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First Title value, for Searching Eves, Augustus (1799 - 1868)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised at Cheltenham, and at the time of his death was Consulting Surgeon to the Cheltenham General Hospital, and Referee to the Railway Passengers Assurance Company. He died on October 22nd, 1868.
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First Title value, for Searching Ewart, Robert John (1877 - 1923)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30
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Occupation Public health officer
Details Born in Liverpool in 1877, the son of Edmund Brown Ewart, BA, and was educated at Liverpool Institute and University, where he won high distinctions as a student, being Holt Tutorial Scholar, Junior Lyon Jones Scholar, 1894-1896, and Hon Fellow in Pathology at University College, Liverpool. After holding an appointment as Senior House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, he gained his public health experience at Ashton-under-Lyne, going on to Middlesbrough as Assistant Medical Officer of Health. He was appointed Medical Officer of Health to the Urban District of Barking, where he was also School Medical Officer and Superintendent of the Isolation Hospital. He showed himself a very active and diligent public health officer, interested both in the preventive and epidemiological side of his work, with a philosophical bias which produced such essays as "Time and the Second Generation" and "Parental Age and Offspring". Ewart lost no opportunity of dwelling upon the importance of the food of the people to the public health, and saw in disease a pathological reaction due to faulty metabolism. No subject was too difficult for him to tackle, and even with imperfect data his originality of mind was able to elaborate the problems before him. Ewart, who resided at The Cottage, Upney, Barking, died in June, 1923, following an operation at the West Ham Hospital. Publications: "Venesection: its Indications from a Physiological Standpoint." - *Manchester Med. Chron.*, 1905, ser. Iv, 67. "Action of Aortic Valves in Health and Disease." - *Lancet*, 1904, ii, 1492. "Some Features of Sewage Pollution of an Estuary." - *Public Health*, 1909, xxiii, 51. "Variations in the Chemical and Bacteriological Compositions of Water considered from a Statistical Point of View." - *Ibid.*, 1910-11, xxiv, 10. "Parental Age and Offspring." - *Eugenics Rev.*, 1910. *A Cause of the Fall of the Death-rate from Phthisis*, 1912. In the *Journal of Hygiene* Ewart also published a series of valuable papers dealing with the statistics of scarlet fever and diphtheria.
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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, John Thomas (1823 - 1903)

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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, Thomas Taylor (1795 - 1876)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-02-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Wrexham, the son of Thomas Griffith, who for many years practised as a surgeon in the town. He was educated at the local Grammar School, and after serving an apprenticeship to his father, received his professional training at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, where he took Sir Astley Cooper's first prize for Anatomy and Surgery in 1816. He then went to St Bartholomew's Hospital and afterwards to Paris. Settling at Wrexham, he acquired a very large and prosperous practice, and was chiefly instrumental in founding the Wrexham Infirmary in 1832, acting as Hon Surgeon to the Institution until his retirement in 1855, when he was appointed Consulting Surgeon. At the age of 80 he was asked by his neighbours and friends to sit for his portrait, which, painted by Daniel Macnee, afterwards President of the Scottish Academy, was presented to him in 1875, together with a finely illuminated address expressive of the high esteem in which he was held. The presentation was made by Sir William Watkin Wynn, and the portrait was placed in the board-room of the Infirmary. The Ragged Schools in Wrexham owed their origin to Griffith. He was the largest contributor to their support and acted as their Treasurer. He subscribed largely to the Medical Benevolent Fund, the Royal Medical Benevolent College at Epsom, and all the local church societies and charities. He was also the energetic local treasurer of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He was one of the oldest members of the British Medical Association, and was mainly instrumental in founding the North Wales Branch, of which he was twice President (1849-1850 and 1861-1862). He was a most regular attendant at the annual and other meetings, and took an active part in the discussions of the Association. The members of the branch presented Mrs Griffith with his portrait in 1873. He did not seek municipal honours, but, when Wrexham was incorporated, presented the Corporation with £200 to form the nucleus of a fund for useful purposes. He was a staunch Conservative and Churchman, a keen antiquarian, a devotee of the natural sciences, being seldom absent from the meetings of the Wrexham Natural Science Society, of which he was President. He possessed a fine library and many old Welsh manuscripts of unusual interest, which students of history frequently consulted. As a practitioner he was an accurate observer, taking great pains to investigate his cases, and even in advanced old age kept himself abreast of the progress of medicine. Griffith married in 1827 Anne Mary, eldest daughter of Captain Robertson, of Keavil, Fife. She survived him. Their son, the Rev T Llewelyn Griffith, was Rector of Deal. Griffith died at Wrexham on July 6th, 1876, being then regarded as "the Father of the Profession in North Wales". His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: "Dislocation of Head of Tibia Backwards, and its Reduction." - *Prov Med Jour*, 1842, 347. "Tracheotomy Performed Twice Successfully in the Same Subject." - *Ibid*, 1843, vi, 466. "Three Cases of Compound Dislocation of the Astragalus with Removal of the Bones." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1866, ii, 323.
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First Title value, for Searching Grigg, Joseph Collings (1836 - 1885)

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First Title value, for Searching Groom, Thomas (1810 - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, William Stokes (1864 - 1898)

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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, Walter (1798 - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, William ( - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Baird, James Aitken (1922 - 2003)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-02-29 2014-03-14
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details James Baird was a cardiothoracic surgeon in Wellington. He was born on 24 January 1922 in Hastings, New Zealand, the son of Hugh William Charles Baird, a director of a drapery company, and Jeanie Aiton Baird née Aitken. He was educated at Mohora School in Hastings and then Wellington College. He went on to study medicine at Otago University in Dunedin, qualifying in 1945. He was a house surgeon and a surgical registrar at Palmerston North Hospital, where he was introduced to thoracic surgery by David Mitchell. In 1949 Baird went to England, where he worked as a registrar at Essex County Hospital, Colchester. He then gained a registrar appointment at Brompton and Guy's hospitals, under Sir Russell (later Lord) Brock and O S Tubbs. He gained his FRCS in 1949. In November 1952 he returned to New Zealand, as the first full-time cardiothoracic surgeon at Wellington Hospital. He also contributed to the regional thoracic surgery service, holding regular clinics in Palmerston North, Wanganui, Napier and Gisborne. In 1960 he travelled to England and the USA to study new developments in thoracic and cardiac surgery, visiting the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Baird was an examiner in cardiothoracic surgery for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, chairman of the division of surgery of Wellington hospitals from 1974, and an executive member and then chairman of the Wellington Hospital medical staff committee. With colleagues, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Wellington Clinical School. He was the first president of the Thoracic Society of New Zealand. He retired in 1982 and moved to Hawke's Bay. He learnt Maori, and was interested in genealogy, history, photography and gardening. In 1968 he married Peggy Grant. They had three sons and a daughter. James Baird died in Hastings on 10 July 2003, aged 81. He was survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. One son predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Lothian, Keith Remington (1919 - 2011)

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First Title value, for Searching Simkin, Eric Philip (1927 - 2012)

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First Title value, for Searching Christophers, John Crowde (1813 - 1883)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-05-25 2013-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at the Middlesex Hospital and in Paris. He practised at various places: 38 York Street, Portman Square, W; Wadebridge in Cornwall; Cliff House, Bruton, Bath; and towards the end of his life at 22 Westgate Terrace, South Kensington, where he died on February 26th, 1883. Publications: *Observations on Syphilis, and on Inoculation as the Means of Diagnosis in Ulcers and Discharges invading the Genital Organs, comprising also a brief outline of the anoient and modern treatment of syphilis and pointing to new views and to a new method of treating that Disease*, 8vo, London, 1853. "A New Mode of Applying Ligatures to Naevi." - *Lancet*, 1845, i, 676. "Operation for Radical Cure of Hernia." - *Ibid.*, 1846, i, 216. "Anaesthesia treated by Electro-Galvanism." - *Ibid.*, ii, 144.
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First Title value, for Searching Churchill, Frederick (1843 - 1916)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-05-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of John S M Churchill, JP, of Wimbledon. He received his professional training at the University of Edinburgh and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was Surgical Registrar. He was at one time Pathological Assistant at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and was also Resident Medical Officer at the York Road Lying-in Hospital. He was for many years in practice at 4 Cranley Gardens, South Kensington, and was Surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea, from 1871-1889. He was also for a time Hon Surgeon to the Young Women's Home, Sloane Street. He died at Cranley Gardens on June 22nd, 1916. His father was the well-known medical publisher. Publications: "Statistics of Limb Amputations, 1862-9." - *St Thomas's Hosp. Rep.*, i, 503. *St Thomas's Hospital Statistical Reports (Medical)*, 1868-70, 8vo, London, 1868-70. Translation of Liebreich "On the Use and Abuse of Atropine." "Report of Private Obstetrical Practice for Thirty-nine Years," 8vo, Dublin, 1872; reprinted from *Dublin Jour. Med. Sci.*, 1872. "The Complications of Hernia." - *St Thomas's Hosp. Rep.*, iii, 159. *Face and Foot Deformities: with illustrations of new appliances for the cure of birthmark, club-foot, etc.*, 8vo, 14 plates, London, 1885; American ed., 1885. *High-pressure Education, being an Exposition of the Evil Effects upon the Rising Generation of Hurry and Worry at School*, 12mo, London, 1885. *Causation and Treatment of Congenital Club foot*, 8vo, London, 1887. "On a New Mode of Arresting Haemorrhage by Temporary Compression." - *Lancet*, 1865, ii, 510, 556, etc. "The Therapeutic Value of the Hypophosphites Combined Soluble Tonic for Children." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1880, i, 472. "Mechanical Distortion of the Spine." - *Ibid.*, 1871, i, 638. A memoir of considerable merit based on an instance of curvature of the spine dependent upon an inequality in the length of the lower extremities, and associated with hypertrophy of the right patella.
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First Title value, for Searching Church, William John (1798 - 1886)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-05-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised at 22 Circus, Bath, and latterly was Consulting Surgeon to the Bath Lying-in Charity. Removing late in life to Weymouth, he practised for a time at 7 Victoria Terrace, and after his retirement resided at Rodwell Lodge, where he died on February 1st, 1886. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album.
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First Title value, for Searching Clapp, William (1814 - 1888)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-05-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He was at one period Resident Surgeon on the Seamen's Hospital Ship *Dreadnought*, and then practised at Exeter, where he was in 1848 the first Surgeon-Apothecary (House Surgeon) to the Devon and Exeter Hospital. He petitioned soon after his appointment that he might be relieved of much of the book-keeping work to enable him to devote more time to professional work in the wards. He died at his residence, Southernhay Place, Exeter, on May 27th, 1888.
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First Title value, for Searching Wastell, Christopher (1932 - 2012)

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by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2012-02-29 2014-04-09
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Occupation Gastrointestinal surgeon General surgeon
Details Christopher Wastell was professor of surgery at Westminster Medical School, London. He was born on 13 October 1932 in Birmingham, the fourth child and third son of Edgar Barker Wastell, a manager, and Doris Emeline Wastell née Pett. He was educated at George Dixon Primary School, Edgbaston, and then Drax Grammar School in Yorkshire. He went on to study medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School. He held house posts at Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, and in Farnborough, and was then a senior house officer at Bristol Royal Infirmary. He went on to gain experience in paediatric surgery at Great Ormond Street, where he was a house surgeon. He then spent a year at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, as a research fellow, before joining the Westminster Hospital and Medical School in 1963 as a registrar to the newly-formed academic surgical unit headed by Harold Ellis. The senior lecturer at the time was (later Sir) Roy Calne, the lecturer (later Sir) Norman Browse and the house officer (later Sir) Barry Jackson. Wastell then became a lecturer, senior lecturer and then reader, before gaining a personal chair in 1982. In that capacity he established a flourishing academic surgical department at St Stephen's Hospital, Chelsea (later to become the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital) against considerable opposition by some of the existing staff. Audit and peer review was not welcome at that time, but Wastell's perseverance won through. His research interest at that time was in gastric surgery and duodenal ulceration. When Harold Ellis retired in 1989, Wastell was appointed to the university chair of surgery at Westminster Medical School. He edited or co-authored several books on the surgery of the stomach and duodenum, most notably *Surgery of the stomach and duodenum* with Lloyd Nyhus (Boston, Little Brown and Co, 1986) and *Surgery of the esophagus, stomach and small intestine* with Lloyd Nyhus and Philip Donahue (Boston, London, Little Brown, 1995). Later, as duodenal ulceration became largely a medical condition, he became interested in HIV infection and the surgical implications of AIDS, and published extensively on this subject. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a Hunterian professor in 1969 and later a member of the Court of Examiners. In retirement he became a volunteer in the Hunterian museum at the College, and worked for the National Counselling Service for Sick Doctors and the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme. With his abiding interest in John Hunter, he was an enthusiastic member of the Hunterian Society, giving the society's oration in 1988, entitled 'John Hunter - a man of his time'. Two years later he was elected president and delivered a provocative presidential address, 'Pedagogues and surgeons', in which he asked the question 'are professors of surgery necessary?' He was a keen gardener and a passionate sailor. In retirement he completed the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (in 2000) and served as commodore of the Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club (from 2006 to 2008). He continued to sail even after suffering a stroke, from which he made a remarkable recovery, apart from a partial paralysis of his left arm. Chris was quietly spoken and modest. He was a much admired teacher and an excellent supervisor of his many research registrars. His funeral, a secular service, was attended by a large number of his former juniors, as well as by many consultant colleagues. In 1958 he married Margaret Anne Fletcher. They had three children (Giles, Jackie and Viv) and five grandchildren. Christopher Wastell died of cancer on 18 January 2012, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Stallabrass, Peter Pratool ( - 2009)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-28 2014-05-14
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Peter Stallabrass was consultant obstetric and gynaecological surgeon to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. He studied medicine at King's College London passing MB BS in 1955 and the fellowship of the College in 1959. After early posts at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and Chelsea hospital for Women he became senior registrar in the departments of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Thomas'and Lambeth Hospitals. He was living in Henley-on-Thames when his death on 3 July 2009 was reported by his widow.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001638
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First Title value, for Searching Harvey, William (1806 - 1876)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital; after a few years in general practice he restricted his attention to aural disease, being contemporary with Joseph Toynbee and James Yearsley. He was Aural Surgeon to the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear, to the Freemasons' Asylum for Female Children, and to the Great Northern Hospital. Harvey is remembered as giving rise to the 'banting' system of reducing corpulence. William Banting (1797-1878), undertaker, of St James's Street, 5 ft 5 in in height, before sixty could not stoop to tie his shoe without pain and difficulty, and was obliged to go downstairs backwards to avoid the jar. He had been advised to take more exercise; he walked long distances, rowed for hours, which improved his appetite and added to his weight. Fifty Turkish baths and gallons of physic failed to diminish his weight of 202 lb. He was in his sixty-sixth year when he consulted Harvey for deafness. Harvey, believing that his deafness and fatness were connected, cut off farinaceous foods and prescribed a diet of flesh meat, fish, and dry toast, which reduced his weight by 48 lb. and bettered his health. Banting published a pamphlet which attained world-wide notoriety, but only in the third edition mentions Harvey by name. Harvey published his own view, *On Corpulence in Relation to Disease, with some Remarks on Diet*, in 1872. He practised at 2 Soho Square, and later at 3 George Street. After suffering for many months from a tumour of the thigh, he died on December 5th, 1876. Publications:- *New and Improved Synoptical Table of the Diseases of the Human Ear* (with THOMAS BUCHANAN), 1848. *Excision of the Enlarged Tonsil and its Consequences in Cases of Deafness*, 1850. *Rheumatism, Gout and Neuralgia affecting the Head and Ear in connexion with Deafness*, 1852. The work related to the treatment of disorders of hearing by management of the general health. *On Corpulence in Relation to Disease*, 1872. *The Ear in Health and Disease, with Practical Remarks on the Treatment of Deafness*, several editions.
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First Title value, for Searching Harvey, William ( - 1924)

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First Title value, for Searching Haslam, Arthur Charles (1873 - 1927)

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First Title value, for Searching Haslehurst, Thomas (1800 - 1866)

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First Title value, for Searching Hastings, Thomas (1819 - 1897)

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First Title value, for Searching Hatton, John ( - 1871)

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First Title value, for Searching Havers, John (1815 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Haward, Edwin (1815 - 1902)

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First Title value, for Searching Gosse, William (1813 - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Groves, Harry John ( - 2010)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-20 2018-01-04
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Groves was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Free, Hampstead General and New End hospitals in London. He studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1947. He gained his FRCS in 1953. Prior to his consultant appointments, he was a house surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital, a senior house officer in the ENT department at Westminster Hospital, and a senior ENT registrar back at St Mary’s. He was a member of the British Association of Otolaryngologists and an examiner for the diploma in otolaryngology. With John Ballantyne he co-edited the second (1965), third (1971) and fourth (1979) editions of W G Scott’s *Diseases of the ear, nose and throat* (London, Butterworth). John Groves died on 12 July 2010.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001782
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First Title value, for Searching Gunning, Alfred James (1918 - 2011)

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by Raymond Hurt
Publication Date 2011-12-20 2012-10-31
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Alfred Gunning was a cardiothoracic surgeon in Oxford, perhaps best known for his work on replacement heart valves. He was born on 21 November 1918 in Dullstroom, South Africa, the son of George Ronald Gunning, a police sergeant, and Kathleen Gunning née Dunne, a housewife. He attended the Christian Brothers' College, Kimberly, and then the University of Cape Town Medical School, where he was a contemporary of Christiaan Barnard and came under the influence of Charles Saint at Groote Schuur Hospital. He went to England, attended the primary and final fellowship courses, and also the ear, nose and throat course at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1949. Following junior surgical posts he was appointed as a first assistant to Philip Allison in Leeds, an acknowledged expert on oesophageal surgery. In 1964 Allison was appointed Nuffield Professor of Surgery at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and Alfred moved with him. He was soon granted consultant status and began to develop the new specialty of open-heart surgery. Alfred spent six months with Kirklin at the Mayo Clinic, and brought back an early type of heart-lung machine to replace the earlier technique of profound hypothermia for the treatment of congenital heart disease in children. In association with a Spanish surgeon, Carlos Duran, he developed a reliable method to preserve human heart valves by a freeze-drying technique. He subsequently introduced the technique to a fellow South African surgeon, Donald Ross, at the National Heart Hospital in London, where the first homograft valve replacement operation was performed in 1962. Because of the difficulty in obtaining human valves, Alfred researched the use of pig valves (identical in size to those of humans) and performed the first aortic valve replacement with a pig valve on a 56-year-old man in 1964. Alfred was later appointed to the Churchill Hospital in Oxford and developed a simple portable heart-lung machine to perform emergency pulmonary embolectomy in peripheral hospitals, an innovation subsequently adopted by Matthias Paneth at the Brompton Hospital, London. In association with Macfarlane and Biggs at the haemophilia unit, Alfred also undertook hazardous open-heart and thoracic surgery on haemophiliac patients. He was a remarkable all-round surgeon, whose operating lists often included abdominal and gynaecological surgery. Problems with funding, and therefore a failure to develop cardiac surgery in Oxford, were a major disappointment to him in the later stages of his career. He was a remarkably unassuming surgeon who nevertheless inspired dedication in those who worked with him. On one occasion he entered the ward late at night and was mistaken by the nurse for the plumber, and was asked to repair a leaking tap. He fixed the tap and then asked the nurse if he could now do his ward round! He was a member of Pete's Club, a travelling surgical club where the only rule was that 'no case that is presented shall throw credit on the presenter'. Only errors of judgement were discussed, and members consequently learnt a tremendous amount, much more than at other national surgical meetings. In 1987, on retirement from the NHS, Alfred returned to Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, where he spent five years as a senior lecturer, doing thoracic surgery. He later became acting head of the department until a full-time professor could be appointed. During his retirement he enjoyed squash and parachuting, and in South Africa bunjee jumping and white water rafting, as well as developing an interest in medical history. He was a remarkable and innovative surgeon who had an international reputation as a lecturer. Sadly, he did not receive in England the acknowledgement and recognition that was due to him, perhaps because of his somewhat unconventional attitude. He married Mary Janet ('Mollie') in 1949. She predeceased him. They had two sons, Kevin, who became director of the John Farman intensive care unit at Addenbrooke's Hospital, and Andrew, and a daughter, Peta. Alfred died on 10 August 2011.
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First Title value, for Searching Choi, William Hong (1968 - 2016)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-20 2017-10-19
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Occupation Urologist
Details William Hong Choi, known as 'Bill', was a consultant urologist at the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent. He was born in Hong Kong, the third and youngest child of a naval officer. At the age of four the family moved to the UK, to Manchester. Choi was educated at William Hulme Grammar School in Manchester and then moved to London, where he studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, Tooting. He gained his MB BS in 1991. He held junior posts in south west London and then trained in urology as a specialist registrar in the south Thames region. During this period, he spent some time at King's College Hospital researching the safety of laparoscopy. He obtained his FRCS (Urol) in 2002. He later also studied for a law degree. In 2004, he was appointed as a consultant urologist at the William Harvey Hospital, where he set up a regional centre for laparoscopic renal surgery in east Kent. He was the network lead for renal cancer and in 2014 he became the clinical lead for urology. He was a keen trainer and supervisor of specialist registrars. Bill Choi died following an accident on a family skiing holiday in La Plagne, France, on 21 March 2016. He was 48. He was survived by his partner Abbey, his two sons (Alex and Xavier) and a stepdaughter (Phoebe). His wife, Debbie, had died from breast cancer seven years earlier.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001784
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First Title value, for Searching Gilling-Smith, Geoffrey Lawrence (1955 - 2010)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-20 2015-02-27
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Occupation Vascular surgeon
Details Geoffrey Gilling-Smith was a consultant vascular surgeon at Royal Liverpool Hospital. He was born on 15 November 1955 at St George's Hospital, London, the son of Dryden Gilling-Smith, a businessman. His mother, who was head of the physics and chemistry department at the French Lycée in South Kensington, spoke French and he was bilingual. When he was 11 his aortic coarctation was repaired by Charles Drew at the Westminster Hospital. Brought up in Tadworth, he gained a scholarship to Epsom College, where he captained the shooting team, and he went on to study medicine at Charing Cross Medical School. He was a casualty officer in Ealing, a senior registrar at St Mary's and a research fellow at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, prior to his appointment to his consultant post in Liverpool. At Liverpool he was greatly involved in training and education. His particular expertise within vascular surgery was the endovascular treatment of arterial disease, specifically aortic aneurysms. He was a member of the council of the Vascular Society and a member of the European Society for Vascular Surgery. He was a surgical tutor for the Royal College of Surgeons. Outside medicine he had a wide range of interests, including painting, music, particularly jazz, motor bikes and fast cars. He was also a member of the board of his father's company and was involved in other companies which he helped to establish. Geoffrey Gilling-Smith died on 17 January 2010 from aortic valve disease. He was survived by his wife Lynda, his two children, his sister and parents. He was 54.
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First Title value, for Searching Gillingham, Francis John (1916 - 2010)

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by Angus E Stuart
Publication Date 2011-12-20 2013-11-15
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details John Gillingham was professor of neurosurgery at the University of Edinburgh. He was born in Dorchester, Dorset, on 15 March 1916, the son of John Herbert Gillingham, a businessman, and Lily Gillingham née Eavis. He was educated at the Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester, and then studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, where he won prizes in surgery and obstetrics. After graduation and house posts with Sir James Patterson Ross and Ronald Christie, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was deployed for 18 months in Sir Hugh Cairns' 'crash course' at Oxford on all aspects of neurological trauma. Gillingham later became commanding officer of the number 4 neurological surgical unit in the Middle East and Italy - the 'nomadic surgeons'. His unit chased after the 8th Army in the desert for some two months during the huge battle of El Alamein and then to Sicily. During this time Gillingham contracted poliomyelitis, which left him with a paralysed jaw. He ate slops for three months, but, in his own words, he eventually 'cheeked' his way back to command the unit. After the war he became a senior registrar in general surgery and then in neurosurgery at Bart's, and in 1950 he was appointed as a consultant neurosurgeon and a senior lecturer in surgical neurology at the University of Edinburgh. Gillingham spent 12 years working alongside Norman McOmish Dott, one of the great triumvirate of neurosurgeons that also included Cairns in Oxford and Sir Geoffrey Jefferson in Manchester. In 1962 Gillingham became a reader and, in 1963, professor of surgical neurology at Edinburgh. Gillingham's experiences during the Second World War gave him an understanding of, and a lasting interest in, head injuries. He kept meticulous notes on how bullets entered, traversed and often exited soldiers' brains, and correlated these injuries with any abnormal central nervous system signs or behavioural and emotional aberrations. He later described an area now known as the reticular activating system, noticing that injuries to this part of the brain always resulted in total loss or serious loss of consciousness. Gillingham regarded this area as the seat of the conscious mind, an analogy being the central processing unit of the computer. In recognition of this work he was awarded the medal of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (in May 2009). When his colleague in Edinburgh, David Whitteridge, described the use of microelectrodes in distinguishing between grey and white matter, Gillingham immediately saw their usefulness in distinguishing deep brain structures. From these first microelectrode recording studies, fundamental insights were gained which improved the accuracy of locating lesions within the brain, including the observation that spontaneous rhythmical discharge from the thalamus was synchronous with tremor. However, the main emphasis of his work in Edinburgh was on stereotaxis (or the use of three-dimensional coordinate systems to locate and operate on targets in the body), which he used as an aid to localising brain lesions. He was introduced to stereotactic surgery by Gérard Guiot, who had visited Edinburgh to learn aneurysmal surgery from Dott and Gillingham. Gillingham's wealth of experience in aneurysmal surgery led him to adapt Guiot's stereotactic method. Over the years he refined his procedures, targeting the cerebellum, brain stem and cervical spine to help patients with chronic pain and dystonias. Results from 60 patients with Parkinson's symptoms showed that electrocoagulation of lesions in the globus pallidus, internal capsule and thalamus, either separately or in combination, reduced tremor and rigidity in 88% of cases. In this era predating MRI scans, stereotactic neurosurgery proved to be one of the most important developments in 20th century brain surgery. Gillingham's interest in the nature of memory and evolution never diminished. One day, discussing Marcel Proust's *In remembrance of times past*, he remarked that Proust may have had temporal lobe epilepsy. Gillingham pointed out that temporal lobectomy on the left side had to carefully done, lest damage to the superior temporal gyrus caused loss of cognitive memory. He added that the hippocampus, amygdala and the wider functions of the temporal lobe are concerned with memory, both long- and short-term. Gillingham was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1970. In 1980 he became president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, where he vigorously pursued and established fellowships in surgical sub-specialties. Education was a primary interest, and he supported the use of television and other visual aids. After he retired from Edinburgh, Gillingham was professor of neurosurgery at the King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh - at that time a veritable nest of distinguished medicos. Gillingham's services were in demand during the planning of a new medical school and I remember him insisting on a helicopter pad being built. With great gusto, he improved training and skills in the neurosurgery section, which soon began to flourish. In 1945 Gillingham married Judy (Irene Jude), who was a constant support. Cairns, a brilliant administrator, arranged their wedding locally in Oxford, followed by a reception in his house. After the war they settled in a splendid house overlooking the Forth, where Judy was a sparkling hostess, entertaining guests with tales of their many tours abroad. They had four sons (Jeremy, who predeceased him following a skiing accident, Timothy, Simon and Adam) and many grandchildren. John Gillingham died on 3 January 2010, at the age of 93. His modesty and kindliness were apparent throughout his life; all who met him admired him. Once, walking through the main corridor of the King Khalid Hospital in the company of a Syrian surgeon, we encountered John, advancing towards us with his entourage. As they passed by, the Syrian doctor lent over and whispered in my ear: 'Do you see that man? I would never tell him so, but I would do anything for him!'
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, Henry (1810 - 1895)

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First Title value, for Searching Jepson, Henry (1797 - 1887)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on September 13th, 1797, the youngest son of the Rev George Jepson, Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral, and of a family distinguished in the Church, medicine, and literature. After leaving the Lincoln Grammar School he studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and first practised beside the Thames at Colnbrook; next at Hampton, where he was District Medical Officer of the Kingston Union, Surgeon to the Kingston Dispensary and to the Royal Humane Society. His amiability attracted to him a large circle of friends, including Sir Charles Clarke, Sir Andrew Halliday, and Dr Bright. He had been in partnership with Wentworth Raynes Findall, MRCS, and others, and had retired for about four years before his death on November 23rd, 1887. His portrait is in the Fellows' Album, and has a resemblance to that of Edgar Jepson, novelist, belonging to branch of the same family at Leamington.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, John (1782 - 1855)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Came of a West Country family which held property in Cornwall and Devon and used coat-armour from the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He was one of eight children, and in 1810 married Miss Delpratt, a Huguenot, by whom he had two sons. He was educated near Plymouth, was apprenticed to Samuel Luscombe from 1798-1802, and learned surgery afterwards under John Sheldon, who lived in Exeter after his retirement as a teacher in the Hunterian School in London. Harris was elected Surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital on May 23rd, 1815, in succession to Peter Radford, and died at his house at Southernhay as Senior Surgeon on June 30th, 1855. He was in partnership with Mr Cornish, a well-known surgeon of Exeter, and was the first of the hospital surgeons to take part officially in the municipal affairs of the city. He was sheriff twice, mayor once, and was for many years the senior magistrate and deputy mayor. He was a member of the old 'Chamber' and was one of the Charity Trustees, as well as a Surgeon to the Exeter Dispensary and Lying-in Charity. Brought up as a Quaker, he became a staunch member of the Church of England. He passed for a wit, was an excellent draughtsman, and was a lover of the animals which Wombwell often brought to the city. He became a singularly graceful operator, with a vein of originality, both in carrying out operations and in planning treatment. He is described as "rather tall, of pink complexion, with comical eyes and a laughter-provoking expression". His portrait in oils hangs in the Hospital, having been given in 1889 by his grandson, J Delpratt Harris, Surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, James Penn (1817 - 1892)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at West Cowes, Isle of Wight, on May 2nd, 1817. After an apprenticeship he studied at University College Hospital in Liston's time, John Marshall being a fellow-student and friend. He commenced in Liverpool as House Surgeon to the old Northern Hospital in Leeds Street; then he practised, first in Clarence Street, and afterwards in Rodney Street. He acted as Surgeon to St Anne's Dispensary, the Ear and Eye Institute, and the Asylum for Orphan Boys. At the St Anne's Dispensary, subsequently known as the Liverpool Eastern Dispen¬sary, he had as colleague John Nottingham, who became Surgeon to the Royal Southern Hospital. He was besides a member of the Medical Institute, a Fellow of the Liverpool Northern Medical Society, and a member of the Royal Archaeological Institute of London. In connection with these societies he published addresses which he had delivered. Some three years before his death he was seized with a severe illness in Naples, perhaps typhoid fever. He retired from practice and died on May 20th, 1892, after a long and painful illness. He was survived by his widow, but there was no issue of the marriage. There is a photograph of him in the Fellows' Album. He is described as a tall and handsome man, reserved and retiring in disposition, but courteous in manner and of much personal dignity.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, Samuel (1794 - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Harris, William (1808 - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Harris, William ( - 1878)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-29 2012-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at University College Hospital; was Surgeon to the Surrey House of Correction; served as Assistant Surgeon to the 88th Regiment in the Crimean War, and was awarded the Medjidie Medal and Crimean War Medals. He later practised at Truro, and died between November 2nd, 1878, and 1879.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, Wintour (1807 - 1889)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Edward Thompson David (1820 - 1907)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, George ( - 1864)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, George ( - 1849)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, George (1806 - 1866)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Howard Davidson (1888 - 1921)

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First Title value, for Searching Arthurs, Gaston Napoleon (1917 - 2010)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-01-27 2013-08-29
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Occupation General surgeon Neurosurgeon
Details Gaston Arthurs was a consultant neurosurgeon and general surgeon who worked in Australia and Zambia. He was born on 10 March 1917 in Fulham, the son of an Italian father, Guiseppe Nunzio Artuso (the family name was anglicised to Arthurs in 1926) and a mother with a French background, Lilian Blanch Baker. His father was a rubber engineer; a researcher and pioneer who developed ebonite. The young Gaston was fluent in Italian. He attended Brentwood School as a boarder from 1926-1934, excelled in gymnastics and mathematics and played the violin, continuing with a local orchestra. He was awarded the Brentwood School Leaving Scholarship and the Essex County Exhibition. He studied medicine at London University and worked at the Royal National Ear Nose and Throat Hospital. During the second world war he served in the navy, firstly on the cruiser HMS Caradoc for three years from 1940 and then on a submarine depot ship based in Ceylon. After this he served for a month at sea in submarines and later in a "small ship". Honourably discharged in 1945 he returned to England to complete his surgical training, passed his FRCS in 1950 and continued his neurosurgical training in England and Wales. Returning to Australia in 1953 he took up specialist posts at the Sydney Hospital (1953-1971) and St George Hospital (1959-1976). He lectured at the University of New South Wales in Sydney (1960-1965) and at the University of Sydney (1971-1975). He decided to study for his B Ed "in order to become a more effective teacher" and enrolled at the University of New England in Armidale NSW at the same time as his daughter, Patricia, began university. He retired from St George Hospital at the age of 60 and moved to Zambia where he worked as a general surgeon at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka (observing that there was very little elective neurosurgery during a time of great unrest) and lectured in anatomy and surgery at the University. Due to his wife's ill health, they returned to Australia in 1979/80 and he assisted in various branches of surgery at Darwin Hospital in the Northern Territory for seven years before returning to Sylvania, New South Wales to teach at the University of Sydney. During his time in London, Gaston married Mary Breda Roche (always known as "Maureen") on 6 July 1940 at Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Church in Stepney. They had three children Paul, Ann and Patricia. Maureen predeceased him and he married Violet becoming stepfather to her sons, Simon and Mathew. He died on 8 June 2010 aged 93, survived by Violet, his children and stepchildren, seven grandchildren and a great grandson.
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First Title value, for Searching Ashe, Norman Desmond ( - 2010)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-01-27 2013-09-03
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Norman Desmond Ashe specialised in orthopaedics and plastic surgery. He qualified from Oxford University in 1945 and passed the fellowship in 1953. He became a house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Moving to London he took a post at the Hammersmith Hospital and then worked in the departments of orthopaedics and plastic surgery at St Charles Hospital. He was an associate member of the British Orthopaedic Association and of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. He served as a squadron leader in the RAFVR medical brigade. He died on 15 September 2010.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, John ( - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, John (1808 - 1880)

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First Title value, for Searching Awdry, Philip Neville (1933 - 2010)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, James Bower ( - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, James Stockdale (1797 - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Reginald (1837 - 1908)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Stafford on August 24th, 1837, the eldest son of Thomas Harrison, Vicar of Christ Church, Stafford, by Mary his wife. He was educated at Rossall School, and after a short apprenticeship at the Stafford General Hospital he entered as a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He was appointed House Surgeon at the Northern Hospital, Liverpool, in 1859, and in the following year became Senior House Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary - a post he held until 1862 - and Medical Officer of the City Lunatic Asylum. He was Surgeon to the Cyfarthfa Iron Works at Merthyr Tydfil from 1862-1864. He returned to Liverpool as assistant to E R Bickersteth (qv) in 1864, and practised first at 18 Maryland Street and from 1868 in Rodney Street. He was appointed Surgeon to the Liverpool Bluecoat School in 1864. At the Royal Infirmary School of Medicine he was elected Demonstrator of Anatomy in 1864, becoming Lecturer on Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy in 1865; he was Assistant Surgeon from 1867-1874, and full Surgeon from 1874-1889. He also served as Quarantine Officer to the Port of Liverpool for a part of this time. He was Surgeon to the Northern Hospital from 1867-1868. In 1878 he visited the United States to watch Bigelow's earlier cases of lithotrity at a single sitting. In October, 1889, he came to London on his election as Surgeon to St Peter's Hospital for Stone and other Urinary Diseases in place of Walter Coulson (qv). He immediately took a prominent position in the social and medical life of the metropolis, becoming a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, President of the Metropolitan Street Ambulance Association, Lettsomian Lecturer at the Medical Society of London in 1888, and President of the Society in 1890. In 1903 he visited Egypt officially to inspect the School of Medicine at Cairo on behalf of the Royal College of Surgeons, and was rewarded with the 1st class of the Imperial Ottoman Order of the Medjidie. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a Member of the Council from 1886-1902, Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology in 1890-1891, Vice-President for the years 1894-1895, and Bradshaw Lecturer in 1896, taking as his subject "Vesical Stone and Prostatic Disorders". He retired from practice in April, 1905, when he resigned his office of Surgeon to St Peter's Hospital, died on April 28th, 1908, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. He married in 1864 Jane, the only daughter of James Baron, of Liverpool, and left one son and two daughters. There are good photographs of Reginald Harrison in the Council Album and the College Collection. As a surgeon, Harrison was interested throughout his life in the surgical disorders of the male genito-urinary organs. His chief claim to remembrance, however, lies in the fact that he was one of the small but active band of workers and teachers who raised the Royal Infirmary School of Medicine at Liverpool to the position of a well-equipped University of Liverpool. The private school of the Infirmary became a joint-stock company in 1869. Money was raised and new laboratories were built. Harrison as secretary-manager sought to fill each lectureship as it fell vacant with a young and energetic man who was as yet unhampered by the demands of private practice. The school, thus improved, became University College, which existed as a separate body from 1882-1903, when it was merged in the University. Harrison also took an active part in establishing the system (already in use in the United States of America) of street ambulances which long made Liverpool remarkable amongst the towns of Great Britain. He was active in promoting the Street Ambulance Association for developing the system throughout England, and was President at the time of his death. Publications:- *Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Urethra and other Disorders of the Urinary Organs*, London and Liverpool, 1878. *Lectures on the Surgical Disorders of the Urinary Organs*, 2nd ed, 1880; 4th ed, 1893. *Selected Papers on Stone, Prostate and other Urinary Disorders*, 8vo, London, 1899. *The Use of the Ambulance in Civil Practice*, Liverpool, 1881.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Robert (1796 - 1858)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Cumberland. His father, having business relations with Ireland, decided to send his son to Dublin for his education. He therefore apprenticed him in August, 1810, to Abraham Colles, who described the injury to the lower end of the radius now known as 'Colles's fracture'. Harrison thus became a student at Steevens' Hospital, where his master was Surgeon. He graduated BA at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1814, proceeded MB in 1824, and took the MD in 1837. He came to London in 1814, acted as dresser to Benjamin Travers at St Thomas's Hospital, and, returning to Dublin in the following year, was admitted a Licentiate of the Irish College of Surgeons, of which he was elected a Member on June 9th, 1818. He was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy in the College School in 1817 and Professor of Anatomy and Physiology on August 4th, 1827. He became Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery in the School of Physic at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1887 in succession to James Macartney. After serving as one of the Assistants and as Secretary of the Irish College of Surgeons, he was elected President for the year 1848-1849. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Steevens' Hospital, Dublin, on September 4th, 1856, on the promotion of James William Cusack to the office of full Surgeon; but his connection with the hospital was of short duration, for he died seven months later; his widow presented to the hospital a large collection of surgical and anatomical plates which he had used in his lectures. He was for many years one of the Hon Secretaries of the Royal Dublin Society. He married Anne, daughter of the Rev Jonathan Cape, Rector of Ahascragh, Co Galway, a sister of Mrs Abraham Colles. He died of apoplexy at his residence, 1 Hume Street, Dublin, on April 23rd, 1858, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. His son, Captain Harrison, held an appointment at Dublin Castle. Professor Alexander Macalister says of Harrison; "He was a man destitute of an original idea, but with a marvellous facility of making up any subject for lecture, and with a fluent, oratorical delivery. He lacked, however, a general knowledge of practical anatomy, and though he had compiled from Cruveilhier and Cloquet that dreary book, *The Dublin Dissector*, yet his knowledge never rose even to the level of his text-book. We look in vain in the University Museum for any traces of his work." It must, however, be remembered that Harrison succeeded to the post so ably filled by Professor Macalister's hero - Dr James Macartney. Publications: *Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries*, 2 vols; 4th ed., 1839. *The Dublin Dissector* was published in 1829 under his own name, an earlier edition having been published anonymously by "MRCSI". The book served for more than seventy years as a guide for students not only in Ireland but in England and in America.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Thomas Sunderland (1800 - 1864)

