title value, for Searching Cotes, Charles Edward Henry (1860 - 1893)

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Details The younger son of Major Cotes, RA. He was educated at St Paul's School and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, being appointed, before graduation in medicine and surgery, Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University Medical School. Returning to St George's Hospital, where he had already done work during one year, he filled several minor posts and became House Surgeon in 1884, Anaesthetist in 1887, Surgical Registrar in 1889, and Demonstrator of Anatomy in 1891. It was at this time that he began to exhibit his remarkable abilities as a teacher, and six generations of students at St George's Hospital can testify to the practical value of his demonstrations in surgery. In 1888 he was appointed Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital and to the Well Street Branch of the Seamen's Hospital, and was elected Surgeon to Out-patients at the Lock Hospital in 1889. Here he had opportunities for observing venereal disease so extensive that he wrote a dogmatic paper on a "New Treatment of Gonorrhoea," in which he advocated drastic treatment in the early stages. This was only one of several original contributions to surgery. In 1890 he developed symptoms of phthisis and resigned some of his hospital posts, but he was still Demonstrator of Anatomy, with large clinical classes in surgery, heavy work at the Lock Hospital, and a rapidly growing private practice. He took a trip to Australia in 1891 and returned with his trouble apparently arrested, but he broke down completely in the autumn of 1892. He intended to live out of England with his young wife for the sake of his health, but died at Bournemouth on May 4th, 1893, without being able to realize his wish. His London address was latterly 42 Davies Street, Berkeley Square.
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First Title value, for Searching Philip, Peter Forbes (1922 - 2009)

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Occupation Urologist
Details Peter Forbes Philip was a consultant urologist at Charing Cross Hospital and a prime mover in organising the hospital’s rebuilding. Philip was born on 6 January 1922 in Walthamstow, where his father, George Stuart Bain Philip, was a general practitioner who had qualified at Charing Cross. His mother, Janet Mallinson, had been a nurse. He went to St Aubyn’s Preparatory School and then to Bancroft’s School in Woodford. He did his preclinical training at King’s College, London (then at Leeds), and Birmingham University, before winning the David Livingstone scholarship to Charing Cross Hospital. There he was influenced by Stibbe and McDowall, Norman Lake, Jennings Marshall, David Trevor and Gordon Holmes. He qualified in 1945 and was house surgeon at Ashridge Base Hospital (part of Charing Cross) and then in the Strand to Norman Lake and Jennings Marshall. He was then a resident surgical officer at Lincoln County Hospital, where G A B Walters inspired his interest in urology. He then joined the RAF as a graded specialist in surgery at Ely Hospital and Nocton Hall with the rank of squadron leader. On demobilisation, he was senior surgical registrar at Harold Wood Hospital in Essex for two years during which time he was seconded to Tilbury, Orsett and Billericay. He was then resident surgical officer at St Peter’s Hospital for the Stone. He was appointed as a consultant urologist at Charing Cross Hospital in 1951 and was assistant director to the professorial surgical unit. Later he was also a consultant urologist at the Bolingbroke Hospital and the Royal Masonic Hospital. He published on urethral strictures and urinary diversion and edited the section on urology in Bailey and Love’s *Short textbook of surgery* from 1967 to 1983. He played a major part in organising the rebuilding of Charing Cross Hospital and described this colossal undertaking in the *Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England* 1973:53;335. In 1947 he married Joyce Audrey Grant, a nursing sister at Charing Cross. They had three children: Susan Jane, John Stuart Forbes and Jane Elizabeth. He was a skilled cabinet maker and enjoyed rebuilding old Alfa Romeo cars. He was a quiet caring man who was liked by all and respected for his optimistic, pragmatic, good nature and honesty. An anaesthetist colleague summed him up: “No histrionics, no prima donna acting to the gallery to impress the students, no temper tantrums, just elegant surgery performed in an atmosphere of friendly co-operation for the benefit it the patient.”
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First Title value, for Searching Jenkins, Terence Percy Norman (1913 - 2007)

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Details Terry Jenkins was a general surgeon to St Luke’s and the Royal Surrey County hospitals in Guildford. He was born in Shoreditch, London, on 21 April 1913, the second son of Harold and Louise Jenkins, who had a chemists’ shop. They moved to Harrow a few years later. He was educated at the John Lyon and Harrow county schools, from which he won a scholarship to University College Medical School. On qualification in 1936 he won the Magrath scholarship, and went on to be house surgeon to William Trotter. At the outbreak of war he joined the RAMC and served in France, Belgium and North Africa, mostly doing orthopaedics, and reaching the rank of major. On demobilisation, he was appointed to the Guildford hospitals as a general surgeon. There he built up St Luke’s from a Poor Law institution to a respected hospital. An experienced general surgeon, his particular contribution was to the prevention of burst abdomen by the use of a continuous looped nylon suture, placed with centimetre bites, without tension. The method had been introduced by Gordon Gill, his colleague, and the results were published in 1976. Terry married twice. His first wife was Kathleen Creegan, by whom he had two sons, Tony (an engineer) and Edward (an architect). He then married Rosemary Dockray, by whom he had a son Andrew (a senior retail manager) and a daughter, Philippa (a management accountant). He died on 16 July 2007.
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First Title value, for Searching Selsnick, Frances (1917 - 2007)

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Details Frances Selsnick, one of the most remarkable women of her generation, was the first female general surgeon in the United States and the first female American Fellow of our College. Frances was born in New York on 23 December, 1917, the daughter of Harry Selznick and Florence née Greenfield. Having been a child prodigy on the piano, performing ‘the Dance of the Hours’ at Carnegie Hall, Frances was educated at New York University and then went to the Anderson College of Medicine, Glasgow, to study medicine. She returned to New York to do a residency at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1948 and then on to Sea View Hospital, Staten Island, and the Knickerbocker Hospital, New York, in 1953. After completing a fellowship at the New York Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York, she returned to the United Kingdom in 1955, where she was a house surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital. This was followed by posts as a senior house officer in Stoke-on-Trent and registrar posts at the Royal Infirmary, Gloucester, St Luke’s and the Royal Infirmary, Bradford. She returned to the USA to work in the Veterans Administration Service, first at Martinsburg, West Virginia, in 1965, and then in Reno, where she became successively senior surgical coordinator for surgical services, and then assistant and associate chief of the surgical service. For these services she was awarded the John D Chase and Mark Wolcott awards for leadership skills and clinical care delivery. She continued to be an active surgeon right up until the week before she was admitted to hospital. Frances never married, but was an ever-popular member of an extended family, who nicknamed her ‘the General’ because of her fiesty manner: nobody enjoyed the joke more than she. She died of heart failure on 10 June 2007. Howard Amster
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First Title value, for Searching Power, Sir D'Arcy (1855 - 1941)

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Details D’Arcy Power was born on 11 November 1855 at 3 Grosvenor Terrace, afterwards 56 Belgrave road, Pimlico, SW, the eldest of the six sons and five daughters of Henry Power, then assistant surgeon at the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and Ann, his wife and first cousin, youngest daughter of Thomas Simpson, banker and shipowner of Whitby. He was educated at St Marylebone and All Souls Grammar School, 1 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park, 1866-70. The school was set up by the Rev Henry North, father-in-law of Sir James Paget, and drew its pupils from the sons of neighbouring doctors. He was at Merchant Taylors School, then in Suffolk Lane under Cannon Street Station, from 1870 to ’74, having been admitted on the presentation of Mr Foster White, Treasurer of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and he won the Pigeon and Pugh prize for “the best boy fitted for a merchant’s office”. He matriculated at Oxford in 1874 as one of the earliest non-Wykehamists at New College, and came under the influence of George Rolleston and E Ray Lankester, and of Huxley in London. As biology was not taught at New College he migrated to Exeter College with an open exhibition in 1877. In this year he was demonstrator to C J Yule of Magdalen, the University lecturer in physiology. He graduated BA 1878 with a first in natural science, MA in 1881, and BM in 1882. He entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School with a perpetual student’s ticket in 1878. His father sent a cheque for 100 guineas, but by return of post the school treasurer, G W Callender, sent back the cheque, saying “Dog does not eat dog”. From Christmas 1878 until 1881 he was assistant demonstrator of physiology to Dr V D Harris. In November 1883, when James Shuter, the assistant surgeon, died from an accidental overdose of morphia, Power became curator of the anatomical and pathological museum, a post he held for six years. He was demonstrator of practical surgery from 1889 and of operative surgery from 1889 to 1901, except in 1896-97 when he was not re-elected as a warning from the Medical Council that he must contest the next vacancy for an assistant surgeon. He was demonstrator of surgical pathology 1901-4, and lecturer on surgery 1906-12 with W Bruce Clarke and from 1912 to ’20 as one of the surgeons to the Hospital. In the Hospital itself he was ophthalmic house surgeon to his father and to Bowater Vernon, 1882, house surgeon to W S Savory, 1882-83, and won the house-surgeons’ prize. On 28 April 1898 he was elected assistant surgeon, after a contest like a Parliamentary election against his friend James Berry, the votes being 71 and 60, in a vacancy caused by the resignation of Sir Thomas Smith and promotion of W J Walsham. He had charge of the throat and nose department 1902-04, as it was still the custom for an assistant surgeon to act as a specialist. Speaking of this period at a lunch given by the President of the College in honour of his eighty-fifth birthday, Power said: “When I wanted advice I went to Sir James Paget; I went to him at breakfast-time, 7.30, that was the only time you could catch him. Or I went to Sir William Savory, my master; when his son Borradaile was away I took the head or at least the vice-chair at his dinner parties, which were very formal and very long. We went to Mr Hulke at tea-time, just as tea was coming in; we were always great friends with Mr and Mrs Hulke. We were friends too with Lord Lister; his testimonial helped me greatly when I stood for assistant surgeon at St Bartholomew’s, it impressed the Governors and I was elected.” In 1904 he was appointed surgeon to succeed John Langton, and resigned in 1920 when he was elected consulting surgeon and a governor of the Hospital. He was chairman of the visiting governors’ sub-committee in 1927-32. From 1906 to 1920 he had been surgical instructor of probationary nurses. In 1934 he was appointed archivist and honorary keeper of the muniments, and began with Gweneth Hutchings, DPh (Mrs Whitteridge) a systematic survey of the Hospital’s archives, one of the longest and most complete collections in Europe. He was amused to find that the muniment room had been so long untouched that the dust on the documents was sterile. He printed some of the earliest documents in a contribution to the issue of the *Bulletin of the History of Medicine* dedicated to Arnold Klebs on his seventieth birthday, 17 March 1940. At the Royal College of Surgeons Power was examiner in physiology for the Fellowship 1889-92 and 1897-1902 and for the Membership 1892-97, Hunterian professor 1896-97, Bradshaw lecturer 1919, Vicary lecturer 1920, and Hunterian orator 1925. He was a member of Council 1912-28, and vice-president in 1921 and 1922. In 1929 he became Honorary Librarian, a post created for him on the death of the librarian, Victor Plarr; and he was elected a trustee of the Hunterian Museum in the room of Lord Rosebery in 1930. In 1878-79 he had been demonstrator of biology to Ray Lankester at University College; and he was professor of histology 1890-1903 and assistant professor of physiology 1893-1903, with Bland Sutton as his colleague in anatomy, at the Royal Veterinary College, where as he wrote: “the cockney wit of Sutton and the sarcasm of Power reduced the disorderly classes to order.” Power held many hospital appointments in and round London, and took an active part in many professional and other societies. He was consulting surgeon to the Metropolitan Dispensary, the Victoria Hospital for Children and the Bolingbroke Hospital, Wandsworth. He was on the court of the Royal Sea-bathing Hospital, Margate, and on the board of management of the Royal Masonic Hospital, in the rebuilding of which he took an active interest. He was president of the Harveian Society in 1908 and of the Medical Society of London in 1916. At the British Medical Association he was president of the section of surgery for the Nottingham meeting in 1926, but an attack of pleurisy prevented his attendance. At the Royal Society of Medicine he was president of the section of the history of medicine in 1918-20 and of the section of comparative medicine in 1926-28. He was président d’honneur of the Société internationale de l’Histoire de Médecine at Geneva in 1925. He was a member of the Physiological Society from 1879, and served various offices in the Pathological Society, the British Orthopaedic Society, the Medical Research Club, and the Society for the Study of Disease in Children, among others. He took an active part in the International Medical Congresses and in the Société internationale de Chirurgie. He was for many years chairman of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, in whose work he took a deep interest, the president being Sir T Barlow. Outside the profession he was eminent as a freemason and achieved high rank in the Grand Lodge of England. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1897, and was president of the Bibliographical Society in 1926-28. He was a founder of the Samuel Pepys Club in 1903 and its president in 1924, and a founder of the Anglo-Batavian Society in 1920, his great-grandmother having been a Dutchwoman. He was a corresponding member or honorary fellow of many learned societies at home and abroad, including the Académie de Médecine de Paris, the American Surgical Association and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He joined the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps in 1888 and was commissioned major *à la suite* on the formation of the RAMC territorial force in 1908. During the war of 1914-18 he was lieutenant-colonel in command of the 1st London General Hospital at Camberwell. He represented the RCS on the Statutory Committee of Reference and was a member of the appeal board. In the peace *Gazette* of June 1919 he was created KBE. He had been ambulance lecturer to the Birkbeck Institute in 1890-98. He served on the Metropolitan Asylums Board and on the Advisory Committee on the administration of the Cruelty to Animals Act. He was in 1912 a member of the Royal College of Physicians committee on the nomenclature of disease, and from 1908 to 1929 a visitor for King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London. He was for many years on the councils of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the British Empire Cancer Campaign. He examined in surgery for several universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, for the RCS, the RAMC and the IMS, and was a member of the Faculty of Medicine in the University of London 1902-20. Power was a good all-round surgeon, who showed at his best in an emergency operation. But while eminent as a surgeon and as a writer on surgery, and taking an active part in the administrative and social life of the profession, he made his real mark as a scholar and historian. On his seventy-fifth birthday his many friends joined with the Osler Club to give him a volume of his *Selected* writings. The book contains sixteen of his articles and a bibliography of 609 items, and during the remaining ten years of his life books and articles continued to come from his pen almost as prolifically as before. Besides making so many contributions to medicine and scholarship Sir D’Arcy was throughout life a journalist, reviewing regularly for the *British Medical Journal* and frequently for *The Lancet*, *The Times Literary Supplement* and other papers. It is an open secret that he contributed the obituary notices of surgeons to *The Times* for many years. His first published writing appeared when he was twenty-two: “On the albuminous substances which occur in the urine in albuminuria”, written with Lauder Brunton for *St Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports* in 1877, and his first clinical paper appeared in the same *Reports* in 1882: “A case of hereditary locomotor ataxy.” In the meantime he had joined Dr Vincent Harris in writing a *Manual for the Physiological Laboratory* 1880, which ran to five editions in twelve years. In 1886 he edited the *Memorials of the Craft of Surgery in England* from materials collected by J F South, a book of some 400 pages; this work first turned him to historical writing. He then began his long series of unsigned historical articles in the *BMJ*, under the editorship of Ernest Hart, and later contributed an historical article to almost every number of the *British Journal of Surgery* from its beginning in 1913. From 1893 he contributed some 200 “lives” to the *Dictionary of National Biography*, and thence acquired the method of precision and compactness which he used in revising the material collected by V G Plarr for the *Lives of the Fellows of the College*, published in 1930. Between 1930 and 1940 he wrote, largely from personal knowledge, the lives of the Fellows (nearly 400) who died in those years. He had the pleasure of presenting these lives in typescript to the College Council on his eighty-fifth birthday. This was his last public appearance. These lives of 1930-40 are printed in the present volume. Power’s professional interests were wide and he wrote on many subjects. He made a thorough study of intussusception and his Hunterian lectures were enlarged to form a book on this subject in 1898. He also wrote several papers on “wiring” for aneurysm. But his life-long interests were in the surgical diseases of children on which he published a manual in 1895, in cancer (Bradshaw lecture 1919 on cancer of the tongue), and in syphilis: with J Keogh Murphy he edited the *System of Syphilis* issued by the Oxford Press in 1908-10. He was an editor of *St Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports* from 1898 to 1902 and treasurer of the *British Journal of Surgery* for many years. During the war of 1914-18 he wrote on *War wounds* for the Oxford medical war primers, of which he was an editor. He first became known to the general reader by his *William Harvey*, 1897, written to order in a few weeks; it remains after fifty-five years the best short study of its great subject. Sixteen years later he broke new ground with his *Portraits of Dr William Harvey*, compiled at Sir William Osler’s suggestion and published anonymously, and partly at Power’s expense, for the Royal Society of Medicine in 1913, with many illustrations. His most scholarly work was his edition of the *Treatises* of John Arderne, the xiv century surgeon “edited from an early xv century translation with introduction, notes, etc.” for the Early English Text Society in 1910; and followed in 1922 by Arderne’s *De arte phisicali et de cirurgia*, which he translated from the Latin. Power stated the he had seen over sixty manuscripts of Arderne’s and later gave the transcripts, which he had used for his editions, to the College library. In pure bibliography he published a masterly study of *The Birth of Mankind*, in which he cleared up the difficulties of distinguishing the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century issues of Raynalde’s book by means of elaborate “tables of comparison of the initial letters”. In 1924 he was visiting surgeon at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at Boston, Massachusetts, and in 1930 he paid a second visit to America, when he renewed his old friendships with Fielding Garrison, Harvey Cushing, and other surgeons and scholars. He gave a course of lectures at the W H Welch Institute of the History of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, subsequently published as *The Foundations of medical history*, 1931. In this he explains that his method as bibliographer and historian was to seek the man behind the book; he was in full agreement with Garrison in approaching medical history from the biographical aspect, and had no use for philosophical generalizations. In 1935 he gave the inaugural address at the opening of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons at Melbourne. On the voyage to Australia he dictated his autobiography; he later wrote a family history; both remained unpublished at his death. Among his later writings were *A Mirror for surgeons*, a collection of outstanding case-reports by surgeons of many dates and countries ; a complete genealogy of the family of Percivall Pott; and a paper on Thomas Johnson, the xvi century translator of Paré, in which he cleared up the biographical puzzles which had defeated earlier writers. Like his father, of whom he wrote that “he neither affirmed nor denied”, Power was an agnostic. The age of the Reformation made a special appeal to him and he wrote much about the surgeons of Elizabeth’s reign, whose books he collected. His lively interest in human types was shown in his studies of Pepys, including the paper “Why Pepys discontinued his diary”, with its prescription for spectacles for Pepys which attracted much attention. He transcribed the xvii century diary of John Ward, which was long in the possession of the Medical Society of London and was later sold and published. He wrote on Benvenuto Cellini, in whom he was interested as a connoisseur of silversmith’s work. While always open to new ideas and new methods Sir D’Arcy was a man of genuine *pietas*. He loved Oxford, the College of Surgeons, and Bart’s, and was an authority on their great men, particularly Bodley, Hunter, and Harvey. Though simple in his way of life he was fond of good food and an excellent judge of wine, and was for many years chairman of the International Exhibition [of 1851] Co-operative Wine Society. He formed a remarkable collection of editions of the *Regimen of Salerno*, the dietetic classic of the middle ages, and wrote several papers on the history of fashions in food. He believed in dining clubs as the best dissipators of professional jealousies, and particularly valued his membership of the Confrères Club, which met regularly for dinner and debate, being himself a good informal speaker. As a man Sir D’Arcy endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact. Modest and unselfseeking, he carried his learning most lightly and always brought forward his assistants. Having been a poor man in early life, “we married on £60” he used to say, he remained always simple and approachable, and made no parade of his achievements. He was a very shrewd judge of men, absolutely straightforward and upright himself, with a puckish amusement at the foibles of others. He attributed to his Yorkshire Quaker ancestry the dogged determination with which he overcame the bitterness of bereavements which clouded a happy married life, ignored his physical disabilities, and set himself to carry through to completion the many tasks which he voluntarily undertook. Power married on 6 December 1883 Eleanor, youngest daughter of George Haynes Fosbroke, MRCS 1835, of Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Lady Power died on 26 June 1923. They had three children: a daughter who died in childhood; one surviving son, Air Vice-Marshal D’Arcy Power, CBE, MC, MRCS, RA Medical Service, and a second son who was missing and presumed killed at the battle of Ypres in 1915. For the second half of his life Power lived in the little old-fashioned house, 10a Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, next door to the Medical Society of London; it became almost a museum, and he knew the associations of every book and piece of furniture in it. His heart failed soon after his eighty-fifth birthday, and when his house was damaged in the air-raids of the autumn of 1940 he moved to his son’s house, 53 Murray Road, Northwood, Middlesex, where he died on 18 May 1941. He was buried at Bidford-on-Avon; a memorial service was held at St Bartholomew-the-Less on 28 May, at which G E Gask gave the funeral oration. His library was sold at Sotheby’s on 9 and 10 June 1941. A portrait in oils, by Sir Matthew Williams Thompson, Bt, Fellow of the Society of Portrait Painters, who presented it to the College, shows Sir D’Arcy, three-quarter length, seated, in his Fellow’s gown and wearing the insignia of his knighthood, aged 79, 1934. There is a photograph, aged 56, in Henry Power’s *Brief sketch of my life*, 1912, page 31; another, aged about 70, in D’Arcy Power’s *Selected writings*, 1931, frontispiece; and a third, aged 75, in *Brit J Surg*. 1930, 18, 184. Power appears in the group-portrait of the College Council of 1927-28; this painting has been engraved. There are other photographs in the College collections. *Bibliography*: Power’s typescripts were presented to the College by his son; they include a number of unpublished lectures and speeches, and are bound in 23 volumes covering the years 1895 to 1933. *Selected writings 1877-1930*. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1931, with a bibliography of 609 items compiled by A H T Robb-Smith and Alfred Franklin. Power’s chief subsequent publications were : Some bygone operations of surgery, 1-11 *Brit. J. Surg.* 1930-33, vols. 18-20. Some early surgical cases, 1-2: The Edwin Smith papyrus. *Ibid.* 1933-34, 21, 1 and 385. Ipsissima verba, 1-13. *Ibid.* 1934-37, vols. 21-24. Hyman Maurice Cohen. *Brit. J. Anaesth.* 1930, 7, 49. John Abernethy. *Brit. med. J.* 1931, 1, 719. *The foundations of medical history*. Baltimore, 1931. Touchpieces and the cure of the King’s evil. *Ann. med. Hist.* 1931, 3, 127. Roubilliac, Cheselden, and Belchier. *Brit. med. J.* 1931, 2, 820. Century of British surgery. *Brit. med. J.* 1932, 2, 134. St Bartholomew’s Hospital 1880-1930. 7th Finlayson memorial lecture. *Glasg. med. J.* 1932, 118, 73-102. Natural science and medicine, in *Johnson’s England*, Oxford, 1933, vol. 2. *A short history of surgery.* London, 1933. Medical history of Mr and Mrs Samuel Pepys. *Brit. med. J.* 1933, 1, 325. Richard Gill. *St Bart’s Hosp. Rep.* 1933, 66, 1. The idea of the new Freemasons’ Hospital in Ravenscourt Park. *Architect. Rev.* August 1933, p. 53. Films in surgery. *Sight and sound,* 1933, 2, 43. Some great English surgeons: what they did and what they looked like; the Bolingbroke lecture, abstract only. *S. W. London med. Soc. Ann. Rept*. 40, 1933-34. Merchant Taylors School, the Charterhouse, and St Bartholomew’s Hospital. *St Bart’s Hosp. J.* 1933, 40, 5. Compulsory consultations. *Lancet,* 1934, 1, 746. The history of the amputation of the breast to 1904. 16th Wm. Mitchell Banks memorial lecture, 13 Nov. 1933. *Lpool med.-chir. J.* 1934, 42, 29. History of venereal diseases, in W. R. Bett *A short history of some common diseases*, Oxford, 1934. The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. *Brit. med. J.* 1935, 1, 930. How surgery came to Australia. *Aust. N. Z. J. Surg.* 1935, 4, 368-383. Some early English doctors and their descendants [Harman, Banester, Harvey, Browne, Sloane, Pott, Hunter, Baillie, Abernethy]. *Genealogists Mag*. 1935, 7, 55 and 97. Questions and answers. *St Bart’s Hosp. J.* 1936, 43, 221. Speech at unveiling of tablet to John Hunter at 12 South Parade, Bath, where Hunter lived in 1785, (16 May 1936). *Med. Press*, 1936, 192, 490; for an account of the ceremony, see *Nature*, 1936, 137, 864. Sir Thomas Bodley’s London House. *Bodl. quart. Rec.* 1936, 8, No. 90. New blocks of the past. *St Bart’s Hosp. J.* 1937, 44, 222. Foreword to C. Wall *History of the Surgeons’ Company*, 1937. The Treasurer of the Hospital. *St Bart’s Hosp. J.* 1937, 45, 29. Removal of the upper jaw; an historical operation. *Surgery*, 1937, 2, 780. The cultured surgeon. *Aust. N. Z. J. Surg.* 1937, 6, 243. A urological cause célèbre: Bransby Cooper v. Wakley. *Brit. J. Urol.* 1937, 9, 330. Clap and the pox in English literature. *Brit. J. ven. Dis.* 1938, 14, 105-118. A letter written in 1637 giving advice to a patient suffering from stone in the bladder. *Brit. J. Urol.* 1938, 10, 109-113. The hospital beer. *St Bart’s Hosp. J.* 1938, 45, 298. Foreword to Calvert’s *John Knight, serjeant-surgeon*, 1939. St Bartholomew’s Hospital. *Med. Press*, 1939, 202, 281. *A mirror for surgeons*. Boston, Massachusetts, 1939. The muniment room at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. *Bull. Hist. Med.*, Baltimore, 1940, 8, 392-402. Thomas Johnson (1597?-1644), botanist and barber-surgeon. *Glasg. med. J*. 1940, 133, 201. Pedigree of Percivall Pott. *St Bart’s Hosp. J.* 1940, war edit., 2, 21. Purchase of land by the family of Dr Wm. Harvey. *Ann. med. Hist.* 1940, 2, 308. The journal and the profession: some memories. *Brit. med. J.* 1940, 2, 437. Power edited two volumes of articles reprinted from the *Medical Press and Circular: British masters of medicine*, 1936, including at p. 131 his own article “James Paget”; *British medical societies*, 1939, including at p. 58 his own article “The Abernethian Society.”
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First Title value, for Searching Mantell, Gideon Algernon (1790 - 1852)