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First Title value, for Searching Grabham, John (1794 - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Gosset, Montague (1792 - 1854)

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First Title value, for Searching Gould, Alfred Leslie Pearce (1887 - 1918)

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First Title value, for Searching Gould, Sir Alfred Pearce (1852 - 1922)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-02-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on January 2nd, 1852, the second son of the Rev George Gould, Minister of St Mary's Baptist Church, Norwich. He was educated at Amersham Hall School, Caversham, and at University College, London. His career at the University of London was brilliant. He obtained the Gold Medal and Scholarship in Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetric Medicine at the MB examination and the Gold Medal in Forensic Medicine. Two years later he won the Gold Medal at the MS. At University College Hospital he was in succession House Physician, House Surgeon, Surgical Registrar, and Demonstrator of Anatomy. He was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital in 1877 and gave lectures on anatomy in the Medical School attached to the hospital. These posts he held until 1882, when he resigned on being appointed Assistant Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, where he acted as Dean of the Medical School from 1886-1892. He became full Surgeon in 1896, and then took charge of the newly formed Cancer Department for Out-patients and was closely identified with the establishment and endowment of the Cancer Investigation Department. He retired from the Middlesex Hospital on approaching the age limit in 1916, and was given the rank of Consulting Surgeon. He was also for a time Surgeon to the London Temperance Hospital, the Royal Chest Hospital in the City Road, and the Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis in Maida Vale. He was a Member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1900-1916, serving as Vice-President for the years 1908-1909, and he delivered the Bradshaw Lecture in 1910. He was a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1884-1889, and represented the College on the Senate of the University of London for many years. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of London from 1912-1916 and was Vice-Chancellor for 1916-1917. He was also a Fellow and Member of Council of University College, and was greatly interested in the work of the Brown Institute and of the East London College. He was brought into touch with the Drapers' Company through the East London College and was elected an honorary freeman of the Company. Pearce Gould was a secretary of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, became Joint Treasurer of the Royal Society of Medicine on its removal to Wimpole Street, and was President of its Clinical Section. He filled the offices of Orator (1895), Lettsomian Lecturer (1902), and President (1902) of the Medical Society. The Lettsomian Lectures were delivered on the subject of "Certain Diseases of the Blood-vessels". He was Chairman of the Committee of Management at the London Meeting of the International Congress of Medicine in 1913. As a philanthropist Pearce Gould also found time for much good and important work. He was Chairman of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men; Chairman of the War Emergency Fund, a branch of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund; a member of the Council of the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund and of the Royal Surgical Aid Society. He was also Consulting Surgeon to the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen and President of the Society for the Study of Inebriety. He was, too, one of the outstanding laymen of the Baptist denomination and gave a large share of his time and thoughts to the missionary movement. On the outbreak of the War in 1914 Pearce Gould held a commission as Major *à la suite* in the Territorial Force re-formed in 1908, and was at once put in charge of the surgical division of the Third London General Hospital (TF). He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1915 and acted temporarily on several occasions as Officer-in-Charge of the Hospital. He again took charge after the Armistice in 1918, and remained in this position until the hospital was finally closed in 1920. He was one of the surgeons sent to France in 1917 by the Director-General of the Army Medical Service to study and report on the Dakin-Carrel treatment of wounds. He was decorated KCVO in 1910, and was rewarded for his military service with a CBE in 1919. He retired from active practice early in 1921, gave up his house, 10 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, where he had resided for many years, lived at Hampstead, and had a country house at Ashburton, Devonshire. He married twice, his second wife being a daughter of Lord Justice Lush, and left a family of three sons and five daughters. His second son, Eric Lush Pearce Gould, MA Oxon, FRCS, became Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital; the third son, Alfred Leslie Pearce Gould, RN (qv), was killed in the War. Sir Alfred Pearce Gould died suddenly at Ashburton on Wednesday, April 19th, 1922, the funeral service being held at the Regent's Park Chapel, of which he had been an Elder for more than thirty years. Gould was a brilliant clinical teacher and his classes were always crowded, for he taught dogmatically. His knowledge of surgery was unusually wide and he never specialized. He was a clean, thorough, and extremely careful surgeon who did much both by his advocacy and example to introduce the radical treatment of malignant disease recommended by Sir Mitchell Banks (qv). He was always greatly interested in the etiology and treatment of cancer, and foresaw a time when it might be possible for other methods to come into use which would render the scalpel unnecessary. As a man he was tenacious of his opinions to the verge of obstinacy, and was by conviction a total abstainer. In private life he was a charming host. Fond of music, he possessed a fine tenor voice, and was at one time frequently heard at students' concerts. Publications:- *Elements of Surgical Diagnosis*, 12mo, Philadelphia, 1884; 4th ed, revised, etc, by the author and ERIC PEARCE GOULD, 16mo, 10 plates, etc, London, 1914; 5th ed, 1919, with ERIC PEARCE GOULD. "Two Cases of Varicocele with Undeveloped Testicle, and a Case of Antiseptic Osteotomy of the Tibia," 8vo, London, 1881; reprinted from *Trans Clin Soc*, 1881, xiv, 75. *On the Rapid Method of Cure of External Aneurysm by means of the Elastic Bandage; with a Table of Seventy-two Cases*, 8vo, London, 1882. Joint-editor with J COLLINS WARREN: *The International Text-book of Surgery by British and American Authors*, 2 vols, 8vo, 17 plates, London, 1900; 2nd ed, 8vo, 977 illustrations, London, 1902. *The Bradshaw Lecture on Cancer delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on Wednesday, December 7th, 1910*, 8vo, illustrated, London, 1910. This is a remarkable review of the whole subject. "Injuries and Diseases of the Blood-vessels," "Aneurysms," and "Surgery of the Chest" in Treves's *System of Surgery*, 1895. "Amputation of the Breast." - *Lancet*, 1892, I, 411. *A Case of Intussusception* (with CECIL YATES BISS), 8vo, Philadelphia, 1892. *Operative Treatment of Varicose Veins*, Philadelphia, 1899. "Radium and Cancer." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1914.
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First Title value, for Searching Gowland, Peter Yeames (1825 - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Grainger, Richard Dugard (1801 - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Gramshaw, James Henry ( - 1903)

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First Title value, for Searching Grantham, John (1801 - 1873)

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First Title value, for Searching Graves, Ryves William ( - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Cother, William ( - 1852)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised as a surgeon at Gloucester. He was for many years Surgeon to the Infirmary, of which he became Consulting Surgeon. He was also Consulting Surgeon to the County Lunatic Asylum. He died on or before Sept 27th, 1852, and his death was reported to the College in May, 1854.
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First Title value, for Searching King, Abraham (1811 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Kingdon, John Abernethy (1828 - 1906)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at 2 New Bank Buildings, Lothbury, EC, where his father, William Kingdon (qv), a well-known surgeon, was in practice. Abernethy Kingdon was baptized at St Margaret's, Lothbury, and John Abernethy stood godfather. He was educated at St Paul's School, and received his professional training at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Soon after qualifying he was appointed House Surgeon to William Lawrence, who was his father's intimate friend. On leaving St Bartholomew's, Kingdon was appointed Surgeon to the City Dispensary, then located in Queen Street, Cheapside, and held this appointment for many years. He is best known, however, as Surgeon to the City of London Truss Society. He was elected in 1858 and served the Society with all his energy for thirty years. He was long connected with the Grocers' Company, was an influential member of its Court, and in 1883 was Master. He edited two volumes of the history of the guild, and the part it took in the work of the Reformation and in the question of "ancient weights and the custodianship of the standard weights and of the King's beam". So highly was his work regarded that the Court of the Company presented him with an address of appreciation enclosed in a silver casket. Partly at his instigation and with the assistance of Sir John Simon (qv) the Company founded scholarships in Sanitary Science. About the year 1861 Kingdon took a large share at St Bartholomew's in resuscitating the dying Abernethian Society, which he practically nursed back to health. He was a Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society from 1861 onwards, was elected Member of Council in 1866-1867 and Vice-President in 1872-1873. Whilst a Member of the Council he served on the Science Committee that investigated the action of the subcutaneous injection of drugs, and pursued the inquiry with keen interest. He was also a member of the Pathological Society. Kingdon cared little for private practice as a surgeon, but was well known as Medical Officer (Hon Consulting Surgeon) to the Bank of England and to a number of Insurance Societies. His reports were admirable. During the closing year of his life he never relaxed in the performance of his many duties though his health was failing. He died during sleep, at his chambers in Westminster, on January 5th, 1906. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery. He was unmarried, and was survived by only one brother, the Bishop of Fredericton, Canada. In addition to the offices above enumerated he had held that of Consulting Surgeon to the Merchant Taylors' Convalescent Home. Latterly he had practised at 6A Prince's Street, Lothbury. The following interesting appreciation of John Abernethy Kingdon appeared in the *Lancet*, 1906, i, 129; it is from the pen of Jonathan Macready (qv): "John Abernethy Kingdon held the office of Surgeon to the City of London Truss Society for thirty years, and during the last ten years of that period I had the good fortune to be associated with him and to become acquainted with his delightful personality.... Mr Kingdon was not an operator but was a very ingenious mechanician, and all the best improvements in the trusses used by the society during the last fifty years came from him. He was very successful in reducing hernia. He knew at once what could and what could not be reduced, and his vast experience sometimes permitted him to use an amount of force which others would have hardly dared to apply. He used to say that Vincent, one of the old Surgeons of St Bartholomew's Hospital, had been an adept at reducing hernia, and I believe he founded his own method on what he had seen done by Vincent. With his very wide hand, in which the intrinsic muscles were strongly developed, he certainly effected extraordinary reductions. He had great influence upon those within his range, which he owed partly to the confidence that his high and noble character inspired and partly to the charm of his manner and to his deep knowledge of human nature. When attention was drawn to his powers of persuasion he would say sometimes, 'Yes, I understand men'. It was his custom to address the patients in a racy vernacular which was very attractive to them, and he soon won their confidence. He could do as he pleased with them, however painful his manipulations might be, and the interview generally ended by the patient saying, 'Oh, sir, you have such a nice way with you'. He had a great reverence for the 'Chosen People', and he was never so pleased as when an old Israelite lifted up his hands to heaven and blessed him. No man better deserved the blessings of his fellow-men. In all his dealings his own advantage was the last thing that he considered. He was most hospitable, generous and charitable, almost to a fault. He was a humorous, a charming, and most endearing colleague." For forty years he acted as churchwarden of St Margaret's, Lothbury. Publications: "On the Causes of Hernia." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1864, xlvii. 295. "In this contribution", says the *British Medical Journal*, 1906, i, 179, "he proved that the occurrence of hernia was due primarily to developmental defects and to pathological changes in the peritoneal reflections forming the suspensory ligaments of the abdominal viscera." "Case of Sloughing of a Malignant Tumour which contained the Femoral Vessels: Cicatrization of the Wound - Death from return of the Disease," 8vo, 1849; reprinted from *Trans Abernethian Soc of St Bart's Hosp*. "On the Development of Loose Cartilaginous Bodies," 8vo, 1851; reprinted from *Trans Abernethian Soc of St Bart's Hosp*, 1851. "On Laryngitis from Local Causes," from *Trans Abernethian Soc of St Bart's Hosp* 1851. *Applied Magnetism. An Introduction to the Design of Eleotromagnetic Apparatus*, 8vo, London, 1896.
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First Title value, for Searching Cookson, Henry (1833 - 1921)

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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 on February 10th, 1833, the son of Thomas Henry Cookson, of Boston, Lincolnshire, and was educated at Edinburgh University, Leeds, and St Thomas's Hospital. He entered the Royal Navy as Assistant Surgeon after qualifying, but resigned with less than three years' service. He entered the Indian Medical Service (Bengal) on January 20th, 1860, attained the rank of Surgeon Major on July 1st, 1873, and retired on May 20th, 1880. He served on the North-West Frontier of India in the Jowaki Campaign (1877-1878), being mentioned in dispatches (GGO No 738 of 1878) and receiving the Frontier Medal. He also served in the Second Afghan War (1878-1879), when he took part in the capture of Ali Musjid, was again mentioned in dispatches (GOCC of October 14th, 1879), and received the medal with a clasp. After retirement he resided at Pendowen, Cheltenham, and died there on April 22nd, 1921.
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First Title value, for Searching Rawsthorne, George Brian (1937 - 2008)

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by John Blandy
Publication Date 2011-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details George Brian Rawsthorne was a consultant surgeon at Leighton Hospital, Crewe. He was born on 5 May 1937 in Liverpool, the second of the four children of Joseph Lewis Rawsthorne, a master builder, and Caroline Dorothy Ball, a physiotherapist. He was educated at Huyton Hill Preparatory School, Windermere, and Wrekin College, Shropshire, where he was captain of swimming. It was while he was doing his National Service in the RAMC as a corporal at Netley Hospital that he observed the medical staff and decided he too could do medicine. On demobilisation he studied at Birkenhead Technical College to get the necessary A levels and then applied to every medical school in the country in alphabetical order: Aberdeen was the first to accept him. There he was president of both the physiology and rowing clubs. He did his house jobs at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen, was a demonstrator of anatomy, and then became a senior house officer for two years. He held registrar appointments in Liverpool, finishing with a position on the professorial unit. He was seconded as a locum consultant to Leighton Hospital, Crewe, in 1973, succeeding to the substantive post at the end of the year. At Crewe he was a postgraduate clinical tutor, he set up a medical audit unit (together with his anaesthetic colleague) and was chairman of the district medical advisory committee. In 1988 he was the prime mover in establishing a private hospital in the grounds of Leighton Hospital. In 1995 he became the lead consultant of cancer services and, two years later, lead breast surgeon. He retired in 2002. He played tennis until worsening asthma meant be could no longer continue. He was a keen fly fisherman and photographer. He built his own Ford special and was a keen watercolourist. In 1966 he married Anne Margaret Mackenzie, from Tain Easter Ross. Both Anne's parents were GPs and she became a clinical assistant in psychiatry at Leighton Hospital. They had two daughters, Nicola, a teacher, and Karen, a solicitor who defended cases of medical negligence. Rawsthorne died from carcinoma of the oesophagus on 10 June 2008.
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First Title value, for Searching Knowles, George Beauchamp ( - 1867)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-14
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Occupation Botanist
Details Was for many years in general practice at 81 Caroline Street, Birmingham. He was at one time Surgeon to the Queen's Hospital and Professor of Botany and Materia Medics at the Queen's College, Birmingham. In the fifties he practised in St Paul's Square, Birmingham, and was in partnership with Walter Jauncey, LRCS Edin. He died, it appears, before March 30th, 1867, but had retired by 1866. Publications: "Successful Case of Caesarean Operation." - *Trans Prov Med and Surg Assoc*, 1836, iv, 376. "Gastro-hysterotomy" in Costello's *Cyclopedia of Practical Surgery*, 1861, ii, 412. "Clinical Lecture on Hernia. " - *Prov Med Jour*, 1849, 701. Joint-editor of *The Floral Cabinet*, 3 vols, 4to.
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First Title value, for Searching Knox, George (1793 - 1847)

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First Title value, for Searching Wakelin, John Leach ( - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-29 2012-12-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Leach Wakelin trained at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where he became senior registrar in the ENT department. In 1944 he is recorded as serving in the RAMC as a lieutenant. In the 1971 *Medical Directory*, he is listed as being an honorary consultant ENT surgeon to the Bulawayo Government Hospitals in Rhodesia and this is given as his address until he moved to Andorra in the early 1980s. He died in Andorra on 29 November 2005, survived by his daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Sissons, Hubert Armand (1920 - 2008)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-29 2015-05-22
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Occupation Pathologist
Details Hubert Armand Sissons was chairman of the department of pathology at the Hospital for Joint Diseases and the Orthopedic Institute, New York. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, the son of Alfred Thomas Stanley Sissons, dean of the Victorian College of Pharmacy, Melbourne, and Jessie Taylor Sissons née Tope. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and then gained a government senior scholarship to study medicine at the University of Melbourne. He qualified MB BS in 1944. He became an assistant pathologist and then acting pathologist at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and worked closely with Rupert Willis, who encouraged Sissons to investigate bone pathology. Whilst at the Alfred, Sissons co-authored an influential article, published in the *Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology*, the first paper to describe *Mycobacterium ulcerans* infection, now known as a disease of worldwide importance ('A new mycobacterial infection of man', *J Pathol Bacteriol*. 1948 Jan;60[1]:93-122). In 1946 Sissons went to the UK as a Prophit research scholar, to work with Willis, who had become the Sir William Collins professor in human and comparative pathology at the Royal College of Surgeons. Sissons' task was to make a histological assessment of every tumour added to the pathological department of the museum. In 1949 Sissons was appointed head of the newly-established department of morbid anatomy at the University of London's Postgraduate Medical Federation's Institute of Orthopaedics at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He remained at the institute for 30 years, becoming professor of morbid anatomy in 1972. From 1951 to 1952 Sissons studied with Hermann Lisco at Northwestern University in Chicago, USA. He also visited Henry L Jaffe in New York, then one of the leading bone pathologists in the United States. Over the following years he made frequent trips to the USA, and eventually succeeded Jaffe as chairman of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at the Hospital for Joint Diseases and the Orthopedic Institute. In New York he helped establish the New York Bone Club, where researchers could meet to discuss and exchange ideas. Sissons returned to the UK in 1990 and finished his career at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories. He wrote 68 papers in refereed journals. He was co-author, with F Schajowicz and L V Ackerman, of the World Health Organization's (WHO) standard reference publication *Histological typing of bone tumours* (Geneva, WHO, 1972) and co-author (with Ronald O Murray and H B S Kemp) of the leading textbook of bone diseases, *Orthopaedic diagnosis: clinical, radiological and pathological coordinates* (Berlin, NY, Springer-Verlag, 1984). Sissons was president of the Association of Clinical Pathologists and the World Association of Societies of Pathology. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians, and was a foundation fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. In 1945 Sissons married Patricia Mary née Lovett, a nurse. They had a son, John, and a daughter, Mary. Hubert Armand Sissons died on 13 September 2008, aged 87. Predeceased by his wife and son, he was survived by his daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching König, Franz (1832 - 1910)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Rotenburg-on-Fulda, in Hesse, on February 10th, 1832, the son of the medical attendant of the Landgrave. He graduated MD at the University of Marburg in 1855, in particular being a pupil of W Roser. After serving as assistant in the Surgical Clinic he studied in Berlin - surgery under Langenbeck and ophthalmology under Graafe; he then returned to Marburg as assistant to the Professor of Surgery, Roser. In 1860 he was appointed Surgeon to the Hospital and Medical Officer of Health at Hanau. He became well known through his advocacy of early and active surgical treatment of tuberculous disease of joints by excision. (See "Die Tuberculose der Knocken und Gelenke, und die Fortschritte in der Behandlung dieses Krankheit." - *Volkmann's Sammlung klin Vorträge*, 1882, No 214, *Chir*. No 69, 1865.) In 1875-1877 he published his *Lehrbuch des Specielle Chirurgie* in two volumes, which became the popular text-book in Germany and ran through a number of editions. Commencing before the introduction of Lister's methods, he added "Antisepsis", and later still "Asepsis", up to the eighth edition (1904-1905). The active surgical treatment of tuberculosis was disputed by Howard Marsh (qv) in particular and was superseded. König was appointed to follow Hueter as Professor of Surgery at Rostock; during the Franco-German War (1870-1871) his most active work was at the temporary hospitals on the Sempelhofer Feld in Berlin; in 1875 he succeeded Baum at Göttingen, in 1882 he moved to Berlin in succession to Bardleben with the titles of Professor and Medical Geheimrath. With Volkmann and Richter he edited the *Centralblatt für Chirurgie* from 1880, and continued to be one of the editors for thirty years. In 1904 he resigned, and after his retirement he lived first in Jena and then in Berlin, being, after von Esmarch, the oldest of the German Professors of Surgery. He died on December 12th, 1910, after a few days' illness due to pneumonia. Publications: Besides König's text-book and his publications on tuberculosis and diseases of bones and joints, he contributed articles to the Pitha and Billroth *Handbuch*, and to the *Deutsche Chirurgie*, and wrote many other surgical communications.
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First Title value, for Searching Lacy, Edward (1799 - 1870)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-14 2017-05-04
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Professionally educated at St George's Hospital. He practised first at Stockport, where he was Surgeon to the Infirmary Fever Wards and to the Queen's Lying-in Institute. At the latter institution he lectured on midwifery and the diseases of women and children. Removing to Poole, he was at the time of his death Surgeon to the Bournemouth General Dispensary and Surgeon to the 4th Dorset Rifle Volunteers. He died at Poole on October 7th, 1870. Publication: "Treatment of Fistula in Ano by Chloride of Zinc." - *Med Times and Gaz*, 1852, xxv, 576. See below for an amended version of the published obituary: Edward Lacy made his name as a surgeon and leading citizen in Poole, Dorset. He was born in Salisbury in 1799 and baptised in Salisbury Cathedral on 17 March 1800, although his parents were both from Dorset: his father, James, was born in Poole, his mother, Mary née Bemister, in nearby Wimborne. He began his medical career as a pupil at the County Infirmary in Salisbury, before moving to London to the Marylebone Infirmary; he then studied at St George's Hospital as a pupil and dresser to Sir Edward Home and Sir Benjamin Brodie, receiving his diploma in 1823. He gained his membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1822, the same year he was awarded his licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1852. His first post was in Stockport, perhaps chosen because his brother Henry was at that time in Manchester, when he was appointed as a house surgeon at the Stockport Infirmary in March 1823. He also worked at the Dispensary and House of Recovery, moving on later to the Queen's Lying-in Institution, Manchester, where he lectured on midwifery and diseases of women and children. Edward applied several times, unsuccessfully, to be elected as a surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary during the 1830s. A case study of one of his patients with diabetes mellitus, from his practice in King Street, Manchester, appears in Edward Carbutt's book *Clinical lectures in the Manchester Royal Infirmary* (London, Longman and company, 1834). It was while in Manchester that he became embroiled in 1832 in a law suit concerning grave-robbing. The Rev Gilpin of Stockport was successful with a libel case against an activist and publisher, Mr Doherty, who had stated that a body was removed from the graveyard attached to the church to the dissecting room of the surgeon Mr Lacy, who happened to be the Rev Gilpin's brother-in-law. The case featured strongly in the local and London newspapers, and must have been very embarrassing both professionally and personally for Edward. He had moved to Poole by 1844, taking over the medical practice of Thomas Barter at 90 High Street. Before this move, he had gained considerable experience in hospital work, but there was no hospital in Poole at that time or indeed during his lifetime. His living was therefore from general practice, plus the various contracts available to doctors. He became honorary surgeon to the 4th Dorset Rifle Volunteers, surgeon to several different friendly societies and the Amity Lodge. Another role was medical officer to the Kinson, Canford and Parkstone district of the Poole Union. He was able to later become involved in Bournemouth's first hospital development. He was listed in 1859 as a member of the founding committee of the Bournemouth Public Dispensary for the Sick Poor, as well as working there as an honorary surgeon. The dispensary was established to provide for the poor in the fast-developing town of Bournemouth, but also covering adjoining areas including Poole. As a dispensary, it did not have inpatients, although before his death it had become a cottage hospital, forerunner to the Royal Victoria Hospital. As he grew older, he took William Turner as a partner in his practice in Poole. His medical interests are shown by publications in the *Medical Times and Gazette* on ingrowing toenails, treatment of naevi, effects of use of lead powder by actors, and use of zinc chloride in the treatment of anal fistulae. He prepared a report for presentation to the inaugural meeting of the Dorset County Association of General Practitioners in June 1848 on the use of chloroform in surgery, which represented an early clinical review of experience. He was a local secretary of the New Sydenham Society, linking local doctors with the publisher. A further interest must have been public health, as in 1848 he was invited to present a lecture at Poole Guildhall on 'The health of towns'. The context was the passing of the Public Health Act in that year, but the worry of cholera outbreaks was a constant factor locally and nationally. Using his experience in Manchester, he compared life expectancy in Poole, a small town in a rural area, with northern cities, although stressing nevertheless how Poole's filthy streets affected the health of its population. The bulk of his lecture was educational, using diagrams and other aids, to demonstrate the impact of poor living conditions, showing how cholera could arise. He ended by stating that however well the Poor Law guardians provided aid and nutrition for the poor, they could do nothing to affect ventilation and cleanliness for the general population, suggesting that therefore the poor suffered the most in times of cholera. He offered, should cholera hit Poole, that his surgery would be open at all hours to the suffering poor. He was first elected to the Poole Town Council in 1848, representing the north-west ward as a Conservative, and remained a councillor until his death. In November 1860, as a long-serving member, he was elected by the town council as the mayor, and by this time he was also chief magistrate for the town. When he died the newspaper headline recorded it as the death of a magistrate, rather than surgeon; perhaps in his later years his presence on the bench was more marked than his medical work. Outside his medical career, he had at least one business interest. This was the time of 'railway mania', and Manchester was at the forefront. Edward was attracted to the possibilities and developed this interest after moving to Poole. He was heavily involved in the efforts to develop a railway link from Poole to Salisbury. This link was for a time known locally as the 'Lacy line'. There is no evidence this business venture brought him the same financial success as achieved by his brother Henry Lacy, a director of the London and South Western Railway and MP for Bodmin. Edward married Frances Gilpin on 2 September 1828; she was born in Broughton in Furness, Lancashire, the daughter of a local magistrate. They had four children while living in Manchester: Caroline Mary died in infancy in 1840, but Ruth, Bernard and Frances all grew up in Poole. Bernard Gilpin Lacy is listed in the 1871 census as an 'MD USA not in practice'. Edward Lacy died on 7 October 1870, aged 70, and was buried in Poole Cemetery on 13 October. The funeral was a large affair, with a procession of civic dignitaries and an honour guard of 30 men from the Rifle Volunteers; flags were at half-mast on the Guildhall and church. His obituary in the local newspaper was accompanied by a eulogy, highly complimentary about his medical career, including his Christian charitable approach to those unable to pay for his care. As a surgeon and leading citizen of the town, Edward Lacy made his mark in his adopted home of Poole. He was a part of the first hospital development in Bournemouth and Poole, and became Poole's civic leader. The obituary and eulogy published in the local newspaper demonstrate the town held him in high regard as 'a worthy magistrate, a skilful surgeon, and most upright and honourable gentleman'. Publications: New mode of treating ingrowing toenails. *Medical Times and Gazette* 1852 Aug 172-3. Treatment of fistula in ano by chloride of zinc. *Medical Times and Gazette* 1852 June 576. Use of lead powder by actors. *Medical Times and Gazette* 1852 Aug 223. Treatment of naevus by pressure. *Medical Times and Gazette* 1852. John Bartling Gill
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First Title value, for Searching Hawkins, Charles (1812 - 1892)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on May 29th, 1812, his father, of an old Monmouthshire family, being a Doctor of Medicine and Roman Catholic who, in 1836, settled in practice in Upper Brook Street. He with two brothers were sent to Oscott, another brother became well known as a barrister, an active Governor of St George's Hospital, and a protestant. Charles Hawkins was unrelated to the great Hawkins family of surgeons. He entered St George's Hospital on January 28th, 1829, as a perpetual pupil of Sir Benjamin Brodie, and in 1886 he was House Surgeon. He then became assistant to Brodie, who had more patients than he was able to attend to. He thus obtained a large practice and gained experience. But in 1843, in spite of Brodie's support, Henry C Johnson (qv) was appointed Assistant Surgeon to St George's Hospital after an election contest in the old style. In 1848 he did not contest the next vacancy, when Prescott Hewett (qv) was appointed. In spite of all, Hawkins continued a warm supporter of the hospital, and took a leading part in its government and in the development of the convalescent branch at Wimbledon. For some years he was acting Treasurer of the hospital and was afterwards elected a Vice-President. He laboured constantly to promote the Medical School which Brodie had rendered well known. He was Hon Secretary and Treasurer of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society. He served from 1866-1873 on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons as one of the reform party of the time. As a Roman Catholic he attended Cardinal Wiseman in Rome in 1860, receiving from Pope Pius IX a gold medal in recognition of his services; he was also consulted at the beginning of Cardinal Manning's last illness. He was Consulting Surgeon to Queen Charlotte's Hospital, and for many years, until his death, Inspector of Schools of Anatomy. He had attended Brodie in his last illness, and is chiefly to be remembered as the editor of Brodie's collected works, together with an autobiography and a short biographical notice by Hawkins, published in 1865 in three volumes. Until within a few years of his death he had lived and practised at 27 Savile Row, then at 9 Duke Street, when he frequented the Athenaeum and loved to talk over old times with his friends. At the end of 1891 he was attacked by bronchitis and was found dead in his chair on April 4th, 1892. He never married. Publications: In Holmes's *System of Surgery* Hawkins wrote the article on Lithotrity in 1864, which he republished with additions in 1870. "An Exceptional Case of Faecal Accumulation in the Bladder following on a Rectovesical Fistula in a Man, Successfully Relieved by Lithotrity." - *Med.-Chir. Trans.*, 1858, xli, 441; 1859, xlii, 423.
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First Title value, for Searching Sewell, Robert Henry (1920 - 2012)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-07-12 2014-07-18
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Robert Sewell was an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Greenwich. He was born in Horwich, Greater Manchester, on 21 September 1920, the son of James Scott Sewell, a general practitioner and a part-time medical officer of health, and Emily Sewell née Patton, a housewife. His elder brother, Thomas Patton Sewell, also qualified in medicine and became deputy medical officer of health for Lancashire. Sewell was educated first at home with a governess, and then attended Bolton School, where he was in the gymnastics eight and also played chess and boxed. In 1937 he went to Manchester University to read medicine. In 1940 he gained the anatomy prize, and in 1943, the year he qualified, the clinical surgical prize. As a student in Manchester Walter Schlapp supported him in his physiological research for his BSc degree, while Frederic Wood Jones encouraged him in his anatomy studies and advised him to take the primary FRCS in 1941, whilst he was still a student. Sewell was a house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1943, and a senior house surgeon at Preston Royal Infirmary in 1944. From 1944 to 1946 he was a registrar and senior registrar in trauma and orthopaedics to Sir Harry Platt at Manchester Royal Infirmary, treating casualties from the Second World War. He then served for two years in the RAMC and was posted to Jamaica as a surgeon to the North and South Caribbean Commands. Sewell returned to the UK in 1948, and became a surgical clinical assistant to the Metropolitan Hospital. From 1949 to 1952 he was a registrar and then a senior registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, where he worked with John Cholmeley, A T Fripp, J I P James, Philip Newman and David Trevor. J I P James initiated his interest in hand surgery, while David Trevor reinforced his continuing interest in children's surgery. In 1952, at the age of just 31, he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon to St Alfege's and the Miller General hospitals in Greenwich, where he faced the challenge of bringing together staff from two very different hospitals. He successfully developed an orthopaedic department and organised an accident and emergency service for Greenwich. He was also actively involved in the planning of the new Greenwich District Hospital. He chaired the medical committee for several years and, from 1973 to 1974, served on the Area Health Authority. From the late 1960s, he also built up a large medico-legal practice, as well as a small private orthopaedic practice. He described himself as a 'GP' orthopaedic surgeon. Because St Alfege's Hospital had the second largest diabetic clinic in the country, he became interested in the orthopaedic complications of diabetes. He was also interested in Dupuytren's contracture, congenital dislocation of the hip and talipes. He wrote on a variety of orthopaedic topics, including excision of the patella, Hand-Schüller-Christian disease and osteoarthritis of the hip. He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, chairman of the Greenwich branch of the British Medical Association, and president of the West Kent Medico Chirurgical Society. He was a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, a freeman of the City of London and a member of the City Livery Club. Sewell retired early, in July 1983. As he himself put it, he found he 'was no longer enjoying…clinical work due to the increasing interference of the NHS administration'. He continued his medico-legal work, and finally retired in June 1988. Outside medicine, he was interested in rose growing and showing (until he developed asthma), travel, reading and, in his retirement, following the stock market. In July 1945 he married Peggy Joan Kearton Chandler, known as 'Joan'. They had two daughters, Carole Gay and Cherry Margot. Robert Henry Sewell died on 14 April 2012, aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Ray, Edward (1817 - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Rayner, Edward (1886 - 1917)

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First Title value, for Searching Rayner, Edwin (1845 - 1922)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The eldest son of Dr William Rayner, belonging to an old Stockport family, who was himself a member of the Town Council and Mayor of the Borough in 1883-1884. Edwin Rayner went to Stockport Grammar School, then to Owens College, Manchester, later to University College and Hospital, where he was House Surgeon and House Physician. Finally he studied in Paris, from which dated his permanent interest in French medicine and politics. He then settled in practice at Stockport, where the town was rising rapidly owing to the flourishing cotton trade. For nineteen years he was Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst until 1892. For thirty-four years he was Surgeon to the Stockport Infirmary until 1908, when he was elected Consulting Surgeon. From 1880 he was a JP for Stockport. An original Governor of the Pendlebury Orphanage, he eventually became Chairman of the Governors. He also acted as Chairman of the Governors of his old school, Stockport Grammar School. His French interests led him to become a Juror in the Class of Medicine and Surgery at the International Exhibitions at Brussels in 1910 and at Turin in 1911. He practised at 19 Twist Dale, Stockport, latterly in partnership with George Pouncey Henderson, Surgeon to the Stockport Infirmary. In the course of the War (1914-1918) he helped to establish the Auxiliary Medical Hospital in Stockport, and served on the Surgical Staff. He became best known as Treasurer of the British Medical Association from 1907-1917. He had long been an active member of the Association, in 1894 President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch, and its representative in 1896-1898, 1903-1904, 1905-1906. In August, 1907, at the Exeter Meeting his election as Treasurer was moved by Sir Victor Horsley and seconded by Dr Alfred Cox, Secretary of the Association, as representing the then new constitution. He was opposed by C R Straton, of Wilton, representing the more conservative views, and Rayner was elected after a sharp contest. His term of office included a time of anxious responsibility concerning expenditure upon the rebuilding of the office in the Strand, and a serious expense incurred in the course of discussion and proposals for amendment of the National Insurance Bill. Rayner opposed the proposal to incur a permanent debt by the issue of debentures, and managed with the assistance of Mr Guy Elliston, Financial Secretary, to meet liabilities from income. As a Liberal he upheld a representative system of government in the revised constitution of the Association, whilst deprecating the delegation of powers by the Council to the Annual Meeting of Representatives. A man of quiet demeanour, he inspired confidence by cheerfulness and optimism. On one occasion he met an overdraft of the Association's funds by engaging his private resources in its support. His services to the Association was recognized by the Chairman of the Council, MacDonald, in presenting him with the Gold Medal of the Association in 1914. He left Stockport to live at Woking during the eighteen months before his death on January 18th, 1922. He was buried at Frensham, a memorial service being held simultaneously at Stockport Parish Church. He married in 1870 Miss Hartree, of London, who survived him with two sons and four daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Easton, Alfred Leonard Tytherleigh (1921 - 2012)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

by Claire Lewis
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-02-19
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Leonard Easton was an obstetrician and gynaecologist at the London Hospital. His background was unusual. His parents, Leonard Tytherleigh Easton, an elderly insurance broker, and Maria Bertrand Easton née de Lis met in Japan and he was born in Tientsin, China, on 11 July 1921. His education at Harrow was paid for by a wealthy uncle and there he excelled at rugby and science. Although diminutive, he was fast and fiercely competitive. His early passion for beetles, butterflies and the contents of rock pools from his beloved Cornish beaches, where he spent his childhood, evolved into a passion for human creatures: he never considered any career other than medicine. His studies led him to Cambridge, and he was always immensely proud of his years at Pembroke College. He went on to the Middlesex Hospital, where he met his future wife, Mary Josephine Latham, a highly spirited nurse who later became a prize-winning theatre sister. They married in 1946 and had two children. He had decided early on to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology, and loved surgery from the outset. He had small hands, but they were steady as a rock, almost until he died. He carried out his National Service in Egypt and then went back to the Middlesex. He was a senior registrar there and then became a lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Birmingham. He was appointed as a consultant at King George's Hospital, Ilford, and Ilford Maternity Hospital, and became a consultant at the London Hospital in the late 1950s, where he remained until his retirement in the late eighties. He was immensely proud of the London and all his colleagues with whom he worked. He felt passionately about his job, and he and his colleagues were determined to bring down maternal mortality. He regularly went out on visits with the local obstetric flying squad and campaigned for supervised and hospital births. And, by the 1960s and 1970s, maternal mortality had significantly decreased. Early on he had to make a decision about where he stood on the issue of termination of pregnancy. As a Catholic, it was for him a defining moment. He knew he had to decide between what he thought was medically right and ethical and what the church was telling him. He decided that women had the right to choose termination if the circumstances were medically and socially appropriate, and never went to church again. As his daughter, I rarely saw him during my childhood. My memories are only of high days and holidays. Christmas was always special: he took my brother and me onto the wards and always carved the ward turkey dressed as Father Christmas. We met the nurses and patients, and felt part of his profession. I also remember him teaching me to swim in those Cornish rock pools, where he also saved a colleague's daughter from drowning. He wouldn't allow me to have my first two babies at home, when I was championing the natural childbirth renaissance in the 1970s. I remember him saying to me that you shouldn't expect to enjoy labour: the whole idea was to ensure the health of the mother and child. We had quite an argument about that, but I lost. He was a progressive, liberal thinker and a real supporter of women. And he did make a difference. I am very proud of him and what he achieved in nearly 50 years of medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Rose, Caleb Burrell (1790 - 1872)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon Geologist
Details Born at Eye in Suffolk on February 10th, 1790, and was apprenticed to his uncle. He then came to London and studied at the United Borough Hospitals. He began to practise at Swaffham, Norfolk, in 1816; married, had children, and was a widower by 1828. He carried on a successful practice, and retired in 1859 to Great Yarmouth, where he died on January 29th, 1872. Caleb Rose (qv) was a son. He was the author of several medical papers, more especially on Entozoa, but his interests lay in geology and he became an authority on the geology of Norfolk. His first publication appeared in 1828, and in 1839 he was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society. His fine collection of Norfolk fossils is in the Norwich Museum. He wrote *Sketch of the Geology of West Norfolk*, which appeared originally in the *Philosophical Magazine* for 1885-1836, vii-viii. The paper is full of original observations and sound reasoning. He was the first to call attention to the "Brick Earth of the Valley of the Nar" in the *Proceedings* of the Scientific Society (London, 1840, p. 61). He also described some "Parasitic Borings in the Scales of Fossil Fish" (*Trans Microscopical Soc*, 1855, 2nd ser, iii, 7).
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Thomas (1817 - 1863)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised for some twenty years at Chesterfield, where he was Surgeon to the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Hospital and Dispensary, District Medical Officer to the Union and Surgeon to the Workhouse, and Assistant Surgeon to the Chatsworth Rifles (2nd Derby Militia). For a year previous to his death he had been the popular Mayor of Chesterfield. He died at his residence, The Manor House, Chesterfield, on December 18th, 1863.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002390
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First Title value, for Searching Hicks, Francis Edward (1810 - 1899)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Kenneth Halstead (1918 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2015-12-14
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Occupation Accident surgeon Trauma surgeon General surgeon
Details Kenneth Halstead Smith was a consultant surgeon at Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital. He was born on 16 October 1918 in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Samuel Driver Smith, a schoolmaster, and Amelia Smith née Halstead, the daughter of a cotton manufacturer. He was educated in elementary schools in Burnley and then Burnley Grammar School. He went on to study medicine at Victoria University, Manchester, and carried out his clinical studies at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He qualified in 1943. From 1944 to 1946 he was a captain and general duty officer in the RAMC. He was a surgical tutor and a house surgeon to Alexander Michael Boyd at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was a resident surgical officer at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, and then a senior registrar and tutor at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Prior to his consultant appointment at Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital, he was a consultant in accident surgery at the General Hospital, Northampton. He was an associate member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and a fellow of Manchester Medical Society. In 1949 he married Elizabeth Makinson. They had two sons, Robert and Andrew, and one daughter, Susan. He died on 3 June 2013 at home in Deganwy. He was 94. He was survived by his widow and children, and grandchildren Caroline and Eleanor.
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First Title value, for Searching Swann, Jack Lindsay (1921 - 2013)