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Occupation General surgeon Geologist
Details Born on Feb 3rd, 1790, the third son of Thomas Mantell, and Sarah Austin of Peckham. His father, who traced his descent from Walter Mantell in 1540, was a cordwainer living in St Mary’s Lane, now called Station Street, Lewes. He is still remembered as the builder of the first Wesleyan Chapel in the town. Gideon Mantell was educated at an Academy in Lewes founded by John Button, and afterwards at a school in Wiltshire, his uncle being the Baptist minister at Westbury and Swindon. He was apprenticed to James Moore, a surgeon in Lewes, and then proceeded to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, taking with him a collection of fossils from the chalk which had already attracted his attention and interest. He returned to Lewes as soon as he had qualified, and entered into partnership with his former master, James Moore, and lived in Castle Place; he became Medical Officer of several parishes in the neighbourhood of Lewes and was appointed Surgeon to the Royal Ordnance Hospital at Ringmer. Encouraged by James Parkinson, a surgeon living at Hoxton who had published in 1804 *Organic Remains of a Former World*, he began to study geology seriously, and in 1815 published at Lewes an octavo volume, *A Sketch of the Geological Structure of the South-Eastern Part of Sussex*. In 1822 *The Fossils of the South Downs* appeared, with 42 plates engraved by Mrs Mantell and with the King as patron. In 1825 he contributed a valuable paper to the Royal Society on the Iguanodon, and with this fossil his name is now inseparably connected. In November, 1825, he was elected FRS. His next book, also illustrated, is known as *The Fossils of Tilgate Forest*, though it was published under the title *Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex* in 1827. Mantell in the meantime continued his medical work, took an active part in securing a free pardon for Hannah Russell in the Burwash case, and published in 1827 *Observations on the Medical Evidence Necessary to Prove the Presence of Arsenic in the Human Body*. In 1831 he became acquainted with Benjamin Silliman (1779-1866), Professor at Yale University and founder in 1818 of the *American Journal of Science*; the acquaintance ripened into a lifelong friendship and was the means of the honorary LLD being conferred upon him by the University of Yale in 1834. In 1833 he published *The Geology of the South-East of England*, with a dedication to the King, and in the same year he moved to 20 Steyne, Brighton, partly to reduce the labour of an extensive country practice, and partly on account of his health, which had given cause for anxiety. The move proved unsatisfactory from a professional point of view, and Mantell had serious thoughts first of emigrating to America, and later of buying a practice in London. He published in 1837 *Thoughts on a Pebble*, dedicated to his younger son, Reginald Neville Mantell; the book became very popular as a gift book, and there was a seventh edition in 1846. In September, 1837, he bought a practice at Clapham Common and sold a Geological Museum which he had collected with much pains. It was bought by the British Museum for £4000. *The Wonders of Geology* appeared in 1838 and soon established itself as a popular favourite. The eighth edition was published in England twelve years after his death; an edition appeared in America in 1839, and Dr Burchard, of Bonn, translated it into German. He also wrote the sketch of the “Geology of Surrey” which was published in Brayley’s *Topographical History of Surrey* in 1840. The following year, 1841, found him busy as a Member of the Councils of the Linnean and of the Geological Societies, and as Secretary of the Geological Section of the Royal Society. He was also one of the promoters of the Clapham Athenæum, which was established in 1841. With all these distractions it is clear that he did not neglect his medical practice, for his friends and patients at Clapham Common presented him with a purse of one hundred guineas as a birthday gift on Feb 3rd, 1844. He moved from his house in the Crescent, Clapham Common, in the autumn of 1844, to 19 Chester Square, SW. In this year he published *The Medals of Creation, or First Lessons in Geology and in the Study of Organic Remains* (2 vols, 8vo, illustrated, London, 1844). *The Thoughts on Animalcules, or a Glimpse of the Invisible World revealed by the Microscope*, with 12 coloured plates and 7 woodcuts, was issued in 1846, and in the same year *A Day’s Ramble in and about the Ancient Town of Lewes*, a small octavo with a frontispiece and vignette. *The Geological Excursions round the Isle of Wight and along the Adjacent Coast of Dorsetshire: illustrative of the most Interesting Geological Phenomena and Organic Remains* appeared first in 1847. A second edition with a supplementary chapter was published in 1850, and a third edition under the superintendence of Rupert Jones, FRS, was issued posthumously in 1854. Mantell was granted a pension of £100 a year from the Civil List in 1852. He died at his house, 19 Chester Square, on Nov 11th, 1852, and was buried in Norwood Cemetery. The memorial tablet in St Mary’s Church, Lewes, gives the year of his death incorrectly as 1853. Mantell married in May, 1816 - by special licence, for she was under age - Mary Ann, daughter of George Edward Woodhouse, of Maida Hill, London, W. She was educated to become a sufficiently good artist to illustrate some of her husband’s books and papers. She outlived him, but there is no mention of her at the time of his death, though she appears to have been living at Cambridge. A half-length portrait of her from a painting is in the possession of W M Woodhouse, Esq. There were two sons and two daughters of the marriage. Walter, the elder son, was appointed in 1848 “Commissioner for the allotment and purchase of lands in the middle island of New Zealand”. He died without issue. Reginald, the second son, was a pupil of Isambard K Brunel. He was engaged in railway construction in England and the United States. He died of cholera, unmarried, at Allahabad in 1857; and was superintending the building of a bridge over the Jumna when the Mutiny broke out. The elder daughter married John Parker, publisher to the University of Cambridge; the younger daughter died unmarried. Mantell was one of the many members of the medical profession who have made for themselves imperishable names in various branches of science entirely alien to their practice. He was amongst the pioneers in the study of fossils at a time when such study was considered impious. Ill health and a marked tendency to hypochondriasis must have made him “gey ill to live with” and accounted for the unnecessary acrimony which marks some of his discussions. A careful post-mortem examination was made of his body. The results are described in the *Medico-Chirurgical Transactions* for 1854, xxxvii, 167-170, with plates iv, and v. His spinal column is preserved in the College Museum (No. 4808/i) as an example of extreme lateral curvature which is remarkable from the fact that it does not appear to have been very noticeable during life. There is also a plaster cast of the spine in the College Museum (Special Pathology Part xxviii) with the number 4808/2. A kitcat portrait of Mantell is in the possession of W M Woodhouse, Esq, also a half-length portrait dated 1837 by J Masquerier, engraved by Samuel Stepney. Further portraits are one in a LLD gown from an engraving by W T Davey, and a small wax medallion executed in 1841 for presentation to Professor Silliman; but this was not considered good enough for the purpose. A fine engraving by W T Davey from a drawing by Senties is in the College Collection.
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First Title value, for Searching Clapton, William ( - 1912)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Stamford, one of a large family. His father educated his elder brother, Edward (qv), for the medical profession, but had no thought of doing so in the case of William, who only attained his object by dint of indomitable perseverance. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, first at Hertford and then in London. He was apprenticed to an apothecary in London, and often used to tell of the rhyme with which he would be taunted by the street boys: "O salts and senna, you would not do for me;/ I'd rather go to Jericho than a doctor's boy I'd be." He had not much spare time and very little spare cash, but he used often to employ his meal-times in running to a library for books in order to improve his education, and had to buy his own candles in order to sit up to read them. Gibbon, Grote, and Adam Smith were authors whose works were devoured by young Clapton; his memory was so retentive that he could repeat the whole of *Paradise Regained*, as well as the whole of the Psalms in the Prayer Book version. Thus, by pluck and perseverance he prepared himself for a professional career, and eventually entered St Thomas's Hospital, then situated at London Bridge Station. He was a successful student and became Resident Accoucheur and Assistant Resident Medical Officer. Soon after qualifying he settled in practice in the City, living for most of the time in Queen Street, with addresses in Bloomsbury. He was for many years Medical Officer of the British Equitable Assurance Company. He was appointed Surgeon of the West City Dispensary and Royal Humane Society, and was also for a long period Secretary of the City of London Medical Book Society. A sociable man, with many friends, he identified himself with the interests of the profession in the City, and was active in civic affairs. For ten years he represented the Vintry Ward in the Court of Common Council (1872-1882). Retiring from practice some few years before his death, he settled at Canterbury, where he loved to attend the cathedral services for the sake of the music. He was for some years churchwarden at St Stephen's Church, Canterbury, and took part in much social and philanthropic work to within a few weeks of his death, which took place on August 20th, 1912, at his residence, Rose Villa, St Stephen's Road.
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First Title value, for Searching Callaway, Thomas (1822 - 1869)

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First Title value, for Searching Callender, George William (1830 - 1878)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-02-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in June, 1830, at Clifton, his father being a member of an old Scotch family, his mother of a family many of whom belonged to the medical profession. He was educated at Bishop’s College, Bristol, and entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1849. He was in due order Dresser, Clinical Clerk, House Surgeon, Registrar, Assistant Surgeon, and Surgeon in 1871; in the Medical School he was Demonstrator of Morbid Anatomy and of Anatomy, Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy, and in 1873 Lecturer on Surgery. In 1873 he was Professor of Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. Among other posts he was Examiner in Anatomy and in Surgery at the University of London, also President of the Clinical Society. The papers communicated to the Royal Society show that, though practical surgery was the main object of his professional life, he never gave up the love of anatomy which he acquired in his student days. The subjects which he chose for investigation may indicate the difficulties on which he was prepared to work, and he justified himself by success. His paper in the *Philosophical Transactions* on “The Formation and Growth of the Bones of the Human Face” was praised by Sir James Paget, and, added to his other merits, ensured his election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1871. Of the paper on the “Axial Arches” the same good judge writes: “It was very important, but only treated of one or two stages; if he had gone on with the research it would have been a work of great price. The same may be said of what he did in the study of ‘The Formation and Early Growth of the Brain of Man’. This was the subject of his Lectures as Professor of Anatomy at the College in 1873.” Concerning his surgery when major surgery was limited to excisions and amputations, trephining and lithotomy, Lister’s methods had no general acceptance. There was no abdominal surgery but for hernia, and that was limited to relief by incision of the constriction. “His operations were dexterous and neat, and all preparations for them were trim, in due place and time…. All was scrupulously watched over by himself; he seemed never tired of taking care for the cleanliness and comfort of his patients.” In his essay on the “Anatomy of the Parts concerned in Femoral Rupture” (London, 1863) the notes concerning the descriptions of each structure by the earlier anatomist are longer than the text itself. “In dividing these structures for the relief of strangulated intestine, the incisions should be as small as possible” (p. 50). Then there was no question of suture, so that the result of herniotomy was an enlarged aperture. In his address delivered to the students at St Bartholomew’s Hospital on October 3rd, 1864 (published under this title in London in the same year), he specially emphasized the study of pathological anatomy, but the microscope is not mentioned. In his essay “On the Present System of Medical Education in England” (London, 1864) he observed: “It is my opinion that little, if any, change in the existing regulations is at present desirable”, and the final paragraph began with, “This I would add. At St Bartholomew’s we have always held back from the introduction of what may be termed extra courses of lectures, and we may, I think, congratulate ourselves on having done so. Skin diseases, ear diseases, and so forth, can be learnt for all practical purposes without the aid of special instructors.” Callender’s last publication was his address at the opening of the Section of Surgery at the Bath Meeting of the British Medical Association. The subject was “The Avoidance of Pain”, in which he mentioned a great variety of causes and their relief, but neither sepsis nor antisepsis, nor Lister’s procedure. Neither the words nor any implication of such methods finds mention except the use of carbolic oil. The preface to his remarks was, however, printed in italics: “An operation or an accident wound can be so treated that the patient from the first to last shall be free from pain; and in the treatment of many other troubles a great deal of pain may be avoided by forethought and care on the part of the surgeon.” The first part of the sentence implied the free use of opium. In person Callender was a tall, powerfully built man with a remarkably low forehead. He was extremely fond of horses, and on more than one occasion drove a coach and four into the Hospital Square. He had become the subject of Bright’s disease, and in September, 1878, went on a voyage to the United States, where he became worse. He died on October 20th at sea on the return voyage. He practised in Queen Anne Street, was married, and had a son and two daughters. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery. Publications: “The Formation and Early Growth of the Bones of the Human Face.” – *Phil. Trans.*, 1870, clix, 163. “Removal of a Needle from the Heart; Recovery of the Patient,” London, 1873; reprinted from *Med.-Chir. Trans*. “Anatomy of the Thyroid Gland.” – Abstract, *Proc. Roy. Soc.*, 1867-8, xvi, 24, 183. “The Formation of some of the Subaxial Arches of Man.” – *Ibid.*, 1870-1, xix, 380. Several articles – “Pyæmia,” “Injuries and Diseases of Veins” – in Holmes’s *System of Surgery*, 2nd ed., London, 1870. “The Avoidance of Pain.” – *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1878, ii, 213. “Lectures on Clinical Precision,” London, 1876.
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First Title value, for Searching Birmingham, George ( - 1878)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-03-04 2013-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Middlesex Hospital, and entered the Bengal Army as Acting Assistant Surgeon on December 9th, 1824. He retired in October, 1827. He saw active service in Burma, 1824-1825, was afterwards in the Portuguese Navy. He was in practice in London in 1871 and he died in or before 1878. The name is spelt 'Bermingham' in the *Medical Directory* for 1871. In 1853 he gave his address as in Kentish Town.
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First Title value, for Searching Birt, Hugh (1814 - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Birtwhistle, John (1800 - 1863)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-03-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was at one time in the HEICS and in the Government Emigration Service, where he was awarded a Gold Medal for his services. He was for ten years Surgeon Superintendent of HM’s General Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum, Cape of Good Hope. He was presented by the Royal Humane Society with their Silver Medal for saving life, how or when does not appear. He contributed various papers to the *Lancet*. After leaving the Cape he lived at Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, where William Birtwhistle, MRCS, also had his residence, as well as Richard Birtwhistle (qv). Another William Birtwhistle was then in practice at Pontefract, and two others of the same surname appear in “the College Examination Book” before 1785. John Birtwhistle died in retirement at Primrose Cottage, Rosebank Road, Bow, E, on April 11th, 1863.
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First Title value, for Searching Clark, Edward ( - 1857)

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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, Sir Arthur (1773 - 1857)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-05-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was for many years Physician to the Bank of Ireland and to the Dublin Metropolitan Police. In his practice he devoted considerable attention to phthisis, and was the author of several much-read works on this subject. He founded, or helped to found, several hospitals such as the Dublin Fever Hospital, also a hospital after the pattern of the French *maisons de santé*, and in which were public baths. He was knighted by the Lord-Lieutenant on March 7th, 1811. Publications: *Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Diseases of Seamen*, 12mo, Dublin, 1814. *Essay on Warm, Cold and Vapour Bathing*: with practical observations on sea bathing, diseases of the skin, bilious and liver complaints, and dropsy, 8vo, London, 4th ed., 1819. *Essay on Diseases of the Skin*: containing practical observations on sulphurous fumigations in the cure of cutaneous complaints, with cases, 8vo, London, 1821 and 1828. *Young Mother's Assistant*, 8vo, London, 2nd ed., 1822. *Practical Manual for the Preservation of Health and the Prevention of Diseases incidental to the Middle and Advanced Stages of Life*: particularly rheumatism, gout, gravel, apoplexy, asthma, pulmonary consumption, etc., 12mo, London, 1824. *Lecture on Sea-bathing*: with observations on watering places, on indigestion, and on the diet and regimen of invalids, 8vo, London, 1828 and 1831. *Lecture on Tubercular Consumption and Asthma*, 2nd ed., 1831. *Essays on the Exhibition of Iodine in Tubercular Consumption; also on Indigestion, Diet, and Sea-bathing, with an Appendix on the Water Cure*, 12mo, Dublin, 10th ed., 1845.
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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, Benjamin ( - 1906)

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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, Horatio St John (1819 - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-05-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Went out to Australia and practised for thirty-three years in Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, being at one time a member of the Victorian Central Board of Health. He died at 172 Victoria Street, Richmond, on June 30th, 1895.
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First Title value, for Searching Cowan, Samuel Brice ( - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Cowell, George (1836 - 1927)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-08-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The eldest son of George K Cowell, an Ipswich surgeon; served as an apprentice to a practitioner in Birmingham; entered as a student at St George's Hospital, where he held minor and residential appointments under Henry Gray (qv), the anatomist, Prescott Hewett (qv), and Timothy Holmes (qv). Shortly after qualifying he was appointed Surgeon to the St George's and St James's Dispensary, and at the same time became Clinical Assistant at Moorfields, where he studied ophthalmology for ten years, though, like other ophthalmologists of that epoch, he always remained a general surgeon. Shortly after passing the Fellowship he was appointed an Assistant Surgeon to Westminster Hospital, and thus began a connection with that institution which lasted for fifty-six years. He was Lecturer on Surgery and Ophthalmic Surgery for twenty years, was promoted full Surgeon in 1878, and held that post till he was appointed Consulting Surgeon in 1896. This period covered the rebuilding of the out-patient department, the medical school, and the chapel, with all of which work he was closely associated. After being Dean of the Medical School for five years he became Treasurer of the School and held that post for fifteen years. While Assistant Surgeon at the Westminster Hospital he was appointed Surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, then in King William Street, Charing Cross, where for twenty-seven years he interested himself warmly in the management of the institution, both scientifically and from the business point of view. He was Consulting Surgeon to the institution at the time of his death. Next to his work as an ophthalmic surgeon, and closely associated with it, must be mentioned Cowell's activities on behalf of children. In 1866 he was the virtual founder of the Victoria Hospital for Children in Chelsea, and for twenty years was associated as Surgeon and Ophthalmic Surgeon with the new institution. During the same period he found time to hold the appointment of Surgeon to the East London Hospital for Children, also to lecture on surgery and ophthalmology at the School of Medicine for Women founded at the Royal Free Hospital in 1874. When Dr Barnardo founded his Homes for derelict children he turned to Cowell for assistance, and no medical man did more than he for the establishment of this fine philanthropy upon sound grounds. No doubt its religious side had particular attraction for him as he was a zealous supporter of the Guild of St Luke, and, except for the Rev Canon Henry Arnott (FRCS, fourth in the chronological List of Fellows), was at his death the senior brother of the Guild. As a Freemason he attained the degree of Past Grand Deacon of the United Grand Lodge and was the first Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Freemasons' Hospital. He died at his residence in Nevern Square on November 18th, 1927. He married the widow of George Hamilton Roe, MD, and of John Riley, and daughter of John Laurie, MP for Barnstaple. There were no children. Mrs Cowell died in 1895. Publications: *An Introductory Address . . . Westminster Hospital Medical School*,12mo, London, 1873. "Westminster Hospital and its Medical School." - *Westminster Hosp. Rep*., 1885, i, 1. *Lectures on Cataract; its Causes, Varieties, and Treatment*: being six lectures delivered at the Westminster Hospital, 12mo, London, 1883. "Causes of Failure in Excision of the Hip." - 8vo, London, 1885; reprinted from *Westminster Hosp. Rep*., 1885, i, 47. "Note on New Mode of Distinguishing between Hypermetropia and Myopia by Ophthalmoscope." - *Ophthal. Hosp. Rep.*, 1866, v, 226. "Retinitis." - *St George's Hosp. Rep.*, 1869, iv, 115. "Clinical Lectures." - Lancet, 1890, ii, 1013. *Life and Letters of Edward Bytes Cowell* (the author's cousin and well-known Oriental scholar). *A Visit to Moscow*, Sturges Lecture for 1897, 8vo, London, 1899.
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First Title value, for Searching Cowen, Henry Lionel (1817 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Bruce, Alexander (1842 - 1869)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-05-26 2013-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London in 1841 or 1842, the second son of Henry Bruce, of London, and grandson of the Rev W Bruce, DD, of Belfast. He received his medical education at University College and Hospital, where he greatly distinguished himself from 1858 onwards, gaining the Atkinson-Morley Surgical Scholarship in 1864. In his graduation in the University of London he took high honours at each successive step. After a short period of residence in Berlin, where he studied pathology, he was appointed Assistant Curator to the Museum at University College. Ever desirous of improving his professional knowledge, Bruce in 1866 visited the seat of war in Bohemia, and on his return published a graphic account of the arrangements for the relief of the sick and wounded in Dresden and of the effects of the newly introduced conical bullets. He was appointed Surgeon to the Islington Dispensary in 1866, and shortly afterwards distinguished himself by the invention of the blow-pipe gas cautery. He contributed frequently to the Pathological Society, and did excellent painstaking work as a member of its Committee for the Investigation of Morbid Growths. In 1867 he was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy and Assistant Surgeon to Westminster Hospital, and became a successful teacher. He contracted typhus (? typhoid) fever, sickened on March 27th, 1869, developed remarkably severe symptoms, and died on Sunday, April 11th, 1869. At the time of his death he was a Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical and Pathological Societies. His residence was at 8 Old Cavendish Street, W. Publications: "Observations in the Military Hospitals of Dresden," 8vo, London, 1866; reprinted from the *Lancet*. *An Epitome of the Venereal Diseases*, 12mo, London, 1868. Contributions to the Pathological Society's *Transactions*, *Lancet*, and *Med. Times and Gaz*. Bruce also dealt with the portion relating to Pathological Anatomy in a new edition of Erichsen's *Surgery*.
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First Title value, for Searching Druitt, Robert, junior (1814 - 1883)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-10-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of Robert Druitt, senr, surgeon, of Wimborne, Dorsetshire. He was a pupil for four years of Charles Mayo, Surgeon to the Winchester Hospital, and in 1834 entered as a medical student at King's College, London, and Middlesex Hospital. He took up general practice, living in Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, where he was successful and rapidly became known as a medical writer. He is best known for his *Surgeon's Vade-Mecum*, which was first published in 1839, ran into eleven editions, was translated into several European languages, and in all more than forty thousand copies were sold. Druitt was much engaged in literary work and was a versatile writer. For ten years he edited the *Medical Times and Gazette*; in 1845 he wrote a "Popular Tract on Church Music"; he wrote, too, a small work on "Cheap Wines, their use in Diet and Medicine", which appeared in the *Medical Times and Gazette* in 1863 and 1864 and was twice reprinted in an enlarged form in 1865 and 1873. In 1872 he contributed an important article on "Inflammation" to Cooper's *Dictionary of Practical Surgery*. In addition to his literary activities Druitt took an active interest in Public Health matters. He wrote in the *Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects* (1859-1867) on "The Construction and Management of Human Habitations". From 1858-1867 he was one of the Medical Officers of Health for St George's, Hanover Square, and from 1864-1872 he was President of the Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of Health, before which he delivered a number of addresses. He retired in 1872 on account of ill health, and went for a time to Madras, whence he wrote some interesting "Letters from Madras" to the *Medical Times and Gazette*. On his retirement he was presented with £1215 in a silver cup as a mark of sympathy from 370 medical men and other friends. He was one of the few recipients of the MD Lambeth, granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He married a Miss Hopkinson in 1845, by whom he had three sons and four daughters, all of whom survived him. He died at Kensington on May 15th, 1883, after an exhausting illness. There is an engraved portrait of him by R B Parkes in the College Collection. His younger brother was William Druitt (qv).
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First Title value, for Searching Turner, Samuel Meyer (1819 - 1864)