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by Carolyn Barraclough
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-06-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Jack Lindsay Swann was a general surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Caulfield, Melbourne, on 17 November 1921, the only child of Roy Barker and Irene May Swann née Matchett. His early education was at Caulfield Grammar School and his final four years of school were at Scotch College in Melbourne. He was a good sportsman and was a particularly successful high jumper. He was captain of athletics for Gardiner house and a prefect in his final year, 1939. Jack studied medicine at Melbourne University from 1940 to 1945. (The medical course had been condensed from six years to five due to the war.) Upon graduation, he went to Ballarat, a regional city in Victoria, as a resident medical officer, then a registrar. He then worked at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, and the Devon Hospital, Latrobe, Tasmania. During 1951 and 1952 Jack worked as a surgical registrar at Lambeth Hospital and then St Stephen's Hospital, London. He received his FRCS in December 1951. He was fortunate to meet Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor and, like many other surgeons around the world, he thereafter received Christmas cards from this eminent British surgeon. Jack returned to Australia at short notice following the sudden death of his father. On his return to Melbourne, he worked as an assistant surgeon briefly at Prince Henry's Hospital and then at the Royal Melbourne Hospital for five years. From 1959 to 1964 Jack worked as an assistant surgeon at both St Vincent's Hospital and the Footscray and District Hospital in Melbourne. He received his FRACS in 1961. In 1964 he was appointed as a senior surgeon, in those days an honorary position, at the Footscray and District Hospital. He remained a senior general surgeon there until his retirement in 1986. By this time the hospital had been renamed Western General Hospital. In recognition of his long and outstanding service, the hospital appointed him as a consultant emeritus in surgery. In December 1958 Jack married Janice Margaret Turner at the Scotch College Chapel. They had two children, a daughter, Carolyn, and a son, David. His main recreational activity was golf and he was a member of the Victoria Golf Club for many years. As a university student Jack had enjoyed holidays at Lorne, a coastal town along the Great Ocean Road of Victoria's west coast. The purchase of a beach house at Lorne ensured the continuation of this enjoyment with his family. Jack died on 22 August 2013, aged 91. He was survived by Jan, Carolyn and David, and three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, James C (1928 - 2008)

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by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Jim Thompson was an outstanding surgical scientist and educator, arguably without parallel in the latter half of the 20th century. His publications, almost all relating to gastrointestinal physiology, totalled nearly 1,000; he trained 131 research fellows and was the recipient of 265 visiting professorships. He was also a much loved 'character', who had a distinctive panache and style. One of his obituarists characterised him as 'colourful, outrageous, funny, bombastic, eloquent, sometimes inoffensively vulgar, charming, engaging and never dull'. Thompson's early life was inauspicious. He was born to a relatively poor family, his father being the owner of a hardware store in the small town of Hebbronville, south Texas. Jim attended school in Hebbronville and at the age of 16 entered the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, where he graduated in just two years with a degree in science. In 1948 he entered medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston. After one year he dropped out and worked fulltime as a laboratory assistant in order to earn sufficient funds to finance his continued education. He qualified in 1951 and, after a year of a rotating internship in Galveston, applied all over the country to obtain a residency in surgery, with a total lack of success. Eventually he was accepted as a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania owing to a mistaken belief that he was the relative of a famous alumnus known to the chief of surgery! He never looked back. After a year in the research lab he entered the clinical surgery residency programme, which he completed in 1959, after a two-year period of military service in Germany. In the Army he was classified as a physician rather than a surgeon and was assigned to a daily sick parade in which he saw soldier after soldier with gonorrhoea. As soldiers with venereal disease were at risk of demotion the good hearted Jim, while treating them appropriately, recorded in the notes they had laryngitis. The Army medical headquarters in Washington DC became alarmed at the apparent outbreak of laryngitis in Munich and sent a team to investigate, whereupon Jim's misdemeanours were uncovered. However, the inspectors were so impressed with his kindliness and ingenuity they covered up for him and no untoward consequences followed. On finishing his residency, he moved to the Pennsylvania Hospital as an assistant surgeon, where he set up a surgical research laboratory and began his academic studies into gastrointestinal physiology. He quickly succeeded in getting grants from major agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an institution whose support was to continue for more than 40 years. His steady output of high class papers, mainly on the gastric antral inhibitory hormone, began to attract attention throughout the USA and perhaps it was no surprise when in 1963 he was recruited to the University of California Los Angeles-Harbor General Hospital, where he continued his research, becoming chief of surgery in 1967. In 1970 he was recruited by his alma mater, UTMB, to return as professor and chief of surgery. He remained there for the rest of his career. Throughout his life his research focused on basic and applied gastrointestinal physiology and in particular the identification and function of GI hormones. He elucidated the physiological and pathological roles of several gut peptides, including gastrin, cholecystokinin, somatostatin, bombesin and neurotensin. He elucidated the role of these agents in neoplasia and in the mucosal adaptation that occurs in old age. Hundreds of papers in peer reviewed journals appeared over the years, together with some 120 book chapters. During this time he trained 131 research fellows in research techniques, as well as over 200 surgical residents in clinical surgery. He was an invited visiting professor in numerous institutions across the USA and also in Europe, India, Africa, South and Central America, and the Far East. In addition to this exceedingly busy activity in Galveston, Jim Thompson also actively participated in the wider aspects of surgical life. He was elected to 56 US professional and scientific societies and became president of the Texas Surgical Society and later the Southern Surgical Association. He was elected to the presidency of six national organisations, including the American College of Surgeons and the American Surgical Association. He was on the editorial board of nine high impact journals, including the *New England Journal of Medicine*. Honours and awards were legion - the distinguished service award and the lifetime achievement award of the American College of Surgeons, the lifetime achievement award from the Society of University Surgeons, and honorary fellowships from 11 foreign countries were just some. Others that were especially treasured by Jim were the Golden Apple award for outstanding teaching, the Herman Barnett award for outstanding teaching of surgery, a merit award by the NIH, and honorary professor for life from the University of Beijing. He also particularly valued his election to the prestigious American Philosophical Society. Outside of medicine Jim was highly cultured. He had a personal library of several thousand books and was well read in literature, art and music. He painted in watercolour, grew orchids and was devoted to his six children, seven grandchildren and long-time companion Bebe Jensen. The writer of this memoir was delighted to enjoy his stimulating company over many years and to admit him to the honorary fellowship of this College at the time of our bicentenary celebrations in 2000. In his seventies Jim underwent three open-heart operations, the last of which caused complications, which were nearly fatal, but he recovered, only to develop disseminated prostate cancer, from which he died in May 2008, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Nash, James George (1804 - 1879)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He became a Colonial Surgeon and was at one time President of the Medical Board of South Australia. On his return to England he practised in Cheltenham and then settled at Woodville, Newberry Park, New Ferry, Cheshire, where he died on November 12th, 1879.
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First Title value, for Searching Mackenzie, William (1791 - 1868)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-11
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in Queen Street, Glasgow, on April 29th, 1791, the son of James Mackenzie, a muslin manufacturer (d1800). He was educated in the Glasgow Grammar School and University, and began to study divinity with the intention of becoming a minister of the Church of Scotland. In 1810 he turned to medicine, attended at the Royal Infirmary, where in 1813 he acted as resident clerk to Dr Richard Miller, obtained the Licence of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1815, and spent nearly the whole of the next three years on the Continent under Roux and Orfila in Paris and Beer in Vienna. He came to London in 1818, attended John Abernethy's lectures at St Bartholomew's Hospital, laying himself out to practise in Newman Street, W. Unsuccessful in his application for a demonstratorship, and disappointed in his hope of practice, he returned to Glasgow in 1819. He took the additional qualification of Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, began general practice, and, though always with a leaning towards ophthalmology, lectured on anatomy, surgery, materia medica, and medical jurisprudence in Anderson's College - the extra-academical school of medicine in Glasgow. In 1824, in conjunction with Dr G C Monteath, he founded the Eye Infirmary, and in 1828 was appointed Waltonian Lecturer in the University of Glasgow "On the Structure, Functions and Diseases of the Eye". In the same year the first volume of the *Glasgow Medical Journal* appeared, with his name as editor on the title-page. He was well qualified for the position, because he wrote well and fluently, with an extensive knowledge of English, French, and German medical literature. It cannot now be told if he was merely editor, or whether the journal was not in reality his own private venture. In 1838 he was appointed Surgeon-Oculist in Scotland to Queen Victoria. He died at Glasgow of angina pectoris on July 30th, 1868, leaving a widow and one son. Mackenzie was one of the surgeons who raised ophthalmic surgery to the high position it now occupies amongst the special branches of medical science. His *Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye* (1830) remained the standard book on its subject until the introduction of the ophthalmoscope in 1851 caused a radical change in the diagnosis and treatment of intra-ocular disease. The book was translated into German in 1832, into French in an unauthorized edition in 1844, and an authorized edition in 1856, whilst a supplement corrected by the author was issued by Messrs Warlomont & Testelin at Brussels in 1866. Four editions appeared in England, the last one being dated 1854. An oil-painting by Sir Daniel MacNee, PRSA, hangs in the Eye Infirmary in Glasgow. It has been engraved by Messrs Maclure & Macdonald, of Glasgow. There is also an oil-painting in the reading-room of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; it is a replica of a painting by Alexander Keith which was in the possession of Mrs Mackenzie. A marble bust by George Ewing is also in the possession of the family. A replica in freestone adorns the gable on the west front of the new Eye Infirmary in Berkeley Street, Glasgow. A lithograph portrait appears in *Memoirs and Portraits of One Hundred Glasgow Men who have Died during the Last Thirty Years* (Glasgow, 1886). Mackenzie's medical library is incorporated with that of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons at Glasgow, and his collection of preparations of the eye is preserved in the medical school of St Mungo's College.
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First Title value, for Searching Nathan, Charles (1816 - 1872)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-29 2013-11-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Westminster Hospital, where he was a distinguished student and prizeman. He went out to Australia, began the practice of his profession in Sydney in 1842, and continued actively to exercise it for thirty years. He was at the head of the profession in Sydney, and is said to have been courteous, kind, a stickler for professional honour, well versed in all branches of his art, and one whose opinion on questions of surgery carried great weight in the Colony. He was, moreover, a wit and a good musician. He held many high positions, occupying for over twenty years the post of Surgeon to the Sydney Infirmary, of which, on his retirement some eight years before his death, he was unanimously elected Consulting Surgeon. During the last three years of his life he was also Consulting Surgeon to the Infirmary and St Vincent's Hospital. He was Surgeon to the Sydney Female Refuge; a Member of the Medical Board of New South Wales; Member of the Senate of Sydney University; a Fellow of St Paul's College; an Examiner in Medicine at Sydney University; and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. Not long before his death he was busy with others in drafting a new Medical Bill. He was also desirous of forming a scientific Medical Society in Sydney, intending, shortly before his death, if his health continued good, to call a meeting of the profession for this purpose. He died at Sydney on September 20th, 1872, leaving a widow and a numerous family, on whose behalf a large subscription was afterwards raised. His portrait accompanies his biography in the *New South Wales Medical Gazette* (1872-3, iii, 43). His Sydney address was at 187 Macquarie Street. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 1 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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First Title value, for Searching Overend, Wilson (1806 - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Owen, Edmund Blackett (1847 - 1915)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on April 7th, 1847, the third son of William Buy Owen, then practising at Finchingfield, Essex, but originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his father, Daniel Owen, had settled towards the end of the eighteenth century. Edmund Blackett Owen's mother had been a Miss Mary Blackett, and he was the third of eight children, of whom five were sons. William Buy Owen, his father, moved to London in 1860, and bought a practice in Cleveland Square, Hyde Park. After leaving school at Bishop's Stortford in 1862, Edmund Owen became a student at St Mary's Hospital in 1863, the intention being that he should in time join his father in practice. He was, however, attracted first by anatomy and then by surgery. In 1868 he was Resident Medical Officer at St Mary's, and he afterwards studied in Paris. From 1868-1875 he was Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Mary's, and in 1876 was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy. In 1888 he changed that position for the Lectureship in Surgery. In June, 1871, he was elected Surgeon to Out-patients, became full Surgeon in 1882, and Consulting Surgeon on his retirement after twenty years in 1902. In 1896 he resigned the Lectureship in Surgery. His career at the Royal College of Surgeons was distinguished and most useful. He was a Member of Council from 1897-1913, holding his seat after re-election, and was Vice-President in 1905-1906 and 1906-1907. In 1906 he delivered the Bradshaw Lecture on "Cancer: its Treatment by Modern Methods"; in 1911 he delivered the Hunterian Oration. Owen's reputation as a teacher stood so high that he was often appointed to examinerships. In 1883 he was placed on the Board of Examiners in Anatomy and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1884 he joined the Board of Examiners in Anatomy and Physiology for the Fellowship, and from 1889-1899 was a Member of the Court of Examiners. In 1884, also, he was elected Examiner in Anatomy for the Second Examination of the Conjoint Board. He was likewise at different periods Examiner in Surgery to the Universities of Cambridge, London, and Durham. He held a great number of offices. He was at one time or another Member of the Medical Board of the University of Wales, Orator of the Medical Society in 1897, President in 1899, President of the Harveian Society in 1887, Member of Council of Queen Victoria's Jubilee Nurses Institute, Member of the Committee of the Cancer Research Fund, President of the North-West London Boy Scouts Association. He was also, at the time of his death, Consulting Surgeon to the Paddington Green Children's Hospital, the Royal Masonic Institute for Girls, and Hon Surgeon to the Royal Society of Musicians. Owen was most successful in his treatment of children, and was for many years on the staff of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, having become Assistant Surgeon there in 1877, full Surgeon in 1883, and Consulting Surgeon on his retirement in 1898. His work for the British Medical Association was of constantly increasing value. He joined the Association at an early stage of his career, and in 1883 was Secretary of the Section of Surgery at the Liverpool Meeting. In 1885 he was Vice-President of the Section of Surgery at the Cardiff Meeting, and President of the Section at the Swansea Meeting in 1903. He was President of the Section of Diseases of Children at the Portsmouth Meeting in 1899, and gave an address on the "Ununited Fractures in Childhood". At the Sheffield Meeting in 1908 he delivered the Popular Lecture on "Dust and Disease", in which he referred to the work of Pasteur and Lister, to trade diseases, and to the close relation of smoke and dust. It was a brilliant address, very well received. But undoubtedly his greatest service to the Association was rendered during the controversies which attended its reorganization in 1900 and the following years. As was inevitable, the proposals excited a good deal of feeling, and it was with great satisfaction that all friends of the Association heard that Edmund Owen had accepted the office of Chairman of the Constitution Committee. It was felt that he was a man whose impartial judgement and genial temperament made him well suited to compose differences, and in accepting the office he was doubtless influenced by the strong patriotic principles with which he was imbued, and his deep belief in the unity of the British Empire. He completed this part of his work for the Association by presenting the report of the Constitution Committee in a witty speech at the Cheltenham Meeting in 1901, and his presentation of its report went far to convince many members of the Association that the new constitution should have a trial. The interest he was known to take in the Overseas Branches led to Owen's election to be Chairman of the Colonial Committee appointed by the Association in 1902, and in 1907 his popularity and the high opinion held of his business capacity and devotion to the interests of the Association led to his election to be Chairman of Council, an office which he held until 1910. After the outbreak of the European War, Owen performed thoroughly congenial duties as Surgeon-in-Chief to the St John Ambulance Brigade. He smoothed over difficulties which had for some years existed between the St John Ambulance Association and the Red Cross Society, and in the autumn of 1914, when a Joint Committee was formed with offices in Pall Mall, worked amicably with Sir Frederick Treves in the selection of the medical personnel and the organization and training of the orderlies. "Nothing is too good for our sick and wounded soldiers and sailors", he wrote to the *British Medical Journal* (1914, ii, 949 - "Amateur War Nurses"), and in the same letter stated that it had been made as impossible for an untrained nurse to obtain work under the British Red Cross Society as it would be for an unqualified practitioner to get his name upon the Medical Register. Doubtless Sir Frederick Treves had brought this excellent state of things about, for it was he who, in describing his experiences during the South African War, had so pointedly complained of the 'plague of women', the fashionable amateur nurses, with which the Medical Department was then afflicted. Owen added that a certain number of women from the Voluntary Aid Detachments (the 'VADs') of the two societies were being employed to help in the work of the ward, the kitchen, and store-room, and that they had been given the title not of 'nurse', or even of 'probationer', but of 'woman orderly'. Owen had rendered eminent services at one time to the French Hospital, where as Surgeon he succeeded Sir William MacCormac in December, 1901. On the occasion of the visit of President Loubet to the hospital in 1903 he was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour, and he remained warmly attached to the hospital to the end of his life. At first he took up an attitude of opposition to Listerian antiseptic methods and poured contempt on the ritual of the spray. He even went further than this, and at one of the societies, when Lister brought forward his open operation for fractured patella, Owen, with characteristic temerity, remarked in parody of a famous saying that it might be magnificent, but was not surgery. Owen was an incisive speaker and his store of apt illustration was remarkable. His repartees were memorable, and there was nothing anywhere quite like Owen's class in the theatre at the close of operations. By informal questions, by encouragement and sympathy, by veiled irony and gentle ridicule, by humorous invective, by instructive anecdotes of professional experiences, he seemed to draw all the students unto him, and not even the most stupid of 'chronics' was afraid to go to the class again. Then there was the transparent honesty of the man, shown not least in an impulsiveness which led him to hasty conclusions, soon to be put aside, so that he would vote to-morrow against that which he had advocated to-day. You forgave, you laughed, and loved him the more. It was on leaving his work at the joint office of the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance Brigade that Owen, while walking down St James's Street, was seized with a stroke of paralysis, which in a few days proved fatal. He was taken to Charing Cross Hospital, where he died on Friday afternoon, July 23rd, 1915, and was cremated at Golder's Green. He had spent many delightful holidays with his daughters at his house, Malham Tarn, near Settle in Craven, Yorkshire, where he rejoiced in his garden and in fly-fishing. He lived at 64 Great Cumberland Place, Hyde Park, for many years, but latterly at 24 Berkeley Street, Portman Square. By his marriage in 1882 with Miss Annie Laura Clayton, of Brynmally, near Wrexham, Owen had four daughters, who survived him. Mrs Owen died in 1906. There is a fine portrait of him in the Council Album. It should be added that Owen took the greatest interest in all the activities of student life at St Mary's. He warmly supported the Athletic Club, and had in his student days been a keen cricketer and football player, being Captain of the Hospital football team. He was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club. He was also one of the founders of Sancta Maria Lodge, No 2682, of Free and Accepted Masons, constituted within the School of St Mary's, and was appointed a Past Junior Grand Deacon of England in 1899. He wrote an interesting account of a night of terrific work at the Epsom and Ewell War Hospital, when the first patients were admitted on October 15th, 1914. Publications: *Introductory Address delivered to the Students of St Mary's Hospital*, 1874, 8vo, London, 1874. "On the Anatomy of Genu Valgum," 8vo, Cambridge, 1879; reprinted from the *Jour Anat and Physiol*, 1879, xiii, 83. "A Case of Furneaux Jordan's Amputation at the Hip-joint, in which Bone was Re-formed in the Stump," 8vo, London, 1886; reprinted from *Trans Med Soc*, 1886, ix, 205. "Rickety Deformities of the Lower Extremity: their Treatment by Operation," 8vo, London, 1888; reprinted from *Practitioner*, 1888, xl, 261. *The Rearing of Hand-fed Infants*. With an introduction by CHARLES WEST, 8vo, London, 1884. International Health Exhibition Lecture, No 37. *The Surgical Diseases of Children*, 12mo, 4 plates, London, 1885; American edition, 1885; 3rd ed, 6 plates, 1897; French translation of 2nd ed, considerably added to by O LAURANT, Paris, 1891. *A Manual of Anatomy for Senior Students*, 8vo, illustrated, London, 1890. This is a record of Owen's work at St Mary's, and contains matter not then found in works on surgery. *Selected Subjects in Connection with the Surgery of Infancy and Childhood*, being the Lettsomian Lectures delivered at the Medical Society of London, 1890, 8vo, London, 1890. "Post-nasal Growths, or Adenoids," 8vo, London, 1893; reprinted from *Practitioner*, 1893, l, 191. "Treatment of Severe Club Foot." - *Trans Med-Chic Soc*, 1893, lxxvi, 89. "A Case of Axial Rotation of the Testis," 8vo, London, 1894; reprinted from *Trans Med Soc Lond*, 1894, xvii, 61. "Acute Septic Osteitis in Children and Young People," Lectures 1 and 2, 8vo, 1895; reprinted from *International Clinics*, 1895. "A Distinct Variety of Hip-joint Disease in Children and Young Persons," 8vo, London, 1899; reprinted from *Trans Med-Chir Soc*, 1899, lxxxii, 65. "Cleft Palate and Hare-lip: the Earlier Operation on the Palate," 12mo, illustrated, London, 1904. *Cancer: its Treatment by Modern Methods*, being the Bradshaw Lecture for 1906, 8vo, London, 1907. *John Hunter and his Museum*. The Hunterian Oration delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1911, Feb 14, 4to. This is the typewritten copy of the Oration presented to the Library by the Orator. It is bound by Zaehnsdorf. "Appendicitis: a Plea for Immediate Operation," 8vo, 4 illustrations, Bristol, 1914; reprinted from *Brit Med Jour*, 1913, i, 321, etc. Article on "Surgery" in the *Encyclopaedia Britannica*, 11th ed.
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First Title value, for Searching Bentall, Hugh Henry (1920 - 2012)

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by Raymond Hurt
Publication Date 2012-11-09 2013-01-23
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Occupation Cardiac surgeon
Details Hugh Bentall was professor of cardiac surgery at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, and a pioneer in the development of surgery using the heart-lung machine. He was born in Worthing, Sussex, on 28 April 1920, the son of Henry Bentall and Lilian Alice Bentall née Greeno. He was educated at Seaford College, Sussex, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he graduated in 1942. A natural leader, whilst a medical student he produced a play *Death on the table* at Hill End Hospital, St Albans, to which part of Bart's had been evacuated during the Second World War. His first junior house job was at the North Middlesex Hospital under the senior surgeon/medical director Ivor Lewis, and this initiated his interest in thoracic surgery. After further junior posts at the Gordon Hospital and London Chest Hospital, he joined the Royal Navy in 1945, serving on the hospital ship *Empire Clyde*. After leaving the Navy in 1947, he taught anatomy for six months at Charing Cross Hospital and obtained his FRCS qualification in 1950. In 1959 he was appointed as a lecturer and then, in 1962, as a reader at the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital under Ian Aird, where, in association with Dennis Melrose, the first successful heart-lung machine in England was developed. In 1959 the Hammersmith cardiac surgery team was invited to Moscow. The group, led by Bill Cleland (surgeon) and including Melrose (physiologist), Bentall (assistant surgeon), John Beard (anaesthetist), Arthur Hollman (cardiologist), a theatre technician and a buxom theatre sister much admired by the Russians, successfully operated on five children with congenital heart disease under cardiopulmonary bypass. It is reported that Cleland said afterwards: 'Well, the good Lord had little else to do in Moscow, so he looked after us.' A donation from his father's successful department store in Kingston-on-Thames financed Hugh's appointment to a personal chair of cardiac surgery at Hammersmith (the first in England). In 1965 he successfully operated on a patient with Marfan's syndrome and replaced a leaking aortic valve and a dilated ascending aorta in a single operation, an operation which subsequently became known as the 'Bentall procedure'. Later he concentrated on the treatment of patients with the heart conduction abnormality known as the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. He was a founder member of Pete's Club, where there was just one rule - that 'no case should throw credit on the presenter'. Only errors of judgement were discussed, and the members subsequently learnt a tremendous amount from these meetings, much more than at other national and international surgical meetings. He was technically a good surgeon, but would never accept responsibility for any technical problem which might develop in an operation - and his assistants found it difficult to accept this situation. After his retirement in 1985 he taught anatomy at the Royal Free Hospital for five years and developed an interest in horology at the Greenwich Observatory. In 1944 he married Jean Wilson (who died early in 2012), a medical student he met at the North Middlesex Hospital. They had three sons and one daughter. Sadly in his late eighties he developed Alzheimer's disease/dementia. He died on 9 September 2012 at the age of 92.
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First Title value, for Searching Pitt, John Ballard ( - 1900)

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First Title value, for Searching Pitts, Bernard (1848 - 1914)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Sowerby, Yorkshire, on June 29th, 1848, the son of the Rev T Pitts, Vicar of St George's, Sowerby, and younger brother of the Rev Thomas Pitts, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Rector of Loughborough and Honorary Canon of Peterborough. Pitts went to school at Hipperholme Grammar School, near Halifax, and then entered Jesus College, Cambridge, in October, 1868. After reading mathematics for a year, he took a pass degree preparatory to medicine. During the year 1872 he worked at medicine in Edinburgh under Lister, and then again at Cambridge. He entered St Thomas's Hospital in 1873, was Clinical Clerk to Dr John Syer Bristowe, and Dresser to Sydney Jones (qv). After qualifying in 1875 he was Resident Clinical Assistant at Bethlehem Hospital. Of sturdy build and great physical strength, he was by nature whilst young an athlete, playing cricket and football for his College at Cambridge, continuing cricket and adding racquets and golf until incapacitated by illness. Early in 1876 he became House Surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital. The turning-point in his career came when at forty-eight hours' notice in the following August he went under the Red Cross Society to the Turko-Serbian War, serving for two and a half months under bad conditions, with rice and black bread for food, the surgical work being overwhelming. Chloroform and morphia had not been made use of until the Red Cross unit arrived. The St Thomas's men were Armaud Leslie, killed later by the Dervishes near Suakin; Haydon White, of Nottingham; and R Parker, afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC, as dresser. Pitts returned to St Thomas's Hospital in November, 1876, as Resident Accoucheur, and in October, 1877, he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy. In 1878 he went out to the Cape on a Union Castle liner, and on his return was made Resident Assistant Surgeon. After holding the post for four years, in 1882 he was elected an Extra Assistant Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital and also Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. In 1892 he became Surgeon to both hospitals. At St Thomas's Hospital he was Lecturer on Practical Surgery, and then on Surgery. He was Examiner in Surgery at Cambridge, Durham, the Society of Apothecaries, and a Member of the Court of Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1899-1909. At the College he was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology in 1893, his subject being "The Surgical Affections of the Air Passages in Childhood". A paper on "Cases of Abdominal Surgery" in *St Thomas's Hospital Reports* (1882, xi, 75) indicates that he was early in the field when that subject was developing. At the debate at the Clinical Society in 1885, when Sir Henry Thomson still advocated the perineal route for removal of villous tumours of the bladder, Pitts advocated the suprapubic operation. A year later Thomson published a small book on the suprapubic operations without mentioning Pitts. In 1901 he opened the Discussion on the Operation of Laparotomy for Intussusception at the Cheltenham Meeting of the British Medical Association. In 1904 a severe illness incapacitated him for six months. Not long before his death he wrote to a friend: "How hard it is to get credit unless you are constantly writing and almost advertising. I have always had a dread of this, but ought to have written more." He delivered his last lectures at St Thomas's Hospital on June 25th, 1908, on "Some Recollections of Surgery and its Teaching" (*St Thomas's Hosp Gaz*, 1908, xviii, 142). He resigned on reaching the age limit of 60, and he also resigned from the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, in 1912, becoming Consulting Surgeon at both hospitals. Pitts took great interest in the welfare of nurses, and almost from the first was a Member of the Council of the Nurses' Co-operation, which in 1915 numbered 500 members. He had practised at 109 Harley Street. He died after a long and painful illness in the Nursing Home, 4 Upper Wimpole Street, on December 13th, 1914.
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First Title value, for Searching Oxley, Robert (1806 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Pachoutine (Paschutin), Victor (1845 - 1901)

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First Title value, for Searching Page, Frederick (senior) ( - 1872)

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First Title value, for Searching Page, Frederick (junior) (1840 - 1919)

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First Title value, for Searching Nwakanma, Benson Ihukwumere ( - 2012)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-11-09 2015-02-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Benson Ihukwumere Nwakanma gained his FRCS in 1964. He died in Imo State, Nigeria, on 31 August 2012, after a brief illness.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003122
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First Title value, for Searching Rustomjee, Rusie Cawasjee Jamshedjee (1912 - 2012)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-11-09 2013-08-13
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Rusie Rustomjee, an ENT surgeon, practised medicine for 75 years, starting in Colombo, Ceylon and finally retiring in Australia at the age of 89. He was born in Colombo on 9 November 1912 one of the six children of Cowasjee Rustomjee, whom he described as a merchant, and his wife Piroja née Mistry. His grandfather, Jamshed Ji Rustomjee JP a prominent Ceylonese philanthropist, donated money to the Children's Hospital and the Victoria Home for Incurables in Colombo. He studied at Ceylon Medical College where he was awarded a bursary, and won the Rockwood gold medal for operative surgery. During the Second World War he served as a temporary major in the Ceylon Army Medical Corps. Travelling to London after the war he passed the FRCS in 1949 and became a clinical assistant at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital in 1950, working with William McKenzie and Maxwell Ellis, both distinguished fellows of the College. Returning to Colombo he became senior ENT surgeon to the General Hospital. In 1975, concerned by the political situation in Sri Lanka, he and his family emigrated to Australia and settled in the Blue Mountains at Lapstone. He continued to practice ENT surgery at Springwood Hospital and at Nepean and Governor Phillip Hospital, Penrith, finally retiring in 2002. He had married his cousin, Jer Rustomjee in 1948 and they had three children: two daughters, Zarine Mistry (born 1949) who became a consultant physician in Virginia, USA; Tehmi Meher-Homjee (born 1950) who managed a fashion boutique in Australia; and son, Jamshed (born 1951) who worked for the NSW transport board. He was a past president of the Colombo Lions Club and of the Sri Lanka College of Surgeons. In Australia he became a member of the Australian Returned Serviceman's Club and of the Penrith Rugby Leagues Club. He enjoyed swimming, walking, reading and bridge and noted that he regretted not having enough opportunity to practice ocean swimming which had been one of the favourite pastimes of his youth. A year before he retired he remarked that he had had "a varied but happy medical career." He died on 6 October 2011 survived by his wife, children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Macpherson, Hugh Martin (1820 - 1902)

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First Title value, for Searching Macready, Jonathan Forster Christian Horace (1850 - 1907)

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First Title value, for Searching Paget, Stephen (1855 - 1926)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The fourth and youngest son of Sir James Paget, Bart (qv), by his wife Lydia, the youngest daughter of the Rev Henry North, two of whose sons had been curates at Yarmouth. He was educated at St Marylebone and All Souls' Grammar School, 1 Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park. The school had been founded by his maternal grandfather and affiliated to King's College. It was then under the headmastership of Mr A H Barford, BA, FLS, a good teacher of English who insisted more especially on accurate spelling. Paget passed from London to Shrewsbury. He entered in 1870 and left in 1874, acting as prepostor in 1873, and gaining a sound knowledge of Latin and Greek. From Shrewsbury he went to Oxford, matriculating from Christ Church on October 16th, 1874, and graduating BA in 1878. He gained a second class in Classical Moderations and in 'Greats' - the final school in literae humaniores - and held a Fell Exhibition of £40 a year at his college from 1876-1880. He took the MA degree in 1886, but was never a candidate for the MB. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital on October 1st, 1878, and in due course became House Surgeon to Sir Thomas Smith (qv), the friend and former pupil of his father. He then acted for a time as Secretary to Sir James Paget and as private Assistant to Sir Thomas Smith until he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital, where he became full Surgeon. He was also Surgeon to the West London Hospital until 1897; he then abandoned general surgery and was appointed Aural Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in succession to Leopold Hudson (qv). This post he held until his retirement, when he received the honorary rank of Consulting Surgeon. During the European War he first lectured at the various camps throughout the country, taking as his subjects hygiene and typhoid inoculation, and then went to Petrograd in charge of the Anglo-Russian Hospital during the years 1916-1917. His health broke down and he retired to Limpsfield, Surrey, where he died at Furzedown on May 8th, 1926, of cerebral haemorrhage, having been partly paralysed for some months. He married in 1885 Eleanor Mary, the second daughter of Edward Burd, MD, of Shrewsbury, a former pupil of Sir James Paget; by her he had two daughters and with her he lived in unalloyed happiness. Stephen Paget was in many ways unfitted for the life of an operating surgeon in London. Extremely sensitive and highly cultivated, the wear and tear of practice soon broke down his health. His reputation finds its surest foothold as an essayist. He possessed many of the qualities required of a discerning critic. His style was natural, and was founded on a well-stored mind in which the classical literature of Greece and Rome, as well as that of the English in which he wrote, held the largest place. All his books, therefore, are a pleasure to read. He was an excellent and fluent speaker and a first-rate organizer. The best and most useful part of his life was that which followed on his enforced retirement from professional work. He was instrumental in founding "The Research Defence Society", of which the inaugural meeting was held at his house - 70 Harley Street, W - on Jan 27th, 1908. It was a revival of the Association for the Advancement of Medicine by Research in which his father had been greatly interested twenty-five years before, and was the direct outcome of a committee formed by E H Starling, FRS, Professor of Physiology at University College, to enlighten the public as to the real value of experiments on living animals. Stephen Paget was the mainstay of the Society. He organized meetings in different parts of the country, gave many excellent addresses, wrote innumerable pamphlets and fly-leaves, and took the war into the camp of the Anti-vivisectionists with telling effect. He exposed their fallacies and corrected their false statements, but carefully avoided the personalities in which it was their custom to indulge. For several years he edited *The Fight against Disease*, the journal of the Society. Publications:- "Tumours of the Palate," 8vo, London, 1886; reprinted from *St Bart's Hosp Rep*, 1886, xxii, 315. *Parotitis after Injury or Disease of the Abdomen or Pelvis*, 8vo, London, 1897. *The Surgery of the Chest*, 8vo, illustrated, Bristol, 1896. A useful manual when thoracic surgery was in its infancy. *John Hunter - Man of Science and Surgeon*. This appeared as a volume of "The Masters of Medicine" series in 1897 and is written charmingly. In the same year he published *Ambroise Paré and his Times* for a New York firm; it is skilfully compiled, but rather overweighted by the illustrations. *Essays for Students*, 8vo, London, 1899. *The Memoirs and Letters of Sir James Paget*, with portraits, was published in London in 1901. It is undoubtedly the best of Stephen Paget's books. It was a labour of love, and must remain a classic both for the style and the material. It proves an exception to the rule that a biography should not be written by a near relation. *The Young People. By One of the Old People*, 8vo, 1906. *Confessio Medici*, published in 1908, is more polished in style, but is written in a strain of sadness, as though the author were telling of his own experiences and was approaching ill health. *Experiments on Animals, with an Introduction by Lord Lister*, 8vo, 3 plates, 1899; American ed, 1900; 3rd ed, 1906; *The Case against Anti-vivisection*, l2mo, London, 1904; *Another Device: The Faith and Works of Christian Science*, 1909; *For and Against Experiments on Animals, with an Introduction by Lord Cromer*, 8vo, London, 1912; *Pasteur and After Pasteur*, 1914; *I have Reason to Believe*, London, 1921 - all are concerned with the anti-vivisection campaign. He published in 1919 a very skilful study of the *Life and Work of Sir Victor Horsley* (qv), for he presents a life-like portrait of one with whose views he was not in agreement. *History of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society*, 1805-1905 (with Sir NORMAN MOORE). It was published at Aberdeen in 1905. With the Rev J M C CRUM he wrote a life of his eldest brother, Francis Paget, Bishop of Oxford, 1902. Lastly, in 1912 there was *The Life of Canon Scott Holland* - a family friend.
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First Title value, for Searching Paget, Thomas ( - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Robson, Frederick A Hope (1835 - 1874)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Went to Kensington Grammar School and then studied at University College, London. He entered the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Company as Ship's Surgeon and remained in the service for some time. He then started practice in Shanghai, and had obtained an extensive practice when the incursions of rebels into the countryside necessitated the protection of the settlement, and he was appointed Surgeon to the British Volunteer Corps. In 1861 failure of health obliged him to return to England, when, after his health had improved, he became FRCS and practised first at 46 Great Marlborough Street, then at Iver, Bucks. The fatigue of country practice again caused his health to give way. He had been Surgeon to the Iver Village Hospital, Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator to the Iver District of the Eton Union, endeared to rich and poor alike by his skill and kindness. He was struck down with paralysis, and died on September 21st, 1874, leaving a widow and four children.
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First Title value, for Searching Higgens, Charles (1846 - 1920)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Hambledon, Hampshire, and was educated at Brighton College and Guy's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. In 1871 he was appointed Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital; in 1878 Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, becoming in 1883 Ophthalmic Surgeon and Lecturer on Ophthalmic Surgery until his retirement in 1906, when he became Consulting Surgeon. He was also Ophthalmic Surgeon to the French Hospital. During the War (1914-1918) he returned to active work as Surgeon to the County of London War Hospital. He performed the extraction of simple cataract admirably, as proved by his writings on the subject. As a colleague he was markedly generous, and always appreciative of work done for him by his juniors. To his equals he was cheery, wise, and full of common sense, ready to discuss disappointments in his cases, as well as his successes. His patients he impressed by his obvious capacity. Of wiry physique and tireless, he was a keen sportsman who shot and hunted whenever possible. He practised first at 38 Brook Street, and later at 52 Brook Street, after his marriage. He died suddenly whilst out shooting on December 28th, 1920. Publications: "Remarks on 150 Operations for Extraction of Cataract." - *Trans Roy Med-Chin Soc*, 1879, lxii, 347. "Two Hundred Operations for Extraction of Cataract." - *Trans Ophthalmol Soc*, 1884, iv, 116. "Note on 925 Extractions of Cataract." - *Lancet*, 1894, ii, 316. "On 130 Consecutlve Extractions of Cataract without a Failure." - *Ibid*, 1907, i, 1003. "A Note on a Case of Double Cataract: the Case of General Booth." - *Ibid*, 1912, il, 1073. *A Manual of Ophthalmic Practice*, 1888, and later editions, in addition to his *Cataract Operations*.
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First Title value, for Searching Schofield, Robert Harold Ainsworth (1851 - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Schroeder, Henry Sacheverel Edward (1827 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Edward John (1812 - 1857)

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First Title value, for Searching Scott, John (1799 - 1846)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The only son and second child of James Scott (1770-1849) by his wife Mary; born at Bromley in Kent, according to the inscription on his funeral tablet, on February 20th, 1799. His father, a general practitioner of Clay Hill, Beckenham, Kent, was in good social standing and of high professional repute, being especially famed for his skill in treating chronic ulcers and diseased joints. John Scott was educated privately at Sevenoaks until he entered Charterhouse School in 1813. Leaving in 1814, he was apprenticed to Sir William Blizard, then Senior Surgeon to the London Hospital. He went into practice with his father as soon as he had qualified, but having married Susannah Louisa, the third daughter of the Rev John Seymour Fleming St John, Canon of Worcester, he became connected with Sir Henry Halford. This probably caused him to settle in London as a consulting surgeon specializing more particularly in ophthalmic work, and living in New Broad Street in 1824. He was elected Surgeon to the Eye Hospital in Moorfields on November 24th, 1826, taking the place of Sir William Lawrence (qv), and serving until 1846. He unsuccessfully contested the vacancy for an Assistant Surgeon at the London Hospital when William Blizard Harkness (1799-1827) was elected on July 25th, 1821, but was appointed on July 18th, 1827, in the vacancy caused by the death of Harkness. Scott was appointed full Surgeon to the Hospital on March 8th, 1831, and resigned his office on December 20th, 1845, by which time he had bought No 17 Park Lane. He died at Brighton after a prolonged illness on April 11th, 1846, survived by his wife, but childless, and was buried in Bromley Church, where there is a very handsome tablet to his memory. Scott revolutionized one department of surgery by introducing the passive treatment of diseased joints. His method, however, was distasteful to his contemporaries owing to the complications with which he surrounded it; but, stripped of these, the principle was established as a factor in surgery. He treated chronic ulcers as his father had taught him by strapping the leg with diachylon plaster from the toes upwards, and he was thus opposed to Baynton's method, which consisted in applying the strapping for only a short distance above the ulcer. 'Scott's dressing' and 'Scott's ointment' were once household words in every hospital out-patient department, but they are now rarely used. His ointment had a camphorated mercurial base, and constant practice is said to have rendered Scott the most skilful bandager in London at a time when bandaging in the London hospitals was almost a fine art. Scott was distinguished as a surgeon by the rapidity and by the general accuracy of his diagnosis. He displayed great decision and energy in the treatment of his patients, though, like many of his contemporaries, he handled them roughly and cared little for their feelings. He was a bold but not a particularly brilliant operator, and is said to have been one of the first surgeons in England to remove the upper jaw, though John Lizars, of Edinburgh, had performed a successful operation of this kind on January 10th, 1830. In person Scott was tall and thin, with clean-cut features and clear grey eyes. He was acute in thought and action, but was of an uncertain and irritable temper which disease sometimes rendered overbearing. A man of deep religious feeling, he left considerable sums of money to various religious charities, "in order", as he stated, "that others may enjoy that free salvation purchased by a Saviour's blood which has been so precious unto my own soul". The bust by Sir Francis Chantrey, RA (1781-1841), presented to the college by Sir L A Selby-Bigge in May, 1918, is that of James Scott, father of John Scott. A portrait by J H Howard, RA, hangs in 'The Deanery' of the London Hospital. It was engraved by J W Reynolds. Publications: *Surgical Observations on Chronic Inflammations and Diseases of Joints*, 8vo, London, 1828; a new edition by W K Smith, 1857. This is a valuable work, as it lays down very clearly the necessity of putting diseased joints at rest. It preceded the teaching of Benjamin Brodie, John Hilton, and Howard Marsh. *Cases of Tic Douloureux and other Forms of Neuralgia*, 8vo, London, 1834. *Cataract and its Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1843. The object of this work was to introduce a sickle-shaped knife, but the instrument never came into common use.
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First Title value, for Searching Madden, Frank Cole (1873 - 1929)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-11 2017-05-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Melbourne on March 2nd, 1873, the son of D H Madden, of Sydney, New South Wales; educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, and Melbourne University, where he graduated MB ChB with honours in 1893 and MD in 1904. He served as Senior House Surgeon and Medical Superintendent at the Melbourne Hospital in 1894, and then came to London, entered St Mary's Hospital, and gained an exhibition in surgery and gynaecology, the Beaney Scholarship in Surgery, and was *proxime accessit* for the Beaney Scholarship in Pathology. Between 1895 and 1898 he was House Surgeon and Medical Superintendent at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. He then proceeded to Egypt as Assistant Surgeon to the Kasr-el-Aini Hospital at Cairo. In due course he became full Surgeon; Professor of Surgery at the Royal School of Medicine; Medical Officer to the Victoria Deaconess Hospital, to the Anglo-American Hospital; Medical Officer to HE the High Commissioner for Egypt, and to the British Consulate; Medical Referee to the Egyptian State Railways and the Eastern Telegraph Company. During the European War he was attached to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from 1915-1918 and was Civil Surgeon in charge of various military hospitals and the Red Cross Hospital, Cairo. At the time of his death Madden was Rector of the State University, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Director of the Kasr-el-Aini Hospital and Medical School, Consulting Surgeon to the Kasr-el-Aini Hospital, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cairo. Having previously been decorated OBE for his services during the War he was created a CMG in 1929. During the whole of his professional career Madden was an active member of the British Medical Association, and served as President of the Egyptian Branch from 1924-1925, its representative in 1926, and a member of the Egyptian Branch Council from 1926-1928. He was especially interested in tropical surgery and schistosomiasis. He married in 1900 Madeline, the daughter of Dr William Cox, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, a niece of Edmund Owen (qv), and by her had two sons and two daughters. He died at Cairo by his own hand on April 26th, 1929. Madden was a man of boundless energy who did much to raise the standard of practical surgery and medical education in Egypt. He withstood successfully the claim that medicine should be taught in Arabic at a time when text-books in that language were lacking. Conscientious to a fault, his industry and devotion to duty were an example to all with whom he was brought in contact. He took an active part in the public life of Cairo both as a tennis player at the Gezira Club and as a member of the Turf Club. Publications:- *Bilharziosis*, 1904. *The Surgery of Egypt*, 1919. Articles on "Schistosomiasis" in Choyce's *System of Surgery*, 1923, and in Byam and Archibald's *Practice of Medicine in the Tropics*, 1921.
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First Title value, for Searching Madden, Richard Robert (1798 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Norton, Robert (1803 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Norway, Samuel (1806 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Nottingham, John (1810 - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-05
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Was a Yorkshireman, and was apprenticed to the father of C G Wheelhouse (qv). He received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, and in Paris under Dupuytren and Velpeau, where he became a member of the Medical Society formed of English students studying in Paris. He was appointed about the year 1837 House Surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary (now the Royal Infirmary), and was noted for his eagerness in pursuing his clinical and pathological studies. He and a contemporary made post-mortem examinations together early in the morning, and throughout life Nottingham did much work at that time of day. He began general practice in the centre of Liverpool about the year 1840, but excluded midwifery cases from his routine. He soon acquired a good surgical practice, and in a few years settled at Everton in succession to Wainwright. This was then a charming and opulent suburb, and here John Nottingham continued till his retirement in the late seventies of the nineteenth century. He practised at 20 Roscommon Street, which became a slum during his time. Together with the late J Penn Harris and others he founded the St Anne's Dispensary, which rapidly became popular, and is now one of the Liverpool East Dispensaries. Here he made a reputation as specialist in eye and ear diseases. In 1850 or thereabouts Nottingham was appointed Surgeon to the Southern Hospital, where he was known as cautious, ingenious, and skilful in operations. During his tenure of office the hospital was rebuilt on a new site (1872) as the Royal Southern Hospital. After his retirement he suffered from double cataract, and remained in seclusion and blindness at his country seat at Whitchurch, Salop, till successfully operated upon in 1880 and 1881. He then again enjoyed good eyesight till 1887, when, just before Christmas, exposure on a cold night brought on inflammation and the globe of one eye had to be extirpated. The question of sight affected him in an extreme degree, for he had an immense library, comprising medical, surgical, and other literature, dictionaries and encyclopaedias, in most of the European languages, arranged on the walls of four spacious rooms, where also he had in many cabinets an extensive museum of surgical instruments. He was a great student, an omnivorous reader, and when not reading hard himself he employed a polyglot reader who lived in his house and arranged and managed his books. He was an accomplished linguist, and had a most retentive memory. A mind thus well stocked from many literary and scientific sources, great conversational power, and a quiet affable manner rendered him a most charming companion. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the Royal Medical Society of Berlin. Nottingham visited much among his well-chosen circle of friends, including Sir Joshua Walmsley, ex-Mayor of Liverpool, with whom he travelled in Spain and frequently shot in England. Latterly the old scholar never appeared abroad without a veil, and he died of mere old age on May 7th, 1895. He married Sarah Worthington, of Whitchurch, who survived him. Publications: *Report on the Restoration of Sight, by the Formation of an Artificial Pupil, in a Patient of St Anne's Dispensary*, l6mo, Liverpool, 1850. *Surgical Report on Bilateral Lithotomy, with General Remarks on Operations for Stone*, 8vo, London, 1850. *Practical Observations on Conical Cornea, and on the Short Sight and other Defects of Vision connected with it*, 8vo, London, 1854. *Diseases of the Ear. Illustrated by Clinical Observations*, 8vo, plate, London, 1857.
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First Title value, for Searching Plaskitt, Joshua (1834 - 1912)

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First Title value, for Searching Platt, John Edward (1866 - 1910)

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First Title value, for Searching Playfair, Hugh James Moore (1864 - 1928)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Edinburgh, the son of General Archibald Playfair, and a cousin of William Smoult Playfair, MD, LLD (1835-1903), Obstetric Surgeon to King's College Hospital, who was one of the first obstetricians in this country to insist upon doing the abdominal operations in his own wards instead of delegating them to a general surgeon as was then the custom. Hugh Playfair was educated at Fettes College and at King's College, London, where he was a dresser for Lord Lister in the old buildings of the hospital in Clare Market. He determined at an early period in his career as a medical student to devote his life to midwifery, and filled in succession the offices of Resident Accoucheur, Obstetric Tutor, Assistant Obstetric Physician (1904) and Lecturer on Practical Obstetrics at King's College Hospital, becoming in due course Obstetric and Gynaecological Surgeon, and Consulting Surgeon in 1926. For some years, too, he was Assistant Physician to the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Women and Children and Gynaecological Surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital. He married in Paris in 1905 Miss Eva Journault, but as he had no children he adopted the son of his younger brother, Nigel Playfair, a well-known actor. He died March 25th, 1928.
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First Title value, for Searching Plowright, Charles Bagge (1849 - 1910)

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First Title value, for Searching Poland, Alfred (1822 - 1872)

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First Title value, for Searching Pollard, William (1819 - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Pollock, George David (1817 - 1897)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in India, the second son of Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, Bart, GCB, GCSI, who in turn was the youngest son of David Pollock, of Charing Cross, saddler to George III, and had married in 1810 his first wife, Frances Webbe, daughter of T Barclay, Sheriff of Tain. George David Pollock's two uncles were respectively Sir Frederick Pollock, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Sir David Pollock, President of the High Court in India. Pollock was brought to England in childhood and sent to the Rev Mr Turis, Wrestlingworth, Bedfordshire, and was subsequently apprenticed to a country practitioner. Next he entered St George's Hospital and became House Surgeon to Sir Benjamin Brodie. Brodie's influence obtained for him in 1843 the post of Resident Physician to Lord Metcalfe, Governor-General of Canada. Metcalfe-suffered from rodent ulcer of the cheek which destroyed an eye, and he returned home in December, 1845, to die on Sept 5th, 1846. Pollock, who had accompanied him, was elected in 1846 Assistant Surgeon to St George's Hospital, and served for thirty-four years until his retirement from the post in 1880. When Tatum gave up the care of ophthalmic cases Pollock succeeded him. He was Demonstrator of Anatomy under Prescott Hewett (qv), and succeeded him as Lecturer on Anatomy. His name is not connected with any improvement in the art of surgery, but his operations of excision of the scapula for tumour, and for vesicovaginal fistula are worthy of mention. On the founding of the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, Pollock was appointed Surgeon, and he w as especially interested there in cleft-palate operations. In connection with the Ophthalmic Department at St George's Hospital he operated for cataract with dexterity, and it gained for him a certain amount of reputation and private practice in eye diseases. He was Examiner in Surgery to the Indian Medical Service. He was a popular member of the teaching staff, to whom students went in sickness. He was singularly painstaking, trustworthy, and an open-minded administrator both in the Medical School and at the Hospital. Along with his friend, Campbell de Morgan (qv), and as President of the Association of Fellows, he headed a reform party at the Royal College of Surgeons. His curious objection to stand for election to the Council was that it was unnecessary and invidious to require a man in high position to be backed as a candidate by the signatures of Fellows. In the last year of his life he was, however, induced to stand for the Council as President of the Association of Fellows in 1896, when he was beaten by J N C Davies-Colley (qv). He was President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1886, and of the Pathological Society in 1875, and also Surgeon in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales. He practised at 36 Grosvenor Street until the last year of his life, when he moved to 35 Chester Square. He also farmed a small estate near Ascot, where he spent his spare time, and he travelled a great deal. He married in 1850 Marianne, daughter of Robert Saunders, by whom he had five children, three surviving him. He died after a short illness of pneumonia on February 14th, 1897. Publications:- "Injuries of the Abdomen", "Diseases of the Mouth, Pharynx and Oesophagus", and "Diseases of the Intestines" in Holmes and Hulke's *System of Surgery*, 3rd ed, 1883.
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First Title value, for Searching Pollock, Robert James (1805 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Pollock, Timothy (1798 - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Pomfret, Henry Waytes (1858 - 1912)

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First Title value, for Searching Pooler, John ( - 1850)

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First Title value, for Searching Pooley, Charles (1817 - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Pope, Harry Campbell (1849 - 1906)

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First Title value, for Searching Poppleton, Joe (1815 - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Porter, John Taylor (1819 - 1874)

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First Title value, for Searching Lawson, Robert Sharp (1886 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-01 2013-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon Orthopaedic geneticist
Details Born 25 March 1886 at Blackford, Perthshire, the third child and second son of John Lawson, banker, and Lillias J Sharp, his wife. He went to school at Crieff Academy and then entered Edinburgh University, where he graduated in arts and later took first-class honours in medicine. He served as house surgeon to Sir Harold Stiles at the Royal Infirmary, house surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and demonstrator in anatomy and assistant in the pathological department at the University. He was also for a time Stiles's private assistant. He served next as medical superintendent and resident surgical officer in the Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich. During the first world war Lawson served as a temporary surgeon in the Royal Navy 1914-18, and took the English Fellowship 1916, though not previously a Member of the College, after postgraduate study at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After the war he worked with Sir Robert Jones at Liverpool, and in 1919 settled in practice at Leicester, where he was elected surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and became consulting surgeon to Carlton Hayes Hospital. He instituted the Infirmary's orthopaedic and fracture service. Lawson was president of the Leicestershire and Rutland branch of the British Medical Association, and an original member of the Provincial Surgical Club, acting for two years as its secretary. He was equally interested in general surgery and in orthopaedics. Lawson married in 1916 Elsie M Hunting, who survived him, but without children. He had an attack of coronary thrombosis before the outbreak of the second world war in 1939, but returned to his work and was active throughout the six busy war years. He died at Milton Hayes, Manor Road, Leicester on 27 May 1945, and was buried at Knighton after a funeral service at St Peter's, Highfields, Leicester. He had practised at 230 and 240 London Road, Leicester. A predecessor as surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Claude Douglas, died within a fortnight of Lawson's death. Lawson was a man of courteous friendship and hospitality. Publication: Latent adrenal tuberculosis with subacute adrenal insufficiency. *J Roy Nav med Serv* 1915, 1, 329.
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First Title value, for Searching Méric, Victor de (1811 - 1876)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Strasbourg on June 28th, 1811, of a good French family not indigenous to Alsace. He came to England when young and was engaged in teaching and literature until 1844. At the age of 33 he started to study medicine at Trinity College, Dublin; passed on to Glasgow, where he graduated MD in 1847, then to Paris, where he was chiefly under the teaching of Ricord, of whose lectures he published a translation in the *Lancet* (1847, 443, etc; 1848, i, 6, etc.). From this time syphilis became the principal subject of his study and the chief source of his practice. In 1856 he gained the Jacksonian Prize for an essay on this subject, and in 1858 treated of it in the Lettsomian Lectures at the Medical Society of London, which were published in the *Lancet* (1858, 28, etc.). He also wrote *Prophylactic and Curative Syphilization* (8vo, 1853) and *Cases of Syphilitic Affection of the Third Nerve* (8vo, 1870). He became Surgeon to the German Hospital and to the Royal Free Hospital, and in 1875 was President of the Medical Society of London. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society after 1867, and at the time of his death a member of its Library Committee. De Méric was well known and esteemed as a journalist and an active member of the Medical Societies. He was the writer for many years of the *Lancet*'s "Mirror of Hospital Practice", the inventor of that kind of medical journalism which he did remarkably well. His gentle, courteous manner made him an acceptable visitor in all hospitals ; he was gladly assisted; he was prudent and judicious in his selection of the cases, and his commentaries on them often showed a much larger knowledge of his profession than his seeming limitation of himself to syphilis would have led one to suspect. He was one of the witnesses examined at length by the Committee appointed to inquire into the Pathology and Treatment of the Venereal Diseases; he advocated the preventive measures - such as were authorized in the Contagious Diseases Act. He was an excellent speaker, and his last contribution to the study of syphilis was in the debate at the Pathological Society (*Trans Pathol Soc Lond*, 1875-6, xxvii, 341), when, though he was feeble through recent and still present illness, he spoke with an attractive fervour, and all the clearness and force of well chosen-words, which made him, whether in debate or in ordinary conversation, one of the pleasantest men to listen to. He practised at 52 Brook Street, London, W. For years he suffered from chronic bronchitis; early in 1876 he was attacked by prostatitis, later he exhibited signs indicating pyloric obstruction. He died on August 29th, 1876. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. His son, Henry de Méric, MRCS, continued the work of his father without success, and died in very reduced circumstances in 1920.
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First Title value, for Searching Nourse, William Edward Charles ( - 1912)

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First Title value, for Searching Prall, Samuel (1835 - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Prankerd, John (1814 - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Pratt, William (1831 - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Preston, Charles Henry ( - 1923)

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First Title value, for Searching Price, David (1787 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Price, James (1792 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Price, William (1785 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Prichard, Augustin (1818 - 1898)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10 2014-07-03
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at 39 College Green, Bristol, on July 16th, 1818, the second son of James Cowles Prichard, FRS, a physician, famous as the author of *The Natural History of Man*. His mother was the daughter of Dr Estlin, Unitarian Minister and Co-Pastor at Lewin's Mead Chapel, a scholar and friend of Coleridge, Southey, and Robert Hall. Prichard's eldest brother and his two younger brothers were distinguished Fellows of their College at Oxford. The Prichards were a family of Welsh origin, having a marked facial type, of strong individuality and intellectual distinction. Augustin Prichard went to a private school, then to Bristol College, where Francis Newman, brother of Cardinal Newman, was an Assistant Master. In 1834 he was apprenticed at the age of 16 to his uncle, John Bishop Estlin, founder of the Dispensary for the Cure of Complaints of the Eyes. He served his apprenticeship at the Bristol Infirmary and Medical School under John Harrison, entering St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1839, where he was Dresser to Sir William Lawrence, studied medicine under Latham and Burrows, and midwifery under Rigby. He caught scarlet fever when attending the Fever Hospital under Dr Tweedie, and might have succumbed had he not been nursed by his fellow-student, Dr Goodeve. He went to Berlin and studied under Johannes Müller, Schönlein, and Dieffenbach, who was operating for strabismus by a new method. He took the MD Berlin with a Thesis on "Iritis". Next in Vienna he attended the pathological teaching of Rokitansky and of Jaeger, the best operator for cataract. Prichard learnt the value of, and always used, Baer's triangular knife, and never employed a speculum or caught hold of the conjunctiva with forceps; nor did he adopt the assistance of an anaesthetic. In the spring of 1842 he attended in Paris the lectures of Cruveilhier, Civiale, and Claude Bernard, and in the autumn he began to practise in the old Elizabethan house, Red Lodge, which his father had vacated on being appointed a Commissioner in Lunacy. Prichard joined his uncle, Estlin, as Surgeon to the Eye Dispensary, and gained a wide reputation for his operative skill on the eye. In 1843 he was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy at the Bristol Medical School and continued until 1854; in 1850, after a severe contest, he was elected Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary. He lectured on Surgery from 1849-1864. In 1857 he read to the Bristol Branch of the British Medical Association a paper on the membrana pupillaris and the persistence of a small central portion as the cause of anterior central capsular cataract. In 1853 he delivered the address in surgery at the Annual Meeting of the Association on the extirpation of a blind and diseased eye in the interest of the remaining eye, and he did much in this country to establish the procedure. In his Address at the Bristol Meeting in 1863 he recommended the insertion of potassa fusa into a carbuncle, followed by pressure. An expert lithotomist, he popularized the use of the wrist and ankle buckle and straps for holding the patient in the lithotomy position. He developed the custom of publishing a collection of cases: *Ten Years' Operative Surgery in the Provinces - being the Record of 875 Operations performed between* 1850 *and* 1860 - Parts I and II (12mo, London, 1862, 1863). For lithotomy he recommended Allarton's median operation. His cataract operations were done with great dexterity in the fashion mentioned, but in a haphazard way, regardless of surroundings, as described by anecdotes in his *Some Incidents in General Practice*. Prichard acquired a large private practice in Bristol and Clifton, and in 1853 removed to 4 Chesterfield Place, Clifton, where he continued in active practice after retiring from the Infirmary under the rule, after twenty years' service. He was a man of great natural gifts, improved by untiring industry, tall and handsome, with a firm expression. He was well read in the classics, a fine draughtsman, devoted to sketching, and a pioneer in photography. He was President of the Surgical Section at the Worcester Jubilee Meeting in 1882, and for the last time was present at the Annual Meeting in 1894 and able to entertain friends although affected by increasing deafness. He was taken ill before Christmas, 1897, underwent three operations with some temporary relief, but died on January 5th, 1898. He married in 1845 Mary Sibellah, daughter of the Rev Thomas Ley, Vicar of Rame, Cornwall, by whom he had four sons and three daughters. Mrs Prichard died in 1892, aged 73. Two of their sons were in the medical profession, one being Surgeon to the Bristol Infirmary. A portrait accompanied his biography in the *British Medical Journal* (1898, I, 250), and the "In Memoriam", *Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal* (1898, xvi, 1), in addition to reminiscences by contemporaries, included a bibliography of 71 entries. He wrote two books of permanent interest, the first being *Some Incidents in General Practice*, with portrait and autograph (Bristol, 1898), the second being a series of reminiscences with the title, *A Few Medical and Surgical Reminiscences* (12mo, Bristol, 1896). **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 1 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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First Title value, for Searching Prichard, John (1800 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Prior, Charles Edward ( - 1907)

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First Title value, for Searching Pritchard, Thomas (1806 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Pritchard, Urban (1845 - 1925)

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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details The fifth son of Andrew Pritchard, FRS, Edinburgh; studied at King's College Hospital, London, where he was House Surgeon, then at Edinburgh, winning the Ettles Scholarship and Gold Medal, his Thesis being "On the Structure of the Lamina Spiralis Membranacea". He returned to King's College Hospital, and was Physician's Assistant to Sir George Johnson, Dr Lionel Beale, and Sir Alfred Garrod, later Surgical Registrar and Curator of the Museum, and was afterwards Demonstrator of Physiology and Lecturer on Physiology to evening classes. From researches on the labyrinth he passed to the study of diseases of the ear, and in 1874 was appointed Surgeon to the Royal Ear Hospital, then the sole institution of its kind in London, and he held office until 1900, when he became Consulting Surgeon. In 1876 he was appointed the first Aural Surgeon to King's College Hospital, and in 1886 he became the first Professor of Aural Surgery in Great Britain. He retired from both posts in 1910, being made Consulting Surgeon and Emeritus Professor. He published four papers, detailing original research on the internal ear, the first of which was read to the Royal Society by T H Huxley. He traced the cochlea of man through mammals and the ornithorhynchus to birds, and described the lagena which terminates the cochlea in birds and reptiles, thus connecting mammals and man with both. After that he devoted himself to clinical work at the Hospital and to a large private practice. From 1884 he was the chief British Representative of Otology, and was President of the International Congress of Otology at the meeting in London in 1899. As a result the Otological Society of the United Kingdom was formed, which later became the Otological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Pritchard was the second President of the Society. His handbook of *Diseases of the Ear* ran through three editions (8vo, London and Philadelphia, 1886; 3rd ed, 1896). He was an active member of the Paris International Congress of Otology in 1922. He was co-editor for the United Kingdom of the *International Archives of Otology* from 1890-1908. Pritchard practised at 55 Wimpole Street until ill health caused his retirement. He died, after long and painful suffering, in October, 1925. He married in 1872 Miss Blade Pallister; they celebrated their golden wedding in 1922. Mrs Pritchard survived him with one daughter and two sons, one son, Mr Norman Pallister Pritchard, MO, MA, MCh Cantab, MRCS, then practising at Chertsey.
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First Title value, for Searching Maitland, Gilbert George William (1818 - 1900)

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First Title value, for Searching Major, David Browning (1802 - 1861)

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First Title value, for Searching Major, William ( - 1863)

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First Title value, for Searching Malcolm, John (1814 - 1895)

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First Title value, for Searching Mallett, George (1802 - 1871)

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First Title value, for Searching Malloch, William John Ogilvie (1872 - 1919)

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First Title value, for Searching Malton, Charles James Abernethy (1813 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Malyn, John (1802 - 1850)

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First Title value, for Searching Manby, Sir Alan Reeve (1848 - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation Obstetrician
Details Born on June 4th, 1848, at East Rudham, Norfolk, where both his father, Frederic Manby, and his grandfather had practised. Educated at Epsom College, he then studied at Guy's Hospital, where he was Obstetric Resident, after which he joined his father in the family practice. His elder brother was Frederic Edward Manby (qv). In 1885 Alan Manby was appointed Surgeon-Apothecary to the Prince of Wales at Sandringham, and when the latter became King Edward VII Manby was made Physician Extraordinary, a position continued under King George V, and in the household of Queen Alexandra. In 1901 he travelled with King George and Queen Mary, then Duke and Duchess of York, during their tour. Dr Maurice Mottram, who was his assistant for five years, said of him that, whilst unlike other country practitioners he was not so specially interested in horseflesh, he had a mechanical bent, and he consequently took at once to motoring, his first car having neither hood nor windscreen, nor pneumatic tyres. In 1873 he invented a flexible spiral probe, in 1886 a modification of a lithotrite. He had a considerable obstetric practice, and foresaw the effect on the general practitioner of the introduction of certificated midwives. He held exalted opinions of the system of apprenticeship, maintaining that both employer and employed had a definite duty the one to the other. The assistant should work in his chief's interest; it was incumbent on the older man to instruct the younger in all those matters appertaining to the conduct of a practice to which no attention is given in the ordinary medical education. During many years Manby was an active member of the Norfolk and Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society, and its President in 1892. In 1896 he was President of the East Anglian Branch of the British Medical Association, Vice-President of the Section of Obstetrics at the Oxford Meeting in 1904, and of the Section of Therapeutics at the Toronto Meeting in 1906; at the Ipswich Meeting in 1900, Hon Secretary of the Section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and for seven years a Member of the Parliamentary Bills Committee. He died at East Rudham on September 29th, 1925. He was survived by Lady Manby, whom, as Charlotte Annie Farrer, daughter of his neighbour Edmund Farrer, of Petygards Hall, Swaffham, he had married in 1876; by his son, the Hon Mr Justice Percy Manby, Judicial Commissioner of the Federated Malay States and Judge of the Supreme Court, Straits Settlements; and by his daughter, wife of F J Winans, MRCS, Surgeon-Apothecary to the Royal Household at Sandringham. His portrait is in the College Collection.
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First Title value, for Searching McGill, Arthur Fergusson (1846 - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Vallance, Thomas James ( - 1914)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of James Thomas Vallance (qv); studied at the London Hospital, and appears to have been first in practice in Victoria, New South Wales, and a member of the Medical Society of Victoria. In 1860 he had returned, and had as addresses The Grove, Stratford, the Carnarvon Hall, Forest Gate, then again at Stratford in 1875, at The Deanery. He was Surgeon to the West Ham Union Workhouse and to the Forest Gate District School; he was also Public Vaccinator for Stratford, and at one time Superintendent of the Government Emigration Services. He retired before 1900 to 199 High Street, Lewes, and died in 1914. His portrait is in the Fellows' Album.
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First Title value, for Searching Vassall, William (1780 - 1845)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Joined the Army on August 29th, 1808, as Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, unattached. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 44th Foot on November 12th, 1803, and appointed on the Staff of the Royal Military College on May 8th, 1806. He exchanged to the Royal Waggon Train on June 18th, 1807, was gazetted Surgeon to the 6th Foot on June 15th, 1809, to the Staff on January 29th, 1809, to the 6th Foot on April 12th, 1812. He was for ten years on half pay until July 1st, 1824, when he was gazetted to the 98th Foot on July 1st and retired on half pay on the following December 9th, 1824. His active service included the Peninsular War (1808-1811). He died on March 13th, 1845.
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First Title value, for Searching McNab, Angus (1875 - 1914)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in New Zealand, a brother of the Hon Robert McNab, at one time Minister of Agriculture. He graduated BA and BSc at Otago, then entered Edinburgh University, where he became distinguished as a Rugby football player, being in the first reserve for Scotland, and President of the Athletic Club. He went out to the South African War with the Edinburgh Hospital, and on his return, having graduated in medicine and surgery, acted as House Surgeon in the Ophthalmic Department of the Royal Infirmary under Professor G A Berry. He next studied ophthalmology in Vienna and in Freiburg under Axenfeld, and became so proficient in German as to contribute articles to the German medical papers. In 1903 he acted as Refractionist at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, and was Clinical Assistant at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. Meanwhile he studied general surgery at King's College and the London Hospitals, and passed the FRCS at the end of 1904. By 1905 he was in ophthalmic practice at 59 Davies Street, Berkeley Square, next at 31 New Cavendish Street, and finally at 118 Harley Street. He continued as Clinical Assistant at Moorfields, eventually becoming Chief. He was also Clinical Assistant to the Ophthalmic Department of Charing Cross Hospital and Ophthalmic Surgeon to King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor. For more than three years he had been attached to the London Scottish Regiment. He took up rifle-shooting and got into the last 200 at the Bisley Meeting. Immediately on the outbreak of the War in 1914 he went into camp, and thence with his regiment to France. Before going to the Front, whilst at Villeneuve, he was busy as a general surgeon treating the wounded from the battles on the Marne and Oise whilst 100 of the London Scottish acted as stretcher-bearers. In a characteristic letter he remarks: "There is a great satisfaction in saving a man's life; pottering about with eyes may be a neater and cleaner job, but it is a poor business compared with what we are doing here." An officer at the Front wrote that he had saved many lives under most adverse circumstances. In the first engagement in which the London Scottish Regiment was concerned in Belgium he was wounded, and although bleeding continued calmly bandaging a wounded man; the Germans advancing he was killed, bayonetted whilst bending down attending to two wounded men. It was bright moonlight, at 2 am on November 1st, 1914, he had a white badge of the Red Cross on his arm, and was in a blue tunic. Such was the report of a motor-cyclist dispatch rider. He is one of the first three FRCS on the Roll of Honour. He left a widow and two small children. Publications: Translation of Axenfeld's *Bacteriology of the Eye*, 1908; also Lohmann's *Disturbances of the Visual Functions*, 1913. "Diplococcus Liquefaciens." - *Klin Monats f Augenheilk*, 1904, i, 54. "Ueber Infektion der Kornea." - *Ibid*, 65. "Marginal Blepharitis." - *Royal Ophihal Hosp Rep*, 1906, xvi, 307.
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First Title value, for Searching Partridge, Alderman ( - 1868)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, he was elected one of the Surgeons of the Essex and Colchester Hospital at its foundation, and retired in 1861 after being for many years Senior Surgeon. His tenure of office lasted forty-two years. He was a bold and successful operator, especially in lithotomy, and enjoyed a very large practice - probably the largest as a consultant in Essex. His health failed some two years before his death, and he died after a lingering illness on October 24th, 1868. He was highly respected locally, and his death recalled the famous trial of forty years before in which Bransby Blake Cooper (qv) sued Thomas Wakley for damages for an alleged libel printed in the *Lancet*, where Cooper was accused of malpraxis in a lithotomy performed by him at Guy's Hospital on the person of Samuel Pollard, a navvy. Partridge at the trial was shown not to be a confederate of Wakley, who met him for the first time in court at the commencement of the proceedings and found that Partridge had been present at the operation. Had it not been for Partridge's evidence, Wakley's punishment would doubtless have been much more severe. The damages were laid at £2000; as it was the damages were assessed at £100. The trial lasted two days and began on December 12th, 1828. "The defendant (Wakley) then called and examined Mr Holdiman [sic] Partridge, who said: "I reside at Colchester, and am a member of the College of Surgeons. I have been in practice rather more than fourteen years; I have witnessed many operations in lithotomy, and have performed them myself sixteen or eighteen times. I witnessed the operation performed by Mr Bransby Cooper at Guy's Hospital in March last. I have read the report of that operation in the *Lancet*: it struck me at the time to be correct, and I have had no particular reason to alter my opinion since, though I did not examine it very minutely. The patient appeared to be a very healthy man; I remarked it at the time. I think Mr Cooper himself introduced the staff; but the second incision was made without the staff. After the first external incision all instruments were withdrawn. "*The defendant here produced a figure representing the situation of the patient, which the witness deposed to as being correct.* "The hands of the patient were tied to the feet, and his knees to his neck, as represented by the model now produced. The patient remained in that position nearly an hour; during that period a sound was repeatedly introduced; several cuts were attempted to be made into the bladder with a knife. The instrument (a cutting gorget) was introduced into the wound; a blunt gorget was also introduced, and the scoop and several pairs of forceps. During the operation the patient called out several times to the operator to desist. The operator stated several times that he could not explain the difficulty; he appeared to be perplexed and hurried in consequence of the long delay; he did not appear to act with any regular scientific design. He introduced his finger with some force, but it did not strike me as being very violent. He used the instruments in the ordinary way, and varied them according to the different purposes, but failed in lighting upon the stone. I don't consider that the forceps entered the bladder the first time; the impression on my mind was, that the opening in the bladder was not sufficiently large to get the forceps in; but I think there was an opening, because I saw a discharge of water and blood. "The operator said that he felt the stone when he passed his staff through the urethra, and could also feel it when he passed the sound through the incision in the perineum; he also said that he could not feel it with the forceps. The reason of this was, that the forceps, if straight or slightly curved, would pass under the stone, which was high up in the bladder. Mr Cooper made many attempts to feel the stone with his finger; he left his seat and measured fingers with those of other gentlemen, to see if any of them had a longer finger. I cannot say that I think Mr Cooper performed the operation in a scientific manner; I do not think that it was performed in such a manner as the public have a right to expect from a surgeon of Guy's Hospital. The average time for performing operations of this description is four or five minutes; the operation in question occupied, I think, nearly an hour. After the staff had been introduced and the first incision made, Mr Cooper used a straight staff with a knife; when he found he could not introduce the forceps on the first attempt, he withdrew them, and made another cut with the knife without the staff being introduced. This is not the customary mode; the scoop, as I have always understood, is introduced to extract those fragments of the stone that may have crumbled off. There were no fragments in this case that I saw. "Twenty-five or thirty minutes is the longest time that I have known an operation of this kind to last; the average time is about five minutes. In the cases I have mentioned lasting twenty-five or thirty minutes, there were evident causes why the operation should last so long; those were where the stone was large, and where it would be dangerous to enlarge the wound for fear of injuring the rectum, and there the time was lost in drawing out the stone gradually. In the operation in question, the stone was a small one, being not larger than a common Windsor bean, flat and round; it might have weighed about two drachms or less, but certainly not more. Stones weighing several ounces have been successfully removed. Unless the incision was large enough to admit the forceps, that instrument could not lay hold of the stone without also catching the integuments of the bladder. The stone lay above the pubes, for the sound always touched it on being withdrawn, and it was extracted by pressure above the pubes, and with a curved forceps. If the operator had been aware of the situation of the stone, he should have taken these measures at first: he should have ascertained this in the first instance. "*Cross-examined by* Sir J Scarlett. - I never saw the defendant before this day, nor his attorney in the cause before last night. Mr Callaway was the assistant surgeon on the occasion, and I believe him to be a man of skill. I have had several cases where the stone lay above the pubes, and always extracted it in the manner which was at last successfully adopted by Mr B Cooper. The cut is made in the perineum, and the object is to get the knife into the groove of the staff, by which time it has penetrated a portion of the urethra; then the staff is brought forward into a parallel position with the knife, and on a line with the bladder, in order to make a larger incision: the staff is then allowed to remain, and the finger is introduced, in order to ascertain the wound you have made. "Sir J Scarlett - You then introduce the finger and feel for the stone, after finding which, you introduce the forceps along the finger and lay hold of the stone? "Witness - No: in order to do that you must make too large an incision, or else have a most extraordinarily small pair of forceps. At the time of the operation I was sitting in a chair immediately behind Mr Cooper. I never saw Mr Cooper before that day. I have no doubt but that the first incision penetrated the bladder. I have read the report in the *Lancet*, but I never corresponded with that publication. I take it in and read it weekly. "Sir J Scarlett here read from the libel the following sentence: 'The first incision through the integuments appeared to be freely and fairly made; and, after a *little* dissection, the point of the knife was fixed (apparently) in the groove of the staff, which was now taken hold of, and the knife carried onwards - *somewhere*. "The learned Counsel asked the witness whether the word 'somewhere' did not mean to convey an idea that the knife did not go into the bladder? "Witness. - I think it means to convey an idea that it might or might not have entered the bladder. I do not know whether the operator would be the best judge of whether the forceps entered the bladder or not - it would depend upon what sort of an operator he was. (A laugh.) I am not prepared to swear that the forceps were a second time used with considerable force; I will neither swear to, nor contradict it. I mentioned my opinion of this operation to several persons, but I cannot now say to whom. "Sir J Scarlett then read the following sentence, and asked the witness whether the statement it contained was correct: 'The forceps were again used, but as unsuccessfully as before; they were pushed onwards to a considerable distance, and with no small degree of force.' "Witness. - I am not prepared to swear to the truth of this - I cannot comprehend it. "*Re-examined by the Defendant* (Wakley). - The staff was introduced a second time; it would not have been necessary if the first incision had been large enough. I have never seen the defendant before this day, that I am aware of." Alderman was his baptismal name: the Alderman family, of whom several were medical men, were of Balstead, Suffolk.
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First Title value, for Searching Boeree, Nicholas Reginald (1958 - 2012)