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First Title value, for Searching Turner, Thomas (1793 - 1873)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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 Turner, Thomas (1830 - 1922)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in June, 1830, and educated at University College and Hospital, London, where he was Fellowes Gold Medallist in Clinical Medicine in 1855, and for a time Curator of the Museum of Anatomy and Pathology and Demonstrator of Physiology under Professor Sharpey. He then began to practise at Hereford in partnership with Charles Lurgen, and in 1856 was elected to the Staff of the Hereford Dispensary, of which he was Surgeon. In 1863 he was appointed Surgeon to the Hereford General Infirmary, and retained the latter post till he reached the age limit in 1900 and was elected Consulting Surgeon. He took an active part in the public life of the city, and was for three years a Councillor and for twelve years an Alderman of the Town Council. He was also at one time a keen Volunteer, retiring from the force with the rank of Surgeon Major. Turner died at Hereford on February 23rd, 1922, his wife, a daughter of his former partner, having predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Crellin, Frederick (1801 - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Clippingdale, Samuel Dodd ( - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-06-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of Samuel D Clippingdale, who practised in Colet Place, Commercial Road East. He received his medical education at the University of Aberdeen and at the London Hospital, where he was Surgical Scholar and House Physician. He was at one time a candidate for the Surgical Registrarship in competition with Sir Frederick Treves. He was for a considerable period Surgeon to the Kensington Dispensary and Children's Hospital, and was at one time President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society and Vice-President of the Section of Balneology and Climatology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was also Police Surgeon for Kensington, and came before the public in his official capacity in the sensational Kensington murder trial, when a jealous husband, an Army officer, shot his wife's lover, but was subsequently proved to be of unsound mind due to shell-shock. Clippingdale was a familiar and respected figure in London medical circles and in the College Library. He possessed much charm of manner, being sympathetic and courteous after the fashion of the old school. As a medical biographer and antiquarian he belonged to the small body of those who devote themselves, with very little hope of reward or recognition, to the history of the profession. As a biographer he went into minute detail, relying much upon pedigrees, inscriptions on tombstones, and wills. He was a diligent searcher among the registers at Kensal Green Cemetery, where numbers of medical men, including Fellows of the College, lie buried. Heraldry, particularly medical heraldry, especially interested him. On the occasion of the bicentenary of the death of Joseph Addison, Mr Victor G Plarr bethought him of an idea which would at once interest and gratify this most charming modern representative of eighteenth-century amenities. He obtained leave, through Miss Nauen, the Secretary and Librarian to Lord Ilchester at Holland House, to be present with Dr Clippingdale in Addison's death-chamber at the same hour and minute when 'Mr Spectator' passed from this world. Addison died in the afternoon of June 17th, 1719, and late in the afternoon of June 17th, 1919, Dr Clippingdale and Mr Victor G. Plarr sat in the room in Holland House where the death occurred. Clippingdale had resided during his active years at 36 Holland Park Avenue, W, but after his retirement went to live at 17 Malvern Road, Hornsey, N. He died of enlarged prostate in the wards of the London Hospital on June 6th, 1925. Publications: "The Clay and Gravel Soils of London and the Relative Advisability of Dwelling upon them." - *Jour. Balneol. and Climat. Soc.*, 1902, vi, 14, 38, etc. "West London Rivers Extant and Extinct, and their Influence upon the Fertility and Salubrity of the Districts through which they Pass or Passed." - *West Lond. Med. Jour.*, 1909, xiv, 1. "A Medical Roll of Honour - Physicians and Surgeons who remained in London during the Great Plague," 8vo, London, 1909; reprinted from *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1909, Feb. 6th. "Medical Parliamentary Roll (1558-1909)," 8vo, London, 1910; reprinted from *Brit. Med. Jour.* "Medical Baronets, 1645-1911," 8vo, London, 1912; reprinted from *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1912, May 25th. "The Crest of Thomas Greenhill, Surgeon. An Heraldic Tribute to Human Fecundity," illustrated; reprinted from *West Lond. Med. Jour.*, 1914, xix, 286. "Heraldry and Medicine," original proof-sheets with illustrations of article in the *Antiquary*, 1915, Nov-Dec. (A printed copy of this is all that represents the author in the Surgeon-General's Library.) "Medical Court Roll, Physicians and Surgeons and some Apothecaries, who have attended the Sovereigns of England from William I to George V, with a Medical Note on Harold"; MS, 2 vols, fol. The two foregoing books were specially presented to the Library by the author. To the *London Hospital Gazette* he contributed a series of very careful biographies of former members of the Staff of the London Hospital, of whom a dozen were Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. - *London Hosp. Gaz.*, xix, xx, xxii, 1912. In the College Scrap-Book is a portrait of Margaret Nicholson, who attempted to assassinate George III. This was presented by Clippingdale and is accompanied by one of his careful biographical notes. "Quackery in Hammersmith in the 18th Century." - *West Lond. Med. Jour.*, 1909, xiv, 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Close, Anthony William ( - 1863)

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First Title value, for Searching Clover, Joseph Thomas (1825 - 1882)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-06-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Aylsham, Norfolk, and educated at Grey Friars Priory School, Norwich. He was apprenticed to Mr Gibson, a surgeon of high standing in the city, and became a Dresser at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1842. He served for two years, but was absent for four months of this period on account of pulmonary tuberculosis. He entered University College Hospital in 1844, where he filled the posts of Physician's Assistant and House Surgeon to Thomas Morton (qv) and to James Syme (qv) in January, 1848. He was appointed Resident Medical Officer at University College in August, 1848, and Syme thought so highly of his work as to offer him a similar position at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Clover declined the invitation, and he passed through the cholera epidemic of 1849 in London, which severely taxed the resources of the hospital, without visible impairment of health. He had perhaps been present in the operating theatre of the University College Hospital on that memorable Dec 21st, 1846, when Robert Liston, with the assistance of William Cadge (qv), of Norwich, amputated the thigh of a patient who was rendered insensible with open ether given by Peter Squire - the first time an anaesthetic was given in England for a major operation. Clover's attention was attracted by this exhibition, and the rest of his life was devoted to the administration of anaesthetics. He had settled in practice at 3 Cavendish Place in 1853 and remained there until his death on September 27th, 1882. Clover took a notable part in rendering safe the administration of an anaesthetic. His inventive faculty was of a high order, and after many trials and much experimenting he constructed an 'inhaler' consisting of a metal receiver, surrounded by a waterjacket, for ether, the receiver being traversed by a tubulure to which a rubber bag was attached. Nitrous oxide could be made to enter the bag and the proportion of gas and ether could be regulated at will. He elaborated the face-piece, with great care and made it fit accurately by the use of air cushions. He also made an exhausting bottle and catheter for the removal of calculus débris from the bladder after lithotrity. The idea of employing suction for this purpose belongs to Sir Philip Crampton (1777-1858), but to Clover is due the credit of perfecting the apparatus by which to accomplish it, whilst to H J Bigelow (1818-1890) belongs the thought of using it, and thus reducing the number of sittings required, to remove the whole of a crushed stone. The original instruments which were used by Sir Henry Thompson (qv) are preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons (G 226-229), to which they were presented by George Buckston Brown, FRCS. He also invented the instrument now known as 'Clover's crutch' for maintaining a patient in the lithotomy position. At the time of his death Clover was Lecturer on Anaesthetics at University College Hospital and Administrator of Anaesthetics at the Dental Hospital. He married Mary Anne, a daughter of the Rev T G Hall, Prebendary of St Paul's, who survived him with four children; she died June 9th, 1929. Publications: Clover made various contributions to the medical journals on the administration of ether, nitrous oxide, and chloroform. Notices of his inhalers are to be found in the *Lancet* for 1802 and in the *Brit. Med. Jour.* for 1868 and 1876. There is an excellent article on Anaesthetics by him and G H Bailey in Quain's *Dictionary of Medicine*, pp41-5. It appeared after his death in 1882.
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First Title value, for Searching Bottomley, George ( - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Boult, Edmund (1815 - 1863)

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First Title value, for Searching Boultbee, Henry ( - 1850)

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First Title value, for Searching Boulter, Harold Baxter (1853 - 1916)

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First Title value, for Searching Boutflower, John (1797 - 1889)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-03-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on November 1st, 1797, in Greengate, Salford, Manchester, and was the descendant of an old Northumbrian family. One of his ancestors was at Christ’s College, Cambridge, with John Milton, whose constant friend he remained. John Boutflower’s father was John Boutflower, surgeon, of Salford, and his brother, born in 1796, was Henry Crewe Boutflower, Hulsean Essayist and a well-known divine. John Boutflower was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, and then entered as a student at St George’s Hospital, London, afterwards completing his medical studies in Paris, where he was a pupil of Dupuytren and Boyer. In London he had also attended the lectures of Abernethy and Sir Astley Cooper. In 1820 he was House Surgeon to the Manchester Infirmary, and was for some years Lecturer on Surgery at the Chatham Street School. He was twice a candidate for the office of Surgeon of the Infirmary, but was defeated owing to adverse local influences, and refused to put up a third time. Most of' his work lay among the poor, in connection more particularly with the Salford Dispensary, which, largely owing to his fostering care, latterly developed into a large hospital. He served faithfully and ungrudgingly for forty-four years as Surgeon to the Dispensary, and, on his retirement in 1870, was presented with £200 in plate, while his portrait by Measham was placed in the board room of the institution. After his retirement Boutflower devoted himself to the wants of the poor. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Salford and Pendleton Royal Hospital and Dispensary, and Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He died at his residence, 118 Great Ducie Street, Strange-ways, Manchester, on March 20th, 1889, being then in his ninety-second year.
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First Title value, for Searching Sanderson, Robert James (1960 - 2006)

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by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2010-04-28
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Robert Sanderson was a consultant otolaryngologist in Edinburgh and Livingstone. He and his twin brother, Paul, were the first identical twins to pass the FRCS in general surgery together. ‘Rob’ elected to study otolaryngology and trained with Arnold Maran in Edinburgh, before doing a fellowship in head and neck surgery in Rotterdam with Paul Knegt. There he learnt Dutch and met his wife Christine, with whom he subsequently had three children. He was appointed as a consultant otolaryngologist to Edinburgh and Livingstone hospitals. A keen teacher, he lectured frequently and was a regular guest speaker at national and international meetings. He was lead clinician in the Scottish head and neck audit. He died on 13 December 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Hassall, Harold (1916 - 2009)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-04-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Harold Hassall was a consultant surgeon to the South Cheshire Group of Hospitals and the driving force behind the new Leighton Hospital. He was born in Radcliffe, Bury, Greater Manchester, on 3 February 1916, the son of Harold Hassall, a clockmaker, and Mary Hannah Hassall, a schoolteacher. He was educated at Radcliffe Council School, Bury Technical College and Stand Grammar School, before going to Manchester University to study medicine. He qualified in 1940 with a distinction in medicine, and then was a house surgeon to Sir Harry Platt and to the professorial unit. He joined the RNVR as a surgeon lieutenant in 1941 and served until 1946, both at sea and on shore, finishing as the senior medical officer in the Royal Naval Yard at Trincomalee, Ceylon. On demobilisation, he returned to Manchester Royal Infirmary as a demonstrator in pathology and then became a surgical registrar in the department of urology in Salford Royal Hospital. This post was followed by registrarships at the Manchester Northern and the Withington hospitals, from which he passed the FRCS and was appointed surgical chief assistant at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1949. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the South Cheshire Group of Hospitals, based at Crewe Memorial Hospital in 1952, where he served until his retirement in 1981. During his career he was also on the staff of Cranage Hall and Mary Dendy hospitals. Harold Hassall was very active in the administration of his hospital and led the commissioning team for the new Leighton Hospital, during which he frustrated plans to cut down on medical staff, forming a successful alliance in this cause with Gwyneth Dunwoody, his local MP. Later he became chairman of its surgical division. He was a notably neat surgeon, a trait perhaps inherited from his father, the clockmaker, but this did not prevent him from volunteering during a strike to help in the laundry or to mix concrete. A popular teacher, he was postgraduate clinical tutor and surgical tutor for our college. He was chairman of the Crewe division of the BMA. From 1971 to 1973 he was president of the Manchester Regional Association of Surgeons. His many outside interests included the Royal British Legion, where he was chairman of the Sandbach branch and president of the South Cheshire district. He was patron of the Crewe Sea Cadet Corps and branch secretary of his branch of the Soldiers Sailors and Air Force Association. After retirement he threw himself into raising funds for the new St Luke’s Hospice, Winsford, Cheshire, of which he became chairman. He was an expert on naval history. He was appointed OBE in 1988. Harold Hassall was married twice. From his first marriage (which was dissolved) he had one son, Richard, who became a clinical psychologist in Leeds, and one daughter, Claire, who is an economist. His second marriage was to Jenefer Jane Hassall, a former medical secretary. They had one son, John, who is a sales executive in Crewe. Harold Hassall died in Leighton Hospital on 20 October 2009.
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First Title value, for Searching Cutfield, Alfred Baker (1816 - 1863)

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First Title value, for Searching Underhill, William Lees (1814 - 1894)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born of a family of medical practitioners in South Staffordshire during the previous century and a half. He succeeded his father and practised at Tipton Heath, where he was for many years Chairman of the Local Board of Health, one of the founders of the Guest Hospital, and for a long period Surgeon to the Volunteer Corps. Appointed a magistrate, he discharged the duties with zeal, and was a liberal contributor to various charities. He retired to Alcester Road, Moseley, Birmingham, where he died on June 15th, 1894, and at his funeral at Tipton six sons bore his coffin to the grave. Of his eight sons, six had become medical practitioners.
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First Title value, for Searching Paneth, Matthias (1921 - 2011)

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by Raymond Hurt
Publication Date 2011-10-07 2015-09-01
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Mathias Paneth was a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Brompton Hospital, London. He was born in Amsterdam in 1921, the son of a doctor who subsequently worked as a surgeon in Sumatra, where he developed a special interest in tuberculosis surgery. Matt was educated at Gordonstoun and Christ Church, Oxford. After National Service and junior medical posts at the Fulham, Royal Marsden and the Brompton hospitals, he was awarded a Fulbright research fellowship in 1957 to work for a year in Minneapolis with Walton Lillehei, a pioneer of open-heart surgery in children, who used a new type of artificial heart-lung machine designed by his own team. As was the custom in the USA, this led to a number of joint surgical articles. Matt returned to the Brompton Hospital as a senior registrar and two years later was appointed to the consultant staff as a full-time surgeon on the retirement of Russell Brock (later Lord Brock). At the Brompton he was always available to operate and give advice to the junior staff. This availability and willingness to give advice continued until his retirement. At the Brompton Hospital he pioneered heart surgery on infants and later heart valve replacement and repair in adults, with the adequacy of the procedure based on a new non-invasive technique of echocardiography, which allowed assessment of the efficacy of the repair at operation, if not adequate the repair could be immediately modified. Later he was associated with the new techniques of coronary artery bypass surgery. Matt was a tall imposing figure with considerable presence. He had a great sense of humour and an enormous fund of anecdotes, which he would tell with a deadpan face. He was prone to make outrageous statements concerning his colleagues and current events, which were disconcerting to his listeners unless they realised that they were not meant to be taken seriously. He was often stern with his trainees and is reported to have frequently asked in the operating theatre 'Who is the most important person in this room?' They would understandably reply 'Why, you sir', to which he would say 'No, of course not, it is the patient'. He was a founder member of 'Pete's Club', the brain-child of Peter Jones when he was senior registrar to Sir Clement Price Thomas and who subsequently became a consultant in Manchester and later at Westminster Hospital, London. The writer was secretary of the club from its foundation in 1960 until the final meeting in 1988. We were all contemporary cardiothoracic surgeons and we met twice yearly to discuss failures and errors of judgement - the only rule of the club was that 'no case that is presented shall throw credit on the presenter'. We learnt a lot from these meetings, much more than at national meetings where only good results would be reported. Matt would teach his juniors to cut tissue, never to wipe (a crude technique often used by inexperienced surgeons) - 'What you have cut, you can sew,' he would say 'but what you have torn apart cannot be put back together again'. He resurrected the operation of emergency pulmonary embolectomy under cardiopulmonary bypass and he organised a mobile surgical team to carry out this procedure in peripheral hospitals. The technique was soon superseded by intravenous high dosage streptokinase therapy to dissolve the clot in the pulmonary artery. Matt was not a prolific writer of surgical articles, but his surgical technique for lung surgery was well described in a book he co-authored entitled *Fundamental techniques in pulmonary and oesophageal surgery* (London, Springer-Verlag, c.1987). Before going to the United States he had married Shirley Stansbie, with whom he had two daughters, one of whom became a lawyer and was appointed a crown court judge in 2011. Matt died on 31 August 2011, only ten days after an investigation for tiredness, which had revealed an inoperable bronchial carcinoma, for which he wisely refused any treatment. He had not smoked since the 1950s.
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First Title value, for Searching Todd, Ronald Stanley (1930 - 2011)

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by M K H Crumplin
Publication Date 2011-10-07 2011-11-24
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Occupation General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Ron Todd was amongst only the second generation of surgeons appointed to the Wrexham hospitals. He was initially based at the War Memorial Hospital and also in the expanded Emergency Medical Services (EMS) hospital in the town, which was later further developed into the district general hospital for north east Wales. He evolved a leading role in surgical practice there and established a vascular service for the area. He was born on 16 February 1930 in Crosby, Liverpool, where his father ran a photographic business. He first attended the Rolyat Preparatory School and then he went on to Merchant Taylors' School, in Crosby, and left school at 15. In 1946, after the Second World War, at the age of 16, he decided on a career in the Merchant Navy and commenced training as a sea cadet, on the ill-fated HMS *Conway*, which finally broke its back on the Menai Strait. Ron eschewed this career, having realised that life at sea was not going to suit him. He returned to school, willingly accepted back by his headmaster. He then achieved the necessary grades to be accepted by Liverpool Medical School. He always believed that his interview had succeeded since he knew who had written *Raffles*. For his National Service, in 1948, he joined the Army and entered the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, but was released early to start medical school in 1949. He purchased a 350cc Royal Enfield motorbike, which provided him with useful transport. On one occasion, no doubt having journeyed thence on the bike, he and a friend became stuck at the top of the big wheel at New Brighton amusement park and were late for afternoon lectures. Ron was a tall man and, at the annual medical school ball, he always won a prize during the dances for wearing the shoes of the largest size. With few home entertainments at these times, he studied late into the night in the library. He qualified in 1954 from the University of Liverpool. During his initial employment, one of surgical consultants at the Liverpool Royal told Ron and a friend that there was a subterranean way into the nurses' home. Dressed in white overalls one night, they lifted a manhole cover and crawled along some pipes, only to find themselves in the main boiler room. This room was next door to the post mortem room and the boiler man almost succumbed from terror on seeing two apparitions emerge in front of him. After his house jobs at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary and Mill Road Maternity Hospital, which involved regular casualty duties, he initially took an interest in obstetrics and gynaecology. But this proved not to be to his taste, so he launched into the practice of general surgery. He started his training at the David Lewis Northern Hospital (opened in 1902 with 237 beds - it closed, its function being supplanted by the Liverpool Royal, in 1978). During his younger days, he took up flying fixed wing aircraft and gained his private pilot licence. He also enjoyed sailing. Between 1960 and 1961, after five years as a surgical trainee, he obtained his fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and Edinburgh. He was subsequently appointed to work at the Birkenhead General Hospital as a registrar with two consultants, Furber Murphy and J B Oldham, whom he much respected. After cutting his surgical teeth, he decided it was time to boost his career with some research activity and, with a close colleague, John Laine, he travelled to New York in the RMS *Sylvania*. They both took up research fellowships under the wings of John M Howard at the Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia. This led to several publications on renal transplantation. On his return to Liverpool, in 1963, he became a lecturer in the department of surgery under the indomitable C A Wells. During further training and research activities, he met his companion for life, Gillian Drinkwater, a sister on ward five of the Royal Infirmary. He met her when requested to review a case of severe pancreatitis on her medical ward. They were married in 1966. Wrexham, a border town in north east Wales, had had only a single generation of surgeons prior to Ron's appointment - two surgeons, Robert Ninian from Glasgow and John Spalding from Guy's Hospital, both of whom had been appointed after the Second World War. Arriving as a consultant surgeon to the Wrexham Powys and Mawdach Hospital in 1965, Ron had responsibilities in the Wrexham War Memorial Hospital and also the expanded wartime EMS hospital in Croesnewydd Road, into which, eventually, the services of a district general hospital were subsumed. He also thoroughly enjoyed working at the outlying Dolgellau and Welshpool hospitals. A true general surgeon, like his three colleagues, he had to cope with a wide variety of problems, but he could now offer vascular expertise to the region. This was much needed in a mining community with a high proportion of smokers. The hospital had previously been heavily dependent on specialist facilities in Liverpool and Manchester. When John Laine was appointed three years after Ron arrived, they attracted medical students from Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, and began to advance the hospital in the direction it needed to go. Todd served as College tutor and postgraduate chairman and was later elected to the Court of Examiners of the English College, where he was widely respected. He encouraged several of his colleagues to follow his example in becoming elected to the Court. Ron sometimes joked that he learnt more from the candidates than from books! He had a prodigiously good memory and a sense of humour, often directing quips against himself. He was also a man who gave sound didactic advice, popular or not! Ron was a thoughtful and highly supportive colleague, speedily and wisely decisive, with an inbuilt mastery of surgical craftsmanship. Calmness and self-control in the operating theatre were two of his hallmarks. One of his finest achievements was to give wise and essential counsel to his trainees and junior colleagues. Gill and Ron had three very successful children, two ultimately became barristers and the third, treading truly in his father's talented footsteps, became a well-liked and gifted consultant in gynaecological oncology. Ron retired in 1990, having given 25 years of heavy commitment to the community of a tough mining and border town. Unfortunately the last few years of his life became blighted with Parkinson's disease and a severe neuropathy. Gill gave her all to care for him during these hard times, as did her family and friends. He died on 17 September 2011. Ron was a quiet and private man who deeply cared for his family. He was the epitome of a wise, kind, talented, and reliable general surgeon, one of those masters who could teach so much and lead by sound example.
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First Title value, for Searching Cronin, James Dennis ( - 1909)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was at one time a Fleet Surgeon and served through the Baltic Campaign (1854-1855), for which he was awarded the War Medal. He was Senior Assistant Surgeon of HMS *Arrogant* at the capture of Bomarsund, was present at the destruction of forts and capture of a prize at Ecknais, and was Surgeon to HMS *Vulture* at the bombardment of Sweaborg. Later he was Surgeon in charge of Hospitals on the Island of Ascension. He died on January 8th, 1909.
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First Title value, for Searching Cronin, William James ( - 1876)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St George's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. He practised at Beach, Queenstown (now Cobh), Co Cork, and was Hon Surgeon to the Queenstown Fever and General Hospital and Dispensary, and Surgeon to the Constabulary. He lived latterly at The Lodge, Queenstown. His death occurred at Clarence Place, Queenstown, on January 17th, 1876. He read a paper "On the Statistical Results of Amputation" at the Cork Meeting of the British Association in 1843. Publications:- "Transfusion in Cholera" and other papers in the *Lancet*, and *Lond Med Gaz*.
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First Title value, for Searching Eastcott, Harry Hubert Grayson (1917 - 2009)