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by Michael Edgar
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2013-02-20
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Occupation Spinal surgeon
Details Nicholas Reginald Boeree was a consultant orthopaedic spinal surgeon based in Southampton who was well-known internationally in his chosen specialty for his clinical trials evaluating the effectiveness of new spinal implants. He was a man of considerable energy and wide-ranging interests, including a long-standing passion for motorcycling, which sadly led to his untimely death in a head on collision. Nick was born on 11 June 1958 in Torbay. His father, Bruce, completed his pre-clinical medical education at Oriel College, Oxford, and clinical training at the London Hospital, Whitechapel. He specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology with the RAF, before taking up a civilian post in clinical research. His mother Margaret was a nurse at the London. Nick was the oldest of three children. He had a sister, Caroline, and a brother, Giles, neither of whom are involved in the medical profession. The name 'Boeree' is of Dutch origin, though the family have held British nationality for several generations. As determined by his father's posting, Nick's early years were spent in Changi, Singapore, where he lived until about the age of five. The family then returned to England, living initially in Buckinghamshire and then in the village of Roydon, Essex. He was educated at Broxbourne Comprehensive School in Hertfordshire. Having not quite obtained the necessary A levels to go to the London Hospital Medical College, he urgently dispatched a letter to the dean, explaining exactly why he should still be accepted for medical training. The dean was persuaded and Nick entered the London Hospital Medical College in 1976. He spent an extra year achieving a BSc in anatomy and qualified MB BS in June 1982. He spent his pre-registration house officer year at the London. From his early student days, Nick had always been keen to pursue a career in surgery and, accordingly, after house jobs, he spent a year as an anatomy demonstrator at the London, from 1983 to 1984. During this time he passed the primary FRCS examination. He then undertook his general surgical training as a senior house officer and registrar in Plymouth, proceeding to FRCS Edinburgh in the spring of 1988 and the English FRCS in July 1988. Nick was appointed to the Bristol registrar rotation in trauma and orthopaedics in September 1988. Here he soon acquired an interest in spinal surgery. In April 1990 he successfully applied for the spinal fellowship to Keele University, giving him the opportunity to work at the Hartshill Orthopaedic Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, with John Dove, who had developed his own sublaminar wire and rectangular steel rod implants both to correct spinal deformity and to stabilise single or multiple level fusions of the spine. This technique gained popularity among spinal surgeons during this period. Nick returned to the Bristol rotation in September 1991. He was appointed as an orthopaedic senior registrar to the Southampton University Hospitals in July 1992. Of particular note at this time was the development of Nick's clinical research interests. He was awarded a major British Orthopaedic Association Wishbone Trust research grant in 1991 to investigate the materials and techniques available for sublaminal wire fixation of the spine. This continued his collaboration with John Dove. In 1992 Nick gained a further research award from the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS). There followed a number of papers and presentations, culminating in two best paper prizes at international meetings. Other areas of research concerned MRI imaging of the knee, the value of ultrasound in the diagnosis of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) and a long-term review of total hip replacements in the young. Perhaps the pinnacle of his distinctive training years was the award of the Robert Jones Travelling Scholarship, which was supplemented by the Royal College of Surgeons New York Foundation Fellowship and the Zimmer Spinal Deformity Fellowship. These awards enabled him to travel widely to spinal centres in the USA during four months in the summer of 1994. Nick was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic spinal surgeon to the Southampton University Hospitals in April 1995. Later in 1998, with the amalgamation of the orthopaedic spinal and spinal neurosurgery services between Southampton and Winchester, he became joint clinical director in spinal surgery. He subsequently replaced Robert Jackson, on the latter's retirement in 1999, as the senior spinal orthopaedic surgeon. Over the years, Nick's working practice remained part-time NHS and part-time private practice, the latter based at the spine clinic, the Nuffield Hospital, Eastleigh. He continued to give priority to clinical research, despite the many demands on his time. Between 1995 and 2004 he gave multiple presentations on new anterior and posterior spinal instrumentation systems, with publications in the mainstream orthopaedic and spinal journals. Invited lectures took him to South Africa (in 1999 and 2001), Belgium (2000), Canada (2003) and to the USA for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). An example of his entrepreneurial nature was his study into ECG changes affecting surgeons during major surgery. His participation in this trial led his colleagues to assign to him the name 'robodoc' as his heart rate remained virtually unchanged throughout the entire operation. Despite his commitment to research-based management of spinal conditions, where he was happy to discuss the merits or otherwise of a particular form of management, Nick had an aversion to committees and where possible demonstrated his commitment to a particular cause by actions rather than words. In addition he had no strong political affiliation but was driven by what he felt was the best decision in his colleagues' or patients' interests. This was made evident by the many tributes by fellow surgeons which poured in from the UK, Europe and even the USA, as well as messages from appreciative patients expressing their gratitude not only for his operative skills but for his ability to listen and communicate. His family recall that he 'never wasted a moment', that he was constantly seeking out new challenges, physical and intellectual, both in his professional life and in his leisure time and how the pursuit of some of the riskier ventures often ended in a visit to the local casualty department. They remember the wonderful but inevitably exhausting family holidays, where sitting on a beach with a book was never an option. His boundless energy led him into a wide range of interests and activities, which included off-shore sailing (he owned a boat and had passed the yacht master exam), flying (he held a pilot's licence), scuba diving, cycling, walking in and around the New Forest where he lived, furniture building, ornithology (whilst a student in East London he cared for an injured kestrel and eventually trained it to fly to the lure, transporting it by bus to the open space of Wanstead Flats) and more recently astronomy. To this must be added of course his fateful passion for motorbikes. Nick married Alison (née Rigby), a qualified nurse who also trained at the London Hospital, a week after he qualified. They had two daughters, Catherine and Alexandra, and a son, Henry. He died in a motorcycle accident in the New Forest on 23 March 2012. He was 53. His family survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Royle, Octavian Newcome ( - 1900)

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First Title value, for Searching Rubio y Galli, Frederico (1827 - 1902)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of Rubio, continuing the name of the well-known eighteenth-century physician and medical author, and of his wife, *née* Galli, was born on August 7th, 1827, at Puerto de Santa Maria, Cadiz. He studied in the Faculty of Medicine, and graduated at Cadiz in 1850, having been from 1846-1849 engaged in the study of surgical anatomy and operative surgery. From that time onwards he rose to the first rank of Spanish surgeons, being at the same time engaged in politics and diplomacy as a Republican. He was Spanish Ambassador in London in 1873, a Deputy and Senator under the Spanish Republic, but under the restored Monarchy he restricted himself to medical practice and teaching. He was the first in Spain to practise ovariotomy in 1860, removal of the uterus in 1861, and of the larynx in 1878. He founded the Free School of Medicine at Seville in 1868, the Institute of Operative Surgery in connection with the Princess Hospital at Madrid in 1878, and the Reports of the Princess Hospital for 1881-1885 were drawn up under his direction. In 1880 he founded the Institute of Moucloa and was eventually buried there. In 1896 he founded the Saint Elizabeth of Hungary School of Medicine for Nurses, 'Enfermedares'. His jubilee of fifty years' practice was celebrated in 1900 and he was elected an Hon Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons on July 25th, 1900. He and Dr Cardenal of Barcelona were marked by their dark robes, slashed or decorated with scarlet. Rubio was further characterised by a long forked beard. He died at Madrid on August 21st, 1902. There is a photograph of him in the Hon Fellows' Album. A National Memorial to Rubio y Galli was raised by subscription in Spain. Publications: Rubio wrote much in *El Siglo Medico* in 1899, and founded the *Rivista Ibero-Americane de Ciencias Medicas*. He added notes to the Spanish edition of Le Dentu and Delbet's *Traité de Chirurgie*. He wrote on circumcision, and a sociological work - *Felicidad*. A bibliography of his surgical works, 1863-1890, is appended to the biography in the *Rev de Chir*, 1902, xxvi, 615.
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First Title value, for Searching Thorpe, George Bower (1815 - 1864)

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First Title value, for Searching Thyne, Thomas ( - 1915)

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First Title value, for Searching Tillaux, Paul Jules (1834 - 1904)

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First Title value, for Searching Tilley, Samuel (1809 - 1897)

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First Title value, for Searching Timins, Charles (1815 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Tinker, Frederick (1804 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Tippetts, Richard (1803 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Tod, Hunter Finlay (1870 - 1923)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details The second son of David Tod, JP, of Eastwood Park and Hartfield, Renfrewshire, was born at Partick, Glasgow, on September 15th, 1870. He was educated at Clifton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was admitted a Pensioner on May 27th, 1889, and graduated with 1st Class Honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1892. At the London Hospital he won the Surgical Scholarship in 1895. He was House Surgeon under Sir Frederick Eve and House Physician under Sir Stephen Mackenzie and Dr Gustave Schorstein. At the same time he was prominent in the Hospital football team, having also played half-back at Rugby football for his College at Cambridge. After taking the Fellowship Tod determined to take up aural surgery and studied for a year at Halle. He then became Senior Resident Medical Officer to the Throat Hospital in Golden Square. Going again to the Continent, he went through a further prolonged course of study under the great aural surgeons of Leipzig, Vienna, and Berlin. Returning to London in 1901, he was appointed Assistant Aural Surgeon to the London Hospital. This post was specially made for him, perhaps because he was regarded as being too young to become full Aural Surgeon. He was also appointed Surgeon to the Throat and Ear Department of the Children's Hospital, Paddington Green. In less than two years he was elected full Aural Surgeon to the London Hospital, and held office till his death, the tenure of his office having been extended for five years by the Committee of Management. Tod practised at 11 Upper Wimpole Street. At the time of his death he was Senior Surgeon to the Ear, Nose, and Throat Department of the London Hospital and Lecturer in Aural Surgery at the Medical College. He was also Consulting Surgeon to the West Herts Hospital, and had been Examiner in Otology at the Royal Army Medical College and member of the Special Aural Board of the Ministry of Pensions. He was President of the Otological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in the year of his death. Tod is spoken of in warm terms by his friends, who knew him affectionately as 'Jinks' and loved him for his mercurial temperament and his vivacious boyish manners, while appreciating his sterling qualities. He was a true son of the London Hospital, in the interests of which, and especially of the aural department, he was tireless. There is no doubt that his efforts were largely instrumental in establishing a fine department. He was a skilled operator, particularly in the performance of mastoid operations, and it has been stated that he was the first surgeon in this country to perform a true submucous resection of the nasal septum. He was a keen Freemason, and was a Founder and Past Master of the London Hospital Lodge. He died on January 23rd, 1923, in one of his own wards in the London Hospital, among his friends and colleagues, after an operation for malignant disease of the larynx. He was survived by Mrs Hunter Tod, the eldest daughter of Dr Stanley Rendall, whom he had married in 1909, and by four children. Publications: *Diseases of the Ear*, 12mo, plates, London, 1907. A much-used book. "Diseases of the External Ear and Tympanic Membrane" in Allbutt's *System of Medicine*, 1908. "Operations upon the Ear" in Burghard's *System of Surgery*, iv, 1909. "Diseases of the Tympanic Membrane," "Adenoids," and "Nasal Obstruction" in *Practical Encyclopaedia of Medicine and Surgery*, 1912. "Acute Inflammation of the Middle Ear" in Latham and English's *System of Treatment*, 1912. "Treatment of Lupus and Tuberculous Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat by Inoculation" (with G T WESTERN) - *Practitioner*, 1908, lxxx, 703. "Removal of Adenoids in Infancy." - *Ibid*, 1920, cv, 335.
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First Title value, for Searching Tomes, Sir John (1815 - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20
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Occupation Dental surgeon
Details Born on March 21st, 1815, the eldest son of John Tomes and of Sarah his wife, daughter of William Bayliss, of Welford in Gloucestershire. His father's family had lived at Marston Sicca or Long Marston since the reign of Richard II. The house is mentioned in "Boscobel Tracts". It sheltered Charles II after the Battle of Worcester, when Jane Lane, a connection of the Tomes family, assisted in his escape. John Tomes was born in the neighbouring village of Weston-on-Avon and was articled in 1831 to Thomas Farley Smith, a surgeon at Evesham. He entered the medical schools of King's College and the Middlesex Hospital, then temporarily united, in 1836, and was House Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, 1839-1840. Whilst he was House Surgeon he invented the tooth-forceps with jaws accurately adapted to forms of the necks of the teeth, the first of the modern type to supplant the 'key' instrument which had been in ordinary use. During this period, too, he was engaged in the histology of bone and teeth, for he fed a nest of young sparrows and a sucking-pig on madder and examined their bones microscopically. This work brought him to the knowledge of Sir Thomas Watson (1792-1882) and James Moncrieff Arnott (qv), who advised him to adopt dental surgery as his profession. He began to practise at 41 Mortimer Street (now Cavendish Place) in 1840, and on March 3rd, 1845, he took out a patent for a machine to copy in ivory irregular curved surfaces, and for this he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Society of Arts. In 1845 he delivered a course of lectures at the Middlesex Hospital which marked a new era in dentistry. He was also much occupied with the question of general anaesthesia, and in 1847 administered ether at the Middlesex Hospital for the extraction of teeth as well as for operations in general surgery. He contributed a series of important papers on 'Bone' and on dental tissues to the *Philosophical Transactions* between 1849 and 1856. The most valuable of these is, perhaps, that upon the structure of dentine, in which he demonstrated the protoplasmic prolongations from the odontoblasts which have since been known as 'Tomes' fibrils'. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society on June 6th, 1850. Tomes early took a deep interest in the welfare of the dental profession, and was one of those who in 1843 and again in 1855 unsuccessfully approached the Royal College of Surgeons with a view to a closer alliance between English surgeons and English dentists. He was more successful in 1858, when the College agreed to give a Licence in Dental Surgery. He was also one of the chief founders of the Odontological Society in 1856 and of the Dental Hospital in 1858. He gave the first systematic clinical demonstration in dental surgery at this hospital. In 1878 he was ably assisted by James Smith Turner in obtaining the Dentists Act to ensure the registration, and render compulsory the education, of those who proposed to adopt dentistry as a profession. After carrying on a large and lucrative practice Tomes retired in 1876 to Upwood Gorse, Caterham, Surrey. He was twice President of the Odontological Society, and in 1877 he was elected Chairman of the Dental Reform Committee. He received the honour of knighthood on May 28th, 1886. He married on February 15th, 1844, Jane, daughter of Robert Sibley, of Great Ormond Street, London, an architect. He had by her one surviving son, Sir Charles Sissmore Tomes (qv), and lived with her to celebrate his golden wedding. He died on July 29th, 1895, and was buried at St Mary's, Upper Caterham. A portrait of Tomes painted in 1884 by Carlisle Macartney hangs in the rooms of the Royal Society of Medicine. A Triennial Prize for researches in the field of dental science in its widest acceptation is awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It was founded in 1894 by members of the dental profession in memory of Sir John Tomes and his services in promoting the study of dental surgery and the status of its practitioners. The first award for 1894-1896 was made to his son, Charles Sissmore Tomes. Like his contemporary and coadjutor, Sir Edwin Saunders (qv), Tomes began to practise dentistry when it was a trade and left it a well-equipped profession. The change was in great part due to the personal exertions of the two fellow-workers; but Tomes did more than this, for he showed that a dentist was capable of the highest kind of scientific work - original investigation - and this faculty he transmitted to his son. His mind was at the same time eminently practical and be possessed considerable mechanical ingenuity. Publications: *A Course of Lectures on Dental Physiology and Surgery*, 8vo, London, 1848. The lectures are a classic. They were delivered at the Middlesex Hospital, but Tomes made the significant entry in his diary: "I am resolved never to deliver any more lectures unless I have a class of at least six." *A System of Dental Surgery*, 12mo, London, 1859; 3rd ed, revised and enlarged by his son, C S Tomes, 12mo, London, 1887. Translated into French, Paris, 1873.
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First Title value, for Searching Pearson, John Armitage ( - 1863)

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First Title value, for Searching Pegge, John (1812 - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Pelly, Saville Marriott (1819 - 1895)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Henry ( - 1886)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-07
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Was a Surgeon in the Madras Army. He died apparently in 1885 or 1886.
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First Title value, for Searching Scott, John Eric Somerville (1926 - 2012)

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by Laurie Rangecroft
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2013-01-17
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details John Scott was the first full-time paediatric surgeon in the then Northern Region when he was appointed as a senior lecturer and honorary consultant in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1960. He continued to provide the service essentially single-handed for the next decade. He was born in Zanzibar, East Africa, where his father, Douglas Somerville Scott, was in the Colonial Medical Service. His mother was Dorothy May Scott née Fletcher. Later in Scott's childhood his family relocated to Penzance, Cornwall, where his father was a GP. His later childhood was also considerably saddened by the death of his elder sister following a, possibly unnecessary, operation to straighten her legs. Scott was educated at Upcotte House and Sherborne, before going up to Queens' College, Cambridge, to follow a wartime accelerated course in medicine. He carried out his clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital. National Service was spent as a medical officer in the RAF. On graduation he soon developed an interest in the then comparatively new specialty of paediatric surgery and naturally gravitated to Great Ormond Street Hospital to train under Sir Denis Browne. He then won a Harkness scholarship and spent time at the Boston Floating Hospital with Orvar Swenson and others to fine tune his skills. On his arrival in Newcastle John worked at the Fleming Memorial Hospital for Sick Children, the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Babies Hospital where, with the anaesthetist John Inkster and a dedicated nursing team, he made considerable advances in the management of the surgical neonate. He was an active member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS), serving as the honorary secretary and treasurer, and becoming president from 1982 to 1984. He travelled widely during these years and established important international connections and friendship, particularly in the USA. In 1984 he was made an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and in 1990 was awarded the highest honour of BAPS, the Sir Denis Browne Gold Medal. While inevitably starting his consultant career as a general paediatric surgeon, when further colleagues were gradually appointed John increasingly developed his interest and expertise in the developing sub-specialty of paediatric urology. Through his research and writing he made many important contributions to the field, and had a particular interest in the pathologies associated with the ureterovesical junction. He retired, with great reluctance it has to be said, in 1991. Having previously been instrumental in setting up both the Northern Region Maternity Survey and the Congenital Abnormality Register, he spent much of his 'retirement' in these offices and continuing to publish. Thus his first publication - a case study of surgical constipation - appeared in 1955 and his last, 50 years later, in 2005! Work was certainly John's driving force, but he played squash to a fairly advanced age, was a strong supporter of classical music in the North East, and for many years shared his daughter Georgina's passion for horses. He was a forceful character with strong opinions, which he was never afraid to express, but there are many in the north of England who have every reason to be grateful for his single-minded devotion to his patients. He was survived by his wife Audrey née Avison, whom he married in 1951, son Jason and daughter Georgina. John Scott died on 5 September 2012, at the age of 86.
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First Title value, for Searching Searle, Henry Smith ( - 1854)

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First Title value, for Searching Wacher, Sidney (1865 - 1918)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at Guy's Hospital, where he was a prizeman in anatomy, physiology, surgery, medicine, and midwifery, also Mackenzie Bacon prizeman in medical ophthalmology. A keen cricketer and football player, he was at one time Captain of both games. He acted as House Surgeon and Resident Obstetric Assistant. He then settled in practice at Canterbury in partnership with his two brothers, Frank Wacher, MRCS, and Harold Wacher, MRCS. He was Surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, to St Edmund's School, and to Kent College, and was a Medical Referee under the Workmen's Compensation Act. In general practice he became known as one of the most skilful surgeons in East Kent. When past cricket and football he followed with equal activity fishing and shooting. At the end of a long round of work he was seized with acute illness which ended fatally after four days on March 3rd, 1918, at 9 St George's Place, Canterbury.
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First Title value, for Searching Seddon, Joshua (1798 - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Seed, Joseph (1788 - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Selby, William (1869 - 1916)

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First Title value, for Searching Selwood, Josiah Henry (1808 - 1878)

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First Title value, for Searching Sharp, Arthur John (1867 - 1910)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Masulipatam in South India on December 23rd, 1867, the younger son of the Rev John Sharp, Principal of the Noble College under the Church Missionary Society. Coming to England in 1869, he was brought up at the house of his grandfather, Dr Sharp, FRS, of Rugby, who was instrumental in introducing the teaching of science into public schools while acting as Medical Adviser to Rugby School under the headmastership of Tait. He was educated partly at Mostyn House School, Parkgate, and went to Marlborough College in 1880, having won Foundation and East Indian Scholarships. He remained at Marlborough till midsummer 1887, having in 1886 gained an Open Exhibition at Lincoln College, Oxford, which he renounced in favour of a medical training. He received his professional education at Guy's Hospital, where in 1890 he gained the First Prize in Anatomy, Physiology, and Materia Medics, and the Treasurer's Prize with an essay on "Heredity". In 1891 he gained the First Prize in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, and then held the posts of Senior and Junior Resident Obstetric Assistant. He was President of the Guy's Hospital Physical Society for the long term of five years, and distinguished himself in the London University examinations. He also acted as Clinical Assistant at the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children. He practised for some six years in Whitby, and then moved to Nottingham. Here he acted as Corresponding Secretary to the Medico-Chirurgical Society, but held no regular appointment. He nevertheless did "a large amount of useful and important work, both administrative and scientific, in the health department of the Nottingham Corporation, where his assistance was highly appreciated by the Medical Officer of Health and the Health Committee." Sharp's position as a practitioner was somewhat inconsistent with his early promise. He was a powerfully built, pleasant man, so curiously unassuming in manner that, as is common in such cases, people did not suspect him of a brilliant past record. His friends felt that he was thrown away in his existing work, and were pleased when he decided to accept the post of Assistant Medical Officer to the education authorities at Sheffield, which had been offered him. He was about to move to Sheffield when he performed a necropsy at Nottingham (Oct 22nd, 1909) on a baby dead of virulent septicaemia. Shortly afterwards he developed symptoms of streptococcal infection, and after a painful illness of some eight months' duration, died at his residence, Newlyn, Fishpond Drive, Nottingham, on June 6th, 1910. He was buried at Ambleside on June 10th, his ashes - for he was cremated - being laid by his special request in the same grave as his grandmother, Mrs. Sharp. He had married, soon after leaving Guy's, a daughter of Dr S H Ramsbotham, of Leeds. Sharp's mother was the daughter of a medical man, Dr Lachlan MacLean, of Oban, and the Sharps were related to William Sharp, of Bradford, and the Heys of Leeds. A man of wide culture, Sharp did not confine his attention to sanitary matters alone. He was a keen student of English history and architecture, and was President of the Church of England Men's Society at Nottingham, at whose request a memorial service was held in his honour on the day of his funeral elsewhere. Publications:- "Scientific Diagnosis of Nervous Disease" (serial) - *Guy's Hosp Gaz*, 1895, ix, 48, etc. "Perityphlitis and Life Assurance."- *Post Mag and Insur Monitor*, 1907. Paper on the Notification of Births Act, *Med Mag*, 1909.
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First Title value, for Searching Spreat, Frank Arthur (1861 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Sprigge, Sir Samuel Squire (1860 - 1937)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation Journalist
Details Born at Watton, Thetford, Norfolk on 22 June 1860, the eldest son of Squire Sprigge (d 1877), MRCS 1846, LSA 1847, and Elizabeth, daughter of John Jackson, solicitor, who practised at Dutton Hill and Bury St Edmunds. His father had been educated at the London Hospital and was district medical officer to the Wayland Union. Squire Sprigge had his early schooling under the Rev J R Pilling at East Dereham, and entered Uppingham in August 1873 when Edward Thring was headmaster. He left in July 1878 and matriculated from Caius College, Cambridge on 1 October 1878, taking a "poll" degree in 1882. He received his medical education at St George's Hospital, where he dressed for Timothy Holmes, and after qualifying held resident posts at the West London and the Brompton Hospitals. He was attracted for a time to literature, wrote some short stories, became associated with Sir Walter Besant, and was secretary to the newly founded Society of Authors, of which he was president in 1911. With Sir Walter Besant he represented the Society at the Chicago Exhibition in 1893. During this period he acted as secretary to Sir Russell Reynolds, afterwards president of the Royal College of Physicians. Sprigge's connexion with *The Lancet* began in 1903, and after a short period of probation he was appointed sub-editor of the journal. Dr Thomas Wakley, junior, the grandson of the founder of the paper, died in 1909, and Sprigge then became editor, a position he held with distinction until his death in 1937. He married twice: (1) in 1895 Beatrice, daughter of Sir Charles Moss, Chief Justice of Ontario; she died in 1903 leaving him with two children: Cecil Sprigge, financial editor of the Manchester Guardian, and Mrs Mark Napier (Elizabeth Sprigge, the novelist); (2) in 1905 Ethel Courselles, daughter of Major Charles Jones; she survived him with a daughter. He died of a pulmonary embolism on 17 June 1937. Sir Squire Sprigge did much to improve the position of medical journalism by a succession of small and unobtrusive changes in *The Lancet*, which made it acceptable as an organ of the profession and agreeable to the reader who had no special knowledge. He was the embodiment of sound common sense, shrewdness, and tolerance. He wrote once to an assistant: "You are too outspoken, bounders do not always bound, boasters do not always lie, and third-rate persons sometimes produce second-rate stuff." Throughout his editorship he was keenly alive to the great advances which were being made in every branch of medicine, and was interested in the education of the student and in the welfare of his teachers. During the war he did much good, in 1914, as secretary of the Belgian Doctors' and Pharmacists' Relief Fund. In 1928 he went to the United States and delivered a Hunterian lecture before the American College of Surgeons. He was rewarded with the honorary Fellowship of the College and took the opportunity of visiting some of the American and Canadian universities. This oration was his only signed contribution to *The Lancet*, except for articles in December 1936 under the heading of "Grains and scruples by a Chronicler", his name as author of these being given in the half-yearly index. Publications: *Methods of publishing: the cost of production*. London, 1890; 2nd edition, 1892. *The life and times of Thomas Wakley*. London, 1897; re-issued 1899. *Odd issues*. London, 1899. Editor of *Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant*. London, 1902. *An industrious Chevalier*. London, 1902; new edition, 1931. *Medicine and the public*. London, 1905. *Some considerations of medical education*. London, 1910. *Physic and fiction*. London, 1921. Editor of *The conduct of medical practice*. London, 1927. Grand curiosity as exemplified in the life of John Hunter, Hunterian lecture before the American College of Surgeons, Boston, October 1928. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1928, 47, 877, and *Lancet*, 1928, 2, 739. Grains and scruples by a Chronicler. *Lancet*, 1936, 2, 1358-60, 1422-24, 1485-87, 1542-44.
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First Title value, for Searching Spurrell, Charles (1866 - 1949)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 26 September 1866 at King Street, Carmarthen, the thirteenth child and fifth son of William Spurrell and his wife Sarah Walters. William Spurrell was a printer and publisher, and an author in English and Welsh; his Welsh dictionary is an accepted authority. Charles Spurrell was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, and apprenticed at the Carmarthen Infirmary to James Rowlands, before entering Guy's Hospital Medical School. He served as house surgeon and resident medical officer at Guy's, having qualified in 1890. He was senior assistant medical officer at the Eastern Fever Hospital under the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and medical superintendent of St Andrew's Hospital, Bow. He practised throughout his career in the borough of Poplar. After retiring he returned to Carmarthen and devoted himself to his literary tastes. He was a man of considerable literary and historical cultivation, and an amateur of music. His fine bookplate is in the College collection: it shows his library at Carmarthen with a view, through the window, of the Vale of Towy; a printed explanation, which he wrote, records the many literary associations of the district with Spenser, Dyer, Jeremy Taylor, etc. Spurrell never married. He died at Fro Wen, Carmarthen on 26 January 1949, aged 82.
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First Title value, for Searching Square, James Elliot (1858 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Stabb, Ewen Carthew (1863 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Pemberton, Oliver (1825 - 1897)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Warstone House, Birmingham, on August 15th, 1825, of a family of manufacturers, the second son of Thomas Pemberton, a well-known brass founder and a JP for Birmingham. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, whilst Dr Jeune and Dr Prince Lee were successively head masters, and at the age of 17 was apprenticed to Dickinson Crompton (qv), Surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital. He studied at Queen's College Medical School whilst Joseph Hodgson (qv) was a lecturer. He then went on to St Bartholomew's Hospital under Burrows, Lawrence, and Stanley, having Savory as a fellow-student. After qualifying Pemberton returned to Birmingham as Physician's Assistant at the General Hospital, then as Surgical Officer. In October, 1852, on the death of Richard Wood, he was elected Surgeon and held this position for thirty-nine years until 1891. In the Medical School he lectured on anatomy from 1853-1858, then on Surgery from 1867-1892. He took an active part in the transference of the Medical Department of Queen's College to Mason's College, on the Council of which he served, and was President. In 1878 Sir Joseph Fayrer and Oliver Pemberton were elected to the FRCS as Members of twenty years' standing. The occasion was notable as it was the first time the Council of the College had exercised this privilege. In 1885 Pemberton was elected to the College Council, a position which he held until his death. During the active portion of his life as a Surgeon to the General Hospital he was also Consulting Surgeon to the Skin and Lock Hospital and to the West Bromwich Hospital. He published much. He was founder and promoter of the Medical Institute in 1874, was President of the Midland Medical Society, and was at one time on the Council of other Medical Societies in Birmingham. He gave the Address in Surgery at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in Birmingham in 1872. He practised at 65 Temple Row. Simultaneously he served on the City Council from 1879-1891, rendering valuable assistance on the Health and Water Committees. He was much engaged in medico-legal work and was frequently an expert witness in criminal trials, notably in that of Palmer, the Rugeley poisoner, for the defence. He had been present at the post-mortem examination of Cook, and simply stated that the spinal cord was then so much decomposed as to prevent an opinion as to its state immediately after death. In 1891, at the age of 66, he was elected Coroner for Birmingham, whereupon he resigned the post of Surgeon and that of City Councillor, and held the office until his death. He was described as an admirable coroner, very sympathetic and kind to witnesses, yet never failing to draw out all important points of evidence, whilst his directions to the jury were always clear and judicious. He attracted attention by a stately demeanour, a deliberate stride, and by peculiarities of dress; a wide-brimmed hat with a low crown, high boots worn over trousers, a long cloak thrown back over his shoulders. In recreation he gained repute as an angler. He kept in good health, his general expression of good humour, kindliness of manner, robustness of character, and methodical habits were attractive. An attack of bronchitis was followed by one of intestinal obstruction due to malignant disease, for which he was operated upon by his colleagues, Bennett May and Gilbert Barling, but he died the same evening at Quarry House, Whitacre, near Birmingham, on March 7th, 1897. He was buried in Slinstoke Churchyard, his funeral being attended by the Lord Mayor, by representative citizens of Birmingham, and by colleagues. He married in 1851 the only child of Daniel Whittle Harvey, MP for Colchester, and Chief Commissioner of Police for London. Mrs Pemberton only survived a week, dying on the following March 13th, at the age of 70. They were survived by two sons and three daughters. Edwin Ward's portrait of Pemberton, a venerable, long-haired, bearded figure in a cloak, was engraved, and the engraving signed by him was presented, to the President and Council of the College in 1894. Publications: *Observations on Cancerous Diseases*, 8vo, London, 1858. "On Excision of the Knee-joint." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1859, 958. 977, 997. *Clinical Illustrations of Various Forms of Cancer*, etc, fol, plates, London, 1867. This was termed by Sir James Paget a "grand book and an example of good taste". Pemberton's Bradshaw Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1894, was on "James Syme (Regius Professor of Surgery at Edinburgh, 1833-1869): A Study of his Influence and Authority on the Science and Art of Surgery during that Period," 8vo, Birmingham, 1895.
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First Title value, for Searching Penhall, John Thomas (1833 - 1916)

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First Title value, for Searching Pennell, Theodore Leighton (1867 - 1912)

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First Title value, for Searching Pennington, William ( - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Kelson, George (1796 - 1878)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised at Sevenoaks, and died at his residence, Mortimer House, Brockley Road, Brockley, SE, on April 1st, 1878.
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First Title value, for Searching Brett, Martin Stuart (1923 - 2012)

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by John Carvell
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2012-11-07
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Martin Brett was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Salisbury, based at Odstock Hospital and Salisbury General Infirmary. He was born on 1 January 1923 in Sheerness to Joseph and Margaret Brett. Joseph Brett was born in 1893 and educated at Faversham Grammar School and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied medicine. He spent a year at the Middlesex Hospital before going to France as a machine gun officer with the 11th Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment. Martin's mother Margaret was born in Kensington in 1895 and educated at the progressive Lingholt Boarding School, Hindhead. After leaving school she trained as a nurse at a military hospital in London and worked in France as an ambulance driver. Margaret and Joseph were married in 1917. After the war, Martin's father made his career with Vauxhall Motors and became manager of their export office. Martin gained a place at Christ's Hospital School. He thrived at sports, including rugby and cricket, and was also interested in music and natural history. The latter were to remain his lifelong passions. He played the flute in performances of the 'St Matthew passion' under the baton of Ralph Vaughan Williams. He also played in several performances of Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the St Mary's Hospital Musical Society. He qualified in 1945, and took and passed his FRCS in 1948, all by the age of 25. His interest in surgery was kindled when working under Arthur Dickson-Wright, and he went on to specialise in orthopaedic surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Great Portland Street, and then at Stanmore. Martin met Joan Diana Wace whilst on the island of Barra about this time, and they were married in 1949. Martin undertook a research fellowship in Boston in 1951, taking his family with him, before returning to London, where he became first a registrar and then a senior registrar at Stanmore. He was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Salisbury in 1957, where he joined RB Jim Shield. He was joined by Bevis Brock in 1961 and the duo of 'Brett and Brock' continued to provide a comprehensive orthopaedic service until Bevis' retirement in 1983. A spell in Salisbury was part of the Wessex surgical rotation and many aspiring orthopaedic surgeons owe their interest in the specialty to the teachings of Brett and Brock. During this time they introduced replacement of the hip and knee joint, arthroscopic surgery of the knee and the modern concepts of trauma care. Odstock Hospital, the home of the famous burns unit and department of plastic and maxillofacial surgery, provided a considerable challenge to Martin and his colleague, not least in managing young children with spina bifida. Martin helped to revive the Salisbury Medical Society and founded the postgraduate medical centre. He also wrote the definitive chapter on the surgical treatment of ganglion of the wrist in the prestigious publications of Charles Robb and Rodney Smith. Music remained a passion throughout his life. This he passed on to his family, and all five of his children have made music a major part of their lives. He played, at different times, the cornet, recorder, flute, double bass, viols and hurdy-gurdy. During the war years he developed an interest in wildlife photography and kept bees all his life. He revelled in wildlife and the ways of country life, in the farming villages of Wessex, and was always keen to learn from his patients in Salisbury and Shaftesbury. He painted in his spare time, and captured the architecture of places in Africa, where he worked in the early seventies, particularly the old city of Kano, Nigeria. Martin was concerned about the effects of exposure to nuclear radiation and became involved with the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons. In 1982 he was asked by John Baker, the Bishop of Salisbury, to be the medical adviser on the Church of England's working party *The church and the bomb* (London, Hodder & Stoughton, CIO Pub). He was a keen defender of human rights, and became a member of Amnesty International and a supporter of Freedom from Torture. He also became a donation governor of Christ's Hospital, supporting the education of a boy from a family of modest means. Martin was forced to retire early with a serious illness in 1984. Happily, he survived to enjoy a long retirement with his wife, Joan Diana, in the village of Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, where they nurtured a wonderful garden and kept and bred Dexter cattle and geese. The fruits, berries and flowers of the countryside allowed him to make wine, although not always to everyone's taste! The family had a long and deep attachment to the island of Barra, where they spent time every year in their cottage. Martin was so keen on fresh air and the outdoor life that he preferred to spend the 12 hours of the sea crossing to Barra on deck, rather than in the stuffy saloon below. He was an outstanding surgeon and a true countryman, and will be remembered for his energy, vitality and the warmth of his personality. He died on 17 April 2012 following a fall, which had resulted in a hip fracture. He survived the surgery, only to succumb to a post-operative complication. He was survived by his wife, Joan Diana, their five children (Crinan, Clare, Richard, Maggie and Rob), 16 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Rumsey, Nathaniel ( - 1847)

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First Title value, for Searching Rundle, Henry (1845 - 1924)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Apprenticed to W J Square (qv) at Plymouth and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital. On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he was one of six surgeons selected and sent by the British Red Cross Society to aid the wounded. In company with W E B Atthill and J C Galton, he first proceeded to Berlin, then to the 'Alice' Hospital at Darmstadt founded by Princess Alice (known in Germany as Princess Louise of Hesse Darmstadt) as a reserve hospital for the Hessian wounded. He passed on to military hospitals near Metz and Strasbourg, and entered the latter after the capitulation. He received the War Medal of the Hessian Cross, also, thirty years later, the French War Medal. On his return he was for two years (1871-1873) House Surgeon at the Royal Hampshire Hospital, Winchester. He then settled in practice at Southsea and was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, where he was Surgeon from 1882-1908. He acted as Hon Medical Adviser to the Royal Seamen and Marines' Orphan Home from 1877, and was also Surgeon to the Southsea Home for Sick Children. At the Portsmouth Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1899 he was the very energetic Secretary of the Surgery Section. During the last fifteen years of his life he was in feeble health, but enjoyed entertaining a large circle of young men, medical, clerical, and others, until the death of his sister, Miss Emma Rundle, who predeceased him by about five years. He had great attractions for and influence over young men, and kept up a correspondence with his former House Surgeons. He was a strong Churchman, but with wide and tolerant views. His chief recreation was reading the literature of the day. He was a courteous gentleman who wrote charmingly. He died at 13 Clarence Parade, Southsea, on March 19th, 1924. Publications: Besides medical cases Rundle also published: *With the Red Cross in the Franco-German War, AD* 1870-1. Some reminiscences. With an Introductory Note by F Howard Marsh, with portrait, 4to, London, 1911.
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First Title value, for Searching Middleton, Alfred Hancock ( - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Middleton, Thomas (1813 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Snape, Richard Forth (1822 - 1887)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at Guy's Hospital and practised for about forty years at Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, where he was Surgeon to the Infirmary and Dispensary. He was a Certifying Factory Surgeon who became deeply concerned with the terribly long hours worked by children and young people in the cotton mills. On January 25th, 1847, at a meeting at Bolton, promoted by Snape and others - Lord Ashley, afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury, being present - a motion was passed in favour of petitioning Parliament to pass a Bill for the shortening of hours of work in factories. Otherwise his practice among local families of importance took up most of his time and debarred him from public affairs. He had all the instinctive love of his profession, along with kindness of heart and simplicity of character, which won for him the love and esteem of a large circle of friends. He died at his house in Chorley New Road, Bolton, on January 13th, 1887, leaving a widow and three sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Cobbett, Louis (1862 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation Pathologist
Details Born at Weybridge on 15 May 1862, third son of Arthur Cobbett, provision merchant, and his wife Betsey Holt, and their ninth and youngest child. He was educated at Lancing and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences tripos part I, 1884, and came under the influence of Sir George Murray Humphry, FRCS, professor of surgery and formerly professor of anatomy in the university. At St Thomas's Hospital, where he took his clinical training, he served as house surgeon to Sir William MacCormac, FRCS, but after taking the Fellowship in 1891 his interest turned to pathology. He went back to Cambridge in 1893 as university demonstrator under Charles Roy, FRS (1854-97), the first professor of pathology, and was elected John Lucas Walker student of pathology, 1894-97. Cobbett at this time was chiefly occupied with the development of antitoxin, with special reference to diphtheria. He took the MD in 1899 by thesis "On the nature of the action of antitoxin". During the Cambridge and Colchester epidemics of 1900-01 he made the first large-scale investigations into the bacteriology of diphtheria, publishing his results in the first volume of the *Journal of Hygiene*, Cambridge University Press, 1901, and with G H F Nuttall and T H P Strangeways he discussed the cultural characters found in 950 examinations of the diphtheria bacillus. Cobbett next turned his attention to tuberculosis. At the British Congress on Tuberculosis in 1901 Robert Koch announced that he had proved that human and bovine tuberculosis were distinct entities, the human strain not being transmissible to cattle. Lister, who was in the chair, at once pointed out that the converse did not follow, and that it still remained to be proved whether or not bovine tuberculosis was communicable to man. The Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, appointed in 1902, set up a positive programme of research, and Cobbett was chosen as pathological investigator with charge of their experimental farm at Stansted. The very valuable results obtained by Cobbett's team, all the other members of which he survived, were published in a series *Reports* from 1907 to 1913; the Commission also published a *Report on tuberculin tests* by Cobbett and Stanley Griffith in 1913. Cobbett published his personal survey of this work as *The causes of tuberculosis, together, with some account of the prevalence and distribution of the disease*, Cambridge University Press, 1917. The book missed its merited success by appearing in the darkest year of the first world war; it has however achieved the rank of a classic in its own field. He also published an original study of Racial immunisation in tuberculosis. Cobbett was appointed to the professorship of pathology at Leeds in 1907, but held the chair for only a year. He went back to Cambridge, where from 1908 until 1929 he was university lecturer in pathology and proved himself a keen teacher with a kindly interest in his students; he was always ready to discuss with enthusiasm every subject in which he was interested. He worked with G S Graham Smith on the pathology of grouse disease, and their results were included in the *Report of the Commission on grouse disease* in 1911. He served as vice-president of the section of pathology and bacteriology at the British Medical Association annual meeting 1920. After his retirement he continued to work in the university pathology department and to lecture for part 2 of the Natural Sciences tripos. Cobbett died, after one day's illness, at his house Inchmahone, Adam Road, Cambridge, on 9 March 1947, aged 85; he was unmarried. He bequeathed £1,000 each to Addenbrooke's hospital and the department of pathology at Cambridge, and to the latter his medical books. His principal publications have been mentioned in the course of the memoir above.
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First Title value, for Searching Snow, James (1780 - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Soden (later Corbet), John (1814 - 1871)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of John Smith Soden (qv), of Bath, who was a Jacksonian Prizeman in 1810 with a dissertation on "The Bite of a Rabid Animal". John Soden succeeded to his father's practice, but on marrying a wealthy lady retired. He changed his name to Corbet in 1847, and after the death of his wife moved to London. He was described as handsome, accomplished, and of courtly manners. He died on January 18th, 1871. His portrait is in the College Collection.
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First Title value, for Searching Cole, Percival Pasley (1878 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Weymouth on 4 March 1878, eldest of the three sons of Walter Benjamin Cole, chemist, and his wife Mary Parmiter, of Dorchester. He was educated at Weymouth College, and as a dental student at Guy's Hospital. After qualifying as a dentist in 1899 he decided to become a surgeon. He took the Conjoint examination in 1904, served as house surgeon at Guy's, and then went to Birmingham as demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school. He took the Fellowship in 1906, served as sub-warden of Queen's College, Birmingham, took the additional qualification of MB ChB Birmingham in 1909, and came back to London to teach anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital in 1910. He was appointed surgical registrar at the Cancer Hospital and assistant surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End in 1911, and assistant surgeon at the Seamen's (Dreadnought) Hospital at Greenwich in 1912. With these three hospitals he maintained his connexion to the end of his life, becoming assistant surgeon to the Cancer Hospital 1920, surgeon 1922, and con¬sulting surgeon 1946; surgeon to the Dreadnought 1919, consulting surgeon 1947, and a vice-president of the hospital's corporation July 1948; senior surgeon to Queen Mary's 1932 and consulting surgeon 1938. He was also consulting surgeon to Bethnal Green Hospital from 1926, and surgeon to Tilbury Hospital from 1930. During the war of 1914-18 he was surgeon to King George Hospital, Waterloo Road, and to the Brook War Hospital. Here his dental training was brought to good use in the reparative surgery of war injuries of the face and jaws. During the second world war he again turned his hand to similar work as a surgeon under the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service. He was a leading member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. At the Cancer Hospital Cole was the youngest member and the last to survive of a brilliant band of general surgeons, each of whom also had a particular special interest, Cole's being for reparative work - Charles Ryall, Ernest Miles, Jocelyn Swan, Cecil Rowntree, and Cecil Joll; all were Fellows of the College. Cole's heart was perhaps most deeply given to his work at the Seamen's Hospital, where he was also director of the venereal disease department. He went to sea to study the conditions of work of a ship's surgeon, and in 1919 succeeded C C Choyce, FRCS as dean of the London School of Clinical Medicine established at Greenwich in 1910 for the postgraduate training of ships' surgeons. He was remembered with gratitude both as surgeon and teacher by ships' surgeons and merchant seamen all over the world. Towards the end of his life he revised the Board of Trade's *Ship-captain's medical guide*, originally issued in 1868. He was created OBE in the New Year honours 1947, and later in the year was elected an honorary life member of the National Union of Seamen, a tribute which he valued very highly. Cole was a Hunterian professor at the College in 1918, and he served for many years on the executive council of the Institute of Hygiene, before and after its incorporation with the Royal Institute of Public Health. He perfected the filigree operation for inguinal hernia, devised by his predecessor at the Seamen's Hospital, Lawrie McGavin, FRCS. Cole married twice: (1) in 1909 Amy Gladys, younger daughter of T J Templeman, JP of Weymouth; (2) Marjorie Pearl Christine Greene, a MRCS, who survived him with the son and daughter of his first marriage. He had practised at 61 Wimpole Street, and died at 41 Lancaster Grove, NW3 on 19 October 1948, aged 70. A memorial service was held at the Royal Cancer Hospital on 30 October. Cole was an athletic man and a games-player, particularly good at lawn tennis. Forthright and unwavering in his opinions, his turbulent spirit was mitigated by just and tolerant judgement. Publications:- Intramural extension of carcinoma of the colon. *Brit med J* 1913, 1, 431. Un-united fractures of the mandible, their incidence, causation and treatment (Hunterian lectures RCS). *Brit J Surg* 1918-19, 6, 57. War injuries of the jaws and face, in Fletcher and Raven's *War wounds and injuries*. Arnold, 1940. Experience in reparative surgery of the upper limb. *Brit J Surg* 1940-41, 28, 585. The filigree operation for inguinal hernia. *Brit J Surg* 1941-42, 29, 168.
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First Title value, for Searching Coley, William Bradley (1862 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Colgate, Henry (1850 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Dobson, Joseph Faulkner (1874 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Dobson, Nelson Congreve (1845 - 1919)

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First Title value, for Searching Dodd, John Richard (1858 - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching Dodds-Parker, Arthur Francis (1867 - 1940)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Dolamore, William Henry (1864 - 1938)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation Dental surgeon
Details Born in London 11 May 1864, the second child and eldest son of William Dolamore, wine merchant, and Cecilia Elizabeth Cook, his wife, he was educated privately and at Neuwied, Germany. He received his professional training from 1886 at the Dental Hospital in Leicester Square, where he gained the Saunders scholarship in 1888, the first prize in metallurgy, Ash's prize, and the first prize in operative dental surgery. He then studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital, was admitted MRCS in 1892, and was dental surgeon from 13 June 1907 to 10 May 1928. He acted as dental surgeon to the London Hospital 1896-1907 and to the Westminster Hospital, whilst at the Dental Hospital he filled in succession the posts of demonstrator (1891), assistant dental surgeon (1892-1903), medical tutor (1892-97), dental surgeon, lecturer on operative dental surgery (1907-13), dean of the school (1910-20), and consulting surgeon (1923-38). At the British Dental Association he was honorary secretary 1901-08, and president 1915-18. Dental tribunals were appointed in 1918, and in the following year, when the second Dentists Act came into operation, the first Dental Board was established to supervize the administration, education, and morals of the profession. When the Dental Board of the United Kingdom was formed in 1921 Dolamore was appointed a member, and three years later, when his term of office expired, he was re-elected to the Board by the vote of the qualified dentists in England and Wales. He retired from the Board in 1934, after serving for the thirteen years as treasurer. The Privy Council also nominated him an additional member of the General Medical Council under the Dentists Act of 1921. In these positions Dolamore did excellent and stimulating work in raising dentistry to a high level as a profession. He was, too, mainly instrumental in obtaining for the dental profession the right of representation in the government of all universities and institutions of which a dental school was a part. From 1912 to 1922 he was a member of the Board of Dental Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons of England; he examined also at Liverpool and Leeds. He was president of the odontological section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1920, and acted as a vice-president of the section of odontology at the London meeting of the British Medical Association in 1910. Dolamore married Nina Buchanan in November 1893. She survived him with five daughters; their only son was killed in action in Mesopotamia during the war of 1914-18. He died on 19 April 1938 at 1 Links Road, Ealing, W and was buried in Ealing cemetery. Mrs Dolamore died on 13 December 1944. Publications:- Editor of the *British Dental Journal*. Some observations on the motions of the mandible, with Sir Charles S Tomes. *Trans Odont Soc Lond*. 1901, 33, 167. Hyperplasia of the pulp. *Brit Dent J*. 1923, 44, 249. Concerning the misplacement of teeth in relation to the deformities of the dental arches. *Ibid*. 1925, 46, 565. Inferior retrusion. *Trans Brit Soc Orthodont*. 1923, pp 28-38.
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First Title value, for Searching Aickin, Casement Gordon (1881 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1881, son of Casement Aickin, merchant, and Elizabeth Mitchell Garde his wife. Aickin came of a medical family on both sides, for his mother was the daughter of Thomas Garde, MD and his grandfather Thomas Leland Aickin was MD of Trinity College, Dublin and FRCSI. Casement Aickin was educated at the Auckland Boys' Grammar School, where he won a university junior scholarship which enabled him to enter Auckland University College. Here he gained the College premium for physics at the end of his first year, and matriculated at the University of Otago with a senior university scholarship. He became resident medical officer at the Auckland Hospital, holding office for four years, and then took a postgraduate course in England. On his return to New Zealand he was appointed in 1913 honorary surgeon to the Auckland Hospital, a post he resigned in 1927 when he was elected a consulting surgeon. During the European war of 1914-18 he received a commission as captain in the New Zealand Medical Corps, and commenced duty on 7 November 1916, serving overseas for two years and sixty-five days. He then returned to his surgical practice, and in 1933 was elected president of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association. He was a foundation Fellow of the Australasian, and Fellow of the American, College of Surgeons. He married Catherine Broun on 12 April 1909. She was daughter of Thomas Broun, lieutenant, 35th Royal Sussex Regiment and afterwards major, of Waikatos, NZ. She survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died at Auckland on 12 November 1936 and was buried in Avondale cemetery, Auckland. Aickin had a large surgical practice in Auckland and was held in high esteem by all with whom he was brought into contact. He is described as being kindly, ready to understand the difficulties of his colleagues, loyal and possessed of infinite tact.
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First Title value, for Searching Ainger, William Bradshaw (1878 - 1931)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Dalry, Ayrshire on 6 May 1882 eldest eon of Andrew Aitken, wool manufacturer, and Anne Hogarth his wife. He was educated at Glasgow High School and University. He acted as house physician and house surgeon at the Victoria Infirmary and was afterwards house surgeon at the Glasgow Hospital for Sick Children. He served as prosector and as demonstrator of anatomy under Professor John Cleland at the University of Glasgow and then came to London, attached himself to the London Hospital, took his FRCS, and studied at the Tottenham Hospital and at the Throat and Ear Hospital in Golden Square. For a time he practised at Sunderland, but during the war he was gazetted captain in the RAMC on 1 June 1916, was posted first to Lincoln, then to Ripon, and finally went to France as surgical specialist at various casualty clearing stations. He returned to Sunderland on demobilization in 1919 but was soon invited to join G M Gray, FRCS in partnership at Lagos, Nigeria. The two partners soon re-organized the Creek Hospital, assumed responsible charge of the clinical and operative work of the African Hospital with 200 beds, and started a medical school at Yaba, five miles from Lagos. From this training-school Africans, after a four years' course ended by an examination, could be placed upon the Nigerian medical register. Aitken married Edith May Palmer on 7 February 1914 and died suddenly whilst bathing on 8 December 1935. She survived him, without children. He attended the Yellow Fever conference at Dakar in 1928 and received the French silver médaille des epidémies in recognition of his services to tropical medicine. It is said of him that he was very silent and reserved with no bedside manner, grim to those who tried to deceive him, but whole-heartedly attentive to those who were really ill. Publications:- Note on the insertion of the rectus abdominis muscle. *Glasg med J*. 1912, 78, 171. Case of doubling of the great intestine. *Ibid*. p 431.
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First Title value, for Searching Aitken, Robert Young (1872 - 1950)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Dalry, Ayrshire on 25 March 1872, the fifth son and ninth youngest child of Andrew Blair Aitken and his wife Jane Young. He was educated at the Ayrshire Academy, Ayr, and at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1893. After holding resident appointments at Oldham Infirmary and the Wirral Children's Hospital, Birkenhead, he was appointed in 1894 senior house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Blackburn, Lancashire, and to this hospital he devoted the rest of his working life. He took the conjoint qualification and the Fellowship in 1901 after working at University College Hospital, London, and was appointed surgeon to the infirmary; he became senior surgeon in 1914, and consulting surgeon in 1932. He was elected president of the infirmary in 1943, and patron in 1948, when the Aitken ward was opened. His portrait was presented to him on his retirement from the active staff in 1932 and was unveiled by Lord Moynihan. During the war of 1914-18 Aitken served at the Calderstones Military Hospital. He was a pioneer, full of energy and enthusiasm, to increase the efficiency of his hospital. He had a large private practice and was an active magistrate at Blackburn for 26 years. From 1948 he was chairman of the Blackburn Insurance Committee Industrial and National Insurance Acts. He practised at Oakfeld, New Road, Blackburn till his retirement in 1941 to Bezza, Preston. Aitken married in 1905 Theodora Beatrice Armistead. He died 6 October 1950, aged 78, survived by his only son, J B Aitken of Blackburn. Publications:- Aneurysm of the abdominal aorta in a child. *Lancet*, 1898, 1, 1115. A case of pemphigus serpiginosus. *Lancet*, 1898, 2, 139. Gastric ulcer perforating twice in five months. *Brit med J*. 1904, 1, 665. Case of gastrostomy (Senn's method). *Brit med J*. 1908, 1, 1173.
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First Title value, for Searching Alessandri, Roberto (1867 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 1 December 1867 at Civitavecchia, where his father was in general practice, he studied at the United Hospitals at Rome and graduated there in 1892. He served as clinical assistant to Francesco Durante, Hon FRCS. He was surgeon at San Giacomo Hospital 1903-05 and at the Umberto Policlinic 1905-23. Alessandri was a supreme teacher, particularly interested in this aspect of his work. He was director of the Institute of Surgical Pathology at Rome, 1902-19, and professor of clinical surgery in the university, 1919-38, in succession to Durante. In the war of 1914-18 he was director of the second army surgical service, and won the silver medal for valour; he operated under fire at the battle of Gorizia. In 1927 he was nominated a senator of the kingdom of Italy. Towards the end of his life Alessandri was paralysed, but he retained his mental faculties and continued to study current surgical literature and to write on surgery. He died in Rome of cerebral thrombosis on 8 August 1948, aged 80. Alessandri was an all-round surgeon. He practised surgery of the nervous system, of epilepsy, of spinal-cord tumours, and of pulsating skeletal tumours. He was among the first to perform coledocho-duodenostomy, and early advocated radical intervention for gastro-duodenal ulcer; he also studied post-operative peptic ulcer. He made successful ligation of hepatic and splenic arteries, and operated for hepatic cirrhosis. He experimented in transplanting embryonic tissues, and with osseous transplants. He operated for chronic osteomyelitic abscess, and studied the diseases of the parathyroid. As first director of the Forlanini Institute for Thoracic Surgery, he was a pioneer in Italy of the operations of apicolysis, thoracoplasty, and lobectomy. He was president of the Italian Surgical and Anaesthetic Societies, of the Academy of Medicine at Rome, and of the International Society of Urology. He was editor of the surgical section of *Policlinico* and joint editor of *Annali di chirurgia*. After retiring he worked on a *Treatise of surgery* but did not complete it. His pupils compiled a *Manual of surgery* in five volumes in his honour. Shortly before his death he wrote a chapter on "Operations on the spinal column" for the *Operative medicine*, edited in his name by Luigi Torraca.
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First Title value, for Searching Drew, Henry William (1858 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Duer, Charles (1861 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Duffett, Henry Allcroft (1870 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Duke, Charles Leslie Swinnerton (1900 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Killick, Charles (1875 - 1923)

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First Title value, for Searching Shipman, Robert (1817 - 1871)

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First Title value, for Searching Shirley, Henry James (1819 - 1871)

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First Title value, for Searching Shute, Gay (1812 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Shute, Robert Grueber ( - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Shuter, James (1846 - 1883)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The only son of James Legasie Shuter, a well-known merchant in Covent Garden and Farringdon Road markets. He spent some of his early life in France, where he learnt to speak French faultlessly and fluently. He was sent to the Thanet Collegiate School at Margate in 1858, remained there for four years, and left after taking a first-class certificate at the College of Preceptors with honours in several subjects. He attended lectures at King's College, London, in 1862, gaining prizes in mathematics and French. Two years later in 1864 having matriculated at the University of London, he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and took his BA degree with honours in the Mathematical Tripos in 1868. He also graduated LLB in the University of London in 1868. He attended Adden¬brooke's Hospital at Cambridge from 1868-1870, where he came under the influence of George M Humphry (qv), and on October 1st, 1870, he entered St Bar¬tholomew's Hospital, devoting himself at first to the study of chemistry, botany, and physics. He served as House Surgeon to Luther Holden from October, 1874, obtaining the House Surgeon's prize at the end of his year of office. He then became House Physician to Dr. Patrick Black until October, 1876, having graduated MA, MB at Cambridge in 1875. He spent a few months in Paris at the end of the year 1876 to take a course of operative surgery, and on his return to London began to practise as a consulting surgeon at 58 New Broad Street, EC. In 1878 he was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 1879 became Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital. He applied for election as Assistant Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital in March, 1882, when he came out bottom of the poll with 33 votes, Harrison Cripps (qv) receiving 53 and W J Walsham (qv) 56. He was more successful on March 28rd, 1882, when he obtained 127 votes, Jonathan F. Macready (qv) 48, and Charles Bell Keetley (qv) only a single vote. He died accidentally as a result of an overdose of morphia at Lawn House, Tufnell Park, on November 1st, 1883, and was buried at Kensal Green. He was unmarried. Shuter was a good teacher of anatomy, and as a 'coach' was successful in passing students at the examinations, for he was earnest, painstaking, and trustworthy. He was beginning to make a name for himself as a surgeon, and at the time of his death a discussion was in progress at the Clinical Society upon his method of stripping off the periosteum during amputation in order to obtain a better stump. He contributed frequently to the medical journals, and was one of the co-editors of the sixth (1882) edition of Luther Holden's *Osteology* and the editor of the third (1881) edition of the same author's *Landmarks Medical and Surgical*. Shuter had a large city connection, and was instrumental in inducing the late Charles Kettlewell to present £16,000 to St Bartholomew's Hospital for the erection of a Convalescent Home at Swanley in Kent. His sister Agnes married H Work Dodd (qv). In person Shuter was above the average height, a little inclined to embonpoint, of fair complexion, with a full blue eye, dark eyelashes, and a brown beard. In general conversation he was cheerful, ready, fluent, and well informed on the general topics of the day. Publications: *Progressive Muscular Atrophy*, 8vo, London, 1875. Thesis for Cambridge MB.
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First Title value, for Searching Sibley, Septimus William (1831 - 1893)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Born in Great Ormond Street, the seventh son of Robert Sibley, architect and surveyor to the County of Middlesex, and brother of George Sibley, the well-known civil engineer. He was educated at a private school and then at University College School, where he distinguished himself in mathematics, being second to Edward Routh, of Cambridge, who was afterwards Senior Wrangler. In applied mathematics in the 6th class of the school he won the first prize over the heads of Routh and Henry Cooke, who were bracketed in the second place. He also obtained the first prize in experimental philosophy. He then attended Professor de Morgan's lectures at University College, and worked chiefly at higher mathe¬matics and experimental philosophy with his friends, Sir William Flower (whose medical attendant he afterwards became), Dr Routh, and Sir Robert Fowler. He desired at this period of his life to devote himself to mathematics, but in 1848 he decided on the medical profession and entered as a student at the Middlesex and University College Hospitals, attending clinical instruction at the former and lectures at the latter school, where he won the Gold Medal in medicine, Joseph Lister (qv) at the same time winning the second Silver Medal. He also obtained the Silver Medal in surgery, the second Silver Medal being won by Lister. William Flower, Lister, and William Roberts were his chief contem¬poraries at the Hospital. At the Middlesex he was House Surgeon and then Medical Registrar from 1853-1860, and was later appointed Lecturer in Pathology, a post which he held for ten years. In 1856 he became partner with Thomas Farquhar Chilver. This practice, one of the leading ones of the day, had been founded by Sir Walter Farquhar (Physician to George IV) - who was succeeded by Samuel Chilver, father of Thomas Farquhar Chilver - and by Dr Martin Tupper, FRS, whose eldest son was Martin Farquhar Tupper, author of the once famous *Proverbial Philosophy*. Sibley practised at 12 New Burlington Street and then at 7 Harley Street; the firm was at first Chilver, Sibley & Plaskitt, and latterly Sibley Plaskitt. Up to within a year or two of his death Sibley was a member of the Middlesex Hospital Medical Committee. He was also for ten years Chairman of the Managing Committee of the Dental Hospital of London in succession to his friend Campbell de Morgan. A notable fact in his career is that he was the first general practitioner elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, where he represented his colleagues from 1886-1891. His personal qualities of gentleness and conciliation were well calculated to gain affection as well as respect. He represented the best qualities of an accomplished general practitioner. He was singularly courteous in his demeanour, considerate to all, and was never too pressed for time to do a kind or charitable action. An active Member of the British Medical Association, he sat on the Council from 1881-1891, was Vice-President of the Parliamentary Bills Committee from 1886-1891, and Member of the Scientific Grants, Premises and Library, and Medical Charities Committees. In 1878 he was President of the Metropolitan Counties Branch and was for many years Treasurer. His fellow-councillors greatly respected him for his earnest industry and independent views, and he exerted a marked influence over them. He was Vice-President of the New Sydenham Society and of the Royal British Nurses' Association; for some years Treasurer of the Medical Sickness, Annuity, and Life Assurance Society; Fellow of the Royal Medico-¬Chirurgical Society; and Member of the Pathological and Clinical Societies. Sibley died at his country house, The Hermitage, White Hill, Bletchingley, Surrey, on March 15th, 1893, survived by Mrs Sibley, who was second daughter of Sir Robert Garden, Bart, MP, and by two sons, of whom one was Dr Walter Knowsley Sibley, a dermatologist, and five daughters. He occupied himself with scientific pursuits in his scanty leisure and was an authority on many nonprofessional subjects. Publications: *Report on the Cholera Patients admitted into the Middlesex Hospital during the Year 1854*, 8vo, London, 1855. "Contribution to the Statistics of Cancer. Collected from the Cancer Records of the Middlesex Hospital, communicated by James Moncrieff Arnott," 8vo, London, 1859; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans* 1859, xlii. 111. "Cases Illustrating the Causes and Effects of Fibrinous Obstructions in the Arteries both of the Brain and of Other Organs," 8vo, London, 1861; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans*, 1861, xliv, 255. "On the Structure and Nature of so-called Colloid Cancer." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1856, xxxix, 259.
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First Title value, for Searching Wallis, Frederic ( - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Wallis, Sir Frederick Charles (1859 - 1912)

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First Title value, for Searching Walne, Daniel Henry (1796 - 1866)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-23
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Practised as a surgeon at 72 Guilford Street, London, WC, where he was Surgeon to the German Hospital and at one time President of the Hunterian Society. He has a place among the early operators upon ovarian cysts in this country, as described by him in the *London Medical Gazette* (1842-3, xxxi, 437, 672; 1843, xxxii, 544, 699, 944; 1843-4, xxxiii, 47, 686, 723). He commenced the description of his first case - "Removal of a Dropsical Ovarium entire by the Large Abdominal Section" - with a history of ovariotomy. Nathan Smith and Blundell had made a short incision of about three inches, McDowell a much longer incision; Lizars one of twelve inches in length, and his patient had been exhibited in London. Charles Clay of Manchester had operated on September 12th by a long incision; Wain followed on November 6th, 1842, on a woman aged 58, his diagnosis being confirmed by James Blundell, Lecturer on Obstetrics at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, and four friends who were present and assisted at the operation. The woman was seated propped up on a couch in her own bedroom, and Walne's finger was passed into the peritoneum through an incision one and a half inches long; this was then enlarged to rather more than thirteen inches by means of a probe-pointed bistoury guided by two fingers. As the tumour prolapsed, one assistant pressed the abdominal wound margin together to prevent prolapse of intestines; another held up the tumour, weighing 16 3/4 lb, whilst the pellicle was transfixed and tied. An additional ligature round the pedicle stopped all bleeding. The other ovary was examined by Blundell's finger and found normal; the wound was closed by a dozen interrupted sutures. There is reproduced a drawing of the cystic tumour. The ligatures which had been left long came away about ten weeks after the operation. Walne operated on a second case on May 30th, 1843 - patient of John Mussendine Camplin, of 11 Finsbury Square, a woman aged about 57 - in the presence of Blundell and several others including foreigners - Sewall of Washington, Klein of Würtemberg, Freund of Vienna. The cystic tumour was very similar and weighed the same (16f 3/4 lb) as in the first case. The ligatures came away after five weeks. He operated on his third case on June 27th, 1843, on an unmarried woman aged 20, a patient of John Elliotson, MD, who had been Physician to St Thomas's and University College Hospitals. There were again present Blundell and seven other friends. He made an incision fourteen inches in length; the tumour consisted mainly of one large cyst, and altogether weighed 28 lb. The patient made an even more rapid recovery than the previous two. A fourth case which had been previously tapped had become complicated by adhesions and Walne abandoned the attempt to remove it. Tapping was continued. A fifth case on October 19th, 1843, had been tapped; on opening the peritoneum much fluid, free in the peritoneal cavity, escaped, and the ovarian cyst found floating free was removed through a fifteen-inch incision. A uterine fibromyoma the size of almost a full-grown foetus was left alone. The wound was closed. The patient died nine days later. At the post-mortem examination pus was found around the uterine tumours and the pedicle. One may remark that the operations were done in the presence of Blundell, surgeons such as Bransby Cooper, J P Vincent, and distinguished foreigners. Three cases escaped peritonitis although Blundell's fingers were inserted as well as Walne's. Walne published other observations: "On the Results of the Operation for Strabismus" (*Lond Med Gaz*, 1841-2, xxix, 788); "On the Cure of Hydrocele" (*Ibid*, 945). He employed 'puncture' for the cure of hydrocele, following Velpeau. This meant passing a fine curette through a puncture and scratching the inner surface of the hydrocele wall. He alternated this with injections of iodine. In his papers "On the Application of Ligatures in the Treatment of Vascular Tumours" (*Lond Med Gaz*, 1847, iv, 993) he described the treatment of naevi, etc, by transfixing and surrounding with ligatures. Walne died at 72 Guilford Street, on October 3rd, 1866. His photograph is in the College Album.
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First Title value, for Searching Walsham, William Johnson (1847 - 1903)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London on June 27th, 1847, the elder son of William Walker Walsham, who had a farm in Cambridgeshire, by his wife Louisa Johnson. Educated privately at Highbury, he early showed a mechanical bent and was apprenticed to the engineering firm of Messrs Maudslay. The early hours and physical strength required proved too much for his delicate body and he turned first to chemistry and then to medicine. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in May, 1867, and obtained the chief school prizes in the first and second years of his studentship. In 1869 he won the Gold Medal at the Society of Apothecaries for proficiency in materia medica and pharmaceutical chemistry. He proceeded to Aberdeen - as was then a custom with London medical students - and graduated MB, CM with the highest honours in 1871. Returning to London he was nominated in May, 1871, to act for a year as House Physician to Dr Francis Harris, but exchanged nine months later with Charles Irving and became House Surgeon to Holmes Coote (qv). He then thought of entering private practice, but, an opportunity occurring in 1872, he was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, a position which he was particularly well fitted to occupy, for he was a skilled anatomist and a beautiful dissector. He became full Demonstrator in 1873 and held office until 1880. From 1880-1889 he was Demonstrator of Practical and Operative Surgery; from 1889-1897 he lectured on anatomy; and from 1897 to the time of his death he lectured on surgery. From 1890 onwards he was Surgical Instructor in the Nursing School of the Hospital. Walsham was elected Assistant Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital on March 10th, 1881, after a severe contest with William Harrison Cripps (qv) and James Shuter (qv), both of whom afterwards became his colleagues. He obtained 56 votes and his competitors 53 apiece. He was placed in charge of the Orthopaedic Department in 1884, where he soon made a reputation, as the subject allowed full scope for his mechanical skill, and it was his constant object to abolish the complicated apparatus of screws, springs, and levers used by the older school of orthopaedic surgeons. He published in 1895, with W Kent Hughes, *The Deformities of the Human Foot with their Treatment*. In 1897 he became full Surgeon. He was Surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital from 1876-1896, and there had charge of the Department for Diseases of the Nose and Throat. He served as Surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest from 1876-1884. He was also a Consulting Surgeon to the Bromley Cottage Hospital and to the Hospital for Children with Hip and Spine Disease at Sevenoaks. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was an Examiner in Anatomy on the Conjoint Board from 1892-1897 and a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1897-1902, but he did not survive to be elected to the Council. He married in 1876 Edith, the elder daughter of Joseph Huntley Spencer, of Hastings, who outlived him. There were no children. He died of arteriosclerosis - for years indicated in the radial arteries - at 77 Harley Street on Oct 5th, 1903, and was buried at Highgate Cemetery. He had a country house at Forest Row, Sussex. Walsham spent the whole of his professional life in the pursuit of surgery, and attained eminence - but at a great cost, for he overworked a fragile body, and though he gained much money he never lived to enjoy it. As an anatomist and as a teacher he was *facile princeps*. The dissections which he made are still preserved in the anatomical rooms of the Hospital, and his pupils passed easily at the College examinations. He stood about five feet four inches in height and was beautifully proportioned, his hand so small that he could easily pass it through an incision where another could not introduce more than three fingers, nevertheless he undertook the larger operations of surgery like the removal of the upper jaw or amputation on a muscular patient. He was neat, rapid, dexterous, and extremely delicate in his manipulations, although his hands trembled before he began to operate. He knew exactly what he wanted to do, and hardly ever failed to carry out his design. In cases of grave emergency he rose to the occasion with promptitude. He kept himself in touch with the most recent developments of surgery, carried out the later Listerian methods, and was one of the first surgeons in the Hospital to use gloves - first of cotton, afterwards of rubber - whilst operating; he was also one of the first surgeons in the Hospital to practise general abdominal surgery. He contributed a paper entitled, "Some Remarks on the Surgery of the Gall-bladder and Bile-ducts" (*St Bart's Hosp Rep*, 1901, xxxvii, 321), which gave details of his first twenty cases. Walsham had keen hazel eyes, and spoke in short incisive sentences with a degree of energy and vivacity which sometimes seemed out of proportion to the subject, though it served to arrest the attention of his hearers. He held high rank in Freemasonry, and when the project of founding the Rahere Lodge No 2546 for the convenience of masons belonging to St Bartholomew's Hospital was mooted in 1895, Walsham at once interested himself, and it was chiefly by his endeavours, ably seconded by those of Sir Alfred Cooper (qv) and Dr Clement Godson, that the Lodge was so rapidly successful as to become a model for others on the same lines. Publications:- *A Manual of Operative Surgery on the Dead Body* (with Sir Thomas Smith), 8vo, 2nd ed, 1876. *Handbook of Surgical Pathology for the Use of Students in the St. Bartholomew's Hospital Museum*, 8vo, 1878; 2nd ed conjointly with D'Arcy Power, 8vo, 1890. This was more than a mere guide to the Museum, for it was practically a manual of surgical pathology to be read with selected specimens whose numbers were given. *Surgery: its Theory and Practice*, 12mo, 1887; 8th ed, 1903. It contained a concise statement of the whole existing knowledge of surgery and was for many years the text-book most used by students for the pass degrees. It is said that Walsham wrote the first edition four or five times before it was printed, and the whole of his leisure time was spent in bringing the succeeding editions up to date. Posthumous editions were edited by W G Spencer, FRCS.
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First Title value, for Searching Thom, William (1818 - 1904)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on November 2nd, 1818, and entered the Bombay Army as Assistant Surgeon on January 5th, 1841, being promoted to Surgeon on May 10th, 1854, to Surgeon Major on January 5th, 1861, to Deputy Inspector of Hospitals on March 31st, 1867, and to Surgeon General on February 28th, 1874. He retired on September 15th, 1877. He resided for many years in St Helier's, Jersey, and died on June 11th, 1904, leaving no family.
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First Title value, for Searching Arnold, Gilbert James (1869 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Arnott, Henry (1842 - 1931)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon Priest
Details Born 6 December 1842, son of James Moncrieff Arnott, professor of surgery at King's College, London, and President of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1850 and 1859, Henry Arnott was educated at University College School and at University College, London. He held the post of house surgeon and resident physician's assistant at University College Hospital and then acted as clinical assistant at the Consumption Hospital, Brompton. He was elected surgeon to the Great (now the Royal) Northern Hospital but does not seem to have taken up the duties of the office. From 1866 to 1869 he was surgical registrar and superintendent of post-mortems at the Middlesex Hospital and was elected assistant surgeon in 1870. He acted as dean of the medical school, teacher of bandaging and minor surgery, and joint lecturer on pathology. It is of this period that he writes: "I remember when I was dean of the Middlesex Hospital medical school two lady doctors from America asked to be admitted as students. I was very much non-plussed. I was very young indeed and did not know what the law was. I pointed out some of the difficulties that might arise because the students might possibly resent their presence. I said I was too young to decide and must appeal to the Governors of the Hospital. They said 'No', but left me to deal with the matter. The ladies insisted on joining. What was the result? I got into such a row. The first day they came to the operating theatre all the students cleared out and I did the two or three operations with the ladies looking on. The next day the ladies went into the dissecting room - again the students left; the two ladies sat down calmly and began to dissect, but after about a week they went away and their fees were returned". He was elected assistant surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital on 6 July 1871, and resigned the post in 1876 having determined to take orders in the Church of England. Arnott had long been interested in the work of the Church and in October 1864 had helped to found a Brotherhood of St Luke with Reginald Eager, John Wickham Legg, Charles Frederick Lethbridge, and George William Rigden, who were all, like himself, medical students. On 2 November 1864 Robert Brett was chosen provost and Henry Arnott master of the brotherhood, which subsequently became well known as the Guild of St Luke. Arnott lived at Beckenham whilst he was surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, and was there appointed a lay reader under the Rev William Cator, the rector. In. 1877 he entered the Chichester Theological College, was ordained deacon in 1878 by Archbishop Archibald Tait and was licensed to the curacy at Beckenham where, being ordained priest in 1879, he remained until 1884. Dr Ellicott, Bishop of Gloucester appointed him vicar of Bussage, Gloucestershire, and he held the cure only until 1885 when he was presented to the living of Beckenham by a private patron. Here he remained for thirty-four years until his retirement in 1919, doing much good in the parish and rebuilding the parish church of St George between 1889 and 1903. He was rural dean (1909-21), first of West Dartford and afterwards of Beckenham. From 1906 to 1914 he was proctor in convocation, and in 1905 was chosen honorary Canon of Rochester. He married a daughter of Captain Powell of the Royal Welch Fusiliers and sister of Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Bt (1842-1925), sometime President of the Royal College of Physicians. She died in 1930 and was survived by four sons and four daughters. He died at his house in the precincts, Rochester, on 27 March 1931, aged 88, and was buried at Beckenham. Arnott was eminently fitted for the pastoral office and throughout his long ministry at Beckenham exercised a widespread influence for good. He was a man of handsome and distinguished presence and his sermons were remarkable for their clear and orderly expression. Publications:- The microscopic structure of tumours and cancer, in Holmes' *System of surgery*, 2nd ed 1870, 1, 611. The pathology of malignant new growths. *Med Times and Gaz*. 1871, 1, 566, etc. *Cancer, its varieties, histology and diagnosis*. London, 1872. *Emmanuel, meditations on the incarnate life of Our Lord*. 1913.
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First Title value, for Searching Atkin, Charles (1858 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Savage, Thomas Copeland ( - 1915)