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by Averil Mansfield
Publication Date 2010-04-28
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Occupation Vascular surgeon
Details Harry Hubert Grayson Eastcott, known as ‘Felix’, was the first man to perform carotid endarterectomy, thereby preventing strokes in countless patients. He was born in Montreal, Canada, on 17 October 1917, the son of Henry George Eastcott, a resident engineer with the Canadian Pacific Railway, and Gladys née Tozer. The family returned to England in 1920 and he was educated at Hoe Grammar School, Plymouth, the Latymer School, Edmonton, and St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. When a student in the anatomy class, he was observed by Neil Pantin to walk along leaning forwards with his hands behind his back, like the cartoon cat, and henceforward became known as ‘Felix’. As a student he played the piano in a honky-tonk band, which included Harding Rains on trumpet. He qualified with honours in 1941 and without delay went on to sit and pass the primary FRCS. He was house surgeon at the Hammersmith Hospital under Grey Turner and Dick Franklin, where he met a theatre nurse, Doreen Joy (‘Bobbie’), the daughter of Brenchley Ernest and Muriel Mittell. They were married in 1941. He then joined the RNVR and served throughout the war, reaching the rank of surgeon lieutenant-commander, and during his service visited Australia for the first time. On demobilisation, he returned to St Mary’s to work for Dickson Wright and Sir Arthur (later Lord) Porritt, and passed the final FRCS at the sixth attempt. An exchange sponsored by Arthur Porritt took him in 1949 to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, where he came under the surgical mentorship of Charles Huffnagal and learned the latest techniques of vascular surgery. On his return, he passed his masters in surgery, gave a Hunterian Lecture on arterial replacement with grafts, and became assistant director (honorary consultant) of the surgical unit under Charles Rob. It was in 1954 that he performed the first operation to prevent strokes. The patient was Ada Tuckwell, who had had many transient ischaemic attacks. The decision was taken by Denis Brinton and Pickering to carry out arteriography – in those days a hazardous procedure. This revealed a short stenosis of the internal carotid artery, the source of the previous emboli. Charles Rob delegated the operation to Felix. He had grave concerns that this might induce a stroke during the operation, but Rob and Pickering took the view that without it this would happen inevitably. May 19th was a cold day. The operating theatre was chilled. Ice packs were placed over the patient to reduce the risk of brain damage. Felix remarked that you could almost hear the nurses’ teeth chattering. The operation was carried out in the presence of some members of the council of the American College of Surgeons who were visiting the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Happily, the operation was successful and the patient lived for another 20 years without neurological symptoms. It was a superb outcome for the patient, but even more for mankind as this opened the doors for stroke prevention surgery on a major scale. Felix always referred to it as ‘my little operation’, but its impact was anything other than little. In a later article he quoted Winston Churchill as saying: ‘We have reached the end of the beginning’. He remained anxious about its scientific credentials until the results of a large multicentre trial showed once and for all just how valuable it had been in preventing stroke. Eastcott’s vascular surgical practice grew steadily from then on and he attracted the complex and difficult cases to St Mary’s and the other hospitals with which he had a connection, the Royal Masonic Hospital and King Edward VII Hospital for Officers. His book *Arterial surgery* (London, Pitman Medical) was another major contribution. It had been suggested to him by Zachary Cope, but it took several years to prepare and was finally published in 1969. It was a big success. Two further editions followed, the third in 1992, almost 10 years after he retired. He published extensively and was the editorial secretary of the *British Journal of Surgery*. Felix received many invitations to lecture around the world, particularly in the USA and Australia. In 1973 he was the King’s Fund travelling fellow to Australia and New Zealand. He was honoured in many countries and by many colleges and received honorary fellowships from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons and the American Surgical Association. He received the Fothergill gold medal of the Medical Society of London 1974 and the Galen medal of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1993. At the Royal College of Surgeons, he was an examiner from 1964 to 1970, a council member from 1971, vice-president from 1981 to 1982, and was acting president for a few weeks after the untimely death of Sir Alan Parks. He was a Hunterian professor and Bradshaw lecturer and was awarded the Cecil Joll prize. An enthusiastic Freemason, he ensured a continuous and major source of funding for the College from the Grand Lodge. He was later appointed to the Court of Patrons. Long after his retirement, Felix would attend early morning meetings in the vascular unit at St Mary’s, when he would recall in vivid detail some of his old patients and their problems. He loved his work: on one occasion in the middle of an operation he turned to his anaesthetist, Harry Thornton, and said, ‘Harry, I can’t believe they are paying us to do this’. Felix had many other interests. He always supported the music society at St Mary’s and sometimes participated. He loved to play the piano and did so most days after dinner: he called this ‘washing-up music’. Since his prep-school days he had been fascinated by flying and flew his own Tiger Moth. He was an elegant skier, an accomplished linguist, and a member of the Garrick Club. He had a few helpful encounters with the medical world. Once, in Australia, he choked on a piece of meat. He whispered hoarsely ‘Heimlich, Heimlich’. Sir Peter Bell responded with life-saving speed. Long before many of his contemporaries he appreciated the importance of non-invasive measurements in vascular disease, and so began the Irvine Laboratory, established by John Hobbs and W T Irvine. Felix supported Andrew Nicolaides and made sure that he combined vascular and cardiac surgical skills, at that time unique in the UK though common in the USA. At St Mary’s he worked closely with a wide group of colleagues, especially Ian Kenyon, Lance Bromley and Mike Snell. He also maintained close contact with other surgeons both in London, like Roger Greenhalgh at Charing Cross, and the USA, such as Michael de Bakey. He was president of the Vascular Surgical Society, the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and the Medical Society of London. He contributed to the design for the tie of the Vascular Surgeons, which was based on a postcard received from Dickson Wright showing an artery dancing with a vein. He was the college visitor to the council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1972 to 1980. He was president of the section of surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1997. A romantic soul, he dearly loved his wife and family. He died on 25 October 2009. A memorial service in St Clement Danes was attended by the president and council of our college and the council of the Vascular Society of Great Britain.
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First Title value, for Searching Gabriel, Anthony (1925 - 2007)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2010-04-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Tony Gabriel was formerly the senior surgeon at the Cancer Hospital, Maharagama, Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was born in London on 10 January 1925 and died in Colombo on 21 December 2007 after a short illness, a few days before his 83rd birthday. He was described by one writer ‘as a person who loved the wilds as much as he loved people’. This emphasised two facets in the life of a most remarkable man: he had a love of Sri Lanka and its natural beauty, and was a surgeon who was proud of his connections with our college. What had been a one-way traffic of doctors coming from Ceylon to the United Kingdom to train was reversed in Tony’s case: many trainees went from this country to learn the finer points of facio-maxillary surgery from him. He was the only son of a distinguished ‘Ceylonese’ surgeon, Vrasapillai Gabriel, who undertook part of his training at the London Hospital. His father married Florence Mary McColloch, a nursing sister at the London, who was ‘a gentle Irish lady’. Vrasapillai Gabriel came from a well known northern family who were hereditary administrators at the time of the British Raj and was the first Ceylonese to gain the membership of the Royal College of Physicians. Tony’s parents made sure that their son imbibed everything Sinhalese: many holidays were spent in various parts of the country mixing with local people. He and his father travelled the country from Galle to Jaffna, where Tony received part of his education during the Second World War at St Patrick’s College. They often camped under canvas and shot their own food. This acquaintance with rural life helped him to understand the problems of many of the population who later came to him for professional advice. Tony entered medical school in Colombo with 60 others, including eight females. He studied anatomy under the stern but amiable P K Chanmugam, physiology with Columbine and A C E Koch, and biochemistry with A A Hoover. During his clinical studies Anthony Gabriel forged many friendships, but developed a particularly strong connection with Ananda Soysa and his future wife Priyana (now emeritus professor of paediatrics at the University of Colombo). One surgical clerkship these friends undertook was under Anthony’s father, Vrasapillai Gabriel, who was an early exponent of gastric and biliary surgery and pioneer of spinal anaesthesia in Colombo. Gabriel senior was a hard task master who demanded high standards from all his students. Tony always addressed him as ‘Sir’ and in return was called ‘Mr Gabriel’. He qualified in 1950 with first class honours, the Van der Straten silver medal in public health, and the Dadhabhoy gold medal in obstetrics and gynaecology. He was house surgeon to Milroy Paul, assistant lecturer in anatomy at the Ceylon Medical College and passed the primary FRCS in Colombo, when an examining team came from Lincoln’s Inn Fields for the purpose. Tony completed his FRCS in the United Kingdom at Edinburgh and in London, and in 1955 returned to Ceylon as a resident surgeon at the General Hospital in Colombo. He later undertook consultant posts in Badulla, Jaffna and Galle. He was a conscientious surgeon with an impeccable technique who developed a special interest in maxillo-facial work. He won a fellowship to Berlin to expand his repertoire in this and soon became widely recognised for his expertise in head and neck cancer. From 1971 at Maharagama he transformed the outlook of the institution into a dynamic centre, with surgery and radiotherapy working side by side. As chairman of the board of study in surgery he was instrumental in getting oncology recognised as a specialty by the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine. In the UK he was recognised as an excellent tutor by many trainee oral and facio-maxillary surgeons, for which he was made an honorary fellow of the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) in 1993. Anthony Gabriel produced many publications, was much in demand as a lecturer and gave several eponymous orations. He was president of the Sri Lanka College of Surgeons in 1986 and served on the Ceylon Medical Council, the Health Council, Cancer Control Council and the Postgraduate Board of Surgical Studies. He examined for the MS in surgery and in dental surgery. He married Jeevamany Kadirgamar in 1957 and they celebrated their golden wedding in May 2007. They had two sons, Sanjeev and Harin, both of whom studied at the University of Hull. The elder obtained a masters degree in law and the younger, a business degree. He had many interests outside medicine. He was an active and practising Roman Catholic. A natural athlete, in his early days he swam for his school, and played cricket and tennis. Later he became a golfer and was president of the Royal Colombo Golf Club. He was active in the Wildlife Society. He was a fine actor, with a commanding presence. He was commanding officer of the Sri Lanka Army (Volunteer) Medical Corps during its centenary year, with the rank of full colonel. In retirement, he bought a coconut plantation north-west of Colombo, which gave him much pleasure until his death in 2007. He is survived by his wife and their two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Coleman, Thomas (1791 - 1872)

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First Title value, for Searching Coles, Henry Page (1806 - 1866)

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First Title value, for Searching Duka, Theodore (1825 - 1908)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Dukafalu, an ancient manor in the county of Saros, North-West Hungary, on June 22nd, 1825, and came of an old and notable family of nobles. He received his early education at the Lutheran College at Eperjes. His father was Francis de Duka, a country squire, his mother Johanna, daughter of Francis de Szechy. After studying law at the University of Budapest, he passed an examination with honours and was admitted a law student in the High Court of Justice. In 1848, the year of revolutions, he received a Government appointment at Budapest under Louis Kossuth, then Minister of Finance. In common with nearly all his young contemporaries of good family he joined the National Army, and became personal ADC to General Arthur Görgey, Commanding the 7th Army Corps in the Hungarian National Army. He went through all the battles of the campaign up to the capitulation of Vilagos in 1849. At the Battle of Komarom on April 26th, 1849, he was decorated on the field with the Order of Merit and was subsequently promoted Captain. At Vilagos on Aug 13th, 1849, Görgey, Duka, and other Hungarians of note were taken prisoners by the Russians when the Hungarian forces surrendered. Duka, like many others, succeeded in effecting his escape from the German and Austrian authorities, and after a prolonged and most exciting series of adventures reached Paris, whence in 1850 he made his way to London, and in time became a naturalized British subject. Duka was an excellent linguist and spoke several languages. In learning English without a master, he began by committing to memory part of Chapter I of *The Vicar of Wakefield*, and on arriving in London joined the humble but useful Birkbeck Institution of the period, where he taught German and studied English with assiduity. He had been strongly urged to join the medical profession, and he now went as a student to St George's Hospital, where he was very kindly received and assisted, especially by George Pollock (qv). In 1854, through Pollock's influence with his father the Field-Marshal, Duka obtained a commission as Assistant Surgeon in the Bengal Army. He was present in India during the Mutiny, being stationed at Monghir, on the Ganges, and did much good work at different stations, including Patna, Simla, and Darjeeling. He acquired a great knowledge of Eastern languages, and afterwards found this of much use when a member of the Committee of the Bible Society. On March 27th, 1877, he retired on a pension from the Indian Medical Service with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and came to reside in England, but paid frequent visits to Hungary. He was accompanied in these tours by his devoted wife, the youngest daughter of the Rev Charles Taylor, DD, Chancellor of the Diocese of Hereford, whom he had married at Calcutta on January 14th, 1855. He was twice received in audience by the Emperor Francis Joseph, and thanked him for the Iron Cross, then no trifle, received in 1883. Francis Joseph was in some sort a colleague of Duka's, having shared in the trouble of 1848 when he succeeded to the crown at the age of 18 in succession to the Emperor Ferdinand, who had abdicated. In March, 1902, Duka was awarded the double pension of a Honvéd Captain in consequence of a certificate forwarded by General Görgey to the Prime Minister of Hungary, setting forth his distinguished army services. He was for some years a Member of Council of the Royal Asiatic Society, and was President of the Tropical Section of the Eighth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in 1894. For many years he was deeply interested in the British and Foreign Bible Society, and was one of its Vice-Presidents from 1884 to his death. He was also Chairman of the Austro-Hungarian Aid Society in England. Duka resided in London after his retirement in 1874 with the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel IMS, latterly at 55 Nevern Square, and died at West Southbourne, Bournemouth, on May 5th, 1908. He was survived by his widow and two sons, of whom one was a barrister, and the other a medical man who served as a Surgeon in the Queensland Mounted Infantry in South Africa and was awarded the DSO. He promoted in this country the movement which led to the erection of a memorial at Budapest to Semmelweis, and he also wrote a short sketch of his life (*Childbed Fever….A Life's History*, 1888). Lieut-Colonel Crawford (*Notes*) gives the dates of his promotions, etc., as: Assistant Surgeon in Bengal Army, January 3rd, 1854; Surgeon, August 1st, 1865; Surgeon Major, July 1st, 1873; retired, March 27th, 1877. Publications: Duke wrote a life of his countryman, Alexander Csoma de Körös, the first to study the Tibetan language, published in 1885. *Essay on Brahni Grammar*, 1885. *Childbed Fever: its Causes and Prevention: a Life's History*, 8vo, Hertford, 1888. *Semmelweis on Childbed Fever: its Causes and Prevention*, 8vo, Hertford, 1892. *Kossuth and Görgey: Recollections of a Stormy Period*, 1899.
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First Title value, for Searching Duke, Abraham (1810 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Dumville, Arthur William (1813 - 1871)

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First Title value, for Searching Duncan, Andrew (1850 - 1912)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of Dr James Duncan, a well-known practitioner of Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. He was educated at Cholmeley School, Highgate, under the head master John Dyne; at King's College, London; Vienna, Strasburg, and Berlin. He entered King's College Medical Department as Warneford Scholar in 1868, won, among many awards, the Leathes Prize and Final Senior Scholarship, and eventually graduated with great success at the University of London. He became House Surgeon to Sir William Fergusson, John Wood, and Henry Smith in 1873, and in 1874 was appointed House Physician at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. Here the systematic study of tropical diseases had only just begun. In 1875 he became House Surgeon to the Carey Street Dispensary and Medical Registrar to Charing Cross Hospital, and in 1876 was elected Surgical Registrar to King's College Hospital. At St Mary's Hospital he was Medical Tutor and Pathologist during 1877-1878, and might have gained a place on the staff of a teaching hospital when he decided to enter the Indian Medical Service, and passed in second in the list. All his home appointments were given up and he went to Netley, where he gained the Parkes Medal in 1885. In India he soon saw service, and in 1879-1880 was with Lord Roberts in the Afghan Campaign, being mentioned in despatches and receiving the Medal and Clasp. In the Battle of Charasiab he was dangerously wounded. Though severely affected in his general health he served also in the Black Mountain Campaign in 1891. In 1900 he retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel after twenty-one years' service, and returned to England as an invalid. His strong convictions, which were expressed fearlessly, affected his advancement in the Indian Medical Service. Shortly after joining the Indian Medical Service he wrote a paper entitled "The Insanitary Tendencies of State Sanitation", in which he criticized severely the views of the chief sanitary officials of the Indian Government. This was considered an act of insubordination, and he was punished for it in various ways. He himself believed, and all his friends were certain of it, that his advancement in the service was blocked at every turn; there is no doubt that he was regarded as a difficult and troublesome man - the fate of all young reformers. However, his opportunity came in 1885 when the subject chosen for the Parkes Memorial Prize Essay was "The Prevention of Disease in Tropical Campaigns". He sent home his original essay with additions, and was awarded the prize. Duncan returned to professional life in London with so high a reputation that he soon received many appointments. Amongst others he became Physician to the Seamen's Hospital, Albert Docks, and to the Western General Dispensary, Examiner in Tropical Medicine for the University of London, and Lecturer on Tropical Medicine at Westminster Hospital Medical School and the London School of Tropical Medicine. He died after a long illness on Oct 17th, 1912. He had resided and practised at 24 Chester Street, SW. Lieut-Colonel Crawford gives his promotions as follows: Surgeon, Bengal Army, March 30th, 1878; Surgeon Major, March 30th, 1890; Lieutenant-Colonel, March 30th, 1898; retired, Feb.1st, 1900. Publications:- *The Prevention of Disease in Tropical and Sub-tropical Campaigns*, 8vo, London, 1888. This is the enlarged Parkes Memorial Prize Essay. *The Practitioner's Guide*, of which he was joint author. *Guide to Sick Nursing in the Tropics*, 8vo, London, 1908. Articles on "Dysentery" and "Kala-azar" in Quain's *Dictionary of Medicine*, 3rd ed. "Heat Stroke." - *Edin. Med. Jour.*, 1908, n.s. xiii, 217. "The Stools in Dysentery." - *Ibid.*, 1904, n.s. xv, 349. "Tropical Dysentery." - *Internat. Clin.*, series 13, iv, 70. "Military Surgery" in Treves's *System of Surgery*, 1895. He was for many years a valued collaborator upon the literary staff of the *Lancet*, to which journal he sent some signed articles.
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First Title value, for Searching Crouch, Charles Percival (1861 - 1926)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was Brackenbury Medical Scholar (1887), House Surgeon to Sir Thomas Smith (qv), and Senior Assistant in the Throat Department. He became Clinical Assistant at the Central London Throat and Ear Hospital, and early settled in practice at Weston-super-Mare, where he was for some time in partnership with Francis Wicksteed, MRCS. Later he joined the staff of the Hospital at Weston-super-Mare and became Surgeon to that institution. He was also Consulting Surgeon to the Great Western Railway, and Lecturer and Examiner to the National Health Society. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Hospital, Weston super-Mare. He died, after his retirement, on June 25th, 1926, at his residence, 5 Harley Place, Clifton. He married a daughter of Sir Thomas Smith (qv). Publications: "Case of Intestinal Obstruction" (with Humphry D Rolleston). - *St. Bart's Hosp. Rep.*, 1890, xxv, 169. "Catarrhal Enteritis." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1892, i, 964. "Some Clinical Notes on Membranous Enteritis." - *Bristol Med.-Chir. Jour.*, 1895, xiii, 14. "Action of Resorcin on the Kidneys in Young Children." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1901, ii, 1267. "A Granuloma of the Nose due to Iodide of Potassium." - *Bristol Med.-Chir. Jour.*, 1908, xxi, 231. "Suggested Treatment for Functional Aphonia." - *Ibid.*, 1907, xxv, 214.
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First Title value, for Searching Cutliffe, Henry Charles (1832 - 1873)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Entered the Medical Department of the Indian Army in May, 1858, and became Surgeon in May, 1870. At the time of his death he was Acting Professor of Surgery at the Medical Hospital of Calcutta, where his careful and practical manner of teaching had won him popularity. He was a scientific and skilful operator, and his colleague and friend, Sir Joseph Fayrer, wrote of him at the time of his death as an "officer well qualified to uphold the dignity of his service and profession, and, to those who had the privilege of knowing him well, a true and loyal friend. His place will not be easily filled, nor will his memory readily fade in the College where he taught so well." Cutliffe died at 2 o'clock on the morning of October 24th, 1873, after tracheotomy had been performed for an acute inflammation of the throat. He left a widow and family. Publication:- *Practical Rules for Safe Guidance in the Performance of the Lateral Operation of Lithotomy, with a table of Cases operated on*, 8vo, 1866.
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First Title value, for Searching Owen, William Jones (1945 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-19 2007-08-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details William Jones Owen was a consultant surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals and a senior lecturer at King’s College, London. He spent his early life in north Wales, where he excelled at his academic work, rugby, music and Welsh. He won first prize in a recital group at the Urdd National Eisteddfod and the Evanson scholarship from Llandovery College. He went on to Guy’s, where he took a BSc in anatomy, with a distinction in pathology. He held house posts in the south east of England, and gained his FRCS, winning the Hallet prize. He returned to Guy’s for his higher surgical training, and during this period obtained his masters degree in surgery from the University of London for his studies on intestinal adaptation. At the end of his training, in 1981, he was appointed to the staff of Guy’s, as a senior lecturer with Ian McColl. He remained in this position until he died. For many years he also worked at Lewisham and later at St Thomas’s Hospitals, and took on management responsibilities. He was considered a warm and loyal colleague, becoming a surgeons’ surgeon. He established one of the best oesophageal laboratories in the country, producing over 100 excellent papers. He played a prominent role in the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and was Chairman of the oesophageal section of the British Society of Gastroenterology. He was an examiner at the College and an honorary surgeon to the Army and the Royal Society of Music. He loved music and was an enthusiastic follower of sport. He was married to Wendy, a doctor who worked with him in the oesophageal laboratory. They had a daughter, Sarah, and a son, David. He died from a brain tumour on 3 April 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Dunkerley, Enoch (1806 - 1854)

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First Title value, for Searching Pearce, Roger Malcolm (1943 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-19
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Roger Pearce was a consultant ophthalmologist at Watford General Hospital. He was born in Pinner, Middlesex, on 23 December 1943, the son of Leonard John Pearce, the director of a firm of gunsmiths, and Millicent Maud. He was educated at University College School, Hampstead, where he was captain of fives and played rugby for the school. He studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, where he was a member of the Christian union and played tennis for the school. In 1966, he spent a year in India with Voluntary Service Overseas. After house posts at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn, a period in Nigeria with Save the Children Fund, and some time spent at St Mary’s as a lecturer and a casualty officer, he decided to specialise in ophthalmology. He was a senior house officer in ophthalmology at St Mary’s and trained at Moorfields and the Western Ophthalmic Hospital. In 1981, he was appointed as a consultant at Watford. His special interest was in paediatric ophthalmology. He married Linda Turner in 1976, and they spent their honeymoon in India. They had three daughters, Claire, Victoria and Nicola. He was an active sportsman, until 1982, when a ruptured Achilles tendon led to a pulmonary embolism. He enjoyed walking, trekking and skiing. He had only just retired from the NHS when he and Linda were tragically killed on 31 December 2003 in a minibus crash near Bergville, South Africa, whilst on a safari walking holiday to celebrate his 60th birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Eley, Arnold Amos ( - 1998)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-19 2015-10-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Arnold Eley qualified at Charing Cross and after junior posts did his National Service in the RAMC as a junior surgical specialist. On leaving the Army he was registrar at the Connaught Hospital under J Thompson Fathi and surgical first assistant at St George's before being appointed to the Surrey Hospital Group. He published on perfusion of the liver and jaundice in severe infections. He retired to Yelverton in Devon where he died on 15 December 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Pichlmayr, Rudolf (1932 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-19 2012-03-13
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Occupation Transplant surgeon
Details Rudolf Pichlmayr was a pioneering German transplant surgeon. He was born on 16 May 1932 in Munich, Germany. He graduated from the University of Munich Medical School in 1956, and in 1959 started his career in medicine at the same university. He qualified as a surgeon in 1964. In 1967, he presented his postdoctoral thesis to the medical faculty of the University of Munich for qualification as a privatdozent, and in the same year became an assistant professor. In 1968 he and Hans George Borst moved to the Medizinische Hochschule in Hanover to develop the new department of surgery. A year later, Pichlmayr was appointed as professor of transplantation and special surgery, and in 1973 he was endowed with the first chair of abdominal and transplantation surgery. He served his faculty as dean for education from 1974 to 1978, as deputy head for research from 1989 to 1991, and as chairman of the ethical committee from 1984. Pichlmayr carried out the first kidney transplantation in Hanover in 1968, and the first liver transplantation in 1972. He subsequently initiated and supervised a large number of experimental and clinical research programmes in the field of transplantation surgery and biology. Together with his wife Ina Pichlmayr he established the Foundation for Rehabilitation following Organtransplantation in Dolsach, Austria. Aside from transplantation, Rudolf Pichlmayr was an internationally recognised expert on abdominal surgery, particularly liver surgery and surgical oncology. He was President of numerous national and international scientific societies and organisations, including the German Medical Association and the department of health of the federal government in Bonn. As President of the German Association for Surgery, Rudolf Pichalmyr organised the 113th annual congress in Berlin in 1996. He was a member of many surgical societies, including the European Society for Surgical Research and received prestigious awards and honours, including honorary Fellowships of the College and of American College of Surgeons. He published a number of books and was also on the editorial boards of several surgical and transplantation journals. Pichlmayr died on 29 August 1997, during the 37th World Congress of Surgery in Acapulco, Mexico, while taking a morning swim. He had five children with his wife Ina.
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First Title value, for Searching Rang, Mercer Charles (1933 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-19
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Mercer Rang was an eminent paediatric orthopaedic surgeon. He was born in London in 1933 and studied medicine at University College London. He was a house officer in London and then a resident at Rochester. He went on to complete two years National Service, as a command surgical specialist in Northern Ireland. He then undertook postgraduate orthopaedic training, and was inspired by Lipmann Kessel to pursue an academic career. He enrolled in the programme of the Royal Northern Orthopaedic Hospital. In 1965 he was seconded to Jamaica, where he served for two years as a senior lecturer in orthopaedic surgery at the University of West Indies under Sir John Golding. In 1967 he went to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto as a basic research fellow and, with R B Salter, undertook research on the pathogenesis of deformity of the femoral head in an animal model of Legg-Perthes’ disease. He was appointed to the staff of the division of orthopaedic surgery at the end of the year, where he continued undertaking research until his retirement from the hospital in 1999. He then practised and taught orthopaedics in Saudi Arabia for one year, until he became ill and returned to Canada. Mercer had many clinical interests in paediatric orthopaedic surgery, but his most important contributions were in the fields of children’s fractures and neuromuscular disorders, especially in cerebral palsy, as well as the history of orthopaedics. He wrote 12 book chapters, and published 61 articles and six books, including *The growth plate and its disorders* (1969, Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone), *Children’s fractures* (c1983, Philadelphia, Lippincott) and *The story of orthopaedics* (2000, Philadelphia/London, W B Saunders). He received many honours and awards, including an honorary fellowship of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in 1990, honorary fellowship of the British Orthopaedic Association in 1996 and the Alan Graham Apley gold medal of that Association in 1999. He was married to Helen and they had three daughters (Caroline, Sarah and Louise) and six grandchildren. He died on 6 October 2003 after a long illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Cooper, Sir William White (1816 - 1886)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Holt, Wiltshire, on November 17th, 1816. Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He followed in the footsteps of John Dalrymple, the ophthalmic surgeon, and gained a large practice. He was one of the original staff of the North London Eye Institute, and subsequently Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. In 1859 he was appointed Surgeon-Oculist in Ordinary to Queen Victoria (Court Circular, June 2nd, 1886). According to Sir D’Arcy Power, William White Cooper was the last medical man to fight a duel, though the details of the duel are unknown. The last medical duels in India are discussed in an article in the *British Medical Journal* of February 14th, 1925, “Duelling in India” and “Nova et Vetera”. He died on June 1st, 1886, at Fulmer, Bucks. On May 29th, Queen Victoria, whose personal regard he had won, had announced her intention of making him a Knight Bachelor. She directed that his wife should be entitled to the honour and precedence of Dame Cooper, although he had not been dubbed. He left three sons and two daughters. The eldest and third son entered the medical profession, the second son qualified as an architect. There is a wood engraving of Cooper from a daguerrotype by Mayall in the *Medical Circular* of 1853.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001044
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First Title value, for Searching Rutherford, William Harford (1921 - 2007)