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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 Ward, Thomas (1808 - 1865)

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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 Galloway, William Dawson (1890 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Galpin, George Luck (1857 - 1941)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in Edinburgh on 13 June 1854, the eldest child of James Dundas-Grant, advocate, and Louise Elizabeth Chapuy, his wife. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, at Dunkirk College in France, and at Edinburgh University, and took postgraduate courses in London, at Bart's, the London, the Middlesex, and University College Hospitals, and also at Wurzburg. Settling in general practice in London in 1877, he was attached to the Poplar Hospital and the Shadwell Lying-in Home, but his interest turned to oto-laryngology and in 1879 he was appointed surgical registrar to the Central London (now Royal National) Nose, Throat, and Ear Hospital in Gray's Inn Road, becoming later pathologist and surgeon. He took the Edinburgh surgical Fellowship in 1884, gave up general for consultant practice in 1886, and took the FRCS England in 1890. He was elected consulting surgeon to the Nose, Throat, and Ear Hospital in 1913, and was also consulting surgeon to the Sussex Throat and Ear Hospital at Brighton, and consulting laryngologist to the Freemasons' Hospital, the Brompton Hospital for Consumption, the Cancer Hospital and the West-end Hospital for Nervous Diseases. He was active in various medical societies and was president of the Hunterian Society and the British Laryngological Association; also president of the sections of laryngology and otology of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the corresponding sections at annual meetings of the BMA. He was a member of the American Laryngological Association, the Société française de Laryngologie, the Société belge d'Otologie, the Interstate Postgraduate Association of USA, the Oesterreichische otologische Gesellschaft, the Wiener laryngologische Gesellschaft and the Società italiana di Laringologia, d'Otologia e di Rinologia. Dundas-Grant was a keen volunteer, but had retired before the 1914-18 war with the rank of surgeon-major from the 24th Middlesex (Post Office) Rifle Volunteers, and had been principal medical officer of the 6th Brigade of the London Division of the National Reserve. He had also lectured at the College of Ambulance organized by Sir James Cantlie. During the war he was attached as aurist and laryngologist in London to the King George Military Hospital, Lord Knutsford's Hospital for Officers, the New Zealand Military Hospital, the Endsleigh Place Hospital, and the Russian Hospital; and was honorary consultant for diseases of the ear to the Ministry of Pensions 1917-20. For these services he was created KBE in 1920. Dundas-Grant married in 1890 Helen, daughter of Edward Frith. Lady Dundas-Grant died in May 1944, six months before her husband. He had practised at 148 Harley Street, and lived latterly at 32 Lexham Gardens, Kensington, W8, and finally in a flat at 29 Sheffield Terrace, Kensington, W8. He died in a nursing home at 27 Dartmouth Road, NW2, on 13 November 1944, aged 90, survived by his two sons, Bramwell Dundas-Grant and Commander J H Dundas-Grant, RN. His great vitality had been somewhat diminished by a street accident. He was cremated at Golders Green and a memorial service was held at Brompton Hospital chapel on 27 November 1944. Though he never wrote a book, Dundas-Grant was a prolific contributor to the scientific journals and to medical annuals and encyclopaedias. He was particularly ingenious in improving mechanical instruments, often of his own devising, and in the development of aids for hearing. His cannula for aspirating the middle ear, and his ligature-applicator for tonsillar vessels were at one time much used. He carried out considerable research on asthma and on laryngeal tuberculosis, and devised an operation for shortening an elongated uvula as a cure for cough. Sir James was a man of great social accomplishments. He was a skilled musician and a trained orchestral conductor; a good fencer; and a grand officer of freemasonry. He was honorary surgeon to the Royal Academy of Music, and honorary aural surgeon to the Royal Society of Musicians. For some time he was a manager of the Royal Institution. Publications:- Labyrinth tests. *Med Press*, 1922, 103, 501. Enlarged tonsils and adenoids. *W Lond med J*. 1924, 29, 1. Catarrhal deafness. *Practitioner*, 1925, 64, 385. Tuberculosis and cancer of the larynx. *Clin J*. 1925, 54, 469.
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First Title value, for Searching Dunn, Hugh Percy (1854 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Dunn, Robert (1799 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Dunn, Spencer Graeme (1879 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Dun, Robert Craig (1870 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 15 June 1870 at Long Compton, Warwickshire, fifth child and second son of Finlay Dun of Edinburgh, land agent, and his wife, *née* Craig. Dun was educated at Loretto School and Edinburgh University, where he graduated with second-class honours in the medical school in 1893 and was Gunning Victoria jubilee scholar in pathology in 1894. He later studied at Berlin and Bern, and served as house surgeon and house physician in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Dun was appointed assistant lecturer and senior demonstrator of anatomy at Liverpool University College, and was later elected assistant surgeon to the Stanley Hospital. His interests turning to the surgery of children, he was appointed in 1900 to the staff of the Children's Infirmary, which became the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, and retired as consulting surgeon in 1932. He was also consulting surgeon to the Liverpool Hospital for Children at Leasowe and to the West Kirby Convalescent Home for Children. He was particularly interested in the cranial surgery of children. He was for several years chairman of the Liverpool Hospitals' Staffs Association and was president of the Liverpool Medical Institution in 1925. Dun saw active service in the South African war, and received a commission as captain in the RAMC(T) on 7 January 1912. He was promoted brevet-major on 1 January 1918 and subsequently lieutenant-colonel. He was a man of broad, thick-set figure, who used his large hands with exquisite neatness and gentleness, and veiled his strength under a quiet and courteous manner. Dun married on 2 July 1907 H Louise Bowring, who survived him with three daughters. He died on 31 January 1941 at Fitz Manor near Shrewsbury.
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First Title value, for Searching Durante, Francesco (1844 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Durham, Herbert Edward (1866 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation Medical Researcher
Details Born 25 March 1866, third child and second son of Arthur Edward Durham, consulting surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and his wife Mary, daughter of William Ellis (see *DNB*), economist and founder of the Birkbeck secondary technical schools. He was thus born into a remarkable family. The only brother who, with him, survived their father, Colonel Frank Rogers Durham, after a distinguished career as a civil and military engineer, became (1926) secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society. Of his sisters, Mary Edith Durham, FRAI (1863-1944), made her name first as an artist, and later as Balkan traveller and anthropologist, and champion of Albania; another sister became Mrs Hickson and her daughter Joan Durham Hickson was the wife of W H Trethowan, FRCS; the third sister, Caroline Beatrice (who died 13 April 1941), married William Bateson, FRS, the famous geneticist, and wrote the classic life of her husband. H E Durham was educated at University College School, London, and King's College, Cambridge, of which he was Vintner exhibitioner 1885; he took first-class honours in part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos 1886 and a second-class in part 2, 1887. He then worked for two years as John Lucas Walker student in the University laboratories of zoology and physiology. His medical training was at Guy's, where his father was the leading surgeon, and he qualified from Cambridge in 1887. He took the Fellowship, though not previously a Member, in 1894, but did not practise surgery. He served as resident obstetric officer and assistant in the throat department at Guy's, and was Gull research student there 1894. He was also medical officer to the North Eastern Fever Hospital at Tottenham. In 1894 he went to work under Max Gruber (1853-1927) in the Hygienisches Institut at Vienna. With his master he recognized the practical potentialities for diagnosing infectious diseases available from the effect, already observed by others, of agglutination of pathogenic organisms by the serum of animals immunized against those particular organisms. Durham reported this suggestion to the Royal Society of London on 3 January 1896. But it was first applied clinically in enteric fever by Fernand Widal (1862-1929), of Paris, in June and July of the same year (*Bulletin, Société médicale des Hôpitaux de Paris*, 1896, 13, 561) and by A S F Grünbaum (afterwards Leyton) (1869-1921), of Liverpool, during September-December (*Lancet*, 1896, 2, 806 and 1747). Gruber's communication is in *Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift*, 1896, 43, 285. The reaction is variously known by the names Widal, Gruber, and Durham. In 1896 Durham served on the Royal Society's tsetse-fly commission in Africa, and the following year was appointed Grocer's Company Research Fellow at Cambridge. He reported his observation of a common group agglutinating reaction between closely allied bacteria, and also introduced the "Durham tube", the small inverted test-tube placed in bacterial media to collect gas produced by fermentative organisms (*Brit med J*. 1898, 1, 1387), which was very generally adopted. In 1900 he took to Brazil the yellow-fever expedition, sponsored by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He and his colleague, Walter Myers (1872-20 January 1901), both contracted yellow-fever, and Myers died of it at Para. The expedition's results were published as the School's *Memoir* No 7, 1902. From 1901 to 1903 Durham headed the London School of Tropical Medicine's beriberi expedition in Malaya and Christmas Island, where he lost the sight of one eye. Durham was the first to bring back to England from Malay the poisonous plant *Derris elliptica*, which came into wide use as a horticultural insecticide. He described it in J D Gimlette's *Malay poisons*, 3rd edition, 1939. He was also associated with Sir Ronald Ross in his researches on malaria. Durham was hindered by his partial loss of sight from returning to bacteriological research, and therefore readily accepted the invitation of a friend, Fred Bulmer, director of H P Bulmer and Co, cider manufacturers, at Hereford, to superintend their chemical department. The Bulmer family had long been connected with Durham's old college, King's. Durham spent thirty useful years, 1905-35, at Hereford, working on fermentation, and also did much for the improvement of fruit trees and was active in the acclimitization of new plants. He served as president of the Herefordshire Association of Fruitgrowers and Horticulturists, and was also president of the Woolhope Naturalists Club. He lived at Dunelm, Hampton Park, Hereford. In 1935 he retired to Cambridge, where he continued his active horticultural work particularly in raising rare culinary plants, of which he contributed accounts to the *Dictionary of Gastronomy*. He was, too, a draughtsman of talent and a skilled woodworker, who designed ingenious modifications of his lathe. He was a medallist of the Royal Photographic Society in 1927. He was a retiring, modest man, though of adventurous originality and much charm. Durham married on 25 September 1907 Maud Lowry, daughter of Captain Harmer, 81st Regiment. Mrs Durham survived him, but without children. He died at 14 Sedley Taylor Road, Cambridge, on 25 October 1945, aged 79, having been well and happy the previous day. He left, subject to his widow's life-interest, bequests to the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, King's College, Cambridge, and the Schools of Tropical Medicine in London and Liverpool. His outstanding publications are mentioned above.
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First Title value, for Searching Duval, Pierre (1874 - 1941)

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Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Paris on 24 June 1874. His father, a lawyer, died when Pierre was seven years old, leaving a widow and six children. He was educated at the Lycée Monge and the Lycée Condorcet, at Heidelberg, and at the University of Paris, where he passed every examination with honours. In 1898 he began his internship, serving under Edouard Quénu, Reclus, Lannelongue, and Guyon. At the Faculty of Medicine he served as demonstrator to Faraboeuf, assistant in anatomy 1899, and prosector 1901. In 1902 he graduated MD with a thesis on the semiology of cancer of the pelvic colon, and won the gold medal. He proceeded agrégé in surgery 1904, and chirurgien des hôpitaux 1905. From 1901 to 1912 he acted as assistant to Edouard Quénu, with whom he did considerable research, including a study of anastomosis of the ureters into the large intestine. He always remained interested in genitourinary surgery. Quénu turned his interest primarily to the surgical pathology of the large intestine. In his thesis Duval described for the first time the mobilization of fixed segments of the large intestine by colo-parietal décollement, a revolutionary technique which was universally adopted. In 1913 he made a remarkable report on surgery of the pelvic colon to the Congrès de Chirurgie. Through this period Duval had worked on a wide variety of surgical problems. With Quénu he published the first French account of splenectomy in Banti's disease; and he contributed sections on genito-urinary surgery and on diseases of the intestine, rectum, and peritoneum to well-known textbooks. In 1912 Duval became head of the surgical clinic at Bicêtre, but before he could make his mark he was called to the army as aide-major in the ambulance service of the 10th Army. He served in the withdrawal from Belgium, autumn 1914, and the first battle of the Marne. Then he was posted to Fougères at the base, and soon given surgical direction of the 10th Region with control of 14,000 beds. He proved himself a brilliant administrator. In 1916 he returned to active service as médecin-major 1st class, in charge of Ambulance Corps 21 at Bray-sur-Somme and at Noyon. In 1917 he assumed the surgical control of the Army of Flanders with headquarters at Zuydcoote, halfway between the casualty clearing stations and the base hospitals of Amiens and Abbeville. Later he went to Malmaison, was consulting surgeon with the Army of Alsace, then to Flanders again, to Montdidier, and finally was officer in charge of 4,000 beds at Pontoise. His war work gave rise to numerous special studies and four major researches. First, thoracic surgery where he advocated direct intervention for chest wounds. His results and theories were published in his *Plaies de guerre du poumon* 1918. Secondly, he was a fervent and successful advocate of serotherapy for the prevention of gas gangrene. Thirdly, he introduced the practice of delayed primitive suture in the armies under his charge; that is to say, excision of wounds was to be effected in the field and primitive suture completed some days later at the base. Finally, he studied traumatic shock, proving its toxic origin in the chemical breakdown of the injured tissues. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre with a bar, and created Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur 1915, promoted Officier in 1918, and became Commandeur in 1934. He was sent on special missions to the Belgian and British armies, to Italy, and to America. He was elected to the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain, to the American College of Surgeons, and on 2 February 1920 an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Returning to civil practice, Duval became surgeon to the Lariboisière Hospital and was elected professor of operative surgery in the Paris Faculty 1919. Two years later he was made head of the new University Hospital at Vaugirard, and professor of clinical surgery. Here he established a surgical clinic after his own heart, supported by a battery of specialist subsidiaries, medical, biochemical, radiological, etc. Duval took a particular interest in the radiological study of his surgical cases. Duval was now the centre and head of an elaborate team, whom he inspired to fulfil his conception of physiological surgery, a conception similar to Moynihan's "pathology of the living". A vast output of surgical research came from Duval and his team in the twenty years remaining to him. He worked again on various aspects of surgery of the large intestine, thoracic surgery, duodenal ulcer. In particular he stressed the importance of pre-operative treatment of bacterial infection in cases of ulceration. He advocated urgent gastrectomy for perforated ulcer. His *Etudes médico-radio-chirurgicales sur le duodenum*, with J-Ch Roux and H Béclère, was an outstanding contribution to the subject, and differentiated three distinct affections previously confused (1924). Duval explored and improved the surgery of the pancreas, gall bladder, liver, and spleen. In 1931 he opened a crusade on behalf of immediate intervention, in the first 24 hours, in all cases of appendicitis. But his most important work was his study of post-operative toxicity, and of general infection after burns. Both arose from his earlier work on shock and were inspired by his ideal of physiological surgery and his realization of the importance to the surgeon of biochemical investigation. Duval was throughout his career an inspiring teacher, of dynamic intellect, to whom his pupils and assistants became devoted friends. Duval served as president of the Society (now Academy) of Surgery in 1932, and had become president of the Academy of Medicine in January 1941, just before his sudden death. He had travelled widely in Europe and North and South America, and was a corresponding member of the surgical academies of numerous capitals. When war began again in September 1939, Duval took an active part in the background of medico-military work. He was a prompt supporter of the introduction of sulfonamide treatment. When Paris fell in June 1940, he remained at his post at Vaugirard, and carried on his surgical work, both clinical and research, with unabated energy. He married Carmen Laffitte, whose death between the wars was a great shock to him. Their sons distinguished themselves: Charles-Claude, a lawyer, married a daughter of M Deschamel, at one time President of the Republic, and Paul-Marie became professor of geology at the Sorbonne. Duval died after a very short illness on 7 February 1941, survived by his sons, the younger of whom was a prisoner-of-war in Germany at the time of Pierre Duval's death. He had lived at 119 Rue de Lille, Paris. Duval was a man of great beauty of character, and wide interests, warm-hearted though a little formal, and absolutely upright.
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First Title value, for Searching Dyall, Thomas James (1865 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Dyball, Brennan (1872 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching James, Herbert Ellison Rhodes (1857 - 1930)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Goodnestone Parsonage, Wingham, Kent on 20 October 1857, the second son of the Rev Herbert James, Rector of Livermere, Suffolk, and his wife Mary Emily, daughter of Admiral Joshua Sydney Horton. His elder brother, Sydney James, was head master of Malvern College and Archdeacon of Dudley and died in 1934; his younger brother, Montague Rhodes James, OM, Provost of Eton from 1918 until his death in 1936, was well known as a great scholar and mediaevalist, who also wrote ghost stories. H E R James was educated at Aldeburgh School and at Charing Cross Hospital. He entered the Army Medical School at Netley with a commission on 4 February 1882, became lieutenant-colonel after twenty years' service, and retired on 8 March 1908. His army career was remarkable on account of his humanitarian efforts; also his display of undoubted powers of organization, wedded as they were to a persuasive personality, gave impetus to the movement for transfer of the Army Medical School from Netley to London. He started his career at Aldershot, but was soon sent to Cyprus, where he remained from 1883 to 1888. Then, after a short stay at home, he was sent to China, and worked there for five years 1892-97, being selected for appointment to the permanent sanitary committee for British troops in China. The committee had in particular in 1894, to deal with an epidemic of bubonic plague in Hong-Kong and James was mentioned in dispatches and received the thanks of the colonial government for his services. During the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95 James took the field with the Chinese troops. His reports on the medical organization, with its vicissitudes, were on the termination of the war submitted to the War Office. The Chinese government in recognition of his work for the sick and wounded conferred upon him the Order of the Double Dragon. Returning to London he was made secretary to the PMO, Home District. The year following he was transferred to the RAMC depot and training school at Aldershot, as senior instructor. The experience he gained the led to his selection as commandant of the depot, a post he held throughout the South African war of 1899-1902. At the conclusion of that campaign reorganization was in the minds of men; the medical service justifiably come in for criticism and was quite ready for reform. James became secretary to the commission of inquiry into South African medical arrangements; St John Broderick filled the office of Secretary of State foil War; Edward Ward, straight from the siege of Ladysmith, had become Permanent Under-Secretary; Alfred Keogh was Director-General, Army Medical Service; all four were sympathetic to medical betterment; and with King Edward VII wholly in favour of the creation of efficiency, a quintet of power existed which it was difficult for the Treasury officials to combat. It so happened that, as Millbank prison had been recently razed to the ground, a site was available to build and establish a military medical centre in London, consisting of a new hospital for London troops and for the reception of patients with tropical complaints, an up-to-date medical school, and a headquarters officers' mess with barracks for the men. So it came to pass that "Netley" was transferred to "Millbank", and James became its first commandant and director of studies to the school, controlling the administration of the hospital. On the expiration of his tenure, he retired in 1908. He then went to the War Office, where he was responsible for the training of officers of the medical units of the Officers' Training Corps. When the war broke out in 1914 James once again put his uniform on and embarked for Egypt in 1915, to take charge of No 11 General Hospital, EEF. He was mentioned in dispatches, and was decorated CMG. Then followed a transfer to Salonika to supervise Nos 36 and 61 General Hospitals, for which service he was made OBE. In 1919 James was brought home to serve on the War Office staff for the training of medical units, and from there he returned again to civil life. James was ever a worker, keeping an interest in medical advances for years after he ceased to be employed. He had deep and strong convictions expressed with a charm of manner and innate courtesy, leading to a fulfilment often considered beyond the realms of possibility. To these projects of his mind his lifelong friend Edward Ward contributed a sympathetic and active encouragement. James's tact, courtesy, and kindly disposition made of his students life-long friends, whilst his active brain, his learning, and his knowledge of men and affairs, together with a stern sense of discipline, won him enduring success throughout his life. He was a versatile soul, excelling in pleasurable occupations: a keen collector of Chinese vertu, a fisherman of many waters, a capable carpenter, a good shot, and an excellent raconteur. He died unmarried at Gilston, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia on 9 August 1939.
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First Title value, for Searching Jamison, Reginald (1878 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Jamison, Robert (1880 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Ebden, John Alfred Wylde (1891 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Coombe, Russell (1855 - 1933)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in 1855, the son of John Coombe, a member of the London Corn Exchange, who was then living at Waterford, Ireland. He was educated privately, and later at Brighton. He then began business life in the City but finding the occupation uncongenial entered Caius College, Cambridge on 1 October 1879, graduating BA in 1883 after obtaining a third class in part I of the natural sciences tripos in 1882. He received his medical education at St George's Hospital where, amongst other distinctions, he won the Brodie prize for clinical surgery, and held the posts of house surgeon and assistant surgical registrar. He left London in 1888 to become house surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Two years later he settled in practice in Exeter and quickly obtained a good surgical practice, although he never held any position on the staff of the hospital. He was pricked for Sheriff of Exeter in 1914, but was unable to serve the office as he had accepted a commission as major in the territorial medical service in 1908 and on the outbreak of war was ordered to Netley as one of the operating surgeons. He did not return to practice at the end of the war, but spent his time in medical politics and in the cultivation of his hobbies: architecture, classical music, art, history, and gardening. He married in 1901 Eva Johnstone of Hardwick Hall, Co. Durham, who died before him without children. He died after an attack of cerebral haemorrhage on 15 February 1933. Coombe is to be remembered as a surgeon because he recommended the operation for cure of congenital stenosis of the pylorus a year before the appearance of Rammstedt's paper on the subject. The greater part of his life was spent in the service of the British Medical Association, from 1906 locally and from 1910 centrally. He was strongly in favour of the National Health Insurance Act (1911), was chairman of the Devon panel committee 1914-30 and was a member of the council of the Association 1915-22. As a member of the organization committee he took a leading part in the revision of the constitution of the Association between 1919 and 1922, the incorporation of the Australian branches 1920-21, the organization of the medical profession in South Africa, and the propaganda work of the Association among medical students. For this work he was elected a vice-president. Publications:- *A pocket epitome of the British Pharmacopoeia*. London, 1891. Ruptured pyo-salpinx complicated by a large ovarian cyst; operation; recovery. *Lancet*, 1906, 2, 654. Congenital hypertrophic stenosis of the pylorus. *Ann Surg* 1911, 54, 167. A short history of the British Medical Association, mainly medico-political. BMA. *Handbook* for 1921-22. *A brief history of the south-western branch of the British Medical Association* 1840-1932. Exeter, 1932.
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First Title value, for Searching Coorlawala, Nawob Rustom Yar Jung Nusserwan Bahadur (1880 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Corner, Edred Moss (1873 - 1950)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 22 October 1873 at the Manor House, Poplar, the fifth son and ninth of the ten children of Francis Mead Corner, MRCS, JP, a general practitioner, who had married his cousin Anne Corner. The family derived from Lythe, near Whitby, Yorkshire. He was educated at Epsom College, where he was head prefect, captain of the XV and a member of the cricket XI, and throughout life took a keen interest in his old school. He was honorary secretary of the Old Epsomian Club 1907-20 and subsequently its president, and was a generous subscriber to the centenary fund which he inaugurated. He was a scholar and prizeman of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and took first-class honours in the natural sciences tripos part 1 in 1894. In the same year he took the London BSc. At St Thomas's Hospital, where he received his clinical training, he won further scholarships. At the Cambridge MB BS examination 1898 he was placed first in every subject, a distinction probably unique. He took the Conjoint qualification this year, and proceeded to the Fellowship at the end of 1899; the Cambridge master of surgery degree, then considered the blue riband of achievement, he took in 1906. Corner's intellectual ability was matched by his exceedingly tall, robust, and commanding personality. He served as house surgeon at St Thomas's and at Leeds General Infirmary, and was elected assistant surgeon to St Thomas's in 1900. He was extremely popular as a demonstrator and lecturer. Corner built up a large private practice at 37 Harley Street, and served on the honorary staff of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and at the Purley and Wood Green Hospitals. He was also surgeon to Epsom College. During the war of 1914-18 he was commissioned in the RAMC and promoted major. He was consulting surgeon to Queen Mary's auxiliary hospital at Roehampton, and organized an amputation clinic at St Thomas's. Corner was interested in nearly every aspect of surgery, but more particularly in orthopaedics and abdominal surgery. At the College he delivered the Erasmus Wilson lectures in 1904 on "Acute infective gangrenous processes (necroses) in the alimentary tract", and the Arris and Gale lectures in 1919 on "The nature of scar tissue and painful operation stumps". He was a vice-president of the Medical Society of London and of the Harveian Society, to which he delivered a Harveian lecture. In the British Medical Association he was secretary of the section for the diseases of children at the 1907 annual meeting, and vice-president of the section of orthopaedics in 1912. He sat on the board of advanced studies in London University, and was a visitor for King Edward's Hospital Fund. In his younger days Corner was an experienced mountaineer; he was also a learned mycologist, and an appreciative student of architecture. He married in 1903 Henrietta, daughter of James Henderson of the Gows, Ivergowrie, Dundee. Corner was reaching the peak of a most distinguished surgical career in the years immediately following the first world war, when he was struck down in his late forties by a familial degenerative nervous disease, whose progressive severity he bore with stoical resignation for nearly thirty years, dying at the age of seventy-six after long endurance of total blindness and severe lameness. On abandoning his consulting practice in London in 1921 he was for a time superintendent of a convalescent home at Great Missenden. He died at his own home Stratton End, Beaconsfield on 2 May 1950, survived by his wife, their son, who was a lecturer in botany at Cambridge, and their two daughters. Publications:- *Clinical and pathological observations on acute abdominal diseases*. London, 1904. *The surgery of the diseases of the appendix*, with W H Battle. London, 1904. *The operations of general practice*, with I H Pinches. London, 1907; 2nd edition 1908; 3rd edition 1910. *Diseases of the male generative organs*. London, 1907. *Male diseases in general practice*. London, 1910.
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First Title value, for Searching Jeremy, Harold Rowe (1875 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Jobson, James Stanley (1884 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Bensley, Edwin Clement (1837 - 1923)

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First Title value, for Searching Ward, Thomas William (1816 - 1904)

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First Title value, for Searching Gask, George Ernest (1875 - 1951)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 1 August 1875, the fourth and youngest son of Henry and Elizabeth Gask, he was educated at Dulwich College. He studied at Lausanne, Freiburg, and Baden before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1893. He qualified in 1898, and was appointed house surgeon to John Langton. He held the usual posts of demonstrator of pathology and surgical registrar, and in 1907 was elected assistant surgeon under D'Arcy Power. By 1914 he was recognized as an excellent consultant and teacher, and well-known as an expert mountaineer and alpinist. He was particularly interested in the surgery of the chest, at that time a new specialty. The outbreak of war in August 1914 found him ready and equipped to play a distinguished part in the RAMC. He went to France in 1916, was four times mentioned in despatches, and won the DSO in 1917. He was appointed consulting surgeon to the Fourth Army in 1918, and was created CMG in 1919 for his services. He was active throughout in securing the most up-to-date surgical treatment for wounds of the chest and lungs. The West London Medico-Chirurgical Society awarded him its gold medal for his part in this work. Gask was not only an extremely able surgeon and a man of imperturbable character, he was moved by a deep sense of mission to improve the education of younger surgeons. Though silent and reserved, he exerted considerable personal magnetism and evoked warm affection in those who knew him well. He was withal a shrewd judge of men, and determined and unhurrying in the pursuit of any goal that he set before himself. Before and during the war he prepared the way for the introduction of whole-time professorial units in the teaching hospitals, and when he was appointed the first professor of surgery in the University of London in 1919, he was ready at once to start his unit at St Bartholomew's. He was bold enough to bring (Sir) Thomas Dunhill from Melbourne as his deputy, and had as his assistants Geoffrey Keynes and R Ogier Ward. This brilliant team established the success of Gask's innovation beyond criticism. Gask served as professor till 1935, when he retired at the age of sixty and was succeeded by (Sir) James Paterson Ross. Gask instituted the exchange of duties with leading surgeons from outside his hospital, thus bringing to St Bartholomew's among others Harvey Cushing, Moynihan, (Sir) David Wilkie, G Grey Turner, and (Sir) Max Page, all Fellows of this College. He usually walked to the Hospital from his house at 4 York Gate, Regent's Park, nearly 3 miles away, arriving at 9 am. During the period of his professorship Gask took an active part in professional activities. He was an original member of the Radium Trust, and served on the Medical Research Council 1937-41; he was one of the originators of the project for a Postgraduate Medical School in London, which he hoped to see established at one of the old undergraduate teaching hospitals, whose great traditions might thus be carried on at a new level. When the British Postgraduate Medical School was set up at the London County Council's Hammersmith Hospital he gave himself wholeheartedly to its service, as perhaps the most active member of its governing body. He took a leading part in the conduct of the *British Journal of Surgery*, attracting a wider membership to the general committee as the original founders gave up the work, and he himself succeeded Moynihan as chairman of the editorial committee and maintained the very high standard which the *Journal* had won. He examined in surgery for the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Bristol. At the College he was a member of Council 1923-39 and vice-president 1933-34, being elected in March 1933 after the sudden death of Sir Percy Sargent. He gave a Hunterian lecture in 1930, and the Vicary lecture the same year; he was Bradshaw lecturer in 1932, and gave a special Hunterian lecture in 1937, describing the lately discovered papers of John Hunter's army service in Portugal in 1762-63. He was president of the Medical Society of London in 1935. With all this busy practice and administrative work Gask found time for much writing both professional and historical. With W G Spencer he issued a revision of Walsham's Practice of surgery in 1910, which was long a popular textbook, and with J Paterson Ross he published a pioneer study of the *Surgery of the sympathetic nervous system* in 1937. His historical writings were reprinted in a volume which his numerous friends and admirers gave him on his seventy-fifth birthday in 1950. Gask retired completely from all this activity in 1935 at the age of 60, settled in the country, and devoted himself to gardening. He served as a magistrate and on the rural district council. If he had not returned to full activity during the second world war, which broke out four years later, it might have been asked how a man of such great abilities, personal eminence, and successful achievement failed to win the very foremost position in his profession. Gask's very qualities were his only drawback he was ambitious not for himself but for his ideas, he was without guile and without a sense of rivalry. His calm and happy nature had the infinite patience of genius, but not its driving impetus. Immediately war broke out in September 1939, Gask was invited act temporarily as a surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and a took part in the work of the rapidly expanding Oxford medical school. He was made a member of the high table at Christ Church, where his scholarly and friendly nature was warmly appreciated, and he admitted MA by decree of the University. He had been elected emeritus professor of surgery in the University of London when he retired in 1935 and consulting surgeon and a governor of St Bartholomew's. As the war went on he added to his duties at Oxford, becoming adviser in surgery for the region (Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire) under the Ministry of Health's Emergency Medical Service, and also working for the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust and for the Bucks and Oxon region hospitals Council. Gask married in 1913 Ada Alexandra, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Crombie, CB MD of the Indian Medical Service. He died on 16 January 1951, aged 75, at his home Hatchmans, Hambleden Henley-on-Thames, survived by his wife and their son, Dr John Gask. He had suffered for some months from coronary thrombosis. The funeral at Hambleden was conducted by the Dean of Christ Church, and the memorial service was held at St Bartholomew-the-Less on 1 February. He left £1,000 to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. Gask practised a technique of extreme gentleness in the handling of tissues, at a time when the importance of this was barely appreciated, and later developed and taught the "no-touch" technique, the tissues being moved entirely by forceps. He was never ruffled even in the most trying circumstances, and an unexpected crisis made him pause for reflection rather than rush ahead. He believed in learning from the work of other surgeons, was an early member of Moynihan's Chirurgical Club for visiting surgical clinics in Britain, and for many years organized the very successful European tours of the Surgical Pilgrims. Earlier he had been a regular visitor to Switzerland for climbing and was honorary secretary of the Alpine Club. Many foreign honours came to him: he was an honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, of the Académie de Chirurgie in Paris and the Société chirurgicale at Lyons, and a corresponding member of the Roman Academy of Surgery. He was decorated with the Legion of Honour (Officier) in 1937. The *British Journal of Surgery* for July 1950 (vol 38, no 149) was dedicated to him in honour of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains a good photograph and an unsigned appreciation by Geoffrey Keynes. Gask was a man of splendid physique and fine appearance. Principal publications:- *The practice of surgery*. 10th edition of W J Walsham's *Surgery, its theory and practice*, by W G Spencer and G E Gask, London, 1910; 11th edition, *Surgery, a textbook*, by Gask and H. W Wilson, 1920. Methods of treating wounds of the chest, Lettsomian Lectures. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1921, 44, 161. A contribution to the study of the treatment of epithelioma of the tongue by radium. Hunterian lecture, Royal College of Surgeons. *Lancet*, 1930, 1, 223. Vicary's predecessors. Thomas Vicary lecture, RCS 1930. *Brit J Surg* 1931, 18, 479-500. Experiences of the surgery of the sympathetic nervous system. Bradshaw lecture, RCS 1932. *Brit J Surg* 1933, 21, 113-130. *Surgery of the sympathetic nervous system*, with J Paterson Ross. London, Bailliere, 1937. A German translation of this book was published. Clean wounds, ancient and modem. Annual oration 1934. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1934, 57, 270. Changing surgery. Presidential address 1935. *Trans Med Soc London*, 1936, 59, 1. John Hunter in the campaign in Portugal 1762-63. Special Hunterian lecture, RCS *Brit J Surg* 1937, 24, 640-668. *Essays in the History of Medicine*. London, Butterworth 1950, with portrait photographs of Gask. This volume was prepared by a group of his friends, published by subscription, and presented to him at a small gathering in his sick-room on his seventy-fifth birthday, 1 August 1950.
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First Title value, for Searching Gauvain, Sir Henry John (1878 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in the Channel Isle of Alderney on 28 November 1878, the eldest surviving son of Captain William Gauvain, HM Receiver-General for the Island, and his wife Catherine Le Ber. After a severe attack of scarlet fever while at a preparatory school in England, he was educated privately in Alderney and London till he won a scholarship at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took first class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part 1, 1902. He received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was senior science scholar and served as house surgeon, midwifery assistant, and clinical assistant in the departments of children's diseases and orthopaedics. In spite of his youth and recent qualification (1906), he was appointed in 1908 the first medical superintendent of Lord Mayor Treloar's Cripples Hospital and College at Alton, Hants. The man and the hospital mutually made each other. Gauvain's first interest was in the surgery of bone and joint tuberculosis. These branches of surgery were then in their heroic age, but Gauvain believed the conditions to be curable by fresh air and sunlight, and with rare prevision set out to make his hospital the best of its kind. While always remaining an active and able surgeon, he threw himself wholeheartedly into a campaign for the recognition of "natural" treatment for tuberculous child-patients, nor did he neglect the good effect on their health of regular education. Auguste Rollier had been before him in his famous open-air clinic at Leysin (1903) in Switzerland, but Gauvain believed and taught that the variety of weather available in England, with the accessibility of the sea, made this country peculiarly suitable for successful treatment. He was also influenced by the example of Berck-sur-Mer in France which for at least twenty years had devoted itself to the sea-air cure of tuberculous patients. At the sea-side and the country Gauvain devised "sun-traps" with draught-free aeration giving protection by wind-break hurdles and heat from braziers where necessary. He paid several visits to the Finsens Institute in Denmark and was elected an Honorary Member of the Copenhagen Medical Society. Though always ready to improvise, Gauvain did not disdain to use the most modem methods, and after thirty years he lived to see Alton fully rebuilt and equipped with the finest electrotherapeutic devices as "the hospital of his dreams". He had begun with old South African War huts which he turned into five efficient surgical units, on a terrace which was the show-piece for foreign visitors. In 1920 he started a seaside branch at Hayling Island, and the experiments which Sir Leonard Hill, FRS carried out for him fully proved the value of the system of alternation of sea and sunlight which Gauvain had established. He also started a "trade-teaching" college for his young patients, and was thus a pioneer of "occupational therapy" and "rehabilitation" twenty years before those expressions became current. Gauvain created the modern view of bone and joint tuberculosis. He also made himself an authority on hospital planning. He was an excellent speaker and administrator, and was in demand for consultation and as a lecturer. He was consulting surgeon to the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association for treatment of tuberculosis, and consulting surgeon in tuberculosis to the London and Essex County Councils, and consulting surgeon to the Hampshire County Council and the King George's Sanatorium for Sailors at Bramshott, where he established an Open-air ward. He examined in tuberculosis-treatment for the University of Wales. At the Royal Society of Medicine Gauvain served as president of the sections of electrotherapeutics and of diseases of children. He was chairman of the Joint Tuberculosis Council (see the life of Ernest Ward), a vice-president of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis and of the International Light-treatment Commission. From 1932 to 1937 he was a vice-president of the Institute of Hygiene and, till his death, of its successor the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene. In 1935 he went to Australia for the Melbourne meeting of the British Medical Association and was president of the sections of tuberculosis and public health, speaking on "Sea-bathing in the treatment of tuberculosis". The next year, 1936, he was in the United States and was honoured with the Gold Key of the American Congress of Physical Therapy. In 1938 he was making plans to establish a hydro-therapeutic centre for the treatment of anterior poliomyelitis at Hayling Island. Cheerful and optimistic, Gauvain was as friendly with his child patients and their parents as with the City Fathers, who were the patrons of his hospital and whom he persuaded to look on it as their week-end cottage. He also started at Alton a private hospital, the Morland Hall Clinics. In 1940 he took in at Alton a hundred Belgian refugee cripple children from a home at Ostend. Gauvain was elected FRCS, as a Member of twenty years' standing, in 1927; he had been knighted in 1920. He was also a Commander of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Gauvain married in 1913 Louise Laura (Lulie), daughter of William Butler, MRCS, IMS. He died at Morland Hall, Alton on 19 January 1945 aged 66. Lady Gauvain survived him only two months, and died on 15 March 1945. Their son had died before them; their daughter, Suzette, married Major Ronald Ormiston Murray, RAMC, sometime resident medical officer at the Treloar Hospital. A memorial service was held on 2 February 1945 at St Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield. It was attended by the Belgian Ambassador, and the Archbishop of York, Dr C F Garbett, delivered the funeral oration. Gauvain's recreations were travel, sailing, and fishing. He took a keen interest in the welfare of his native Isle of Alderney. One of his last acts was to write a letter to *The Times* on behalf of the other Channel Islanders who were still under German occupation, although the mainland of France had been liberated for several months; the whole population of Alderney had been successfully evacuated to England in 1940. Gauvain's career ran parallel to that of W T G Pugh at Carshalton, and he was succeeded at Alton by one of Pugh's former staff, E S Evans, FRCS. Publications:- The sun cure. *The Times*, 11 May 1922. The pioneer light-treatment department at Alton. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1925, 19, electrotherapeutics, p 1; *Lancet*, 1925, 2, 10. Evolution of hospital schools, with Evelyn Holmes. *Lancet*, 1929, 1, 789 and 838. Mechanical treatment of spinal caries. *Lancet*, 1911, 1, 568. A sign of pathological activity in tubercular disease of the hip joint. *Lancet*, 1918, 2, 666. All-weather balconies. *Lancet*, 1927, 1, 755; 1933, 1, 321. Planning a hospital, Annual oration. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1938, 61, 246. Gauvain was an advisory editor of the *British Journal of Tuberculosis*.
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First Title value, for Searching Gemmill, William (1880 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching George V (1865 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family
Details HM King George V was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College on 11 February 1909, when Prince of Wales. He was born on 3 June 1865 and died 20 January 1936. His photograph, which he graciously presented with his autograph signature below it, hangs in the College Library.
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First Title value, for Searching Gibbs, Charles (1868 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Gibson, John Monro (1905 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Giles, Leonard Thomason (1868 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Gilford, Hastings (1861 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Gillam, George Joshua (1886 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Gillespie, Edward (1878 - 1950)