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by Norman Kirby
Publication Date 2010-10-14
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details William Rutherford was one of the pioneers of accident and emergency medicine as a specialty in the UK. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was born on 15 July 1921 at Warrenpoint, County Down. His family moved to Dun Laoghaire near Dublin, but he went to boarding school in Belfast. He rejected Greek to study physics and chemistry instead. In 1939, he entered Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1944. He had had qualms about being exempt from service during the Second World War, but was persuaded to continue as a medical student. His father died whilst he was still a student, but a family friend helped financially so William and his sister could finish their medical studies and qualify. After house appointments in Belfast, he felt the call to become a missionary doctor. He accepted an appointment at Anand in Gujarat, India, in 1947, months before independence. He saw the chaos and slaughter as Hindus and Muslims fled to India and Pakistan. As all old fashioned general surgeons, he did orthopaedics and obstetrics and was also responsible for administration, and his standards were high. The hospital closed in 1966 and he returned to Belfast. There he was appointed as a medical assistant in the casualty department of the Royal Victoria Hospital. At this time there was extreme pressure for the specialty of casualty surgeons to be recognised. William was one of the founder members of the Casualty Surgeons’ Association and became president in 1981. The specialty was eventually accepted and in 1972 30 consultants were appointed, of whom he was one. This was at the time when Belfast was the centre of the troubles with the IRA. The Royal Victoria Hospital was in the middle: there were regular mass casualty situations that he and his staff had to deal with. As an experienced surgeon, he was able to train his team and control one of the most efficient departments in the UK. For his inspired work he was appointed OBE in 1971, but he always insisted that this decoration was earned by his department. He wrote and published regularly about his experiences in India and Belfast. He wrote about bomb blasts, gunshot injuries, the damage caused by rubber bullets, cardiac contusion, and injuries treated in his department. Mass casualty situations were discussed and he wrote on the essential requirements for the organisation of a department receiving them. His plan for the Royal Victoria Hospital served as a template for many hospitals. He wrote about scoring the severity of injuries and the social factors, such as unemployment, which affected patterns of injury. The use of seatbelts was a subject that he studied and tried to get enforced. He knew what excellent results there were in Australia. The Government in the UK was dithering, so he carried out and published an excellent report. Figures taken before and after the Act to enforce seat belt wearing showed a significant decline in both deaths and serious injuries. The Act is now accepted by all, thanks to his outstanding work. The development of the specialty of accident and emergency medicine was a serious contribution to medicine in the UK. Similar efforts were being carried out in Australia, Canada and the United States. The International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) was created and he became a founder member. There are now 21 member countries. William was an active walker and, after retiring in 1985, he walked, in stages, the Ulster Way. He found it gave him space and time to think. William looked after his wife, Ethne, at home until her death from Alzheimer’s disease. Sadly, he was to die of the same disease on 22 December 2007. He was survived by his daughter, a nurse, and two sons, both doctors.
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First Title value, for Searching Dalrymple, John (1803 - 1852)

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First Title value, for Searching Dalton, Henry Gibbs (1818 - 1874)

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First Title value, for Searching Dalton, William ( - 1873)

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First Title value, for Searching Bowes, Richard (1810 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Essery, Thomas Aubrey (1818 - 1865)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital. He practised in Swansea, and at the time of his death was Senior Surgeon to the Swansea Infirmary and Police, Medical Officer to the No. 2 District of the Swansea Union, and Surgeon to the Workhouse. He was also Surgeon Major to the 4th Glamorgan Volunteer Rifles, and Medical Referee to the Railway Passengers Assurance Company. He died at his residence, 2 Heathfield Street, Swansea, on May 18th, 1865.
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First Title value, for Searching Damant, Thomas William (1820 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Dampier, Nathaniel John (1821 - 1857)

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First Title value, for Searching Daniel, George (1813 - 1861)

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First Title value, for Searching Daniel, James Stoke (1804 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Daniell, William Freeman ( - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Darby, William (1790 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Maltby, John Wingate (1928 - 2009)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2014-10-17
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details John Wingate Maltby was a general practitioner and surgeon in Tiverton, Devon. He was born in London in 1928, the son of Henry Wingate Maltby, a doctor. He was educated at Trinity College School, Ontario, Canada, and Marlborough College, and went on to Cambridge University and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1954. He held house posts at Bart's and was a house surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London. He also carried out his National Service in the Royal Corps of Signals. From 1961 to 1990, when he retired, he was a general practitioner in Tiverton and a clinical assistant in surgery at Tiverton and District Hospital. In his retirement he wrote two books - *A brief history of science for the citizen* (Tiverton, Halsgrove, 2003) and *A brief history of psychiatry* (Tiverton, Halsgrove, 2005). John Wingate Maltby died on 2 January 2009, aged 80.
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First Title value, for Searching Martinson, Francis Douglas (1916 - 2010)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2014-09-19
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Francis Douglas Martinson was professor of otorhinolaryngology at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He was born on 15 October 1916 in Kumasi, Ghana. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying in 1942. He was a house physician and resident anaesthetist at Leith Hospital, Edinburgh, from January to July 1943, and then a house surgeon at Sunderland Royal Infirmary. From March to October 1945 he was a resident surgical officer at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. He then became an ENT registrar and clinical assistant in Manchester. From 1950 to 1953 he was an ENT registrar at the Salford Royal and Eccles and Patricroft hospitals. In January 1954 he became a senior ENT registrar at the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital, Bradford. In 1956 he was appointed to University College, Ibadan, as a senior lecturer. In October 1963 he became an associate professor and, in October 1967, professor of otorhinolaryngology. He was head of department on two occasions - from 1968 to 1979 and then again briefly in January 1984. He pioneered the study of rhinophycomycosis, a subcutaneous fungal infection. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1951 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1953. In 1985 he was awarded the Adesuyi prize for his contributions to health care in West Africa. Martinson formally retired in 1976, but carried on working for another 10 years, training a new generation of otorhinolaryngologists in West Africa. He died on 21 January 2010, aged 93.
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First Title value, for Searching Matheson, Thomas Swan (1920 - 2009)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2013-12-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Thomas Swan Matheson ('Tom') was a consultant general surgeon with gastrointestinal interests in York from 1964 to 1985, having previously worked at Otley, where he built up the surgical service. He was born in Edinburgh on 8 February 1920, the son of Thomas Pearson Matheson, a civil servant, and his wife, Mabel Keiller Matheson née Swan. Tom was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, from 1926 to 1938, and then entered Edinburgh University for his medical training, distinguishing himself in the preclinical years by winning both the Cunningham memorial medal in anatomy and the Vans Dunlop bursary in anatomy and physiology in 1940. He was greatly influenced by his anatomy teacher, E B Jamieson, and retained a good knowledge of clinical anatomy throughout his professional life. Qualifying during the Second World War, he held a house surgeon post at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, before entering the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1944 as a surgeon lieutenant. He served in HMS *Warspite* for a year and then in 3rd submarine flotilla, until 1946. Returning to civilian life, he went to the Leicester Royal Infirmary for a year as a house surgeon, but continued in the RNVR after war service, becoming a surgeon lieutenant commander in 1952. He was awarded the Volunteer Reserve Decoration (VRD) in 1961. He continued his nautical interests, and was later on the management committee of York Sea Cadets, of which he became vice chairman and later chairman. For his higher surgical training he returned in 1947 for two years as a registrar to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and passed his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. During this period he married Agnes Marjory MacLaren ('Nan'), in March 1948. They met at the Royal Infirmary, Leicester, when they were both residents. Nan and Tom had two children, Jane and Ian. Tom then proceeded to a further year of training as a registrar at Hull Royal Infirmary and continued as a senior registrar there for two years until 1952, rotating with Bradford Royal Infirmary. He trained in urology with Hamilton Stewart during these years. All this training took place in the years when more than 30 well-trained senior registrar surgeons were applying for every one consultant vacancy. So he wisely chose to mark time and went to Leeds General Infirmary as a senior registrar for a further four years, until 1958. Here he worked with, and was greatly influenced by, Michael Oldfield and Digby Chamberlain, the last of the 'Leeds school' to have been trained by Lord Moynihan. In 1958 he became the first surgical specialist in Otley and Ilkley, where he rapidly built up the surgical facilities. He then moved to York, in 1964. He was also an honorary lecturer at the University of Leeds, where he also engaged in private practice. In Otley and in York he was widely regarded as a true gentleman by colleagues, trainees and, more importantly, by patients in both the NHS and private sectors. As a true general surgeon, he felt it was a great privilege to work in hospitals at a time when professionals were able to share in management as well as practise in their chosen field. He set his own targets, pre-dating the current business management model. He enjoyed his time as a surgical tutor for the Royal College of Surgeons, and was wise in his advice to trainees who sought his help. As the family grew up, Nan worked in general practice and then in public health clinics. For the final 10 years of her professional life she was engaged in occupational health, working for Rowntree's (the chocolate makers) and York District General Hospital. Tom's gastrointestinal interests were apparent in his unstinting support of the York division of the Ileostomy Association, of which he was chairman for 25 years from 1968. He and Nan also helped to create and sustain St Leonard's Hospice in York, of which he was vice chairman from 1978. This interest continued long into retirement. As a member of the 1921 Surgical Club of Great Britain, one of the travelling surgical clubs to which Lord Moynihan gave his patronage, he and Nan travelled to many surgical clinics abroad. On these occasions he was able to exercise his photographic skills, one of his many interests. Thomas Matheson enjoyed rounds of golf when he was physically active. He and the family enjoyed dinghy sailing and his abiding interest in the sea continued as he crewed for friends who owned larger boats. He took up angling when he retired and gained much pleasure fishing for trout in the River Rye with the Ryedale Anglers, and at Spring Lakes in North Yorkshire. At the appropriate times of the year he went back to his native Scotland to engage in salmon fishing. He was an active member of the Company of Merchant Taylors in the city of York and was master from 1988 to 1989. The Mathesons lived for 40 years in Holtby and enjoyed a sociable and fulfilled life together. Tom cared for his wife Nan when she became ill. She died in 2006, and he then moved to Wigginton, York, for a further two years. He died on 6 November 2009, aged 89, and was survived by his two children, Ian and Jane, four granddaughters and a great-granddaughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Darling, William (1802 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Davenport, Cecil John (1863 - 1926)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1863, the son of Robert Davenport, of Adelaide, and his wife, Dorothea Fulford, daughter of John Fulford, of London; he was the grandson of George Davenport, of Oxford. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. After taking the Fellowship he went to China as a medical missionary of the London Missionary Society. He established a medical mission in Chungking, and after some years of pioneer work there was moved to Wuchang. Here he carried on the medical work till the time of the Boxer Rising, when he was invalided home. In 1905 he received the appointment of Medical Superintendent of the Chinese Hospital, Shantung Road, Shanghai, and held this post for the rest of his life. Originally this was a mission hospital, but, under the control of local committees, in 1905 the hospital was in straits from lack of a qualified staff. Under Davenport's superintendence it rose to a high standard of efficiency, many thousands of poor Chinese being treated yearly in the wards and out-patient departments, and many doctors and nurses being trained. The hospital was founded in 1846 by Dr William Lockhart and is under the London Missionary Society, from whose missionaries its staff is derived. In 1925, owing to local disturbances, the hospital went through a revolutionary period, many of the Chinese staff and patients deserting. Davenport's report for 1925 gives an interesting account of the work done during this troublous crisis, and contains also curious details, furnished by Dr Agnes Towers, of 'women opium suicides'. During 1926 the hospital, which with the help of Davenport and others had continued to hold its own against all odds, received a vast accession of fortune under the terms of the will of Henry Lester, merchant, and an old resident in Shanghai. This magnificent gift was in the form of £350,000 in money and land. With these funds it was proposed to reconstruct the hospital on modern lines, to build a convalescent home, and to form an endowment fund. Davenport's retirement had been planned to take effect in 1927, but he was now urged to stay in China to help and advise in the rebuilding of the hospital and the founding of its medical school. He was therefore fain to stay and take up administrative duties so heavy that he had with regret to give up much of his surgical work. Doubtless he overstrained his capacities, for he died quite suddenly in the midst of his labours on September 4th, 1926. He had no wish for personal advancement or distinction, but as a President of the China Medical Missionary Association and the recipient of a decoration from the Chinese Government, he was shown some formal recognition. Davenport's life was given up entirely to the forwarding of his work; his keenness, upright character, and kindliness endeared him to the many of all nationalities with whom he was brought into contact. The chaotic state of the China he loved, and the events of the few years prior to September, 1926, were causes of much anxiety and grief to him, but his efforts to improve the conditions of medical work in that country were maintained to the end. In 1890 he married Miss A Miles, at one time 'Sister Martha' of St Bartholomew's Hospital. She was one of the first fully trained British nurses to go to China, and was from the beginning one of her husband's chief helpers. The children of the marriage were two daughters and a son, Robert Cecil Davenport, FRCS, ophthalmic surgeon.
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First Title value, for Searching Davey, Henry W. Robert ( - 1870)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-14 2013-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at the Middlesex Hospital and at the Great Windmill Street School. He was at one time Assistant Surgeon to the 7th Royal Fusiliers, and then, settling in Suffolk, was Surgeon to the Beccles Dispensary. He was at the same time a member of the Suffolk Institute of Archeology, and of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society; he was also President of the Norfolk and Norwich Pathological Society. At the time of his death he was living in retirement at 13 Steyne Road, Worthing, and was President of the Local Board of Health, and a member of the Sussex Archeological Society. He died at Worthing in 1870.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Benjamin ( - 1895)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, David (1821 - 1910)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Frederick (1809 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Francis Joseph ( - 1926)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, John (1817 - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Morgan ( - 1920)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Richard Edward ( - 1863)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-14 2013-07-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at the London Hospital. He practised at 29 Harewood Square, and in the late fifties at 4 South Crescent, Park Town, Oxford. He then moved to Charles Street, W, and in 1860 to 28 Great Western Terrace, Westbourne Park Road. He died in 1862 or 1863.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, William Joseph (1817 - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies-Colley, John Neville Colley (1842 - 1900)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Chester on September 9th, 1842, one of the four sons of Dr Thomas Davies (d.1892), Physician to the Chester General Infirmary, who afterwards took the name of Colley. Educated at King's College School, London, when Dr Major was Head Master. He was admitted a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, as John Neville Colley Davies in 1860 and became a Scholar of the College in 1863. He graduated BA in 1864, being bracketed Forty-first Wrangler and appearing top of the second class in the Classical Tripos. He subsequently became a Fellow of Trinity College and was later a Fellow of St Catharine's College. During his undergraduate career he proved himself so good an oarsman as to have been the reserve man in the University crew. Davies-Colley entered Guy's Hospital in 1884, where he attracted favourable notice, both as a student and athlete, and was appointed Surgical Registrar and Tutor in June, 1868. He then became Lecturer on Experimental Philosophy and Demonstrator of Anatomy at Guy's Hospital, and in 1872 was appointed Assistant Surgeon, at which date Thomas Bryant (qv), Senior Assistant Surgeon, succeeded Edward Cock (qv) as Surgeon. In 1880, upon the resignation of Cooper Forster (qv), Davies-Colley became full Surgeon. He lectured upon anatomy during several sessions, and then for many years gave half the course on surgery. He was also Visiting Surgeon, and at the time of his death Consulting Surgeon, to the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and was Examiner in Anatomy on the Conjoint Board of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons (1888-1892); Examiner in Anatomy for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (1887-1888); Examiner in Anatomy to the University of Cambridge; and a Member of the Court of Examiners (1892-1900). He also examined in surgery at the University of Cambridge. His career as a hospital surgeon and teacher was one of great success, and as an examiner he was conspicuously popular with those students who knew their subjects, for he was quiet, clear, and scrupulously courteous. As a teacher he was extremely lucid and painstaking, his somewhat deliberate methods of imparting instruction being particularly appreciated by his pupils. His slow and cadenced method of speaking was adopted as a remedy for a defect of speech: he had an obstinate proclivity to stammer, but by taking thought over his manner of elocution he overcame the infirmity early in his career. He held in turn the appointments in the Medical School of Guy's Hospital of Demonstrator of Anatomy, Demonstrator of Practical Surgery, Lecturer on Anatomy, and Lecturer on Surgery. As a surgeon he held a very high place in the opinion of all his confreres. He was bold in scheme and careful in procedure, while his great industry and fine memory allowed him to carry about with him the results of his experience to be produced in a moment exactly when and where it was wanted. He trod in the footsteps of Henry Howse (qv), who introduced Listerism into the surgical routine at Guy's Hospital. He subsequently followed the latest trend of aseptic surgery, and, well informed in all that was then known, undertook the biggest operations up to the last. His work at the Royal College of Surgeons was notable. He was elected to the Council in July, 1896, and both there and at the examination table was conspicuous by his abilities. One of his last acts at the College was the unveiling in the theatre of the Lister portrait by W W Ouless. In November, 1899, Davies-Colley first became aware that he was suffering from cancer of the liver, but to others he gave no sign of his knowledge. He continued imperturbably at his work, and with failing strength completed the first half of the winter session at Guy's Hospital. He married the daughter of Thomas Turner, for many years Treasurer of Guy's Hospital, and sister of Dr F Charlewood Turner, Physician to the London Hospital. Two of his sons became Fellows of the College, Robert Davies-Colley, CMG, becoming Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, whilst his daughter, Miss Eleanor Davies-Colley, had the unique distinction of becoming the first Woman Fellow of the College. He practised at 36 Harley Street. He died at his country house, Borough, Pulborough, Sussex, on May 6th, 1900, and was buried in the churchyard, Pulborough. He was survived by his widow and children. His portrait (of early date) is in the Council Album, and a good one accompanies his biography in the *British Medical Journal*. In *Guy's Hospital Gazette* (1900, June 9) there is a fine portrait, which some do not, however, regard as a good likeness. A Davies-Colley Memorial, for which subscriptions were invited at a meeting of the staff of the Medical School of Guy's Hospital, took the form of a collection of books now in a special case in the Guy's Hospital Library. Some £380 were subscribed towards this object. Publications: Davies-Colley put his name to no separate work, but up to the time of his death was still employed upon an important book on surgery, which from its practical nature might have become a classic if published. "Carbuncle," "Gonorrhoeal Rheumatism," "Injuries and Diseases of the Neck, Throat, and Oesophagus," and "Malignant Pustule" in Heath's *Dictionary of Surgery*. Articles on "Muscles" in Morris's *Treatise of Anatomy*. "A Case of Resection of the Tarsal Bones for Congenital Talipes Equino-varus." - *Med.- Chir. Trans.*, 1877, lx, 11. In this article he recommends the procedure for cases where ordinary methods had been unsuccessfully employed or were likely to fail in a severe case. "On Malignant Pustule." In this article he advocated the excision of the whole of the inflamed area, or, at any rate, of the indurated skin, with the subsequent use of iodoform, perchloride of mercury, or a strong solution of nitric acid. The full title of this article is "Notes of Two Cases of Malignant Pustule, together with a Table of Seventeen Cases treated at Guy's Hospital: with a Report on the Microscopical Examination of Sections of Skin affected with Malignant Pustule, removed during life by F Charlewood Turner," 8vo, 3 coloured plates, London, 1882; reprinted from *Med.-Chir. Trans.*, 1882, lxv, 237. "A New Operation for the Cure of Cleft of the Hard and Soft Palate, with an Account of Six Cases so treated." - *Ibid.*, 1894, lxxvii, 237. All these papers are highly practical and good examples of the sound common-sense principles of surgery which he always taught. He sent numerous reports of cases to the *Guy's Hosp. Reps.*, of which journal he edited many volumes in conjunction first with Dr Frederick Taylor and then with Dr Hale White. His reports of cases and articles are in most of the volumes from 1870 onwards and cover a wide range of subjects. He contributed also a number of reports of cases to the *Trans. Clin. Soc.*, *Trans. Pathol. Soc.*, the *Lancet*, and other medical journals.
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First Title value, for Searching Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph (1791 - 1865)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-01-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of William Pettigrew, whose ancestor, the Gowan Priest ‘Clerk Pettigrew’, is mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in *Rob Roy*. The father was a Naval Surgeon who served in the *Victory* before the time of Nelson. Thomas was born in Fleet Street, London, on Oct 28th, 1791, and was educated at a private school in the City. He began to learn anatomy at 12, left school at 14, and after acting for two years as assistant to his father, the parish doctor, was apprenticed at the age of 16 to John Taunton, founder of the City of London Truss Society. He afterwards entered the United Borough Hospitals and acted as Demonstrator of Anatomy at the private medical school kept by his master - Taunton. He was elected a Fellow of the Medical Society of London in 1808, and was made one of the Secretaries in 1811 after a contest with Dr Birkbeck. In 1813 he was appointed registrar and took up his residence in the Society’s house in Bolt Court, Fleet Street. In 1808, as one of the founders of the City Philosophical Society, which met in Dorset Street, Salisbury Square, he gave the first lecture, choosing “Insanity” as his subject. In 1810 he helped to form the Philosophical Society of London and gave the inaugural address, “On the Objects of Science and Literature and the Advantages ensuing from the Establishment of Philosophical Societies”. In 1813 he was appointed, by the influence of Dr John Coakley Lettsom, Secretary of the Royal Humane Society, a post he resigned in 1820, after receiving in 1818 the Society’s medal for the restoration of a person who was apparently dead. In 1819, together with Chevalier Aldini of the Imperial University of Wilna, Pettigrew engaged in experiments at his house 22, Spring Gardens on the effects of galvanism in cases of suspended animation. He became known to the Duke of Kent whilst he was Secretary of the Humane Society, who made him successively Surgeon Extraordinary and Surgeon in Ordinary to himself and, after his marriage, Surgeon to his wife, the Duchess of Kent. In the latter capacity he vaccinated her daughter, afterwards Queen Victoria, the lymph being obtained from one of the grandchildren of Dr Lettsom. Shortly before his death the Duke recommended Pettigrew to his brother, the Duke of Sussex. The latter appointed him Surgeon and occupied him in cataloguing his library, which was housed in Kensington Palace. The first volume of the catalogue was published in two parts in 1827 with the title *Bibliotheca Sussexiana*. The second volume appeared in 1839. The undertaking was on too large a scale, the theological portion of the library alone was dealt with, and the catalogue remained unfinished when the books were sold in 1844 and 1845. The catalogue was well received. Pettigrew was honoured with the diploma of Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Göttingen on Nov 7th, 1826. In 1816 Pettigrew became Surgeon to the Dispensary for the Treatment of Diseases of Children then newly founded in St Andrew’s Hill, Doctors’ Commons. The Dispensary afterwards developed into the Royal Hospital for Children and Women in the Waterloo Road. He resigned the office in 1819, when he was elected Surgeon to the Asylum for Female Orphans. In this year, too, he delivered the Annual Oration at the Medical Society, taking as his subject “Medical Jurisprudence”, and pointing out the neglected position occupied by forensic medicine in England. He moved from Bolt Court to Spring Gardens in 1818 and became connected with the West London Infirmary, which had been founded by Dr Benjamin Golding that year in St Martin’s Lane. The Infirmary was the immediate forerunner of the Charing Cross Hospital. Pettigrew was appointed the first Surgeon when the hospital was opened in 1822, and held office until 1836. He lectured on physiology from 1834-1836 and on anatomy from 1835-1836. He resigned his post of Surgeon and Lecturer in consequence of a quarrel with the Board of Management, and for some years afterwards he continued to practise in Savile Row, where he lived from 1825-1854. Pettigrew was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1827, and 1830 he took a leading part in securing the election of the Duke of Sussex as President on the retirement of Davies Gilbert. For many years before his death he was a prominent Freemason. Pettigrew’s love for antiquarian knowledge grew on him as he aged. His attention to the subject of embalming began in 1822, and in 1834 he published a work on the subject. When the British Archaeological Association was founded in 1843, he at once took a leading part in its management. He acted as Treasurer and was a Vice-President, and the town meetings were held at his house for some years. He married in 1811 and had twelve children, three sons and three daughters surviving him. One of his sons was William Vesalius (qv); a second, Frederick Webb, was admitted MRCS on June 3rd, 1845, but did not obtain the Fellowship of the College. He died on Nov 23rd, 1865, at his house, 16, Onslow Gardens, where he lived after the death of his wife in 1854. There is a steel engraving of Pettigrew, No 9, in the fourth volume of the *Medical Portrait Gallery*. The portrait in the College Collection is said to be a good likeness. PUBLICATIONS: *Views of the Base of the Brain and the Cranium*, 4to, London, 1809. *Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late John Coakley Lettsom, MD*, 3 vols, 8vo, London, 1817. *History of Egyptian Mummies and an Account of the Worship and Embalming of the Sacred Animals*, 4to, London, 1834. Biographies of physicians and surgeons in Rose’s *Biographical Dictionary* down to Claude Nicholas le Cat. To this work he contributed 540 articles. *Bibliotheca Sussexiana*. A descriptive Catalogue, accompanied by Historical and Biographical Notices, of the Manuscripts and Printed Books contained in the Library of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in Kensington Palace, by Thos Joseph Pettigrew, vol i, part 1, finely illustrated with full-page illustrations and a portrait, comprising Burman Manuscripts, Singhalese Manuscripts, Arabic Manuscripts, English, Dutch, and Italian Manuscripts, Latin Manuscripts, Greek Manuscripts, etc, 2 vols in 8 parts, London: vol i, 1827; vol ii, 1839. *Memoir of John Cheyne*, 8vo, London, 1839. *The Medical Portrait Gallery*, 4 vols, 4to, London, 1840. *On Superstitions connected with the History and Practice of Medicine and Surgery*, 8vo, London, 1844. *Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson*, 2 vols, London, 1849. *An Historiall Expostulation… by John Halle*, edited for the Percy Society, 1844.
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First Title value, for Searching Eastes, Claude Neville d'Este' (1918 - 2010)

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by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2011-12-16 2014-04-09
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Claude ('Petal') Neville d'Este Eastes was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon in Sussex. He was born in Canada and in 1942 qualified in medicine at Guy's Hospital. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, travelling to East Africa, Madagascar, India and Ceylon. He was demobilised with the rank of captain. After the war he returned to Guy's and gained his London University MB BS qualification in 1948. His friendship with Leslie Salmon at Guy's led him to follow a career in ear, nose and throat surgery. He was a registrar at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and then returned to Guy's as a chief assistant, by which time Salmon had been appointed to the staff. They remained close friends until Salmon's death in 2002. Claude Eastes was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, the Sussex Throat and Ear Hospital, the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital, Brighton, and the Worthing and Southlands hospitals in 1956. His interests were mainly in head and neck surgery, but he was happy to provide a general ENT service. He was much involved with the development of the postgraduate medical centre. Nothing was too much for Claude Eastes; he was always the last to leave the outpatients' and the first to offer help to anyone in need. He was a true gentleman, much respected by all as a surgeon, a keen teacher and a wise mentor. His love of France permeated his life. He drove Citroëns and Renaults, and travelled frequently and widely in that country. He retired at the age of 62 in order to care for his wife Marjorie who suffered from mitral stenosis, secondary to childhood rheumatic fever. She eventually died in 1994. Claude Eastes continued to live in Storrington, Pulborough, until his death from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 3 February 2010 at the age of 92.
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First Title value, for Searching Ewen, Henry (1804 - 1869)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital. He practised at Long Sutton, Lincs, and at the time of his death was Medical Officer of the Long Sutton District, Holbeach Union, and a Corresponding Member of the Hunterian Medical Society. He died at Long Sutton on September 15th, 1869. Publications:- "Case of Transposition of the Aorta, Trachea, and Oesophagus." - *Guy's Hosp. Rep.*, 1840, ser.v, 233. "Case of Emphysema." - *Prov. Med. Jour.*, 1849, 552. "Cases of Calculus." - *Proc. Med. and Surg. Jour.*, 1850, 512.
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First Title value, for Searching Faircloth, John Marlborough Cowell ( - 1879)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30
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Occupation Physician
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital and at Northampton. He practised at Northampton, and at the time of his death was Senior Physician of the Northampton General Infirmary, and Hon Consulting Physician of the Northampton Royal Dispensary. He died at Billing Road, Northampton, on July 21st, 1879. Publication: "Puerperal Convulsions." - *Prov. Med. and Surg. Jour.*, 1844, 336.
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First Title value, for Searching Bower, David Bartlett (1929 - 2007)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-01-30 2014-06-30
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details David Bower was a consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician at St Stephen's Hospital, Chelsea, later amalgamated into Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He was born on 1 July 1929 in northwest London, the eldest son of Bartlett St George Bower, a successful lawyer, and Vera Bower née Luson. He went to the Hall School, Hampstead, from which he won a bursary to Oundle. He suffered considerably from asthma in the days before Ventolin and antibiotics, and concentrated on school work rather than sports. He shone academically and won an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read law, as his father wished him to join his legal practice. However, David quickly decided that his real preference was medicine and he transferred to the medical faculty at Cambridge, whilst continuing his study of the law, and bought a motorbike so that he could commute between the Middle Temple and Cambridge. After being called to the Bar in 1950, he never in fact practised law. He completed his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital and obtained his FRCS in 1958. After a registrarship at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, he became a senior lecturer at Charing Cross and Westminster, from which he gained the Berkeley research fellowship to Toronto General Hospital. Whilst in Canada, he went to rural Newfoundland, where he practised mainly gynaecology, frequently visited patients by snow cat, and operated on the kitchen table. After returning to London, he was appointed consultant gynaecologist at St Stephen's Hospital, Chelsea, which later joined with the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. David's research interests included vaginal surgery, where his skills became legendary. He was a patient and supportive teacher, and passed on his techniques to future generations until he retired at the age of 68. Unpretentious, pragmatic and compassionate, David was ideally suited to caring for women with reproductive health problems, and his help was sought by nurses and others who worked with him. Outside his professional life, David enjoyed music and at one time toured post-war Germany playing jazz on the piano for the US troops. At the end of his life he was learning to play the organ, having borrowed the keys to his local church. He was a keen sailor and for years took his boat to Cowes Week. Perhaps his greatest self-indulgence was big motorbikes and his holidays were spent touring abroad. Dressed in leathers and with a tangled beard, he was the original hairy biker, proud to be viewed with suspicion and even disallowed entry into country inns until he had proved his credentials. Enjoying a pint or two of local ale at lunchtime with him was a treat as he was singularly affable and philosophical. David was married with three children, however much of his later life was spent with his partner Maureen Sands, with whom he retired to The Barley Mow, a 15th century former alehouse in Oxfordshire. David struggled bravely with progressive complications from renal carcinoma and died at home on 18 March 2007, at the age of 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Onyeaso, Onyemara Nduche (1931 - 1979)

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by E Olumbumni Olapade-Olaola
Publication Date 2009-02-10 2014-06-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Onyemara Nduche 'Dick' Onyeaso was chief consultant surgeon at Aba General Hospital, Nigeria. He was born on 7 July 1931 in Enugu, Nigeria, the son of Samuel Onyeaso, a clerk, and Minah Onyeaso, a housewife. He was educated at St Peter's Primary School, Enugu, the Methodist College, Uzuakoli, and Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha. He learnt his basic medical sciences at the University of Ibadan Medical School, which was then affiliated to the University of London, and went on to do his clinical studies at Westminster Hospital Medical School, London, where he won the class prize in midwifery and graduated MB BS on 16 November 1958. He completed his internship at University College Hospital, Ibadan, and thereafter returned to England, where he trained in general surgery and passed his FRCS in 1964. He was a senior registrar in cardiothoracic surgery at Bethnal Green Hospital in 1971, but thereafter his interest in cardiothoracic surgery waned. He worked variously in England, Switzerland and Nigeria, and as personal physician to the family of the president of Gabon, Omar Bongo, until 1974, when he returned to Nigeria to be the chief consultant surgeon at the General Hospital, Aba. He started his private practice in 1976. Outside medicine, he loved swimming and lawn tennis, and was fluent in French. Dick was a family man. He married Ibobo Antoinette Allgoa in 1971. They had four children - Nduche, Chinwe, Nkechi and Obinna. Nduche and Nkechi are physicians in the USA, Obinna is a physician in Nigerian, while Chinwe is a banker in Nigeria. Dick Onyeaso became sick in 1979 and was diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma. He died on 24 September 1979 in Westminster Hospital, London, aged 48.
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First Title value, for Searching Hammond, Thomas Edwin (1888 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Hanly, Gerard Joseph (1900 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Hardwick Smith, Henry (1877 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Hare, Evan Herring (1851 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Harman, Nathaniel Bishop (1869 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-26
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 23 April 1869, seventh child and third son, but the first son to survive, of Walter John Harman of Highgate and his wife *née* Bellamy, who came of a City family, owners of Bellamy's Wharf. He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College Cambridge, of which he was a foundation scholar and afterwards Hutchison research student. He took his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital, qualifying in 1895, and came under the influence of William Lang (1852-1937), with whom he later worked for many years as clinical assistant in the hospital's eye department. He then took first-class honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1897-98, and was appointed lecturer in anatomy at Caius and King's Colleges, Cambridge. He was also University demonstrator of anatomy, and subsequently an examiner in anatomy. Harman volunteered for service in the South African war, as a civil surgeon to the Field Force. He won the Queen's medal with five clasps, and wrote a thesis on veldt sore. When he came back to England he began to practise in London as an ophthalmologist, working at Moorfields (the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital) as chief clinical assistant to E Treacher Collins. In 1901 he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Belgrave Hospital for Children. While attaining to a leading ophthalmic practice and making his mark in extra-professional interests, Harman's outstanding work, for which he will be chiefly remembered, was as a pioneer of reforms in the education of children with defective sight. He also made time to take an active part through a long period in the central counsels of the British Medical Association, not least as its honorary treasurer for the record period of fifteen years. Harman's chief hospital connexion was with the West London, where he became ophthalmic surgeon 1909, and was ultimately consulting ophthalmic surgeon; he was also lecturer in ophthalmology and dean of the West London Postgraduate College. He served as consultant oculist to National Institute for the Blind. In 1902 Harman was appointed ophthalmic consultant to the London School Board, a position he continued to hold when the Board's work was taken over by the education department of the London County Council. Working with James Kerr (1862-1941), School Medical Officer for London 1902-11, he persuaded the authorities to institute special classes for defective-sighted children, and later special "myope" or "sight-saving" schools. This work was beneficial not merely to the children directly concerned, but to those in other countries which quickly followed London's example. Harman became quite a celebrity in America on this count alone. Besides his strictly clinical interest in this problem, Harman was active in designing special equipment for these schools. He was influential in improving school lighting in general and the design of school books. He served on the Departmental Committees on the Causes and Prevention of Blindness in 1920-22 and 1938, and secured the compulsory notification of ophthalmia neonatorum. In connexion with his BMA work he established the National Eye Service 1929, and persuaded the Association to back its central organ, the National Ophthalmic Treatment Board, of which he was chairman, by advancing a substantial loan, which, as he foresaw, was fully and quickly repaid. This body provides qualified eye examination for those unable to afford a private specialist's fee. Two of his books, *Preventable blindness* 1907 and *The eyes of our children* 1915, were addressed to the general public and made some mark. He wrote numerous books and articles on clinical and professional subjects, and invented several widely used ophthalmic instruments. Harman also wrote poetry, and was a contributor to the *Hibbert Journal* and in some demand as a speaker in the Unitarian Church, of which he was a prominent member. If so versatile an intellect can be said to have had a special interest, it was in the philosophy of religion. He served as president of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Churches in 1937-38. He was something of an artist and had a scholarly knowledge of the history of architectural ornament. Harman was a member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom for forty-five years, and demonstrated to it in 1909 his diaphragm test for binocular vision, which became widely adopted. Harman's connexion with the British Medical Association began in the Marylebone division, which he served successively as honorary secretary, treasurer and chairman; he was also active in the Metropolitan Counties branch, of which he became president in 1922-23. His first contact with the central work of the Association was as a member of the Representative Body at its first meeting in 1903, but he did not attend it again regularly till 1911. In 1915 he was elected to the Council and during 1915-1919 undertook the arduous work of joint secretary of the Central Medical War Committee, which allocated medical men to appropriate national service; his colleague was Alfred Cox, OBE, medical secretary of the BMA 1912-32. As chairman of the Hospitals Committee 1920-24, the policy which he successfully promoted was statesmanlike in its anticipation of the evolution of hospital services. In 1924 he was elected honorary treasurer of the Association for five years; he did his work so well that he was twice re-elected, and retired only in 1939. When he took charge of the purse, the Association had newly moved from the Strand to Tavistock Square; Harman was active in his foreseeing guidance of the developments consequent on that move. His advice was also taken about the physical appearance of the Association's house. He was awarded the Association's highest honour, its gold medal, in 1931 and was later elected a vice-president. On the scientific side of the BMA Harman served as chairman of the Council's ophthalmology committee and of the committee of the ophthalmic practitioners' group. He was president of the section of ophthalmology at the Winnipeg meeting 1930. In 1931 he was given an Honorary Doctorate of Laws at Manchester, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland in 1933. He served for many years as treasurer of the National Insurance Defence Trust Fund. He was nominated in 1929 a direct representative for England and Wales on the General Medical Council, in the room of Sir Thomas Jenner Verrall, MRCS (1852-1929); he was later appointed to the Dental Board and became its treasurer. Harman was a generous benefactor to the British Medical Association: in 1924 he presented the treasurer's golf cup, and in 1929 a symbolic staff to be carried at formal meetings; by law and custom a mace may be carried only at corporate meetings, or before the official representatives, of bodies incorporate by royal charter. His wife, herself a doctor, endowed in 1926 the Katharine Bishop Harman prize, to be awarded by the Association for research into disorders of maternity. In 1939 he founded a clinical prize and bequeathed £1,000 to the Association to increase this prize. Harman married in 1905 Katharine Chamberlain, MB BS London, daughter of Arthur Chamberlain, JP of Moor Green Hall, Birmingham, and niece of the Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, MP PC. She survived him with two sons and two daughters; a third son had died in 1941. The elder surviving son, John Bishop Harman, FRCP and S, was physician to out-patients at St Thomas's Hospital when his father died, and the elder daughter, Elizabeth, was the wife of the Hon Frank Pakenham, created Lord Pakenham in 1945, a student of Christ Church and heir presumptive to the sixth Earl of Longford. Bishop Harman died on 13 June 1945, after a long illness cheerfully borne, at Larksfield, Crockham Hill, near Edenbridge, Kent, where he had lived for many years; while he had practised at 108 Harley Street. He left several large charitable bequests. Harman had personal charm, coupled with versatility and originality of mind, as well as business ability. He was philosophically cheerful and the best of friends. Publications:- *The palpebral and oculomotor apparatus in fishes, morphology and development* London. 1899. *The conjunctiva in health and disease*. London, 1905. *Preventable blindness: ophthalmia of the newborn and its effects: with a plea for its suppression*. London, 1907. Congenital cataract. *Treasury of human inheritance*, edited by Karl Pearson. 1909, 1, section 13a. The diaphragm test for binocular vision. *Ophthal Rev*. 1909, 28, 93. *The eyes of our children*. London, 1915. *Staying the plague*. London, 1917. Analysis of 4,288 cases of blindness. *Brit med J*. 1921, 1, 782. Myope classes. *Brit med J*. 1924, 1, 203. *Aids to Ophthalmology*. 9th edition, London, 1940. *Science and religion*. London, 1935.
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First Title value, for Searching Davis, Henry (1810 - 1880)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals and in Paris. He was at one time Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital, and later Senior House Surgeon at the Northern Hospital, Liverpool. He practised in various towns, at Tenbury, in Worcestershire, and at Putney, where he was in partnership with Charles Shillito. He died after his retirement at Conie Brae, West Malvern, on August 16th, 1880.
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First Title value, for Searching Temple, Leslie Joseph (1915 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-26
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Leslie Temple was a consultant thoracic surgeon at Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool. He was born in London in 1915 and studied medicine at University College Hospital. After qualifying in 1939, he completed house posts in Aylesbury and Canterbury, and was then a resident surgical officer at Wigan Infirmary, Lancashire, where he gained his FRCS in 1941. Joining the RAMC, he served with a field hospital on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, and was later posted to Belgium and then India. Following demobilisation in 1947, he was appointed as a consultant thoracic surgeon at Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool. He was also a consultant to Nobles Hospital, in Douglas on the Isle of Man, and to Machynlleth Hospital, mid Wales. He made significant contributions to the treatment of lung cancer and tuberculosis in both adults and children. In 1962 he carried out some of the first open heart operations in England for mitral valve disease, and went on to help establish Liverpool as a major centre for cardiac surgery. Surgeons from around the world, including Australia, Canada, Greece and the Sudan, were trained and encouraged by him. Outside medicine, he was a keen squash player and an avid hill-walker, once completing ascents of Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis within 24 hours. On his 80th birthday he led a party of family and friends round the Snowdon Horseshoe. After he retired he took a three-year BA degree course in humanities at Chester College, University of Liverpool, graduating with honours in 2001. He died from an aortic dissection on 10 July 2004. He was predeceased by his wife, Barbara, and leaves a son, John, and a daughter, Anne. There are six grandchildren, one of whom, Andrew John, is a surgeon and an FRCS. There are three great grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Heath Thurlow (1920 - 2003)

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First Title value, for Searching Trevor-Roper, Patrick Dacre (1916 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-26
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Patrick Dacre Trevor-Roper, known as ‘T R’, was an acclaimed eye surgeon and a successful campaigner. He was born in Alnwick, Northumberland, on 7 June 1916, where his father, Bertie William Edward Trevor-Roper, was in general practice. His mother was Kathleen Elizabeth née Davison. He was educated at Charterhouse, where he was a senior classical scholar, and won an exhibition to Clare College, Cambridge. He went on to the Westminster Hospital for his clinical training. There he was introduced to the delights of ophthalmology by the leading eye surgeon E F King, who occupied a neighbouring mattress in the hospital air raid shelter and introduced him to Moorfields. He served with the New Zealand Medical Corps from 1943 to 1945 and then specialised in ophthalmology, becoming consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Westminster and Moorfields Eye Hospitals in 1947. There he established the Moorfields eye bank. He also set up the Haile Selassie Eye Hospital in Addis Ababa and organised the opening of an ophthalmic unit in Lagos and a mobile eye unit in Sierra Leone for the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind. He was vice-president of the Ophthamological Society of the UK, section President of the Royal Society of Medicine and a founder member of the International Academy of Ophthalmology. He was Doyne medallist of the Oxford Ophthalmogical Society. The Patrick Trevor-Roper undergraduate award at the Royal College of Ophthalmogists was established in 1997. For 38 years he was editor of the *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the UK* (which became *Eye* when the Society became the Royal College of Ophthalmologists). He wrote several key textbooks on ophthalmology, including *Ophthalmology: a textbook for diploma students* (1955), which later became *Lecture notes in ophthalmology* and then *The eye and its disorders*. But it was as the author of *The world through blunted sight* (London, Thames and Hudson, 1971) that he became known to the wider public. In this amusingly written book, he argued that the proportions, perspectives and palette of many celebrated painters was the result of ophthamological problems such as short sight, astigmatism, glaucoma and cataract. A gentle, dithery, sometimes impatient, boffin-like man, he had an endless sense of fun and was popular with students, who invited him to be president or chairman of many of their societies. His large circle of friends, who would meet at weekends at Long Crichel House in Dorset, a former rectory and a centre for like-minded writers, included music and literary critics, composers, poets, artists and actors. In 1955 he was one of a handful of establishment figures to give evidence to the Wolfenden Committee, which ultimately decriminalised homosexual activity between consenting adults. In those days, this was a brave thing to do. Trevor-Roper told the committee that gay men posed no threat to heterosexual youth, and provided evidence of the extent of blackmail of homosexuals, which had led to many suicides. Later, in the 1960s, he campaigned against the “venal manipulations of drug companies”, particularly the bogus conferences where speakers would puff the companies’ new products. He also campaigned successfully against the opticians’ monopoly of the sale of reading glasses. A trustee of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he helped found the HIV/AIDS charity, the Terrence Higgins Trust, which was run from his house until it expanded into larger premises. He travelled widely, visiting, among other places, Borneo, Nigeria, Malawi and the Falklands. In 2003 he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and a year later was found to have a cancer in the neck, from an unknown primary. He died on 22 April 2004 and is survived by his partner of many years, Herman Chan. His brother Hugh, the historian Lord Dacre of Glanton, and his sister, Sheila, predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Story, Harold Frederick Rowe (1924 - 2009)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-10-14
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Occupation Urologist
Details Harold Story was a urologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and at the Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria. He was born in Melbourne on 8 November 1924 and was educated at Melbourne University High School and Melbourne University, where he was awarded a prosectorship and Dwight’s anatomy prize. On qualifying, he was a resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (from 1947 to 1948) and then became a demonstrator in anatomy while studying for the primary, at which he won the Gordon Taylor prize in 1949. He did junior posts at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, as a demonstrator in clinical surgery, in anatomy and in pathological histology. He then went to England to study for the final FRCS. Having passed the fellowship, he became a urological registrar at the Whittington Hospital and was later a clinical registrar and then a senior surgical registrar (resident surgical officer) at St Peter’s Hospital for Stone (from 1955 to 1956), where he worked under Alec Badenoch, John Sandrey and David Wallace. He then returned to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, at first as an associate assistant to J B Somerset and later as an honorary surgeon. He was the first urologist at the Austin Hospital, where he set up a urological department and remained its head for more than 40 years, becoming an expert in the treatment of urological tuberculosis and spinal injuries, and in particular the treatment of the large staghorn stones, which occurred in these patients. He was also the first urologist at the Peter MacCallum Clinic (Cancer Institute). He was a wing commander in the Specialist Reserve for the Royal Australian Air Force He married Jean Lesley McKenzie and they had two sons, Rowan (an oral and maxillofacial surgeon) and Ian. His many interests included the history of surgery and of surgical instruments, and he was the honorary curator of the collection at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. In 2005, a Harold Story Memorial annual lecture was inaugurated. He died on 12 July 2009.
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First Title value, for Searching Jayne, William Howard Wise (1916 - 2006)

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First Title value, for Searching Cattlin, William Alfred Newman (1814 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Carwardine, Henry Holgate ( - 1868)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised at Earls Colne, Essex, until his death in 1868. In 1818 he presented "The Original Obstetric Instruments of the Chamber-lens" to the Medico-Chirurgical Society. (See "Brief notice presented to the Medico-Chirurgical Society with the original obstetric instruments of the Chamber-lens," by H H Carwardine, *Med.-Clair. Trans.*, 1818, ix, 1856.) A collection of relics, including letters of Dr Peter Chamberlen, had been found in a chest which had lain for many years in a closet at Woodham Mortimer Hall, near Maldon, Essex. The estate and house had been purchased by Dr Peter Chamberlen previous to 1683, and had continued in his family until 1715. The obstetric instruments had been given by the finder to Carwardine. They consisted of adaptations, in a pair of the simple vectis, with an open fenestra. Chamberlen had the idea of uniting the two by a joint. He had tried a pivot and socket at the fulcrum, but in an improved and lighter instrument he had simply made a hole in each fulcrum, through which, after each vectis had been put into position against the head, the two blades could be sufficiently approximated to be held together by a tape passed through the holes. The next step was made by Smellie, who invented the 'English-lock'. The whole subject was discussed by Robert Lee in "Observation on the Discovery of the Original Obstetric Instruments of the Chamberlens" (*Med.-Chir. Trans.*, 1862, xlv, 1). Carwardine conceived the idea of writing Memorials of the craft of surgery, and composed a chapter or two, but gave up the undertaking as he was unable to gain access to the Records of the Barber-Surgeons. This task was carried through by John Flint South, and the results were published in 1886 with the title, *The Craft of Surgery*, under the editorship of D'Arcy Power, FRCS. There is an autographed photograph of H H Carwardine in one of the College Albums.
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First Title value, for Searching Ceely, James Henry (1809 - 1905)

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First Title value, for Searching Chambers, John ( - 1846)

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First Title value, for Searching Champneys, Henry Montague (1818 - 1895)