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First Title value, for Searching Austin, Lorimer John (1880 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Bacha, Ardeshir Pestonji (1881 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Back, Ivor Gordon (1879 - 1951)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 31 August 1879, the eldest son of Francis Formby Back of Harrow Weald, proprietor of *The Egyptian Gazette*. He won classical scholarships at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1901 with second-class honours in natural science. He distinguished himself at rowing and boxing. He took his clinical training at St George's Hospital, where he won an entrance scholarship, qualified in 1905, won the Allingham scholarship at St George's in 1906, and took the Fellowship in 1907. He was house surgeon, house physician and obstetric assistant at St George's, and was elected assistant surgeon in 1910 when Lawrence Jones, FRCS retired through bad health. Back carried on the sound methods of his immediate predecessors, Marmaduke Sheild, FRCS and Crisp English, FRCS. He won an Albert Kahn travelling fellowship in 1911, and wrote the required record of his voyage round the world, which was privately printed in 1913. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC, with the rank of captain, at the 4th London General Hospital, the 54th General Hospital in France, and as a surgical specialist at Catterick Camp, Yorkshire. He was elected surgeon to St George's in 1918, and became consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1938, but returned to active work 1943-45 during the second war. He was appointed a governor of the hospital in 1951. Back was assistant surgeon to the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Women and Children, and surgeon (proctologist) to the Grosvenor Hospital for Women, where he developed and practised the abdominoperineal technique for cancer of the rectum introduced by W Ernest Miles, FRCS. He also examined in surgery for Cambridge University. He was active in the affairs of the Medical Defence Union, serving on the council from 1944 and as president in 1949. Ivor Back married Barbara, daughter of F H O Nash of Battle, Goring, Oxfordshire, who survived him with one son, a barrister. He died on 13 June 1951, aged 71. He was a man of tall commanding presence and striking personality, and was proudly conscious of his descent, through his grandmother, from the great Duke of Wellington. He was a connoisseur of art and literature, and was deeply interested in criminology. As an expert medical witness in the courts he was absolutely imperturbable. He had considerable success as an occasional journalist, and he took high rank in Grand Lodge Freemasonry and was a past master of the Lansborough Lodge. His recreations were golf and fly-fishing. He was an excellent after-dinner speaker. His portrait in operating dress by Sir William Orpen is at the Savile Club, of which Back had been chairman. He had a large private practice in Queen Anne Street and later at 4 Park Square West, and lived at 8 Connaught Place, W2. Publications:- *Round the world and back*. Privately printed, 1913. *Surgery*, with A Tudor Edwards. London: Churchill, 1921. Diseases of the salivary glands, in Choyce's *System of surgery*. London, 1912; 3rd ed 1932. Technique of gastrojejunostomy. *Lancet*, 1933, 2, 802.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Robert Cozens (1868 - 1938)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Cole Henley Manor, Whitchurch on the Test, Hants, the village where banknote paper is manufactured. He was the second son of Joseph Latham Bailey, gentleman farmer, and his wife Martha Palmer of Lambourn, Kent. Educated at Cranford College, Maidenhead, he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in October 1885 and won the Brackenbury surgical scholarship in 1890. He served as house surgeon to Alfred Willett, FRCS and W J Walsham, FRCS for a year from October 1891, was elected assistant surgeon to the hospital in 1903, became full surgeon in January 1913, and resigned in 1919 when he was made a governor and consulting surgeon. In the medical school he was assistant demonstrator of anatomy 1894-97, and was subsequently a teacher of operative surgery. From 1896 to 1903 he was assistant surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital in the Kingsland Road. At the University of London he gained honours in medicine at the MS examination. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was awarded the Jacksonian prize in 1896 for his essay on "The pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of disease of the prostate gland". In 1908 he joined the territorial force with the rank of captain *à la suite*, and on the outbreak of war in 1914 was promoted major and served at the first London general hospital. His early retirement from all professional work in 1919 was due to ill-health, which took the form of mental depression associated with an increasing lack of interest in things pertaining to life, though he remained physically well. He retired to Hazelwood, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, where he spent the rest of his life, attended by his two nieces and looked after by those who had been his former pupils. He died unmarried on 18 March 1938. He left £100 to St Bartholomew's Hospital. Bailey was a very dexterous operator and a fine teacher of medical students. In the company of his house surgeons and dressers he was always direct and to the point. He excelled in bringing out the practical aspect of any matter under discussion. Something clear and definite invariably sank into the minds of those who attended his demonstrations and were taught by him in the wards and in the operative surgery classes. He was kindly and sympathetic to the individual needs of the student, and his former work in the dissecting rooms gave an anatomical background to his surgical teaching, which proved most helpful to pupils after they had gone into practice. Some of his obiter dicta are preserved under the title "What I always say is" in the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Journal*, 1937, pp 125, 147, 165 and 188. With his composed manner, sprucely dressed square figure, abundant locks and moustache, and unfailing smile, Bailey was a familiar personality in the hospital square and his resignation long before reaching the age limit deprived the hospital of St Bartholomew of a very able surgeon.
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First Title value, for Searching Baldwin, Aslett (1860 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Baldwin, Gerald Robert (1868 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850 - 1942)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-27
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family
Details His Royal Highness Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, third son and seventh child of Queen Victoria, was born on 1 May 1850 and was created Duke of Connaught and Strathearn in the birthday honours list of 1874. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College on 24 July 1919. His Royal Highness died on 16 January 1942, aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Balean, Hermann (1875 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10 2022-12-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 1875, he entered the London Hospital Medical College in 1895 with the Price science scholarship and subsequently won scholarships in anatomy and biology, and the senior Letheby Scholarship. Qualifying in 1901, he served as house surgeon to Thomas Openshaw, FRCS and James Sherren, FRCS and as house physician to (Sir) Robert, Hutchison and Fred John Smith. He proceeded to the London MD in 1903 and BS in 1905, and took the Fellowship in 1908. He practised for a time in north China and then, settling in practice as a surgical consultant in Hong Kong, he became lecturer in anatomy at the university there, and served on the medical board of the colony from 1937 till the Japanese occupation in December 1941. He had practised originally at Union Buildings and later lived at 167 The Peak. When the Japanese invasion began he was attached as a civilian surgical specialist to an extension of the military hospital set up in St Albert's Clergy Training College, Stubbs Road. At the fall of Hong Kong he lost everything and was interned, as was his wife, at the Stanley Camp, where he died of acute anaemia on 19 January 1945, aged 69. While interned and half-starved he had overtaxed his strength by devoted practice of his profession among his fellow prisoners. Mrs Balean survived him with two sons: Dr Geoffrey Terrell Balean, MRCS 1935, who had been in practice with his father in Hong Kong and was a prisoner of war in Japanese hands when his father died; and Flight-Lieutenant Oswald Bradford Balean, LDS 1938, RAFMS dental section. While occupied with a large practice, with administration, and with teaching, Balean retained his interest in science, did most of his own clinical microscopy and closely followed the work at the Hong Kong Bacteriological Institute of his friend Dr A H Greaves, who afterwards shared his internment. He was a man of simple modesty and active mind, a good operator and something of an artist. His only non-professional interests were collecting stamps and playing the violin. Publications: Lupus erythematosus, a clinical study of 71 cases, with J H Sequeira. *Brit J Derm*. 1902, 14, 367. The effects of acids upon blood, with C E.Ham. *J Physiol*. 1905, 32, 312. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 2 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** Hermann Balean was a surgeon in Hong Kong who died in Stanley Internment Camp towards the end of the Second World War. He was born in Brighton, Sussex on 13 March 1875, the son of Hermann Balean, a professor of German language and literature who was originally from Cologne, Prussia, and Sarah Balean née Harrison. Balean studied medicine at the London Hospital. He gained a Price science entrance scholarship and subsequently won scholarships in anatomy and biology and the senior Letheby scholarship. He qualified in 1901 with the conjoint examination, gained an MD in 1903 and his FRCS in 1908. He held various junior posts at the London Hospital, including house surgeon, house physician, clinical assistant surgeon in the outpatients and to the Finsen light department, receiving room officer, senior clinical assistant and assistant demonstrator of anatomy. He was also a resident medical officer at the East Dispensary Hospital on Leman Street. He was later a senior resident accoucheur and a lecturer in midwifery. He then became a ship’s surgeon on board a number of ships, including P & O liners. In 1908 he married Isabel Terrell in Bayswater, London. In the same year he settled in Shanghai, where he worked with a Dr Goode. He then moved in 1911 to Chinkiang, a port on the Yangtze River. Here, in 1911, he was involved in helping the wounded of the Xinhai Revolution, which saw the overthrow of Imperial forces at nearby Nanking, marking the start of the Chinese Republic. In 1916 he moved on to Hong Kong. He practised privately and was an honorary visiting surgeon at the Government Civil Hospital. He also lectured in surgery and anatomy at the University of Hong Kong. Following the fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese in December 1941, he was interred, along with his wife, in Stanley Internment Camp. He died there on 30 January 1945 from malnutrition and anaemia. He was 69. He was survived by his wife and five children – John Hermann, Geoffrey Terrell, Richard Masters and twins, Oswald Bradford and Barbara Isabel. Geoffrey was interned at Sham Shui Po camp in Kowloon, held separately from his parents. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Braithwaite, Leonard Ralph (1878 - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Barnsley on 20 November 1878, the sixth son of Thomas Braithwaite, master coachmaker, and his wife, *née* Wadsworth. He was educated at Heath Grammar School before entering the Leeds Medical School, then a constituent of the Victoria University, where he had a brilliant career. He was elected university scholar in 1900, and graduated MB, ChB with first-class honours in 1903. In 1905 he received the same degrees from the newly constituted University of Leeds and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in December 1907 without having previously taken the Membership. Braithwaite's surgical career was closely connected with the Leeds School and the General Infirmary at Leeds in their greatest periods, and he added to their fame. He was dresser and house surgeon under Edward Ward, house physician and resident surgical officer, and was elected assistant surgeon to the infirmary in 1909. In 1910 he became personal assistant to Moynihan and continued to assist him at the infirmary and in private practice till 1925. In 1924 Braithwaite was elected surgeon to the infirmary and retired as consulting surgeon in 1938. He was also consulting surgeon to the Dewsbury and Pontefract Infirmary and to the Ilkley Coronation Hospital. At Leeds University he was professor of clinical surgery and received the title of emeritus on retiring in 1938. He was commissioned captain, RAMC(T) on 1 May 1910, served in France and also at Salonika during the war of 1914-18, and was promoted major. During the second war he was medical superintendent of the Leeds Infirmary under the emergency medical service scheme, and inspector of Red Cross hospitals for Yorkshire. He was a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons and a member of the Leeds and West Riding Medical Society, and served as vice-president of the section of surgery at the Belfast meeting of the British Medical Association in 1937. He took much interest in the cancer problem and served on the Yorkshire council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, encouraging their research schemes. At the College he served on the Council from 1933, being in his second year as vice-president when he died. He gave the Arris and Gale lectures in 1923, the second Moynihan lecture on the London foundation in 1941, and the Bradshaw lecture on 12 November 1942 when he appeared to be in his usual good health, only a month before his death. He served on the editorial committee of the *British Journal of Surgery* from 1926 to July 1939. He lived at 17 Burton. Crescent, Headingley, and practised at 45 Park Square, Leeds. He married on 4 October 1910 Lilian Gaunt, who survived him with three daughters. He died at Burton Grange, Headingley of a cerebral abscess on 18 December 1942, aged 64. His body was cremated after funeral services at St Chad's church, Headingley and the General Infirmary Chapel, Leeds. Braithwaite was a brilliant scientific surgeon who worthily upheld the great Leeds tradition. Moynihan called him "unsurpassed", and Gordon-Taylor speaks of his "artistry and gentleness rivalling those of Moynihan himself" and describes a gastrojejunostomy by Braithwaite as probably the most accomplished operation he had ever watched. He made one of the first completely successful excisions of a subclavian aneurysm in Britain, of which he published a brief and simple description in the *British Journal of Surgery*, 1920, 7, 390. Halsted in America had performed the operation as long before as 1890. He was fairly tall, of pleasing aspect, fair-complexioned and young-looking, with a simple charm of manner and a drawling voice. He was a collector of pictures, and enjoyed the good talk at the Leeds Conversation Club. His judgment was much valued by his colleagues both in surgery and affairs. *Portrait*: His portrait in oils by Frank O Salisbury, CVO was presented on behalf of a body of subscribers by Prof Digby Chamberlain to the Board of the General Infirmary at Leeds, and unveiled in the board-room by Mrs Braithwaite on 2 March 1945; she had previously given the Royal College of Surgeons a replica of it by the artist. Publications:- Excision of a subclavian aneurysm. *Brit J Surg*. 1920, 7, 390. Tuberculosis of glands in the ileocaecal angle. *Brit J Surg*. 1926, 13, 439. Surgical treatment of chronic duodenal and gastric ulcer. *Lancet*, 1926, 1, 900. Modern views on appendicitis. *Leeds Univ med soc Mag*. 1933, 3, 57. The role of bile in duodenal regurgitation (Bradshaw Lecture RCS, 1942). *Brit J Surg*. 1943, 31, 3.
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First Title value, for Searching Bridge, Reginald Harold (1888 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Brierley, Wilfred Edward (1881 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Milward, Frederic Victor (1870 - 1910)

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First Title value, for Searching Minshull, John Lonsdale (1800 - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Minter, John Moolenburgh (1816 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Duffy, Brian Thomas (1922 - 1978)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-26
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Brian Thomas Duffy, the son of John and Alice Duffy was born on 13 July 1922 at Rockhampton, Queensland and was the third of four children. The family moved to Sydney, New South Wales, in 1938 where he was educated at the Christian Brothers' College, Waverley, before entering the College of St John the Evangelist within the University of Sydney. He graduated in 1946 and, after resident appointments at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital at Crow's Nest, he became medical superintendent at St Joseph's Hospital, Auburn. His great skill and tact in handling delicate staff matters there led to his appointment as medical superintendent of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, in 1950 where he soon won the confidence and affection of the medical staff. However, he then decided to go into general practice at Bathurst though he retained a close association with his last hospital through the St Vincent's Hospital Society, becoming its President in 1964, after returning to private practice in Sydney. Brian Duffy earned the high regard of his school and university teachers as well as that of his colleagues and patients. In his early days he was noted for his easy acquisition of knowledge, and later he was warmly respected for his unruffled and kindly demeanour, his reserve and his abundant charity to others. He built up a large surgical and general practice and was enormously popular with both patients and colleagues. A keen golfer in his later years, he had been a fine all round athlete in his youth and had represented his school and university at rugby, as well as serving in his college cricket and football teams. He was an active supporter of the Australian College of General Practitioners and of a number of other medical associations. During his fourth year at university he had married Enid Benecke and they had five sons, three of whom are medical graduates. The exact date of his death is not recorded (possibly in July 1978) and he was survived by his wife and five children. He had certainly worked in the UK when taking the Fellowship but no details of this period are available.
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First Title value, for Searching Duff, Keith Mitchell Keitley (1893 - 1980)

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First Title value, for Searching Drinkwater, Stanley Wilson (1899 - 1981)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Stanley Wilson Drinkwater was born on 11 March 1899 in Manchester. He was educated at Manchester Central High School and Manchester University where he graduated MB ChB in 1921. His father was James Wilson Drinkwater, MPS, a pharmacist, and his mother, Phyllis Leach, was American. His early childhood was spent in Long Island, New York. He registered as a medical student in Manchester in 1916 and was later posted to an OTCU at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was commissioned into the Northumberland Fusiliers when he was 18 years of age and was on embarkation leave when the war ended. He was house surgeon to Professor A H Burgess at Manchester Royal Infirmary and was later resident casualty officer and surgical registrar there. He became FRCS in 1927 and in 1930, the year of his marriage, he was appointed honorary surgeon to Nuneaton General Hospital. He moved from Nuneaton to become surgeon to Hale Hospital, Cornwall, and at the outbreak of war in 1939, he joined the Ministry of Pensions, working in military hospitals in Cornwall. In 1944 he joined the RAMC, serving in troopships in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean. He then became acting Colonel in charge of the hospital in Malta and spent the latter part of the war in a field surgical unit in Italy. He was demobilised in 1948 and he abandoned surgery on financial grounds. He became a general practitioner at Hingham, Norfolk, in 1950 and remained in practice there until his retirement in 1967. He became an expert rose grower. He won the National Rose Society's Lindsell Cup in 1965 for the best roses in the country and later became a horticultural judge. He died from myocardial infarction at the wheel of his car near his home, on 9 July 1981, and is survived by his wife Phyllis, daughter and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Kernohan, James Geddis (1948 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2015-04-24
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details James Geddis ('Jim') Kernohan was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Bournemouth. He studied medicine at Queen's University, Belfast, qualifying MB BCh BAO in 1972. He held junior posts in Belfast, including becoming pathology demonstrator at the Royal Victoria Hospital. From 1977 to 1978 he worked in Paris, at the Hôpital Ambroise-Paré and Hôpital Cochin. On his return from France, he became a registrar at Charing Cross Hospital, London. From 1979 to 1985 he trained at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He also held posts at Great Ormond Street, Great Portland Street, the Middlesex and Stanmore hospitals. In 1985 he was appointed to his post at Poole and Christchurch hospitals, Dorset. He played a key role in establishing the new elective orthopaedic unit at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, and became the first clinical director of theatres there. He also set up a shoulder unit at the same hospital. He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association and the British Elbow and Shoulder Society. He also developed a busy medicolegal practice. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sailing and following horse racing, and was a keen supporter of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus. In 1973 he married Sandra, a staff nurse. James Geddis Kernohan died on 17 January 2013. He was 64. He was survived by his wife and their two children, Robert and Ruth.
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First Title value, for Searching Koop, Charles Everett (1916 - 2013)

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by George F Sheldon
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2013-06-19
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Occupation Public health officer
Details C Everett Koop, known as 'America's doctor', was by far the most influential surgeon general in US history. An imposing figure, standing six foot one in his gold-braided dark blue vice admiral's uniform (the rank of the surgeon general), he effectively used his strong personality to advocate for the health of the US public. Koop was born on 14 October 1916 in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of John Edward Koop, a banker and a descendent of 17th century Dutch settlers, and Helen Koop née Apel. His paternal grandparents, cousins and uncles all lived in the same street. Koop's interest in medicine was triggered by watching a family doctor. He practised tying knots, cutting sutures and doing some vivisection on animals in his neighborhood, while his mother gave anaesthesia. He attended Flatbush School and Dartmouth College, where he played football. He then went to Cornell University medical school in Manhattan, where he met and married Elizabeth Flanagan of New Britain, Connecticut, a Vassar student. He completed his residency in general surgery at the University of Pennsylvania under the revered figure of IS Ravdin. Among other skills, Ravdin was known for having a good eye for young talent. On the completion of Koop's residency in surgery, he was offered the position of founding chair of surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He served in that role for 35 years. During that time, he and his colleagues performed thousands of operations to correct birth defects in premature babies. They performed 475 operations alone for oesophageal atresia, a condition which previously had been fatal. He introduced the transposition method for producing gastrointestinal tract continuity between the oesophagus and stomach, and it became a standard procedure. He also did early work on separating conjoined twins. In 1981 he was nominated for the role of surgeon general by President Ronald Reagan. He served from 1982 and, by the time he demitted office in 1989, he had become a household name. During his tenure he defended the rights of children, issued emphatic warnings about the dangers of smoking and prodded the US government into an aggressive posture against AIDS. In the early 1980s, the rights of infants with congenital defects surfaced as an issue. It eventually came before the federal courts, where two cases pitted the rights of parents to withhold treatment for a child who was severely impaired against available medical care. The courts sided with the parents. Koop spoke out against the parents' decision in both cases, noting that the medical and legal establishment had a duty to protect citizens against collective discrimination, regardless of their state of health or age. He alleged that the government's authority to override the rights of parents had been established in truancy law, child abuse legislation and immunisation law. When Koop became surgeon general, 33% of Americans smoked; when he left office it had dropped to 24%, with 40 states and many counties having restricted smoking in public places. Anti-smoking campaigns by private groups like the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association had accelerated. Koop had a major role in educating Americans about AIDS. He believed the nation was slow in facing the virus, which first appeared about the time he became surgeon general. He extolled efforts to identify the HIV virus that causes the disease, and the blood test and research which allowed detection. Koop pushed the government into advocating condom use and public AIDS education and treatments. He was undoubtedly influential in George W Bush's initiative to provide AIDS care and detection in Africa, considered one of the most important achievements of the 43rd President. Koop always believed he had failed to persuade either Reagan or his successor President George HW Bush to make healthcare available to more Americans. He was also disappointed at the lack of influence of the office of surgeon general, a fact he lamented in a later testimony before Congress. Koop was personally opposed to abortion, but believed that a public office such as the surgeon general's should not make policy decisions based on moral grounds. He declared - to the disappointment of the White House - that the evidence did not support the contention that abortions were essentially unsafe. In taking that position he later said he was naïve. In an interview in 1996, he said he did not speak out on abortion because he thought his job was to deal with factual issues like hazards of smoking, not moral issues. Abortion, he argued, presented little health hazard to women. It was a moral and religious matter, not a health issue. Many liberals opposed his nomination, but came to praise him; and the many conservatives who had supported him came, in time, to vilify him. When Koop stepped down as surgeon general in 1989, the *New York Times* noted that: 'throughout, he has put medical integrity above personal judgments and has been indeed the nation's first Doctor'. He was the recipient of many honorary degrees, fellowships and awards around the world, including the French medal of the Légion d'honneur in 1980 and the honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1982. In his later years, Koop established an internet company providing health information on the web (www.drkoop.com), and the C Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College, founded in 1992. Koop was strong in his Presbyterian faith and credited this with helping him and his wife cope with the death of their 19-year-old son David, who was killed in 1968 when a cliff gave way while he was mountain climbing in New Hampshire. Koop and his wife wrote about the loss of a child in *Sometimes mountains move* (Wheaton, Ill, Tyndale House Publishers), published in 1979. Koop died on 25 February 2013 at the age of 96. He was survived by his second wife, Cora Hogue, whom he married in 2010, by his three children, Allen, Norman and Elizabeth Thompson, and by eight grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Niven, Peter Ashley Robertson (1938 - 2013)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2014-03-07
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Peter Niven was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Bristol. He was born in London on 3 March 1938, the son of Harold Robertson Niven, a Cambridge law graduate, who had served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was a detective chief inspector in the City of London police, and Elizabeth 'Betty' Isobel Robertson née Mair, daughter of Alexander Mair, professor of Greek at Edinburgh. Peter had two brothers - Colin, who became headmaster of Alleyn's School, and Alistair, a former director of literature at the Arts Council. Peter won a scholarship to Dulwich College and flourished academically. He also made his mark in several sports, representing his school at rugby, captaining the second XI cricket team, playing hockey, which was his favourite game, and golf, which became a lifelong interest. At Dulwich his fascination with history was stimulated by the *James Caird*, a life boat kept at the school, which the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton used in 1916 to travel to South Georgia to seek help after his ship *Endurance* had become trapped in ice. Peter later visited the site of the expedition on an Antarctic cruise. He went on to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, with an exhibition and a state scholarship. He continued to enjoy both his academic and sporting pursuits and, after graduation, went to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical training. He represented the medical school at rugby and cricket. He was a house physician in Luton and Dunstable, and then returned to Bart's as a house surgeon in neurosurgery. Deciding on a career in obstetrics and gynaecology, the requirement was to gain the FRCS and then a specialist qualification. His surgical training started as a demonstrator in anatomy at Bristol. He remained there until he gained his FRCS in 1966. He then held resident appointments at Queen Charlotte's and Samaritan hospitals in preparation for his membership examination of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which he gained in 1969. He then returned to Bart's for his registrar and senior registrar posts. At Bart's, under the direction of Tim Chard, he researched human placental lactogen, and was awarded an Eden travelling fellowship, which took him to Miami to work under Bill Spellacy. This work resulted in him being presented with the Purdue-Frederick award by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. After his stay in Miami he drove his family in a small car, and just a tent to sleep in, across America to Santa Barbara. The journey took three weeks. His first consultant appointment was to Newcastle General and Hexham hospitals. Very soon after he moved to Bristol. His disciplined approach to teaching was much-valued. He made a significant contribution to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, becoming a member of the education board, and chair of the higher training committee and the working party on assessment of surgical skills. He served as an examiner for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and for many universities in England and Scotland, including London, Bristol, Liverpool and Cardiff, and also abroad in Hong Kong and Sudan. He was chairman of the South Western Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society from 1997 to 1998, and a member of several distinguished clubs and societies, including the Gynaecological Visiting Society, the Royal Society of Medicine and the Medical Reading Society in Bristol. He was especially interested in the vaginal approach to pelvic surgery. He contributed a chapter on endoscopy in gynaecology for the third edition of *Shaw's textbook of operative gynaecology* (E & S Livingstone, 1968). As an obstetrician he immediately won the confidence of his patients and their families by his readiness at all times to help with problems and practical difficulties. He was often in demand by colleagues to care for their families. He continued to walk, play golf and ski. He was a member of the Bristol and Clifton Golf Club and served as captain of their seniors. He had a remarkable memory for sporting detail, from turf to track. Reflecting the breadth of his interests, he was a member of Probus and the Savage, Clifton and Shakespeare clubs. He married Peta, who was a Bart's nurse, in 1964. They had three sons, Alistair, Iain and James. They were a close family, and holidays were adventurous and challenging, rather than restful! They walked from the west to the east coast of England, and Offa's Dyke was another favourite. To celebrate his retirement Peter canoed from the source of the Thames to the Dulwich College boathouse with three school friends. In 2005 Peter was found to have renal carcinoma and had a nephrectomy. In 2010 he was found to have a secondary tumour in the lung. He died on 7 March 2013, aged 75. He enjoyed a fulfilled life, devoted to his family and profession.
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First Title value, for Searching Smart, John Gordon (1926 - 2013)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2014-07-18
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details John Gordon Smart was appointed to the Leicester Royal Infirmary as a general surgeon with an interest in urology in 1965. Later he became the first pure urologist to the hospital and was responsible for building up the urology unit to become the largest in the Trent region. Possessing an administrative flair, he also started the day unit service and directed it after its inception in 1979, being responsible for the planning and later the running of the definitive day stay unit at Leicester's City General Hospital. Eleven specialties used the unit and it boasted one of the largest through-puts in the country. He was born in London on 5 June 1926, the second son of John McGregor Smart, a merchandise buyer and importer, and Margaret née Edwards, a seamstress. His older brother, Donald, also studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital and became a general practitioner. Gordon started his secondary education at William Ellis School in Highgate, north London, and continued at Highgate School (for some of the war years the school was evacuated to the country). He was extremely athletic in these schooldays, a fast sprinter and good at both rugby and soccer: indeed, he was approached to have a trial for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Training at Middlesex Hospital, he graduated in 1949 and served six months as a house surgeon under R Vaughan Hudson, then a senior surgeon at Middlesex Hospital. National Service followed in the medical branch of the RAF from 1950, when he was stationed at RAF Scampton with 617 Squadron ('The Dambusters'). After a year he was promoted to squadron leader for his work on high altitude flying. Already developing an interest in art, Gordon particularly admired the pencil drawings drawn by many of the airmen who lost their lives during wartime operations: he felt that they received scant recognition. Returning to civilian life, although electing to pursue a career in surgery, he first needed to obtain a post in medicine and became a house physician at Willesden General Hospital. Following this, he benefitted from a six-month spell in general practice as he covered his older brother Donald's absence on sick leave. After studying on the Royal College of Surgeons' course and passing the primary FRCS, he commenced his surgical training as a casualty and receiving officer at senior house level to the Dreadnought Seaman's hospital. This post was a requirement for those sitting the final FRCS examination at the time. He furthered his experience at senior house officer level in general surgery and urology at St James' Hospital, Balham, being privileged to gain experience with Norman Tanner in gastroenterology, and was introduced to urology by H K ('Pop') Vernon and H Burke. After attending a postgraduate course at St Thomas' Hospital, he passed the final FRCS examination in 1957, before continuing his general surgical experience as a registrar for a year to H L Cochrane at Fulham Hospital. He broadened this good base at registrar level in a two-year rotating post, starting with R W ('Bob') Nevin at St Thomas' Hospital, then at the Hydestile branch, the Royal Waterloo Hospital, before gaining further experience in the casualty department back at St Thomas'. A locum senior registrar post for a year at St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, added to his overall experience as he worked with two general surgeons, Bernard Williams and J W Younghusband, and also W Wiggins-Davies, whose main interest was in urology. Gordon felt he needed further experience in the developing specialty of urology and obtained a rotating senior registrar training post at St Thomas' Hospital and St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. Starting in Chertsey, he worked with a most delightful general surgeon, Murray Pheils, who was an excellent teacher. In 1965 Pheils left this post and a lucrative private practice to take up a newly created position as professor of surgery at the Repatriation Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales. Back at St Thomas' Hospital, Gordon worked with the urological surgeon T W Mimpriss, achieving his aim of concentrating on urology. He saw and treated a lot of urothelial tumours of the bladder and upper tracts and published a paper on 'Renal and ureteric tumours in association with bladder tumours' (*Br J Urol*. 1964 Sep;36:380-90). Further research work into the use of radioactive phosphorus in prostatic cancer led to a South West Regional Board prize and a paper 'Radioactive phosphorus treatment of bone-metastatic carcinoma of the prostate' (*Lancet*. 1964 Oct 24;2[7365]:882-3). He was able to drop some clinical commitments and, with the aid of funding from the regional board, he set up a laboratory and employed a technician for studies on urinary infection. This valuable experience in research led to a thesis for the MS degree and to his election as Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. He delivered a lecture on 'The diagnosis and localisation of urinary infections' at the College on 10 March 1966. His successful application for the post of consultant surgeon with an interest in urology in Leicester was supported by T W Mimpriss, Murray Pheils and R W Nevin, the highly respected general surgeon and long-time dean of the St Thomas's Medical School. Once in post, he showed the determination and eloquence he had exhibited back in his schooldays. In 1943, as a schoolboy, he had taken part in a BBC Home Service programme presented by the eminent sociologist Karl Mannheim, discussing a variety of topics, including 'Why do we agree over right and wrong?', 'Can society survive without common values?' and 'The power of society to influence man's behaviour'. As a consultant surgeon, Gordon showed he was clearly a person who had strong opinions on what he felt was best and proved outspoken in committees. He was supported by his consultant colleagues in the development of the urology unit and day care facilities. Not afraid of hard work, he worked up to the last moment before enjoying family holidays - something appreciated by his patients who recognised his personal care. He did not suffer fools gladly, but was very supportive of all the clinical staff, particularly the nurses. He assumed many roles even before he became a consultant. From 1962 for six years he was an examiner for the Royal College of Nursing and tutor in anatomy for the Association of Occupational Therapists for two years. After his consultant appointment, from 1974 to 1982, he was a Royal College of Surgeons tutor for the Leicester area. From 1986 he represented all surgical specialties and day services on the management board. His colleagues thought so highly of his endeavours that he was elected chairman of the Leicester area consultants committee for two years from 1976, after less than 10 years as a consultant. He enjoyed his membership of the Punch Club, an informal group of urological surgeons, and was a supportive member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and the urology section of the Royal Society of Medicine, being an elected member of both councils. As a mark of esteem his colleagues in hospital and general practice elected him president of the Leicester Medical Society from 1989 to 1990, having served as secretary some 10 years previously. During his training, at a party, he met Joanna ('Jo') Brenchley, a nurse at Middlesex Hospital. They married in Ospringe, Kent, in 1956, and she supported Gordon during much of his surgical training, undertaking a variety of jobs herself, ending up studying at the Bar. After moving to Leicester, she became a Justice of the Peace, working on the criminal and domestic benches. Jo was also a member of the Police Authority, being heavily involved in a charity which supported prisoners in their rehabilitation once they had served their sentence. Fiona, their only child, was born in 1966, after Gordon had taken up his consultant post. She became a civil servant and then set up her own company. Gordon and his wife were very fond of travel, visiting India, Pakistan, Israel and Jordan. Gordon was also interested in arts and antiques. Having collected many paintings, he enjoyed painting himself in both oils and acrylic. He was a great admirer of Turner's works. In his own painting, he was a perfectionist, just as he was in his distinguished surgical career. Sadly, shortly after his retirement, Jo was diagnosed with advanced myeloma. Gordon supported her during her various treatments, and nursed and cared for her until she died in 2004. Fiona, always encouraged by her father throughout various stages of her life, was equally supportive of him in his later years. J Gordon Smart died peacefully at his home in Wymeswold, Leicestershire, on 22 February 2013 aged 86, with Fiona by his side.
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First Title value, for Searching Tucker, Antony Gower (1947 - 2013)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2016-02-02
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Occupation ENT surgeon Otorhinolaryngolologist
Details Antony Gower Tucker was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist at Bradford Royal Infirmary and an honorary senior lecturer at Leeds University. He was born on 12 December 1947 and studied medicine at Sheffield Medical School, qualifying MB ChB in 1972 and gaining his FRCS in 1977. Before he was appointed to his consultant post he was a registrar for the Avon Area Health Authority and honorary tutor in otolaryngology at the University of Bristol between 1975 and 1977. He then became a senior registrar in Liverpool and a lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He had a particular interest in voice disorders, benign head and neck surgery, and otology, including bone-anchored hearing devices. He was a member of the British Voice Association and the North of England Otolargyngology Society. For two weeks every year he and his team worked in Bangladesh's only ENT hospital. With his wife, Sheila Webb, a director of public health and a GP, he set up a charity, Digdeep for Bangladesh, to raise funds for the project and to sponsor Bangladeshi medics to go to Bradford to study. Antony Gower Tucker died on 8 February 2013. He was 65. He was survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Albert Frederick (1914 - 2013)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

by Jill Woodward
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2013-11-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Albert Frederick Williams, known as 'Eric', was a consultant general surgeon in Oldham. He was born at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, the eldest son of Sydney Harold Williams and Gladys Ann Williams née Rogers. Both parents were Welsh, and both were teachers: his father was headmaster of Crewe Green School. Eric was educated at Coedpoeth, near Wrexham, and at Crewe Grammar School. He excelled in all subjects, except art, where he was near the bottom of the class. He enjoyed football, cricket and tennis, and was a supporter of Lancashire Cricket Club. Eric had a place at Cambridge University to read geography but, just before leaving school, he made an overnight decision to study medicine, following a suggestion from a teacher. In later life, Eric said it was the best decision he ever made. He started at the Victoria University of Manchester Medical School in 1933. Academically he performed very well. He had the highest mark in anatomy in his year. He obtained a BSc in anatomy in 1936 and qualified MB ChB in 1939. In 1940 he gained his FRCS. After a house post, Eric saw active service during the Second World War. He went to France on 5 June 1944, with what he described as a powerful naval squadron sailing in front. He landed with the Canadians on Juno beach on 6 June (D-Day) and served in casualty clearing stations in France and Belgium. After embarkation leave in January 1945, he sailed to Gibraltar and Bombay, and then travelled in stages to casualty clearing stations in Karachi, Burma, Batavia, Java and Saigon, followed by three months in Makassar and the Celebes islands, before sailing home in June 1946. The patient he had with the most extensive injuries had 23 bowel perforations and survived. Eric's notebook of the operations he carried out while with 32 Casualty Clearing Station in 1944 is in the RCS archives. In his last year in the Army he was a surgical specialist with the rank of major. After the war he was a senior registrar on the surgical professorial unit at Manchester Royal Infirmary for four years. In 1950 he took up the post of senior consultant general surgeon at Oldham Hospital, where he worked until his retirement in 1978. He was also a part time lecturer in clinical anatomy at Manchester University from 1949 to 1953. He was a well-respected surgeon in Oldham and many of his colleagues' families became patients. He was an advocate of early post-operative mobilisation and always had a very cautious approach to antibiotic use. He had a particular interest in thyroid and abdominal surgery, and wrote extensively on these subjects. He was also a dedicated trainer of his junior staff. In 1942 Eric married Dorothy Douthwaite and they were happily married for 65 years. They enjoyed their retirement on the Llŷn Peninsula in north Wales, each surviving into their late nineties. Gardening, walking and reading were daily pastimes. He also had an interest in birds and was a recorder of butterflies on the Llŷn Peninsula for the Butterfly Conservation Society. The church played a large part in his life. He was a regular church goer and was church warden of Ashton-under-Lyne Parish Church and, in retirement, treasurer at St Mary's, Morfa Nefyn. Eric was a quiet man, but enjoyed intellectual conversation. He was widely read, particularly of historical biographies, and was a fount of knowledge, imparting interesting snippets from time to time. He had a succinct wit. He died on 8 February 2013, aged 98, and was survived by his two daughters, Jill and Kathleen, four grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Diggle, James Leslie ( - 1982)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

First Title value, for Searching Hayward, John Arthur (1866 - 1949)

2025-08-09T21:37:59Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born 7 April 1866, the son of John Hayward, MRCS 1845, of Rushall, Wilts, who died on 19 November 1869, aged 45. His mother, *née* Fuller, was the daughter of the Steward of St Bartholomew's Hospital and died not long after her husband. He was educated at Marlborough College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Brackenbury scholarship in medicine, and served as house physician. He was house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and assistant physician to the East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell. Hayward had taken the London MD the year after his qualification, and proceeded to the surgical Fellowship fourteen years later; after a further twenty years he took the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. He had for many years one of the best general practices in the prosperous suburb of Wimbledon. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC, with the rank of captain, gazetted 25 March 1915. After his retirement in 1935 to Eynsham, near Oxford, he wrote an excellent popular history of medicine. Later he moved to Wilton, Wiltshire, where he died on 12 March 1949, aged 83, and was buried at Beechingstoke, near Devizes. He left a legacy of £300 to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. Hayward married on 4 February 1901 Rosamond Grace, daughter of George Rolleston, FRS, professor of anatomy at Oxford, and sister of Sir Humphry Rolleston, Hon FRCS. Mrs Hayward was a grand-daughter of Dr John Davy, brother of Sir Humphry Davy, PRS, Hon MRCS, the famous scientist. She was one of the first well-educated women to train as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Mrs Hayward survived her husband, with two sons and two daughters; the younger son, John Davy Hayward, is a distinguished literary critic. Mrs Hayward died at Wilton on 1 October 1950. Hayward, from time to time, presented books to the College Library. Publication:- *The Romance of Medicine*, London, Routledge, 1937; 2nd edition, 1945.
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