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First Title value, for Searching Collis, John Leigh (1911 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Jack Collis was a pioneering thoracic surgeon. He was born in Harborne, Birmingham, on 14 July 1911, the son of Walter Thomas Collis, an industrial chemist, and Dora Charton Reay. His choice of medicine was greatly influenced by his local GP and his two medical uncles, one of whom was a professor of medicine at Cardiff. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and studied medicine at Birmingham. There he was a member of the athletic club and captained the hockey team. He was equally outstanding as a scholar, winning the Queen’s scholarship for three years running, and the Ingleby scholarship and Priestley Smith prize in his final year, together with gold medals in clinical surgery and medicine. He graduated in 1935 with first class honours. He was house physician to K D Wilkinson at Birmingham General Hospital and then house surgeon to B J Ward at the Queen’s Hospital. He went on to be surgical registrar to H H Sampson at the General Hospital, before becoming a resident surgical officer at the Brompton Chest Hospital in London under Tudor Edwards and Clement Price Thomas. The outbreak of war saw him back in Birmingham as resident surgical officer at the General Hospital. By July 1940 he was surgeon to the Barnsley Hall Emergency hospital, which received Blitz casualties from Birmingham and Coventry. He was in charge of the chest unit for the next four years, during which time he wrote a thesis on the metastatic cerebral abscess associated with suppurative conditions of the lung, where he showed the route of infection via the vertebral veins. This won him an MD with honours, as well as a Hunterian professorship in 1944. In February 1944 he joined the RAMC to command the No 3 Surgical Team for Chest Surgery, taking his team through Europe into Germany shortly after D-day, for which he was mentioned in despatches. From Germany he was posted to India to receive the anticipated casualties in the Far East. He ended his war service as a Lieutenant Colonel. At the end of the war he applied to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, from his posting in India, with a glowing reference from Tudor Edwards. He was appointed initially as a general surgeon, though he was soon engaged mainly in thoracic surgery, especially thoracoplasty for tuberculosis, and spent much time travelling between sanatoria in Warwick, Burton-on-Trent and Malvern. With the advent of cardiac surgery, Jack was responsible for a successful series of mitral valvotomies and was one of the first to remove a tumour from within the cavity of the left atrium, using a sharpened dessert spoon and a piece of wire gauze. Later he withdrew from open heart surgery to concentrate on the surgery of the oesophagus. He became celebrated for three advances in the surgery of the oesophagus – the Collis gastroplasty for patients with reflux, the Collis repair of the lower oesophagus and, above all, a successful technique for oesophagectomy. In this his mortality and leakage rates were half those of his contemporaries. He attributed his success to the use of fine steel wire: his assistants attributed it to his outstanding surgical technique. He was Chairman of the regional advisory panel for cardiothoracic surgery, an honorary professor of thoracic surgery at the University of Birmingham, and was President of the Thoracic Society and the Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons. He was Chairman of the medical advisory committee at the Birmingham United Hospitals from 1961 to 1963, and Chairman of the planning committee from 1963 to 1965. He trained a generation of thoracic surgeons whose friendship he retained, along with those medical orderlies who served with him during the war. Vehemently proud of Birmingham, he devoted much of his retirement to promoting the city. He married Mavis Haynes in 1941. They had a holiday bungalow in Wales, where he enjoyed walking, gardening and fishing. They had four children, Nigel, Gilly, Christopher and Mark, two of whom entered medicine. He died in Moseley, Birmingham on 4 February 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Crabtree, Norman Lloyd (1916 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Cudmore, Roger Edward (1935 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Denham, Robin Arthur (1922 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Falloon, Maurice White (1921 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Fiddian, Richard Vasey (1923 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23 2007-08-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Richard Vasey ‘Dick’ Fiddian was a consultant general surgeon at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital from 1964 to 1989. He was born on 6 October 1923 in Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancashire, where his father, James Victor Fiddian, was a general practitioner-surgeon. His mother, Doris Mary née White, came from a farming family. Dick was the last of five children, and the second son. From the age of eight he attended the Old College boarding school in Windermere, and then, at 11, went to Manchester Grammar School. In October 1941 he went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to read for the natural sciences tripos. In 1943 he was drafted into the Army and spent three years as a fighting soldier in the Royal Engineers, rising to the rank of captain. As well as serving in the field with the 14th Army in Burma, he also helped to oversee the rebuilding of the Burma Road with the help of Japanese POWs. In October 1946 he returned to Emmanuel College, completing his first and second MB. He was also awarded an MA in anthropology, physiology, pathology and biochemistry. Whilst at Emmanuel, Fiddian became captain of the golf team, and was awarded a Cambridge blue. After qualifying, he did two years of house appointments at Bart’s, including anaesthetics, and a further year as junior registrar (SHO) to Rupert Corbett and Alec Badenoch. He then took a year off as a ship’s doctor on the Orsova of the Orient Line, before taking his Fellowship in 1956. He then became a registrar to Norman Townsley and John Stephens at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. When the Queen came to open the new operating theatres, Fiddian escorted the Duke of Edinburgh round the male Nightingale ward and introduced him to his patients, one of whom had been operated on by Dick, but failed to recognise his surgeon. He was heard to say in a broad Norfolk accent: “Nice to meet the Duke, but who was that good-looking young man in a white coat walking with him?” Dick returned to Bart’s in 1958 as chief assistant to John Hosford, whom Dick greatly admired. He also worked with Sir Edward Tuckwell, whose rapidity as an operator was legendary. After two years he went to the North Middlesex Hospital under Basil Page, the urologist. Spending a year in Boston, Massachusetts, he worked as an assistant in surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital under Francis Moore, professor of surgery at Harvard and chief surgeon at the Brigham. In 1963 he completed a Milton research fellowship in surgery at Harvard Medical School. In 1964 he was appointed as a consultant to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital. There he developed a special interest in wound infection and made some useful contributions on the use of metronidazole. He retired from the NHS in 1989. In 1985 he started learning Spanish at the local adult education college in Luton, continuing to study the language until he was 80. He visited Spain many times and often went on cultural trips, which he thoroughly enjoyed. After his retirement he studied Spanish literature at Birkbeck College, and received an award from the Institute of Linguists for his command of the language. He married twice. His first wife was Aileen, an Australian he met on board ship. They had one son, Jonathan. After her death he married Jean née Moore, a medical secretary, by whom he had a son, James, and two daughters, Emily and Sarah. They also adopted the child of one of Jean’s friends. Although they became estranged, they remained good friends and Jean cared for him in his latter days, which were marred by a degree of dementia. He died on 30 December 2004. Dick Fiddian was an extremely affable man who was everyone’s friend, not because of a wish to be universally liked, but for his capacity to see the best in people. He was a self-effacing man, describing his contributions to the literature as “numerous, none of which were important”. Conversation with him was always a pleasure, as was listening to his after-dinner speeches which were interspersed with bon mots and limericks which probed the idiosyncrasies of the company, never with malice but always with a twinkle in his eye.
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First Title value, for Searching Fison, Lorimer George (1920 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Lorimer Fison was an innovative ophthalmic surgeon who introduced a revolutionary new procedure for the repair of retinal detachment from the United States. He was born on 14 July 1920 in Harrogate, the third son of William James Fison, a well-known ophthalmic surgeon, and Janet Sybil née Dutton, the daughter of a priest. He was educated at Parkfield School, Haywards Heath, and then Marlborough College. He then studied natural sciences at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and then went on to St Bartholomew’s Hospital. After qualifying, he joined the Navy during the war as a Surgeon Lieutenant. Following demobilisation, he became a resident surgical officer at Moorfield’s, despite having caught tuberculosis. He then became a senior registrar at St Thomas’s Hospital and later at Bart’s. In 1957 Fison went to the Schepens unit in Boston in the United States, after Sir Stuart Duke-Elder, the then doyen of British ophthalmology, suggested that fellows be despatched to learn the new techniques of retinal detachment surgery. There Fison learnt the procedure of scleral explantation, and was also impressed by the ophthalmic instruments then available in the US. Back in England, Fison faced some opposition when he attempted to introduce the new procedures he had been taught in the States, but was finally given beds at Moorfield’s annexe in Highgate. With the help of Charles Keeler, he modified the Schepens indirect ophthalmoscope, which was put into production and sold around the world. Fison was also the first to introduce the photocoagulator, the forerunner of the modern ophthalmic laser, which was developed by Meyer-Schwickerath in Germany. In 1962, after a brief appointment at the Royal Free Hospital, he was appointed as a consultant at Moorfield’s. He was held in great affection by his colleagues and juniors, who remember his warmth and generosity. Fison was President of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists from 1980 to 1983 and of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom from 1985 to 1987. He was an ardent supporter of the merging of these two organisations – they became the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 1988. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was an examiner for the FRCS in ophthalmology, Chairman of the Court of Examiners in 1978 and a member of Council. He married Isabel née Perry in 1947 and they had one daughter, Sally, who qualified in medicine. On his retirement he moved to Sidmouth, where he continued his hobbies of woodworking and sailing. He died on 12 February 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Porter, Richard William (1935 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-06-21 2012-03-13
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Richard William Porter was a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon in Aberdeen. He was born on 16 February 1935 in Doncaster, the son of J Luther Porter, a china merchant and Methodist minister, and Mary Field. He was educated at Oundle and Edinburgh University, and completed his surgical training at Edinburgh. Following house appointments he became a ships' surgeon for three months before returning to Edinburgh as a senior house officer and passing the FRCS Edinburgh and the DObstRCOG. He began his surgical training as a registrar in Sheffield and after obtaining the FRCS England in 1966 he became a senior registrar on the orthopaedic training programme at King's College Hospital, where he was much influenced by Hubert Wood and Christopher Attenborough. He returned to Doncaster as consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and soon took an interest in low back pain, a common problem among the coal miners. He set up a research programme and established a department of bioengineering which attracted postgraduate students from home and abroad. He became an authority on the use of ultrasound in the investigation of back pain published papers and a book on the subject and was awarded an MD in 1981 for this work. His reputation resulted in the presidency of the Society for Back Pain Research and a founder membership of the European Spine Society. He was also on the council of the British Orthopaedic Association and the Society of Clinical Anatomists. In 1990 he was appointed to the Sir Harry Platt chair of orthopaedic surgery in Aberdeen and developed links with China and Romania, and later became the first Syme professor of orthopaedics in the University of Edinburgh and director of education and training at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Following his retirement he returned to Doncaster and, as a devout Christian, played a very full part in the local Evangelical Methodist Church. He published extensively and was the author of three textbooks. In 1964 he married Christine Brown, whom he had known since his schooldays. They had four sons, one of whom is an orthopaedic surgeon, two are Anglican ministers and one a Methodist minister. He died on 20 July 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Booth, John Barton (1937 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-06-21 2012-03-22
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Barton Booth was a consultant ENT surgeon at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals. He was born on 19 November 1937, the son of Percy Leonard Booth and Mildred Amy née Wilson. He was educated at Canford School and at King's College, London, where he became an Associate (a diploma award given by the theology department), flirted with politics (the Conservative Party) and law, but in the end qualified in medicine. After house appointments at the Birmingham Accident Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, he started ENT training at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. He subsequently became a senior registrar at the Royal Free Hospital, working with John Ballantyne and John Groves, and for one day a week he was seconded to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases as clinical assistant to Margaret Dix, who was famous as an audiological physician with a particular interest in balance problems. The influence of these mentors very much guided John into a career in otology and he later confirmed his position in that field by being elected a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. His lecture was based on his work on Ménière's disease. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and consultant ENT surgeon to the London (later Royal London) Hospital and subsequently to the Royal Hospital of St Bartholomew's. John was never happy with the fusion of the Royal London and Bart's, particularly as the ENT department was relocated at Bart's. He was appointed as a civilian consultant (otology) to the RAF, which gave him the opportunity to practise otology in Cyprus for two weeks in June every year. John Booth had a strong Christian belief and moral code, which underpinned his life. He was always immaculately dressed, precise in his manner, thoughtful in his approach to problems and determined in his belief that a job should be well done and with no half measures. He was always a person who could be relied upon, which explains the succession of responsible positions he held. He edited the *Journal of Laryngology & Otology* from 1987 to 1992, as well as the volume on diseases of the ear in two editions of *Scott-Brown's Otolaryngology*. For the Royal Society of Medicine he was president of the section of otology and council member, honorary secretary and subsequently vice-president of the Society. For the British Academic Conference in Otolarynoglogy he was honorary secretary of the general committee for the eighth conference, becoming chairman of the same committee for the ninth. John inherited the significant voice practice of his father-in-law, Ivor Griffiths, and continued his association with the Royal Opera House, the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain, the Concert Artists Association and the Musicians Benevolent Fund, until his retirement in 2000. In addition, he was honorary consultant to St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy. John had a great interest in the history of his specialty and in art. He was able, with Sir Alan Bowness, to combine these two interests in a publication on Barbara Hepworth's drawings of ear surgery, which appeared as a supplement in the *Journal of Laryngology & Otology* (April 2000). He married Carroll Griffiths in 1966. They both enjoyed playing golf, either at the RAC Club or on the Isle of Man, where they retired. John took great pride in his membership of the MCC and the R and A at St Andrew's. On retirement he switched from ENT and became a physician at St Bridget's Hospice in Douglas. He managed to combine part-time work at the hospice with the care of Carroll, who had been ill for eight years. She died on 3 July 2004 and John died of a massive coronary thrombosis on 22 July 2005. He left their son, James. Neil Weir
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First Title value, for Searching Shawcross, Lord Hartley William (1902 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-06-21 2006-10-11
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Occupation Politician
Details Hartley Shawcross, a barrister, Labour politician and an honorary fellow of the College, will be perhaps best remembered as the leading British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. He was born on 4 February 1902, the son of John and Hilda Shawcross. He was educated at Dulwich College, the London School of Economics and the University of Geneva. He was called to the bar in 1925. He successfully stood for Parliament as a Labour candidate in 1945 and immediately became Attorney General. From 1945 to 1949 he was Britain’s principal UN delegate, as well as Chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg. He later served as President of the Board of Trade before leaving politics and resigning from Parliament in 1958. He went on to help found the University of Sussex and served as chancellor there from 1965 to 1985. He a board member of several major companies. He married three times. His first wife, Alberta Rosita Shyvers, died in 1944. He then married Joan Winifred Mather, by whom he had two sons and a daughter (who became a doctor). In 1997, at the age of 95, he married Susanne Monique Huiskamp. Tall, handsome and with a commanding presence, Shawcross was a most distinguished member of his party, and a good friend to the College.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000248
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First Title value, for Searching King, Abraham (1811 - 1867)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College and Middlesex Hospitals. At the time of his death he was Surgeon of the Bridgwater Union House Hospital and a Justice of the Peace. He practised at Bridgwater, Somerset, and died there on September 16th, 1867. Publication: "Use and Action of Hydrochloric Acid in Cholera." - *Med Times*, 1849, xx, 515.
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First Title value, for Searching Hardy, James Daniel (1918 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-15 2007-08-09
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details James Daniel Hardy was an organ transplant pioneer and the first chairman of the department of surgery and surgeon in chief at the University Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi. Board certified by both the American Board of Surgery and the Board of Thoracic Surgery and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Hardy worked to improve medical and surgical care in Mississippi throughout his career of teaching, caring for patients and clinical research. Over 200 surgeons trained with him during his tenure as chairman of the department of surgery from 1955 to 1987. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, on 14 May 1918, the elder of twin boys, he was the son of Fred Henry Hardy, owner of a lime plant, and Julia Poyner Hardy, a schoolteacher. His early childhood was tough and frugal, thanks to the Depression. He was educated at Montevallo High School, where he played football for the school, and learned to play the trombone. He completed his premedical studies at the University of Alabama, where he excelled in German, and went on to the University of Pennsylvania to study medicine, and during his physiology course carried out a research project (on himself) to show that olive oil introduced into the duodenum would inhibit the production of gastric acid - an exercise which gave him a lifelong interest in research. At the same time he joined the Officers Training Corps. In his last year he published research into the effect of sulphonamide on wound healing. After receiving his MD he entered postgraduate training for a year as an intern and a resident in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and also conducted research on circulatory physiology. Research became a vital part of his professional life. His military service in the second world war was with the 81st Field Hospital. In the New Year of 1945 he found himself in London, before crossing to France and the last months of the invasion of Germany. After VE Day his unit was sent out to the Far East, but when news arrived of the Japanese surrender his ship made a U-turn and they landed back in the United States. He returned to Philadelphia to complete his surgical residency under Isidor Ravdin. He was a senior Damon Runyon fellow in clinical research and was awarded a masters of medical science in physiological chemistry by the University of Pennsylvania in 1951 for his research on heavy water and the measurement of body fluids. That same year Hardy became an assistant professor of surgery and director of surgical research at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Memphis, later he was to become an associate professor, and continued in this position until 1955, when he became the first professor of surgery and chairman of the department of surgery at the newly established University of Mississippi Medical Center, School of Medicine, Jackson. As a surgeon charged with establishing an academic training programme, Hardy became known as a charismatic teacher and indefatigable physician. He also actively pursued and encouraged clinical research in the newly established department of surgery. His group’s years of research in the laboratory led to the first kidney autotransplant in man for high ureteral injury, and to advances in the then emerging field of human organ transplantation. The first lung transplant in man was performed at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1963 and in 1964 Hardy and his team carried out the first heart transplantation using a chimpanzee as a donor. Hardy authored, co-authored or edited more than 23 medical books, including two which became standard surgery texts, and published more than 500 articles and chapters in medical publications. He served on numerous editorial boards and as editor-in-chief of *The World Journal of Surgery*. He also produced a volume of autobiographical memoirs, *The Academic surgeon* (Mobile, Alabama, Magnolia Mansions Press, c.2002), which is a most readable and vivid account of the American residency system and its emphasis on research, which has been such a model for the rest of the world. Over the course of his career he served as president of the American College of Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the International Surgical Society and the Society of University Surgeons and was a founding member of the International Surgical Group and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary tract. He was an honorary fellow of the College, of the l’Académie Nationale de Médicine and l’Association Français de Chirurgie. The proceedings of the 1983 surgical forum of the American College of Surgeons was dedicated to Hardy, citing him as “…an outstanding educator, investigator, clinical surgeon and international leader.” In 1987 Hardy retired from the department of surgery and served in the Veteran’s Administration Hospital system as a distinguished VA physician from 1987 to 1990. He married Louise (Weezie) Scott Sams in 1949. They had four daughters: Louise, Julia Ann, Bettie and Katherine. He died on 19 February 2003. An annual James D Hardy lectureship has been established in his honour at the department of surgery, University Medical Center, Jackson.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Geoffrey Blundell (1915 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-09-22
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Blundell Jones was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Exeter. He was born on 10 June 1915, in Blackpool, Lancashire, the eldest son of William Jones, the principal of a technical college, and Elizabeth Blundell. He was educated at Arnold School, Blackpool, and University College Hospital London, where he won an exhibition in 1933. After qualifying in 1938 he was a house surgeon at University College Hospital and house surgeon and RSO at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Between 1941 and 1946 he was an orthopaedic specialist in the RAMC, attaining the rank of Major. After demobilisation he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital Exeter, the Exeter Clinical Area and Dame Hannah Rogers School for Spastics, Ivybridge. He was a Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and served on its executive and other committees. For many years he was a member of the British Standards Institution Committee for Surgical Implants, eventually becoming chairman, and also served on the International Standards Organisation for Surgical Implants. He was author and co-author of several contributions to the orthopaedic literature and was an early exponent of total knee replacement. His hobbies included sailing, shooting and fishing. He died on 13 November 2004, leaving his wife Avis (née Dyer), a son and two daughters, one of whom is a doctor.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000254
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First Title value, for Searching Keast-Butler, John (1937 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-05-10
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Keast-Butler was a consultant ophthalmologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. He was born in London on 26 September 1937. His father, Joseph Alfred Keast-Butler, was a salesman and his mother, Mary Loise Brierley, was a secretary. He was educated at University College School and went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read medicine, going on to University College Hospital for his clinical studies. After National Service in the RAMC he specialised in ophthalmology, at first as a registrar at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, then as a senior resident officer at Moorfields Eye Hospital, City Road, and finally as a senior registrar at St Thomas’s Hospital and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. In 1977 he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust, Cambridge University Teaching Hospitals Trust and Saffron Walden Community Hospital. In addition he was associate lecturer (medicine) at the University of Cambridge, director of studies (clinical medicine) at Trinity College, Cambridge, and attachment director in ophthalmology, University of Cambridge School of Medicine. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, chairman of the BMA ophthalmic group committee for some years and honorary secretary of the Cambridge Medical Graduates’ Club. His colleagues rightly described him as a big man in stature and in personality. He was a skilled craftsman and enjoyed carpentry, photography and gardening. He married Brigid Hardy, a nurse, in 1967 and they had three children – one daughter (a civil servant) and two sons (a trainee ophthalmic surgeon and a business analyst). He died on 19 March 2005 while travelling with his wife in Goa. He had a major fall that proceeded a fatal pulmonary embolism.
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First Title value, for Searching Lange, Meyer John (1912 - 2005)

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First Title value, for Searching Ferguson, William Glasgow (1919 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-15 2014-08-11
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details William Glasgow Ferguson, or 'Fergie' as he was known, was a thoracic surgeon in Victoria, Australia. He was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, on 4 March 1919, the son of William and Sara Ferguson. He studied medicine at Durham, where he qualified in 1942. After four months as a house surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, he joined the RAMC and was posted to 144 Field Ambulance, Hull, and in the following March went to Accra, where he served in 2 (WA) Field Ambulance until April 1944, when he went with his field ambulance to Burma. There he was promoted to major and, in the following year, commanded 4 (WA) Field Ambulance with the rank of lieutenant colonel, being mentioned in despatches. At the end of the war he brought his field ambulance back to West Africa and was demobilised in 1946. On his return to the UK, he became a demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Durham, did general surgical training at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, completed the Guy's course and passed the final FRCS. He then decided to specialise in thoracic surgery, undergoing specialist registrar and senior registrar posts at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Shotley Bridge Regional Thoracic Surgical Centre. He was awarded the American Association for Thoracic Surgery travelling fellowship in 1953 as a post-doctoral first assistant. In 1958 he moved to Australia, as staff superintendent of Sydney Hospital. Two years later, he became a consultant at Goulburn Valley Base Hospital, Victoria, where he remained until he retired in 1985. He then continued in general practice in Omeo, Victoria, until 1992. He was previously married to Helen née Cowan. He had three children - two sons (Tim and Richard) and a daughter (Lisa). He died in Omeo, Victoria, on 20 July 2005, aged 86. He was also survived by a partner, Anne.
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First Title value, for Searching Goodwin, Harold (1910 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-15
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Harold Goodwin was born on 5 June 1910, the son of Barnet and Rebecca Goodwin. He studied medicine at University College and St Bartholomew’s. He served in the RAMC throughout the war and on demobilisation specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, being registrar, RMO and subsequently senior registrar at Queen Charlotte’s, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals. He was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Prince of Wales Hospital, London, and later to the Wessex Regional Hospital Board in Bournemouth, where he continued in general practice after retirement. He died on 26 February 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000166
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First Title value, for Searching Jagose, Rustom Jamshedji (1918 - 1991)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2005-11-23 2014-07-23
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Rustom Jamshedji Jagose, known as 'Rusty', passed the fellowship in 1957 and emigrated to New Zealand, where he was a general practitioner in Cambridge, in the Waikato region of the North Island. Although he did not continue to practise surgery, he regularly attended grand rounds at Waikato Hospital. He died on 16 September 1991 and was survived by his wife Anne and their five children - Pheroze, Maki, Annamarie, Una and Fiona.
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First Title value, for Searching Kathel, Babu Lal (1932 - 2002)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Babu Lal Kathel, known as ‘Brij’, was a consultant surgeon at Grantham General Hospital. Born on 11 November 1932 in Jhansi, India, he was the son of Har Prasad Kathel and Durga Devi Kathel. He was educated at a Christian school and studied medicine at Lucknow University, where he qualified in 1955. He went to England in 1959 to specialise in surgery, doing junior jobs in Ipswich and elsewhere, and becoming a registrar at Whiston Hospital, Liverpool, where he completed a masters degree in surgery from Liverpool University and met his future wife, Cynthia Wigham, a hospital administrator. He was appointed consultant general surgeon at Grantham Hospital in 1973, with administrative responsibility for the accident and emergency department. At that time there were only two general surgeons in Grantham and Brij was on call on alternate nights, and every night when his colleague was ill or absent. It was not long before he was chairman of the hospital management committee. Despite a heart attack in 1975, he continued to work with enthusiasm, building up the surgical service in Grantham. He married Cynthia in 1975 and they had two daughters (Kiran and Camilla) and a son (Neal). An enthusiastic gardener, he enjoyed visits to the Lake District, walks by the sea, freemasonry and Rotary. He died on 25 November 2002 in Grantham Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Kelly, John Peter (1943 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-23
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Kelly was born in Ayr, Queensland, on 12 September 1943, the son of John Kelly, a general practitioner and superintendent of the Ayr District Hospital. He was educated at the Marist Brothers College in Ashgrove, Brisbane, and studied medicine at the University of Queensland. After junior posts at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, where he met his future wife Shelly Parer, he went to England to specialise in ENT surgery, and was a registrar at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, being on duty when the victims of the 1974 Guildford IRA bombing attack were admitted. Later, he was at the Royal Free Hospital under John Ballantyne and John Groves. On his return to Australia he set up in practice at Southport and Palm Beach, where, in addition to surgery, he developed a passion for windsurfing, gardening and classical music. Early in 2004 he was found to have metastatic colorectal cancer, and died on 23 May 2004, leaving his widow and three daughters (Caroline, Krissi and Georgie).
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First Title value, for Searching Sanderson, Christopher John (1947 - 2005)

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First Title value, for Searching Sen, Adosh Kumar (1942 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Adosh Sen was a surgeon based in New Delhi, India. He was born in Dalhousie, India, on 27 June 1942. His father, Santosh Kumar Sen, a surgeon, and his mother, Sita Sen, a gynaecologist, had founded the celebrated Dr Sen’s Nursing Home, in New Delhi. He was educated at the Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, where he excelled in sport, particularly swimming. He did his premedical studies at the Hindu College, before going on to study medicine at the Maulana Azad Medicel College, where he continued to swim, representing his state in the All India championship. After house jobs he went to England to specialise in surgery, and completed training posts at Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey, and Barking General Hospital. He returned to India as a general surgeon in his father’s clinic in New Delhi. He married Rehana Tasadduq Hosain in 1969 in London, who had a masters degree in English and taught that subject in New Delhi. They had three sons, Ashish, Nikhil and Shirish, none of whom went into medicine. Sen continued to be a keen sportsman, his main sport being swimming, but he was also a keen follower of cricket. Among his many interests was education, and he was vice president of the Magic Years Educational Society, which promotes Montessori education, and served on the board of trustees of the Modern School and its many branches. He died on 18 April 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Shapland, Sir William Arthur (1912 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-19 2012-03-09
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Occupation Accountant Philanthropist
Details Sir William Shapland, an honorary fellow of the College, was born on 20 October 1912, the son of Arthur Frederick Shapland and Alice Maud née Jackson. Educated at Tollington School, he joined the firm of Allen Charlesworth & Co, chartered accountants. He was given the responsibility of dealing with the accounts of John Blackwood Hodge & Co and Bernard Sunley & Sons, and, later, of advising the chairman, Bernard Sunley, a construction magnate. So valuable was his advice that, in 1946, he was invited to join the group as a non-executive director. In 1954 he became an executive director, succeeding Sunley as chairman of Blackwood Hodge ten years later. In 1960 he helped set up the Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation, which distributes almost £3 million a year to good causes. Charities and institutions as varied as the Scout movement, Charing Cross Hospital and the Wild Fowl Trust have benefited. Among his many honours he was a Waynflete fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and honorary fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. He died on 1 October 1997, leaving his wife Madeleine and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Shenolikar, Balwant Kashinath (1923 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Balwant Shenolikar was born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India, on 22 November 1923, where his father, Kashinath Shenolikar, was a lawyer. His mother was Indira née Garde. He was educated at the College of Science of the University of Nagpur, and Carmichael Medical College, Calcutta, where he won prizes and medals at every stage of his career, including the silver medal for surgery and the Ghosh gold medal for pathology in his finals. After qualifying he was a demonstrator in anatomy at the Medical College in Nagpur and lecturer in the Robertson Medical School in Nagpur, before going to Hammersmith as a house surgeon. After his surgical training there and in the Royal Halifax Infirmary, he went to be a lecturer and consultant surgeon in Georgetown, Guyana, where he remained, eventually becoming chief of surgery at the Government Hospital, Georgetown. He had close links with Great Ormond Street, where he was an honorary consultant thoracic surgeon. His first marriage to Joan Barbara Thomas in 1948 ended in divorce. They had a son, who became assistant professor of biochemistry in Houston, Texas, and a daughter. He married Audrey Heyworth in 1958, who predecesased him in 1979. They too had a daughter and son, who qualified MB ChB from Dundee. Balwant died on 4 August 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Shepherd, Mary Patricia (1933 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-19 2007-02-09
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Mary Shepherd was a former consultant thoracic surgeon at Harefield Hospital, Middlesex. She was born at Forest Hill, London, on 4 July 1933, the youngest of the two children of George Raymond Shepherd, an electrical and mechanical engineer, and Florence May Savile, whose father and grandfather had been general practitioners in Harrogate. She spent a year in school in Maryland when her father’s professional work took the family there, and this experience gave her a lifelong interest in the United States, to which she frequently travelled throughout her life. In 1946 she won a scholarship to James Allen’s Girls School, did well there, and had no difficulty gaining a place at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, where she again won several prizes, notably in surgery, which was always her first interest, and she qualified in 1957. After house jobs and a registrar appointment in surgery at the Royal Free, and passing her Edinburgh fellowship, she became a registrar at Harefield Hospital, where she spent the rest of her professional life, becoming a senior registrar and then consultant. She enjoyed a valuable year at the Toronto Children’s Hospital from 1966 to 1967, where she worked with Mustard, becoming a joint author of papers on membrane oxygenation and the diaphragmatic pedicle graft, later the subject of a Hunterian Professorship (1969) and her thesis for the MS London. Her professional contributions were considerable, with the publication of many papers, of which that on plombage (*Thorax* 1985) is perhaps the most influential. She maintained a characteristic style, with her striking appearance in theatre garb, her white Jaguar, and occasional performances on the piano accordion at social events. Her wide interests were exemplified by her service on the board of visitors at Wormwood Scrubs prison, and her decision to retire at 52. She had a home in Southwold, where she had always spent much of her free time through a lifelong friendship. Thereafter she divided her time between Suffolk and Cape Cod, United States, pursuing her interest in antiques. Her active life was ended when she developed cancer of the thyroid, with which she coped with characteristic fortitude. She died on 20 October 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, James Marsh (1913 - 1965)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-07 2014-07-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details James Brown was born in 1913 and educated at Bishops Stortford. In 1930 he entered Guy's Hospital and for two years studied dentistry before changing to medicine. After qualification in 1936 he held various house appointments at Guy's before obtaining the Fellowship in 1938. Brown was then appointed lecturer in anatomy at Trinity College, Cambridge, but returned to Guy's as demonstrator of anatomy and physiology in 1939. When the second world war broke out he joined the Emergency Medical Service and went to Guildford as a surgical registrar. In January 1940 he joined the RAMC in the hope of being posted abroad but after a short time his commission was changed to that of Surgeon-Captain in the Royal Horse Guards and he was posted to Windsor. He spent much of his spare time at Windsor in helping at King Edward VII Hospital; here his abilities were quickly recognised and in January 1942 he was made temporary assistant surgeon. In 1946 this appointment was confirmed, and in 1948 he was made senior surgeon. When the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital was incorporated in the Health Service he was appointed to its surgical staff; he also became surgeon to the Maidenhead Hospital and to many other hospitals in that area; in addition he was on the staff of the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers in London. Brown did much work on the medical committees of his region and was keenly interested in the Windsor and District Medical Society. He was medical officer to the racecourses at Ascot and Windsor, and to the Windsor Polo Club and the Royal Windsor Horse Show Club. After demobilisation he was made Honorary Surgeon-Captain to the Royal Horse Guards. In April 1956 he was elected a Freeman of the City of London. He died suddenly in Guy's Hospital on 24 April 1965 at the age of 52, survived by his wife and four children.
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First Title value, for Searching Aldersey, William Hugh ( - 1885)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital and, in addition to the other qualifications, he passed the First MB Examination at the University of London in 1856. Served as Medical Officer on the Indiana during the Crimean War, and afterwards practised at Buntingford, Herts, for the South-Eastern District of which he was Medical Officer. Later he moved to Hayling and Havant in Hampshire, acting as Medical Officer of Health for the Urban and Rural Districts. He retired to Surbiton, living at 7 St James' Road, where he died on Sept 7th, 1885. He was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000656
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First Title value, for Searching Aldersmith, Herbert (1848 - 1918)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21 2016-01-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained the senior scholarship, and during his career as a student won the Gold Medal at the Society of Apothecaries and the Scholarship and Gold Medal at the MB Examination of the University of London. He filled the offices of House Surgeon and House Physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and, settling in Giltspur Street, was appointed in 1872 Medical Officer of Christ's Hospital (the Bluecoat School), then in Newgate Street. This post he held until 1913, moving with the school to Horsham. He continued to live at Horsham after his connection with the school ended, died suddenly at Carlton Lodge, Horsham, on March 24th, 1918, and was buried at Itchingfield. [1] Aldersmith lived entirely for the Bluecoat School, and greatly to its advantage. His kindness of heart and his friendly interest endeared him to all the boys brought into contact with him. The declaration made by the Orator at the Speech Day on the occasion of his retirement, that "there is no healthier school in England than Christ's Hospital", was a tribute to his skill and care. He was an influential and respected honorary member of the Medical Officers of Schools Association, who became an authority on ringworm before the recent advances in diagnosis and treatment. He began life as H A Smith, became H Alder-Smith when he began to practice, and finally H Aldersmith, by which name he was generally known in later life. Publications:- Ringworm and Alopecia Areata: their Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment, 8vo, illustrated, 4th ed., London, 1897. [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] His daughter Dorothy Constance, wife of Charles Ernest Robinson of Hillcote, Storrington died 20 Sept, 1940 (*The Times* 23 Sept 1940)]
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First Title value, for Searching Alderson, John Septimus ( - 1858)

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First Title value, for Searching Mayo, William James (1861 - 1939)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Le Sueur, Minnesota on 29 June 1861, the elder son of William Worrall Mayo and Louise Abigail Wright, his wife. The younger son Charles Horace Mayo was also an Honorary FRCS. For an account of W W Mayo, their father, see the life of C H Mayo, above. William J Mayo, was educated at the Rochester High School and at Niles Academy, working in a local drug store during the vacations. When a tornado struck Rochester in 1883, W Worrall Mayo was appointed to take charge of an improvized hospital and a number of Sisters of St Francis worked with him to help the wounded. The Mother Superior proposed to build a permanent hospital in memory of the catastrophe, provided sufficient money for the purpose and nominated Mayo to take charge of it. The hospital was opened in 1889 under the name of St Mary's Hospital with thirteen patients. It was always the rule that each patient paid according to his means, that fees would not be required from charitable organizations, and that the patient's promise to pay was a sufficient guarantee. The institution quickly became known, first as the Mayo Clinic, later (1915) as the Mayo Foundation. The Mayo brothers gave $1,500,000, and on making the endowment William Mayo, speaking also for his brother, said “We never regarded the money as ours; it came from the people, and we believe it should go back to the people.” The two brothers worked throughout in the utmost harmony and to the end of their lives had a common pocket book in which each wanted the other to have the greater share. Both had the essential attribute of a true gentleman, consideration for others. At first neither brother specialized in surgery; later William was the more inclined to operate upon the abdomen, Charles upon the head and neck. Of the two “Willie” was the better administrator, “Charlie” the more original. Both were simple in their lives and actions, both were humble-minded in spite of their great success in life, and both were witty, each in his own way. During the war William, who had received a commission as a first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps in 1913, was promoted major in 1917 and later colonel in the United States Army Medical Corps. During 1917-19 he was chief consultant for the Medical Service; he was appointed colonel, Medical Reserve Corps in 1920 and brigadier-general in 1921. A regent of the University of Minnesota since 1907, William Mayo was president of the Minnesota State Medical Society in 1895, president of the American Medical Association 1905-06, president of the Society of Clinical Surgery 1911-12, president of the American Surgical Association 1913-14, president of the American College of Surgeons 1917-19, and president of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons 1925. In 1919 he was awarded a gold medal by the National Institution of Social Sciences for his services to mankind. In 1933 he received a special award from the University of Minnesota in recognition of his distinguished services in the furtherance of scientific studies. He married Hattie M Daman of Rochester, Minnesota. She survived, him with two daughters: Mrs Waltman Walters, wife of a director of the Mayo Clinic, and Mrs Donald C Balfour, wife of the director of the Mayo Foundation. He died in his sleep at Rochester, Minnesota, on 28 July 1939, after suffering from a sub-acute perforating ulcer of the stomach, for the relief of which he had been operated upon in the previous April.
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First Title value, for Searching Rumsey, Henry Wyldbore (1809 - 1876)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-11 2012-03-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Chesham, Buckinghamshire, on July 3rd, 1809, the eldest son of Henry Nathaniel Rumsey, a surgeon, by his wife, Elizabeth Frances Catherine, second daughter of Sir Robert Murray, Bart, whom he had married late in life. His grandfather, the youngest son of an old Welsh family, had settled and practised in Chesham from the middle of the eighteenth century. Rumsey's father had taken shorthand notes of John Hunter's lectures in 1786 and 1787. His notes were printed by James F Palmer in his edition of Hunter's works, who says of them, "one might almost suppose that the writer had had access to the Hunterian manuscript: for besides being generally more full, it never omits examples and illustrations in proof of opinions. The style too is characteristically Hunterian." Rumsey received a desultory education, one of his tutors being the Rev Joseph Bosworth, DD (1789-1876), the eminent Anglo-Saxon scholar. He was apprenticed at the age of 16 to Dr Attenburrow at the Nottingham Hospital, and afterwards became a house pupil of Caesar Hawkins (q.v.), Surgeon to St George's Hospital. In 1831 he was Resident Physician for three months to Lord Dillon at Ditchley, in Oxfordshire, after which he returned to Chesham and took over the family practice. Three years later he went to Gloucester, where he remained for twelve years, acting as Surgeon to the Dispensary, and being appointed Cholera Inspector in 1849. Having overworked himself in this office, he retired to Cheltenham, and from 1851 built up a large practice by his delicate generosity, untiring industry, his suavity, and his kind-heartedness. He got into financial difficulties towards the close of his life owing to the failure of *The European*, and his friends - Dr William Farr being Chairman of the fund - presented him in 1876 with a handsome sum of money, a service of silver plate, and obtained for him a Civil List pension of £100 a year. He died at Prestbury, near Cheltenham, on Oct 23rd, 1876. Rumsey was one of the leading sanitarians of his generation. Lacking the science, philosophic insight, organizing power, and literary genius of Sir John Simon, and the masterly command of statistics possessed by Dr William Farr, he was none the less a great man. In 1835, after having devoted much attention to the establishment of provident societies among the working classes, he commenced his labours as Hon Secretary of the Sick Poor Committee of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association - labours which were continued for ten years. He furnished materials for a series of Reports, on which was founded a Bill, introduced into the House of Commons in 1840 by Mr Serjeant Talfourd, for the better regulation of Medical Relief under the Poor Law. This led to his being examined, first in 1838 by the Poor Law Committee of the House of Commons, and again in 1844 by Lord Ashley's Select Committee on Medical Poor Relief, when he submitted a mass of evidence, collected with much labour, relating to the sickness prevalent among the poor in towns, and forcibly showing the need of preventive measures, under the superintendence and control of a General Department of Public Health. The results of these investigations, and of his previous inquiries into the working of the so-called self-supporting Dispensaries, were embodied in two pamphlets, one published in 1837, on *The Advantages to the Poor of Mutual Assurance against Sickness*, the other in 1846, in connection with Lord Lincoln's Public Health Bill and Sir James Graham's Bill for the Regulation of the Medical Profession, on *The Health and Sickness of Town Populations*. After the publication in 1836 of his paper on the "Statistics of Friendly Societies", with suggestions and forms for an improved Registration of Sickness in connection with them, Rumsey on many occasions, either singly in papers of remarkable ability, or in co-operation with others, pointed out with much clearness and force certain "Fallacies of Vital and Sanitary Statistics", and the difficulty of drawing correct conclusions regarding the Public Health from returns of mortality, apart from records of sickness. In 1848, in his "Remarks on the Constitution of the Authorities under the Public Health Bill", then before Parliament, he anticipated and indicated with great precision the defects - many of which had remained unremedied - of that important measure. The same high intelligence and remarkable mental activity and acuteness were conspicuously manifested by him in the prominent part he took in all the subsequent phases of sanitary legislation, and in the valuable evidence given by him before the Royal Sanitary Commission in 1869. He was consulted in 1849 by the authorities of the Colony of St Christopher's, and in 1850 by the nascent Colony of New Zealand, on their sanitary schemes. His merits and public services were repeatedly recognized. In 1863, by the advice of the Privy Council, he was nominated by the Queen a Member of the General Medical Council; in 1868 and 1869 he was nominated a Member of the Royal Sanitary Commission. It was mainly under Rumsey's guidance, and largely at his instigation, that the British Medical Association procured the appointment of the Royal Sanitary Commission, whence has sprung the improved sanitary legislation of our days; and he will be remembered among the band of workers - Farr, Simon, Stewart, Michael, Acland, Stokes, Clode, and Chadwick - who have placed the health of the people upon a new and surer footing. He died at the beginning of November, 1876, and at the time of his death was an honorary member of the Metropolitan Association of Health Officers and a Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society. Rumsey's best-known book, which for many years was the only work on the subject, was his *Essays on State Medicine* (8vo, London, 1856). To attempt to write his full bibliography would be useless in any short notice of his life, but the following remarks by his able biographer in the *British Medical Journal* may be taken as covering most of the ground: "The very numerous and able papers presented by him...to the British, the Social Science, and the British Medical Associations, and to the Manchester Statistical Society, or published either separately or in various reviews, form a record of unwearied literary and philanthropic activity such as not many public men can boast of. Amongst the most important of these, not already adverted to, are his Address on Sanitary Legislation and Administration read at the first Meeting of the Social Science Association in 1857; Public Health, the right use of Records founded on Local Facts, in 1860; A Proposal for the Institution of Degrees or Certificates of Qualification in State Medicine, in 1865; Comments on the Sanitary Act, in 1866; an Address on State Medicine, delivered at the Dublin Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1867, and followed by the formation of the Joint Committee of the British Medical and Social Science Associations, which applied for and obtained from Her Majesty's Government the appointment of the Royal Sanitary Commission in 1868. On Population Statistics, with reference to a County Organization for Sanitary Administration, in 1870; and a paper on The State Medicine Qualification, which was read before the London Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1873, and led to the appointment of a Committee for the promotion of legislation on that subject."
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First Title value, for Searching Pyrah, Leslie Norman (1899 - 1995)

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Publication Date 2008-03-11 2014-07-18
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Leslie Norman Pyrah was born at Farnley, near Leeds, on 11 April 1899, the son of a headmistress. Unfortunately no further details of his forbears are available. He was educated at Leeds Central High School and served in the army during the final stages of the first world war. He then read medicine at Leeds University, interrupting his course to take an honours degree in physiology. On qualification he did a wide variety of resident training posts during the next five years, notably with Berkeley Moynihan at the Leeds General Infirmary, where he became surgical tutor. In 1932 he secured a travelling scholarship to visit urological centres in Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, Innsbruck and Paris, and was then appointed assistant surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary and Public Dispensary in 1934. He was also visiting surgeon to a number of neighbouring hospitals and lecturer in surgery to Leeds University. Following appointment as consultant surgeon to St James's Hospital in 1940 and to the Infirmary in 1944 he built up a large general surgical practice. In 1948 he was elected to the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) which had only formed three years earlier. He then co-founded the Urological Club, comprising urologists from the teaching hospitals. His consuming interest in urology led him to give up his general surgical practice and start a department of urology in Leeds. By 1956 he was appointed professor of urological surgery in his outstandingly successful department which had attracted researchers of the highest calibre. In the same year he became director of the Medical Research Council Unit in Leeds and set up the first renal haemodialysis unit in the UK with Dr Frank Parsons as its head. He and Professor Bill Spiers persuaded the Wellcome Foundation and other benefactors to fund a four storey research building for the Infirmary which was completed in 1959. Pyrah did outstanding and tireless work in promoting urology and urological specialist centres throughout Britain. He was President of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1958; President of BAUS from 1961 to 1963; a member of College Council from 1960 to 1968 and was appointed CBE in 1963. In his youth Leslie Pyrah was a gifted pianist (at one time considering a possible career as a concert pianist) as well as a formidable tennis player. He enjoyed good food and wine and was an excellent cook with a particular taste for sauces. He also collected Chinese porcelain and Dutch paintings. Affectionately known as 'Poppah Pyrah' he had a somewhat portly figure and, even in the hottest climate, he always wore a mackintosh and a crumpled grey felt hat. He was a true Yorkshireman of rugged independence, friendly and approachable, never pulling rank and notably hospitable at all times. Pyrah married Mary Christopher Bailey in 1934. She died in 1990 and they had a son and a daughter who survived him when he died on 30 April 1995, another son having predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Coghlan, Brian (1962 - 2003)

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Publication Date 2006-10-26
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Brian Coghlan was a consultant cleft lip surgeon at Guy’s Hospital. He was a schoolboy international cyclist and he toyed with the idea of becoming a professional. Medicine won, and he studied at Bristol. His intercalated physiology degree involved working on a project with Ron Piggott at the Frenchay Hospital on the measurement of facial symmetry and the analysis of cleft lip and palate deformity, and his fascination with plastic surgery was kindled. He completed his medical training and house jobs at Bristol, then started his surgical training with a job as an anatomy demonstrator with Ellis in Cambridge. This was followed by general surgical training, with senior house officer and registrar jobs at St Bartholomew’s, Bristol, Weston General Hospital and Bournemouth. He then started his specialist plastic surgery training with senior house officer jobs at Leeds and Frenchay. He then moved to Canniesburn as a registrar. His next move was to Leeds and then Pinderfields as a senior registrar. He spent six months with David David, performing craniofacial surgery in Adelaide, Australia. This was followed by a six-month stint at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He was appointed as a consultant plastic surgeon to Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, with responsibilities at St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester. The Roehampton sessions were transferred to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital when Roehampton closed. He also worked for the charity Operation Smile, regularly performing cleft lip operations in developing countries. Brian's interest in cycling continued, but he was also passionate about cars and he was tragically killed in a car crash, his Porsche skidding off a road near his home in Chichester. He is survived by his wife Beverly, his daughter, Abby, and his two young sons, Oliver and William.
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First Title value, for Searching Freebody, Douglas Francis (1911 - 2005)

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Publication Date 2007-07-25
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Douglas Freebody was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Kingston Hospital. He was born in Woolwich, London, on 19 April 1911, the son of a successful tailor, and attended the City of London School, before entering Guy’s Hospital Medical School, which he represented at hockey and boxing. After qualifying he filled a number of junior surgical posts around London, and in the early part of the war worked for Burns and Young at the major casualty hospital at Botley’s Park, so beginning an orthopaedic career. In 1946 service with the RAMC took him to Egypt and Palestine, where he ran the orthopaedic services at Fayid and Bir Yaacov respectively. On his release from the Army in 1948 Douglas was mentioned in despatches for distinguished service, and was soon appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Croydon General Hospital, East Surrey Hospital Redhill, and later the Kingston and Richmond Area Health Authority. There he concentrated his activities and made a major contribution to orthopaedic surgery, devising an anterior transperitoneal approach for fusion of the lower lumbar spine. This he demonstrated widely at home and abroad and was the subject of his contribution to the third edition of *Contemporary operative surgery* in 1979 and of an educational film awarded a silver medal by the BMA. He was a founder member of the International Society of the Lumbar Spine. Douglas Freebody was a dignified man with a great sense of humour, devoted to his family, his dogs and his garden, where he was an expert on orchids. He died from heart failure on 12 October 2005 at the age of 94, and is survived by his wife, Yvonne, a former physiotherapist at Middlesex Hospital whom he met in Egypt during the war, and their children.
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First Title value, for Searching Seager, Charles Dagge (1779 - 1844)

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Publication Date 2008-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on Nov 29th, 1779, the younger son of John Seager, of Shirehampton, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Warminster Grammar School, but it is not known where he received his professional training. He practised for many years at Cheltenham before, and probably after, 1810; he appears also to have practised or resided in Guernsey. About 1840 he retired to Clifton; some handsome plate had been given him at one time as a testimonial by his patients. Mr H W Seager, MRCS, of Bury St Edmunds, wrote on Feb 22nd, 1921: “I am singularly ignorant about my grandfather, and have had to ask relations. I cannot learn that he ever practised in Guernsey: he was certainly in Cheltenham before 1810. “As to his work, the only detail that I ever heard was the successful treatment by enforced exercise of a case of opium poisoning – I suppose about 1830. I have a misty recollection of a short monograph on the Greek particle ---, but I am not sure that he wrote it. “I believe he was a very handsome man, a great snuff-taker, who never used a white silk handkerchief twice, so carried piles of them. Very subject to gout, so I suppose he did himself pretty well, but these details are not suitable for your life of him.” He was a man of culture, and read French, Italian, Spanish, and the Classics. About the year 1800 he made a careful transcript, in his elegant handwriting, of John Hunter’s Lectures on Surgery, taken down and arranged in a series of aphorisms by John Hunter’s friend, pupil, and defender, Charles Brandon Trye. The volume was presented to the Library in 1920 by Mr H W Seager. Seager died on Nov 19th, 1844. His death was not reported to the College till 1849, when John Soden (q.v.), of Bath, sent it in with a number of others. He married Elizabeth Osborne, daughter of Jeremiah Osborne, of Bristol, gentleman.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Honoratus Leigh (1769 - 1846)

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Publication Date 2005-07-20 2012-07-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of John Thomas, of Hawarden, Flintshire, by his wife, Maria, sister of John Boydell, the publisher and engraver, Lord Mayor of London in 1790. He came to London as a young man with an introduction to John Hunter; he acted as dresser at St George's Hospital, where he also a pupil of William Cumberland Cruikshank, the anatomist. He obtained the diploma of the Corporation of Surgeons in 1794, and was one of the 300 Fellows elected in 1843. Thomas entered the medical service of the Navy in 1792 as First Mate (3rd rate), and, on Hunter's recommendation, was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Lord Macartney's 'Embassy to China'. In 1799 he volunteered for medical service with the Duke of York's Army in Holland, and on the capitulation of the forces to the French he elected to be made prisoner in order to stay with the wounded. The French courteously set him free when his services could be dispensed with. He married the elder daughter of Cruikshank, and succeeded to his practice in Leicester Place in 1800. Isabella, his daughter, married Philip Perceval Hutchins (1818-1928), the son of William Hutchins, surgeon, of Hanover Square. Philip Hutchins became Judge of the Madras High Court in 1883, was decorated KCSI, and was a Member of the Executive Council when Lord Dufferin was Governor-General of India. His record at the College of Surgeons is a long one: Member of the Court of Assistants, 1818-1845; Examiner, 1818-1845; Vice-President, 1827, 1828, 1836, and 1837; President, 1829 and 1838. He delivered the Hunterian Oration in 1838 on the Life and Works of Cruikshank, and in it gave some personal reminiscences of John Hunter. His portrait by James Green hangs in the College. Thomas is described as the beau-ideal of a physician - tall, slender, slightly bowed; a face sedate but kind; a forehead though somewhat low yet denoting great perceptive power; a calm but subdued voice. He dressed truly 'professionally' - black dress-coat, waistcoat, and breeches, black silk stockings and pumps; a spotless white cravat encircled his long neck, and a massive chain with seals and keys dangled from his fob. He seemed to have a dread of operating, and would by constant delaying tire out his patient until he finally consulted some more decided surgeon. He had a very extensive practice amongst licensed victuallers. As an examiner he was courteous and able, and as President of the College dignified. [Miss Trevor Davies writes in October 1933 when she is living in Holywell, Oxford that she has a portrait of Honoratus Leigh Thomas, which has descended to her as a representative of the Boydell family.] PUBLICATIONS:- "Description of a Hermaphrodite Lamb." - *Med. and Phys. Jour.*, 1799, ii, 1. "Anatomical Description of a Male Rhinoceros." - *Proc. Roy. Soc.*, 1832, I, 41. "Case of Artificial Dilation of the Female Urethra." - *Med.-Chir. Trans.*, 1809, i, 123. "Case of Obstruction in the Large Intestines by a Large Biliary Calculus." - Ibid., 1815, vi, 98.
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First Title value, for Searching Kindersley, Hugh Kenyon Molesworth, Second Baron Kindersley of West Hoathly (1899 - 1976)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-07-25
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Occupation Businessman
Details Lord Kindersley was born in 1899, the son of the first Lord Kindersley and Gladys Margaret Beadle. Educated at Eton he served in the first world war in the Scots Guards, where he won the Military Cross in 1918. During the second world war he rejoined his old regiment and served with the 6th Airborne Division with the rank of Brigadier, and won the MBE and CBE (military. After the war he succeeded to his father in 1951, became chairman of Rolls Royce (from 1956 to 1968) and a director of Lazard Brothers (1967 to 1971). He was chairman of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration from 1962 to 1970, and President of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council. In the College he was a very successful chairman of the Appeal Committee, from 1958, with Sir Simon Marks as his vice-chairman: together they collected £3.6 million in the next 15 years, by which means the College was rebuilt. During this time old fellows were invited, and new fellows obliged, to make an annual subscription. A valued and highly respected member of its Court of Patrons, the College acknowledged his services with their honorary gold medal in 1975. He died on 6 October 1976.
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